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gaimeguy
Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
dur..... o_o "As long as there are dreamers who have the courage to follow their dreams, there will be heroes. And as long as there are people who pursue the unkown, there will be new stories to be told...and new adventures to be had." ~ Skies of Arcadia Legends <
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Toastyfuzz
Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
Please explain to us less-shooter-enlightened people how that guy managed to look like he was running into everything, and yet not. O_o() Alas...earwax.<i></i>
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frog hopping kilik
Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
Oh, that. That game is Ikaruga, a shooter that I think was released originally for Dreamcast or something and then later for Gamecube. The way it works is that your ship has two halves, a light half and a dark half, and you can flip between the two at will. The enemies and enemy fire on screen are either light-type or dark-type, too. If you have the light half of your ship out, then light-type enemies and bullets can't hurt you. Rather, you absorb them to charge up your uber-attack. If you get hit with a dark attack while in light mode, though, you die, and vice versa. The game forces you to keep flipping between the two types in order to make it through the game, as you saw in the video. Hard as all hell, but fun, or so I've read. I oughta play it someday, though I'd probably suck at it, seeing as I haven't played a shooter like that since Raiden Project on PS1 like eight years ago. <
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Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
I call bullshit on that one.<
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Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
Actually, being skilled in such a manner is <
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Tanthalasis
Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
Oh, I know what ambidextrous is Soloist.<
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ain, can only focus on, and control, one extremity, on one object at a time.<
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frog hopping kilik
Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
Dude, I see nothing in that video that can't be accomplished through a combination of natural freakish coordination and insane amounts of practice. Keep in mind that we're talking about a game here. The enemies and elements in it always show up in the same place. That guy probably memorized their patterns to the point of turning the appropriate response into subconscious reflex, making trying to focus on two things at once a nonissue. The rest is just pure inborn skill. Think about it - does a master piano player try and focus on the keys on both ends of the piano at once? No. They train their hands to carry out the motions instinctively. I'd be willing to bet this video is that same type of thing.<
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Jake Monroe
Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
He actually did that for every level of the game. I found recordings of them all somewhere once. <
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Tanthalasis
Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
Quote:And anyway, what makes you so freakin' skeptical?<
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Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
He just refuses to accept anyone is better than him at something. <
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Re: holy sweet honking jeebus
Uh... well... yeah... actually... pretty much everyone would be better at me at that game...<
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