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General / Re: Great Game Horrible Controls?

« on: January 20, 2009, 02:42:46 am »

I used a gamepad and found it very easy to control. Though I did need to use third party software to map the form hotkeys to buttons on the gamepad. For the beginning portion of the game I didn't use hotkeys and it was more challenging, since I had to stop swimming to sing. Which can be dangerous depending on the situation.

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Support / Re: Screen tearing that seem unrelated to... everything?

« on: December 19, 2008, 01:41:07 pm »

Double check that it's 32bit color depth?

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Gameplay / Re: Anyone beaten the fighting section in Secret Cave Tunnel?

« on: December 19, 2008, 01:27:26 pm »

I remember being really disappointed with that. You start the game defenseless, just swimming around, then you get a dream level where you are suddenly badass. Able to rapid fire homing energy bolts. When I first came to that I though "cool, this must be a preview of near the end of the game. Very cool to get a small taste early on". Then the FIRST form I get is that energy form. Every form after that is weak by comparison. I think it would have been a better progression to get some of the weaker forms first, then energy later.

I dunno, maybe they did it on purpose since every game ever does it the other way around. But I ended up consciously not spamming energy form everywhere because it made things too easy.

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Support / Re: NVidia Video Card Crash?

« on: December 18, 2008, 10:57:02 am »

Still crashing after video card update.  Stupid NVidia... never had this problem on my ATI card... but then I upgraded and both this and the penny arcade game dies randomly...

Did you completely remove ati drivers before installing the nvidia card?

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Gameplay / Re: Creature Food Drops (SPOILERS)

« on: December 18, 2008, 10:39:06 am »

Wish there were pictures to go with the names. I don't know what's what

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Gameplay / Re: Index of Treasures?

« on: December 09, 2008, 11:32:10 pm »

It would spoil the fun, as that's a major appeal of the game, exploring. It'd be better to just do a full let's play, as that will also appeal to people that have never/will never play the game. But it's true many Let's Play's lose steam part way through and never get finished.

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Gameplay / Re: I can't get past the sun temple boss! (Spoilers?)

« on: December 08, 2008, 12:56:49 am »

Sorry, it wasn't youtube, it was google video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9216792170826959080&hl=en

When I fough him I used a spider egg roll. Doesn't work every time.

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Gameplay / Re: I can't get past the sun temple boss! (Spoilers?)

« on: December 07, 2008, 10:49:32 am »

There's a video on youtube of someone beating him.

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Gameplay / Re: Question: What's your lowest race time?

« on: December 07, 2008, 03:32:06 am »

You guys are so going to love/hate me

http://www.gamevee.com/viewVideo/Aquaria/PC/Aquaria_seahorse_race_speedrun/1217626

mirrors (in order of video quality):
http://www.viddler.com/explore/Xidus/videos/1/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loNEXsn7VTI

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General / Re: Thinking of buying... Linux!

« on: December 06, 2008, 07:12:32 am »

I'm playing it with a geforce 6200 and it runs beautifully. It's probably your CPU, if I had to guess.

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Gameplay / Re: Miscellaneous questions

« on: December 06, 2008, 06:48:48 am »

And yeah, singing to the tadpoles should work.. Just when you have them on, try not to do the spin thing (moving the mouse around Naija in circles really fast or holding 'r') as it throws them off.

Also don't turn into fish form.

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Gameplay / Re: Question: What's your lowest race time?

« on: December 05, 2008, 12:03:01 am »

I'm looking in the save folder, how do I figure out which one it is? Or should I just zip 'em and send them all?

I was thinking about racing it again and recording it to throw up on youtube, but I'm not sure where to get starting with that. Never recorded playing a game before.

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Gameplay / Re: Question: What's your lowest race time?

« on: November 30, 2008, 09:01:56 pm »

I practiced a little more and got 53 seconds. Again with fish form, spirit form, and royal soups (speed +2). I learned the optimal distance to use spirit form and moved these 2 form hotkeys to the trigger buttons so I can hit them quicker. I may be mistaken but it seems like the soups count down even when I'm in spirit mode?

50 seconds is probably the limit with this method, if you can run it perfectly (I'm still not perfect). Maybe if someone was really good at wall jumping in beast form and could slow the game down somehow he could get a better time.

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Gameplay / Re: Question: What's your lowest race time?

« on: November 30, 2008, 08:24:54 am »

Here we go, 1 minute flat with fish form, spirit form, and divine soups (+2 speed). I didn't run it perfect so it's entirely possible to get an even lower time.

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Support / Re: Middle mouse button support?

« on: November 30, 2008, 03:54:52 am »

I don't know anything specific about that mouse, so I can only say try checking the drivers/software. See if it is set as another function. Maybe try killing the logitech process in taskmanager and just see what that does (I think it's EM_EXEC?).

But you'll be happy to know you don't need it for this game. In fact the look around function isn't even offered when playing with a gamepad.