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General / Re: BLUE CRISTALS, WHAT DO I DO WITH THEM?

« on: March 11, 2010, 06:00:22 pm »

What forms do you have?
You need to have the Spirit Form to get past those.
When you cast the Spirit Form spell, you go to the crystal on the other side of the steam wall and go back to your first form.
Ta-da.

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Games / Amnesia: The Dark Descent

« on: February 28, 2010, 06:29:02 pm »

I'm new here, and I'm already advertising other games. Wait, what!?
Hopefully nobody minds if I do this... :X

What would be more lovely than waking up in an abandoned castle while suffering amnesia classed "really bad" and then realizing that there was some thing on look for you?
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is a 3D first-person survival-horror game made by Frictional Games.
You might recognize the name Frictional Games from other survival-horror game series called Penumbra.

What makes Amnesia superior to other horror games that instead of making a FPS game first and then adding just a bit of horror around here and there and disgusting looking monsters, Amnesia is being made with horror all the time in the mind.
As an example, you can see this by having no weapons. No weapons to defend you from those... creatures.
All you can do is just try to hide and sneak past the enemies. At the worst moment you have to run away from your enemies.

You are in control of your character all the time. No lame cutscenes where it's shown that a monster is approaching and you hide in a closet just before the monster sees you. No, you have to do all that by yourself fast enough.

Plus, the control scheme. You can interact with objects as you would in real life... Rotate it around, make it closer or farther away from you, throw it...

...

In fact, you can see it all in the teaser trailers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwO533cANKg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHBlDCvhkg

If you really want to try it out, you should try Penumbra series... Penumbra: Overture and Penumbra: Black Plague.
The collection with the whole Penumbra series, including the expansion Penumbra: Requiem which consists of several puzzles, costs only $20...

A few videos of Penumbra series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYiiVmSydM8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdD0lYBh0Q

Amnesia: The Dark Descent itself has not been released yet. It's supposed to be released in August 2010, and you can already pre-order it in its official site.
When the game will be released, it will cost $20... When you pre-order it, you get it 20 % cheaper AKA $16.
Plus, as you can see from the main page, there's a pre-order bar that gets filled up with each pre-order... When the bar hits 2 000 pre-orders, extra content will be added to the game.

Also, for those who want it in Steam...

You can get an activation key for Steam for our pre-orders if you request it at release. Steam does not do pre-orders this early for games, at least not for our game

...as stated in here.

Well, I guess that was pretty much everything. Your thoughts? :v

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Gameplay / Re: Aquaria Treasure Hunter's Maps [Mad Spoilers]

« on: February 28, 2010, 05:11:19 pm »

Hey, I think you should try box.net. It just requires registration to be able to upload files.
That's the page where I upload everything that's not an image or a video, and I have been quite satisfied. :v
There's no advertisements, no waiting... You just click the link and click the big DOWNLOAD button there and we're done.

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General / Re: What about the six form of the final boss?

« on: February 27, 2010, 05:46:46 pm »

Holy--
That came from behind the corner. :X

Nice work, Yogoda... Can't wait to play Magic of Aquaria :p
New bosses always excite me.

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Off-Topic / Re: Introduce Yourself!

« on: February 24, 2010, 09:21:28 am »

I'm happy that you enjoyed the game and especially the music, you must be a very sensitive person.

Well yeah, that might be so...
Don't get me wrong, though. I'm not an emo of any sort :v

The 'normal' ending (SPOILER) lacks the meeting with Mia and has one additional sentence of Naija saying that you hadn't collected all the memories yet. (SPOILER)

Don't worry, I know about the normal ending (damn walkthroughs!), I just haven't seen it by myself yet.
Hmmh... Nowadays I quite regret that I have ruined many good game experiences with all kind of walkthroughs.

Most big game companies figure out new game play methods and make a game with it, Indies comes with concepts before playing methods. Always a big difference in the end product.

I can't say anything else than I agree.
Cave Story, Penumbra series, Aquaria, Iji... Need I say more? :p

Even though it wouldn't be wise to tell the story here, what specific thing made them go prick on you? (looks, behaviour, emotions?)

Probably me being really stupid.
Well, that's what I think so, I'm not 100 % sure, though... They haven't told me. :p
Nowadays I don't really care about it, it has almost been a year since the first incident.

Further I'm happy that Aquaria has made you so happy and hope you'll stay like that.

Heh, thanks.
Even though I have been a bit tired recently, I'm still happy.

Also, damn... From all the praises towards Aquaria, I quite forgot to introduce myself. :|

As you have seen and told, my nick name in here is Tonakai, and I am from Finland.
I am a 16 years old male who is quite sensitive, as Alphasoldier said.
I'm studying in a vocational school as a datanome. I have a perfect class - Nobody hates anyone and everyone gets along with everyone else. Except for two people...

Most of the time I spend my free time on my laptop chatting in IRC and posting stuff in an another game's forums where I spend time quite a lot, plus playing games.
Among those, I quite often do some kind of exercise. Got to have your body shaped up... At least a bit.

Well, that's probably everything you need or maybe want to know... Nice to meet you. :v

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Off-Topic / Re: Introduce Yourself!

« on: February 23, 2010, 08:01:20 pm »

This post contains spoilers. If you haven't completed the game yet, I would suggest going elsewhere.
This post also contains a bit of emotional stuff related to real life.

Hello, my name is Tonakai.
Tonakai is Japanese and translates to reindeer. I learned about that when reading Finnish version of One Piece.

I found about Aquaria quite a while ago when I was searching for 2D side-scrolling games.
I heard about Aquaria in an another game's forums. There was a small game where you posted a picture of a game and then everybody else would guess what the game is.

When I got Aquaria and played it...
To very mildly describe the feeling... I was impressed. Amazed.
The very first cave's music, which is called Light... When Naija's talk stopped, I just sat on the rock for a while just because I wanted to listen to the calm music.
Then, I slowly swam towards the upcoming adventures...

I pretty much enjoyed every part of the game.
I gotta admit that I used a walkthrough on some parts, likein Sunken City, the part where you have to get the ghost kid to the room where you fight the big golem like creature... Very odd puzzles.
And in Creator's fifth form. I had absolutely no idea that you had to use the Sun Form to take off the eye......

After I beat the game (even though with a walkthrough... All memories in the first go. Probably not a good thing... I haven't even seen the normal ending yet. :X ), my mind was still in Aquaria.
The next day in school I couldn't even concentrate on the lessons, because I was just thinking of Aquaria, Naija, Li, all gods, the Creator...
Such a good story... Such good music... Such a good gameplay... Such good graphics.
And all of this amazing game was made by only two indie game developers.
Heh. It's kinda funny to think that a small amount of indie game developers can make thousand times better games than any of those big companies. (Don't get me wrong; those big companies do have several good games, too!)

After a few days I decided to download the soundtrack of Aquaria.
Before I did that, I had been quite sad. Sad because of several friends... Who decided to be huge pricks to me. I'm not going to tell the full stories here, but if you want to, I can link...
Anyways, I had been sad. Sad and lonely, without any friends to talk to... All of them had left after I graduated from 9th grade.
It was quite sad time...

Until I discovered Aquaria and its great soundtrack.

It's impressive how music from a game - I repeat, MUSIC from a GAME - can affect a person like this.
I found all the happiness from songs like Open and Bright Waters, Arboreal, the excitement from the boss fight songs like Big Boss, Mithala, Worship, the relaxation from songs like Light, Remains, Veil...
Now I have listened to every song from Aquaria at least 60 times. The most played song is Big Boss with 197 repeats... After that comes an another boss fight song from an another game with 117 repeats.
All that listening drove all the sadness away from me, and to this date I have been filled with energy and happiness... You guys should see me in real life.
I'm so happy some people look at me with "what the fuck" in their eyes. It truly feels great!

And all of this happened from a game by two indie game developers called Derek Yu and Alec Holowka.
I really owe you guys. You have given happiness in my life......

Now that I'm typing the ending of this post of mine, the song Lost to the Waves is ending. Nice coincidence, huh? Great way to submit this post...

P.S. I just previewed this and holy SHIT this post is LONG! I wonder if anyone will read this... Lol.

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General / Re: Care to list your top five favorite songs in Aquaria?

« on: February 23, 2010, 07:46:17 am »

5 songs, huh... This will be hard.

Open Waters 1
Remains
Veil
Worship 5
Light

In no particular order.

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Goddamnit, why only 5 songs!? There's just too many good songs in Aquaria.....