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What does /vr/ think of Retsupurae? I think their Dark Seed II riff was one of the best things ever.

Also, I remember playing DSII as a kid and never getting to the Dark World. I sucked at the mirror maze.

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>>1116713

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>>1116731

>> No.1116734

>>1116713

>Youtube Whores

NOT

FUCKIN

RETRO

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>>1116732

>> No.1116739
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>>1116736

>> No.1116745

I have that game. Wish I could get it working on Windows 8. I remember it having some really awful and convoluted puzzles.

>> No.1116764

>>1116713
I like them. Maybe not so much recently with all their trying-to-mess-with-popular-allbeit-shitty-youtube-celebrities and whatnot.

Their Harvester playthrough was great, and I loved the Darkseed 1 playthrough. Darkseed 2 was too long for me, honestly.

>> No.1116770

I want to play these games but I've been thrown off by the fact that the puzzles are really convoluted particularly in the first one where you need a certain 3 items. Is that true?

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>>1116713
They're alright.

I honestly wish they did more wrongpraes.

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>>1116770
I am not sure on the three items but I had about 40 saves for both of these games just to avoid fucking something up.

>> No.1116787

They are pretty hit-or-miss in my opinion, especially when it comes to their longplay commentaries. Their Dark Seed or The Town with No Name riffs are entertaining, but stuff like Let's Play IMDB is unbearable.

Nothing will ever beat Chip & Ironicus' Anime Theater, though.

>> No.1116791

>>1116787
I think Let's Play IMDB was supposed to be god awful. Like a train wreck they could not stop doing.

>> No.1116793

I remain convinced that there's something unnatural about the Retsupurae of Darkseed II.

It's nearly eight hours long. The protagonist of the game is a sniveling, unsympathetic manchild. Most of the time is spent backtracking through every accessible location revisiting each NPC in between every single plot-progressing action.

And yet every single person I know who's watched it has sat through the entire thing.

It's not an engaging experience. Nearly everything of interest is in the first few hours, the rest largely a vast morass of mind-numbing tedium, yet you just can't bring yourself to stop. The viewer is compelled to sit, dumbfounded and weary, captivated by some indescribable force as the whole wretched thing plays out before them. And you can't escape it. Even if you don't finish it in one sitting, you still have to come back and continue until, at last, the thing is done.

It's uncanny.

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>>1116793
I think it was mostly the personality they gave Mike. A creepy 30-40 something year old man who refuses to get over his issues and blames them on everyone else.

It is like some amazing train wreck you can't look away from until it is over.

Hey, you missed pal.

>> No.1116842

>>1116793
Well now I have to see this.

>> No.1117067

>>1116771
Wrongpray > Retsufrash > Retsucast > Horror with Beef > Guestpurae > Retsuplay > Beetus live streams

>> No.1117167

>>1117067
Their Deep Fear one was hilarious.

>> No.1117203

>>1116745
To anyone interested to play it: You have to install Windows 3 through dosbox in order to run it on modern machines.

>> No.1117204

>>1116795
Mike Dawson was also in the first game. He was named, and designed, after the programmer of the game. Dawson didn't want to be in the game, they just decided "Hey, you look the part, let's digitize you". Kinda like how the CEO of Hudson, Takahashi Meijin, became the protagonist of Adventure Island, or a newer example, how Adam Jensen looks like one of the guys at EIDOS.

>> No.1117213

>>1117067
>wrongpuray above everything else
>literally saying going "AAAAAH DIS IS WIDLEYAH AAAAAAAAAH" is funnier than the inane shit said in most LPs like "such as Ryu's awesome, HADOOKEEEN"

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>>1117204
I could not imagine the shame of going from being in a somewhat decent first game to having your likeness stolen from you for a horrible second game.

And having a whiny VA to boot.

Man, they did not treat him well in DSII.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrNzXMO8nwo

Also this is good for a laugh.

>> No.1117219

This is my all time favourite game. After Silent Hill Homecoming of course.

>> No.1117220

So did anyone ever figure out the ending to this game? Was the Dark World real or was it all in is head?

I remember it making me confused as fuck when I was 11.

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>>1117204
Another recent example.

Shit's still happenin'.

>> No.1117358

>>1117226
At least they did not turn him into a complete pussy like they did with Mike Dawson.

>> No.1117395

>>1117358
Well that brings up the question:

Would you rather have a weakling pussy of a character, or an edgy annoying fuck of a character?

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>>1117395
Come to think of it that just seems like two sides of the same turn sammich. I concede to your point, Anon.

>> No.1117451

Ever wonder why he never tried to bring someone else into the Dark World with him to prove it was real?

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>>1117451
Mike's too much of a beta to do that.
Even more so in the second game.

>> No.1117519

I liked their older retsuplays a lot better. I'm not sure how they changed, but they were just funnier. Longprays are usually my favorites since they can characterize shitty characters better, like in Mortal Kombat Mythologies and Dark Seed II.

>> No.1117534

>>1117505
When is Mike Dawson day exactly?

>> No.1118280

>>1117505
I want in on this.

>> No.1118303

>>Billy MC's Christmas Adventure

Oh man, and what a christmas it was.

>> No.1118363

>>1118303
I went from annoyed to just loving the kid.

>> No.1118381

>>1118303
I think that was the first Retsupurae I ever watched.

10/ fucking 10.

>> No.1118415

Rongupuraes > Retsu watch terrible old videogame cartoons > Retsufrash > Retsupurae

Only counting their regular features of course. Beef's House of Horror is amazing.

There's just too many people talking at once for most of their retsupuraes to be very funny.

>> No.1118423

>>1116771

Now I know what they both look like. If only I could remember which voice is Beef and which is Beetus, I'd be all set.

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>there are people on 4chan who prefer their longplay riffs over their let's play riffs

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>>1118423
The one who looks like he goes on a diet is Beetus, and the one that looks like he eats a lot of meat is Beef.

>> No.1118453

>>1118429
Eh, Kings Quest V game me a nostalgiaboner.

Kings Quest VII I could not finish.

>> No.1118457

Two unfunny, talentless hacks that make shitty videos where they make shitty jokes about shitty Let's Play videos.

>> No.1118470

>>1118429
So edgy! Let's rehash the same jokes and insults for ten minutes as Slowbeef takes everything they do literally and Diabetus makes inane and boring non-sequiturs and references!

I lost all hope in RP when they took a fucking cr1t1kal video seriously during their retsumarathon.

>> No.1118480

>>1118457
Eh, to each their own.

>> No.1118507

>>1118457
Hey, at least it's on legitimately shitty LPs. There's no denying that their content is valid.

>> No.1118538

>>1118507
>Hey, at least it's on legitimately shitty LPs.

Which makes it worse. It's like picking on the kid that's paraplegic with dead parents and missing an eye. Too easy of a target.

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>>1118538
I can understand making fun of a 12 year old kid being wrong. But a lot of the ones they poke fun at are over 18 and have really shitty camcorder LP's or just can't do decent commentary for the life of them.

>> No.1118554

>>1118538
I wouldn't say that. I'd say that a good few didn't deserve it, but then there are snooty cocks who just try to be PewDiePie.

>> No.1118562

>>1118554
Speaking as someone who made shitty LP's in 2008 I would have loved for them to have made fun of me. It would have made me grow up a lot faster and shape up my content.

>> No.1118596

>>1118470
>I lost all hope in RP when they took a fucking cr1t1kal video seriously during their retsumarathon.
It really amazed me how unusually aggressive they were in that video. None of the usual joking about how bad it was; they just straight tore into him.

Then, when the comments filled up with people pointing out that his videos are intentionally/ironically bad and that the money he gets from them goes to charity, they just quietly deleted it without any comment or apology, which struck me as intensely hypocritical given how often they publicly call out others for that exact sort of behavior.

>> No.1118641

>>1118596
Woah, link to this happening? I love RP and even though I know everyone fucks up sometimes...Just deleting it seems off.

>> No.1118781

>>1118641
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr_saOIb2sw

>> No.1118983

/vr/, Did you kill Rita?

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>>1118983
LE REDDIT EPIC MEME xd

>> No.1119090

>>1118423
Beetus is the quiet, sarcastic one. Beef is the angry one.

>> No.1119113

>>1118596
>Then, when the comments filled up with people pointing out that his videos are intentionally/ironically bad
iwasonlypretendingtoberetarded.jpeg

>> No.1119197

>>1119085
pls

>> No.1120003

>>1116713
>Retsupurae
They're good, but the latest King's Quest review was terrible. They kept inviting new guys on there who didn't get the dynamic and fucked everything up. The others were still good, though.
>IT'S A DREAM! IT'S A CARTOON DREAM! EVERY PROBLEM YOU'RE HAVING WITH THIS GAME CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THE FACT THAT IT'S A CARTOON DREAM!

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Dude, this thread is weirding me out. I've been a fan of H.R. Giger and 90s computer games for a very long time, and I've never heard of Darkseed. The thing that really gets me is all the Mike Dawson comics, like he's some infamously silly gaming legend I've NEVER heard of. Did all of those come about after these youtube guys made their video?

>> No.1120084

>>1120069
Kinda like how people know The Modifyers exists because Zone did a porn "parody" of it, so yeah.

>>1118470
What about that one video where the guy starts laughing in the middle of it and flat out mentions Retsupurae? Where he was playing Mario World and was even quoting Electrical Beast by saying "Wee" and "Ovuh Dey-uh".

>> No.1120453

>>1120069
Yeah, pretty much, which is a shame, since Dark Seed 2 is actually a relatively okay game actually.

>> No.1120463

>>1120453
I remember getting really bored of it half way through. The story just fell apart for me.

>> No.1120467

>>1120069
You could say that. He's very obscure, but yeah, he's not exactly the protagonist that anyone would want to play as.

>> No.1120468

>>1120467
A whiny 30-something year old dude who is "recovering" from a mental trauma?

I just never saw the appeal.

>> No.1120476

>>1120468
Not to mention he lives with his mother, has horrible posture, fashion sense and charisma.

I mean, if your character's going to be pathetic, at least make him look good. I mean, Travis Touchdown was a complete deadbeat, but he at least had style.

>> No.1120478

Don't care for them at all. They're no different from other youtube celebrities besides a slightly different schtick.

>> No.1120480

>>1120476
What was that one horrible SNES game with the nerd? I remember the first level being a beach or something. God, he was also awful.

>> No.1120481

>>1120480
Lester the Unlikely, I think.
The problem is that he walked into his problem. You don't sleep on a cargo decker, period. Mike Dawson had a fucking alien put in his head. THAT'S a conflict.

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>>1120481
To be fair Dark Seed kinda left all that ambiguous and weird. By the end of II I was not sure what the fuck was going on anymore. Though maybe that was because I was 12 at the time.

>> No.1120489

>>1120484
I finished Darkseed II when I was 17 and still didn't understand it.
There was that whole split-personality thing, the shrimp baby, the head-explosions, all that Rita nonsense. It derails so much that it's not even funny.

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>>1120489
It was likely the growing pains of games at last being advanced enough to tell a story but not getting a decent enough write staff to work on it. They tried to shove so much random Giger artwork into it as well. I don't think he actually had a thing to do with the game.

At least Raymond Benson ended up doing a Splinter Cell novel I enjoyed.

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>>1120495
There was a lot of unnecessary Giger art, but honestly, that was about the only thing that got me through the game.

I fucking love Giger's work.

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>>1120505
Man, this game freaked me out when I was 13.

>> No.1120695

>>1118423

if you've ever watched regular show, slowbeef is the one who sounds like Benson (at least to me)>>1118423

>> No.1120698

>>1120084

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVGFkA5zjso

Probably this one. The payoff is great.

>> No.1120763

>>1117067
whats wrong with betus live streams?

>> No.1121092

>>1120763
I think people find him boring. I love the streams myself.

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Isn't the Mike Dawson in II done by a different actor? AFAIK Dawson had no involvement in DSII.

>mfw i got this book as a gift

>> No.1121145

>>1121131
Yeah, they had to get a different actor and model. It must suck to see your likeness used in such a shitty game.

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Bump before I go to bed. So much nostalgia over old point and click games for me.

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>>1121690
Pewdiepie is better. These guys ripped into him because he is more popular and they are jelly of his sub count. Fuck Barrels.

>> No.1122675

>>1122648
Nice try. You almost had me fooled at the start.

>> No.1122758

>>1122675
Who is that?

>> No.1122847

Can anyone give me a list of the retsupuraes worth watching? So far the ones I've seen a liked are

>Bioshock
>Warioware
>Cornshaq smb2 and Double Dribble
>Parodius
>Half-life 2

>> No.1123525

>>1122847
All of BillyMC's stuff is golden.

>> No.1123590

>>1122847

What The? (CENSORED)
Super Bummerman
Dark Seed II
Sub-Zero Mythologies
That's so Kaizo!
Bowser's Evil Test
Let's 'ave a Carriage Ride
LP Mario 64... very slowly
True Shit
Mario, Party of One?
Happy Halloween!
and anything with BillyMC or Lime in it

>> No.1123597

>>1123525
BillyMC is so endearing.

>> No.1123598

>>1123597
You just end up loving the guy.

>> No.1123605

>>1118596
I believe they discussed it in one of the podcasts about how they didn't realize it was a charity thing and regretted it ect. I can't remember which number though.

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>>1123598
>Any of the videos with Billy and Lime.
Errytime.

>> No.1123624

>>1122847

Everything with Chip and Ironicus. Check out Jeff Albertson and the Drunk Mario Kart trilogy if you need convincing.

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>>1123608
The goddamn innocence of Billy just kills me. It is hard to believe he is around 26 like I am. He managed to hang onto the magic of loving old video games. Why could I not do the same? I am so fucking jealous.

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>>1124984

>> No.1126004

>>1117067
I'd agree, with the exceptions that the gestpuraes with voidburger are hillarious to me and Journey to the Exit of the Arcade (jurassic park wrongpurae) is just awful

>> No.1126016

I saw they did a video on the first Alone in the Dark game. I stopped watching the minute I realised they were going to be ragging on the graphics the entire game.

I would've thought even they would have had some perspective regarding 3D graphics in a game from fucking 1992. Cut them some slack.

Then there was the time they made fun of what was clearly an engine test as if it were an actual game. When they pull dumb shit like that I kind of lose interest in them.

>> No.1126074

>>1120539
“Oh no! Not the Hall of Death again. The only way out of here is death!”

>> No.1126179

>>1126016
I hope they focus more on the controls and shit voice acting in later vids.

>> No.1126426

>>1126016
That was kind of bullshit, like when they were making fun of the demo that showed off the models of characters and items in the games. It was like making fun of phones from fifty years ago; they're obviously not going to be as good as they are now.

If anything I'd prefer them to be making fun of the AItD from 2007, if this is how they're going to be. That game was much shittier and actually had modern problems that were worth ridiculing.

>> No.1128473

I hope their new ones turns better.

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>>1128473

>> No.1130651

>>1126426
Well they seemed to realize that they were making fun of some of the better technology from over 20 years ago, so it should be smooth sailing from here.

>> No.1133478

>>1130651
Well the 3rd episode was not bad. So much reading in that game!

>> No.1133501

>>1133478
It was pretty awesome to hear Hank the Diner from Darkseed 2 doing the voice over for one of the books though

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>> No.1134331

>>1133856
Oh my sides.

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>>1133856
10/10

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>>1124984
He's just so damn happy about everything

We could all learn from Billy.

>> No.1136539

>>1126016
they kinda stop harping on the graphics in second episode

>> No.1136645

I think they're a bunch of unfunny nerds

>> No.1136713

>>1136539

Weird that people got butthurt over that.

Aside from the fact that nothing should be held up to a golden standard, RP makes fun of fucking every thing. They don't even pull punches for games that they actually enjoy (see the Dead to Rights LP slowbeef made)

>> No.1136732

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MoWgeQRXHo

This is the best retsu video of anything ever.

>> No.1136786

>>1117534
>>1118280
November 18th is when the image was first posted.

>> No.1136797

>>1116764
are you me

>> No.1136809

>>1126426
>I'd prefer them to be making fun of the AItD from 2007
this would probably make more sense, and I guarantee there's some autismo out there who's LPed it terribly

>> No.1138518

>>1136645
Mike Dawson plz go.

>> No.1138538

LargeMentalBlock are better for more aggressive RPs, imo

>> No.1139351

>>1136713
>RP makes fun of fucking every thing
So they're essentially South Park. No thanks. Also what's with the faux-Japanese title? Racist much? (especially as they are from SA which has that holier-than-though attitude when it comes to social justice)

>> No.1139351,1 [INTERNAL] 

fuck Pewdiepie he sucks dick and is a homo faggot motherfucker who sucks AIDS