But you did punch me. :Low:
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Finding a purple Hakumen led me to a BB wiki, where I read about three articles before I gave up for the millionth time on understanding anything other than the extreme basics of the BB storyling.
One massive eye. Then three springy eyes on your helmet.
Repeatedly.
And I ran you over with a car.
Then I giggled.
<3
It was a love tap. :wacko:
Lies.
In terms of story, BB isn't all that complicated.
I mean, most of it is right there. In that game you didn't play the story mode to. :wacko:
Ray and Tan should send me things soon.
So I can spend an entire day working on them.
Or we could finish and then you give it to me. I guess that too, is a thing that we are quite capable of doing.
I'm on a bed.
Time to put Goober to bed.
/fatherly duties are a drag
I take it you didn't see the post I made.
The audio was eaten. There was an option that had apparently become unchecked.
It's unusable.
Depressing.
The "teach me litchi" sections provide a lot of the basis.
Essentially, the world is as it is today. But then the black beast shows up. It's completely immune to all weapons and eats most of the world's population. But out of all this, a group of six people come together to stop the beast. They teach the rest of the people how to use magic (which is only possible in the first place due to seether, which is emitted by the beast itself). They're also backed up by a lot of specially created beastmen, humans hybrids that are able to survive in the seether rich world (seether is toxic to normal humans). Some races happen to be a bit...unusual. Tao is a clone of sorts of Jubei. There's also Nox development, special weapons created to combat the beast that have rather serious side effects on the wielder (most evident in the modern wielders with Carl) . While all this is going on, a warrior known as Bloodedge is holding the beast at bay. When all is said and done, a team of the six heroes: Nine (Kokonoe's mom), Jubei (her dad), Valkenhaym (Rachel's butler), Terumi (pre-Hazama), Platinum (in her previous body), and Hakumen (Jin from a different future) fight the beast. Hakumen ends up being the biggest hero in all of this according to Jubei.
Unfortunately, Hakumen gets a little overzealous in the fallout to all this. He tries to point out the things to come and attempts to prevent the worst of all possible futures. People aren't happy about it. Terumi turns out to be responsible for the creation of the beast in the first place. Things go to shit and the heroes pretty much implode. As a group, they cease to function. Nine is dead (murdered by Terumi), Hakumen is sealed in the "boundary" (pretty much the afterlife crossed with a hub on which the many parallel worlds spin), Terumi is supposedly dead, nobody really knows what became of Platinum nor Valk. Jubei is seriously injured and isn't one for leadership so he goes off on a neverending journey. The Library becomes the new government in what's left of the world. They're pretty huge fascists and rather big dicks, so there's a lot of difficulties in their rule, for instance the Ikaruga war which consisted of a bunch of people trying to rebel against the oppressive regime. Considering the Library originally existed to produce, protect, and monitor the universes superweapons and super humans which they happen to hold a monopoly on it goes over about as well as you'd figure.
And here's where shit gets a bit complicated.
The beast itself is v-13 from another future that played out somewhat like a bad ending from Ragna's story in 1. Hakumen is a version of Jin that ended up getting sucked back in time and saved by Rachel, given a suit of power armor originally designed for Terumi. Ragna becomes the Bloodedge who sacrificed himself to buy the world enough time to get its shit in order.
In the background of all this you have systems set in place to keep the universe repeating indefinitely. The repeated time loops are about the only thing that's keeping the world intact. But not everyone's too happy about this. Terumi is aware it's happening and has resolved to stop it. And, as such, he's responsible for a lot of the more unusual goings on in the series. Which turns out to be all steps in creating the perfect weapon with which to destroy the system itself. Part of this was the creation of the Azure Grimoire (the same power used to create the time loop itself), the cultivation of Noel (a being perfectly in tune with the Azure), the incidents involving Jin and Saya (so that he could use them later), the clones (experimentation purposes and "backups"), and the black beast itself (a failed attempt at creating something akin to CS' u-12).
Ah.
You know what? We should just to after action commentary with the video we have. That' just smart.
We didn't dub the opening cutscene anyway, so...:wacko:
I have to go out at 8:30, job centre for 9:00 :(, it's now 5:16. To bother sleeping or not? I've got money, so I can just stock up on energy drinks in town .:wacko:
I do that every night go to bed lay there for an hour or 2 get up browse the forums or facebook.
I should get up, get ready, play Duke Nukem Forever. :wacko:
hey kermit just noticed the text under your name. I didn't know it was possible for panda to love...
unless you count banning people.
and silence hits is every one waiting on panda to show up the way he always seems to when someone mentions him..... now that I think about it how does he do that ???
Because I'm required to play every game ever. Well, that, and I've been playing BB since the beginning and Ivolt is a wealth of bizarre information. Which comes during our numerous beating sessions.
And you should view them. The episodes from the first game are completely included in the second. A decent chunk of the information I posted came from those. They're also fairly humorous overall. GIGANTIC TAGER and all that. Which was clearly the inspiration for Unlimited Tager, but sadly that particular move didn't make it in. I guess that's pretty hard to slip past the censors.
Trying to recall stuff from the first game that was important, I can only seem to recall Jin going AWOL looking for Ragna (who is a wanted anti-Library terrorist tied to a lot of deaths which has earned him the nickname "Grim Reaper". The price on his head is so astronomically high every vigilante in the world dreams of bringing him in). Noel followed Jin in the hopes of bringing him back before it becomes a huge deal. Terumi is in a fresh body named Hazama who happens to be one of the highest ranking people in the Library. Bang hates Jin due to Jin being extremely active during the Ikaruga rebellion and was directly responsible for murdering Bang's master. However said master had a son who is apparently still alive somewhere. This war is part of the reason why Jin is regarded as an important person within the Library, often he's referred to as the Hero of Ikaruga. There's an orbital space laser Nox that can level a city every 4 years (most recently it blew up the capital of Ikaruga, setting loose Noel). Tager was once human, but who and what he was he can't seem to remember. He's almost entirely machine now. Apparently there wasn't much left of him when Kokonoe found him somewhere in Ikaruga. Rachel exists as an "observer" put in place by Amaterasu to watch things. She's not supposed to get involved, but she eventually does once she realizes what's up. Seemingly the non-human super entities need some sort of power source to manifest. It can simply be someone of note "being aware of them". Rachel may be leeching off Ragna in this case. Terumi makes it pretty clear he's getting power from Ragna's hate. Ragna lost an arm in his youth. He only survived due to being vampirized by Rachel and having the grimoire grafted onto the stump. His whole quest is about revenge for taking away his family and trying to find his sister. Jin, Saya, and Ragna are all orphans, probably from the war with the beast. Arakune's deal was always "I was a scientist but then I became aware of the true nature of the world and went insane". He's always just sort of drifted about looking for the azure to become "whole". Often stopping off to devour souls along the way. Since he's a miniaturized weak version of the black beast it kind of makes sense. The clones appear to have a hive mind of some sort, Nu speaks as if she's met Ragna numerous times and keeps talking about how he always kills her. He immediately thinks of the previous clones he's destroyed. Tao is just another mercenary for the most part, and Carl's story was mostly about needing the Azure to fix Ada. Their plot lines aren't really central to much of anything (Carl becomes more important in CS and will likely get more relevant in the next entry). Noel is unaware of her existence as a weapon, she can't recall anything before waking up in the rubble of Ikaruga. The Library has a leader known as the Imperator. It was pretty clear that this person was behind a lot of stuff. But it was never revealed who it is until the end of the sequel.
Amaterasu appears to have tried leveling Kagutsutchi in an attempt to prevent anything serious from happening. Rachel stopped it, revealing that she has an exceptionally powerful gigantic shield in her bag of tricks.
Animal Crackers are beautiful things.
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Is it sad that I kind of want to get a fake tree, to "liven up" my condo a bit? :hm?
Also, how are you enjoying California?
I looked up old footage of Duke Nukem Forever as I'd never seen any trailers bar the 2007 teaser.
The 2003 footage of the game looks miles better than what we got in 2011. :lol
Loving it so very much. It doesn't look like I'll make it to Los Angeles this time but I've seen most of south Orange County and spent a few days in San Diego. What a place. And god, it was awesome to meet the family I have here. My aunt is really fun and my cousins are awesome. I definitely have mixed emotions about going home next week.