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So, thing is, I got the idea of trying to make an LP thing or maybe streaming a game of some sort... After pooling through my ideas, I got to a point where I could possibly start one... The question is, which one.

So, here's where I ask you guys. First off, there's two main options, and each of these has two sub-options:

Summon Night or Pokemon Mystery Dungeon?

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story is an Action RPG for GBA. Pick from five different types of weapons, fight through the dungeons for materials to make better weapons! Bonus points for being an Atlus game, you know, not at all the company that gets off on the tears of their players at all. Same publisher of the Persona and Shin Megami Tensei series, it's good stuff. It even has some light Dating Sim mechanics involved!


The first one, for GBA. Some pros is that it's shorter, and the weapons can only break mid-battle, so every time you're on the map you get their durability restored. Less customization options, but overall, I feel that this one has a stronger plot out of the two options here.


Second game, also for GBA. Better system, you can use all five types of weapons outside of battles, which make for more interesting puzzles. The weapons no longer regenerate their durability magically after each battle, so DUR management becomes a thing. The plot is weaker though, but it's still a fun game all the same.

Being action games, they might yield more stream-worthy events. Or simply be more enjoyable to watch. But I'd say that you guys shouldn't exactly count on streams often or at all, because I don't know if I'll be able to do them. Still, those two are on the table.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. It's Pokemon. It's Mystery Dungeon. It's easy as eating a cake... For the main story part of the game, that is. The game is a turn-based dungeon crawler, based on... You guessed it, Pokemon. Stay with me here, the things are good.


Red Rescue Team is for GBA, it's the first game and goes all the way up to the Third (Best) Gen. It does have a touching plot. Yes. Plot. In a Pokemon game. And it is kind of touching too! But once the plot issue is out of the way, it features some pretty solid dungeon crawling gameplay with multiple themed and random dungeons. Once the plot is done with, the easy part is also done with. It was the first such game though, so it doesn't exactly have a perfect system. It's a good game, with good gameplay. But it could be better.


That's where enters Explorers of Sky. It's up to the Fourth Gen now, so, more pokemon to recruit. The system is improved and revamped and all around fleshed out. More items, more dungeons, more pokemon, more moves. More everything. And a better plot too. Now, this one has a downside of being a DS game, compared to all GBA games above. It would probably be harder to stream due to screwy screens.

Now, being turn-based and not action geared means that the only really worthwhile things to stream would be the fiendishly difficult post-game dungeons. Or some worthwhile plot segments. Then again, if turns out that I'm unable to stream at all... Well... @.@

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So, in general, I'll mostly keep to the forum format, like Anura's doing with Princess Maker 2. If I'm able to stream, then I'll make some stream updates on occasion. All of the four games have interesting Post-Game content, and coincidentally, they're ordered from least to most, in terms of post game options and variety. And of course, while I've beaten all four of them before, I didn't fully explore any of their's post game content.

So, I was wondering, what would you guys be interested in seeing?

I vote for either one of the pokemon games but thats just me

As I said before, I vote for the Summon Night games. Either one is fine, since I can't really decide which one I like more

I'm more familiar with PMD, and those Summon Night games look interesting. Those get my vote.

I vote for either of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games

I mentioned in the chat, and I will mention it here, that the Summon Knight games get my vote.

I dofor summon night, by virtue of the fact that I don't really like Pokémon anyway, and the RPG sounds a lot more interesting

Well, only two votes for Pokemon, so, I'll go with Summon Night.

I've decided to take the first game, for a couple of reasons.

One, I did some tests and I cannot stream. It simply won't work at all. And my microphone is shit, which is related. If I was streaming I wouldn't be able to chat at all. So, I'll stick to forum format. But, one thing I'll attempt is to record the game, or interesting segments of the game. And then upload them instead of screenshots while doing a normal forum LP.

Second reason is that the first game has both a better plot, and is shorter. So it'll be more interesting, story-wise, and a safer choice, commitment-wise, considering I've never done something like this before so it's better to start small. Assuming all goes well, I might just append the second game and keep going from there.

I'll get a Projects Thread for the LP proper soon. First post will be just an introduction of the game to get everyone on the same page, then we start from there? *amateur* *has no idea what he's doing*

Sounds good. Can't wait!