What Keen games are you currently playing?

DHeadshot · Post by **DHeadshot** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 10:49

I'm thinking that at some point I might do a video LP of Keen GBC, though I never got that far on my old GBC, so I might run out of lives before I get through it...

Syllypryde · Post by **Syllypryde** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 15:13

DHeadshot wrote:I'm thinking that at some point I might do a video LP of Keen GBC, though I never got that far on my old GBC, so I might run out of lives before I get through it...

I take it you are one of the few who actually likes Keen GBC?

DHeadshot · Post by **DHeadshot** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 17:12

Of course!

RoboBlue · Post by **RoboBlue** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 19:54

I'm going to replay keen gbc sometime soon, if I can find it.

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 14:53

Pretty much everything about that game is horrible. Graphics, gameplay mechanics, and more.

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 15:11

RoboBlue wrote:I'm going to replay keen gbc sometime soon, if I can find it.

xibalba, you've played it once (you imply to its fullest) and you're going to play it again? Why?!

DHeadshot · Post by **DHeadshot** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 16:00

Grimson wrote:Pretty much everything about that game is horrible. Graphics, gameplay mechanics, and more.

Actually, it's not. The trouble is, you're comparing it with other Keen games. Think of it instead as a "Keen themed GBC platformer" and you actually realise it's quite good!

Syllypryde · Post by **Syllypryde** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 18:47

Today I have played:

Keen 5 on hard
Clouds Unseen
Shadow Keen 3
Death to the Vorticons 3

A quick question on DTTV 3:

On the KeenWiki, there is a level map for a level called Sudkoka City, but this level is nowhere to be found in the game. Is it a secret level, was it left out of the final game, or do I have an old version of the game?

RivaStyle · Post by **RivaStyle** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 19:08

Finished Keen Q and Keen 6 on hard, now I'm starting Retrosis and AAMBA...

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 19:13

DHeadshot wrote:
Grimson wrote:Pretty much everything about that game is horrible. Graphics, gameplay mechanics, and more.
Actually, it's not. The trouble is, you're comparing it with other Keen games. Think of it instead as a "Keen themed GBC platformer" and you actually realise it's quite good!

Standalone Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon are good games. It's only when you compare them to the real zelda games that they're bad.
But, you see, having Zelda, or in this case Keen in the title, it's INEVITABLE to compare them! They didn't make some other game and not call it keen. They really did have the audacity to make it a 'commander keen' game, and thats why it gets the fail status it deserves.

Post by **Ceilick** » Mon Aug 23, 2010 22:46

The graphics in keen GBC are actually kind of neat. I like the shikadi design, even though its not a shikadi; would have rather they named it something else. The droidica designs are neat too. The gameplay is very foreign to commander keen though, and the levels are pretty boring. Its really not much more than a mediocre mod in my mind.

Recently played some:
Keen 1 640x680 Redux
Fribbulus Xax Falls
Xky's Keen 3 Contest levels
Silcar 1
Gobo III
How the Vorticon Stole Christmas
Monkey Business Beta
Storyland
ZeroX's minimod

DHeadshot · Post by **DHeadshot** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:36

The music's great too! Apparently it was composed by Mark Cooksey of Ghosts'n'Goblins fame!

Post by **tulip** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 20:13

Syllypryde wrote:A quick question on DTTV 3:

On the KeenWiki, there is a level map for a level called Sudkoka City, but this level is nowhere to be found in the game. Is it a secret level, was it left out of the final game, or do I have an old version of the game?

Yep hidden.

And holy garg, that's a lot of mods you played Ceilick.

Syllypryde · Post by **Syllypryde** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 20:39

tulip wrote:Yep hidden.

And holy garg, that's a lot of mods you played Ceilick.

Speaking of hidden, I finally found Colorland in Clouds Unseen. As for Sudkoka City I am going to have to play the entire game all over again, because I have absolutely no idea where to look for it.

Edit: I found it (by total accident!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Syllypryde · Post by **Syllypryde** » Thu Sep 02, 2010 14:54

Playing Mink's Puzzle Pack on hard and Clouds Unseen.