GateWorld similarities with Commander Keen/Cosmo

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Good LP, VBB. :)

One thing I like about the game for sure is the title screen music. IT'S SO CATCHY!!! Dooo dooo do do do do do doooooooo... Most of the rest of the music is horrible, though.

I also like the sheer randomness of the game, just because it's amusing. :lol I remember downloading this game long ago, and... I thought it was okay. Looking back to it, though, and it mostly looks terrible. And that color palette couldn't be any more 1990's if it tried, especially with that trippy red-to-blue flashing thing! :sick
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I didn't have the stamina to listen to you read the story for 8 minutes...
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tulip wrote:I didn't have the stamina to listen to you read the story for 8 minutes...
imagine how it made me feel :sick
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I didn't mean your voice, it was just soooo slow.

btw: this game WAS made by Apogee, they just didn't release it... read this thread.
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Calvero wrote:Now, go play Rallo Gump. :)
It's similar to GateWorld; it even has the same cheat codes. :)
Thaniks a lot. That site you linked to gave me a popup virus and I had to do a system restore :wormouth >:

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What are you talking about? I didn't get any pop ups. The problem is within your browser.
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VikingBoyBilly wrote::gimp
wow, first in-context use of this emoticon? :P oh, and nice emoticon choice for popup :P

Um, yeah, I had no issues. System restore is a bit.... extreme.

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tulip wrote:btw: this game WAS made by Apogee, they just didn't release it... read this thread.
That's like saying Apogee made Commander Keen.
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Calvero wrote:
tulip wrote:btw: this game WAS made by Apogee, they just didn't release it... read this thread.
That's like saying Apogee made Commander Keen.
Well Apogee gave Commander Keen their seal of approval, but they disassociated themselves with gateworld and the original team dumped it on someone else to finish it, which is saying something :sick (I have a feeling I'll be using :sick and :barf emotes alot here)
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part 2
Experienced horrible desynching between the audio and video (I edited it though, which was an undesirable effort). This is weird because I'm using the same method of recording in Dosbox while speaking into audacity and I never had desynching problems with my Biomenace LPs.

I'll try increasing the fps rate (or whatever you call it) in dosbox to see if that helps, or if someone has any advice please tell me! :bloody :dopefish
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I actually enjoyed gateworld a bit as a kid. Not sure if i ever beat it, but seeing the lava boss thing for the first time was pretty memorable. I guess I didn't read the story back then, hearing it now I pretty much agreed word for word with what you said: i don't want to play this guy who is stealing people's property and killing innocent miners.

I don't remember the lag, but that sounds (and looks) annoying as hell. I also almost never played games with music on as a kid, so hearing that now...man that is oppressive.

Edit: Just played (while suffering lag and horrendous music) up to level 4 which is the lava boss...what a let down, I thought I remembered that thing being twice as big and having a big chase 'n dodge showdown with it.
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