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Post by Applelight Limited on Jun 15, 2019 17:22:54 GMT
Yeah I definitely would have loved that place! And this new game goes way beyond a simple remaster. It’s practically a new game in it’s own right. And I’m happy to see that pinkie will getting an episode in August. Since it’ll probably be her last, I hope it’s a good one.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jun 16, 2019 0:47:29 GMT
That reminds me I really need to catch up on the last season of pony episodes. I've fallen pretty far behind. And yeah, CTR seems to be a pretty major upgrade, at least as far as graphics are confirmed. It'll be fun to play that again.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jun 18, 2019 7:29:31 GMT
Me too! I’m still about two seasons and the movie behind. Why is it so hard to catch up? And I never actually owned CTR back in the day, so this will be a chance to rectify that.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jun 19, 2019 2:31:40 GMT
You missed out, man. Honestly I think that CTR was actually superior to Mario Kart 64. One of my friends who's a huge Nintendo fanboy even agrees with me; he thinks it was balanced better. Later Mario Kart games actually even took some inspiration from it; getting a boost after making a jump is something that CTR did before Mario Kart used it. In other news, after watching a bunch of this dude's youtube videos (he's basically like a Japanese Bob Ross), I decided to wing it and bought a legit set of watercolor paint (i.e. the stuff that actually comes in tubes and not the small plastic thing with the case that you use in elementary school) and gave it a whirl despite having basically zero artistic painting experience of any kind. I drew two things yesterday. Today I was working, so I didn't have a chance, but I'm going to see what else I can manage tomorrow.
Here are the two pictures I've painted so far. Note: While the images are pretty enormous, the paintings themselves are pretty small since I was too cheap to buy large sheets of watercolor paper. The book I got is just 6" by 6", so that's how big the pictures actually are. In general I'm pretty happy with them, being that they're my first two attempts. You can actually tell what they're supposed to be, so I see this as an absolute win.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jun 22, 2019 15:39:23 GMT
I’ve often heard that CTR is the best of the kart racing games. I picked up my copy yesterday but I’m yet to play it. Only just got around to installing it now actually. And these water colour paintings look amazing JT! Especially considering that they’re a first attempt! Have you done any other ones so far? And again, I’m really sorry about the lack of activity guys. I’ve had lots of things all crashing down on me at once. But it’s calming down now.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jun 22, 2019 18:12:23 GMT
I've done a few more, yeah. Two more trees and two more attempts at clouds. I have them up in an imgur album here. Painting in watercolor is both easier and more difficult than you'd think. It's really a "broad strokes" kind of painting and adding detail can be pretty squirrelly unless you wait for everything to dry. It's fun to figure it out, though, and it's much cheaper and less of a mess to clean up than using oils would've been. I do need to get some more brushes, though. The ones that came with the set are good, but they're all on the small side, so they don't hold much paint. Which is fine on 6" paper, but if I want to draw anything bigger I'll need bigger brushes.
In other news, last night my family drove up to Kansas City to go to a baseball game, with fireworks after. Which was a lot of fun, although driving 3 hours to get there was a bit much. We ended up getting back at like 3 in the morning. Got my baseball park hotdog though so it's all good.
Have fun with the CTR. I haven't picked it up yet, but I want to soon.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jun 25, 2019 22:53:11 GMT
Really nice work on the paintings JT. They’re coming along nicely. Hope the baseball game was good? CTR is fantastic by the way. Very engrossed in it at the moment...maybe too engrossed. XD
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jun 26, 2019 3:00:15 GMT
Yeah, it was a fun game. The team we were rooting for lost, but it was back and forth the whole time, and pretty high-scoring to boot. The final score was 8-7, with like 3 different home runs hit. So as far as games go, it was pretty exciting. I was afraid at first that we were going to go all the way out there and it would either be a blowout (One of the teams was near the top of the league, while the home team was near the bottom, although they'd been improving quite a bit in their few most recent games) or otherwise be a pitcher's duel. But yeah, overall it was fun.
And I got around to buying a larger brush. I can tell that it's going to make painting stuff easier, but I definitely need to adjust to it. I actually found a few examples of painting exercises to practice certain techniques, so I might go through a few of those to get the mechanics down rather than just trying to draw stuff straight away. I'll probably keep drawing stuff regardless though.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jun 30, 2019 18:05:20 GMT
Those are the best kinds of game; the ones that go back and forth and could end up going either way. And that’s great! Keep at it and let us see what you do. Sorry for the lack of activity too. I’ve just been playing CTR every spare moment I’ve got. A very addictive game lol.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jul 1, 2019 0:28:46 GMT
Yeah, it is extremely addictive. I remember when I first got back in the day I spent waaaaay too much time on it.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jul 6, 2019 9:38:52 GMT
Those are amazing JT! I particularly like the ‘Lorax tree’ ones and the rock in the sea. Really nice stuff! Also again, I’m sorry for not being around more. Between work, trying to catch up on pony and playing CTR I forget to stop by. My bad.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jul 6, 2019 15:54:38 GMT
Yeah, I was pleased how that one with the wave turned out. So of course when I tried doing another one it didn't turn out quite as well, but I guess that just means I need practice.
In other news, I had a cookout with family for the 4th, and blew up a bunch of fireworks. Fun stuff. And hopefully I'll be getting CTR soon. Have to see if all my experience playing the original game carries over to the remake or if I have to relearn everything.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jul 10, 2019 6:54:02 GMT
As I was always told, practice makes perfect! ^^
Glad you had a good Fourth of July too. And when you get CTR tell me what you think! It’s been my favourite game of the year. All the little details in it are fantastic.
I’ve got a four day weekend coming up on account of the 12th (I’ve told you guys about that ‘holiday’ before right?) and I’m going to use it to catch up on pony. I promised myself I’d make it in time for the FIM finale.
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Post by japaneseteeth on Jul 10, 2019 17:35:03 GMT
I finally got CTR on Monday. It took me a day or so to unlearn years of Mario Kart (the drifting works quite a bit differently, so I spent a few races repeatedly slamming into walls when trying to go around corners), but it didn't take too long for the hours I poured into the original version to remind me how it works. I can definitely say that they did an excellent job with the remake; the level of detail is amazing, and they did an overall great job of capturing the feel of it. I was a little worried that they were going to try to simplify the mechanics so it could compete more with the Mario Kart games, but they definitely focused more on trying to recreate how it worked the first time around. I'm already starting to remember some of the reasons I preferred it to MK back in the day. Specifically, it feels a bit faster overall (it takes less time to get up to speed when you get slowed down by an obstacle or item) and I think the weapons feel a little more balanced; it takes more skill to use them effectively. It definitely has a higher learning curve, though. I'm familiar with it, and it's still pretty tough. I can imagine how rough it would be for somebody who's never played it before.
Also, I do have a few more things I painted but I haven't had time to scan them yet. Hopefully I can get something up soon.
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Post by Applelight Limited on Jul 12, 2019 19:06:41 GMT
Yeah I found it pretty difficult to start off with but the genius of it is that it’s easy to pick it up, and now I’m managing great lol. Looking forward to seeing more of your work too. Also I’ve been seriously catching up with pony. At this rate, I’ll have season 7 and the movie watched by the weekend, and a chunk of season 8 too. Pity about those Chinese leaks bringing the end closer.
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