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Made a Front Mission IV walkthrough?
Currently on Youtube, all I see are just samples of the game, incomplete walk-throughs, or just cutscenes that don't have actual gameplay. Unless I'm not looking hard enough, can somebody find me a complete walk-through/ Let's Play of the game?
Otherwise, I think I'll be the first person to get a full run of the game up on Youtube. So far I have about an hour and 30 minutes recorded, and I've only begun to start the game.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the Front Mission Series, it's a turn-based strategy/RPG that takes place at least 90 years into the future. Although it has some non-fiction elements to it, it isn't based on real-life.
With the 4th installment of the game, we have two parties: One being the E.C. (European Commonwealth) Armor Tactics Research Corps; or informally known as "The Durandal" with their main HQ being in Great Britain.
The other Protagonist group being a couple of U.C.S. (Unified Continental States (In the NTSC version anyway))-Venezuela deserters... of course that takes place in Venezuela if you didn't already figure it out.
I hope I am not spoiling too much by telling you that later on, the U.C.S. deserters come along a group of guerrillas in their escape from the country. The Guerrillas are known as La Alianza de Libertidad Venezolana; which in English roughly translates to "The Venezuelan Freedom Aliance." The deserters find themselves in need of La Alianza's assistance in order to flee Venezuela; and in return they fight for the guerrillas' cause. Why exactly are the deserters fleeing Venezuela you may ask? They pillaged a plane that had crashed on their routine patrol that had the governor's cache of $25 million USD. Don't worry; the governor probably had it coming to him anyway; it's politics, you know how corrupt they can be, and that's exactly how the game portrays the governor. That may also be why La Alianza formed in the first place; because somebody has to do what's right for the people, and the government sure as Hell wasn't going to do anything right.
Regardless, as for the situation with the Durandal... well, you'll either have to do some looking into yourself if you're curious to know, or you can convince me to upload the game and find out. I could tell you right here, right now and spoil everything; but where's the fun in that? Don't you want to see Robot mechs Brawling each other to the death and asplodin'? I'm sure you do! Now here's the thing.
I'm not sure if I want to do a walk-through and leave it at that; or make it into a Let's Play. I've never done either before, but it's pretty simple with a Walk-through; just capture and upload it. However I believe that can get pretty boring just watching somebody else play the game for you, which is why I appreciate the commentary that the Let's Play videos have to offer. Admittingly though I am not a very good speaker, and if the commentary is bad it will discourage people from watching the videos and learning more about the game. Right now I don't know of anybody that would actually be looking forward to either (Front Mission isn't a very popular series outside of Japan, unfortunately.), so with nobody else to turn to, I'd like to see what some other fellow gamers have to say. If more people want me to add commentary, it will have to be delayed, right now I am having trouble recording my voice onto the computer.
Anyway as a warning, I will have to let every one of you know that the game starts off really slowly at first; it only begins to pick up pace (not to mention difficulty) when you start the second chapter of the Durandal's side. It's mostly cutscenes and dialogue; but even that has a downside. Because I might've skipped over some of it too fast (slip of the finger, or I might've read the dialogue too fast and not everybody reads as fast I do), you may have to pause the videos at times if you want to understand what the characters are going through in their struggles. When you actually own the game, you can skip the cutscenes and scroll through the dialogue, but for the sake of the audience and wholeness, I captured everything up to where I have temporarily halted progress of the game. (I actually need to go back to the FMIV main menu and record a second opening cutscene, but maybe I'll do that in the end; I don't want to havee to re-record everything.)
I will also mostly skip simulations (or side-missions, if you will) as to not bore you with what is irrelevant to the story. Either that or I may record the simulations seperately. I will also have to do simulations to prepare my party for the next part of the main questline, as the game gets really difficult later on and strategy will only take you so far before you need to have the sufficient stats to carry out said strategies; so if you see anything different about the characters; that's why.
Some of the game is also self-explanatory, but I decided to leave some of that out to try to get through the game faster. I'm not sure if you'd rather I add annotations to the video at times to explain some of the things I do, or if you'd rather have me record the tutorials to explain everything, but the tutorials take their sweet time explaining some basic elements, so again just to save you time I haven't done anything yet. You'll have to let me know what you want me to do.
I believe that's all I have to say for now.
Made a Front Mission IV walkthrough?
Currently on Youtube, all I see are just samples of the game, incomplete walk-throughs, or just cutscenes that don't have actual gameplay. Unless I'm not looking hard enough, can somebody find me a complete walk-through/ Let's Play of the game?
Otherwise, I think I'll be the first person to get a full run of the game up on Youtube. So far I have about an hour and 30 minutes recorded, and I've only begun to start the game.
For those of you who aren't familiar with the Front Mission Series, it's a turn-based strategy/RPG that takes place at least 90 years into the future. Although it has some non-fiction elements to it, it isn't based on real-life.
With the 4th installment of the game, we have two parties: One being the E.C. (European Commonwealth) Armor Tactics Research Corps; or informally known as "The Durandal" with their main HQ being in Great Britain.
The other Protagonist group being a couple of U.C.S. (Unified Continental States (In the NTSC version anyway))-Venezuela deserters... of course that takes place in Venezuela if you didn't already figure it out.
I hope I am not spoiling too much by telling you that later on, the U.C.S. deserters come along a group of guerrillas in their escape from the country. The Guerrillas are known as La Alianza de Libertidad Venezolana; which in English roughly translates to "The Venezuelan Freedom Aliance." The deserters find themselves in need of La Alianza's assistance in order to flee Venezuela; and in return they fight for the guerrillas' cause. Why exactly are the deserters fleeing Venezuela you may ask? They pillaged a plane that had crashed on their routine patrol that had the governor's cache of $25 million USD. Don't worry; the governor probably had it coming to him anyway; it's politics, you know how corrupt they can be, and that's exactly how the game portrays the governor. That may also be why La Alianza formed in the first place; because somebody has to do what's right for the people, and the government sure as Hell wasn't going to do anything right.
Regardless, as for the situation with the Durandal... well, you'll either have to do some looking into yourself if you're curious to know, or you can convince me to upload the game and find out. I could tell you right here, right now and spoil everything; but where's the fun in that? Don't you want to see Robot mechs Brawling each other to the death and asplodin'? I'm sure you do! Now here's the thing.
I'm not sure if I want to do a walk-through and leave it at that; or make it into a Let's Play. I've never done either before, but it's pretty simple with a Walk-through; just capture and upload it. However I believe that can get pretty boring just watching somebody else play the game for you, which is why I appreciate the commentary that the Let's Play videos have to offer. Admittingly though I am not a very good speaker, and if the commentary is bad it will discourage people from watching the videos and learning more about the game. Right now I don't know of anybody that would actually be looking forward to either (Front Mission isn't a very popular series outside of Japan, unfortunately.), so with nobody else to turn to, I'd like to see what some other fellow gamers have to say. If more people want me to add commentary, it will have to be delayed, right now I am having trouble recording my voice onto the computer.
Anyway as a warning, I will have to let every one of you know that the game starts off really slowly at first; it only begins to pick up pace (not to mention difficulty) when you start the second chapter of the Durandal's side. It's mostly cutscenes and dialogue; but even that has a downside. Because I might've skipped over some of it too fast (slip of the finger, or I might've read the dialogue too fast and not everybody reads as fast I do), you may have to pause the videos at times if you want to understand what the characters are going through in their struggles. When you actually own the game, you can skip the cutscenes and scroll through the dialogue, but for the sake of the audience and wholeness, I captured everything up to where I have temporarily halted progress of the game. (I actually need to go back to the FMIV main menu and record a second opening cutscene, but maybe I'll do that in the end; I don't want to havee to re-record everything.)
I will also mostly skip simulations (or side-missions, if you will) as to not bore you with what is irrelevant to the story. Either that or I may record the simulations seperately. I will also have to do simulations to prepare my party for the next part of the main questline, as the game gets really difficult later on and strategy will only take you so far before you need to have the sufficient stats to carry out said strategies; so if you see anything different about the characters; that's why.
Some of the game is also self-explanatory, but I decided to leave some of that out to try to get through the game faster. I'm not sure if you'd rather I add annotations to the video at times to explain some of the things I do, or if you'd rather have me record the tutorials to explain everything, but the tutorials take their sweet time explaining some basic elements, so again just to save you time I haven't done anything yet. You'll have to let me know what you want me to do.
I believe that's all I have to say for now.