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Nov. 10th, 2021 05:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedIs it any coincidence that I become some kind of perfectionist every ten years? First, those various games I dreamed up between 9th and 11th grades (2000-02), which I talked about ten years later partly in relation to Unwilling Service, which by that point was going to be my way of "playing" Pokemon in particular on my terms, and now, these various plans to commission for ROMhacks.
Recently, I had considered hacking various games so that everyone in the party gets to fight simultaneously, or at least so that such criteria can fall into place for everyone equally that they'll get to eat stuff all simultaneously (some games actually have different uses for food than HP recovery), and so that a given food item feeds either an individual character or the whole party based entirely on common sense. If I had made those two rules for myself back when I first launched Game Gourmet, I would never have gotten into Star Ocean in the first place, but of course, you can't anticipate everything that's going to happen. Things like drinks or sandwiches healing the entire party while entire cakes heal just one person was something I first discovered before even getting into it on December two years ago, all I did at the time was address with Brian how weird that is during a walk down Long Island Avenue, and it was only months later that I first considered commissioning for ROMhacks due to a different issue altogether in such a game I had gotten pretty attached to by that point.
So this past week or so, I examined most games' foodstuffs on my agenda, and ironically, Tokyo Xanadu, which I'm still not crazy about for its PC count of ten and only re-read out of curiosity, is one of the few games besides the Earthbound trilogy that doesn't apply, should I say Fridge Logic?, to its application of food. Several hotpots are the only foodstuffs available that would be eaten by multiple people in real life, and the only items that do heal your entire party. At least in the Suikoden series, we can infer that the number of times you can use an item would equate in the case of food to how many portions you cook at a time, although pizzas and most pies and cakes should logically have eight. But now, I simply don't feel like dealing with stupidity directly involving the main thing I pick games out on, and combined with how badly I had worn myself mentally from all that work I've been doing basically all day until yesterday, I've found myself putting enough games on the back burner, and even writing a few off entirely, to consider adding the entire Disgaea series back to my agenda, despite most of its foodstuffs consisting of sweets, drinks, and witch-like stuff.
(While those games do have a headcount limit for each board, their base panels do sort of justify it, being portals connected to each game's hub (or between boards in the Item World) that only allow a default total of ten people through at a time, including those who get KO'ed on the board. There are a couple of things I would change about each game in that series, but I never make a point of using such features myself, when I'm already focused on too many other things going on at a time, and especially when tossing monsters into a stage's base panel for recruiting would obviously put everyone in reserve at risk.)
Given my mental state by yesterday, I decided to "open the floodgates" much earlier than planned, for more than I had offered before, and it didn't take long to find someone on PeoplePerHour willing to work on Trails in the Sky. As I googled for that mod I used before to incorporate a Japanese-audio option to include in her new mod for me, I found something even better: A complete English dub!
https://trailsinthedub.wixsite.com/dubbed/downloads
That said, given how much he bid and how relatively few changes I want made to that game than in others, I asked if he could cover the whole Sky trilogy instead of just FC, but he instead offered to add Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Kiratto Kaiketsu! while still asking for enough pay to compensate him work and help pay for college tuition. I decided to knock off the latter of those, given its current lack of an English translation and how much more interested I am in RPGs (Getter Love!! is a special case).
Well, I'm not seeking nearly as many changes with the other two games as Orbay has been responsible for for Earthbound, so if Aivan is in fact capable of what I'd like done, let's hope things progress quicker for them, the sooner to assign him Suikoden next under a new contract.
Recently, I had considered hacking various games so that everyone in the party gets to fight simultaneously, or at least so that such criteria can fall into place for everyone equally that they'll get to eat stuff all simultaneously (some games actually have different uses for food than HP recovery), and so that a given food item feeds either an individual character or the whole party based entirely on common sense. If I had made those two rules for myself back when I first launched Game Gourmet, I would never have gotten into Star Ocean in the first place, but of course, you can't anticipate everything that's going to happen. Things like drinks or sandwiches healing the entire party while entire cakes heal just one person was something I first discovered before even getting into it on December two years ago, all I did at the time was address with Brian how weird that is during a walk down Long Island Avenue, and it was only months later that I first considered commissioning for ROMhacks due to a different issue altogether in such a game I had gotten pretty attached to by that point.
So this past week or so, I examined most games' foodstuffs on my agenda, and ironically, Tokyo Xanadu, which I'm still not crazy about for its PC count of ten and only re-read out of curiosity, is one of the few games besides the Earthbound trilogy that doesn't apply, should I say Fridge Logic?, to its application of food. Several hotpots are the only foodstuffs available that would be eaten by multiple people in real life, and the only items that do heal your entire party. At least in the Suikoden series, we can infer that the number of times you can use an item would equate in the case of food to how many portions you cook at a time, although pizzas and most pies and cakes should logically have eight. But now, I simply don't feel like dealing with stupidity directly involving the main thing I pick games out on, and combined with how badly I had worn myself mentally from all that work I've been doing basically all day until yesterday, I've found myself putting enough games on the back burner, and even writing a few off entirely, to consider adding the entire Disgaea series back to my agenda, despite most of its foodstuffs consisting of sweets, drinks, and witch-like stuff.
(While those games do have a headcount limit for each board, their base panels do sort of justify it, being portals connected to each game's hub (or between boards in the Item World) that only allow a default total of ten people through at a time, including those who get KO'ed on the board. There are a couple of things I would change about each game in that series, but I never make a point of using such features myself, when I'm already focused on too many other things going on at a time, and especially when tossing monsters into a stage's base panel for recruiting would obviously put everyone in reserve at risk.)
Given my mental state by yesterday, I decided to "open the floodgates" much earlier than planned, for more than I had offered before, and it didn't take long to find someone on PeoplePerHour willing to work on Trails in the Sky. As I googled for that mod I used before to incorporate a Japanese-audio option to include in her new mod for me, I found something even better: A complete English dub!
https://trailsinthedub.wixsite.com/dubbed/downloads
That said, given how much he bid and how relatively few changes I want made to that game than in others, I asked if he could cover the whole Sky trilogy instead of just FC, but he instead offered to add Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Kiratto Kaiketsu! while still asking for enough pay to compensate him work and help pay for college tuition. I decided to knock off the latter of those, given its current lack of an English translation and how much more interested I am in RPGs (Getter Love!! is a special case).
Well, I'm not seeking nearly as many changes with the other two games as Orbay has been responsible for for Earthbound, so if Aivan is in fact capable of what I'd like done, let's hope things progress quicker for them, the sooner to assign him Suikoden next under a new contract.