PCE Prototype Contest Redurp Complete with srs lack of OBEY

[Arkhan]

aw, noones going to contest Bonk?!

I gave it my best shot a few days ago and couldn't come close. haha Forgot to take a photo of my meager score but I had fun at least.

The trick is, you can juggle enemies non stop to amass muchos puntos.

so then it becomes a test of how many free lives you can amass, and how little you die.

[futureman2000]

Ugh... the problem with a high-score contest for Legenday Axe is that it is essentially a battle of attrition, since there is a stretch of the game that you can loop for infinite enemies/points. I decided after my last score that it would be my only effort, and I'm going to stick to that =).

[Arkhan]

Ugh... the problem with a high-score contest for Legenday Axe is that it is essentially a battle of attrition, since there is a stretch of the game that you can loop for infinite enemies/points. I decided after my last score that it would be my only effort, and I'm going to stick to that =).

ties are resolved by number of lives left upon winning... so..... \o/

[futureman2000]

I would love to see that kind of a score battle for Legendary Axe! High score on www.twingalaxies.com is 99,999,990. I don't think I have it in me- but I encourage others to give it a go.

[hoobs88]

The original post says that the contest will be extended for 2 weeks after Thanksgiving...does that mean it ends tomorrow?

[Arkhan]

The original post says that the contest will be extended for 2 weeks after Thanksgiving...does that mean it ends tomorrow?

No.  I think I will just let it roll til Xmas, since it took longer than I thought for people to get OBEYing properly.

[A_Locomotive]

aw, noones going to contest Bonk?!

I gave it my best shot a few days ago and couldn't come close. haha Forgot to take a photo of my meager score but I had fun at least.

The trick is, you can juggle enemies non stop to amass muchos puntos.

so then it becomes a test of how many free lives you can amass, and how little you die.

I've never had much luck juggling them for to long. I can keep them going for a little while but not to long. Maybe I'll give it another shot but seeing as I tend to lose more lives then I earn I'm guessing I won't top it. lol

[roflmao]

The best place to juggle, imo, is the level early on when you're inside the dinosaur.  Just before the first boss.  You can bonk things up against walls and get the timing down.  I think they take 17 hits before they stop giving bonuses.  If you go though that level and juggle everything, you're off to a good start.

[nat]

The problem with Bonk's Adventure is the same as that with LA; there is a spot in the game with respawning enemies that allow you to simply max out the score counter with the juggling trick, given enough time (which is obviously what the high scorer did). Exploiting this stuff is a means to an end, but it takes essentially drains all the fun out of it, in my humble opinion.

[Arkhan]

The problem with Bonk's Adventure is the same as that with LA; there is a spot in the game with respawning enemies that allow you to simply max out the score counter with the juggling trick, given enough time (which is obviously what the high scorer did). Exploiting this stuff is a means to an end, but it takes essentially drains all the fun out of it, in my humble opinion.

that's why ties are resolved by lives-left.  Either way, you are demonstrating that you are better than the other person at the game.

[spenoza]

Thing is, lives are awarded by points, and if you stop gaining more points you'll stop gaining 1-ups from points. There are a limited number of 1-ups in the game, and while you can have more than 14, I don't know that you can have many more...

[Arkhan]

Thing is, lives are awarded by points, and if you stop gaining more points you'll stop gaining 1-ups from points. There are a limited number of 1-ups in the game, and while you can have more than 14, I don't know that you can have many more...

I don't see what the problem is.  Get more than 14 lives to be in first place.  AKA: Don't die as many times as Necromancer did.

It doesn't seem that complicated, lol.

[nat]

In this picture (from the high score thread) I ended the game with 23 extra lives in tow, and I was only halfway to maxing out the high score counter.

I estimated you could probably max out the extra lives around 35-45 if you played impeccably and didn't die at all and maxed out the score at 999,999.

There are just a ton of hidden flowers that are exposed by bonking the ground in the right spot strewn throughout the game that reward extra lives. There's probably ~10 just in the waterfall ascent level near the end of the game, for example.

My point being that 14 is probably only a third of the actual maximum number of extra lives you could finish the game with. I was able to get 10 more than that with half the score.

[Necromancer]

The key to more lives is in the flowers, as you'll stop accruing extra lives for points when you hit 20 (or thereabouts).  It's certainly possible to beat my 'score', as I had 30 lives going into the final level and could've preserved many more had I not run pellmell to the end.

[Arkhan]

See?    It's possible to win the bonk portion.  CMON PEOPLE