posted 03-06-04 06:43 PM EDT (US)
To the late night
Double feature
Picture show
The characters section is gone for now. I should make a better character section, one that's actually informative. If anyone's interested, that is. Anyway, every post of NCL I wrote on the spot, which I think explains the random, redundant and catchphrase-y nature of the series. But this is not something i'm proud of. To be honest, I want to take NCL back to what it was originally intended to be(which I think Episode I manages to stick fairly closely to), a remake of the Day of the Penguin series that is [This message has been edited by psykitty (edited 10-31-2004 @ 04:59 PM).]
This is sort of a 'database' post for Needlessly Complicated Legends, wherein you shall find both the history of the project and information concerning upcoming NCL-related stuff. In the History of Day of the Penguin section, you will learn most of what I can remember about the series, how I let NCL degrade into a bunch of catchphrases and recycled jokes(which I had not intended to do when I began this) and you'll also see some vague hints concerning the future of NCL.
I'd like to note that Crono actually died in the VOW park thread, but his death was promptly ignored for Operation:Unnessecarilly Complicated.
Black Helmet Man was originally a humble pet store owner, but then he became 'incapacitated' and disappeared for a while. In fact, I never really explained what happened to him. However, he did have some appearances in other threads, and was eventually announced to be the real leader of the penguin army. Then came 
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Day of the Penguin's ending just begged for a sequel, and it was much anticipated, until the site I was leeching bandwidth from so I could use some custom-made images decided it would not allow people to join just so they could post images in other forums. And the sequel was cancelled.
OR WAS IT??? I still wanted to make a sequel, and had several ideas kicking around. Eventually, I went ahead with it, and posted 
). And then we come to
Now, as TDK said at the VOW movie review station, SAF has the weakest plot of the three. Personally, I think it makes up for it by having the best title.
Seriously, though, a lot of things went wrong with DOTP 3.
I used a 30-day trial version of Photoshop to make the two big battle scene images(which no longer appear because I removed them from Havocaos. I'm gonna try to dig them up again from my computer when it comes time to reduce this one to script form, but I can't make any promises), and an emulator(boo! Hiss!) to get some sprites from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time(Splinter's sprite, and the explosion). I used Havocaos to host the images I could not find on GSArchives, and that worked very well. I'm starting to regret deleting my DOTP library(I thought I wouldn't need them anymore . . . shows what I know. )
Anyway, Sequels are Forever went through many of the same problems as the first sequel, but on a much larger scale. Now, I always broke my movies up into two parts, and posted them quickly one after the other, but this was mostly because I thought I wouldn't be able to post posts that were too long or something, I can't remember. Anyway, with DOTP 3, I ended up posting the first part before completing the second one. A bunch of stuff happened, and I almost cancelled part 2 BUT THEN I DIDN'T! I finished part 2 and ended the series on a somewhat anticlimactic note.
Some time after the series ended, I made a poll at the BTOOIC website asking if anyone would be interested in an update of Day of the Penguin.(I can no longer find this poll, which is why there is no link to it)
The consensus was that the BTOOIC forumers would be interested in a rerelease, provided it contained some new scenes. And thus Needlessly Complicated Legends was born . . . sort of.
In true Psykitty fashion, I decided that editing all the previous episodes would be too difficult and shied away from the project, completely forgetting about it. This was during the waning of the BTOOIC's power, I believe. Seems like I've spent a lot longer here than I actually have . . . I can hardly believe it's only been two years.
Sometime last year, I started thinking about NCL again, and came up with that title. I decided no one would be interested, and promptly shelved the idea until later.
I came up with ), so I abandoned it.
Some months after that, I decided I still wanted to have some kind of forum show, and that I would go through with NCL whether anyone was interested or not. Thinking it was similar enough to Operation: Unnessecarily Complicated to go in the
Each episode will be named after one of Dr. Seuss' books, and will be based on a certain part of the story.
Episode 1=
Episode 2=
Episode 3=
Episode 4=
Episode 5=
Episode 6=something new
Yes, I am ripping off Xenosaga. Yes, that's the point.
I'm going to just stop saying things now. This post is long enough...
Certain cities will now have their own explosion effects that play when you raze them. Was Swolte's idea to use FXes for things. Explosions are awesome.
