you're gonna like the "milkman" :)
― Nhex, Monday, 11 May 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
and I LOVE the section you're doing right now after the lungfish chase
― Nhex, Monday, 11 May 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, the game didn't really grab me until after I beat the Lungfish, and then I was like "oh, this is the best".
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 11 May 2009 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
lungfishopolis is just so so so much fun.
― pen(istentiary) (stevie), Monday, 11 May 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
oh man just reading and remembering all this stuff makes me think i should go dig out my original copy of this and play through it again
― Esprit de Corpsgrinder Fisher (jjjusten), Monday, 11 May 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm sort of bummed that i got it on xbla, because i totally want to lend it to my younger brother once i'm done...
― pen(istentiary) (stevie), Monday, 11 May 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i think i might reget this on xbla
― I’ve seen a lot in my days as an mp3 blogger (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 May 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
So much news!
Monkey Island XBLA!New Monkey Island from TellTale!aaaaaand:
"The lawsuit claims Activision paid Double Fine about $15 million to develop "Brutal Legend," but the studio missed a key deadline last year. The suit claims Double Fine then said it would need another nine months and $7 million to complete the game.
"Hey, if Activision liked it, then they should have put a ring on it," Double Fine President Tim Schafer said. "Oh great, now Beyonce is going to sue me too."
― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 4 June 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Monkey Island remake = why not, I gess?
New Telltale Monkey Island looks surprisingly bad from the trailer, like as ugly as the last Monkey Island in 3D, but somehow worse.
The Activision lawsuit is totally ridiculous, they dropped the ball by ditching the game to begin with. Obviously this is BS, because if they really had it locked up legally, Double Fine never would have been able to shop it to EA after Activation bailed.
― Nhex, Thursday, 4 June 2009 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Activision - helping law firms get through these tough economic times.
― mayor jingleberries, Thursday, 4 June 2009 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
isn't this like the whole brouhaha that surrounded the watchmen movie?
― Norwegian Wood Smash (stevie), Friday, 5 June 2009 07:42 (fifteen years ago) link
which should i play first?
psychonauts?
or beyond good and evil?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 June 2009 10:49 (fifteen years ago) link
love both these games so much.psychonauts is more platformy and has optional collectathons like a rare n64 game.bg&e switches up its gameplay a lot, one section might be a stealth game, the next you're playing a time trial racing game etc etc. if you're buying from steam be warned that both of these have some issues running.
― zappi, Thursday, 25 June 2009 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i've got the PS2 versions
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 June 2009 13:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Psychonauts all the way. You may not be impressed with the gameplay at first (though the writing is aces from the opning cutscene on) but once you reach the asylum it gets really great, really fast.
― Telephone thing, Thursday, 25 June 2009 16:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd actually do BG&E first. They're both good, but I found BG&E's gameplay (especially the photo snapping) to be generally more fun than Psychonaut's mediocre platforming, though the latter has superior writing (to almost all games), so it's better to follow up with that one. Also the end of Psychonauts is so annoying (jumping-wise) it might kill your desire to play another game of the same type so quickly.
― Nhex, Thursday, 25 June 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
surprised the new monkey island game hasn't been mentioned on here http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyislandhas anyone played it yet? i'm looking forward to it but half expecting to be disappointed. it has had some decent reviews, mind
(brief mention on ILE)
― NI, Friday, 10 July 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I kinda want to? Afraid it's going to be a disappointment.
― Why? I forget what biologists have suggested. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 July 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm really looking forward. Will probably play it early next week.
― Mordy, Friday, 10 July 2009 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Trailer was pretty underwhelming. Also, it basically looked to be the same graphical level as Escape from a decade ago! I'm not expecting ultra-realism from an indie developer, but damn...
― Nhex, Friday, 10 July 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
But it's Monkey Island!
― Mordy, Friday, 10 July 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, is anybody playing Lucidity? Should I get it?And how about Sam and Max for XBLA?
― "Keep Tweeting", Raged Roger The Kindly Hippopotamus. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link
well the demo sure made me want nothing to do with it
― FCK R VWLS (jjjusten), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
re: lucidity btw
― FCK R VWLS (jjjusten), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 09:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder if Brutal Legend will ever come out on PC.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Telltale announced they're making adventures based on Jurassic Park and Back To The Future.
― the most horrifying moment in shallow grave (abanana), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:11 (fourteen years ago) link
MARTY?! That sounds great. I really should pick up some of Telltale's games, but the response to them seems to be generally kind of lukewarm. Not sure if this is because they're mediocre or because nobody really cares about the adventure game genre anymore, though.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
bttf one sounds interesting, i would try that one
― Don't look at the finger (Ste), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 14:26 (fourteen years ago) link
reeeeeeally interested in costume quest; a little scared of being disappointed but...http://www.costumequestgame.com/
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 October 2010 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Got it and played it for about two hours... loads of fun! Total RPG for dummies and total fun! The decision to use text and no voices is SO WELCOME. These lines can be funny but not when they're spoken. Really recommended.
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
is this on XBLA yet?
― The Boondog Taints II: All Taints Day (stevie), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
today; PS3 was yesterday.I just beat the second (of i think four?) levels; this game is a total hoot.it's only occasionally lightly challenging but it has all the fun of a solid old NES rpg; totally on rails but you feel like you're in control of the progress. tons of great writing and very very little repeat text. Cool animations, fun qte combat, amazing character design, awesome music... basically if Brutal Legend had played like this it woulda been a GOTY contender. Going back to basics is a good look for them. I haven't even beat this yet and i'm already looking forward to the DLC.YAY!
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
ABBOTT: Get this. It is made for you.
fun qte combat
This is both an oxymoron and a game killer for me. QTEs are the worst "innovation" in gaming ever.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh man, forks, you had me sold even before you put my name in all caps like that. Maybe if I'm lucky Santa will bring me a PS3. I didn't even get a PS2 until 2007.
― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
it's minor, it's minor.basically you boost your attack if you hit x when it asks you to, that sort of thing. really, it just holds your attention through what would otherwise be YOU HIT SLIME FOR 2 POINTS DAMAGE
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
xp
Okay. As long as it isn't a requirement to advance past something I'm cool.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
you collect creepy candy cards! bobbing for apple minigames!when i fought one of the monsters, before he attacked he cried out "You remind me of my parents... from whom I am horribly ESTRANGED!"
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
storyline is simple: monsters are stealing all the candy on halloween and they've also kidnapped your sister/brother (whichever one you choose not to play). now you've got to get him/her back and save the candy and the holiday.
the basic play mechanic to clear a board is that you have to trick or treat at all the individual level's houses/stores (sample store names: "Why Not Flip Flops?" "Rocks: For Her", a video game joint run by a pirate called "The Arrrrrr-cade"). Each time you trickortreat it's 50/50 that you get an adult who gives you candy (gp + xp) or a monster who you have to fight. In the meantime there's minigames and collect-em-all's and hunt for secrets and text storyline fun to be had.
You find costume design sheets and then have to find the three pieces that make up the costume on the board. then you can equip the costume on you and party members and each costume has unique attack and exploration properties: knight costume has an exploratory shield quality and a combat defense, the statue of liberty heals in combat, the ninja suit cloaks both in exploring and in combat. it's quite clever.
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish I had more game-playing time atm, because this sounds amazing and I can't wait to play it. But it'll have to wait until after New Vegas.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
btw, i love this story from Tim Schafer about how he got his first job at LucasArts:
I called David Fox right away and scribbled all the notes you see while I was talking to him. I told him how much I wanted to work at Lucasfilm, not because of Star Wars, but because I loved, “Ball Blaster.”“Ball Blaster, eh?” he said.“Yeah! I love Ball Blaster!” I said. It was true. I had broken a joystick playing that game on my Atari 800.“Well, the name of the game is Ball Blazer.” Mr. Fox said, curtly. “It was only called Ball Blaster in the pirated version.”Gulp.Totally busted. It was true—I had played the pirated version. There, I said it. Now, if you’ve ever pirated one of my games you don’t need to feel bad, because I did it to Lucasfilm Games when I was in high school. Of course, if you’ve pirated two or more of my games, that’s a different story.
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
also: http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=195492
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, I just beat Costume Quest and knocked out 100% of the trophies; it's actually three worlds, not four. It's a very likely one-sitting game, so be aware that you're plunking down 15 bucks for a short, sweet adventure that's wonderfully done but is NOT going to keep you busy even through halloween.
Along with Limbo though, this is another case of quality making up for quantity. It's totally worth fifteen bucks.
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
at best, you're looking at about five to six hours, max.
http://www.girlgamer.com/zine/article/1015/
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
don't mind me i'm gonna keep talking to myself until someone else plays this game, BUT:in retrospect, it seems pretty obvious that there was a fourth level that got cut on this game. at the end of the 2nd level, you've amassed about half of the badges, costumes and bonuses. Then, near the end of the third level, you get a pile of superfluous badges, three costumes RIGHT at the end of the game and one additional costume following a lengthy maze board that you use ONCE and then never again. the final boss is well positioned to escape after a fight and instead she sorta huddles over and waits for a follow up fight. I think they cut the final level for whatever reason. It's a shame and it throws off the balance for the last half hour or so, but it's not a game breaker. Just wish I could've played that final level.
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I played the demo. Very cute. Don't know if I want to drop 15 bones on it right now tho.
― macaroni rascal (polyphonic), Thursday, 21 October 2010 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-10-21-costume-quest-review^pretty much dead on
― Brick Frog! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 October 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Loving this!
― Mordy, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link