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[SUUuuuUUPER MEAT BOY!] Level editor beta released on Steam!
joshofalltrades
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Do you think you are good at video games?
Like, really really good? Better than Billy Mitchell?
Okay, bad example.
Well Super Meat Boy would like to have a word with you.
This game is hard. Fucking. Core. You'll be reading through this thread having played the first couple of levels and say man, fuck Josh. He doesn't know what he's talking about.
Well first of all, don't interrupt me. It's rude. Secondly, fuck you guy. This game will eat your balls and then shit them onto your mama's eyeballs.
And that's just a taste of what Super Meat Boy is going to thrust upon you. Seriously, this game will cut a hole in your chair and swing a heavy thing at your balls like in that movie with that one guy. And you will like it.
But for those who stick it out, you will find yourself performing amazing aerial feats. Meat Boy will fly through levels with buzzsaws shaving the pixels right next to you, seemingly impossible jumps performed and all bandages retrieved.
Oh, how did I get this far without mentioning the story? You're Meat Boy. Dr. Fetus, who nobody likes, steals Bandage Girl. You have to rescue her.
Along the way, you will confront spikes, saws, gears, fans, salt, missiles, homing mouth thingies, maggots, and a whole shitload more. Everything kills you in one hit. When you die, you go back to the beginning of the level, but this is good as the action is fast-paced and there's no loading after a death. Just more death, over and over, until you get it the fuck right one time, which is the only thing that Super Meat Boy demands of you.
Bandages can be retrieved, but they tend to make a level way more difficult in some way. Die after grabbing one, and you start over without it. It's brutal but that's what you signed on for when you became a god damn man (even if you are a woman).
Get enough bandages and you unlock some groovy characters from indie gaming legend. Here's the big list: (red means PC exclusive, green means XBLA exclusive, white means available on both)
Right now this game is only available on XBLA and PC. Unfortunately, a Wii version was in the works but Nintendo is really restrictive with their digital distro requirements and nobody seems to want to publish a full retail version of this game.
And there are leaderboards!
We'll be getting a level editor sometime January 2011 too, so we can all make horrible levels for each other. The editor is supposedly capable of creating anything in the regular game with the exception of bosses. You'll need to be able to beat your own level (or get a friend to do so) before they can be uploaded.
Have patience, train your twitch muscles, and you will accomplish what some gamers can only dream of. Or you can be a failure who never gets to bone the opposite sex. It's up to you.
Like, really really good? Better than Billy Mitchell?
Okay, bad example.
Well Super Meat Boy would like to have a word with you.
This game is hard. Fucking. Core. You'll be reading through this thread having played the first couple of levels and say man, fuck Josh. He doesn't know what he's talking about.
Well first of all, don't interrupt me. It's rude. Secondly, fuck you guy. This game will eat your balls and then shit them onto your mama's eyeballs.
And that's just a taste of what Super Meat Boy is going to thrust upon you. Seriously, this game will cut a hole in your chair and swing a heavy thing at your balls like in that movie with that one guy. And you will like it.
But for those who stick it out, you will find yourself performing amazing aerial feats. Meat Boy will fly through levels with buzzsaws shaving the pixels right next to you, seemingly impossible jumps performed and all bandages retrieved.
Oh, how did I get this far without mentioning the story? You're Meat Boy. Dr. Fetus, who nobody likes, steals Bandage Girl. You have to rescue her.
Along the way, you will confront spikes, saws, gears, fans, salt, missiles, homing mouth thingies, maggots, and a whole shitload more. Everything kills you in one hit. When you die, you go back to the beginning of the level, but this is good as the action is fast-paced and there's no loading after a death. Just more death, over and over, until you get it the fuck right one time, which is the only thing that Super Meat Boy demands of you.
Bandages can be retrieved, but they tend to make a level way more difficult in some way. Die after grabbing one, and you start over without it. It's brutal but that's what you signed on for when you became a god damn man (even if you are a woman).
Get enough bandages and you unlock some groovy characters from indie gaming legend. Here's the big list: (red means PC exclusive, green means XBLA exclusive, white means available on both)
Meat Boy
Bandage Girl
Brownie
Commander Video
Flywrench
Jill
Ogmo
The Kid (I Wanna Be the Guy)
Meat Ninja
Alien Hominid
Gish
Pink Knight (Castle Crashers)
Tim (Braid)
Spelunky
The Ninja (N+)
Captain Viridian
Goo Ball (from World of Goo)
Headcrab
Josef
Naija
Runman
Steve from Minecraft
Tofu Boy
Right now this game is only available on XBLA and PC. Unfortunately, a Wii version was in the works but Nintendo is really restrictive with their digital distro requirements and nobody seems to want to publish a full retail version of this game.
And there are leaderboards!
We'll be getting a level editor sometime January 2011 too, so we can all make horrible levels for each other. The editor is supposedly capable of creating anything in the regular game with the exception of bosses. You'll need to be able to beat your own level (or get a friend to do so) before they can be uploaded.
Have patience, train your twitch muscles, and you will accomplish what some gamers can only dream of. Or you can be a failure who never gets to bone the opposite sex. It's up to you.
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American Meat Boy is More Hardcore.
I think I'm going to blow it up and print it out on my work plotter
But man I haven't been finding time to play this, still right at the beginning of The End.
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
you have no idea what lies ahead
I laugh at your coming misfortune and cramped fingers
Still love the game though because I love how after all those tries, getting an A+ on the level makes you feel effing pro. Also treating death like it ain't no thing by immediately respawning and infinite lives also helps.
3DS: 5284-1576-2362
Anyway, finished Cotton Alley LW and DW a few days ago. LW was pretty cool, and while DW had some annoying levels, nothing came even close to XOXO. And then I figured out the "trick" to the upper part and I wanted to smack myself. My favorite levels from that Chapter were definitely Four Letter Word and Brag Rights though. So simple and yet so awesome.
Cotton Alley racked me a good 2k deaths I think, although I blame the vast majority on XOXO and trying to tighten up my time more and more on Four Letter Word.
If not for letting a friend test the game out by playing through the entirety of Chapter 1, redoing some WZs several times because of glitched achievements, and dying over and over again to get glitched Bandage Girls to show up, I'd probably have way less deaths on my counter.
Now the waiting game for the level editor. I have a couple of ideas already, and sign me up for any deathtraps you guys conjure up.
So now i have to replay the whole thing again seeing that I'm too lazy to transfer my save over.
Yaaaaaay!
Welcome to the replay club!
Don't forget to take your medications!
That and the crust on my gamepad was looking pretty gross.
I'll come back to it one day to do speed runs, but not for now.
You know it would probably take less time to transfer the save.
[Steam][TF2 Backpack]
Then I will be a man
You know, I always blamed my pale skin on the lack of going outside, but you make a good point!
D:
If you move quickly, you can jump over the moving wall of saw-blades. It makes the level much easier.
I was more referring to crust being left on your controller than the hue of your epidermis
But yes, you may want to get that looked at
You know if you hit that middle just exactly fucking perfectly, meatboy can run on top of the disappearing bricks and under that saw blade?
I did it one fucking time when I was beating josh's score, but didn't finish the level.
I pretty much guarentee if you can make that, you'll be in the top 10 (non-0) scores on the leaderboards.
[Steam][TF2 Backpack]
Steam: DigitalArcanist | XBoxLive: DigitalArcanist | PSN: DigitalArcanist | Backloggery: Houn
Trust me it is possible, and it is way easier than trying to jump off the side of the platform
if yes, then you are doing it wrong
edit: to clarify, this post was directed at josh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y79W7_257o0
Super beaten.
I found jumping from one side to the other to be easier than straight vertical as josh suggested.
Steam: DigitalArcanist | XBoxLive: DigitalArcanist | PSN: DigitalArcanist | Backloggery: Houn
Steam: Chagrin LoL: Bonhomie
Yeah, I was just taking it a step further, so ... never mind.
Anyway, this game is great!?
Well, if there wasn't going to be a Wii version... why would they have an announcement to make?