[FEZ] is out on Live Arcade! Use spoiler tags when discussing puzzles and their solution!

area · April 2012

If my XBLA points card doesn't arrive today, I am going to be one sad panda.

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UnbreakableVow · April 2012

Adda wrote: »

In case anyone is interested in that kind of thing, the FEZ cover above was done by Brian Lee O'Malley of 'Scott Pilgrim' fame.

I like the box art, but wow

That doesn't look anything close to his art in Scott Pilgrim

I haven't read his other books though

UnbreakableVow · April 2012

Gonna do that thing and pimp review scores

9.5 out of 10 from IGN

10/10 from Eurogamer

Caedere · April 2012

Man, I love Eurogamer reviews so much. They're written so well that they're like gaming nerd porn.

mastrius · April 2012

This game is great. I'm loving it.

Jam Warrior · April 2012

That Eurogamer review fills me with a deep, deep longing. Soon!

darleysam · April 2012

I can't wait to get home and play this. Far too many hours between now and then for me to be comfortable.

TPSou · April 2012

The game is great but I'm completely stuck on the (spoilered in case anyone doesn't want to know what one o the early puzzles even involves, but it's just a thing, not plot or anything)

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mastrius · April 2012

TPSou wrote: »

The game is great but I'm completely stuck on the (spoilered in case anyone doesn't want to know what one o the early puzzles even involves, but it's just a thing, not plot or anything)

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bell, any idea what the hell you do with it?

No fucking clue either man.

TPSou · April 2012

It did make a dog go crazy outside though

mastrius · April 2012

TPSou wrote: »

It did make a dog go crazy outside though

Hahaha. Excellent. You've figured it out. THERE'S A CUBE IN THE DOG. GO NOW!

TPSou · April 2012

nope there was just dog meat. Back to the bell

mastrius · April 2012

TPSou wrote: »

nope there was just dog meat. Back to the bell

That's just disappointing. Excuse me while I go find the bell again myself. And hate it. And cry.

Jam Warrior · April 2012

From reading reviews, nobody in the world knows what that thing does right now.

mastrius · April 2012

Jam Warrior wrote: »

From reading reviews, nobody in the world knows what that thing does right now.

It's just so big and loud and calling to me. It WANTS me to ring it. It NEEDS me to figure it out. But...but...*sniff*...I don't think I can....

TPSou · April 2012

It's so frustrating, I feel like I need to complete every panel before I move on, but that one is a complete mystery. I'm scared of just hitting it randomly in case I solve it without knowing what I did.

mastrius · April 2012

TPSou wrote: »

It's so frustrating, I feel like I need to complete every panel before I move on, but that one is a complete mystery. I'm scared of just hitting it randomly in case I solve it without knowing what I did.

I didn't realize you could

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Jam Warrior · April 2012

I am home! It is downloading! Excitement and anticipation!

timspork's ghost · April 2012

Played only the very beginning.

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Gandalf_the_Crazed · April 2012

What's the download size on this game?

MrDelish · April 2012

270 megabytes or so

Also this game is adorable. It also induced my first ever "crash to dashboard"

Mr_Grinch · April 2012

Is anyone else finding the frame rate a little...iffy. I'm only playing the demo but on some of the long rotating pans it stutters a fair bit.

:edit: Also I seem to be a stuck on the demo. I've:

Collected all of the cube things, gone through a door, climbed up a bit, gone through another door, collected two cube bits and now I can't seem to find out what to do.

Jam Warrior · April 2012

Good Lord this game.

People wondered how it can have taken this long to release. Clearly now we see that the answer is the he was polishing, and polishing, and polishing, and polishing, until he had made this little baby shine.

Lork · April 2012

The people acting like they're taking a moral stand against this game need to get over themselves. Like, I could understand it if he was super racist, or was suspected of rape or something, but no, all he's ever done is have mildly controversial opinions about video games. Grow up.

UnbreakableVow · April 2012

Lork wrote: »

The people acting like they're taking a moral stand against this game need to get over themselves. Like, I could understand it if he was super racist, or was suspected of rape or something, but no, all he's ever done is have mildly controversial opinions about video games. Grow up.

Uh

No one's mentioned it for days

pablo_price · April 2012

it's not that he has "controversial opinions," it's that he acts like a total douchenozzle in expressing them.
there is also a contingent of people who think he "cheated" in the igf awards by entering multiple years/knowing the right people in charge.

I can't comment about the latter, but the former is pretty much a given fact.
Choosing not to support someone you think is an asshole is a valid move - no one is obligated to do/buy anything.

edit: to clarify, I'll be buying Fez as soon as I have more points in my account, but telling people to grow up over something so meaningless is a pretty dumb thing to do.

Caedere · April 2012

Having trouble with secrets in the first area.

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Mr_Grinch · April 2012

So where do I actually go? I

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Mr_Grinch · April 2012

I found the door. D'oh.

Sadly after finishing the demo it seems to have unsold me on the game. I've been quite looking forward to it (big platform fan) but playing it just didn't seem fun to me.

(Also the dialogue on the floating cube thingy annoyed me as does the slightly fluctuating frame rate, though it did appear to settle down a bit. Oh and it crashed to Dashboard.)

timspork's ghost · April 2012

Caedere wrote: »

Having trouble with secrets in the first area.

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I somehow unlocked the "Cryptographer" achievement, but I don't know what I did to do it. :lol:

Also, there's a room with a skull and a bunch of Tetris shapes.... I have no clue at all what it wants from Mr.

Cryptographer achievement.

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Darmak · April 2012

So this game is good and is eventually coming to PC? Color me excited then!

vonPoonBurGer · April 2012

timspork's ghost wrote: »

Caedere wrote: »

Having trouble with secrets in the first area.

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I somehow unlocked the "Cryptographer" achievement, but I don't know what I did to do it. :lol:

Also, there's a room with a skull and a bunch of Tetris shapes.... I have no clue at all what it wants from Mr.

Cryptographer achievement.

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It is from a specific combination of right and left trigger pulls. You can get it randomly just by playing.

The reason behind it is revealed later on, when you

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EliteBattleman · April 2012

vonPoonBurGer wrote: »

timspork's ghost wrote: »

Caedere wrote: »

Having trouble with secrets in the first area.

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I somehow unlocked the "Cryptographer" achievement, but I don't know what I did to do it. :lol:

Also, there's a room with a skull and a bunch of Tetris shapes.... I have no clue at all what it wants from Mr.

Cryptographer achievement.

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It is from a specific combination of right and left trigger pulls. You can get it randomly just by playing.

The reason behind it is revealed later on, when you

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find a wall with a QR code on it. If you scan the QR code with a smartphone, it contains the text for the sequence.

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Gandalf_the_Crazed · April 2012

timspork's ghost wrote: »

Played only the very beginning.

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When the cube started talking in the strange language. God damn it. I'm going to need to decypher that. It looked like a letter substitution with the words possibly running up and down.

I need a notebook for this game.

Man, agreed. Some of this is old school, "Hope you're paying fucking attention!" puzzle design.

I am completely stumped by the

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timspork's ghost · April 2012

Gandalf_the_Crazed wrote: »

timspork's ghost wrote: »

Played only the very beginning.

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When the cube started talking in the strange language. God damn it. I'm going to need to decypher that. It looked like a letter substitution with the words possibly running up and down.

I need a notebook for this game.

Man, agreed. Some of this is old school, "Hope you're paying fucking attention!" puzzle design.

I am completely stumped by the

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owl, and by the telescope. What the fucking fuck.

Owl

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Gandalf_the_Crazed · April 2012

You know, the whole thing reminds me slightly of the feeling I got from Myst. There's all these signs of intelligent life -- homes, tombstones, etc. Things that were obviously built, and they obviously have some specific purpose.

It's just there's nobody around to show you what that purpose is, so you end up feeling like a monkey poking a calculator with a stick.

Dirty · April 2012

pablo_price wrote: »

it's not that he has "controversial opinions," it's that he acts like a total douchenozzle in expressing them.

Yeah, I think this guy definitely comes across quite douchey, but me not buying his game isn't going to change that. I think EA and Capcom have some pretty dipshitty business tactics, but I'm still gonna buy the games if the games are good.

Gandalf_the_Crazed · April 2012

Oh my gods, I just realized

I hope they don't put this guy to work in the next Valve ARG. D:

Death of Rats · April 2012

I'm playing this game... but I don't know if I have the patience to sit here and figure all this non-fun-puzzle-platformer shit.

UnbreakableVow · April 2012

If you think it's non-fun puzzle-platforming, why did you buy it?

I mean, that's what it was touted as (except the non-fun part)

And these games do have trials

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