You Don't Know JACK -- Get it for consoles, not PC. OP has more details.

Figgy · February 2011

Houn wrote: »

Kinda. They have a wired "base" receiver. Looks like it's IR to me, you have to point in the general direction of the receiver for it to work.

Yes, it's your basic IR setup. The receiver goes into one of the USB ports.

I've never had a problem, though. I even turn the controller sideways when doing Dis or Dat for quicker/easier reactions. Just don't put your hand over the transmitter window thingy.

maximumzero · February 2011

jclast wrote: »

maximumzero wrote: »

Mugenmidget wrote: »

Sorry if this has been asked a million times over, but I want to make sure since the OP has confused me.

The official word, as far as I knew, was that the Buzz controllers on PS3 were not supported by YDKJ. But there's this statement in the OP:

The superior versions of this game are probably the PS3 and 360.

Big button controllers have support here, but not on PC. Additionally, the layout changes when the game autodetects you are using your nerdy trivia controller in order to make things easier for you. A nice touch, to be sure.

What are the big button controllers for the PS3, if not the Buzz buzzers?

While the "Big Button" controllers work on the 360 version of the game, there's no PS3 equivalent to those that is compatible. For whatever reason Jellyvision didn't support the Buzz controllers, though there's likely more of those out in consumers hands than the big button controllers.

Personally I bought a Scene It game specifically for those controllers to use with YDKJ, and I'm still trying to find a complete list of what games work with 'em, with little luck.

As far as I know your list o' games is:
Scene-It
Scene-It 2
UNO
1 vs 100 (when it was around)
Wits and Wagers
YDKJ

Hmm. I'm terrible at the Scene It games and I already own Uno so I guess I'll have to look into Wits & Wagers.

maximumzero · March 2011

$20 at Gamestop through next Thursday.

While I already own the 360 version, I'm thinking I might pick up the DS one for the girlfriend, as she doesn't own any of the consoles.

Raiden333 · March 2011

The other night, my friends and I finally saw the alternate question 2 intro, and the series of alternate question 4 intros.

We were fucking rolling.

Vyolynce · March 2011

maximumzero wrote: »

$20 at Gamestop through next Thursday.

While I already own the 360 version, I'm thinking I might pick up the DS one for the girlfriend, as she doesn't own any of the consoles.

Vyolynce wrote: »

So I actually saw a copy of the DS version on the shelf at GameStop while I was picking up my Celebi.

Two players max, using the same DS (one used the D pad, the other the buttons). WTF. Way to phone that one in, guys.

DS seems one step below the PC version (less questions, same limitations) but (slightly more) portable.

Medium Dave · March 2011

Anyone know if they've fixed the TERRIBLE Jack Attack lag on the PS3? I don't want to bother playing online until it is. It is kind of the worst.

maximumzero · March 2011

Vyolynce wrote: »

maximumzero wrote: »

$20 at Gamestop through next Thursday.

While I already own the 360 version, I'm thinking I might pick up the DS one for the girlfriend, as she doesn't own any of the consoles.

Vyolynce wrote: »

So I actually saw a copy of the DS version on the shelf at GameStop while I was picking up my Celebi.

Two players max, using the same DS (one used the D pad, the other the buttons). WTF. Way to phone that one in, guys.

DS seems one step below the PC version (less questions, same limitations) but (slightly more) portable.

But no Jack < DS Jack.

Nocren · March 2011

My only question re: DS Jack...
Does it contain the same episodes as it's home console brethren?
I don't want to spoil myself with repeats.

Vyolynce · March 2011

Probably, just less of them.

Toxic Toys · March 2011

I hope you fuckers are happy. I spent $140 for this game and 2 PS3 controllers last night. I played it with some friends and it was a blast. We were laughing are asses off and just having a good time.

So thank you all for the heads up.

mxmarks · March 2011

Picked this up this weekend and invited my dad over. he had all the Jack games for PC.

Played 4-5 episodes, and holy shit its hilarious AND fun.

sassfactor4 · March 2011

Did a little two player local play this weekend.

Its somewhat frustrating that you cant play on xbox live with more than 1 local player, using xbox live to fill out the roster of four.

The gaminess aspects of this are kind of weird, in that the "bad answer of the game" is such a huge swing, and the Jack Attack pretty much invalidates the previous scores.

But that all said I had a good time and will trivia often.

Suds · March 2011

Jack Attack always had the possibility of invalidating everything else. And previously there were the Impossible Questions.

ThatDudeOverThere · March 2011

man I miss the impossible questions

they were sadly only in volume 3

the pirate questions from volume 6 don't count

Figgy · March 2011

If you're actually keeping score during YDKJ, you're doing it wrong.

Raiden333 · March 2011

Had a YDKJ party with some of my buddies today. All of us are veterans of PAX Prime, but can't afford PAX East, so we called it "Well have our OWN PAX! With You Don't Know Jack! And Hookers!"

hammered out like 10 episodes, good times.

MichaelLC · March 2011

Think I'll get this for PS3. Wish I had seen that sale, though!

So with these Scene-It controllers, which games have them? Does Bright Lights, Big Screen? Move control would be fun.

edit: Never mind, answered my own question. PS3 don't have those.

maximumzero · March 2011

MichaelLC wrote: »

Think I'll get this for PS3. Wish I had seen that sale, though!

So with these Scene-It controllers, which games have them? Does Bright Lights, Big Screen? Move control would be fun.

edit: Never mind, answered my own question. PS3 don't have those.

It's actually $20 at Best Buy this week for all platforms (Except DS)

MichaelLC · March 2011

Oh, sweet. Thanks. Sounds like it's certainly worth $30, but 20 is even better.

SniperGuy · March 2011

Sweet! This is out! Grabbing it for 360 later tomorrow. Gonna try best buy! 20 bucks sounds excellent.

cooljammer00 · March 2011

Hmm, been meaning to use up an old BB gift card. Also, need something to play with the girlie.

edit: Wait, will this game tear my relationship asunder?

Vyolynce · March 2011

cooljammer00 wrote: »

Hmm, been meaning to use up an old BB gift card. Also, need something to play with the girlie.

edit: Wait, will this game tear my relationship asunder?

Are you better than her at trivia?

Houn · March 2011

Vyolynce wrote: »

cooljammer00 wrote: »

Hmm, been meaning to use up an old BB gift card. Also, need something to play with the girlie.

edit: Wait, will this game tear my relationship asunder?

Are you better than her at trivia?

Additionally, do either of have a need to win? Because if you can play together to enjoy the humor, you're fine. If either of you needs to win, it will end in heartache.

As it was stated so elegantly earlier in the thread, if you're looking at the score in this game, you're playing it wrong.

Vyolynce · March 2011

Houn wrote: »

As it was stated so elegantly earlier in the thread, if you're looking at the score in this game, you don't know Jack.

Fix'd.

Houn · March 2011

I can agree with this fix.

Ah_Pook · March 2011

question intro spoilers i guess

Spoiler:

Raiden333 · March 2011

Ah_Pook wrote: »

question intro spoilers i guess

Spoiler:

the consecutive episodes where one of the 4s in the intro to question 4 is shot and then eventually replaced with the letter F was pretty much the best thing ever

You need to play like 3 more episodes, it's not quite over yet.

MichaelLC · March 2011

For PS3 users, the Move controllers will work - the buttons anyway.

I just had to resign to Controller #3, so nice if you don't have more DS3s.

eggwolio · April 2012

I hate to be the dude to register and bump a super old thread, but I'm hoping one of you folks can help me out. I found this thread a few weeks ago when I was considering buying the game and was really happy to see so many people stoked about a "new" YDKJ title...well, new a year ago. I'm late to the party, but just as stoked.

Somehow the stars aligned and my search for a cheap enough copy of the game ended up with me winning it in a weekly contest over at gamedealdaily dot com(insert spam dot jpeg here). What I didn't realize was that I was getting a disc only copy of the game. I'd piss and whine and complain, but that would be ridiculous. Free Jack is free Jack, even if he's naked.

What I'm wondering is if one of you fine people here might be willing to scan the boxart for me or even put it on thecoverproject site and I'll get it from there. I have a few disc only games which do not sit proudly on display with the rest of my collection, but this is Jack. Cookie deserves better. Right? Right.

Thanks in advance for your help, and sorry again for the bump. Well, I'm only mostly sorry. Shouldn't you really get the game back out and play it again? You sure should.

EDIT: I'm a genius and failed to mention I'm looking for art for the 360 version.

joshofalltrades · April 2012

I've actually not played through every episode of this yet, and am willing to have a little YDKJ party with you guys sometime if anyone is interested.

Josu Ruckeru is my Gamertag.

maximumzero · April 2012

joshofalltrades wrote: »

I've actually not played through every episode of this yet, and am willing to have a little YDKJ party with you guys sometime if anyone is interested.

Josu Ruckeru is my Gamertag.

I'm not crazy about playing online because I always question the amount of lag, if any, during the final round's answering procedures.

Love playing it with the family though. The only videogame I've ever gotten my mother to play. Thank you big button pads.

eggwolio wrote: »

I hate to be the dude to register and bump a super old thread, but I'm hoping one of you folks can help me out. I found this thread a few weeks ago when I was considering buying the game and was really happy to see so many people stoked about a "new" YDKJ title...well, new a year ago. I'm late to the party, but just as stoked.

Somehow the stars aligned and my search for a cheap enough copy of the game ended up with me winning it in a weekly contest over at gamedealdaily dot com(insert spam dot jpeg here). What I didn't realize was that I was getting a disc only copy of the game. I'd piss and whine and complain, but that would be ridiculous. Free Jack is free Jack, even if he's naked.

What I'm wondering is if one of you fine people here might be willing to scan the boxart for me or even put it on thecoverproject site and I'll get it from there. I have a few disc only games which do not sit proudly on display with the rest of my collection, but this is Jack. Cookie deserves better. Right? Right.

Thanks in advance for your help, and sorry again for the bump. Well, I'm only mostly sorry. Shouldn't you really get the game back out and play it again? You sure should.

EDIT: I'm a genius and failed to mention I'm looking for art for the 360 version.

I'll try to remember to bring my copy into work tomorrow to scan it for you. I have a scanner at home, but it's attached to an all-in-one printer that's setup wirelessly anyway.

UnbreakableVow · April 2012

I would love to play this online

Everyone I know, everyone, that I play with locally, absolutely loathes the game and thinks it's the worst trivia game

It is apparently "not funny" and "the last round is all that really matters"

Medium Dave · April 2012

They're wrong on the first part. Kinda right on the second. I absolutely DESTROY everyone during the Jack Attack. I don't know why or how, but I can make those instant reactions faster than anyone and it really kills the enjoyment for everyone else after a handful of games. I mean, from an insane negative last place to every single question right first place, destroy.

Skull2185 · April 2012

Medium Dave wrote: »

They're wrong on the first part. Kinda right on the second. I absolutely DESTROY everyone during the Jack Attack. I don't know why or how, but I can make those instant reactions faster than anyone and it really kills the enjoyment for everyone else after a handful of games. I mean, from an insane negative last place to every single question right first place, destroy.

I'm that way with Scene It. Even movies I've never seen, or have no buisness knowing anyting about, I'm some how an expert in. I'm banned from playing Scene It with anyone I know.

I sold my copy of Jack a while back cause I had no one to play with

Figgy · April 2012

eggwolio wrote: »

I hate to be the dude to register and bump a super old thread, but I'm hoping one of you folks can help me out. I found this thread a few weeks ago when I was considering buying the game and was really happy to see so many people stoked about a "new" YDKJ title...well, new a year ago. I'm late to the party, but just as stoked.

Somehow the stars aligned and my search for a cheap enough copy of the game ended up with me winning it in a weekly contest over at gamedealdaily dot com(insert spam dot jpeg here). What I didn't realize was that I was getting a disc only copy of the game. I'd piss and whine and complain, but that would be ridiculous. Free Jack is free Jack, even if he's naked.

What I'm wondering is if one of you fine people here might be willing to scan the boxart for me or even put it on thecoverproject site and I'll get it from there. I have a few disc only games which do not sit proudly on display with the rest of my collection, but this is Jack. Cookie deserves better. Right? Right.

Thanks in advance for your help, and sorry again for the bump. Well, I'm only mostly sorry. Shouldn't you really get the game back out and play it again? You sure should.

EDIT: I'm a genius and failed to mention I'm looking for art for the 360 version.

@eggwolio

Scanned it, sir: http://i353.photobucket.com/albums/r365/nswyers/knowjack.png

NSF56K

Edit: Well shit, Photobucket resized it down to a meg. Uploading elsewhere.

Here: http://www.4shared.com/photo/u4fH4sVz/knowjack.html

eggwolio · April 2012

You guys are swell! Thanks to figgy and maximumzero(for the intent to scan before figgy beat you to it).

Friendly people round these parts.

Nocren · April 2012

Medium Dave wrote: »

They're wrong on the first part. Kinda right on the second. I absolutely DESTROY everyone during the Jack Attack. I don't know why or how, but I can make those instant reactions faster than anyone and it really kills the enjoyment for everyone else after a handful of games. I mean, from an insane negative last place to every single question right first place, destroy.

Same problem with me here.
House rules: Nocren ALWAYS answers last for the first 10 questions.
Nocren, if he knows the answer to the Attack question, must wait until the last possible moment before buzzing in.

Most of the time, I still win

But at least the scores are a little closer then me at $60K and my friends all hovering around the $1-2K range.

ThatDudeOverThere · April 2012

well since this thread has been bumped anyway

I wonder when the next jack is going to be

assuming there will be one

I had the PC version so I don't know how the DLC for this one panned out

Nocren · April 2012

Maybe a bit overpriced? $10 got you a couple of new episodes and there were several packs.

I also picked up the iOS version for singleplayer Jack on the go.

eggwolio · April 2012

Maybe the price dropped over time, but the DLC doesn't seem like a bad deal to me. $5/pack on 360. Each pack has ten episodes, and there's four packs. Original retail on the game was $30, I think, for 73 episodes. $20 more for 40 doesn't seem too bad to me, but I might be biased since I got the game for free. I'll certainly be buying them. Every little bit I can do to encourage them to make a sequel. Which I'll hopefully buy sometime before it's been out for a year and threads about it on the internet are super wicked old.

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You Don't Know JACK -- Get it for consoles, not PC. OP has more details.

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