So the folks behind Team Meat, who made the masochistic Super Meat Boy and (at least one of them) the wildly disturbing Binding of Isaac, have finally revealed what their next game will be. It is...
...a cat-breeding sim.
But not just any cat-breeding sim. A very, very messed-up one.
Team Meat has finally unveiled Mew-Genics' true nature, after 17 weeks of teasers and tidbits. Dubbed a "cat lady sim," Mew-Genics will blend elements of "The Sims and Pokemon with a sprinkling of Animal Crossing and a dash of Tamagotchi," as creator Edmund McMillen puts it on Team Meat's official blog.
Sounds like just about the most wholesome thing ever, right? Well, not exactly -- McMillen describes a typical Mew-Genics session, during which a cat is unfrozen from a "Cryo-cube" and paired with another cat for breeding. The unfrozen cat attacks the second, and because the attack took place while the second cat was eating, the second cat then associates food with pain from that point on. As a result, the second cat starves to death in the attic.
Later, a stray is brought in and successfully mated with the unfrozen cat, which results in a pregnancy. Unfortunately though, the stray suffers from narcolepsy, a trait that is then inherited by the two kittens born from the union. This condition causes one of the kittens to fall asleep during a kitty beauty pageant, losing the competition.
After the stray cat runs away, it is discovered that it infected the unfrozen cat with "feline aids." As the treatments are too expensive, the cat is re-frozen into a Cryo-cube and put back into storage. Completing missions for a doctor, however, could help find a cure. The game then ends with the player being arrested by animal control.
There's a lot of interesting gameplay elements contained within that tremendously upsetting story, like the fact that cats can inherit traits from their parents and that those traits can lead to failure or (presumably) success during missions. It also made us want to cry. Mew-Genics will launch on Steam, iOS and Android sometime before the end of the year.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/02/23/mew-genics-revealed-as-a-cat-lady-sim/
FELINE AIDS. How you react to that will probably let you know whether or not this game is for you.
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I had WAY too much fun in Isaac, bought Super Meat Boy, and then the Basement Collection. I've been on the edge of my seat since he stopped livestreaming to work on "a project" about 6 months ago or so.
Totally not for everyone, though. His style and humor are...can't even call them acquired taste, if you hate it, nothing will make you love it.
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This is why the Old Man always just seems to find a Mysterious Egg. Arceus figured this shit out in advance.
I got a little excited when I saw your ship.
I just wish Team Meat didn't have such a bad experience with Microsoft, though so I could maybe pick it up on Xbox. I don't know what the deal was, they were a pain to work with I guess? Indie Game: The Movie kind of just glossed over it, but it didn't seem all that bad. I can still pick it up on iOS when it launches though, so I'll probably do that.
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That is fucked up, I'm appalled at the insensitivity. Do they even realize how devastating it can be to sleep through a beauty pageant? I lost two that way. Thanks for the trigger warning, Team Meat.
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i will play with both my cats snoring and farting directly on the keyboard as usual
The unfrozen cat attacks the second, and because the attack took place while the second cat was eating, the second cat then associates food with pain from that point on. As a result, the second cat starves to death in the attic
Not even buying on sale. If it was just silly things like the narcolepsy beauty pageant I might give it a try. Animals dying is way too dramatic of a subject in something I play for enjoyment.
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You also have a link to mincraft in your signature, where animals do die and can be put into some pretty efficient but gruesome harvesting mechanisms.
EDIT: To pre-empt a response, while there are potentially arguments about why animals dying in Mew-genics is worse than blasting people in Borderlands or creating machinery for moderately-industrial scale animal harvesting in Minecraft, your post was purely about animals dying, which is very broad (broad enough, in fact, that Borderlands and Minecraft both have animals dying).
Hmm. Decent.
I shall play this game while all four of my cats... are off somewhere, probably sleeping away from me because they don't give two shits about me until it's time to eat.
Those little bitches...
You are already so bad at this game.
Until they look on your screen and see what you have planned for them...you'll have a mutiny!
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I also don't think the intent of this game is to purposely kill/abuse your cats, since you can get animal control on your ass. At least going by the information available from the devs so far.
Certainly it appears to be a thing that's present that you can do, but I don't think it's going to be an actual objective to get your cats killed, as opposed to trying to breed superior cats that live longer and better(hint: it's in the game name).
So far.
If the game was about raising babies by the bushel and some of them associate food with pain so they starve I would have a similar problem.
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Ideally I would imagine that whatever sort of psychological issue present in the cat that would cause this behavior would be a deleterious trait that you could breed out of future generations, so that this sort of thing eventually doesn't occur at all.
To cure their aids is my real test. To play god with them is my cause.
Your choices also affect the life and death of animals in mincraft, though you aren't really "raising" the animals so much as forcefully spawning them into a deathtrap repeatedly.
EDIT: Also, I assume Dwarf Fortress is a game you hate conceptually, given this line of thought.
Issac is pretty awesome but it's a pretty disturbing and disgusting game in motion.
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But they are horrible monsters and it's the truth.
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The only animal "raising" I did in minecraft was having cows for leather. Egg farming or whatever looked way too complicated when I could just setup a sweet underground wheat field.
I didn't even get to animal raising in Dwarf Fortress as the game itself is very obtuse and the payoff for learning it doesn't seem that great to me personally.
If the only purpose of these games was raising animals which may die horribly I wouldn't play them. Minecraft is a small small part that you could probably completely ignore of playing on a mp server (trading for leather or whatever items you need).
I think you are taking my opinion on a video game a little too personally to be honest. This one just isn't "for" me, which is sad because I enjoyed super meat boy so much that I double dipped.
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What is with the internet and cats, I swear.
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That would make you a monster, not the game.
I mean, you can create cat fountains on minecraft.
All I'm saying is I can understand people being turned off by this game and not other games that happen to include animal death. Personally, I'm still really eager for this title.
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It's just humans and animals. People are protective of their pets.
Also cats are cute and fuzzy and purr. It gets them a lot of free protection points.
people laff but its one of those things most people dont know about but a huge percentage of stray american cats have it
Yeah, FeIV itself is a serious issue. In fact, my cat has it and he requires some special care to make sure he has a nice life. Has ups and downs, but he manages and I love the heck out of him. He's a fighter, though.
(And yet I find this game interesting.)
That sounds delicious.
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I didn't really get into meatboy much but from what I did play it was impressive, I'll probably check this out.
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