The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
Best Game Surprise of PAX
ccarroll85
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
Donatello: You're a claustrophobic.
Casey Jones: You want a fist in the mouth? I've never even looked at another guy.
Casey Jones: You want a fist in the mouth? I've never even looked at another guy.
ccarroll85 on
0
Posts
pleasepaypreacher.net
It's everything I wanted it to be. The included "ziggurat" and "atlatl." Except there's no phylactery (there is a lich though) and rabbis aren't afraid of pork. They do like mechs, though.
Casey Jones: You want a fist in the mouth? I've never even looked at another guy.
But if you can call up anything, then what stops the game from being entirely too easy and boring?
Well, not everything is useful so helicopter might help in one level but not another.
I was surprised by how...fun? Wet was.
Oh, I was really surprised by all the free to play stuff at Nexon's booth. I mean, I had seen ads for them for a hecka long time but it was still surprising to play them and be surprised. Combat arms was a fast fighter with better maps compared to CS. Designing up wins big points in my book.
There's "achievements" for discovering certain categories of words and using items in specific ways, and there's a game mode where you try and beat the game without being able to use an object twice. If nothing else, it helps you develop synonyms for words.
I watched a couple people trying to beat a level, and they spent a good 10 minutes trying and failing with a bunch of different things. I'll try to outline what was going on...
The player was put into a room that had a pit to the left, and to the right was a closed grate that lead to the Starite (which you want to have!). Across the pit, and up a jump was a switch that opened the grate, being guarded by some guy. I'll try to list as many attempts as I can remember, and the outcomes:
1. "MAGIC CARPET" -> carpet floats, but does not fly, directly downwards into the pit. Player death.
2. "JETPACK" -> player flies over pit, confronts Evil Guy. "TANK" -> Evil Guy pushes tank down, then pushes tank into pit.
3. jetpack -> cliff. "TANK" "SOLDIER" -> Tank piloted by soldier fails to stop Evil Guy. Evil Guy runs up, hits player to death.
4. jetpack -> cliff. "SOLDIER" "ASSAULT RIFLE". Outcome: failure
5. jetpack etc. "VAMPIRE HUNTER". No success.
6. "BLACK HOLE". Evil Guy gets sucked into hole. So does the switch. Outcome: failure.
I think I watched around 15 attempts, but can't remember all of them. Basically, though, there are a LOT of ways you can fail, as well as a lot of things you can try. It's almost a game that you'd rather watch other people play to see what sort of thought processes and creativity they can bring to the table... see what differences in approaches they'd have to you.
what I find most interesting about this post is that you assume that the designers had this plan, spent months and months doing absolutely nothing but scanning dictionaries for words, developed the fuck out of a game...
...then started letting people demo it, all of whom really liked it, played it, found it amazing, wrote glorious previews about it, everyone was going crazy about it...
...and no one noticed that there was no difficulty to it or that it was really easy and boring if you could just conjure everything up.
I messed around on a level that was "Take this girl and get to the choppa" but with a ton of Zombies in the way, and I must've failed fifteen or twenty times before I finally came up with a workable plan.
For sheer "What the hell this game kicks ass"edness I'm going to go with Machinarium, one of the PAX 10, for killing my feet by making me stand there for over an hour just playing and figuring it out. It is, quite literally, amazing to behold.
Nearly everything at the Nintendo booth was fun and fantastic.
Muramasa was beautiful.
TMNT Smash-up I kept going back to (I always played as the Raving Rabbid) and having one of the Devs there inform me that the final product's roster would be about twice as big as the one they had on hand was refreshing.
Shank was enjoyable.
twitch.tv/Taramoor
@TaramoorPlays
Taramoor on Youtube
Most of the previews I've seen didn't explain the puzzles half as well as some of the people in this thread (which is sad).
Most of them have been like "Aw man, look at this awesome list of words we came up with! And the game knew them all!"
Are you kidding me, that looked fantastic.
Absolutely. I kept finding myself playing it. Wasn't I supposed to be at a raffle? But... explosions...
But my absolute favorite had to be Elemental: War of Magic.
I have no words... actually I have tons of words! So many.
Altiel caught my eye because CCGs are awesome, too.
I watched some gameplay vids on youtube and it just looked to me like a generic mix between burnout and stuntman ignition. You race around and stuff in the background explodes. I think I am missing something.
Its just something about the ho's getting killed like that struck me as wrong.
e: I also enjoyed Dragon's Nest a great deal
Ha, that's funny
"Man...nothing's working. Oh I know...VAMPIRE HUNTER!"
...
"Damn.."