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Stacking: New Double Fine game. More like Quadruple Fine.
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I can certainly say I've never seen anything like that before!
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I forgot which of Tim Schafer's generals was in charge of which, but Tasha Harris made the "old school" game, Brad Muir is doing a game building upon Brutal Legend, and there's also Nathan Martz and Lee Petty. This is either "pretty" game Tim Schafer was talking about, or the "unique gameplay" game. Two more games to go.
In Soviet Russia, dolls stack you!
It also teaches children some Computer Science 1. In fact I think I'll show this to one of my professors, as the gameplay abilities behave just like a stack.
EDIT - This game is by Lee Petty. The Brutal Legend art director. Double Fine explains
I'm still annoyed that Brutal Legend turned into an RTS though. The game idea and humor were great, but I don't like RTS's so much =/
Oh well though, I will continue to support Double Fine!
Well technically, that's what's happening. The four smaller games are by Tasha Harris (animator), Brad Muir (multiplayer designer), Lee Petty (art director) and Nathan Martz (I forgot his job.) Tim Schafer's done a fantastic job of sitting back and letting them take the spotlight. And so far, THQ has been doing a wonderful job of shutting the fuck up and letting them speak.
Speaking of THQ...
WTF you're right!
Okay, who is is the mad genius from Shiny who has their fingers in the gameplay behavior of Double Fine's games!
Brutal Legend is basically Sacrifice 2. Tim Schafer admitted he has one of the creators of Sacrifice and Giants Citizen Kabuto work on BL. I wouldn't surprise me if that person had a hand in Stacking. Sacrifice was ten years ago. I still play Brutal Legend online, and will continue to like it will be another ten years before the next one.
Brutal Legend and Sacrifice side by side
And here is Messiah.
OMG. What if Double Fine made a spiritual sequel to Wild 9? That would blow me away.
I do believe that I will be buying the fuck out of this.
Still... not sure if like.
But what the hell, I'll probably drop some beans on this.
seriously double fine should farm out the actual game mechanics of their games to another studio, because every single game they make always really, really suffers in the gameplay department
I've just played through Psychonauts and that was pretty great in all aspects for me.
And Cantido you know as well as I do that BL was at least somewhat intentionally misadvertised from what it truly was
ssssomebody wasn't man enough to handle the meat circus
though it is sort of a problem that a boilerplate platformer is probably doublefine's biggest achievement, gameplay-wise
Edit: I have played this game from start to finish very recently, and I didn't notice any section which was particularly bad.
Considering what I had heard about the infamous meat circus, I was expecting a lot more of a challenge to be honest.
Not even talking about that, although yeah it was horrible
It's more that psychonauts had this extremely attractive exterior concealing the fact that it, at its core, was an extremely by the numbers collectathon platformer
Such games were getting old by 1996
@shimshai: I hate collectathons and I despise how 90% of psychonauts' gameplay revolved around it
But I never had a single issue with the platforming in Psychonauts
It'll probably take me about 25% of the time it took the first time, granted I'm kind of a collectathon addict when the opportunity presents itself.
Edit: It definitely won't take 17.8 hours.
I loved Brutal Legend, I think the first half was better than the second half, because I didn't totally like the direction the story went, and I didn't find the stage battles as fun as other parts of the game (and they ramped up a lot towards the end).
But the world was badass, the dialogue was pretty great and the presentation was really fucking cool.
Double Fine do make wonderful games. Their strengths are in coming up with interesting concepts, settings and characters, and I'd say that they are probably amongst the best in the industry for those things.
Their games aren't as mechanically tight as the best the games industry has to offer, but that's absolutely fine, they don't have to be. They make perfectly playable games that have a special place in my heart.
Man, you need to change your signature if you want people to acknowledge claims like this. :P
On-topic: has there been any mention of Double Fine's games getting a PC release? Or is it going to be exclusively on consoles?
Nah, it's really a third-person adventure puzzle games, and when you play it you'll see that it was meant to be on a console.
I've liked both games that have came out of Double Fine thus far, but I think I'll have to wait for some impressions on this one before I drop the coin.
So weird.
Also Costume Quest was a little gem.
I'm all over Stacking day one, man.
Never played Psychonauts though.
I played Psychonauts just fine with a mouse and keyboard. I could have played with a controller if I wanted to but never really needed to. Surely there's no reason why it shouldn't be on a PC as well?
Also Fragglefart, you should play Psychonauts sometime!
I kind of agree with you. Psychonauts was pretty funny, but as far as actual platformers go, it was above average at best, certainly not the holy grail of quality it's held up to be. Can't speak for Brutal Legend, but I was very excited about Costume Quest, until I heard about the gameplay. It sounds like a dumbed down version of the gameplay in the Penny Arcade RPGs, which were already featuring pretty dumbed down RPG gameplay - bleh.
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Naw, I'm expressing my slight bitterness at Brutal Legend (my post is pretty much word-for-word on Schafer's quote on why that game didn't appear on the PC, but replace "third-person adventure puzzle game" with "aciton game"). When I first heard it, I groaned and called bullshit, but let it slide because, fuck it.
But then it came to light the game was actually a motherfucking facsimile of Sacrifice, I just pounded my forehead on the my desk a few times.
And thinking what a ridiculous idea that was.
exactly
literally press one button to attack? the fuck is this shit?
If it seems dumbed down, it's because it is. Tasha Harris was adamant about the game being simple enough for children. That's her thing she wanted to carry from Pixar. Children shouldn't have to learn t3h totally hardcor3 min/maxing.
That's dumb, you can make games with depth that are for children
that is seriously the worst excuse for anything
make an auto-battle button or something, look at one of the deepest rpgs out there- pokemon. you can't tell me that shit doesn't have depth
Games like NSMBWii are for children but are still challenging for adults, if you can't think of a way to design an RPG for children that has depth to it that means you're a shitty designer
ed: also, patronizing. children are smarter than you think- i beat FFVIII when I was 8
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And I'm sure if Costume Quest was budgeted and planned to be such a massive, epic RPG as Pokemon or FF it would be just as t3h hardcor3.
And that's if your comparing games exclusively by battle engine. In between the PAA battles, exploration is full of the worst fetch quests I've ever experienced. CQ is much tighter overall. But the combat is in fact more interesting in PAA.