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Now you can play for free that game Yahtzee and everyone keeps talking about.
There's other free games as well, and some of them are good.
I've started playing it, and it's very interesting, although the opening cutscene was looong and not very good. It's also surprisingly hard, considering what Yahtzee and everyone has been saying, but I might suck (I also am on a laptop without a mouse). I currently am stuck on the first level because there's these stupid swinging bars that I can't get past. I'm not sure if it's a control issue or if I'm missing something.
Anyway, it's free, so you should download it.
There's other free games as well, and some of them are good.
I've started playing it, and it's very interesting, although the opening cutscene was looong and not very good. It's also surprisingly hard, considering what Yahtzee and everyone has been saying, but I might suck (I also am on a laptop without a mouse). I currently am stuck on the first level because there's these stupid swinging bars that I can't get past. I'm not sure if it's a control issue or if I'm missing something.
Anyway, it's free, so you should download it.
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The Battle of Waterloo is probably my favorite level in the game. Insane Napoleon just tops it off.
The Milkman! Terrible level by itself, but the idea behind it...brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. "I am the milkman. My milk is delicious."
PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
That said, even if I can't get it to run well, I do like the concept, so I'll probably try to buy a used copy for the PS2 from e-bay or Gamestop someday.
Ok, seriously, this bar thing is really pissing me off. I'm starting to wonder if there's some extremely subtle glitch that's not rendering a bar or something. Because, if you can only jump off the bar the way you are already facing, I do not see how it's possible to get up to the top.
Besides being too long, I thought the dialogue in the opening was not very good. It's bad when I can't tell whether what Raz is saying is supposed to be funny or not. And the whole memorization of the pamphlet thing was a really weird justification for letting him in. I also don't like the nickname Raz, but that's not their fault. Since it's a subscription service, I assume that it's the latter. You have to play it through their client, and you can't even play offline (as far as I can tell), which must be methods of controlling when you can play. They are trying to hook you into buying a subscription, after all.
I just finished it. Man, the worst thing about this game is that it will never, ever get a sequel
It was still awesome, though.
Last level spoiler:
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Dr. Loboto: No matter what I do?
Sheegor: No, no matter what!
Dr. Loboto: Not even if I...
I]he reaches towards the stove to turn up the heat on a pot over which he holds Mr. Pokeylope, who's Sheegor's beloved turtle, hostage[/I
Sheegor: No, don't!
Dr. Loboto: Not even if I cook you a little...
Sheegor: Don't, doctor! No!
Dr. Loboto: ...A little turtle soup?
Sheegor: Please, Dr. Loboto! No!
Dr. Loboto: Hm, a nice, hot turtle soup, hmm?
Sheegor: Noooo!
Dr. Loboto: Nothing better on a cold night like this than some boiling hot soup!
Sheegor: You leave Mr. Pokeylope alone!
Dr. Loboto: Oh. Okay.
I]slight pause[/I
Dr. Loboto: Are you sure?
Sheegor: Nooo! I mean, YES!
Dr. Loboto: Alright, alright... Oh, why don't I just go ahead and heat you up a cup? It's made from turtles! Turtles that you love! Isn't that right, Mr. Pokeylope?
Sheegor: Stop-it-stop-it-stop-it-stop-it-stop-it-stop-it!
Dr. Loboto: Okay, well maybe I'll just make some for myself.
Sheegor: I]Running from the room[/I Yaaaaaahhh!
Dr. Loboto: Bring me a good brain, Sheegor, or Mr. Pokeylope becomes Mr. SMOKEY-lope! Ha Ha Ha HA! HOO HOO! HO HOO HOO! Smokey-lope! HAAAA!
I]Speaking nonchalantly to the turtle[/I
Dr. Loboto: When you're a dentist, you have to learn to have a sense of humor, you know. It helps to calm the patient down.
"In other words... PSYCHONAUTS!"
Anyways, I'm on the first level and enjoying it so far. The random stuff Raz says sometimes is pretty cute "Run bunny! Run!"
After 31 dec you need a "real account".
Is that why it keeps crashing on me? Fuck.
Does anyone else have weird camera issues with boss fights? My camera keeps locking on the boss, which is really fucking annoying when I'm fighting the boss in Lungfishopolis. The boss also keeps pausing his attacks so I can't block them, which is completely retarded and I think is not supposed to happen.
I think the characters could have been less ugly and it still work. I kind of like that everyone looks weird, but on the other hand I would hate to have to look at Bobby Zilch or Dogan the whole game.
According to that Java system requirements test I shouldn't be able to run it because of my terrible integrated videocard, but it's running fine with everything defaultly checked, so yay.
The sound messed up right after the Milk Man level, so I'd miss huge chunks of dialogue. And I stopped.
But it was awesome, but I found it nearly unplayable before I got a controller.
I'm going to try a reboot, hopefully it'll play after that.
That might be the first real rendered thing. It appears that the opening cutscene is in-engine, but I don't know. Maybe they pre-rendered it for some reason instead of just scripting it.
Don't hit me.
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Great game, great level design, even better writing.
I've experienced this before in Enemy Territory, and the solution there was to turn on mouse smoothing. Is there some equivalent solution in this game?
Also, I have to agree. The opening sequence was amusing for about three minutes. There wasn't much reason for it to go on for like three times that.
After having the game crash there a few times, I just skipped the scene and things then ran fine.
Oh, yeah, and I too have encounter some short dialog popping/clipping here and there, but that doesn't really bother me.
Anyways, I must say, this game is WONDERFULLY fun and addicting. I played it all Thanksgiving weekend and pretty much any time I'm home.
....too bad I'm at work right now though....
I've been playing this while it's free, and I'm completely stuck on the Milkman Conspiracy Level. There's a part where you're supposed to get in a house (at the very end of the level). According to all the guides I can find, you have to knock on the door then turn invisible. When the girl comes out, you run inside. Problem is, I can never get the girl to come out! I knock on the door, and instantly I hear the girl scream. Then I turn invisible and run to the side of the house, but she never comes out. What am I missing?
So of course, 10 seconds after I post this I finally figure it out. You just have to stand off to the side of the door when you knock.
Anyways, I'm loving this game! Play it while it's free!
Isn't that boss a bitch? I hate having to use telekinesis, it's so damn hard to aim with it. I think this is the part where the difficulty curve jumps up "like it found a spider under its toilet seat" (as Yahtzee so eloquently put it). Overall, though, Milkman Conspiracy is my favorite section so far since it's the first to really utilize the trippy possibilities of the game's premise.
Should still be free... otherwise I couldn't be playing it.
*blink*
Ha, ha, Well, I suppose that's another interesting thing about this game. The fact that a lot of challenges can be tackled differently.