i really, really didnt want to even have to ask for help, but I am so frusterated right now I want to punch something. If anyone can...I dunno...not help...but help...or just say if Im on the right track. My sanity needs it.
75% through or so.
The part where there's a pully with a rope - and you have 2 gravity switches. I figured out that I can hit the lower one, causing it to come at my upside down, and then switch gravity - causing it to slow because of momentum, and grab the rope. Great, puzzle solved.
But the next part I have no fucking clue. Its not even a puzzle. Its a fucking rooftop, that slides to NOTHING, with NOTHING to grab on to (except some rope that is apparently in the foreground and not grabbable), and a saw blade floating out in nowhere. Im sure you know what part by now.
Ive tried everything. The way the checkpoint is BEFORE the gravity lift thing, and the spikes at the end of the pulley make me feel the pulley is still SOMEHOW involved in this...but I dont even know where Im headed. I see an arrow that shows me to go right - but there's NOTHING. NOTHING to grab. Nothing to go to. Jumping off the slope does nothing. I tried to swing and use the momentum from the rope to land on the rooftop slope, so I have high speed going into the slide - my current strategy - and 50% of the time I die AS I hit the roof from the fall off the pulley, and when he sticks the landing I have enough momentum to hit the saw blade and die.
I have no clue what to do now. Am I correct the pulley is still involved? Is my jump to the slide correct and Im just off a pixel? Am I missing something entirely?
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i really, really didnt want to even have to ask for help, but I am so frusterated right now I want to punch something. If anyone can...I dunno...not help...but help...or just say if Im on the right track. My sanity needs it.
75% through or so.
The part where there's a pully with a rope - and you have 2 gravity switches. I figured out that I can hit the lower one, causing it to come at my upside down, and then switch gravity - causing it to slow because of momentum, and grab the rope. Great, puzzle solved.
But the next part I have no fucking clue. Its not even a puzzle. Its a fucking rooftop, that slides to NOTHING, with NOTHING to grab on to (except some rope that is apparently in the foreground and not grabbable), and a saw blade floating out in nowhere. Im sure you know what part by now.
Ive tried everything. The way the checkpoint is BEFORE the gravity lift thing, and the spikes at the end of the pulley make me feel the pulley is still SOMEHOW involved in this...but I dont even know where Im headed. I see an arrow that shows me to go right - but there's NOTHING. NOTHING to grab. Nothing to go to. Jumping off the slope does nothing. I tried to swing and use the momentum from the rope to land on the rooftop slope, so I have high speed going into the slide - my current strategy - and 50% of the time I die AS I hit the roof from the fall off the pulley, and when he sticks the landing I have enough momentum to hit the saw blade and die.
I have no clue what to do now. Am I correct the pulley is still involved? Is my jump to the slide correct and Im just off a pixel? Am I missing something entirely?
that "arrow to go right" looks familiar, doesn't it?
Played through Limbo today. I have mixed feelings on the experience. The further into the game I went, the worse the puzzles were. Not worse as in more challenging, but worse as in cheap. The last few gravity puzzles in particular. I do not like "Die until you get it right" puzzles, where your failure is not due to a lack of understanding the sequence but rather as the result of the controls requiring you to be precise to the point where your success comes down to luck as much as anything else.
The puzzle that most annoyed me was the
zip line to downhill slide to mid-air activation of the gravity trap to being chased by the buzzsaw on the HOTEL sign to activating the second gravity trap to timed jumps down the sign. So many aspects of that sequence sucked.
I really liked the art direction, though. And the soundtrack, if you could call it that. I think the game was worth the time to complete and was worth the price. I can't believe people are bitching about the price. Actually, I can believe it. But what I can't believe is that they're bitching about the price when certain "AAA" $60 titles are pretty goddamned vapid in comparison. SC: Conviction, I'm looking at you. Bitch.
Regarding the setting of the game
I'm not sure if the game took place literally in limbo, as in purgatory, or if it took place on Earth during a post nuclear holocaust. There were plenty of signs of both.
So I want to give this game a go, but from what I've heard it's just not worth 1200 points. I might wait until they do another XBLA sale and it goes to 800, or even 400 would be better.
Do the Braid test. If you were angry/satisfied when you finished Braid, you will be angry/satisfied with Limbo.
I should play Braid then, it sounds like I'll love the fuck out of it.
So I want to give this game a go, but from what I've heard it's just not worth 1200 points. I might wait until they do another XBLA sale and it goes to 800, or even 400 would be better.
Do the Braid test. If you were angry/satisfied when you finished Braid, you will be angry/satisfied with Limbo.
I should play Braid then, it sounds like I'll love the fuck out of it.
Anyone who does not love Braid does not have a soul. This is scientifically proven.
So I want to give this game a go, but from what I've heard it's just not worth 1200 points. I might wait until they do another XBLA sale and it goes to 800, or even 400 would be better.
Do the Braid test. If you were angry/satisfied when you finished Braid, you will be angry/satisfied with Limbo.
I should play Braid then, it sounds like I'll love the fuck out of it.
Anyone who does not love Braid does not have a soul. This is scientifically proven.
I only liked it. Do I have no soul or just a little one that has atrophied from lack of use?
So I want to give this game a go, but from what I've heard it's just not worth 1200 points. I might wait until they do another XBLA sale and it goes to 800, or even 400 would be better.
Do the Braid test. If you were angry/satisfied when you finished Braid, you will be angry/satisfied with Limbo.
I should play Braid then, it sounds like I'll love the fuck out of it.
Anyone who does not love Braid does not have a soul. This is scientifically proven.
I only liked it. Do I have no soul or just a little one that has atrophied from lack of use?
I've tried twice to play Braid, and I just can't do it.
just finished this a while ago...combing through the thread for theories on the ending is making a second playthrough tonight very likely. Also, I am kind of thinking of going for the <5 deaths achievement, but I have a feeling I will give up on that pretty quickly.
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My short term memory is failing me, but the sign looked different to the regular gravity switches, didn't it? I just thought it was a damn signpost.
Someone said it earlier in the thread, but it was mostly that it was A) sideways, and in midair, both of which were new concepts. I have to admit, I had to look it up as well.
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Yeah, true.
Also, new thread title suggestion:
Limbo: Walk without rhythm, and it won't attract the worm
So when my little brother was playing this, he made some comment that I told him was wrong...but now after the ending I think he may have accidentally been right...
He kept dying at the spider, and the spider was stabbing him. Right after the spider re-appears and chases you down. The spider has a dead body already on his leg, and my brother must have not noticed it the first time.
His second or third attempt, he goes "Hah - its like Im dead twice! The spider still has my body on his leg from the first time!"
I told him no, that was one of the boys from earlier.
What if it wasnt? What if all the bodies are YOU, just earlier incarnations? What if you're the one whos been populating Limbo...forever?
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So when my little brother was playing this, he made some comment that I told him was wrong...but now after the ending I think he may have accidentally been right...
He kept dying at the spider, and the spider was stabbing him. Right after the spider re-appears and chases you down. The spider has a dead body already on his leg, and my brother must have not noticed it the first time.
His second or third attempt, he goes "Hah - its like Im dead twice! The spider still has my body on his leg from the first time!"
I told him no, that was one of the boys from earlier.
What if it wasnt? What if all the bodies are YOU, just earlier incarnations? What if you're the one whos been populating Limbo...forever?
probably not
some of the natives are much taller/older than the kid, and you see a few of them committing suicide as you go through the game
there's probably no significance to the natives' presence, i think they were just there for atmosphere and as a way to set up a few last traps before the forest runs out of ideas
So when my little brother was playing this, he made some comment that I told him was wrong...but now after the ending I think he may have accidentally been right...
He kept dying at the spider, and the spider was stabbing him. Right after the spider re-appears and chases you down. The spider has a dead body already on his leg, and my brother must have not noticed it the first time.
His second or third attempt, he goes "Hah - its like Im dead twice! The spider still has my body on his leg from the first time!"
I told him no, that was one of the boys from earlier.
What if it wasnt? What if all the bodies are YOU, just earlier incarnations? What if you're the one whos been populating Limbo...forever?
probably not
some of the natives are much taller/older than the kid, and you see a few of them committing suicide as you go through the game
there's probably no significance to the natives' presence, i think they were just there for atmosphere and as a way to set up a few last traps before the forest runs out of ideas
Or maybe
the boy sometimes survives all the traps, and nothing happens. He's still in limbo. He grows up, gets older - but has no purpose. So maybe he just lives there. And other incarnations of himself decide to hang themseleves every so often, because there's just no end.
I just love the way that you never fully "get it" until the actual title screen re-appears after beating it. And how you can literally just begin again. There's never a resolution - it just is a cycle that continues forever.
I'd love it if somehow there was some easter egg that if you did the impossible - and managed to beat the game without dying - the boy would 'age' and be a little older your next playthrough.
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So when my little brother was playing this, he made some comment that I told him was wrong...but now after the ending I think he may have accidentally been right...
He kept dying at the spider, and the spider was stabbing him. Right after the spider re-appears and chases you down. The spider has a dead body already on his leg, and my brother must have not noticed it the first time.
His second or third attempt, he goes "Hah - its like Im dead twice! The spider still has my body on his leg from the first time!"
I told him no, that was one of the boys from earlier.
What if it wasnt? What if all the bodies are YOU, just earlier incarnations? What if you're the one whos been populating Limbo...forever?
probably not
some of the natives are much taller/older than the kid, and you see a few of them committing suicide as you go through the game
there's probably no significance to the natives' presence, i think they were just there for atmosphere and as a way to set up a few last traps before the forest runs out of ideas
Or maybe
the boy sometimes survives all the traps, and nothing happens. He's still in limbo. He grows up, gets older - but has no purpose. So maybe he just lives there. And other incarnations of himself decide to hang themseleves every so often, because there's just no end.
I just love the way that you never fully "get it" until the actual title screen re-appears after beating it. And how you can literally just begin again. There's never a resolution - it just is a cycle that continues forever.
I'd love it if somehow there was some easter egg that if you did the impossible - and managed to beat the game without dying - the boy would 'age' and be a little older your next playthrough.
but if the natives were his reincarnations, then wouldn't there be only one of them at a time? you usually see them in groups
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75% through or so.
But the next part I have no fucking clue. Its not even a puzzle. Its a fucking rooftop, that slides to NOTHING, with NOTHING to grab on to (except some rope that is apparently in the foreground and not grabbable), and a saw blade floating out in nowhere. Im sure you know what part by now.
Ive tried everything. The way the checkpoint is BEFORE the gravity lift thing, and the spikes at the end of the pulley make me feel the pulley is still SOMEHOW involved in this...but I dont even know where Im headed. I see an arrow that shows me to go right - but there's NOTHING. NOTHING to grab. Nothing to go to. Jumping off the slope does nothing. I tried to swing and use the momentum from the rope to land on the rooftop slope, so I have high speed going into the slide - my current strategy - and 50% of the time I die AS I hit the roof from the fall off the pulley, and when he sticks the landing I have enough momentum to hit the saw blade and die.
I have no clue what to do now. Am I correct the pulley is still involved? Is my jump to the slide correct and Im just off a pixel? Am I missing something entirely?
full answer below:
hit it in midair
Thank you so fucking much.
I'M NOT RENT
*sob*
but no problem, that one seems to trip up a lot of people
i caught it on my first try, i have no idea how
maybe i'd entered some kind of zen state where i intuitively grasped all the platforming mysteries of the universe for that one moment
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I saw a short "R" name and jail and automatically thought Rent
well why does no one ever confuse him for me? it's always the other way around!
you can't possibly say that i don't leave more of an impression on people, with my roguish charm and unfailing good cheer
Game complete.
I want to discuss the ending in great detail, but right now its beer time with some friends.
But like it or hate it -
That ending gave me legit goosebumps.
It was really confusing when you and rent were discussing the ending.
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The puzzle that most annoyed me was the
I really liked the art direction, though. And the soundtrack, if you could call it that. I think the game was worth the time to complete and was worth the price. I can't believe people are bitching about the price. Actually, I can believe it. But what I can't believe is that they're bitching about the price when certain "AAA" $60 titles are pretty goddamned vapid in comparison. SC: Conviction, I'm looking at you. Bitch.
Regarding the setting of the game
and my god how much do I hate the
Do I need gold membership to download games like this, as mine ran out a few weeks ago, but I want Limbo badly
Nope
Anyone who does not love Braid does not have a soul. This is scientifically proven.
I only liked it. Do I have no soul or just a little one that has atrophied from lack of use?
I've tried twice to play Braid, and I just can't do it.
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Was going to work my way back to look at some spoilers but I'm afraid of stumbling on the mentioned Inception spoilers too.
they didn't spoil anything important
I dunno.
INCEPTION SPOILERS DO NOT READ
This game really fell apart at the end
Still good overall, but wish it could have kept that momentum
yes
Anyone read anything about which traps/puzzles are the most common to get stuck on? I always find that stuff interesting.
Ophidian Wars: Opac's Journey
stands out to me as the most common sticking point.
i see the
breaking people a lot more often, but for me it was the
i think i actually beat it by accidentally using a physics glitch, and the second box flung me about forty feet up and to the left.
i was like "huh. i'll take it."
I mentioned my list of tough puzzles a little while back, but I take some comfort in the fact that this is the one I see constantly listed.
Also, new thread title suggestion:
His second or third attempt, he goes "Hah - its like Im dead twice! The spider still has my body on his leg from the first time!"
I told him no, that was one of the boys from earlier.
What if it wasnt? What if all the bodies are YOU, just earlier incarnations? What if you're the one whos been populating Limbo...forever?
probably not
there's probably no significance to the natives' presence, i think they were just there for atmosphere and as a way to set up a few last traps before the forest runs out of ideas
Or maybe
I just love the way that you never fully "get it" until the actual title screen re-appears after beating it. And how you can literally just begin again. There's never a resolution - it just is a cycle that continues forever.
I'd love it if somehow there was some easter egg that if you did the impossible - and managed to beat the game without dying - the boy would 'age' and be a little older your next playthrough.