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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Holy shit. That's as close to conceptually perfect as a video game's ever going to get in my eyes.

sediment · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject:

mekuri master is difficult!

but fun!

protip: DON'T RUB MEN CROTCHES
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Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject:

In general?
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sediment · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject:

just in the game

generally speaking boys are okay with it, especially if they can close their eyes and pretend

that's why prison works so well
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject:

you have to burn the rope.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

game doesnt seem to work correctly for me, oh well.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Do you reckon that was a cynical attempt to make a cult classic?

-easy
-free
-quirky song

They almost seem to be too aware of what they're doing.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Why do you hate a little something giving a smile to people in the morning, Harvey?
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I liked it ok, it just ticks the boxes a bit too perfectly, that's all.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I'd have to agree with Harvey after seeing the reaction to it. It can go straight on my "piece of crap" list.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Judging something based on a fandom is retarded. Everything has a retarded fandom.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

A game manufactured for fandom is even more retarded.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

What fandom might that be?

"We like a quick joke amongst our GAMES ARE ART indie nonsense" soc.?
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

A quick shot at fame, more like.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Also, Quest for the Crown already did this joke.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

WAIT GUYS I THINK IT MIGHT BE A PARODY!!!!!
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Dracko, let me be moody in peace.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Well why don't you write an article comparing the two then, wise guy. Then MARRY IT because you'll love it so much.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

http://www.stackopolis.com/stacktower/index.html

love the art style, good music, the game itself is... I dunno, at first it seems to simple, but then your realize it's a race against the clock and effeciency / keeping scheme in head thing
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

No kidding, there's nothing to it! Is that fun? I'm not sure.

dessgeega · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

it feels like robot work. it's just a chore, there's no strategy or planning involved. plus it won't ever let me past the second screen even though i've put the tiles exactly where the blueprint dictates. (i guess it doesn't help that the blueprint is needlessly dense and easy to misread, which i suppose goes with their high-clutter design aesthetic.)
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I got the second screen wrong too. You have to compare the blueprint with the 'artist's impression' on the right hand side, otherwise you might make the whole thing facing the wrong way (as I did).

ANYWAY, fuck that shit

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 7:26 pm Post subject:

Christ that website. The pixel art's great, they get top marks for that but that's no reason to needlessly stick it all over the joint.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

We've really reached a consensus on this game, huh.

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject:

I also challenge the validity and the source of the quote "The most addictive game since Tetris!".
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extrabastardformula · . Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 295

Get Lost is a brutal point and click adventure game done in flash. Expect to die more than you do in most other games of this sort. Also expect the game to not hold your hand at all. There is less direction at the start than even Zork gave.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

Forumwarz

it so meta
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Couple interesting, formerly commercial games:

Titans of Steel: Warring Suns is a lovely over-complicated turn and hex-based strategy, that involves GIANT ROBOTS that you can customise freely. Also has RPG stats and four races and stuff! I had a quick go and it looks interesting, if you like this sort of thing check it out for sure. Thankfully, it includes tutorials.

http://www.matrixgames.com/games/game.asp?gid=237

Storm Angel is an old school horizontal shooter featuring 3D POLYGON GRAPHICS that is pretty average really, but still entertaining enough to check out if you like this sort of thing. Can buy upgrads between levels and what not! It's from the creators of BLIP & BLOP: BALLS OF STEEL, who went out of business not that long ago so they made the game freeware (I'm led to believe... the person who posted about it is trying to find proof but their official site is down, but he says they released both their games via torrents before closing shop). Right now the only place to get it is at this french abandonware site:

http://www.abandonware-france.org/ltf_abandon/ltf_jeu.php?id=802

p.s hi derek, i wrote about your database thing in the latest issue of my magazine. i wish i could add games but i guess people would abuse that.
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Redeye · . Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 986 Location: filth

WeeWar. Maybe this is olde, but it's new to me. Browser game. Turn based.

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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject:

the creators of the most relevent jrpg in recent memory have developed a roguelike.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

this looks amazing. now to play it and see!

The graphics are the best for a custom roguelike I've seen since the japanese JoJo Bizarre Adventure one.
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:45 pm Post subject:

yes, they're lovely.

i actually really admire sewer goblet for the way it uses hunger to balance EVERYTHING. it has three keys that manage to be contextual for EVERYTHING (E is for eat, equip, etc.), making it really progressive for a roguelike.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Komatsunaya has released a Hatsune Miku typing game called Byoukan Vocaloid Typing free for download for a limited time. You’re supposed to type every letter from A to Z and the lower your score the better.

via canned dogs.
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"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

wourme · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 362 Location: Maridia

Dino Run didn't really jump out at me when I saw it on some indie game Web logs a while back, but someone recommended it to me a few days ago and I think it's great.

table_and_chair · . Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 30 Location: mississippi

prince of persia : the dinosaur
reminds me of someone from sb describing their ideal sonic game
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah, I echo that sentiment. I'm not really a fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog games, but if they played something like that I might be.

Bulkor · . Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 55

Although this is old news, that Jojo roguelike is awesome and somebody with infinite time and programming savvy needs to get to doing an English patch for it. I love the slavish love Jojo games have for their source material.

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:57 am Post subject:

Petri Purho put out a new game and it's not Crayon Physics Deluxe. It's Jimmy's Lost His Toilet Paper and it's quite lovely with the visuals and the music and so on.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:56 am Post subject:

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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

and if you want to know more it's all here. And it's pretty good stuff too.
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Bulkor · . Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 55

To play the game, you at least need a list of the stands, since the books that power up your equipment (like the scrolls in Shiren) require you to know which part of the series each stand appears in. Which is, you know, kind of silly.

The game itself is also pretty grindy. It seems like the only way to make it through even the second dungeon (which I'm still working on) is to gather lots of equipment you can meld together, because the enemies get noticably stronger every couple of floors and there's a real dearth of escape/panic button items. You can buy some good equipment from the hotel you start in, but that requires doing runs to rack up money, and so on. Of course, I used to think that tempering up a mastersword in Shiren would solve all my problems, so maybe I just need to play this game some more.

purplechair · . Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants

I'm sure this is all old news in more ways than one

wourme · . Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 362 Location: Maridia

Cursor * 10 is a pretty interesting little Flash game. "Cooperate by oneself?!"

Bulkor · . Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 55

Somebody else has to have heard of Kongai already, but let me mention it anyway. I guess you could call it a cross between Street Fighter and Pokemon? The primarily method for getting new characters and items is completing a goal in a sponsored bad flash game of the week, but the actual game is great fun.

Really, though, the search tags (stolen from another forum) make the most eloquent arguments:

alwaysmisswhenyouneedtohit
thisgamesucksnostrategyatall
needs-more-boobs
more-boobs-impossible
speedy-power-tool
manly
love

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject:

this game is great.
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