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I just got it. It’s not bad. To power up your stats, you have to buy these items, but the items don’t tell you what they do until after you buy them. That’s the only draw back, as far as I can tell. Four player fun for the whole family.
It’s River City Rampage. With better pixel art. And music. This is a good thing.
Thus far it totally has felt worth the 10 bucks spent to download it.
Justin said:It’s River City Rampage. With better pixel art. And music. This is a good thing.
That is exactly what I said to Sam to sell him on it. It didn’t work cause he’s stupid.
The new Metroid just came in the mail today. That makes TWO games I likely won’t be able to touch till mid-september.
I dislike pixel art. I fucking paid for an XBox 360 because it has a more powerful graphics engine than the Turbografx 16.
Making a game look pixely doesn’t sell me. In fact, it deters me. There’s no reason this game couldn’t have had the exact same character and art design with the soft, fluid lines of Castle Crashers. Making it look shitty for the purpose of seeming old school is fucking stupid to me. I don’t drive a Model T and I don’t think Family Guy is funny for the same fucking reasons. Live in the now and look to the future, fuckwads.
Sammy said:I dislike impressionism. I fucking paid for a Monet because he has a far more skill with a brush than a caveman scratching on cave walls.
Making a painting look impressionistic doesn’t sell me. In fact, it deters me. There’s no reason this painting couldn’t have had the exact same detail and art design with the soft, fluid lines of Gustave Courbet.. Making it look shitty for the purpose of seeming impressionist is fucking stupid to me. I don’t draw with chalk and charcoal and I don’t think pointillism is any good for the same fucking reasons. Live in the now and look to the future, fuckwads.
FTFY.
John said:
I’m an asshole.
FTFUCKYOU.
HAHAHAHAHHAHA!
Anyway…you guys should go and see the movie instead of playing the video game. I think it’s at the dollar theaters now. But it’s awesome.
I played the demo, and it’s not that great. Would not buy.
By the way…is the FIFA league still going? I haven’t checked. I played one game and got murdered, but I’d like to play against someone who isn’t Jay, because he murdered me. He stabbed me in the gut and watched me bleed for 90 minutes.
Trav, I will totally play you.
Just… not now. Now I am stupid busy with work. But I will certainly not murder you because I am shit at that game (still love it anyway).
And yeah, I totally want to see Scott Pilgrim. Just haven’t had a chance to go. I loved the comics to death.
$10 for that game?
I’ll go on the record as saying that creating pixel art that looks halfway decent is incredibly fucking hard. The eye has an uncanny way of instantly noticing stray pixels and curves that don’t align with an exact ratio of proportion. It’s not something I expected until I tried to create some of my own.
The Scott Pilgrim game is worth the 10 bucks. Most of my friends like playing 2-player games when we’re sitting around, but are unwilling to play a videogame that requires more than a directional pad, two buttons, and two dimensions.
Justin said:
The Scott Pilgrim game is worth the 10 bucks. Most of my friends like playing 2-player games when we’re sitting around, but are unwilling to play a videogame that requires more than a directional pad, two buttons, and two dimensions.
Scott Pilgrim is 2.5-D. Your friends will hate it.
nonsense. it’s up-down-left-right. 2.5D is a farce!
Can you jump? Can you walk left and right? AND you can walk up and down? Sounds like three axes to me… but since the up and down (z-axis) happens without perspective distortion I’ll call it 2.5-D.
In the judgment call between downloading Shank and Scott Pilgrim, the latter seemed like it was more amenable to people sitting next to me on a couch. Cutscenes, an ongoing story, or XBL only multiplayer (or so I think) were all strikes against Shank. At least for the sort of game I was looking for.
I tend to get very cranky with pixel art, but that’s usually when it’s a crutch for people with zero artistic ability. Taking your favorite sprites from a videogame and using them to make a shitty webcomic, or something. This stuff was built from scratch, so it’s amusing to me.
Shank can be played 2-player on the same couch, for what it’s worth. But Sam and I beat it in about an hour and a half.