i mean, i agree the repackaging is lazy, that's why i gave it 10 points. but can't f/w the games imo, and i played the shit out of this in Q4 2010. had to throw points since i played it a bunch...
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 4 March 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
#84: Super Scribblenauts – DS – 10 pts – 1 voteOfficial Game Sitehttp://www.pubarticles.com/member/user_img/468/1287114468.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHyaM1B-adU
Metacritic
http://gamerpops.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/super-scribblenauts-1.jpg
Ars Technica
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/super-scribblenauts-screenshot-ds.jpg
Salsa Shark: I found the first version of Scribblenauts to be a bit disappointing. Conjuring up random things and making various beasts/humans fight one another was entertaining enough, but the control system when actually trying to complete tasks was so frustrating that I didn’t get very far before shelving the game. Super Scribblenauts was a huge improvement; something as simple as moving Maxwell with the D-pad instead of the stylus actually turned the entire game around. Oh, and the addition of adjectives is pretty fun, too. When your lexicon is exhausted of adjectives and obscure nouns, you can always resort to good ol’ random fights to the death between depressed ninja velociraptors and posh metal Cthulhus or other descriptive monsters of your choice. Super wicked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icFT0SRdhEE
Grinding Down
http://www.thereviewcrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/super-scribblenauts-4.jpg
Dirty Word List
http://o.aolcdn.com/os/kol/Games_2/VideoGames/DS-DSi/super-scribblenauts-game-page
GameTrailers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPzajw2cP10
Eurogamer
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/07/scribblenauts719.jpg
Complete Adjective List
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onFU8xJ4Hj8
forksclovetofu: I honestly wish I wasn’t once bitten, twice shy about this game but I still feel a bit wary of trying what sounds like the game the first one should’ve been after struggling with the janky controls and ???? puzzles in 2009, especially given the mixed reviews. Plus at this point it just feels like 5th Cell should join forces with Media Molecule and make a Little Big Scribblenauts and get the job done right.
http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/game-hunters/2010/09/07/scribblenautsx-large.jpg
― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 March 2011 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
#84: Trauma Team – Wii – 10 pts – 1 voteOfficial Game Sitehttp://www.gamingnexus.com/images/Article/vxbjox2612/2.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry60m3ZBmLE
zappi: Trauma Team is really good except for the Endoscopy section where they really screwed up the controls. Luckily though you can skip any sections you don't want to play. The Forensics section is kind of like Phoenix Wright with Persona 4 graphics, which would probably would bore a lot of people but i love it. And there's lots of death. How 'adult'.
http://admintell.napco.com/ee/images/uploads/gamertell/trauma_team_wii_diagnosis.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NamSBZYwNM
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/07/500x_custom_1278443029060_traumateam.jpg
Atlus Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-238ib5Tmdw
http://gamernode.com/upload/manager///Dan%20Crabtree/Reviews/trauma_team_fantastic_voyage-thumb-550x309-299651275675396.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4mkB4oPgGA
Gametrailers
http://www.gameplayreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Wii-Trauma-Team.wmv_000274786.jpg
― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 March 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
my futile one-man campaign starts here : give Naomi Kimishima her own game Atlus, dammit!
― zappi, Friday, 4 March 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
hope they're not as lazy with the Zelda 25th anniversary stuff that they've got planned
if they really want to celebrate Zelda's 25th anniversary their first step needs to be firing Aounama
― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Friday, 4 March 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://mmii.info/_ign/36421.gifhttp://www.rphaven.org/gs/bc/0beetle.gifhttp://www.nesmaps.com/maps/SuperMarioBrothers/sprites/BuzzyBeetleDark.gifhttp://www.mariowiki.com/images/d/dc/SMBWGiantBuzzy.pngI just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy BeetlesThe last one is unused data from NSMB wii
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 4 March 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
woop woop
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Only eight more #84s to go!
― instead of a brain in the subway mila kunis going down on you (silby), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
four actually.then four #80sthen sixty two #13s.
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 March 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish I rated one of my number ones higher now that I've completed the game
― CaptainLorax, Friday, 4 March 2011 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
was it bad dudes?
http://i.imgur.com/GuewQ.jpg
― bnw, Friday, 4 March 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
lol'd at the first Trauma Team pic
62 #13s? srsly!?
― Nhex, Friday, 4 March 2011 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
no, i'm being silly.
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Space Invaders Infinity Gene is now the first mobile handheld game to ever make me walk into a wall.
― JimD, Saturday, 5 March 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
#84: Veggie Tales 3D – PC – 10 pts – 1 vote- FREE!Download Hubhttp://i1-games.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Veggie-Tales-3D_1.jpg
Dev interview
http://i1-games.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Veggie-Tales-3D_3.jpg
Bamcquern: A mock punk scribbly adventure game so nihilistic that it crashes when you win.
http://i1-games.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Veggie-Tales-3D_2.jpg
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Monday, 7 March 2011 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I have no idea what I'm supposed to do in that game.
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Monday, 7 March 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
BUMP
― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Saturday, 12 March 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
fwiw, forks, all of the pictures and youtubes and blurbs are awesome, but if stripping it down to just a single picture and maybe a link makes things easier, I'm sure no one would be pissed!
― Z S, Saturday, 12 March 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm actually finding this rate of unveiling to be pretty great, because it means I get time to try these games out as we go. Unlike previous years, where the sheer volume of stuff to play gets quickly overwhelming and I end up never get round to most of them.
― JimD, Saturday, 12 March 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a valid point; I've been playing Desktop Dungeons relentlessly ever since its entry. definitely would have made my ballot if I'd played it last year!
― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Monday, 14 March 2011 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ditto! that game is fab
― Euler, Monday, 14 March 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yyyyyyeah, it's all part of a plan
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 March 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
#84: Victorian BMX – Flash – 10 pts – 1 vote – FREE!Official Game Sitehttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mgyYTW2w19c/TF3uWnEHyCI/AAAAAAAAJEs/MCdRCLf0n3Y/s1600/Victorian+BMX.gif
Nhex: I played A LOT of Flash games this year, even more than usual. It seemed like there was inventive, fresh stuff coming out every week in 2011 from every corner of the web. Victorian BMX was easily one of my favorites. This game had wonderful art, tight controls, addictive score chasing and an amusing, stupid metal riff that plays nonstop in the background to pump you up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G98YevAJQxg
jjjusten: AWESOME
http://media.kotaku.com.au/wp//2010/08/victorian-bmx.jpg
Gamasutra
http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2010/08/14/bmx.JPG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSsjsHnFOsA]
forksclovetofu: Joe Danger/Excitebike lite but good for whiling away an hour or two. Price is right!
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 March 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
#84: World of Goo – iPad – 10 pts – 1 voteOfficial Game Site
http://theappera.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/world-of-goo-ipad-announcement-1.png
Dev Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEdo-C5dfe8
By the Numbers
http://img.slidetoplay.com/screenshots/world-of-goo-2a.PNG
Braid as told by World of Goo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpf55Sin-jo
Forksclovetofu: Clever design and execution, comparable in some ways to Katamari. My downstairs neighbor is a mechanical engineer who knocked out the first fifteen boards in under an hour; he says this should be called “Building a Bridge”. But it’s an AWESOME bridge.
http://theappera.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/world-of-goo-ipad-announcement-2.jpg
Gravel Puzzleworth: Interesting how they packed so much so content in; every level had new ideas. I do sort of resent that I was never stuck. Maybe a bit too easy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLI0H--9gsc
http://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/worldofgooiphone-thumb-640xauto-9094.jpg
Durrr Durrr Durrrrr: OMG, that level with the balloons and the windmills, is probably the most graceful thing ever shown by monitor! Holy fucking shit! Who's with me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bNsaK-M77g
2d Boy Website
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/imgthumbs/na-wqpd/world_of_goo_iphone_art.jpg
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Monday, 14 March 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
are you splitting up the same game for different systems? coulda sworn i voted for Goo... or was this my vote?
― thank you ilxor for starting this much needed thread (ilxor), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
your vote dude.
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ah okay, i voted for the iPhone version, not iPad... hence the confusion :/
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think there IS an iphone world of goo yet? has it released?
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Search "world of goo" on iphone app store gives me "did you mean word of god?"
2D Boy won’t put a specific date on World of Goo's iPhone debut, but it's currently targeting March 2011
― JimD, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://tinyurl.com/cez93k
*sigh*
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
#84: World of Goo – jailbroken iPhone – 10 pts – 1 vote
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha <3
i mean it's essentially the iPad version but w/e
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
btw- iPod touch, to be specific
and now i realize i fucked it up the first time when i voted. meant IPOD TOUCH. i dont even have a fuckin iPhone ;_;
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I think we need to repoll to make up for this critical error
― bnw, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
#84: Yakuza 3 – PS3 – 10 pts – 1 voteOfficial Game Sitehttp://www.dpadmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Yakuza-3-01.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lctqX1SrAQo
Matt D: Underworld melodramatic soap opera and karaoke simulator. It's an old-fashioned action-RPG, sending you wandering around its massive world searching for some arbitrary trigger to advance the story with depressing regularity but the environment is so fantastically well rendered that you walk away from the story at any time and find something to do, and it's charm / presentation is more than enough to overcome its deliberate anachronisms. The NA version apparently has a pile of cut content and I'm hoping for more localized development in #4.http://www.cheatcc.com/imagesps2e/yakuza_3a.jpgEurogamer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL6kzPYJ0Ho
http://www.psu.com/media/yakuza-3/site_yakuza-3-ss-8.jpgDaniel_Rf: The most fun I've had doing chores for children ever.
Hysterical Impossibly Badly Dubbed Video Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9L2pButdCU
Jamescobo: It sucks that they're removing content, but I never got as much into the hostess stuff as other Yakuzatards so I'm not slitting my wrists over it or anything. As long as I can still win a fight with a tiger by sticking a cigarette in its eye, I'll be good. Anyone who doesn't buy this game should be reincarnated as Amy Winehouse's taint.
Composer Interview
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/yakuza_005.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo8YoAS2XZE
Yak Testedhttp://gamestyle.com/media/images/games/screenshots/large/ps3-yakuza3-240310-04.jpgCozen: Massive, despite the cuts.
Sega claims to know what’s up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5EW6fq07_c
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Four way tie for #80
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
#80: Halo Reach – 360 – 10 pts – 2 votesOfficial Game Sitehttp://www.everybodyplays.co.uk/images/screenshots/picsforarticles/Halo-Reach-Jetpack.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PeDW4tHlVU
Polyphonic: My favorite Halo is Pretty Hate Machine.
http://www.shoppingblog.com/pics/halo_reach_ss1.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMYrKTU8Hmc
Zero Punctuation
http://nogamenotalk.com/files/2010/09/Halo-Reach-Funan-14-Sep-b-1.jpg
Over 200 Mil in sales for day one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQwXVgNHLo
bnw: One nice thing about Halo games: colors and light as opposed to all the drab, rusted out worlds most FPS games put us in!
http://turbo.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2010/04/halo-reach-advert.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttaL_7tGl7c
On an “M” Rating
http://www.teamteabag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/HaloReachSpartanSkull.png
Mitch Krpata: Bungie's best effort to date, Reach is an incredibly polished, multifaceted offering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs2TPo7z0sM
The Beta Story
http://www.softsailor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Halo-Reach-012.jpg
the Minutemens lost prog epic
― zappi, Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, I just laughed out loud at my own joke.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Saturday, 19 March 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
#80: Infinity Blade – iPhone – 10 pts – 2 votesOfficial Game Sitehttp://nerdreactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/500x_infinity_blade.jpg
Autumn Almanac: Run to glowing spot, hit knight, run to glowing spot, hit knight. Dull. But pretty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvPIhCd8N4
http://timenerdworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/586_infinity-blade.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uySr31INttM
Jim D: Probably voting for the engine more than the game here, but dude it's GORGEOUS.
http://gamersleak.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/infinity_blade.jpg
Even better on iPad2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ssd4P0bgSM
http://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/05-infinity-blade.png?w=610
A beautiful garden with very high walls
http://touchreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Infinity-Blade-God-King.png
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 March 2011 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
#80: Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 – Wii/DS/PC/PS3/360/PSP/iPhone – 10 pts – 2 votesOfficial Game Sitehttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2757/4478873931_67b1f48ff9.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbDu_0TxQLM
2.7 Million sold
http://www.gaminglives.com/wp-content/uploads/lego_harry_potter_hermione_enlrg.jpg
Producer Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv4KZhi_GMU
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hOEkcXiPJVM/TFApR4On-qI/AAAAAAAAAeU/vxbpMXuvGfk/s1600/Lego-Harry-Potter-Years-1-4-01.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nv9p4tbcbI
http://wireninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/lego-harry-potter-emma-watson.jpg
Euler: My son is playing the heck out of it, so I voted for him.
http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/baby-lego-harry-potter.jpg
http://www.marriedwithvideogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LegoHarryPotter-SS5.jpg
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 March 2011 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
#80: Ys 7 – PSP – 10 pts – 2 voteOfficial Game Sitehttp://admintell.napco.com/ee/images/uploads/gamertell/ys_7_psp.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpbwTNORntk
Captain Lorax: I'll rep for any Ys game from Oath in Felghana onward. Ys has basically nailed the winning formula for top-down action-RPGs… and it’s more action than RPG. If you enjoyed the gameplay for A Link to The Past then you will like Ys games.
http://www.rpgland.com/content/media/2009/07/7thys01.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QHR-azBa4w
http://www.japanator.com/elephant//ul/17465-japanator-recommends-ys-the-oath-in-felghana/Ys%207-620x.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnHt0-GfMhg
Localization Interview
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7nkd65kq31qd4q8ao1_500.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGFrVdoq3WY
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 March 2011 01:36 (thirteen years ago) link
aaaaand that's finally it for this thread. New thread for 53-79 is forthcoming sometime this year.
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 March 2011 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i can see why you kept putting this off now
― Nhex, Saturday, 19 March 2011 01:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Just going to rep for Lego Harry Potter for a minute (I gave it its other vote and, like Euler's, it was really a vote on behalf of our junior household gamer).
The original lego star wars was pretty solid in 2005, and this is what, the fifth or sixth iteration now? So it's a) great that TT are even bothering to continue making improvements to the core game (they could very easily just be re-skinning the same idea over and over), and b) even more great that they're making really intelligent improvements, which are aware of and focussed on their core audience of under-10s.
Basically it seems Travellers' Tales are the only people making kids' games that don't insult kids at this point.
― JimD, Saturday, 19 March 2011 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
(The improvements, btw, come down to more puzzles, less fighting, smoother co-op experience. All good stuff).
― JimD, Saturday, 19 March 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ yes; I've been watching my son play this a bunch & I agree with this take on the improvements, though I oughta try playing co-op with him.
I've read that Toy Story 3 is a pretty good kids game but I haven't picked it up yet, gonna let my boy drain the Harry Potter game first.
― Euler, Saturday, 19 March 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I periodically check the Ys Forum for Ys Origin (Ys Six for the pc) fan-made translation patch. Ys fans have been waiting years for that patch. If you don't feel bad about torrenting Japanese games then I say go ahead and get Ys The Oath in Felghana (Ys Five for the pc) and the translation patch for that one (some low end PCs can play it just fine).
Ys = fast smooth hack'n'slah action that isn't as simpleminded as many hack'n'slash games since there is more emphasis on dodging, memorizing boss patterns and not all enemies can be powered through with a flurry of sword strikes -- many have unique patterns and attributes that will change up the way you approach combat with them. Ys hack'and'slash is rewarding because it's fast, like I already mentioned, and there is a variety of attacks/combos. Plus the graphics are always good looking. There isn't really many puzzles or as many kinds of items as A Link to the Past but I still think that's a good game to compare Ys to.
― U2 the musical by Spiderman (CaptainLorax), Saturday, 19 March 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't believe someone else voted for ys 7! all of the town/plot/dialogue stuff is incredibly dull but the hackin' and slashin' is the heart of it and it just feels so right.
― original bgm, Sunday, 20 March 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link