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Costume Quest is p. much GOTY for the Arrested Developement reference alone.

[Terry Cheesecake]

Fallout, boy

[B]

Costume Quest is p. much GOTY for the Arrested Developement reference alone.

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It's just a random encounter when if you talk to a kid in a banana suit in the last level he'll say "Like the kid in the $600 banana costume is going to follow the kid in the $20 costume...C'MON!"

It's a little thing but it made the game so much better for me.

[Bismark]

Fallout, boy

I need to vent about this. And I'll admit up front that I have about 30 hours of gameplay into it already, despite my bitching.

This game is as ugly as hell.

What was the point of bringing in Obsidian if they were going to use all of Bethesda's stuff to make the game? The game is basically 98% the exact same fucking thing as Fallout 3, which came out two years ago. Since then, Red Dead Redemption came along and showed us how gorgeous the southwest can look when people actually work at it, but it was apparantly okay with Obsidian to just make one lumpy cactus and copy/paste fifty thousand times. It's buggy as all hell and I've already had way too many issues with things falling through the earth and games freezing when I buy or sell certain things from certain traders. (Post-script to that: I kept having to restart after going to this one trader, so I stealthboy'd up and killed him and his merc and brahmin, but now when you kill a merchant, you don't get to loot his pack. The brahmin has a minimall on its back and all I can get is a slice of brahmin meat. It's not on the trader, either, so it just vanishes completely or something. Bullshit.)

ALSO: the progression feels so linear because if you are a lower level, your only way to survive is by following the story missions. I would wander off looking for markers because that's what you do in these games, only to bump into seven or eight Glowing Ones and Reavers and die trying to kill them with my varmint rifle. Anything off the path is deathclaws and those bee-things and shit that will kill you in two hits, so there's not much incentive to stray. Not to mention that the loot is pretty bad everywhere. I found the stash that the mayor of Nipton talked about in his journal. It's a cave with a big final room, and while the room has several crates (which you can't interact with at all), for loot, there was only a footlocker (which was empty) and a couple of ammo boxes. I can't think of one other place I've been to that has a payoff worth the effort.

Why the hell am I still playing this. I'd say this was basically no more than DLC, but the DLC they put out for Fallout 3 had more noticable improvements than this does. Why is this getting such high scores? Why aren't people calling them out on making a shoddy re-skin and selling it as something new? Is it because people are so hard up to just be playing Fallout again that they deal with it and pretend it's not a brazen lack of innovation?

[Zack Hoagie]

Super Meat Boy is one of the best platformers ever made. Yet that statement underestimates the game’s achievement, which transcends mundane considerations of genre. McMillen and Refenes deserve consideration as this generation’s Shigeru Miyamoto, but not just because they’re clever at placing platforms and bottomless pits. They’ve recaptured the enthusiasm of those Super Mario Bros. days, where a sense of wonder stemmed from the pure excitement of seeing what the game would show us next. Super Meat Boy expresses a deep faith in the joy of gaming for its own sake, and for those who keep that faith, it’s an extraordinary triumph.

[Alex]

I had more fun with Alpha Protocol than Fallout 3. Maybe play that game instead.

[B]

Super Meat Boy is one of the best platformers ever made.

I'm watching some YouTube videos of gameplay for this, and I have to ask, are there any kind of actual physics going on here? Because it seems impossible to gauge where a jump is supposed to land or what is happening anywhere

[A Link To The Matt]

Ive heard a lot of really great things about the game B, and while I don't think the physics engine is a TRUE physics engine, the controlls are very consistant and tight, so after playing through the first few stages (what are essentially warmups) you have all the tools you need to be able to make the jumps correctly. While the controls of the original meatboy, which you can play on newgrounds, aren't entirely comparable to the controls on the new game, it does give an idea of how the jumping mechanics work. I will be getting this around the same time I renew my xbox live gold, it looks like a lot of fun.

[Zack Hoagie]

Super Meat Boy is one of the best platformers ever made.

I'm watching some YouTube videos of gameplay for this, and I have to ask, are there any kind of actual physics going on here? Because it seems impossible to gauge where a jump is supposed to land or what is happening anywhere

i c/ped that from a really shitty review on the AV Club

fun game though! A lot of the actual gameplay comes from the fact that you can't really judge the jumps or whatever but the levels are only 30 seconds long at most so it's all just a mixture of skills and dumb-as-hell luck.

[Jim]

Is anyone getting the new Smackdown v. Raw this week?

[Ed]

Already got it mane

it's FUN. CAW has been improved by many tiny tweaks that make it leaps and bounds better

[Jim]

Are you on PS3 or 360?

[Ed]

PS3. Wanna wreslte? /sal mandini

[Jim]

Getting it Friday. Totally down for this. LargeJamesV. Add me.