Tanukitsune

Am I the only one who kinda wanted the WHOLE episode to be like the noir part?

I can't help but to think that people today are too spoiled and complain was too easily... When someone tells me a game is simply horrid, I don't believe them and most of the time I have to see it by myself and most of the time... they are wrong! The game the complain about is no award winner, but it's not awful, but since the average gamer only plays A+++ titles they feel like vomiting when they play a B-. They were only right when it came to Bomberman: Act Zero and Eternity Child, and then there is the game I played recently... Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is a game I almost didn't buy, but I'm SOOO GLAD I DID! It's the Showgirls of video games! It's absolutely terrible in an amusing way! Of course, most bad games seem to have terrible controls that make it unplayable, but LSL: BOB is actually playable! It's the only thing I could call a "B game", a schlockfest, a glorious train wreck! The game starts by kicking all the original LSL fans in the nuts by doing the worst thing possible, making Larry Laffer, the lovable loser, the owner of a successful movie company! At least in MCL he was drunk in a bar... And then, when you get over the fact that Larry is now a movie mogul you realize how utterly horrid the graphics are... I'm not kidding, at some moments they look PSOne good, but it's mostly like a bad PS2 or XBox game! The glass is NEVER transparent, and the few mirrors you find are N64 good! The rendering? You can be a stone throw away from a building and it will be in it's "N64 textures" mode for a few seconds until the real textures load... It was hilarious! How could this game pass quality control? I'm happy it did though, it's such a schlockfest! <3 I can't say much more about the graphics, except that the camera can go bonkers a little, and that they only have a handful of NPCs which they simply palette swap, even the ones that play a part in the game and you actually get to see close up, so you will see the same character dressed as a gentleman only to see it dressed a bum with a darker skin later. Writing? Hmm, Twilight good? I'd say "My Immortal" good, but the spelling is actually decent! The plot? A rival movie company has a put a mole in your uncle's company, so he hires you to find him out... Except the mole is actually a saboteur, mole give information away, this guy is trying to get the studio ruined or worse... Oh, and this "mole"? You meet almost immediately and he practically tells you that he's the "mole", but you can't prove he's the mole until the end... even he sends you on missions that are OBVIOUS sabotages.... Yes, Larry Lovage is so stupid he sabotages his uncle's studio, no matter how obvious the sabotage is... When you're not ruining the studio you're trying to save, you're running errands or doing stunt work. And here is where it's rather obvious that this game was released unfinished, as if it's wasn't already... In one mission, the director send you to find some props scattered across the lot, when you pick the first one, a shovel... it's like the missions you were doing never existed! Larry simply grabs the shovel and.... KILLS A STUNT MAN IN COLD BLOOD! Why? Because he thinks that's how they do foley sound effect? I assume the mole told him that, but who knows with this game... he then goes and kills a few more stunt men, thinking his weapon was just a prop... yeah.... This isn't the only instance of obvious "unfinishedness", in a later mission Larry gets some evidence against the mole and says he's never make it back to the office since there are too many guards looking for him, and.... they skip that scene! The next moment he's at office, just like that! And don't even get me started on the humor! It's kindergarten level.. if kindergarten was full of drunken frat boys... And some are dated and rather obscure... in the horror movie set you have to dress up as Thriller Michael Jackson to get in, and he won't stop saying "CHAMONE!" and he spends most of the missions with HIS HAIR ON FIRE? It took me a while to get that reference and I wonder how many people actually remember when MJ's hair was on fire... The game has three "worlds" not counting the movie studio, you know the drill, it's the obligatory western level, the obligatory horror level and... THE OBLIGATORY TITANIC LEVEL? What the?!? Oh, it's so they can make the "going down on a long hard thing" joke... These levels consists of an initial normal errand or stunt work, after which Larry with fawn over the female actress and open a "dream sequence", yes... most of the game is a dream sequence, but it's the "better" part of the game where they pull out all the terrible jokes they can think of... The western level has a bunch of cacti shaped like naughty bits... there is even one cactus that's obviously giving head to the other. Oh! And one stone is shaped like a hand giving you the finger! Classy! The Titanic level has lewdly shaped icebergs too, not to mention it's the weirdest level... It's is kinda like the movie and you must find a way into first class, so you do a few tasks to get your way into first class, including the most exciting mini-game ever.. SHUFFLEBOARD! The studio itself was supposed to have GTA-like system, where the Security guards will chase you down if you do something illegal, but I only got the "alarm" three times and I almost never saw any guards chasing me, I only saw one guard once, on foot, who I hit with my cart... and got caught? But nothing bad really happened, I just got sent to the "hospital" of the movie lot. And I TRIED to get the security after me, I ran over everybody, and they just ragdolled away, even if they were part of the security of even if I did it in front of security! And the carts can blow up, but that's nearly impossible unless you're trying REALLY hard or you drive them into water. The carts, and come to think of it, the people themselves and VERY scarce, most of the time it's quicker to simply run to the next objective than find a vehicle and drive there. The world has the obligatory collectible, which are movie awards and they do nothing but get you an achievement, but frankly NOTHING in the game give anything unless it's part of the main storyline. There are "races", which are just "checkpoint challenges" which are pretty easy even for me, some say the carts suck and get stuck, but if you read the manual you'll find an "unstuck" button, which unfortunately was not give to the NPCs since I sometimes see NPC carts stuck in awkward places... But wait, this wouldn't be a Leisure Suit Larry without hitting on women, right? Well, there are seduction mini-games.... which you CAN'T LOSE and do nothing for the main storyline and if you play them close one to another you'll really notice how some character are just pallete swaps of another's... You start by finding an object for them and you have to talk to them and give the right reply, although giving the wrong one doesn't punish you at all, it's pretty easy, just say the biggest lie you can think of. Are you hitting on a nurse? Say you own a hospital! Is she a gold digger? Tell her you're filthy rich! And in the end... You enter your trailer and... You hear them talk? So yeah, this game is an abomination, but an enjoyable one, if you play it in the MST3K mindset and you know it's going to be bad and it only makes me wish Europe had Deadly Premonition so I could compare. Oh, did I mention I was playing this while I had just gotten Super Mario Galaxy 2 and New Super Mario Bros. Wii? I must have really enjoyed it to have played it to completion while I had these in the backlog!

It controls as well as the average game... from the previous era... Seriously, I've played PS2 games with MUCH worse controls and well above average acceptance. That just goes to prove how good controls are now... I found the game rather easy once you got the hang of it... I looked up a guide and the only person who "bothered" to make one just keep saying to use a trainer and never bothered to explain anything....

I told you Larry looked hideous! XD Isn't this game their first "full" modern game? Up until now they've only done remakes of their older games for XBLA or PSN... I was on his joke mailing list, but I got bored of it...

Wasn't he working on a detective game with some small indie company? He could always team up with TellTales and make a "Barry Baffer" game? A spiritual successor is actually plausable and he could get away with it, right? Also, if he had anything to do with this game it wouldn't have been so gloriously terrible!

Ha! I just saw the trailer of that movie and I can see the similarities in the humor ... only it's worse in this game! XD

I'm a fan of Scott Pilgrim, I even met the author at Mocca a few years ago, and having his game with Paul Robertson's pixel art and Anamanaguchi is like a match made in heaven! <3 Scott Pilgrim does start out like a bit of a douche, dumping his girlfriend for Ramona, who says she must fight her evil ex-boyfriends to date her and as he fights them he stops being such a douche and a loser... Also, I love it's wackiness!

Well, I wouldn't be sad if you just disliked it, but you seem to really despise it, I'd even say it's like you think it's one of the worst game ever!

Yes, I did enjoy it, it wasn't the best game ever, but it was a pretty good remake of Nanobots, the animation wasn't very fluid and it seemed to be made for a more casual marker in mind, but it was still pretty good...

Ha ha, so I was right after all? Didn't you know this was the first Wadjet Eye Game were Dave wasn't the "director"? Maybe you should have tried the demo or play some other game by Erin? But still... WOW! Many of the artists that worked on this game are the same that worked on the Blackwell games...

So his modus operandi is to haze and end it off with a not so obvious misinformation to note that the previous statement is a joke? And.... I just realized we're discussing our own interpretation of someone else's opinion... If toblix was joking.... I think he did a poor job and was too subtle because it looks like he really hates it, Erin Robinson is pretty obscure, so it's entirely believable that he got wrong who she is... And if he wasn't he was WAAAAAY too harsh.

Well, this is an Erin Robinson game, not a Gilbert game. And to me it looks like he really hates the game, I don't see any hints of sarcasm or humor in his post...

So... does this mean he hates Telltale games then? Wow, toblix must really LOATHE games then! If he was kidding I would expected a sillier thread name, something like "Puzzlebots? More like Pissle Butts!":blink:

That's DAVE Gilbert, this wasn't made by someone from Lucasart's it was made by an indie game designer and Puzzlebots was made by Erin Robinson, another indie game designer.... and I've met one of the artists in person, not to mention some of the indie artists who donated some art as extras... Wow! Talk about harsh! Please tell me you hate this game because thought Ron Gilbert was involved...

She makes casual games now! It makes sense.... The last time I heard of her was when she made BeTrapped! A casual puzzle game with a nice mystery story to it... But according to her blog she's still working on Grey Matter... which is becoming the Duke Nukem Forever of adventure games.... I'm going to try one of her newer ones now... It's on sale at Big Fish Games for today only!

I've seen some of the interviews, but they don't talk that much about the games she's worked on lately... The casual sites only mention the casual games she made and forget about her adventure games and the mainstream site don't really delve on what she does?

I always knew I was bad a racing games... But still I wanted to give it a go! The demos didn't seem to be good enough, because just because I can do the demo race doesn't mean I can actually play the game.... I gave OutRun Online Arcade a go because it was cheaper than any other alternative.... I don't know if this drifting thing is new or not, but I think I got the hang of it, but still.... I was playing on the easiest mode on the easiest route and.... it took me a ridiculous amount of tries to finally beat it.... WITH ONE SECOND LEFT! Yeah... I should stay away from racing games, right? I remember being decent at games like Chocobo Racing and at the Mega Man and Bomberman ones too... But terrible at Ridge Racer and... that one made my Psygnosis?

Ha! I didn't even realize I had created a post so recently! Oopsie? I usually post or reply once in a blue moon! Nope, it wasn't Desturction Derby.... It was a futuristic one.... One of the first racers for the PSOne? And I'm not entirely sure it was from Pysgnosis... I don't remember the name, all I know is that I couldn't ever take the first turn. It was like F-Zero for the PSOne... that's about all I can remember... Google says they made a racer called Wipeout, which is the one I think I'm talking about? Are kart racers considered arcade racers or are they their own thing? Those are the only ones I actually beat sometimes!

What on Earth is "game limbo" to me? Games that don't exist to me, but are still there... it's not games I've given up on... it's game I've tried to get rid of and failed... The thing is... I tried to sell these games so long ago my tastes have changed a little, or at least my tolerance is higher now... So... help me out and read a list of games you've probably never heard of and say if I should give any of these another chance? -Tachyon The Fringe: A Space combat game. I... hate this kind of game, but.... it has the voice of Bruce Campbell! -Excalibug: An RTS with bugs that seems pretty mediocre... -UBIK: It's based on a Philip K. Dick novel, but.. it's a Cyro game! How can it be good? -Project Nomads: I have no idea, the instructions are rather vague... -BREED: Space Marines? EEEEW! DX -Shadow Man: Hmm, I have no idea why I tried to sell this one... Probably because earlier games can be confusing and you get lost easily? -Zool: It's a classic platformer... I have no idea why I tried to get rid of it? -Zorro: It looks like Prince of Persia with Zorro with bad cutscenes? -Guardian of Darkness: It's Cyro... once again... can it actually be playable? -Grouch: Conan the Barbarian with a sense of humor? -The Mummy: A Video game based on the cartoon based on the movie? EW! -The One: The Tale of Imerion: A small press RPG that you probably haven't heard of? -Dig Dug Deeper: Dig Dug remake -Akimbo: It looks like mediocre small press platformer? -Shivers and... -Lighthouse: They are both Sierra adventure, so I guess I dumped them because of they have dead ends? -Break Out and.... Tempest 2000, Lode Runner 2: Remakes that don't look that good... -Alien Paranoia: Goofy alien needs to fix his ship? -Gift: Isn't this game horrid? -Zapper & Woody Woodpecker: Mediocre 3D platform games? So... are any of these worth giving a second chance? Since I don't have a backlog it's the perfect time to give them a second chance... Although there is a big chance that most of them won't work with Vista.... There are more on this "list", but they are either game I actually have played and don't think I should keep or games I have no idea why I own them since they are game I would never play...

So.... Today I finally beat my backlog.... I gotta say, Valkyria Chronicles was the perfect finish for my backlog, it's such a great game... But... now what? I wanted to reward myself, since I've forbidden myself from going onto eBay to buy old games not to mention I haven't replayed an old game in ages! But the few games I'm interested in hard to find or too expensive... I'm half expecting that Steam with release the Ultimate Bundle of Destiny today just to mess with me.... I think I'll install ScummVM and maybe treat me to an XBLA game later? Anyway, I gotta bury the backlog beast, it's carcass starting to attract flies...

So I should give Zool, Tachyon and Tempest another chance? I tried Zool... It sounds horrible on PC! I'm serious debating whether to emulate the Amiga version or simply watch a longplay on YouTube....

It's not whether I can finish it or not... it's whether I'll WANT to! Some games are so boring that I just can't bother playing them anymore and others.... are so frustrating that I can't enjoy them anymore... From what I've heard Demons Souls is so hard it will kill 50 times even before you start to play it...

Once again, I play the game a millenia after it's released... and nobody has talked about it? Frankly, it's an OK fighter, but the character design.... Every character is OVERLY detailed... their weapons look ridiculous I'm surprised the Belmont whip doesn't have pizza deli on it's tip... And the characters themselves.... Are unrecognizable! Guess the Belmont! That's Simon! Some are even worse.... For some reason Eric from Bloodlines is little kid and has the most ridiculous looking spear ever.... There is nothing wrong with redesigning your characters a little, but.... The only characters you'll recognize is Alucard and Dracula... Has any other game redesigned their character in way you can no longer recognize them anymore?

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There is nothing wrong with playing a few hours of MMO or multiplayer, as long as you don't play them from dusk to dawn.... Or you don't have ridiculously big backlog... The backloggery is perfect for adding obscure games, since it doesn't have a database... which means you could technically add games that don't exist.... But why would you do that? :|