Scrap Metal attempts to combine car racing and combat into something as delicious as chocolate and peanut butter. But does this title satisfy? …I totally just made myself hungry.
This episode has nothing to do with Infectonator: World Dominator.
RADAR: Scrap Metal Review
XBLA, Car Combat, Slick Entertainment, $15.00
Car combat, man! Who doesn’t love car combat? And Super Off Road! We like that, too, yeah? RC Pro AM? We’re into it? Great – so here’s Scrap Metal, an XBLA “Block Party” title that mashes them all up together into one game. I’d call it total “Carmegeddon,” if there hadn’t already been a shitty title called Carmegeddon. Maybe “Cargasm?” Well, we’ll save the superlatives until we actually analyze the game.
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Free Indie Countdown
#3: Air Pressure – Windows/Mac/Linux, Visual Novel, Bento Smile – LINK
#2: Redder – Flash, Platformer, Anna Anthropy – LINK
#1: Home Sheep Home – Flash, Puzzle Platformer, Aardman – LINK
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Free Indie Rapid Fire
Hippolyta – Flash, Arcade, Evil-Dog – LINK
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FIRST. HAHA. TEXT COMMENT BIATCH.
I expect better from you.
Well, thats what ya get from expecting too much from people!
They just stand you up like a a high school kid being stood up by a girl who keeps saying “Oh, I’ll just be a little late” till its two hours later and your standing in the rain while she is going to the prom with someone else.
…
Excuse me, I have something in my eye.
I considered adding ‘thumbs up’ functionality to the comment system just for that. That’s how much I loved it.
Good episode. World domination games are sweet.
Will post my pick on FIRF tomorrow.
Yeah, Angry John is fuckin hilarious. This is probably the most lulz-worthy Bytejacker video I’ve seen. :DD And ironically, I was up til 2 last night playing that same game. INSANELY ADDICTING.
Jon yelling Free Indie Rapid Fire… hilarious.
Seriously, Jon quits last week and then he gives Anthony another chance and he gets this? Are we in a story arc?
Damn you for making me play infectonator.
I spent two and a half hours on it and I was late for college because of it
;__;
Carmageddon was awesome. :(
Nostalgia is clouding your mind, Ortwin. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
Texting my comments now, may re-record highlights of them later.
3 excellent games this week and all flash. Well, 2 excellent games… well 1 excellent game… well 3 really good games, and all flash which is good. Lets see.
Windhawk – Loved the aestetic, it was like paper shooter. Did not enjoy changing weapons with the mouse, why couldn’t I hit 1, 2, or 3. Did not enjoy getting shot and not being able to raise shield with the missle or plasma weapons that should have been better. Ended up doing all my levels with the normal gun which was kinda frustrating, and as you know frustrating = bottom of the stack.
Sushi Cat – Sushi cat is Gish combined with Katamari combined with peggle combined with our stupid fascination of all things Asian combined with every stupid cat meme. The game that were combined had me but then the Japanese cat meme thing kinda felt patronizing. It’s like they were worried they didn’t have a solid enough game if they didn’t throw in “super kawai kitty cats with the nom nom”. Still, it was a solid enough game without that and I would have given it my vote if not for…
Hippolyta – Wow. Just wow. Stunning visual style, engrossing atmosphere, wow. For some reason it reminded me of Dragon’s Lair if dragon’s lair were random and relied on quick reactions. I love this sort of nearly cinematic game. This is a game I could watch someone play to the end, and I really hope I get to one day because my old man reactions are not up to the challenge of getting past the 3rd level so far.
One of the things I most loved about it was the fullscreen option. A lot of games don’t make use of that Flash functionality, and it was great to see a game that looks this good build it right in.
Hippolyta + HDMI out + TV = WOW.
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OH You think the third level is bad, the 4th one is just a huge punch in the gut.
After like 50 tries on the 3 stage, to get to the 4th one and…. just… not even stand a chance!
And I had some small complaints, why couldnt I just hold down to stay ducked down or hold back to keep my shield up longer.
I mean, theres hard, and then theres beating someone until their jelly hard.
In the spirit of the episode…
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It’s an epidemic!
(JUST LIKE IN THE GAME WwoooooOOOoooOooOOO)
Lulz. I got sooo addicted to the exact game he was playing….
<_<
Shifting the FIR shout onto Jon makes this the Best Plotline Ever.
Is it just me or was this one of the best episodes of ByteJacker ever?
As for the question of the week for the spring game:
What’s that game with Half-Life 2… And Portal..
Oh, right, the Orange Box.
Orange you glad I didn’t say Battle Toads?
*shudder* and people say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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I got this done early! Had to cause works starting soon.
And I think this is one of the first videos I dont say Megaman.
I should of though, because megaman reminds me of sping.
But megaman reminds me of everything.
Oh yeah, Thanks a bunch, that Infectonator game is beyond addicting…
Viddler is being a piece of crap right now otherwise I’d leave a video comment. I’m going to try to log in again and make one. If it don’t work, I’ll just leave a link to my show I’m going to put up later.
ciao’
Now I cannot edit my previous comment because “I don’t have permission”. Plus, the close button and cancel button do not work on the edit comment page. I am now officially pissed off at the coding. Your welcome.
Take a deep breath and a stroll, homeboy, and I’ll take a look into it.
Just think “Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean…”
Heh heh, eh hem. Here is video comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQgHZF4D6mg
Note to self, be more respectful next time you post possible bugs.
I’ll do a proper re-recording for my show if I do it tonight. Youtubue has already siphoned the effect I wanted. Oh well.
BEST “FREE INDIE RAPID FIRE” EVER!
YOU! GET OFF MY PLANE!
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I used to have those headphones! Well, I had one, then they broke, and then another and then those broke.
Now I have the Koss Portapro headphones, cause they kick ass.
And have a life time warranty.
These are my next ones : http://www.amazon.com/Koss-Pro-4AA-Studio-Quality-Headphones/dp/B00004Z7G9
…
I have a headphone addiction.
i really like the retro styling on those Koss headphones… and yes you do have a headphone addiction
The look of the headphones is awesome, but its range…
10-25k… Its awesome.
The Portapro is 20-25k
And I think those ones you have are ether 7-22k or 20-22k, I cant remember.
But some people collect comic books, others collect games.
I collect headphones.
Oh and if your looking for a better sounds I defentally suggest the Portapros. For like 50$, you get some badass sound quality.
I had the Koss PortaPros in college and LOVED them except when the hinge would occasionally (constantly) snag my hair. The broke my senior year and I didn’t realize they had a lifetime warranty. About two years ago, though, I got these sweet Bose on-the-ears that are AMAZING. They only have a nine month warranty, but the guys at the SoHo Bose store don’t care about that and just give me a fresh new pair whenever they break (which happens ever four months for me. I am apparently violently brutal on headphones and have had these Bose replaced six times now without ever paying a penny).
Bose are pretty badass when it comes to headphones. Their usually pretty pricey, but you reallly get what ya pay for.
And Yeah, I’m terribly rough with my headphones too. That cord is like “I wanna latch on anything near by like a god damn magnet and drag my user by the neck backwards, until I start doing that thing where you have to giggle the plug till you can hear from both ears.”
I have a collection, and I heard you could just resodder all that junk together, but so much time!
Hah thats awesome about your make-shift life time warranty.
See, the only problem about those Koss ones in the link above is that they maay or may not need a AMP to work on an mp3 player…
Alright WTF… Carmageddon was the freaking shit, especially Carmagedoon: High Octane. So fun and never gets old.
PS: Nice, you have a jailbroken iPhone 2G ;). And it’s unlocked.
I stand by my opinion: Carmegeddon sucked – it’s nostalgia that’s making you think fondly on it.
Yeah, it’s jailbroken. I have T-Mobile. I can’t deal with AT&T.
I’m still “at work” (see last week’s comments). So no abilities to play the game or watch the video applies again. From what i can divulge of the text coments there has been some dissing of carmageddon!!
(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!)
Carmageddon (and it’s sequels) were – and still are – AWESOME!!! I still play them to this day. ‘Electric blue’ was my fave vehicle (for those that can remember >:D ) and i LOVED the pinball power-up.
I wished i had the ability to video comment this since i really hold carmageddon quite near to my heart. aside from being a homicidally maniacal yet briliant free-world driving game, It was my introduction to Iron Maiden and heavy metal as a whole nearly over a decade ago (hey i wqs growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland at the time, World’s biggest village)… for which i am eternally greatful!! when Blaze Bayley was the lead singer, he was a big fan of the first game, and allowed some Maiden tracks to be licensed on the follow-up.
As i was playing #2 thought of the music. “this isn’t bad or evil…. IT’S BRILLIANT!!”… and so started my huge appreciation of rock and metal, which is now a big part of my life \m/.
And i feel sorry for when Blaze Bayley gets slagged off by maiden fans, because i would’nt have discovered rock, metal, and Maiden if it wasn’t for him allowing the songs to apear in the games.
oh and…
\m/ UP THE IRONS \m/
[/tangiental stick up for carmageddon rant]
Favorite weather games? A bunch, all mainly racing games. Test Drive Unlimited is always soothing. FlatOut 1 has awesome weather. I guess that’s it…
TEXT COMMENTS FTW.
As a web developer by trade for the past half-a-decade, I have a distinct appreciation and love for your avatar.
I can’t say I get what is so addicting about Infectionator. Trying to win felt more like rolling the dice over and over then actually using any kind of skill.
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Spring time games? I know not of what you speak.
That was amazing.
Not sure what else to say.
you, sir, are my hero.
AH-mazing.
YES!
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haz vid been r3corded?
yes… i wrote a song about Sushi Cat cause it is the bomb diggity!!! I straight up rofl stomped those sumo guys!!!
watch the video on YouTube!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_eUWzigJw
Anyone who does not RSS the comments feed is really missing out this week. Seriously, I didn’t realize we were in such an epic comment week, but his is AMAZING!
since viddler does not like my webcam for some reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35i0foloTG0
Still processing a bit. Better quality then the youTube recording.
Well, I don’t actually think that was a selling point sir.
Though i wasn’t a fan of the game, It had some awesome points. Like being very well drawn, kick ass soundtrack, and I even enjoyed the small bits of voice acting in the game. So as for making up for flaws, I’m sure thats not why they added it. If anything, I’m sure it was added just for art.
You make it sound like they ment to put her like that as some sorta catch, but its barley even flaunted, nor have I seen anything stating that, besides Anthony ofcourse…
Thing is I understand what you’re saying. TnA is never a good reason to sell a game and quite frankly doesn’t ever result in the sales people expect it to.
However, despite Anthony’s immaturity Hippolyta has a lot of it’s own depth and the “nudity” is so abstracted that if attention isn’t brought to it chances are you’d miss it entirely. it’s a great game and you should really try it.
I’ll, uh, think about that “open a window” thing later.
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i liked hippolyta. bonnie did not.
My wife did the same thing to me… :( ouch…
hahaha. yeah that punch had a little too much power behind it to be purely for acting purposes XD
Notice I did not say “selling point”. I said “pushing point”. Or probably more like a “feature”. Have you seen some of those evony ads? That’s the point I’m trying to make. I think.
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RAWR.
If you have any suggestions about PS3 games, please let me know. I am NOT going to buy FFXIII, simply because every friend I know owns the game, if I really want to play it, I can just borrow it from one of them when they’re done.
Ok that was pretty scarey seeing myself there. I’m embarrassed yet happy at the same time.
I just played all three games.
Hippolyta was pretty nice although I gave up by the 3rd level. I’d died at least 50 times. Got quite hard on the eyes staring at the edge of the screen zooming past. It looked nice except for the breasts, I like to keep my porn and my video games separate. If they covered the tits and made the view a bit wider I think it would be much better. And before someone goes on a 2nd wave feminism rant, I’d just like to remind you that the 60′s are over.
The achievements also distracted me on several occasions.
I’m almost certain that Hippolyta is going to win free indie rapid fire. (even though it isn’t my pick)
Sushi cat was pretty bad, It looked nice, but it’s like 1 mouse input every 20 seconds. I like more interactivity. But I’m not the target market so I’m not supposed to like it.
Windhawk had several faults, but I managed to look past them and enjoy the game. The gun overlays were far too big and intrusive. A nice crosshair would have been fine. The screenshake was WAY overdone. I also found the whole thing a bit ugly, but I still finished the game and enjoyed it so it gets my vote for free indie of the week.
Infectonator is awesome.
Spring game? What the hell. It’s autumn where I live.
Joe: That’s annoying my game wouldn’t work on your laptop. My mum paid me a visit last week and I got a chance to test the thing on her laptop. I got it working fine on hers (when it previously wouldn’t), and it’s a budget laptop with on board graphics. Although it is a new laptop so maybe that’s why? Still, it only cost $700. I should have checked the “Windows Experience Index” on the thing before I gave it back. I think it might be between 3 and 4, I’ll find out.
It still won’t run on my girlfriends laptop, but its a 3 year old acer that cost $600 new, (it’s also sick as a dog) so I figured where I got it to would be acceptable. I think her’s is a 2.8 or something awful like that?
Your laptop must be pretty old?
One day I’m going to make a marijuana growing game that will be awesome and have very little system requirements. It’s going to be a management style game where you have to balance crop size vs exposure. Like farm town except there’s only 1 plant, the items do things, and you can get busted.
Yeah, mine was a $600 laptop too. 6 years ago. 1.2 ghz IIRC (it’s not in front of me). Don’t look at me that way. I know I need to upgrade but I have mouths to feed now. I gotta make a game I can sell.
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I have a very specific and narrow form of Tourette Syndrome – it causes me to scream out “HELL YES” every time someone mentions StarTropics.
Man, I love StarTropics.
One more thing. Strategy gamers, shame on you! How can you not mention the command and conquer series?!?!? Not one of you did! Granted, it’s real time strategy, but a strategy type nonetheless. Shameful.
because everyone who loved command and conquer loved starcraft more? that’s my position certainly.
I’m really enjoying your new creative output with changing up the format of the show – it’s made me laugh more than once. Very nice work!
Maybe now Jon is getting more face time no-one will forget his name again ;-)
P.S. You guys could consider a comment subscription plugin, that way people can check a box and get notified whenever there’s an update to this conversation. I’d subscribe to it.
Hey, Valk! Comments feed is here:
http://bytejacker.com/comments/feed/
It’s on the subscribe page, but I should probably also put it on the actual comment form somewhere.
Thanks for that Anthony. I’m not using a feed reader at the moment, but I might go get one just to stay in the loop here.
Btw, if you’re interested – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-notifier/
;-)
And on another note. Sushi Cat FTW!
Hahahaha yes yes, awesome episode. I laughed my ass off when you said did the guy who hated metroid post a video. Lol yes yes i fell off my chair!
Ok ok ok now i need to think of something good for a game that reminds me of spring. The only good game i can possibly think of would have to be pokemon heartgold/soulsilver. Because it came on march 14th which is starting off my spring season the best way possible.
And i don’t hate metroid, i hated it like 15 years ago man!!!
Ok so i made a viddler account, and this Mac allows usage of a camera. So i can post videos now. You will all see one before monday.
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OK my hair is a mess and i didn’t shave my face since like Wednesday. This is my first video comment. Hope you all enjoyed it. If not then screw you all lol.
I also just got off of work!! cut me some slack!!!
ohhh crap not the best game franchise i meant the game that reminds me of spring!!!!
What do you keep looking at back there? Are zombies coming in through your fireplace?
Just light a fire in there, dude. They hate fire.
Making sure no one else who lives with me can hear me say “Pokemon” or “Dragon ball Z”
Plus i kept hearing footsteps, could of been zombies, maybe it was a ghost.
Oh forgot to mention, the fireplace is on the opposite side of where i was turning my head LOL!
Hahahaha, love this video and comment stream. DOOOOOOD. POKEMON F-ING ROCKS!
http://www.viddler.com/explore/ssj4majinmatt/videos/2/
Hopefully you can see this one. Fixing my mistake by posting a new video. Omg Viddler is not liking me today.
Love it – that’s exactly how i felt on the first sunny day this year. CHAIR SPINS.
Lol. I just played a game about my fat ass cat. Nice! Hahaha. Free indy review coming soon. As soon as I finish Hippolyta. Freaking addicting.
Semi kinda Indy pick of the week. I’ll give a more thourough review when I finish Hippolyta. Amazing game, really laggy on my school network. Grumble.
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Oh god. I just spent from eleven pm till now (about half-past one) playing that game. My time… My sleep patterns… all gone. But in the name of something greater. In the name of the HORDE.
Since sushi cat’s on the tipping scale right now, lets all have a different goal. Get joe larson to do an OUTSIDE video!
Oh man, that “don’t look at me that way” comment nearly made me piss myself laughing. 6 years? Thats incredible, my computers refuse to live that long. You must treat her well.
I’m pretty sure you could release almost anything and people would buy it purely on the basis that you made it.
As Alex May said to me: “people are paying $15 to pre-order minecraft. And it’s minecraft. I’m just saying.”
I’ve replaced the monitor (my self) when it broke and the battery and at this moment the hard drive is in badly need of an enema. Plus I’m considering an $80 the expense to double the memory, which really isn’t so bad but I’m still paying off the debt incurred by being jobless. It’s amazing, you fall a couple of thousand in the hole and it takes forever to climb back out.
Gah stupid comment at the bottom of the list. The above comment is directed at Joe.
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A few more observations on Hippolyta. By the way, that stupid tree is still killing me.
Haven’t tried this “out side” thing you guy are talking about yet. Haven’t really had a compelling argument to do so.
Yeah I don’t get achievements either. It’s blatent padding of content. That being said, theres nothing wrong with a little padding, but you can take it too far. Sometimes they can be really funny though, I remember there was this one in WoW called “the safety dance” that you get if no one in your raid gets hit with the slime during Heigan the Unclean.
Goodtimes.
Outside
1. Fresh air: Good for lungs.
2. Large amounts of open space: Good for excersise, cardiovascular benifits
3. Swimming! (if you have or are near a pool): will stop those kinks in the neck
4. Psst, game ideas: Yes, I have thought of several games while taking a walk or other activity outside.
5. Gardening! (okay, helping at least): Fresh vedgetables, cucumber, spinach, tomatoes, greeen bean. You can call yourself a “real” gardener.
6. Sunshine!: You can get a very nice tan. Though I slightly burn mostly
7. Mowing…: You get time away from everything and just think and clear your mind.
8.Biking!: I love biking. Though I haven’t done much since I started my real job. But, everytime I bike, I can go on a little adventure. And I’m only limited to how far I can go. (which is pretty far really, I still think I went 10-15 miles once)
9. Hiking!: Go camping, take a hike, be amazed. Enough said. I would start on the easy 3-4 mile hikes with low elevation.
10. Camping!: Okay, so your all trapped in a car for 3-4 days depending on where you want to go. But the escape is phenomenal. You will never get the kind of escape from the computer then you can from a good camping trip.
Anyone else want to add to the list?
(I hope everyone realized how tounge and cheek this whole thing is)
1. Fresh air? Like when the air con kicks in?
2. If I wanted open space I’d go to the living room. And as for exercise all I gotta say is EA Sports (which I do in the living room).
3. Had to google this one. There was something about “sports” and “swimsuits”. Despite the erroneous nomenclature of “illustrated” associated it was still nice to look at. Thanks for the tip.
4. Psst, I have a whole notebook of game ideas.
5. I garden. Mushrooms, hydroponic strawberries and cherry tomatoes. What’s that got to do with the outdoors.
6. You mean Super Mario Sunshine? I guess there was some tan in that game. Don’t know quite what you were talking about tho. Mostly I got water in that game, tho I burned a few times too.
7. Mowing? Like with a chaingun? I do that online all the time.
8. Did the biking on WiiSports. Didn’t sell me on the notion.
9. Hiking? Googled that one. I preferred the swimsuit issue. Too many clothes on the Hikers. Why anyone would want to look at that. Nice boots tho.
10. I friggin hate campers.
Alright wise guy, here are some reasons to go outdoors:
1) You like resolution? Forget 1080p the outdoors are infinite resolution, infinite color depth, infinite frame rate. No lie, it’s possible and it’s happening now right outside your door.
2) You think bump mapping is pretty cool? Reality is powered by a near infinite voxel engine meaning textures aren’t merely painted on a flat polygon. The textures make up the objects. How’s that for mind blowing?
3) Physics engine? Outdoors is the original sandbox physics engine. Go out, kick a ball, watch how it interacts with it’s environment. Go ahead and start combining things. You have to be more explicit about how things connect but the combinations are literally limitless.
4) Real time dynamic lighting with multiple light sources that changes depending on the time. At night the sky is dark and a mini-game is revealed. It’s called Astronomy, tho you may need to get out of the city lights a bit and into the fields.
5) Free to play, micropayments for some features, but it’s not that big a deal. Most of the best stuff is 100% free.
7) No NPCs. Every person you meet is a player. It’s brilliant how it all works really.
6) Less bad guys and death traps. Monsters don’t spring out of the fields at night like in games. In fact for the most part it’s pretty boring, but that’s okay when you consider the following….
You need to be careful, tho. Unlike playing online you are the player now, literally and in every way. Permadeath is extremely permanent. No continues, no retries, and the system deletes itself at death. Not trying to scare you, just warning you to be careful. However, your health bar is actually much larger than in any game game and you do heal over time, tho it’s kinda slower, and heath packs don’t work instantly. Medics are available at times, tho you likely won’t ever need them. Like I said, there are less badguys and deathtraps. Most of the time you never have to fight and in fact often times it’s discouraged. Don’t try questing at first until you learn the rules. You won’t find weapons or ammo lieing around and if you do please don’t use them right away. Remember GTA? If you play real life like GTA you’ll discover the cops are not that stupid. In the outdoors the cops are actually the good guys and the guys who play like GTA are the bad guys. I know, what a twist, huh?
Just go out, enjoy the environment, interact with some things, maybe make something, maybe just marvel at the details, and who knows, you may end up liking it.
Here are my takes on Free-Indie-Rapid Fire:
Wind Hawk: Meh. The days when pseudo 3D impressed me are long past. The enemy ships do not show partial damage, making the entire game pointless.
So that leaves Hippolyta and Sushi Cat.
Hippolyta unfortunately falls into the same category as Wind Hawk. The graphics were stunning, but it ended there. The graphics were in fact too stunning. It made it nearly impossible to reliably pick the foreground items out of the background. The nudity was nice, the running commentary was cool, but the game play boiled down to a super fast, hard to follow, mid-evil version of Moon-Patrol.
That leaves Sushi-Cat.
I loved Sushi-Cat. It was a perfect mix for a puzzle action game. The squishy cat trying to fatten himself up to get the girl made what should have been five minutes of tired play on an old idea into a great game that took up an hour and a half of me trying to make the leader board. My only complaint was the same one I have for most puzzle games of this type: More puzzles please. Fifteen boards were great, but I want more. Next time make it 50 or 100.
So, Sushi Cat wins my vote for the week.
I’m afraid I’ve had all sorts of computer drama over the last week so you’re gunna have to have a text comment from me so there na na na na na suck it.
Anyway, just wanted to say that Sushi Cat is totally awesome, but as per usual with flash indie games it could’ve been longer. I was also partially traumatised (the text editor is saying thats an error. It’s not. I’m from New Zealand. I use English, that the English people made up, not American) by the cat getting poked and prodded by pointy shapes. OUCH! especially when you’ve just eaten that much sushi.
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I love what you did with your comment Sanskrit and great answer for a springtime game!
That sushi cat stage happened to me too! I let it run overnight, and… well nothing happened. Man if that cat wasnt so adorable…
why not hit the reset button on the game?
Cause it was like “oh if he gets down there, its high score for me! Stupid cat.”
Heh, Sushi Cat too big to fail. HAH!
Seriously, you could have a whole bytejacker comment show just stringing together the epic comments this week. What a week!
That gives me an idea….
We could make our own show! Yeah, the commenter’s have become the show hosts!
How the tables have turned…
That’d be hilarious. Then Jon and Anthony have to make video comments for us.
It’s not punishing you so much as being good at it. It’s upping the difficulty telling you to becareful How you select drop points. Which is handy in the later levels. It’s not a bug/punishment, but a training tool. At least that’s what I think.
Oh yeah, of course I just took a lousier shot to pass the level, but it was annoying that it happened not once but three times. Especially annoying as the following two stages didn’t do anything like that, nothing to have me in a perpetual loop, and then the game was over. Just that one stage.
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Video version of my text comments… Because… well… you know.
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This whole video commenting thing is difficult… I have to drag lights around the apartment, remember what I wanted to say… etc.Text commenting was much easier.
Your effort shall go rewarded sir, thanks for your comment.
what song is the ringtone? It’s kinda cool! ;D
Doesn’t the name pop up every time the phone rings? There in the corner of the show. I don’t recognize the song myself, but I’m pretty sure they credit it.
that was my first idea, too. but the popups tell which background music runs
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I promised myself I wouldn’t make another comment til i took down the tree for Joe.
Free Indy Rapid Fire Picks, if it’s not too late.
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Feedback:
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I bet someone already beat me to it, but I’m too much of a lazy ass to check.
Never heard of it. Don’t think anyone has mentioned it. I said pokemon cause the game came out 6 days before the first day of spring. Wooooooooo!!!!!!!
Yeah, I know it’s probably too late for a video comment (if it isn’t, do tell me so). But long story short, my picks for this weeks have to go:
3rd-Sushi Cat
2nd-Windhawk
1st-Hippolyta
All the games this week were well made, but quite repetitive. In the end, I wasn’t really disappointed in any of them, as they were all quite engaging. Well that’s just my two cents.
P.S. I think I will probably end up being one of the few who placed Sushi Cat at the bottom. :P it just didn’t do much for me. I felt like I was playing a dumbed-down game of Pinball.
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Who am I, Russelloni with my constant head turning?!
Okaaay now the bad news. Just been hit with a migraine, and my migraines cause blindness and extreme head pain. Weirdly enough, the first thing I thought was “OMFG FORGOT A VIDEO COMMENT”. Damn scintillating scotoma. Well anyways, as i can barely read the text I’m typing, I probably should be getting to sleep now. I hope you can say the same in a few hours. :P
Hey man no bashing, i don’t bash people lol. I have a slight slight twitch in my neck.
jeesus jobbies & joseph. I really missed a good couple of weeks for comments. really can’t wait to see them and the episodes when i get back on terra-non-metallica :)
When are you getting back Laurence? We miss you on the boards. You’ve missed a good couple of weeks.
Oh, jeez. Imagine being someone who’s watched the show forever, then you have to go away for a bit, and you come back to the last few episodes (and the next few OMG SPOILERZ).
I’d be like “WHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?”
It’s looking like Monday jon =/ and i prob won’t make it back to my net-connected Edinburgh dwelling till late on tuesday. I’m prob not gona make it in time for next week’s episode either :(
So final fantasy 13 is on more than one disc? isn’t it a PS3 game? That is kinda bogus considering how FF10 and 12 were only on 1 disc.
One blu-ray on PS3, I believe it’s three DVDs on XBox 360.
I’m surprised Hippolyta’s tit got as much discussion as it did in the reviews. DAMMIT, my years of feminist mentality have gone to waste.
Also, that one comment Jon left is amazing. If that doesn’t partially make it into the show, there is no god.
Agreed to that one, priceless man. The day i’m engaged to a girl who is as much as a gamer as i am is the day i see pigs fly.
Not to be insulting Jon, but it is hard for me to find a girl who has as much interests as i do.
Kudos Jon, Kudos to you boss.
Uh………whoops. I meant Joe. Not to say that Jon’s comment wasn’t great and all!….but you gotta hand it to Joe. I just never really got around to praising it.
Once again, “Camera Guy” is ignored..
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HAHAHA! YES YES! Joe larson you just made my day. oh lord that was good.
You mean joe larson? That guy is hilarious. He reminds me of myself almost. His one video comment i watched, it made sense, and it was also hilarious. I like stuff that makes sense and also makes me laugh.
Hippolyta is incredibly frustrating. I think I should stop, as my last loss resulted in me yelling “You fuckers!!! I will MURDER you! MURDER YOU!!!” But, my god, I can’t stop coming back. This is like an abusive relationship.
Excuse me anthony for a moment. May I post a link to a youtube game review of “Sushi Cat” that I did for my show? I wouldn’t mind the feedback.