Scribblenauts - God on a skateboard with a shotgun
 

This is an action-puzzle game that looks to be badass. I didn't see much on it until it was deemed the "Game of E3" and I'm quite impressed with it!

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You can even make God fight Cthulu!

So uhh fuck yes you are the greatest. I'm particularly interested to see exactly how big the library of items is!

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I just like how, when creatures fight, there was some thought put into how strong certain things should be.

The video is a great example-- a jackalope pretty much got one-hit killed by the Kraken, but God came out and started working the shit out of it.

I've been reading about this game for a while and it's certainly fascinating sounding. The tech sounds marvelous and supposedly works quite well. The only question I have is how it'll be turned into a game worth playing that isn't just spawning a load of random things to see what happens.

Little Big Planet did ok on a largely similar premis so I'm sure they've thought that through.

See you say that, but LittleBigPlanet has an excellent single player mode, which makes it worthwhile even if you don't bother with any of the creation aspects of the game (plus you always have access to stuff other people have made), but it's a valid point. From everything I've heard about this one it sounds like they've approached it in a clever way, and I believe there's supposed to be a nifty main mode to play-through, but it's what I'd be wary about right now.

I'm hoping this game is being supported on the DSi for downloadable content. I'd love to see the library get expanded and additional levels be available for download!

Yeah, this one looks awesome. I definately intend to get it. It's so wonderfully weird. I also heard if you do something like Man+Zombie you end up with two zombies or the like.

This game recognizes dandruff, motion detector, Compsognathus (as well as Pachycephalosaurus), and tamarind. It's so goddamn awesome.

The only words I have found that are not generated are greaves and estoc.

I remember hearing that they entered every dinosaur that they could find into the game. Tuesday can't come soon enough. Speaking of which, TRU gives a $15 gift card if you pick it up there, but only on Tuesday.

How did you manage to get it early, GB?

This game has shark-repellent spray. GOTFY

I tried asking for a boring machine (i.e. a machine used for boring through the ground) and received literally that - an incredibly boring, entirely useless machine.

Apparently there's a list online of all the words in the game. Someone needs to try "epic fail" and take a video of what happens.

Or "god" and "atheist".

I can't speak for GB personally, but on certain places on the internet, it was released early. Judging from what I've seen so far, I think its worth buying in stores. Maybe I'll pick it up later.

That's such a tempting deal, but goddamnit I want my rooster hat (because I'm a whore for useless video game junk). I'm conflicted.

I'd be even more conflicted if a) all the TRUs in town weren't a bit out of the way from me, and b) TRU's promotional gift cards didn't blow so much, but half off for a new release game is still a damn good deal regardless.

Just put a preorder for this a couple days ago, so I'm excited for it coming out here in Canada this week! Dunno where I'll be putting the silly rooster hat from the preorder though.

My only (minor) concern is that out of the 22,802 words, many of the items may share identical functions. For example, "match" and "fire" having no subtle distinction, or "chair" vs. "stool". However, I know the fun lies in the discovery of existing objects and in trying to prove if the developers really did think of everything.

It'll also be fun to see what kinds of runs people make, maybe using themes for their objects or really out-of-the-box thinking.

Spoilered because hey people want to find this shit out for themselves. It's absolutely joyous.

Damn. So many games I want. Between this, Disgaea 2, Muramasa, and Bowser's Inside story there's just too much. ARGH!

Oh for the love of. Time is escaping me.
Trying to keep my portable gaming on the go and on the can is getting me nowhere. I've only just a few hours into Chinatown Wars and I also had some intention of giving FF Tactics A2 a good run before this.

Now this is nearly out. Maybe it's time to quit my day job and make this life worthwhile.

I think there'll be a lot of standard type obstacles.
There's fire! - Enter any object that could put out a fire.
There's a gap! - Fill it up with elephants and giraffes.
There's a cliff! - Make a slope from elephants and giraffes.

I have no doubt that it will be a blast screwing around with it in spite of it.
It will be up to myself not to keep it repetitive.

as same thinking as me,:D

I've already had a small play of this game and it's certainly a lot of fun. The way the controls are so simple and the multiple creative ways you can solve puzzles, is going to make this game last a long time. I did have one little funny mishap however



As for weird words in the game I found "lol wut" "keyboard cat" and "long cat" I'll be sure to look for more when I get the full game for myself, or I give in and get it from the internets... whichever comes first

Hell, I am stuck myself on the intro screen, imagining things up.

Hell, there's even Hydra, Dragon, Lion, President, Iceberg, Brass Knuckles and Nuke.

Best handheld game of the year.

The real challenge is completing each stage at the Advanced level where you do it three times back to back, and you can't repeat any items.

I've done a few levels so far, but didn't make a whole lot of progress since I kept backing out to the title screen to screw around. My only complaint is the lack of control over the people/creatures that you summon. Sometimes they don't act like you'd expect them to, but figuring that out is all part of the game.

All my life I've been told that the lion is the king of the jungle.

But the tiger totally kicked the lion's ass.

My life is a sham.

Seriously though, this game is fucking awesome, and there's no reason not to pick it up if you own a DS.

If you're worried about something going awry, put in "Hero" or "God" first. They generally do pretty well protecting you if something turns hostile when you generate it.

Also, for the love of God, if you generate a black hole or destructive wormhole, don't be anywhere near them!

Also, there's quite a few easter eggs are in the game.

Oh jesus it has both liger AND tigon. They've thought of everything. Even relatively obscure foreign delicacies like lutefisk, durian and balut.

They also have Cthulhu, Kraken, Necromancer and Necronomicon (Seriously. Last two against God, Goddess, King, Queen, Princess and Prince).

Nah, I'm not worried about anything going wrong. It's more things like attempting to have a dragon and archer fight, but only the dragon will initiate combat so it ends up being a melee fight which ends pretty quickly. All stuff that happens when I'm screwing around on the title screen.

Sorcerer seemed to kill pretty much anything evil in one hit. Also, the Heroine looks a lot like Zelda. It's kind of strange that she looks more like a princess than the actual Princess.

That will certainly beef it up a notch.

Sounds like you're all already having a ton of fun. God damn it, I hate you all so much :(
Well, it gives me a chance to finish up GTA:CW before it releases here.

Honestly? So far the advanced challenges have been pretty easy.

With the combination of NeoGAF, God, and Black Hole, most objectives can be met with only one or two synonyms/similar words.

See, Advanced is pretty hard when you deliberately keep yourself from using those uberwords.

Large Hadron Collider makes a black hole when interacted with, so you can consider that a synonym for it in a pinch.

This game is pretty damn awesome. I'm on area 4 and I'm STILL getting hung up on those stupid escort missions. I also realized that I was thinking of the solution in such a linear fashion, I get a little frustrated and try to think out of the box on my own before retorting to the answer elsewhere.

My favorite solution that surprised me was the termite for "Help him cut the tree!", I didn't think it'd count, but yeah. The termite even worked on the empty milk bottle set up, the one where you use a ball to throw at it to knock them down. Termite chewed the wooden planks there and somehow, that counted. O.o' The game says that you couldn't achieve the starlite if you "cheated" so I'm curious what are the methods for cheating? o.o'

Well, you can cheat if you create a starite.

I figured cheating meant crossing that small barrier and hitting it with some sort of melee object.

Ugh...

Still waiting on Amazon to ship my package. I plowed through Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box because I didn't want to have 2 puzzle games going on my DS at the same time.

This game is awesome. True lots of words just lead to something the same as another similar word, but they still have a ton of stuff. I'm very impressed. It's also amusing to see how they calculate things. Dragon>Cthulhu for example.

So far my favorite random occurance was when I experimented with the word portal.

Powerful bladed weapon I currently use: Kali.

Should've been a "kris" (turns out to be only a knife though) but who am I to be fuzzy? Unless you're immersed in water (at this point any weapon will do), the sword is fire-elemental.

Uzuki: God vs. Vampire. God loses.

Vampires ftw :tpg:

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I'm all done with GTA:CW, so what to do now but wait the depraving wait.

Black Holes kill God as well. He loses in a fight instigated by Maxwell, too.

I need to find out if the alien that jumps out of the benign wormhole can kill him.

Black holes are pretty much the ultimate killers, along with the nukes. No need for the Large Hadron Collider.

All I did today was Maxwell + poncho + sombrero + guard + border. On the desert. Guard actually ends up protecting Max (and eyeing his burrito/taco).

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Oh boy someone found a way to suck out all of the fun!

I can ride whales! Such wondrous game! Only in dreams have I thought of having a jolly time riding a whale beside a rock. Fun.

And hoverboards too!

Wow, that's surprisingly handy; I didn't think that links could work like that. I always have trouble using "Rope" or "Chain" because they're so long and need to be able to fully exist before being able to connect things together. I also found it weird I could arbitrarily stick a chain link onto a sword in a vain attempt to make a thorny sword, but how that same sticking without glue won't work for certain other items. Looks like no dual kusari-gatamas for me any time soon.

The problem still lies in repeating that 3 times in a row (which, for some of the action stages, is ridiculous).

I really love the puzzle stages, but the action stages I'm starting to avoid now.

Hardcore gaming last week. Just beat Arkham Asylum and Uncharted in about 4 days to get some free time for Scribblenauts.
Went and bought it yesterday, but only had time for screwing around with the title screen and completing the tutorial.

Are mythological figures generally excluded from this game? Stuff like Hercules, King Arthur and Lancelot doesn't work, but Hades still spawns Death. I was very pleasantly surprised that you can actually spawn a Shaolin Monk! A bit sad that you couldn't spawn a Shogun though :(

It's a delight how weird shit happen when you throw stuff together. A vampire killed everything I put it up against, so I thought I'd conjure something divine: An angel. No go, the vampire bit it and made it some green-faced vampire underling ='D


Can't wait to have a go at the actual game. Still 4 hours of work left. Siiiiiiiigh.

I was momentarily confused when I tried to circumvent an action stage's obstacles by using a teleporter. I set up two of them, and got into the first. Instead of bringing me to the second one, it took me to some random room where a bunch of people who looked like programmers were walking around. I created a rally car and drove over them with no punishment. I flew around the room with a rocket jetpack until I grew tired of searching for the room's reason for existence. I hopped back into the teleporter and it took me back to the original stage, and everything was reset.

Weird.

Also, one stage requires you to handle a group of approaching trick or treaters. I felt vengeful, so I picked up a nearby jack o'lantern and threw it at the lead treater. That somehow fulfilled the stage's win condition and the starite appeared. What's better, it worked every time I tackled the stage in advanced mode, too. I didn't have to summon a goddamned thing at any point. No clue why this worked but whatever. The lesson here is that assaulting trick-or-treaters with gourds is completely acceptable and profitable also.

The vampire's completely invincible unless you arm its opponent with a wooden stake. I tried to use a silver bullet (is that vampires or werewolves?) at one point, but couldn't figure out how to put it into a gun.

An amusing game, to be sure, but I'm not about to go spending money on it. Not when I can just borrow it from my younger brother.

Tutorial explicitly states that while mostly anything can be used, that the object must be real-life and physical. It cannot also be a place, proper name or any sexual material, shape, greek or latin root word, alcohol, race or culture, vulgarity or copyrighted.

University 0-6. Read it. (lolcopypasta)

Yet you can write Hades and Medusa. I would have liked consistency instead of just the top of a carrot then.

"Medusa" is often used interchangeably with "gorgon" as the general name of the creature instead of a proper name. A few proper names do work, but not many.

Makes me wonder how they justify what is a 'proper name' and what is not.

Oh hey, Einstein and Cthulhu. Existential crisis: have a bucket of it.

Type "virgin" in it and realize the ultimate truth, or something.

There should be a website which lists all the strange glitches for this game, here's one that me and a friend discovered. Apparently the Teacher wishes to die or kill maxwell? x.x

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When in doubt or going to rage quit NUKE ftw on this game I say :D

I'm slowly playing through this game, and found myself stuck in a rut of always summoning:
a. WINGS / PEGASUS if space allows
b. WINGED SANDALS / PTERODACTYL if space allows
c. JET PACK / PTERANODON if space allows

For killing things, I've found the following nigh invincible (except for the third):
a. VAMPIRE
b. BLOB
c. GOD / DEITY / ZEUS

For pushing things, nothing beats:
a. FAN (Tool)
b. AIR VENT
c. LARGE AIR VENT (totally different from no. 2!)

For the vast majority of stages. I am trying very hard to NOT use convenient things like Black Hole, Anything, and Nothing.

A GAS TANK seems to be the only thing that blows up really good, without Maxwell having to prime it. I'm trying to find alternatives, without putting random adjectives in front of it, like BIG gas tank, YELLOW gas tank, etc.

Game's still fun, although I abhor stages with lava pits, since I can't seem to summon anything that floats on the stuff :(