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Offline MaxAstro

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I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« on: July 21, 2012, 02:57:53 am »
I know at least some people here are expressed IWBTG fans so I thought I would link this for anyone who is unaware.

http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/

I Wanna Be the Guy: Gaiden, an episodic sequel with Bionic Arm Action (TM) released just recently.  I am preparing to dive into the suffering myself.  :)

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Re: I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2012, 02:59:59 am »
erm, probably best if this was in the off-topic section as this doesn't pertain to AVWW.

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Re: I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2012, 10:53:33 am »
It almost pertains to AVWW, we certainly were self-conscious of it in some in-game references ;)

But yea, off-topic.

IWBTG is great fun to watch other people play :)
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Re: I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2012, 11:53:53 am »
Haha, isn't that the truth...this game is insane.
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Re: I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2012, 12:27:39 pm »
I can't even beat the IWBTG stages in Super Meat Boy. I'm happy to watch OTHER people subject themselves to torture but no way do I think I could beat that game in a lifetime.
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Re: I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2012, 12:35:51 pm »
I've tried playing this a bit. Pretty dang insane. Made it to the "tetris" room a few times, but could never get past that.

I'll have to look into I Wanna Be the Guy: Gaiden at some point (maybe also I Wanna Be the Fangame, or whatever the fangame spinoff was called)


I saw a TAS of this game (the original) once, pretty insane. A prominent glitch used was if you managed to stand on two falling platforms at once, when you land (or was it when those landed on you?), you will start to zip in some crazy fashion, allowing them to skip whole rooms easily, and in one case, get to a glitched "room change border" allowing them to skip a decent chunk of one of the three paths.
Oh yea, and the "spawn where you where when you hit the save" mechanic was abused quite a bit too, including a trick where if you did it right in some cases, the room wasn't completely reset to the state it was at when you hit the save, allowing you to repeatedly die, reload, and slowly "eek" through the room even though you are continuously reloading.

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Re: I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2012, 01:18:02 pm »
I have to echo that its a hilarious game to watch other people play. I saw somebody reach the part with the moon, and that pretty much made my day.

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Re: I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2012, 02:00:19 pm »
I have to echo that its a hilarious game to watch other people play. I saw somebody reach the part with the moon, and that pretty much made my day.
Oh yea, the moon is classic.
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Re: I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2012, 09:47:35 pm »
I found it hilarious actually to watch Jesse Cox try his hand at I Wanna Be The Guy: Gaiden, because he bound his restart button so close to his jump/grapple stuff. I shall say no more.

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Re: I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2012, 03:40:38 am »
I'd seen the references to it, but I'd never checked out "I wanna be the guy."

I just watched a Youtube playthrough.  That's all you guys.  I just don't have the reflexes anymore.

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Re: I Wanna Be The Guy, Too!
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2012, 06:09:50 pm »
I probably would go insane trying to play this. Challenge me, sure, but this is bloody crazy.
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