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Offline LaughingThesaurus

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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2012, 07:40:17 pm »
I'll go ahead an promote this game a bit.
For 30$ (apparently not to everybody) it is a fantastic little puzzle game. Your challenge will partially come from the game, but will mostly come from you. You can't simply just throw something out to solve a puzzle and move on, and expect it to be a satisfying puzzle game. In older Scribblenauts games, you are required to solve every puzzle in different ways to get 100% completion. I think in Unlimited, it's just expected that you be creative and have fun with it. It's a bit like the Garry's Mod of puzzle games. Not only can you make anything (kind of), you can edit objects to create completely different things. Yeah, you can make an ultimate flying T-Rex with a wooden platform stapled to its back to do anything for you, but what fun is that compared to a helicopter tied to another helicopter with, say, a plank of wood precariously balanced between them?
If you aren't creative, the game's not worth 10$. If you are creative and can make your own fun, throw 30$ at it and enjoy. But, I really feel that the game needs a gigantic shining neon disclaimer of: You will hate this game if you want an enforced challenge.

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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2012, 10:18:18 am »
Yea, I've really wanted a scribblenauts game ever since I heard about the DS one on XKCD.  $30 is higher than I pay for just about any game nowadays (I hardly ever get time to really sink into one) but this one is high on my radar.
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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2012, 03:57:20 pm »
I know I would spend about an hour tops on this game, so $30 is just ludicrous to me. Then again, it looks like it's a lot more fun to watch someone else play than bother with yourself.
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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2012, 04:15:55 pm »
I know I would spend about an hour tops on this game, so $30 is just ludicrous to me. Then again, it looks like it's a lot more fun to watch someone else play than bother with yourself.
Oh c'mon, you know you'd spend more than that typing in various combinations of "Fox" and "Exploding Barrel" ;)
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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2012, 05:17:36 pm »
I know I would spend about an hour tops on this game, so $30 is just ludicrous to me. Then again, it looks like it's a lot more fun to watch someone else play than bother with yourself.
Well, it's like I said. If you feel like you can toy around with it as much as you'd toy around with Garry's Mod, then it would be worth it. I think 30$ is an okay price, maybe could be a bit lower, but the sheer amount of content and art assets that make up a game that lets you conjure every object from the ether kinda demands a pretty high price.

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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2012, 10:24:51 pm »
I do want to offer one point in Scribblenauts Unlimited's favor. Apparently, when you write "Noob Tube", you actually create a grenade launcher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4u-v95TG4g

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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2012, 11:41:17 pm »
I do want to offer one point in Scribblenauts Unlimited's favor. Apparently, when you write "Noob Tube", you actually create a grenade launcher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4u-v95TG4g

That's pretty funny.

And equally bizarre that they probably paid somebody full time to code in every single thing that they would possibly think of into the game. Which I guess is the whole point, still kind of crazy that they go to the obscure (to non-gamers) extremes of the likes of noob tubes.

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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #22 on: December 11, 2012, 11:52:09 pm »
I believe I remember something I read about the original scribblenauts is that 5th Cell had a few people with the title of 'word collector' or 'dictionary builder' or something like that where they just made giant lists of (non proper noun or the other word restrictions that are probably not entirely relevant to Unlimited as much since it has an item editor and steam workshop access) words to be added into the game at somepoint or another.

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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2012, 01:08:20 am »
Hmm...
I now wonder what happens if you summon a Tiny Docile Nuclear Nuke. See, it's not enough that they have nouns, they have adjectives. Stacking adjectives that you can add any of, to any object. Granted, making a sad chair isn't going to do much, but a flaming mace isn't out of the question probably. So, throw the adjectives into the bizarreness of Scribblenauts equation.

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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2012, 11:46:10 am »
Adjectives?  Hmm.

"small thermonuclear device"
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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #25 on: December 12, 2012, 12:47:44 pm »
"Tiny Black Hole"?
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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #26 on: December 12, 2012, 01:10:38 pm »
"Tiny thermonuclear black hole device"?

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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #27 on: December 12, 2012, 01:56:48 pm »
"Tiny thermonuclear black hole device"?
I have a feeling Scribblenauts will go "Wat?" to that :D
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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #28 on: December 12, 2012, 04:37:34 pm »
"Tiny Black Hole"?
I know for a fact that this works. You might have to do Tiny Wormhole though.
As for Tiny Thermonuclear Black Hole Device, I don't know how scribblenauts reacts to Thermonuclear, but I get the feeling that a Tiny Black Hole Device would end up being something tiny that has a single button on it. Then you press it and it makes a black hole. And well, if it doesn't work, you can just make it in the object editor. Just make a button that shoots black holes as a projectile.

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Re: Scribblenauts Unlimited
« Reply #29 on: December 12, 2012, 04:38:30 pm »
"Tiny thermonuclear black hole device"?
I have a feeling Scribblenauts will go "Wat?" to that :D
Not if I add it in first. (if I had it) ;D
Otherwise it throws words at you and you pick one.