Thoughts about this game? Is it worth playing?
>>12450540how about you go play it and tell us what you think
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absolutely it was the last true creative gasp from the elite of Lucasarts, and it's worth playing just to go around and show every item (even those you have to cheat to get) to every character to hear unique voice lines reacting to them all>cheat in Mr. Pokeylope and show it to Oleander right after Basic Brainingfun stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwv-QRxD_BI
I remember playing this game a bit, and I thought it was pretty cool, but I fell off and never got back to it because went on a vacation and I just never got back onto it.It was interesting a fun, as far as I recall, and I remember that it had a fair amount of praise, not just from critics, but the conversations I heard and saw was generally positive.
Yeah it's just as good as anything rare did on n64. That's how I felt about it as I was playing through it on Xbox.
>>12450540It's a creative game with a lot of thought put into the writing and characters and world and very little into the gameplay or pacing. It's a really awkward game. I mostly like it despite how stupidly designed it can be.
>>12451576I definitely remember thinking the gameplay was just kind of whatever, servicable yet unremarkable, but I thought that the world, story, and characters, all made it fairly worthwhile.Someone might call it a movie game, but I really don't remember it as such, you still had to clear stages, exploring, fighting, figuring out, etc.Sometimes I'd get stuck on a spot for a little while, but then get through.It feels like the goal was to try to transplant those old SCUMM adventure games onto a console platformer, which may sound like an obscene idea to some, and perhaps it is to a degree, but it worked ok as far as I recall it.
>>12450540not perfect but like all memorable games it manages to achieve an iconic audio visual language that sticks with you. It's worth a playthrough sure.
>>12450540I played on xbox and itis very old school humour, but it is fun to play it.
>>12451906>very old school humour Explain
>>12450540Yes and play the sequel too
>>12450540there are literally 0 games worth playing, get a job
>>12450540Yeah it's a good time. I played it first as a teenager and I got stuck at some points, but replaying it on Xbox last year made me rethink things. It's really fun. Good 8.5/10.
>>12451916Definitely has the point and click feeling
>>12451916MST3K type of humor but without the constant pop-culture references. Someone says something wacky, another character responds in an equally wacky way, everyone moves on to the next joke. None of the funny bits are meant to be some crowning joke or whatever, it all adds up with nonstop humor and witty lines into a complete piece of comedy like an old Lucasarts adventure.
>>12450540yeah it's real fun
>>12450540Great game. It has a lot of "flavor" added that just shows it was made with passion...But be warned, the PS4 / PS5 version of this game is utter dogshit, tons of bugs, 30 FPS with constant frame drops and all sorts of lighting and texture bugs. One of the worst ports I've ever seen of a PS2 game.
>>12451484What does he say? I can't find any information about it
>>12457686Might be having a false memory because the "Give all items" cheat code does not do it, and I don't recall having an Action Replay for Xbox... but anyway I have a memory of Coach Oleander saying something like "that turtle looks familiar..."
>>12450540I love the bizarre-looking art style.The hub-world exploration can be a bit confusing and one of the things that made me drop the game the first time. I later re-take and I really got absorbed into how varied and creative each stage was. It does feel a bit gimmicky at times, which can be feel good and bad at the same time. This may have to do with first impressions, the first level is quite traditional in the way it is designed: You mostly go from point A to point B through tight platforming like a Crash Bandicoot game. Sure, there are some collectibles along the way but you're not really expected to do something particularly esoteric like with the milkman or the brain-fish.I think I dropped it once again after the Bonaparte level. Not because it was bad though, I sometimes just want to play something else and forgot to come back.
>>12450540Flawed masterpiece of a 3D platformer and it's truly a shame it didn't effectively revive the genre. Very soulful and enjoyable. Great art direction and very engrossing now that everyone's mentally ill. Slight trainwreck of an ending but that's every Double Fine game sadly.
>>12450540Psychonauts is another example of Tim Schafer’s regressive attitude toward video games, and of a broader reluctance to engage with mechanics as meaning.The story concerns a psychic who infiltrates a covert camp that trains psychic children to refine their abilities. The narrative is diffuse and lacks incitement or overarching ambition until the end of the game, where a conspiracy is finally unearthed. Most levels take place inside the minds of various characters, consisting of exaggerated, twisted subconscious forms reminiscent of German Expressionism. The art style is, frankly, hideous, seemingly derived from the state of televised cartoons of the time: blobby, unbalanced character designs with uncanny anatomy. Animator John Kricfalusi described this tendency as an example of “itchiness and lumpiness,” where unprincipled and boundless shapes serve as a substitute for genuine charm.The regressiveness of the game stems from its blasé platforming mechanics, which never meaningfully meld with the outwardly strange locales and scenarios it presents. A prime example is a world set on a giant board game played by a caricature of Napoleon: the player simply runs between designated spaces and watches cutscenes, intermittently interrupted by monotonous encounters in which one shoos away mindless enemies. The design philosophy appears to assume that loading a game with amusing cutscenes and quirky quips absolves the gameplay of any obligation to be engaging.more reviews herehttps://ultimategamer.neocities.org//reviews/psychonauts
>>12458767This just sounds like a tryhard attempt at making a review sound pseudointellectual, might as well have Peter Griffin also call it shallow and pedantic.
Goes on sale for 99 cents on steam sometimes
>>12458814it's not your fault that you have a low verbal IQ
>>12458832People who try to fake sounding intelligent like you did are generally the idiots. I didn't fail to understand your post moron, I just also recognized it for the bullshit that it is.
Psychonauts is a "platformer" in the same way that Conker's BFD is a platformer... that's just how you move around in a 3D space.It's a 3D adventure game where the point is that each new area or section has you doing something unique or using an item uniquely. If you try to judge it as a platformer with "levels" then you didn't understand what the game even was.
>>12458849if you think I'm a pseudointellectual because I use long words you should probably buy a rope and a chair.. and get someone to tie a noose and place a chair below it because you probably can't do that either lmao
>>12458872>Even the insults are pathetic tryhard nonsenseAt this point you need to take your own advice
>>12458912hey now at least I can tie a noose by myself
>>12458914Be sure to demonstrate
>>12458980you first nigga
>>12458767I can see some of this from a subjective angle, but it still mostly feels like the purpose was less of a review, and more for the author to try to flex his verbosity.With less masturbating and more brevity, the review could have been half the length and still have accurately conveyed his thoughts, and ironically, he could still have said a lot more about the game to give better insight to his opinion, but chooses not.Didn't like the plot or art, sure, fine, but:>The design philosophy appears to assume that loading a game with amusing cutscenes and quirky quips absolves the gameplay of any obligation to be engaging.This could have been expanded on a lot more, and it feels too broad and unspecific. Yeah, I didn't like the Napoleon part either, but would it kill him to break down WHY you think it doesn't work, or the platforming parts?>>12458814Not QUITE as bad as that joke, but it gives a bit of the same feel.>>12458872Is it your own blog you're linking and copypasting from? What happened to your capitalization and punctuation?
>>12458856True. It's not particularly strong as a platformer or anything, but I think that's fine if the platforming gameplay functions, and the game has other merit to prop it up, which I think Psychonauts had.Some people don't like that notion for a videogame, but that's typically also going to be someone who does not like and appreciate its style of humor, characters, or art direction.In which case, all they have left then is the gameplay, and that it's then going to just be a waste of that person's time.>>12458736Flawed gem/masterpiece I think is pretty fair.
>>12460041yeah it's my own The last paragraph was amputated to comply with the word limit so here is is: Compare this with a similarly humorous title like Conker’s Bad Fur Day, which initially presents platforming mechanics as contrived and ill-fitting to its own mise-en-scène, then promptly and hilariously discards them in favor of context-sensitive interactions. To defeat a boss composed of living fecal matter, Conker wields an exaggeratedly massive roll of toilet paper—the sheer weight of it causing third-person aiming to become delayed and intentionally unwieldy. The aesthetic reinforces the mechanic, and the mechanic becomes the message.
>>12461507Message?
>>12458767>A prime example is a world set on a giant board game played by a caricature of Napoleon: the player simply runs between designated spaces and watches cutscenes, intermittently interrupted by monotonous encounters in which one shoos away mindless enemies. The design philosophy appears to assume that loading a game with amusing cutscenes and quirky quips absolves the gameplay of any obligation to be engaging.you need to delve deeper here. 2 sentences and a single example aren't sufficient for the point you're trying to make.
I lost interest halfway through
>>12461765But he was so verbose! Clearly you don't have enough verbal intellect!
>>12461765I disagree with the review mostly but a lot of levels are more about going from A to B with little interesting platform layout to spice it up. Milkman Conspiracy for example has a lot of flat ground. Worst level in the game is the theater.
>>12461793More or less this.It's a fun, charming game with sovl, but the gameplay gets stale after you've unlocked all your powers and the levels start to get more combat heavy rather than creative with puzzles.Very much worth playing, though.
>>12461793Yes
The Milkman Conspiracy ends up being the peak of the game and every mind after that has a lot of repetition and restrictive movement. It's not helped that the absolute worst part of the game comes immediately after these 3 insane minds: the climb through the asylum where you get pested by swarms of confusion rats.
>>12464753Way to spoil the best part
>>12450540A very charming game. I just have to exhaust all the dialogue from every character because they have something interesting to say. The cast of characters are worth connecting to due to the humour. From those adventure games with all sorts of fun flavour text gave me the habit to interact with everything just for the possiblity of discovering another new amusing tidbit of the game world. The gameplay is sort of standard fare, but characters and world interesting enough that I waited for a sequel.
>>12466783What? No Rhombus of Ruin?
>>12467301Crap, the voucher expired.
>>12468521They have expiration dates? That's some bullshit.
>>12450540Mid. Not really, kinda boring and uninteresting. Totally a neglected kid game though.
>>12451916Old school reddit humor
>>12451916It has a lot of corny puns, and outlandish characters doing very odd things. It's very well written and has some very unique concepts and designs.
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>>12450540It's absolutely worth playing, that said it's style over substance, the gameplay is nothing special. 6.5/10 in my opinion.>>12469258That's basically Lucas arts
>>12450540genuinely one of the best games I've ever playedIt is a bit jank but it's easy until the end, so must of the time you're having fun with exploring and finding funny npcs>>12451916watch turn of the millenium cartoons like ren and stimpy and ed edd and eddythat's sort of the vibe
The gameplay is generic, but the levels and storytelling are some of the greatest I've ever played. You should play it for that. Oddly, even though the writing is the best part and the gameplay is average, I don't think a TV adaptation would work at all.
