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Sarcasmancer
09/17/09

In reply to Fez Will Effe With Your Mind
Day 1 download. Guess I got a promiscuous mind.
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Sarcasmancer
09/17/09

@Sarcasmancer: Err, and by download I mean purchase. Support indie gaming!
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Phil Fish
09/16/09

In reply to Fez Will Effe With Your Mind
just to clarify, "YasinEarthworm" was me.
i dont get this random username thing.
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Yossarian
09/16/09

In reply to Fez Will Effe With Your Mind
So he's searching for the Allspark?
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YasinEarthworm
09/16/09

In reply to Fez Will Effe With Your Mind
by "hard" i didnt mean "too challenging", but "hard to understand, hard to read, hard to map the 3D world in your head". we didnt dumb down the game, but are making sure that the first act of the game eases you into the third dimension while teaching you all the weird rules of the world.
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BarfHappy
09/16/09

In reply to Fez Will Effe With Your Mind
They should have kept the game hard... I am disappointed they toned it down because some play testers could not finish it during the test time frame.
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D-K, a burning sensation
09/16/09

@BarfHappy: I'm thinking it wouldn't be much of a seller if you can't get past level 4... [level 4's a bitch]

Kids no longer have patience like saints [looking at you contra] and a feeling of progress and instant gratification seem to be more evident as well.

But then again the man likes to fuck with people's minds...
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ThursdayNext
09/16/09

@BarfHappy: Given the amount of whining that goes on whenever a dev releases a "broken" game it is vital that all testers are able to access all parts of the game by transitioning through the levels naturally.

Would you really be happy if the last level was a horrific mess of bugs, glitches, hangs and crashes because only one of the testers was able to actually get to the final level?

And before anyone says it, skipping to the level using debug is no substitute for actual testing. I used to be a tester for a large publisher and I can tell you that we would have been drummed out for using debug and calling our tests thorough.
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nrXic
08/27/09

In reply to Fez: New Footage!
They were showing Xbox Indie games for the PSP Go segment... *shakes head*
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Sarcasmancer
08/27/09

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Really looking forward to this game. I think it will do a better job of realizing 2D to 3D platforming than Super Paper Mario. After Braid and Cavestory, I also have a lot of faith in very small teams and indie projects.
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shouryuuken
08/27/09

In reply to Fez: New Footage!
what the... han tao? why am i just now seeing this?!
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Superspecs
08/27/09

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I hope this comes to PSN now, or eventually.
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kearneybobs
08/27/09

@Superspecs: It would be rather good if it did. Anyone know if this is coming to PC?
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Netnavi
08/27/09

In reply to Fez: New Footage!
they still show EP on G4? When!?
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shouryuuken
08/27/09

@Netnavi: thats what im saying.. an actual show about videogames besides xplay?

that was actually pretty neat.. id never even heard of han tao..
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Atheist Jew
08/27/09

In reply to Fez: New Footage!
I would massacre an entire town of prairie dogs for this game. I've been waiting for it for so fucking long GIVE IT TO ME NOW!
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Curse lily
08/27/09

In reply to Fez: New Footage!
PSN pretty plz (T~T)

.....ahem...the ability to move the camera angle around like in "Echochrome" is pretty cool and the music makes it even more awesome.
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dowingba
08/27/09

In reply to Fez: New Footage!
Looks great. I hope, with such a small team, they can test the game enough though. Cause this looks like it's ripe for "getting stuck" areas.
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saifrc
08/27/09

In reply to Fez: New Footage!
It looks like this game focuses centrally on the aspect of Super Paper Mario that made it the most compelling: exposing the 3-D nature of a world that appears to be only 2-D on the surface. It looks like it'll be really cool, so far, but I would hate to see such a cool idea (with such pretty execution) suffer from poor or frustrating level design. Unfortunately, that's sometimes where the sheer size of large development teams can help, though indie developers have succeeded at magnificent level design as well.

On a more sentimental note: did anyone growing up with 2-D side-scrolling platformers ever *not* imagine what it would be like to turn the world sideways? I had dreams from a young age that I was in the Super Mario Bros. world, but I was viewing it head-on, the way that Mario must have seen it...only with marvelous, colorful vistas spreading out to the left and right of the main path, which the player couldn't see. It was exciting to see that dream actually come partially to fruition in Super Paper Mario, though I always felt like the player was simply teased with the feature, rather than immersed in it. (I don't count Super Mario 64 as the realization of that dream, because it was designed for 3-D, and not the fleshing-out of an apparently 2-D world.) I eagerly look forward to Fez -- if it's addictive enough, I could see myself downloading it for more than one system.
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dowingba
08/27/09

@saifrc: There was another game that came out around the same time as Super Paper Mario that had the same 2D-3D concept in it. Forget what it was called...it was a PSP game, I believe. Also it was published by Sega, if that helps.

Fez looks like it's taking it to the next level, though.
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misthero
08/27/09

@dowingba: yes, I was thinking the same! That was the concept, the game is CRUSH, I played it and is an amazing puzzle game:
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shouryuuken
08/27/09

@dowingba: crush.
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dowingba
08/27/09

@misthero: Ah thanks. That's the one.
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shouryuuken
07/02/09

In reply to Fez To Get Awesome On XBLA "Early 2010"
man SO Stoked about this. i love platformers.. and this game looks excellent. if i had clout in the industry, id totally publish games like this, owlboy, snapshot, and cave story.

speaking of owlboy.. any word on that?
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