Line Rider Coming To DS, Wii - Kotaku Comments

Line Rider Coming To DS, Wii

Madgun — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:17:43 MST

Well I think it's a good idea. Although, putting it on the Wii isnt too smart as it'll be harder to draw, but on the DS is a great idea! InXile and *fsk, the creator, will be happy as this game is a very famous flashtoy on the net. I think they should come up with a colour edition for Line Rider, then it'd look more realistic.

Madgun

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SpaceWhale — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:05:03 MST

The game's fun for people, like me, who enjoy creating absurdly complex tracks and such. Its sort of the appeal of that old BridgeBuilder game.

The flash one is a bit rough, but I'd love to see a more fleshed-out and less glitchy version on the DS.

SpaceWhale

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Matters — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:20:27 MST

You want a fun simple game that should come to the wii and ds go play that game with all of the dots and the lines connecting them and you have to drag the dots around to untangle the lines so that none of them intersect. Now THAT game is fun, has a point and would be perfect for the DS and Wii.

Matters

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Matters — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:17:41 MST

rluzin once again you think I critize this game to be popular? jesus christ where do you retards come from?

I'll critize a game if I fucking want you sure as hell do it you eleteist bastard.

And explain to me how this game is popular? I read damn near every major game site, blog and tech site out there and I don't ever remember reading about this game until now. Maybe somebody posted about it on kotaku or joystiq or slashdot or any of the other popular sites but I sure as hell don't remember seeing it.

Oh wait maybe it is popular among the teenagers on myspace. That would explain it.

Matters

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Matters — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:12:17 MST

Mobile you think I'm trolling to stop sales of this game? Come on dude get real. I wasn't trolling at first anyway I was HONESTLY asking WTF was fun about this game. I dicked around with it and it was cute for a while but this game isn't original and it isn't great.. If you've been around you have seen a TON of these games and there are MUCH better ones out there.

If it had a better interface (why not right click to drag the box and left click to draw instead of fucking switching back and forth?!?!?!?!??!?! maybe a limitation of flash but you get my drift. It can be 100x better.) and throw in a few cool things you can actually make the guy do besides jump from one fucking line to another and THEN we will talk about it being fun.

Matters

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xpnet — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:59:37 MST

This flash game I want to see on the DS ... FUN AND HARD(not as hard but you have to think) .. Johnny Rocket Fingers... Go Newgrounds!!

xpnet

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rluzinski — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:35:12 MST

Just so I can understand how this works. If you criticize a popular game for being boring and lame, does that make you cool and interesting?

I don't think this game is great but others obviously do. If I claim to not understand its appeal, isn't the problem with my perception?

rluzinski

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MobileMilitia — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:14:17 MST

matters, if you amuse yourself by trolling a comments section of a blog, that's fine. hell, i'm not even excited about this game since i hadn't heard of till this post. and now that i've heard of it, i would rather play the flash version anyway. so you can go and start your 'oh my god why do people like this game that i don't' blog, but don't expect it to halt sales or interest in the title.

MobileMilitia

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zealousd — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:46:40 MST

XBOX360 = Geometry Wars
PS3 = Fl0w
DS/Wii = LineRider

zealousd

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Tcata — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:26:44 MST

Can anybody explain to me what part of this game is supposed to be fun?

Within this simple little game you're supposed to create an elaborate setup. The fun from this game is the same kind of fun people get from playing GMod or creating warthog jumps in Halo...

Tcata

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GOOR — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:25:21 MST

"It's Etch-a-Sketch for the YouTube Generation!"

Hahahahahahahahahahahah shut up!

GOOR

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Herc — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:43:09 MST

If you go to the official site you can erase.
http://official-linerider.com/index.html

^ check out the "Jagged Peak Adventure", I thought it was more impressive than the one posted above.

Herc

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Matters — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:55:44 MST

If you were a techy during the dot com boom then you played about a million of these little games and honestly this one ranks somewhere between the middle and bottom of the pack.

Otherwise..ehh..whatever.. if you're a newb I completely understand why you like it..

Matters

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Matters — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:51:58 MST

Watching a rollerskate go down a 2x4 is exactly as fun as this game.

Matters

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Matters — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:50:37 MST

Why should I Mobile? I find bitching about it plenty interesting. Hows that for logic?

Matters

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Matters — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:49:07 MST

Nah Collins I totally understand what you meant. I should have split my post into two. You had a great point and idea. Why buy a game you could play for free? I was just thinking it would probably be enhanced in some way to make it worth the money.. If not.. why bother?

Matters

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Collins1990 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:26:22 MST

MobileMilitia: Respect +1

Collins1990

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NeoteriX — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:17:14 MST

Fun game, but the fact that I could erase drove me crazy. It did give me an immense respect in the people that could pull off those crazy vids without an eraser.

NeoteriX

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MobileMilitia — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:07:44 MST

if you don't see the interest people have in this game, STOP EFFING POSTING ABOUT IT.

MobileMilitia

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rateoforange — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:05:56 MST

This went around...oh, hold on.

This went around my workplace like wildfire and was gone the next day. Very cute little app, but I wouldn't say there's a whole game here.

rateoforange

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Collins1990 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:55:20 MST

Think I just solved the BOLD html issue.

Collins1990

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Collins1990 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:52:59 MST

hang in a second. Why were both those last posts in bold?

Did i do that?

Collins1990

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Collins1990 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:50:00 MST

Yeah, I'm not saying it's the greatest game ever; it's very simple but it's pretty sweet and a full package could really build on a great idea that, due to the limitations of flash development, is just good atm.

All I was implying by suggesting that people play it on Opera is that if you think it sucks and won't be worth a nickel on the Wii, give it a go on Opera and maybe it'll be better off thanks to the remote. The DS version is obviously going to better than the flash one because you'll have far greater control of your drawing.

Anyway, it's early days yet. Let's wait for some screens and playtests before we judge it. Besides, it might even get cancelled before it get's finished, as so many games like this (sadly(?)) do.

Collins1990

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warpped655 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:43:38 MST

I may have tipped kotaku on this, if they got my e-mail, or they may have simply found the article. before they got my e-mail. :P anyway, my entire school was obsessed about this game(becuase it wasn't blocked on our internet filters for quite awhile), as well as a bunch of hacked versions of it. I don't know if the original creator or the company who just bought the rights to it appreciates it. but heres the link anyway : www.lineflyer.com

Its not the most high quality site, but the hacked versions are kinda cool. but loose their appeal within about 10 minutes of trying them.

warpped655

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Matters — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:34:09 MST

I dunno Collins. If they're going to sell the game then they will probably make the interface better and add some cool features.

Honestly I don't understand the hype about this game. Simple games like this were common when I was learning how to program 10+ years ago. I've played games similar and I've played A LOT better.

Matters

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Collins1990 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:26:30 MST

Umm... Just a thought I'll leave to brew in you guys' minds:

-----------------[Opera browser supports flash]---------------------

Collins1990

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Matters — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:25:55 MST

The clip looks kind of interesting until you consider that it probably took hours to make in a most tedious and boring kind of way. Not fun AT ALL.

Matters

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Caine36 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:22:57 MST

Wow, that rules so much. It is so cool that even though it will be on the DS, they still released the new Beta 2 verison. This is hardcore, I love it.

Caine36

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Collins1990 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:22:34 MST

I love linerider so I hope this is awesome. Does anyone else predict very shaky lines on the Wii?

Anyway, great to see the guy is achieving success, he came up with a great idea and executed it briliantly. InXile sound a bit dodgy though - The Bards Tale and my personal favourite game to look out for in 2007, "Game X". Not quite the rep, say, Capcom, Nintendo or even Zoo Digital have, is it?

Collins1990

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Matters — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:22:16 MST

Can anybody explain to me what part of this game is supposed to be fun? I love these kind of simple little games, but I can't find ANYTHING to like about this game. It's completely pointless. You draw lines and watch a guy slide down it in the most uninteresting ways. I feel like I must be missing something.. Like if I actually tried hard enough I could maybe make something cool happen.. but nope.. it's still just.....stupid.

Matters