Scribblenauts comes out this week! However, it somehow got leaked and a few people have been playing it already. Any of them who do not buy it at launch should be gutted and strung out to die slow, painful deaths. That might seem harsh, but anyone stealing any profit from the guys at 5th Cell is going to a very special place in hell reserved for child molesters and people who talk during a movie. Support good games, damn it!
The point of all this is that some of the people who have gotten the game early have been able to look into its programming and the like. Such a person is Destructoid community member Moose, who, for his first blog post ever, presents us all with the entire list of things that one can summon in the game, which he "acquired." There are 22,804 items in all, none of which I am reading about. I'd like most of this to be a surprise. I've already had zombie stomping dinosaurs from time machines ruined for me, I'm not risking anything else. However, if you want to check it out you can see the list here.
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6:00 PM on 09.13.2009
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@chicken008
The saddle lets you ride it, but not control it (basically useless), the controllable animals don't need a saddle! Also, unicorns don't fly and Einstein is the same thing as typing "scientist"...
Or get a DS just to play it.
I've finished the game, don't buy a DS just for that, sure, you can type summon a lot of stuff, but a lot is recycled (chopper = helicopter = copter, but they all count as different words) and the ones you actually use are limited as the levels progress and the challenges get tougher...
Get a DS though, just for Castlevania...
Also, now that I remember, I think I may have won a free DSi...I can't remember. I just know I entered some kind of Guitar Hero tournament and the 1st place prize was either a PSP 3000 or a DSi...and I -did- 100% the song and get the highest score, so I know I won, I just can't remember what I won. Guess I'll find out on the 22nd. xD
22132. Weegee
Veni.
Does not work, he eats the steak, and even if he didn't, you wouldn't control him, as there would be now way of turning the fish pole to another side...
You sir, are not a dreamer, sure there is a way, perhaps a mind control device of some sort
As a recent owner of a PSP-3000, I must say I'm liking it quite a tad more than the DS, might be recent buy bias though...
@quantum zombie
It's the same thing as summoning a plumber
Its kind of the opposite how the back of RPG boxes always exaggerate the number of hours the game contains. (regardless of how often I've read it, I fail to believe that there are anywhere near 200 hours in Dragon Quest IX) Its nice to see someone undermining the content of their game, instead of surrounding it with vast amounts of misleading hyperbole.
Well, since I still have my classic fatty PSP and play it almost every day, I can vouch for how good a system it is. But, of course, since I do still have a PSP, I'm reeeeally hoping it's a DSi that I wound up winning. >_>
Believe me, I've tried just about all kinds of "may control stuff" possibilities, there simply is now way, unless you
*SPOILER BEGINNING*
make a path of steak, like, getting a steak, then getting it a little bit further, but it feels like exploiting and it's not fun (by manual manipulation, also, that way you can make a good vehicle outta a Superhero, by criminal path-ing), however, you guys should buy it, because... SHRINK RAY!
*SPOILER ENDING*
You can put a saddle over Chutlu and stand there, though...
THANKS NAIM!
NP, oh, and just so you know, it's flat out laziness; the full game is only 18 MB, for comparison, most recent DS games are 128 MB...
20k words, 4000-5000 actual items and any number of combinations therein and someone's calling laziness?
Come on now.
Yeah, but how many items are totally different, and not the base of one item fused with another in a new skin?
@tubatic
I'm just saying they could have made the controls better with that much space left, it may have a bazillion words, but what if they're only skins for 100 different funcions?
@mrplow
God and Zeus are the same item.
@alter
I buy all my games, then download then for extra portability (I can carry 32 games with a R4), and there is a relation, the more mechanics, graphics, action, size there is, the bigger the ROM...
@warzombie
It certainly is not a BAD game, but it most certainly was overhyped, I fear it will be greatly hurt from that (I never got hyped myself, I know 5th Cell makes quirky gimmicky games, that's what I expected, that's what I got), I'm just trying to warn you guys it's not the next Mario Bros., it's just a weird 8.0 game, sometimes really bonerbreaking, sometimes genious, but always not-as-great-as-people-hyped-it!
A friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend got me some hands on time with it (nothing illegal, it was a demo with a few challenges) and I think you and I were playing different games, because even though some objects are similar to each other, they all had unique properties. Also, there are Zombie Robots in one challenge, and I thought the controls were great. It never felt like everything was just a "re-skin" of another object, they all seemed unique to me. I'm not trying to argue, I'm just telling you what I played.
The game is mind blowing at the first levels, but as the challenges get tougher and as you try more and more ways, with most of them failing or glitching (you can't glue two weapons together, so no spear-chainsaw and the weapons don't do damage unless your give the attack action, so no chainsaw equipped bikes), you're going to get disappointed, this is the kinda game that's going to blow away the intertubez for 3 weeks, bein called the most inventive thing since bread, then going to get bashed and called overrated as the time passes (staring at GTA IV and Silent Hill: Homecoming)...
For example, did you notice how the killer is the same thing as the pirate that is the same thing as the ninja that is the same thing as the hunter, the chopper is the same as the jet that is the same as the airplane that is the same to the pterodactyls that is the same as the pegasus... Sure, they might get some lulzy jokes here and there (pirates instantly fight ninjas, hunters always kill animals), but they're doing the same attack and function, and in the challenges, that are the "meat" of the game, you're going to get the most powerful one and stick with it.
I also thought the controls were great, until I had more than 5 items at the screen at the same time, a fight to stop or a item to equip in the middle of the game, just believe me, you're going to get disappointed later, resistance is futile, there is only a certain amount of time you can spend with the menu and the challenges are really hit-or-miss, even if always exploitable; what really got me pissed was the size though, this game could have been a universal 10/10 if the spent some more time with it...
Did that after drugging a carcharodontosaurus.
Oh shit, that works! Chtulu can't fly, though...
Good, then at least Scribblenauts is aware that Zeus is the true God, and not that stupid fake God from the Bible.
I'll return to this once I've exhausted the game on my own and received the hat (so I can crow at the break of dawn and put the shrilling bone chilling cry into those who do not buy this game).
But, isn't the point of the game to come up with unique and inventive ways to finish the different levels? Just "completing" the game isn't the point, it's to find as many silly ways to complete it as you can. Like "How can I use this bowling ball to butter that toast?" kind of thing.
Honestly, I do think that this game was incredibly overhyped, with people expecting a lot more out of it then it could ever possibly deliver. And I won't know if it's really a good or bad game until I play it on Wednesday. But a lot of the complaints I'm hearing here (other than choppy controls) all kind of sound like horseshit from people who aren't really getting what the game is about.