Dog Problems
Banned
How bad have crashes and other technical issues been? Going to buy it in a bit but want to know what to expect in that regard.
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Fortinbras
Member
I love this game. Right now I'm in the
area. I found four treasure maps for the
puzzle but I can't figure out the sequence.
Haven't experienced any crashes/freezes yet.
owl
4x4 grid
Haven't experienced any crashes/freezes yet.
toythatkills
Member
Fucking hell, man, if you're going to post spoilers at least tag them so people have a chance to work stuff like that out for themselves.
ThankeeSai
Member
Aaah cool. Thanks for that.
I thought I must have missed something as during the map explanation, I pressed B a bit too quick and I must have skipped over that part.
Phonomezer
Banned
What method are people using to decipher the symbols?
Solid SOAP
Member
Do you need to get every single cube to "beat" the game? So far I'm loving this game, but it's very confusing. If I need to like, write notes and decipher things to be able to say I at least got to the end then that's gonna be kind of annoying.
Put in like 5 and a half hours I think, and did a good bit, one little thing I was stuck on but then it just clicked, probably because I was a little tired - can't say nothing had me stumped yet.
Had a little stuttering in the level I was in, but other than that, not to bad. Still a shame to see but I've been enjoying the hell out of it so far. Gonna stop for now and take my sweet time with it like I did with Braid.
Had a little stuttering in the level I was in, but other than that, not to bad. Still a shame to see but I've been enjoying the hell out of it so far. Gonna stop for now and take my sweet time with it like I did with Braid.
I'm right here with you man. I've been all over both of those rooms and am clueless. I doubt the
chest
Infamous Chris
Banned
Near the waterfall there is a door that leads you to a fox jumping over a lazy dog. I'm sure you can put the rest together, lol.
SnorlaxSquad
Banned
Shitty game by a shitty dev which will get ate up by dumb reviewers who like anything "indie" and "retro." Cave Story did the style better without the obnoxious dev ego.
toythatkills
Member
You can beat the game with half the cubes, and you won't need to take notes at all for that. If you want all 64 though, have paper ready.
Coin Return
Loose Slot
Your tears are delicious.
YianGaruga
Banned
Anyone figured out what the answer to the "security question" is?
good discussion going on here
Played this for about an hour and a half, not really sure what I think so far. Navigation is a little frustrating, game is buggy, and picking up the boxes is poorly designed at points.
There's a room where there's a button on top and four pillars all around. You have to pick up this box and throw them at the pillars. But the problem is when you jump up to where the pillar is, if you didn't make it so that you threw the box at a distance where it's somewhat hanging off of the pillar, than you have to leave and reenter the level. Wtf?
ThankeeSai
Member
It's driving me insane
So, it seems to me that the solution is basically going to be one of 2 things -
A) How did I NOT see that before?!
or
B) WTF?! How the hell was I supposed to figure that out?!
Grrrrrrrrr.....
Tell us how you really feel.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
Banned
No, it's good.
I still have the issue. Seems like a pretty big game for that to happen, particularly since they got a well known artist to do the art. I can't play retail until the SO gets home tonight (twitch, twitch), so I'm just turning the 360 on every few hours to see if it's been fixed, ha.
Phonomezer
Banned
It's driving me insane
So, it seems to me that the solution is basically going to be one of 2 things -
A) How did I NOT see that before?!
or
B) WTF?! How the hell was I supposed to figure that out?!
Grrrrrrrrr.....
Yup. I hope it's B, otherwise I'll feel like I'm in for a long ride when it comes to the secrets in this game lol
Bought it without first downloading the trial, fuck it, I've waited too long. Downloading now.
Read the title.
It's not...really like Braid. The biggest difference is in Braid there are enemies and in Fez there aren't. They both are platformers with a "gimmick" but their gimmicks are entirely different in function. They're as similar as something like Crysis and Call of Duty. Yeah, they're both modern first person shooters with realistic graphical styles and guns you shoot, but they're wholly different to play.
Even with the thread title you come in here to post this nonsense.
sixteen-bit
Member
Cave Story isn't even that great...
but whatever, I can't wait to get home and download this.
but whatever, I can't wait to get home and download this.
Cave story isn't even that good, bro. The only thing that's good is the soundtrack. Also, at this point, the people who have trouble letting go of his comments are more obnoxious than he is because they won't shut the fuck up about how obnoxious he is.
I have paid only passing attention to this game over the years, so I went into it with minimal knowledge and am entirely oblivious to what this 'dev ego' is guys like SnorlaxSquad are sobbing about. What matters to me is the game.
The game is great. It's got this really nice relaxed retro vibe to it. There's challenge and mercy married nicely; it really tasks spacial thinking, but is ultra-lenient when it comes to failures. Getting plopped right back from the point I fell (or at the start of a climbing sequence) instantly is the best possible way to handle the platforming.
Little things I like: doors I have opened before stay opened, and I get a preview of what is on the other side as a reminder of where they go. Being able to see another chunk of level in the distance is tantalizing. The euphoria of completing a cube (I'm up to six, and they all made me absurdly happy to complete). It's all just very well thought out.
The technical performance is disappointing. The game does stutter a lot, and sometimes loading screens are frequent when world-hopping. I've even had loading screens themselves stutter, which is a bit perplexing. No hard crashes yet, and I hope is stays that way.
Rough edges aside this is the kind of game I can see myself turning on with the intent to play for a few minutes, and then realizing it's 2:00 AM.
The game is great. It's got this really nice relaxed retro vibe to it. There's challenge and mercy married nicely; it really tasks spacial thinking, but is ultra-lenient when it comes to failures. Getting plopped right back from the point I fell (or at the start of a climbing sequence) instantly is the best possible way to handle the platforming.
Little things I like: doors I have opened before stay opened, and I get a preview of what is on the other side as a reminder of where they go. Being able to see another chunk of level in the distance is tantalizing. The euphoria of completing a cube (I'm up to six, and they all made me absurdly happy to complete). It's all just very well thought out.
The technical performance is disappointing. The game does stutter a lot, and sometimes loading screens are frequent when world-hopping. I've even had loading screens themselves stutter, which is a bit perplexing. No hard crashes yet, and I hope is stays that way.
Rough edges aside this is the kind of game I can see myself turning on with the intent to play for a few minutes, and then realizing it's 2:00 AM.
PIMPBYBLUD
Member
Is that the Legend of Zelda poster in his starting room? Lol awesome
Darn, I was hoping the stuttering was just the demo. It's a beautiful game other than that.
As for gameplay, I really don't know what to think. The demo felt very short and anti-climactic, and really didn't give me much of an idea of what the full game will be like. Is it challenging at all or is it all just very laid back? Is there a lot of backtracking? Traversal often feels slow to me (largely because the deadly fall distance is not that high, so I have to climb down more slowly than I want), so I hope there's not a ton of backtracking.
Still kind of tempted to buy the game, but very much on the fence since I know I will want to pour a lot of time into Trials Evolution and Pinball Arcade...
show me your skeleton
Member
okay so apparently i figured out a puzzle without realising it? in the starting area, one room,
, went from unfinished to complete & i'm not sure what i did? is there something else other than the
or have i gone mad?
the room with all the portraits/hidden treasure chest
treasure chest
Traumnovelle
Member
I need some help:
Right now I'm in the stage with all the cube people. I have 15 cubes, and I don't know what I should do to progress. There is a door that needs 32 cubes to open, and I'll eventually backtrack to get them, but I assume that going behind the door is optional (a bonus). There is also a room with an owl statue that seems very important. I can't figure out what the cube people are saying, but it seems some have deciphered the language.
This one still stumps me. I've tried
testfish
nametron
If anyone has a full translation of the numbers, I'd love to see it. I theoretically have 0-7 and 10, but I can't get a particular anticube that I thought I should be able to...
From my understand this game was written using xna c# managed code, so I can understand the performance issues. Xna is a good framework but it's still not native code.
Yup. I have a "cube" that isn't a normal cube, anticube, or artifact. Crazy how I got it, though.