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LIMBO |OT| What awaits at the edge of Hell?
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FlawlessCowboy
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Was excited for this until I found out it was 1200 MS Points. As I did with Braid, I will wait for this to drop in price before buying it.
toythatkills said:
:O
Is one of these around the area with the two gun turrets and the elevator that you can go under for an achivement? I noticed if you jump over the left turret ywhere you pull a box with the magnet that you can get to the other side(I managed to get there by standing on the box and making a weird jump as it rose). There seems to be a white orb up there that wasn't linked to an achievement. Tried to reach it for awhile to get it with no luck though.
forgeforsaken
Member
Big B said:
Limbo first showed up back in 2006, or earlier. That's when the earliest released footage of it is I think, before it was an XBLA game.
Psychotext
Member
This is brilliant. Loving it, and so far I've managed to avoid looking online for solutions. 
toythatkills
Member
Yeah, it was that one. Have fun getting to itPapercuts said:
I love this game. I was actually considering not getting it until there was a price drop, but I actually felt bad about being such a stickler over five dollars, so I bought it yesterday and am SO glad I did.
Right from the beginning, when
I had a huge smile on my face. I won't claim to be willing to pay $200 bucks to play Flower like some people, but I would have been willing to pay $30 or $40 for this game.
Right from the beginning, when
your guy first opens his eyes
Liquid Helium
Member
I just finished the game, and I don't know how I feel, the puzzles and gameplay were awesome but I think I need some time to decide what I think about the ending.
Wait...how many completion points (as the percentage score) are the achievements worth? I've got 101% but haven't done the straight run with five or less deaths, so how much would completing that raise my score? (The easter eggs in this game are brilliant!)
EDIT: Ah, it's 2% for that achievement. More eggs to hunt, then...
EDIT: Ah, it's 2% for that achievement. More eggs to hunt, then...
shongololo
Member
Pakkidis said:
Presumably you'd have problems recommending a full retail game that was 'only' 12 hours long, regardless of how much you enjoyed it. Bananas.
FateBreaker
Member
Liquid Helium said:
What ending?
Shake Appeal
Member
The one at the end of the game.FateBreaker said:
Beat it, loved it. I'm probably going to start over again later tonight and see if I can get the eggs this time around, since I didn't grab any on my first run through. The
theory makes a lot of sense, although I think
I take back what I said about the price earlier, it was worth every moon point.
schoolbus
it looks more like a treehouse to me at the end. I wanna say that they might've been attacked by a wild animal or their treehouse caught on fire while they were inside, but that all seems like a stretch.
I take back what I said about the price earlier, it was worth every moon point.
The Friendly Monster
Member
That was brilliant, played it in one sitting, probably won't bother with the extra shit.
To anyone hunting the secret stuff beyond the achievements, can anyone clarify something here?
I went back to one of the earlier levels with the tribe kids, specifically the one that starts with the double swinging bear trap where the one climbs a rope into the treehouse. I am getting EXTREMELY close to getting up while he's still climbing and pulls the rope up, to the point where I feel like it's actually possible to grab. You just need to perfectly bait the traps and get on the rope. The problem is it's swinging a lot so it seems hard to get up there quickly. I'm not sure if this is impossible or if I just need to do it better.
Ledsen said:
It seems almost every game that's over 800 points ends up being part of a huge debate about being "worth it". If all arcade games were 1200 standard, I wonder how the perception of value would be. It certainly wouldn't be... 4 hours vs 6 hours. It would be: Good game, okay game, bad game.
Finished it. I liked it a lot, really neat mood and atmosphere. I have to admit that the game is probably a little too short to warrant the price, but I still enjoyed the ride a lot. At first I didn't really like the ending, but I think that's just because I wanted to keep playing :lol
The ending is pretty good now that I look back, just seemed abrupt.
The ending is pretty good now that I look back, just seemed abrupt.
Oh, I see.sgnhh said:
I found another one
under an elevator and it did unlock an achievement.
http://www.playfeist.net/Big B said:
More focused on jumps, seems more platform and less puzzle... so not really.
It's just that there are a lot of games with a similar style.
Some call it "emo", but that's not really the word i'm searching for.
The problem is these indie games rely on hype.
Maybe this "feist" is as good as Limbo, but if it doesn't get enough good reviews or hype... :\
Fox Mulder
Member
FlawlessCowboy said:
I just like how MS pushes games to $15, but doesn't give you the option to buy that amount of MS points. I don't want to spend $20 just to buy a $15 game.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
You can buy points in 400pt increments on the Zune website.bkfount said:
sublime085
Member
and through the dashboard itself. At least I could the other night.SapientWolf said:
cornontheCoD
Neo Member
Now this is how you make something creepy. Filmmakers need to take note, so that they can finally make a real horror movie.
Fox Mulder
Member
Papercuts said:
don't you end up spending more than $15 that way though?
Shake Appeal
Member
All these people getting ripped off for a 3 hour game with no replayability that isn't even in full colour. Dis-gusting.EagleEyes said:
TheChewyWaffles
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47% of the way though according the to the leaderboard. Played about 2 hours I'd guess - so probably right around a 4 hour game unless you can finish the game with less than 100% completion like Arkham Asylum. Expensive, but a GREAT experience. I'd put it on par with Flower, although the feelings you get from both are completely different.
One of my favorite parts so far
. My wife was watching at the time and had her hand over her mouth out of sheer...disgust? Amazement?
One of my favorite parts so far
was when the spider comes back with just one leg and you have to sever the last leg by pulling on it and rolling his body into the water to cross it
I do like the game, but it's got a few problems. Controls can be rather clunky. It's particularly difficult to tell when the game will allow you to jump a certain distance or not - it's got some momentum based movement based on the type of jump, but it's not always reliable. It's really weird and awkward. Could have used more playtesting.
And yeah, for 1200, it IS too short. I played for fifteen minutes and was 30% through the game. With little-to-no replay value (once you know the puzzles, you can speed run your way through the game in probably 30 minutes or even less), it's difficult to justify the price for me.
The gameplay is not good enough to make up for the short value. Some of the puzzles can be pretty clever and of course the art direction is rad.
I'd give the game like a 7.0 or something like that. Just overall it needed some polishing, some meat on its bones and some basic gameplay improvements.
And yeah, for 1200, it IS too short. I played for fifteen minutes and was 30% through the game. With little-to-no replay value (once you know the puzzles, you can speed run your way through the game in probably 30 minutes or even less), it's difficult to justify the price for me.
The gameplay is not good enough to make up for the short value. Some of the puzzles can be pretty clever and of course the art direction is rad.
I'd give the game like a 7.0 or something like that. Just overall it needed some polishing, some meat on its bones and some basic gameplay improvements.