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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: mkkmypet on September 13, 2009, 03:23:10 am
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Scribblenauts, the game where you can spawn pretty much ANYTHING, has leaked! i've been playing it nonstop since yesterday. officially, it comes out September 15 in North America, and i will be sure to buy it also when it comes out. anyways, it's really awesome.
basically, the point of the game is to collect these little stars by spawning objects to help you. you write the name of any noun you can think of, and it appears. there are ~22,800 different objects that can be spawned. you can also combine objects, like gluing a baby to a steak so a lion will eat it (this fact has gotten the game a rating of E10+). check out the wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribblenauts) for more information.
this game is for the Nintendo DS, and i would highly recommend that you get it. it's the ultimate sandbox game! :D
so, use this topic to discuss your Scribblenauts escapades~
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sounds kind of interesting! might be a ds game worth buying?
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I got bored with after ~10 minutes, idk why. I typed in fishing net for the butterfly one and threw it over the butterfly and caught it, but the butterfly got trapped underground and I couldn't grab it.
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Yeah, it's really basic and bland platformer
The one caracteristic it has is the summoning of shit by typing, of which there is alot, but it doesn't save this game at all.
It's funny, but only a small novelty that lasts a few minutes.
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i dunno man, i'm having fun with it. i guess the amount of enjoyment you get from this game has to do with how creative you are. i don't think i've reused a single object. it's fun to try and thing of new things to solve the puzzles.
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Im having fun. I'm annoyed that in the farm animal one 'chick, cock, and ass' is invalid. For some reason it didn't register cocks as a farm animal (or roosters either for that matter) so I had to put hen instead.
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It's pretty awesoem how you can spawn cthulu.
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this is the single game i have been looking forward to the most this year. i think i'd be pretty happy if it was the only one i got.
but like mkk said you kind of have to make your own fun with it, which i'm totally ok with, but i can see how some people would get bored with it.
also this:
like gluing a baby to a steak so a lion will eat it
sounds awesome
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Im having fun. I'm annoyed that in the farm animal one 'chick, cock, and ass' is invalid. For some reason it didn't register cocks as a farm animal (or roosters either for that matter) so I had to put hen instead.
Not sure why chick or rooster wouldn't work but cock and ass is invalid for a reason even though they do reference actual animals. Trademarks, proper names and terms that can be seen as vulgar/offensive were not included.
Anyway, getting the game when it launches. The second of four big DS games I'm getting this year.
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Im having fun. I'm annoyed that in the farm animal one 'chick, cock, and ass' is invalid. For some reason it didn't register cocks as a farm animal (or roosters either for that matter) so I had to put hen instead.
Did you try cockerell
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Not sure why chick or rooster wouldn't work but cock and ass is invalid for a reason even though they do reference actual animals. Trademarks, proper names and terms that can be seen as vulgar/offensive were not included.
Anyway, getting the game when it launches. The second of four big DS games I'm getting this year.
They where valid words though. They did spawn the animals. It's just that some of the animals it did spawn weren't counted as farm animals.
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Wow, then that's just poor programming. I think they did that as a joke because people would type those things then get the literal animal, but it doesn't matter if your joke isn't also functional.
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This is a fun game got it on my acekard.
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Whenever I get hyped over a game for giving out the slightest degree of creative control, I can't help but become disappointed with whenever the final product turns out to be.
I'm hoping that won't stop me from enjoying the game for whatever it turns out to be. (That news Chainer posted up is truly disheartening. Vellfire makes a good point about the programming given that I would imagine one of the first things such a robust system needs to take into concideration is the proper interpretation of homonyms. Have you tried typing in pussy yet?)
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cock isn't invalid. I used Pig, cow and cock for the farm one and it worked.
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I'm not buying a DS just to play this shit.. Any decent ds emus out there these days?
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yea no$gba 2.6a with no$zoomer
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so is this game fun for anything other than seeing what all things it has programmed into it that you can use
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wooohoo overblown novelty
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cock isn't invalid. I used Pig, cow and cock for the farm one and it worked.
For me all I got where bubbles with question marks over their heads while chick had a green check mark.
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so is this game fun for anything other than seeing what all things it has programmed into it that you can use
honestly, the most fun i've had with is just FUCKING AROUND seeing what's in the game. it's pretty surprising at times! it's kinda fun to try and make little physics combinations, but you can only spawn such a small amount of objects at a time that it almost ruins it.
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Someone link me a rom, I PM'd mkk but she probably didn't notice the PM yet cause of the 400 she got from fatty
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http://rs528.rapidshare.com/files/278424056/scribblenauts.nds
That's the link that was giving to me.
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Reported to FBI
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yOU're under arrest please surrender quietly all of your pirated materials
h mmmm all the seasons of jeeves and wooster we will have to take this down to the lab for special analysis
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When I first heard about this I was like "OMFG THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME!" then I watched some videos and thought about it and realised how lame it actually is and went "Meh...".
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Nimbus, glue and aisle seem to be a winning combonation to me... dose any one know if there is a longer platform then aisle.
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Never used Aisle before. How the hell is it longer than overpass.
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air vents and fire vents are something I found recently since I played lv 10.. more so on fire vents I didn't think they would have such a thing as for the air vents I never thought about use them till now since ther wind power seems stronger then a fan.
Just found out Aisle don't get effected by wind... bur overpass does.
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While I'm here does anyone know how to orient objects? The tractor beam machine is enormous and is a pain in the ass to control.
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I think you press L or R while grabbing the object.
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I found another interesting thing in the game and it's more of a glitch if you hit a spring just right you can bypass steel doors.
Edit:
First time I did this ironically I killed my self. BTW it's really easy to replicate. I'll edit more when I find more tips spit out. Added note: thinner the object easier to bypass. The biggest thing I got through was a cracked large rock column and it was hard to pull off... most of the time I get killed mid way in.
Also does anyone know an NPC that will pull leavers for me.
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I think you press L or R while grabbing the object.
Anyone know another way? My L and R buttons haven't worked in a long while.
It's really annoying how most games set up their controls assuming that the L and R buttons work on everyone's DS.
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Hahah
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DDay, you can summon an engineer to pull levers for you.
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Thanks i've been doing with out for about most of the game... kind of a pain doing ever thing manually. I do adv. challenge mode for most of the LV I play and he would helped speed things up.
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usually it's not a problem if you have a pterodactyl. seriously, most useful thing in the entire game.
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i like to avoid using items i've already used if i can
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Just in case you guy would like to know how to do the spring bypassyou put the top end against the door push into it, thats the easy way the other way geting bounced in to the objected which allows you to go thru bigger objects but is much hard to do. ..
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i was not satisfied with the first action stage. i was going to use either a) a lot of balloons or b) tying a string to a bird to get up that ledge and neither worked >
oh well at least i could give that chef some lutefisk
going to try to glue a pulley to a chicken brb
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game did not allow gluing a pulley to a chicken officially worst game ever 0/5 stars i quit playing
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i was not satisfied with the first action stage. i was going to use either a) a lot of balloons or b) tying a string to a bird to get up that ledge and neither worked >
oh well at least i could give that chef some lutefisk
going to try to glue a pulley to a chicken brb
later in the game there is a knight that you have to get to the princess... I was mad when I chained him to my UFO and it would not lift him.
In reality that UFO should lift that mother fucker up.
I beat that level ... but not with my UFO cry.
BTW does anyone know the answer to 10-11 it seems to be looking for one type of thing in puzzle mode and OMG the last action mode level looks so hard. 24 is the par.
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Yeah, I found out early on you can't be too creative. My brilliant scheme was ruined due to the fact that in scribblenauts ropes are heavy enough to topple a washing machine all on their own.
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I really wonder how well flying things work in general because I tried to make a blimp, and I did, but it just...fell to the ground. I tried gluing a propeller to it and it didn't do anything. Tried adding wind, did nothing. Tried adding fire, did nothing (didn't even set it on fire). I knew when this game was announced that it was going to end up being disappointing like this. Yeah some things do work and it's fun to play with for a few minutes but I would never spend money on this game. The novelty of YOU CAN DO ANYTHING wears off when you realize that you really can't, and you don't want to spend your time trying to figure out what the game is going to let you do.
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Never mind the last action mode stage was easy as pie...I was going to use my bypass on this level but there seemed to be no need for that. still need help 10-11 puzzle mode
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i need help 1-1 what do i do
theres that action tornado one in the first section and i have no idea how to do it eventually i made a spaceship and drove into it and glitched my way through but seriously how are you supposed to do that? it blew god and a wall straight out
p.s draw god. he don't do shit but he will fuck you up.
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I got by with spring shoes and with little bit of luck another way is the grapeling hook that also mean the fishing rod will do it too...with those two items you must aim at the steel when your riding the top of the nado and hopeful hook some steel.... I wounder if my spring glitch works on that...BRB
It was impossible to glitch it with a spring.
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p.s draw god. he don't do shit but he will fuck you up.
saw a vid on youtube with god, it was skateboarding god vs. cthulu. they both died at the same time. god had a skateboard AND A PISTOL and they died at the same time. this means that unarmed god could not beat cthulu.
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i beat the tornado with a destructive wormhole
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is there a way to survive nukes and floods?
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is there a way to survive nukes and floods?
On the stage where I had to clean up, I was able to use a flood and survive long enough to win.
I just used a balloon and floated over the spot where the winning star spawned. I won and died all at once, but I'm sure that wasn't what you were asking.
Have you tried calling a flood while inside a submarine?
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Ketchup counts on the "refresh him" stage.
I was trying to make a cup full of ice and ketchup but the guy grabbed the ketchup from me and I got a star.
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No i havent. I tried using flood on the clean up one also, except I tried to fly over it with a helicopter.
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Under no circumstances do you activate the large hadron collider.
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i tried to get a scientist to do it but he just stared at it.
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I tried to make a beekeeper to take care of the bee in the flower level. The bee killed him. Fuck that.
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Yeah.. none of the practical solutions really worked out for me on that one, so instead I did this.
I used the grappling hook to drag the bee into the water (while avoiding the fish). It died. I then fired the grappling hook at the fish and ran to the left... causing a clipping bug that made the fish disappear once I dropped the grappling hook. To reach the final flower I proceeded to drop said grappling hook (as in the entire gun) on top of it until it pushed it over the ledge.
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Not even Bomb Shelters protect against Nukes and Floods.
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i got to the level with the baraccudas before i quit in rage
tried tying a rope to my guy and the platform, then jumping away, but it was too heavy and pulled me down into the hole
tried putting a floating platform under the star then knocking it down, but the star + debris was too heavy and sunk the platform
tried making a shark eat the baraccuda, but that still didnt help me get the actual star itself
then i hit escape to bring up the menu but thats actually the quit button in no$gba, so.
hooray! 230,000 ways to beat a level! ps: only 4 of them work.
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Yeah.. none of the practical solutions really worked out for me on that one, so instead I did this.
I used the grappling hook to drag the bee into the water (while avoiding the fish). It died. I then fired the grappling hook at the fish and ran to the left... causing a clipping bug that made the fish disappear once I dropped the grappling hook. To reach the final flower I proceeded to drop said grappling hook (as in the entire gun) on top of it until it pushed it over the ledge.
I let cthulu kill the bee while I wore an invisibility cloak to get past him. I poured poison into the water to kill the fish (after throwing tons of oil and sewage into the water which did nothing even if I put it directly on top of the fish).
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Everyone make a tsunami and see how bad the animation is.
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ahahahahaha holy shit they didn't even TRY
edit: i put in axolotl and it gave me a fuckin' frog. if they took the time to find that word and know that it was some kind of amphibian, why did they just go WELP LET'S PUT A FROG IN. how half-assed.
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That's pretty funny considering they have newt/salamander and all they would have had to do was reskin it.
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jester, drop an electrical thing into the water and the fish die. then attach balloons to the starite. takes you over par, but meh.
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I have a feeling the sequel is going to be pretty much the same game exactly, and yet be much much better than this game ever could be.
I like how much you guys made out of the flower gathering level, I just grabbed a hot air balloon and was able to side-step every obstacle without too much effort.
Oh yeah, even though Chtulu can kill God on multiple occasions, see what happens when you try Cthulu vs witch.
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there's gonna be a sequel?
fuck me
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I'm going to go against the crowd and say that this game isn't bad. It's not INCREDIBLE, but it's pretty much what I was expecting it to be from the previews. There's no way a game of this kind, being the first one out, is going to be perfect. It's far from that. But considering it's something that's never really been done before, it's pretty good.
And it's not very likely that there will be a sequel, since the company that made it is moving away from the DS.
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a sequel on a different platform. or better yet, a movie.
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i heard you can make a libertarian, someone confirm???
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i like this game. anyone else been abusing the living shit out of the fishing rod? i swear you can use it on nearly every level at some point (my favourite was dragging a baby back to it's parents with a massive fucking hook sticking in its face, having being dragged miles and dropped a good few times).
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This game is more fun reading about than I suspect playing.
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I think this will be like that game "Drawn to Life" that seemed interesting on the fact that you draw your character/items/stage props but was actually boring having to draw everything. If I wanted a game where you make a game I would just download C++,hopefully the puzzles in Scribblenauts will be challenging as they say.. most likely not.
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I have a feeling the sequel is going to be pretty much the same game exactly, and yet be much much better than this game ever could be.
I like how much you guys made out of the flower gathering level, I just grabbed a hot air balloon and was able to side-step every obstacle without too much effort.
Oh yeah, even though Chtulu can kill God on multiple occasions, see what happens when you try Cthulu vs witch.
I just used wings and flew around to get the flowers. The bee was a nuisance but I didn't have to anything crazy to beat that one.
@ Medieve
But that's the thing, it is pretty cool reading what people have done but you have just about as much fun actually making this stuff happen before posting about it on message boards. :P The "holy grail" of Scribblenauts impressions (the Post #217 event from NeoGAF) was a big kicking off point for the game's reception but I doubt it was a boring trek doing so in game. Though I'm trying hard not to use solutions I've read about on the net or have been popularized by excited players, one of the first things I did when I got the game was summon a Time Machine which took me to the medieval times where I promptly got my butt kicked in a duel with a knight to the point where I lost my sword. So I summoned a machine gun and blew him away, then took a nearby horse and shot all the other knights on the level.
And that wasn't even in the actual game, that was the title screen sequence. :D
@ otomon
That's a horrible argument, about as bad as those guys that don't play Madden because "if I wanted to play football I'd just go outside and do it." Yeah, it's possible, but pretty damn inconvenient especially when you aren't essentially making a game to begin with. I do agree with the sentiment on Drawn to Life, cool concept but the actual game aside from that novelty was pretty shallow, so here's to hoping the console iteration does a better job in that department.
I got the game at a Target after class tonight. The game was tougher to track down than I thought. Called Toys R Us earlier in the day (I'm talking half an hour after they opened) and they were all sold out that morning. My other stops either hadn't put the game out yet or didn't get their shipment yet. So after class I go to Wal Mart (nothing), Best Buy (nada) Target had two copies left. I really wanted it at TRU for the gift card, but oh well.
Game is awesome though, I spent my first half hour screwing around on the title screen alone. I think my favorite interaction was putting a Mammoth which tried to attack me so I put a Poacher. The poacher killed the mammoth which turn into meat. I summoned a grill, put the steaks on them and COOKED steaks appeared which surprised me. So I summoned a friend (I literally typed FRIEND) and some guy appeared. He ate the steaks and then promptly fell asleep. (a nod to the supposed "itis" effect I guess?) So this ungrateful friend who ate all of my food and then slept afterward woke up to an assassin I summoned that promptly killed him and came after me. So I summoned a Ninja... well, guess what, apparently Assassins > Ninjas and my ninja died. So I summoned a raptor who killed my assassin and then tried to kill me, so blew it away with a bazooka.
Seriously, all this just came to me as I went along, I didn't expect to end up blowing away a raptor with a bazooka when I got the idea of summoning a mammoth.
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I didn't even play long enough to beat the tutorial. But, then I decided to just play on the title screen for a bit.
It was fun, but I doubt I'll ever play again. For the most part you've got to entertain yourself by trying to make stuff happen. All of these stories sound crazy awesome, but really they always come down to "I built this and this and this, and then I summoned a blah blah blah to kill blah."
Maybe if you could glue cats to tigers I would reconsider not playing again.
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Death > all
Fairygodmother turns Death's scythe into a rose so he's more beatable.
Angel + Excalibur + Pegasus
Angel+Song+God
Glue+Cthulu+Sword/CupidBow+You = Cthulu Rider
Equip Brains, summon zombie
Lightning+Corpse.
Yeahhh...
Lucifer is a fish? wtf?
The game was fun but I got tired of it after a few minutes, I dunno why. Cheers though for making an addicting game that friends actually bothered me in msn just to try it out.
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So yeah, I was screwing around I put a nuke in the level, didn't detonate it though. By suggestion my bro said "wonder what happens if you summon terrorist."
And it worked.
The "terrorist" proceeded to fiddle with the nuke and set it off.
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So yeah, I was screwing around I put a nuke in the level, didn't detonate it though. By suggestion my bro said "wonder what happens if you summon terrorist."
And it worked.
The "terrorist" proceeded to fiddle with the nuke and set it off.
Yeah, I love playing with the terrorist.
Try summoning a clone. The result was pretty funny.
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you can get ouroboros. he lloks cool but i killed him with a couple excalibur hits.
fenrir just makes a werewolf :/
gluing honey to a baby doesnt make bees kill it either :/
this game is shit.
imma try to give a frying pan a doctorate and see if i get doug beach
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i heard you can make a libertarian, someone confirm???
yes you can
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ignore grep hes the local scribblenauts troll
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but i just want to be friends :(
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Yeah, I love playing with the terrorist.
Try summoning a clone. The result was pretty funny.
I think the coolest thing I did was summoning a terrorist and surround him with a cop, swat member, soldier, sniper and put him next to a nuke just to see if he could get it off before they gunned him down. He actually managed to do it once. :P
Anyway, i think the hardest thing about this game is thinking of creative ways to do stuff. I took it into work today and let some fellow associates screw around with it, but they all kept summoning mundane and boring crap like "bird", "gun", "tank" and stuff like that. So I pulled it from them and started summoning stuff like a hydra, cerberus and a volcano and they were like "whoa." Then they go back to summoning stupid crap again. I let one guy play the level to get the star out of a tree and he friggin does the obvious, summons an axe and cuts it down. I tell him to try again but do something different, he summons a chainsaw and cuts it down. :|
Not that it's bad doing the mundane stuff, but heck, he just saw me summon a freaking hydra.
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ignore grep hes the local scribblenauts troll
hey no i'm curious. wanna see that lib and know what he does. i found that lib, democrat and repub were all summon-able. they appeared in some list that a a guy compiled.
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its just a guy in a suit.
will you be my friend?
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grep shortened libertarian and republican but not democrat. I guess were know which way his political leanings swing...
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It's only a matter of time before we know who you are for sure grep. I've called professor layton he's en route. He's gonna crack you like a 10 picarat puzzle bitch
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It's only a matter of time before we know who you are for sure grep. I've called professor layton he's en route. He's gonna crack you like a 10 picarat puzzle bitch
He'll probably leave it to his apprentice.
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friends with no man, i support no party
will you crack the grep code???
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i'm going to go and summon grep now, we'll see who you really are....
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grep is lord lucan