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Mongoloid

#1 October 27, 2009, 06:52:09 am

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I think this has been brought up before, it was showcased in GameInformer and on a bunch of sites, but I guess it has a free demo that I am playing through as I type this, and this game is great!

Machinarium
http://machinarium.net/demo/

It's a standard adventure puzzle game but the atmosphere is beautiful.
You should at least try it, maybe buy it if you like?
I'm really hoping for a livearcade port, if there isn't one planned.

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Carrion Crow

#2 October 27, 2009, 11:50:00 am

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We don't take kindly to posting about good games around here.

...I played this and I thought it was awesome too. They should've flogged it for cheaper though. I think $20 is just out of the range for people to be arsed buying an indie game unless it is pantshittingly awesome.

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Shadow Kirby

#3 October 27, 2009, 01:29:55 pm

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http://www.gamingw.net/article/machinarium/

Is anybody reading the main site!

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Vellfire

#4 October 27, 2009, 01:31:59 pm

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That's why the site needs to be integrated with the forums like it was before. Most people are only reading the forums, but if the site posts showed up as forum topics you would get PLENTY of responses.

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Bumblebee man

#5 October 30, 2009, 10:43:06 am

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I saw this on the mainsite! I've just bought it. I'll let you know what I think!

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big ass skelly

#6 October 30, 2009, 12:23:48 pm

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I played through this yesterday it's really good, th art and music are fucken awesome. I'm not sure I like that you can't click things that are out of reach of your character, I guess it's to stop the ridiculous PIXEL HUNTING SCAN THE WHOLE SCREEN WITH YOUR MOUSE shit you do with adventure games but it seems kinda clunky to have to walk all the way over to something to see if you can interact with it. The fact there is literally zero dialogue is cool too cause adventure games tend to be pretty wordy and most of them aren't written well enough to want to read all that shit

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Bumblebee man

#7 October 30, 2009, 12:38:19 pm

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I'm playing it now and I'm really really enjoying it. Fully recommended. I agree with the point about having to walk all the over to stuff before you can interact with it but apart from that it's fine. I'm quite stuck at the moment, and it's bad because I don't even have any items so I can't even try everything on everything. BUT NEVERMIND. I'm sure i'll get there!

Edit: 3 hours later I am still playing this game. I'm stuck but at a different place. This game isn't short of challenges!

Last Edit: October 30, 2009, 04:33:53 pm by Devil From A Hell

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jamie

#8 October 30, 2009, 06:55:24 pm

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I played it for 20 minutes. Real cool.

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Bumblebee man

#9 October 30, 2009, 07:07:06 pm

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I'm doing the square puzzles in the arcade They're REALLY HARD

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Carrion Crow

#10 October 30, 2009, 07:10:29 pm

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I love the subtle humor and the format of the memories through those little imagination bubbles. I like the pacing though I do get annoyed when he gets stuck walking when he is extended. The style of the robots is something that I have liked for ages. They would probably make pretty cool tattoos.

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Bumblebee man

#11 October 31, 2009, 12:13:19 pm

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Just finished it. Love every second of it, despite some of the puzzles being really hard!

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cowardknower

#12 October 31, 2009, 04:15:35 pm

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looks exactly like 9.

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Carrion Crow

#13 October 31, 2009, 07:04:30 pm

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is that movie any good by the way?

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Merte

#14 November 23, 2009, 06:21:24 pm

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I'm not so sure. I can't say I really liked Machinarium that much. It started out well, but then it turned out to rely heavily on try and failure switch puzzles. I miss proper adventure puzzles.

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Jester

#15 November 23, 2009, 06:34:11 pm

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I wanna play this but I don't wanna spend $20 right now :x.

I bought Eversion HD for $5 yesterday, if this was $5 or $10 I'd get it, but $20 is more than I'm willing to spend on one game at the moment.

I will def play it later tho, looks really nice.

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