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Super Meat Boy
Let's get this conversation out of the Steam Deals thread.
Posted By: AprecheAlso, Gundabad must be some kind of platforming god because I can hardly get any bandages.I have about 18, but I haven't really been going back for them. I've found that a few of them are much easier with the unlockable characters (especially Commander Video and the Head Crab.
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Also, I realize one genius thing about this game. The #1 thing that pisses people off when playing action games is when the programming of the game does not match the visuals. For example, in Street Fighter it often appears that you hit that guy, when in fact you did not. That is because the hitbox doesn't exactly match the character models. I've been playing Mario Galaxy 2 and this frustration has returned. It seems like the Boos, while spherical, are actually cubes. I was robbed at least twice when trying to inch past an enemy and a hit registered because the collision detection was imprecise. It's really a problem in gaming in general that pixel perfect collision detection is so computationally intensive, that we have to resort to approximations. They work well for the most part, but aren't perfect.
SMB solves that problem in a most obivous and genius way. Make the game incredibly high resolution, and make the player character a square. The simplest collission detection in the world is comparing rectangles. Well, make the game rectangles and what the player sees and what happens will match perfectly. You'll never complain that you didn't touch that chainsaw, because yes you did. That's a big part of what makes the game fair, while also being balls hard.
I know there is downloadable content on STEAM, but I like my couch and my pretty tv, so I'm fine without the extras.
As for the game, great googily-moogily is it fun. I've already died 109 times. Jeremy has heard me yell and scream from dying so many times and is amused by my deaths.
Some of those dark levels and bandages can get the finger. How the fuck can people do them?
I think it's cool you get to save your replays. I look forward to playing more.
I've died... 2677 times.
I'm at 71 bandages and can only remember 2 or 3 that are really designed for the unlockable characters. There was at least one where it would be impossible without Tim from Braid, and another where you neede the double-jump character.
Returning from a 6-day vacation late tonight and very much looking forward to more SMB before work starts up again on Monday.
I'm just about done with the Salt Mines, though I started skipping bandages toward the end of the Hospital. I shall go back for them later.
In 1-1, yes the very first and easiest level in the game, look at the top right of the screen. Hiding behind a tree it looks like a bandage. However, after a few seconds it goes away. It's timed just so that if you run for it as fast as you can, it will disappear right as you get there. Can you get it with an unlockable character maybe?