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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Dubbilex on September 02, 2004, 05:11:39 AM

Title: Gish
Post by: Dubbilex on September 02, 2004, 05:11:39 AM

Yesterday, I'll admit: I was on newgrounds.  NO NO DON'T YELL AT ME!  I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THE MISTER HAPPY FACE VIDEO AGAIN D: D: D:  Anywho, I saw an advertisement for some strange game that was apparently reviewed in PCGamer.  So, I clicked. (http://www.chroniclogic.com/index.htm?gish.htm)

And lemme tell you - this is a game that has to be seen to be believed.  It's a 2-d platformer with so many irresistibly swank features that you just HAVE to try it out.

So what's the hold-up?  <3

Title: Gish
Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on September 02, 2004, 08:52:58 AM

ah, it's made by the same people who made Pontifex, which is a brigdebuilder game, where your brigde have to sustain the pressure of a train or similar, quite fun really - untill the point you get stuck :p. but i'll try to check it out.

Title: Gish
Post by: rad4Christ on September 02, 2004, 09:08:21 AM

Saw Gish, thought SMashing Pumpkins....











My hopes are crushed, I'll skulk away now...

Title: Gish
Post by: GrayDuck on September 02, 2004, 09:17:54 AM

:D

Title: Gish
Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on September 02, 2004, 10:06:00 AM

now grayduck, that would count as spam :p

however, now to say something about the game, since people might be wondering what it is before they download.

In the game you control a black blob, this might seem somewhat boring, but no! This blob is able to stick to walls, jumps, slide(this is used to go through narrow, downward passages, and to move a bit faster) and Heavy(makes you heavy...). You use these abilities to navigate a sewer kind area, at first you're just introduced the simply basics, then you get a level with a wagon and some swinging and fancy stuff. and in the third level(the level i got to just now), you get opponents. that's really all i have to say atm, but it's a pretty simple game, but it has some quite nice features really.

Title: Gish
Post by: Geminosity on September 02, 2004, 10:55:44 AM

Just downloading to give it a go now ^^

Um... is it just me or does anyone else find gish almost totally out of place compared to the other stuff the company has produced?  All the other titles are kinda... uh... 'not creative looking' =3

Title: Gish
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 02, 2004, 03:56:18 PM

Bridge builder was an awesome game. Pontifex was also an awesome game. Gish, I could take or leave. It was cute for a while, but the controls were odd and all the button mashing required to get over the next area was a bit trying. But I notice they have some new bridge building games out that I haven't tried yet... Time to go plunge more hapless trains into watery graves.  :D

Edit: EW! The new bridge building game requires an NVidia card. GG false 'requirements'. So much for playing that.

Title: Gish
Post by: SwiftSpear on September 03, 2004, 06:38:06 PM

I propped this game months ago on the NS forums and got totally shot down  :(

I always liked the concept of a 2D platformer with semi realistic physics.  Gish was fun, but the little black ball was a little harder to control than I would have hoped...

Title: Gish
Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on September 03, 2004, 11:48:00 PM

it's not really hard :p, not for me at least, what's the thing you can't figure out?

Title: Gish
Post by: SwiftSpear on September 04, 2004, 01:01:17 PM

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I'm not saying it was really difficult or there was something that I just couldn't pull off, I was just hopeing the controls would be a little more intuitive.  As it stands it generally takes a good few seconds to really get anywhere new in a level, moving up different surfaces takes alot more button mashing and control tweaking than I would have hoped.  I just wish the little ball felt more lightweight and manuverable than he does...