got this today
Hi All, Just a short notice to let you know that we have finally gotten the official release date. We are launching LIMBO in two weeks on July 21st as the grand opener of the Summer of Arcade promotion. Regards,Dino PattiCEO & Co-founder of Playdeadwww.limbogame.org@dinopatti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1vexQzA9Vk
― meisenfek, Thursday, 8 July 2010 04:39 (fourteen years ago) link
looks pretty cool!
there's a lot of stuff coming out on arcade i'm curious about...
― ultimate worrier (goole), Friday, 16 July 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
this is really good!!
― goole, Thursday, 22 July 2010 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
so dope
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 22 July 2010 01:25 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
(jordan what's your handle?)
― goole, Thursday, 22 July 2010 02:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm I'm stuck.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Thursday, 22 July 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i'm gonna go buy this now.
― i'm gonna need a +1 so me & a friend can kick you in the balls (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 July 2010 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
any precious braid style writing in this?
― giant enemy crasbo (cozen), Thursday, 22 July 2010 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"bassdrumslim"
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 22 July 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
no writing so far, i only played for ~20 min though (currently running away from the giant spider).
really like it so far, and i love its positive attitude toward dying. kinda wonder if it would be enjoyable without the awesome visuals/mood though.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 22 July 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
no writing at all! big plus imo
i'm stuck too :( and checking the leaderboards i'm already at like 73% :( :( so it's kinda short
(cool jordan thx)
― goole, Thursday, 22 July 2010 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
If you liked the idea of braid but couldn't handle the preciousness, this is your gamei'm kind of waiting to play this until it gets dark; it's not an appropriate before noon game.
― i'm gonna need a +1 so me & a friend can kick you in the balls (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm kind of disappointed in myself for using a walkthrough twice already but sometimes I get lazy.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
it's been out one day!!
― goole, Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
walkthru, jesus!
I didn't want to stop playing. :(
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
hey man i don't judge. i was just marveling that there WAS a walkthru already.
― goole, Thursday, 22 July 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
how much does this cost?
― jeff, Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's like 20$ and it's fairly short. I'd suggest downloading the trial to see if you dig it, but it is really quite nice.
― no turkey unless it's a club sandwich (polyphonic), Thursday, 22 July 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
15 i think, whatever 1200 microsoft points is?That goddamn fly puzzle! and the moment when you see your sister, there she is, in the light, so close AND THE GODDAMN BRAIN WORM TURNS
― i'm gonna need a +1 so me & a friend can kick you in the balls (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2010 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Totally worth fifteen bucks.
well put: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/limbo-review
― i'm gonna need a +1 so me & a friend can kick you in the balls (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2010 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
game reminds me a lot of out of this world.
― mayor jingleberries, Friday, 23 July 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
or the original alone in the dark
― i'm gonna need a +1 so me & a friend can kick you in the balls (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
just beat it; what a really satisfying ending!great replay value still; lots of achievements to unlock that seem genuinely worth trying.I won't ruin it, but the avatar bonus you get for beating the game is A+++
― i'm gonna need a +1 so me & a friend can kick you in the balls (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Just got this today, and man it's awesome!!! I just got to the part with the lit up HOTEL sign, and the little sound cue that plays as you approach it is so perfect
― "goof proof cooking, I love it!" (Z S), Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
started playing this with my gf, which has made some of the puzzles go much faster. this is the only video game she's been into watching/helping with besides braid.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 26 July 2010 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I finished the game yesterday. Then I watched my brother play through the first half or so.
[SPOILERS I guess]
The part where there's a small pool of water and someone starts swimming across it - I didn't realise til I watched someone else play it that the swimmer eventually drowns by himself! When I played it I saw what I was going to have to do right away and jumped straight on to him before he got that far. Hence I thought that the solution involved actually drowning the guy, which was even more grim than the reality.
Also watching the game through it really struck me harder how the tone takes a fairly sharp shift from the incredibly atmospheric first act (any human influence is primitive, nature is out to get you and you can explicitly see that everything constructed has been set up as a trap) to the rest of the game (where everything is mechanical and constructed by forces unknown, and complicated gameplay takes centre stage ahead of atmosphere). There are some links between the two like the brainworms, but I think it's tribute to the strength of the consistent aesthetic as well as the individual parts that the change isn't even more jarring.
― if, Monday, 26 July 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
― mayor jingleberries, Friday, 23 July 2010 16:18 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
(aka another world) yes, totally.
― i'm gonna need a +1 so me & a friend can kick you in the balls (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2010 16:45 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
wasn't that in 3d?
― ledge, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 08:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Flashback, too.
― "goof proof cooking, I love it!" (Z S), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
finally got around to finishing this last night. love it, wish it was longer.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i think alone in the dark was in polygonal 3d but it had a similar feel.This is easy top ten of the year for me in any case.
― 8o---e*.\\\||///.*ə---o8 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
out of this world and flashback were awesome but unbelievably frustrating. i don't think i ever got very far in either one.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno - i mean it was great 'n' all, wonderful atmosphere and superbly constructed puzzles, but far too short, i finished it in a matter of hours, so just in terms of bucks per gametime, wasn't great value.
― ledge, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
,,,,,, (few more commas in case there weren't enough there)
i don't wanna play the more playtime = more bux game; that was about as short as i could handle a 15 buck game being but i definitely feel like i got my money's worth
― 8o---e*.\\\||///.*ə---o8 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
out of this world and flashback were awesome but unbelievably frustrating. i don't think i ever got very far in either one.― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:17 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:17 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
still a point of pride for me that i finished both
man i kinda wanna try them again---anyone know of a way to play them on a modern mac?
― pies. (gbx), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
yep - download a SNES emulator (SNES9x is prob the best for mac, and can be downloaded here: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Games/SNESX.shtml), then download the roms here: http://www.coolrom.com/roms/snes/
― "goof proof cooking, I love it!" (Z S), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
beat this tonight (couple hours no walkthrough). the first 1/3rd of the game is the most atmospheric, beautiful, frightening puzzlers i've ever played. the city part is a little worse and the factory is very eh. but worth it just for that first hour or so. omg, the spider. one of the scariest video game villains ever?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i know right!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
also the other children are so evocative and i'm kinda sad that the story didn't develop them any further
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
did y'all get the little flea monster avatar bonus?
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, very cuet (not worth $15)
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
well when you add the GAME into it though...
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
how was the thing tnite?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 June 2011 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm such a flake. instead of going we all played limbo.
honestly, i'm not really into them; their stories tend toward the mediocre. Crazy jampacked tho'. Like 4500 people!i woulda put you up on some vip shizz tho' dude so come hang out sometime.
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 06:29 (thirteen years ago) link
So tomorrow at Best Buy, the XBLA triple pack disc w/Limbo, Splosion Man, and Trials HD is gonna be $10. Crazy deal, considering Limbo alone costs $15 from XBLA!
― Nhex, Sunday, 17 July 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man, i should've waited a few weeks
― Mordy, Sunday, 17 July 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Wouldn't sweat it - you usually can't install these compilations to the HD, and it'll probably be $5 on Steam by the end of the year anyway, since it's going there soon. I do wonder if the other two are worth the $10, tho..
― Nhex, Sunday, 17 July 2011 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Trials is like my favorite game ever
― polyphonic, Sunday, 17 July 2011 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
supposedly limbo is coming to psn in 2 days
― little mushroom person (abanana), Sunday, 17 July 2011 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Interesting read: http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-making-of-limbo/
― Nhex, Friday, 28 September 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
New Playdead joint
http://playdead.com/inside/
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
looking forward to a year from now when it will hopefully be on PS4
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
Looks amazing.
― I wanna whole Dior hand (ledge), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link
Yeah disappointed about this, I'd been really looking forward to it and it's only when I went to buy it from the psn store today that I realised it's an MS exclusive.
Course Limbo ended up being bundled and/or given away so often that I think I own it on every platform at this stage. So it probably makes sense to just wait until the same starts happening with this.
― JimD, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 23:36 (eight years ago) link
this is definitely coming to PS4, its just debuting on xbox first. incredible reviews so far.
― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 11:19 (eight years ago) link
cool
― am0n, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
FUCK, this game is amazing. I haven't finished it yet, probably an hour or so from finishing as I already put in a few hours yesterday. So far the puzzles aren't as complicated as Limbo, but a few of the puzzles took me multiple tries (or deaths) to figure out. The world is so beautifully realized, more so than Limbo. And Playdead really knows how to utilize ambient music at just the right moments to convey epic/creepy moments.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 23:53 (eight years ago) link
It's pretty bleak. Strong echoes of City 17, minus alyx, dog, or any companionship, plus getting to watch a small boy die in a hundred different gruesome ways.
― chad valley of the shadow of death (ledge), Thursday, 14 July 2016 09:06 (eight years ago) link
What the ever living fuck.
― chad valley of the shadow of death (ledge), Monday, 18 July 2016 09:30 (eight years ago) link
(spoiler free)
Xpost
Ha, are you referring to the ending? Not sure how I feel about that yet. It was moving, not sure what I thought about it yet?
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 31 July 2016 02:45 (eight years ago) link
I feel like being a petulant child and refusing to breathe until this comes out for mac.
― emil.y, Sunday, 31 July 2016 11:21 (eight years ago) link
It ain't worth it. I mean yeah it's kinda worth it for the looks, especially if you're into the grim and macabre. It's almost worth it just for the wtf ending. But it's so easy, almost to the point of being little more than a walking simulator. Don't think I was taxed by a single puzzle for more than two minutes. By contrast Another World, which this really reminded me of, and I decided to play through after discovering it was available for ipad, flummoxed me into cheating despite having completed it probably three times before.
― chad valley of the shadow of death (ledge), Monday, 1 August 2016 12:44 (eight years ago) link
Out on PS4 on 8/23. :)))
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
Started playing this last night and I'm so glad this is basically Limbo with some twists, will be sad when it's over (which will probably be tonight, because judging from the little checkpoint dots on the load screen it seems pretty short).
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 26 August 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link
feel a little guilty about it but thats kinda why i might wait for a sale
― Nhex, Friday, 26 August 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
basically Limbo with some twists
the twists are pretty great though
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
Cocoon (new game from some of the developers who made Limbo/Inside, as I understand it) a great little puzzler so far. My wife loves it, the true sign of success for one of these games. It's pretty brilliant how it introduces and iterates on each mechanic without any text or dialogue. It does seem like it will be pretty short though, we played for 2 hours last night and it says we're already at 44%.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 2 October 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
Amazing. Loved Inside. Limbo was great but a bit too hard for me. I hope they continue the tradition for unexpected game endings.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 5 October 2023 11:46 (one year ago) link
Some of the boss fights in this game have such great gimmicks that I don't want to beat them too fast, like the one where you have a mirror image that moves with you but in reverse, and you can teleport to its position. That could be a whole game in itself.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2023 15:14 (one year ago) link
You talking Cocoon?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 November 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
Yeah
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link
Cocoon is incredible on a loud sound system btw. Extremely immersive and amazing sub bass
― octobeard, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 06:29 (one year ago) link