I remember looking at Tiny Wings just as it came out (or slightly before, I can’t remember) and thinking “this is going to be huge” – and it was. Massive. The simple controls and gorgeous graphics matched brilliantly with a perfect core mechanic.
It was really addictive, too, and the fact that it was different each day ensured that if you had the time, there was always more to play.
Despite a few updates though, little was done to really push the game further than that initial release back last February. Until now, though, as a new teaser trailer reveals a July 12th release (next Thursday) for a fully fledged sequel.
Really, really nice teaser.
posem
that’s pretty hilarious! I love it :D
wonkey-willy
here is a really cool trailer
http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/1074/refridgeside1.jpg
Scotty34
Repeating everyone else that trailer is awesome xD
mugsybalone
What a load of shit. Sure, the trailer is clever enough, but for what? It’s a fancy way of saying “CHECK ME OUT! A SEQUEL TO THAT GAME WHERE YOU PRESS ONE BUTTON IS COMING OUT! AND YOU’RE GONNA…. PRESS ONE FREAKIN’ BUTTON! OMGWTFBBQ!”.
Ugh. Get over yourself, internets. Braid, Limbo, Journey, Tiny freakin’ Wings, there’s a disturbing sense in gaming at the minute in that being shallow is fine if you’re really pretty. I thought that was a trend we all got out of at high school. I watched that Indie Game: The Movie a couple of weeks ago, it left me wanting to impale my face on a fence post.
Really? You’ve made a 2D platformer, that tells me you views on the war in Vietnam, AIDs, the famine in Africa, you’re existential dilemma over whether eating KFC is the establishment’s denouncement of Darwin’s evolution “theory” (I put quotes there because, let’s face it, it’s not a theory, it just IS. Suck it, Christianity)? WELL CONGRATULATIONS. YOUR GAME MAKES ME SEXWEE.
Where did deep gaming go? Where’s my Populous? Where’s my Mega-lo-Mania? Where’s my Sim City? I have to suffer this constant tide of turgid bullshit being washed upon my shore – as discussed with a far better person than I – a dollop of pretentious wankery, I just want good games I can lose time to, not games I’m told are awesome because they happen to use a different graphical style. I mean, what is there to Limbo beyond being black and white? C’mon people, it’s freakin’ black and white! It’s not the 60’s! That’s not clever, it’s lazy! Braid is Mario meets Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Say it with me. Mario. Prince of Persia. Mario. Prince of Persia. M-A-R-I-O. P-R-I-N-C-E O-F F-R-E-A-K-I-N-G P-E-R-S-I-A.
I don’t know about the rest of you – and, if you haven’t already guessed by the direction of the post, your opinions don’t mean a big bag of poo to me, because this is my freakin’ soapbox – but I’m sick of it, and I’m sick of quality sites like TheSixthAxis dropping trouser and bending over to take it up the bumhole for the sake of artsy-fartsy shallow pap like TinyWings (oooh! you made it last to a sequel, well done you!) I just want a return of quality games that matter to the masses, and I don’t think this is it.
Lots of love,
Chris “MugsyBalone” Armstrong
/rant over.
colmshan1990
WHO THE HELL DOESN’T WANT MARIO MEETS PRINCE OF PERSIA?!!!
Seriously though, you shouldn’t keep it all bottled up like that, let it all out. :P
I agree that aesthetics and simplicity count for a little too much these days, but dismissing a game like Braid or Limbo just because it harks back to older games while looking pretty isn’t a bad thing.
Styles always move on to the next big thing, but what came before isn’t necessarily bad. Just different.
Unless you’d prefer everyone to try to sound like Nicki Minaj instead of taking inspiration from The Beatles?
mugsybalone
Cheers mate, I know I don’t often comment and this might’ve come from nowhere, aside from a Anheuser-Busch’s brewery, so it’s a bit of a “first” for me.
I’m not dismissing Braid or Limbo, based on familiarity. I’m dismissing it because it takes familiar concepts, passes it off as new, accepts the plaudits without acknowledging it’s a tried and tested formula and then does a kooky dance over the corpse of it’s for-bearers like it’s some kind of second coming of gaming. It’s not new. It’s not even clever. It’s just an old idea, with a different look and the gaming press tells us it’s genius. BUT IT ISN’T. (Caps for emphasis, LIKE A BOSS).
Personally, I haven’t listened to Nicki Minaj, as I am a grownup. From appearance I can only assume she takes Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” literally, so everything sounds like that. I am also ashamed to admit that Aqua’s “Aquarium” was the first album I bought. Yeah, fuck you, common sense. On-topic, though, I appreciate games sell to a market trend. However, to suggest I’d like every game to sound like the current trend would be wrong, I’d like them to sound like something that isn’t already saturating the market.
I just long for – perhaps wrongly – a time where games were forever genre defining because there were no genres, no pigeon-holes in which to place games, and an old idea on a new artistic style didn’t make reviewers cream in their pants.
It should also be noted that tonight I’ve:
a) accused my favourite football team’s goalkeeper of being a vampire because he’s afraid of crosses and
b) told a girl who has no interest in me how I feel about her, in no uncertain terms.
So I might not be in the best position to launch a logical arguement. So, er, FUCK YOU, THAT’S WHY.
colmshan1990
Haha.
Sounds like an eventful night! :P
Can’t remember the first album I bought, but the first single was Westlife’s Uptown Girl. So, yeah.
Basically if it’s a first CD, parents should just say NO, and leave it at that. :P
I’d love to see a time in gaming where games don’t fit into genres, but I don’t think I’ll see it. There’s still genres in music and film, some people just like pigeon-holing I guess.
I don’t think a game has to be wholly original to be genius. It just has to be extremely well crafted. I would call Braid genius (not Limbo though, I’m yet to click with that game) like I’d call Portal, Uncharted and COD4 genius.
The type of game I want to see most though is a game that excels in a genre that I typically don’t like, enough to draw me in.
Braid, Mirror’s Edge, Skyrim, LA Noire, Metal Gear Solid 2 (hey, I only beat it for the first time on Vita), Dungeons of Dredmor and Journey are the games to have done this to me in the last few years.
There’s been games that were better, or that I enjoyed more, but they didn’t make me try something different to what I usually like doing when I play games. And they broadened my gaming experiences because of it.
And sometimes that different feeling, that feeling of freshness means going back to the olden days of gaming and making it look pretty again.
PS: I think you’ve already won the comment of the week poll for next week with one of the two in this thread.
aerobes
Where was the rant here? Is there a spoiler button somewhere because all I found was a well balanced point of view from a not-at-all unhinged individual. ;)
I got unnaturally motivated there, gritted my tongue between my teeth and hit the like button so many times there that my clicker just produced smoke only to glance up and discover it just counts for one. *sadface*
I quite literally could not agree with you more, as you well know since this ‘style over substance’ brand of gaming has been discussed between us more than a few times.
It’s not that I hate the game or the trailer, it’s the fawning and faux-love from nearly every angle that just seems so overblown and out of proportion to the game in question and you’ve rounded up most of the usual suspects in Braid, Limbo and Journey which received an extraordinary amount of coverage here, more than I’ve ever seen for anything actually. Some days I came on and honestly thought I’d somehow stumbled upon a Journey fan-site.
In all honesty, there’s really not an awful lot I can add to this post apart from my express, wholehearted and 100% feelings of agreement with every word typed. It’s actually stirring a strange feeling in my stomach … Oh, wait, I just need a crap. See if I can’t drop a sequel to Limbo down the pot. It may be the very game which spawned the delightfully appropriate term of ‘pretentious wankery’ Quite artistic in its own way. Hell, for a small fee, I might even lease the use of the term and we’ll have a dozen sequels within days. Isn’t that the fashion these days? Naming things with painfully obvious titles? I eagerly await the Metacritic score for Pretentious Wankery and so does my bank manager.
Room on that soapbox for two, Mugsy?
Oh yeah. Uh, can’t wait for Tiny Wings 2.0. Looks wonderful, doesn’t it?
Sympozium
Erm yeah haven’t been interested enough to launch Braid or any of the other indies games but I only launched one and it was… erm.. Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery EP. Now I wasn’t really interested in how Braid or Limbo played I couldn’t be bothered because I knew what it was without foolishly knowing, but Superbrothers was really unique, it was a artform I suppose in glory of the 8bit age and the gameplay was okish was confusing but strange.
Normally my typical games are Simcity, RTS, Some RPG, odd racers (GT, RR etc etc) and Dragonball Z they’re deep games but some indies are really just alternatives, have a interesting take on genres so really its just a artful thingy mer jig I guess. Tiny Wings is a nice game its really challenging, its not quite deep but reaching the highest island (whatever the way it worked) is really intense because your timing needs to be right thankfully it looks great and it also the gameplay is solid. Meh I don’t care 69p is good enough for me.
I WANT A NEW PRINCE OF PERSIA….BUT FINE I WANT MARIO X PRINCE OF PERSIA!!!!