I spoke with some friends earlier and mentioned that I'm excited for Costume Quest and was met with blank stares. I went on to say, "you know, the new game from Double Fine.... Tim Schafer... fuck it."
It looks so awesome, but everyone's just talking about Super Meat Boy.
Poor game.
EDIT: Is it normal that they wouldn't send out any review copies?
Costume Quest
Game » consists of 7 releases. Released Oct 20, 2010
A downloadable turn-based RPG by Double Fine. Play as a child on Halloween night in search of your twin sibling.
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Yeah I think it's going to be overshadowed by Super Meat Boy. I'm much more excited about Costume Quest. I think Super Meat Boy looks really neat but I just don't have the patience for really hard games, so it's definitely not my thing. It seems like the kind of game I'd enjoy watching though, great music and it's funny to watch your friends get really pissed off and string together weird combinations of cuss words.
Gonna get both - SMB actually saved itself by offering a discount. Too many games come out at the $15 mark when $10 is the sweet spot, and I had already pledged my wallet to Costume Quest.
Lots of other forms of media discount at lauhch, weird that games don't at all (any time I buy a CD or DVD the 1st couple weeks it comes out it's about $10 off, a month later it's bumped up). Glad to see Team Meat doing it, hope it catches on.
I'll admit that I had never heard of Costume Quest until I saw the quick look on the site. Seems sort of interesting, but I've already committed my dollars to fable 3 next week, so I won't be getting it any time soon.
I may not get around to playing it for a while because of Fallout but I'm definitely getting Costume Quest tomorrow.
Kinda interested in SMB but I don't know. Maybe it's just me but I've been finding that a lot of these minimal / weird / stylized platformers are a lot cooler in concept and videos than they are entertaining.
Costume Quest received this reaction from my girlfriend: "AWWWWWWWWWWWW!!"
So I'm getting Costume Quest (also the game looks REALLY fun).
Not a fan of the gravitation towards fifteen dollars as the new "standard" price point for digital titles.
In any case, I am loving the hell out of Costume Quest.
Team Super Meat are simply PR machines. They have been keeping their game in the press for months. For just 2 dudes bustings their asses to release this game, they have found a remarkable chunk of time to talk it up, make joke games for the App Store, write articles about game difficulty, etc... But for a game coming out of a full sized development house, Double Fine has not been working it like they should. Especially since Tim isn't the bottleneck like he used to be, I think he should have been out doing more press. But it's possible he's busy in some other way.
I'm getting both! No one really knows what Costume Quest really is. Someone failed in the PR department...
I am really enjoying it, Think double fine should stick to making little games like this they seem to be very good at it
Alex said on the Bombcast that he is reviewing it. Besides that had a Ql what more do you need or a downloadable game
I didn't even realize it was released. I mean, I knew it was supposed to be released on the 20th, but today is the 21st and I was still looking for it. Didn't show up on the dashboard. I figured maybe it was a PS3 exclusive for the first week or something and I'd have to either buy it on PS3 or wait a few more days. There is absolutely no promotion for this title on XBLA. I had to go to the Game Marketplace. Then I had to go to the "New Arrivals" section. Then I had to scroll toward the back of the list, to even find it.
It's like they're trying to do as much as possible to *not* put the game in front of eyeballs.
" Gonna get both - SMB actually saved itself by offering a discount. Too many games come out at the $15 mark when $10 is the sweet spot, and I had already pledged my wallet to Costume Quest. "Yeah, this. I wasn't going to devote the money to Super Meat Boy, but the release-month discount got me. I really, really enjoy Super Meat Boy. Way more than I thought I would. More so than Costume Quest, even.
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