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Quick Look: Eat Them!

Mon·ster, v.: to destroy the collective existence of, usually with one's gross appendages.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Jan. 10 2011

Cast: Ryan, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Eat Them!

141 Comments

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Edited By winsord

Heeeeeeeeeeeeey, Aquatongue.

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Seems neat, but it looks like it would get old fast.

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I felt like the character creation screen music was trying to break out into some 'Bots Master' music the whole time.

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 >> You are a city-stomping monster.  You are currently standing in downtown Cityville, where a mob of police men surround you.  To your North and West, you see puny buildings awaiting destruction.  To the East, a national park sits currently unmolested.  To the South, a skyscraper looks climbable if that's your kind of thing.  Your inventory includes one uneaten citizen and a train car you saved for throwing at somebody.
 
What would you like to do?

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This makes me want to play Rampage again.  
REALLY BAD.

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Edited By Hourai

RAMPAGE. That's the game I was trying to remember. I had a ton of fun playing that on the N64 when I was younger. 

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Edited By beard_of_zeus
@RVonE said:
" @Crushed said:
"THAT'S IT! War of the Monsters. "
That game was kinda cool. "
Yeah, I dig that game a lot. I actually bust out my PS2 copy of it every so often to play with friends. The way they implemented the camera in the game was cool, very similar to how that World for Keflings game does where you share the screen when you're close and it splits it when you're far apart. It might have behooved this game to do something like that, since it seems there are some minor camera issues in multiplayer.
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Feeling like a dead duck...

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Edited By spiffyXD

If you imagine Ryan and Vinny talking as if they were their respective monsters, this QL becomes way funnier.

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Edited By bybeach

The mad scientists, cell shading, and a few other aspects of this game are working hard. But the camera, and some other gameplay aspects look like they fall short . 
 
Oh well, if I had money and time to burn. I like this game's attitude.
 
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I liked the monster creation stuff but the rest of it seems like too much trouble and it would get old fast.

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Edited By ryanwho

A pretty version of Rampage is still just Rampage.

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Edited By flasaltine

That guys got a dangler and he just needs to shake it out a bit, you know?

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Aqualung mash up was brilliant, keep it up guys.

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@ryanwho said:
" A pretty version of Rampage is still just Rampage. "
This is worse than Rampage... at least Rampage was fun for a couple of levels. Ryan and Vinny weren't having fun (other than creating their monster).
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Edited By Rampage

Why do people keep mentioning my name 
;_;

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I've never heard of this, but after seein those designs I totally wanna fuckin buy this game

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Idk what Ryan is talking about, it's definitely Mwahahaha.

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I would buy this solely for the monster creator, but then actually having to play the game to unlock more parts is a problem.

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Edited By uberexplodey

Duder, I fucking LOVED Rampage.

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That monster customization screen reminded me a lot of medabots

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Edited By buckybit

I watched this mayhem while listening to Death Metal - GOTY 2011 so far?! 
 
But seriously: good idea, good execution, but still - cannot see me playing it more than 15 min. Repetitive? 

BITE THE POWER!

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It's stuff like this, Trash Panic, Flower, etc. more than anything that makes me want a PS3.
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Those monster screams sounded like tie fighters.

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Edited By ieatpoptarts

TIL about ZIPPLES. THANKS VINNY!

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The art style is great, but it's pretty much just Geof Darrow (Hard Boiled, Big Guy And Rusty The Boy Robot, Shaolin Cowboy, Transmetropolitan) in video game form. I'd love to see one of his books brought to life in a weird action-RPG.

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Zipples!

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Looks super repetitive 

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You're playing a survival mission! Why isn't my comment traveling back in time and making you change your actions!?

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@UberExplodey: THISSSS
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@Rampage said:
" Why do people keep mentioning my name ;_; "
They love you!
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Edited By thebigJ_A

The two checkpoints were light green and light orange, so does that make Vinny red-green colorblind? Man, it must stink to be color-blind. (Then again, I've read that there are some advantages, such as being able to make out things that are camouflaged better.) It's interesting to me that he said, "one's lighter and one's darker". To me, they were just different colors, without any difference in brightness.
 
I wonder, can color blind people dream in color? Because I've heard some people dream in black & white, even if they can see all colors. If so, would that mean that they "know" what red (or whatever color) looks like? I mean, I assume that a person who can't distinguish red can't picture red in their minds, and it's not like you can adequately describe red to someone who's never seen it. But if they could dream it... maybe?
 
Colorblind people, answer my questions! Unless they were offensive! In which case I am sorry and retract them!

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I don't think Ryan should blame the fact that his brain was not able to process the information about the prisoner mission on game design, since neither Ryan nor Vinny actually did what they were supposed to do, they just ran around without caring about the prisoners. 
 
Although I guess the missions where you just destroy are more fun still.

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i could play this, loved Rampage back in the day. Some things never change.
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Is it just me or does the monster roar sound like a tie fighter? 

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I feel this game would be more awesome if it just had a destroy everything free play mode. 

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This game looks real neat.

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This looks "Twisted Pixel"y as fuck

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@thebigJ_A:
Vinny's like... all-colors color blind almost. I mean, not really, but his color blindness is really severe compared to Jeff, who's got it easier. That doesn't mean they can't see all the beautiful colors, though! They just can't distinguish between a few specific ones when side by side. 
 
Perfectly regular people normally have varying ability to distinguish between specific colors. Some people won't be able to tell red and deep violet apart, for instance. Some people look at teal and call it green, others look at the same color and see blue, while some will stare at it for a really long time and declare it's probably 50-50. It's the same for color blind people, but the colors they have trouble telling apart don't have to be right next to each other on the spectrum.
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Love any game with a good character creation system

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@Feigr said:
" I don't think Ryan should blame the fact that his brain was not able to process the information about the prisoner mission on game design, since neither Ryan nor Vinny actually did what they were supposed to do, they just ran around without caring about the prisoners.  Although I guess the missions where you just destroy are more fun still. "
If they didn't understand what to do, then maybe it doesn't have good game design. 
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I feel like my younger cousin and I could have some awesome times playing this.

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I get a similar feel to this as I do out of Champions Online. 
 
Awesome character gen, really really fun in the character gen and for about 20 seconds out of the character gen to see how your characters plays. 
 
incredibly boring with no real content after that.  Though here, for $10 I could almost justify buying it to mess around in the monster lab and play with new parts.  

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I can't believe I bought this game. It's not great.

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Am I the only one who got a real ZX Spectrum vibe from that colour scheme?

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Monster, verb
Informal - to criticize someone severely

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I am absolutely shocked that neither of them made a Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em joke. That shit writes itself.

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What is this I don't even.

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When I saw Aquatongue I began singing "Aquatongue my friend" and then Ryan and Vinny started singing a version of Aqualung so it all worked out.

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Edited By gbrading

Aqualung vs. Aquatongue. Yes to Jethro Tull. As far as the game goes, looks kinda ok.