Quick Look: EX: Retro/Grade

For one of the most 4chan internet-speak communities around you guys sure are disdainful of internet speak when the GB crew expresses the same. *posts an image macro about it*

I like it if not just for the music / zoning out experience. Love supporting indie devs with high fidelity sound / visuals in music based games.

Man this looks great, I really hope it comes out for XBLA

@Blair said:

               

@superfunhappygun

said:

                Lots of Quick Look EX's this week it seems.
           

Unfortunately.
           

I don't think that's unfortunate at all. It just means Giant Bomb has become more visible to publishers and they think it is worth their resources to show off their games at the Whiskey Media office. I think it's a good thing.

Besides "Mediumcore" and "Pro", those other difficulties have got to go.

Love the concept of the game. Going backwards in the story instead of forwards is a brilliant idea. As for the gameplay, it looks solid. Will have to give this one a shot.

I just read all the comments chronologically forwards – which is backwards to me – out of respect to the theme. Which I really do appreciate by the way. And I think Giant Bomb is probably the only site on the internet set up to give them 20 minutes of straight up air time to show it off.
However...
Another thing that seems to be going backwards is how prepared developers are to give demos. If you don't show up with a fully unlocked version, at least there should be some devmode cheat codes and level skips or something. Especially with the Tomena Sanner / Bit.trip model of no checkpoints. We're used to long videos here, but that 20 minutes of airtime is pretty generous and it shouldn't have to involve replaying a level.
Anyway, good luck with it dudes!

Diggin it.

looks hella awesome. Been a while since I've actually payed so much attention to a QL, usually just have it open while doing something else.

major props. Bobbing head dude ftw.

sucking yourself back through time..sounds interesting. Love the colors other than that I don't really play this type of arcade games. Music is also interesting

I really want to play this game. Looks fantastic!

l33t

@kortex: are you being sarcastic? 

this game has come a long long way since the IGF demo and it's not even done yet dang

                @RVonE said:

@Blair said:

               

@superfunhappygun

said:

                Lots of Quick Look EX's this week it seems.
           

Unfortunately.
           

I don't think that's unfortunate at all. It just means Giant Bomb has become more visible to publishers and they think it is worth their resources to show off their games at the Whiskey Media office. I think it's a good thing.
           

I'm obviously not referring to the business perspective.  Obviously it's beneficial to WM that publishers and developers have an increased willingness to present their games to this market.  I'm speaking from a content perspective when I say that I don't appreciate a QLEX as much as a standard QL.  Typically the affiliate from the game company alters the mood, perspective and overall tone of the video.Ultimately; QL>QLEX, in almost every conceivable way.
           

Rule #1 of post 1990's game design: NEVER force a player to replay the entire level. Otherwise looks cool and original. Just iron out those beginner's game design mistakes and they'll have a hit.

nice idea

Rule #1 of post 1990's game design: NEVER force a player to replay the entire level.

Rule #1 of post 1990's game design: NEVER force a player to replay the entire level. Otherwise looks cool and original. Just iron out those beginner's game design mistakes and they'll have a hit.

I love the concept for this game. I'm not interested in this type of game but I hope it does well.

Memes, memes everywhere!

I'm not normally a fan of rhythm games, but I have to say, this is very clever, and looks really, really good. I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

The dude totally dodged the question about the story.

This looks pretty kickin'.

That is one trippy ass game! Need to buy!

Design Director: Rick Rollstofferson

"Newb," "Leet"

You lost me right there, Retro Slash Grade

The dude totally dodged the question about the story.

Seems interesting, but my problem is for a rhythm game...there doesn't seem to be much flow or rhythm?

I played this last year at PAX Prime. It's pretty tricky with a guitar. Looks like they've added more difficulty settings since then.

I played this video backward, but the game looked very slow and boring for a shooter, so I'm not even gonna bother watching it forward...

Concept looks super interesting and fun.

Nifty.

note to the devs:  Don't forget about controller vibrations.  The more vibrations the better.  Multiple controllers support for multiple vibrations alla Rez.  :D

I'm not buying at all that they chose the PS3 because of it's technical abilities. This better come out on XBLA at some point.

At first i was thinking about it in terms of an arcade shooting game, where it just basically took out all of decision making and you just had to have your hand held, but after that last level, it looks really cool.

Design Director: Rick Rollstofferson

This looks so cool! Really hope it comes to XBLA at some point.

@jillsandwich said:

I'm not buying at all that they chose the PS3 because of it's technical abilities. This better come out on XBLA at some point.

Seems really cool. Interesting concept. 

I hate to say it, but this game looks like kind of a pain in the ass :-(.  Starting at the beginning of the level?  Eek!

Those credits are hilarious. I had no idea Mr. Darcy and Batman worked on this game.

pretty cool game , neat concept and great music

I'm not buying at all that they chose the PS3 because of it's technical abilities. This better come out on XBLA at some point.

I'm not buying at all that they chose the PS3 because of its technical abilities.

@jillsandwich: I apologize if it sounded like we implied that we chose the Playstation 3 for its technical abilities. The reason we are doing PS3 is because Sony has a developer friendly program that allow indies to self publish on the platform. We are interested in getting the game out on XBLA as well though.

If they drop it on 360, consider it sold.  I really like the idea of a trippy electro rhythm game.

Also noticed in the fake credits "A Giant Crab"