Quick Look: EX: Scribblenauts Unlimited

My interest for the Wii U just went up two notches. Which still is pretty low, but still. The game looks great.

edit: oh, it comes to the PC aswell. My interest for the Wii U just went down two notches. Not hating on the system though, I'm actually more excited in the Wii than in the next Xbox or playstation right now

The multiplayer alone made me wish I were picking it up on Wii U instead of PC, but this and Zombie-U ain't justification enough to be grabbing a new console just yet. Will still be picking it up when it comes out on Steam though, will be rad regardless.

Babraham Lincoln sold me on this game

I already knew I was getting the new Scribblenauts but now I'm not so sure that I'll be getting it on the 3DS.

Yay for Scribblenauts wackiness!

That Jeremiah dude sounds like James Woods.

Menu driven attacks seem like a giant mistake when you have a controller with buttons.

This is the first Wii U game i have been interested in, but since it's also coming to the PC i'm still not interested in the Wii U. :P

PC?!

Fuck yes, about damn time

FAMINIE

i'm guessing there was nothing provided by Ninty for video capture off the tablet? glad they're at least trying to cover it.

@Duke_Bilgewater said:

Having a bored-sounding guy they sent over talk about internet memes in Scribblenauts actually put me off buying this. I know the fun of Scribblenauts is stuff like that but... eughhh...

He did sound bored, but he always does. Also he's one of the co-founders of 5th Cell, so not necessarily just some guy they sent over. Really he's the guy, and probably sent himself. But yes, he could sound more upbeat. Felt like he did a fine job of showing the game though.

Way to drop a basketball in front of the black guy.

@Foggen said:

Menu driven attacks seem like a giant mistake when you have a controller with buttons.

More than a mistake it seems a little disappointing. I say this because there is probably a reason behind not having direct button mapping, they would have to make a whole lot of testing to have buttons assigned to every possible combination of objects, which I'm guessing is not and esay task.

Scribblenauts looks cool every time I see it. I have yet to play a single second of it though.

@DjDonFrancisco said:

Scribblenauts looks cool every time I see it. I have yet to play a single second of it though.

It's a really good time waster. I have it on the DS, but to me it's more fun on the iPad/iPhone, as you can pick it up and play it quickly whenever. Really great because friends who don't play games can pick it up really quick and start creating some awesome situations with various things.

I'm so happy this will be on PC =)

Aw, I hoped for Martin Lawrence when he typed in Black Knight. :(

That is Steve Irwin in that Saurus Park.

Another EX..

Once I have money I will totally buy a 3DS for this game. I still have a copy of Super scribblenauts beside my bed for when I can't sleep. For some reason seeing which monster will win in a fight or creating a fictional doctor who calms me. I am interested in seeing if there's all that weird religious stuff in this game. In the first one the priest was invincible, same with altar boy, rabbi, and I'm sure a lot of other stuff. Weird that god wasn't though.

We've got them jokes. Especially those Family Guy and Internet jokes.

It's hilarious guys why aren't you laughing?

@IzzyGraze: This is on the Wii U tho.

@JohnnyBarnstorm said:

@IzzyGraze: This is on the Wii U tho.

It's for both.

QUICK LOOK $$$$ >>

I want to see a MEAN BEAR ride a PINK YOSHI.

So is this gonna be the standard for wii-u quicklooks? Little wii-u image down in the corner? O.k. I guess but you can't really see what they're doing with the controller.

"This art style translates well to a 720p resolution."

What does that even mean? That's just ridiculous nonsense.

@Begilerath said:

@Foggen said:

Menu driven attacks seem like a giant mistake when you have a controller with buttons.

More than a mistake it seems a little disappointing. I say this because there is probably a reason behind not having direct button mapping, they would have to make a whole lot of testing to have buttons assigned to every possible combination of objects, which I'm guessing is not and esay task.

There was direct button mapping for use of objects in Super Scribblenauts for the DS, so it shouldn't be too much trouble. Also, I wouldn't count out the possibility that you can just use the buttons. The dev's may have just made the option of menu combat for those who only want to use the touch screen.. not sure.

Since they have the Steam Workshop support, I'm beating we'll get the Team Fortress 2 cast in the Steam version.

@spotpilgrim said:

@gladspooky said:

"This art style translates well to a 720p resolution."

What does that even mean? That's just ridiculous nonsense.

It means he's being on message

Not a lot of pixel art can always translate well to large resolution, usually based on how those pixels are rendered (hand-drawn or vectored).

In the case of Scribblenauts, it looks to be vectored, which has a much better time upscaling to higher resolutions because it's based on a polygonal vector which is meant to be stretched.

Hand-drawn 2D pixel art generally gets worse at larger resolutions because the pixels just end up stretching. For example, if you look at that recent Jo-Jo's Bizarre Adventure re-release, it looks terrible because they still used the original sprites which just ended up being stretched for large resolution displays. But if you look at that Street Fighter 2 HD Remix, those hand-drawn sprites look really good because that art was completely re-drawn for HD resolutions.

Looks like he made an exception to the character picking up a head. I think that's why it didn't explode?

cool, I wish there were just a little bit more animations but for the amount of things you can spawn it's not that big of a deal.

@CornBREDX said:

I'm so happy this will be on PC =)

I was unaware of this, what a pleasant surprise!

"This is really stupid, Miah." --Ryan Davis, Giantbomb.com

Put it on the box. So hilarious.

@Begilerath said:

@Foggen said:

Menu driven attacks seem like a giant mistake when you have a controller with buttons.

More than a mistake it seems a little disappointing. I say this because there is probably a reason behind not having direct button mapping, they would have to make a whole lot of testing to have buttons assigned to every possible combination of objects, which I'm guessing is not and esay task.

Ryan Davis was attacking and shooting fine without using a menu...maybe there is a button because he did it fine

@heatDrive88 said:

@spotpilgrim said:

@gladspooky said:

"This art style translates well to a 720p resolution."

What does that even mean? That's just ridiculous nonsense.

It means he's being on message

Not a lot of pixel art can always translate well to large resolution, usually based on how those pixels are rendered (hand-drawn or vectored).

In the case of Scribblenauts, it looks to be vectored, which has a much better time upscaling to higher resolutions because it's based on a polygonal vector which is meant to be stretched.

Hand-drawn 2D pixel art generally gets worse at larger resolutions because the pixels just end up stretching. For example, if you look at that recent Jo-Jo's Bizarre Adventure re-release, it looks terrible because they still used the original sprites which just ended up being stretched for large resolution displays. But if you look at that Street Fighter 2 HD Remix, those hand-drawn sprites look really good because that art was completely re-drawn for HD resolutions.

Can pixel art be made with vectors though? I would think that pixel art means it's actually drawn pixel by pixel, which seems contrary to how vectors work.

@jozzy said:

@heatDrive88 said:

@spotpilgrim said:

@gladspooky said:

"This art style translates well to a 720p resolution."

What does that even mean? That's just ridiculous nonsense.

It means he's being on message

Not a lot of pixel art can always translate well to large resolution, usually based on how those pixels are rendered (hand-drawn or vectored).

In the case of Scribblenauts, it looks to be vectored, which has a much better time upscaling to higher resolutions because it's based on a polygonal vector which is meant to be stretched.

Hand-drawn 2D pixel art generally gets worse at larger resolutions because the pixels just end up stretching. For example, if you look at that recent Jo-Jo's Bizarre Adventure re-release, it looks terrible because they still used the original sprites which just ended up being stretched for large resolution displays. But if you look at that Street Fighter 2 HD Remix, those hand-drawn sprites look really good because that art was completely re-drawn for HD resolutions.

Can pixel art be made with vectors though? I would think that pixel art means it's actually drawn pixel by pixel, which seems contrary to how vectors work.

Sorry, that's just me using the term "pixel" very loosely based on how it appears to an end-user.

In the actual design of it, yes you are correct, because vector graphics are geometrical shapes, points, lines, curves, and polygons - not actual pixels.

@Counterclockwork87: My office internet sucks so I quit after the demoist failed in the mech. If he also had buttons for shooting he did a really bad job there.

I'm more surprised about the other guy not being interested in the basketball....

:P

I want the Scribblenauts Guys to team up with the Cards Against Humanity guys.

So is there a way to attack without having to bring up a menu and tap "Attack" on the touchscreen?

@Counterclockwork87 said:

@Begilerath said:

@Foggen said:

Menu driven attacks seem like a giant mistake when you have a controller with buttons.

More than a mistake it seems a little disappointing. I say this because there is probably a reason behind not having direct button mapping, they would have to make a whole lot of testing to have buttons assigned to every possible combination of objects, which I'm guessing is not and esay task.

Ryan Davis was attacking and shooting fine without using a menu...maybe there is a button because he did it fine

I did not notice, I hope it's like you said. I can see them assigning buttons to the main character (I think they have already done this in the previous games, I have not played them) because he is a fixed object, but the coop-players that can be any object including objects that interact with other objects seems a little harder to pull off.

Yeah they marked "exclude" for exploding on picking up body parts on accident. I am super excited that this has Steam workshop functionality, and it comes out in 12 days! Except Steam has no mention of it at all! ??

Game looks awesome. I guess this will be my first Wii U game since it comes out first.

Yoshi egg at 27:30. Yes I went back and looked for it

It's now a female hipster box.

Welcome to Obama's America, folks.

I was instantly sold when the wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubeman appeared.

@InfamousBIG said:

@MildMolasses said:

If you tell me 'female box' that isn't what I expect

Freudian slip or just unlucky wording, I wonder

What are you guys talking about?

@FierceDeity said:

@InfamousBIG said:

@MildMolasses said:

If you tell me 'female box' that isn't what I expect

Freudian slip or just unlucky wording, I wonder

What are you guys talking about?

vaginas.

Wind Waker Ganondorf? Game of the year.