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Quick Look: Tiny Brains

As we all know, it's not the size of the brain that counts, but how good its Unreal engine implementation is.

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

Jan. 8 2014

Cast: Jeff, Brad

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

Tiny Brains

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Tiny Soccer huh, but but this isn't the GB sports team??

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Bring on the quick looks, 2014 Year of the Quick Look !!

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AGDQ Shoutout from brad. Woop!

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"We could just sit here and play through the entire game right now" - Brad

"NOPE!" - Control Room Drew

This had me crying I was laughing so hard.

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@fapathy: You appear to have commented on the wrong piece of content.

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@fapathy: Haha yeah no worries, I've done the same thing on reddit and forums before.

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@arcadem said:

Bring on the quick looks, 2014 Year of the Quick Look !!

Year of boring Brad/Jeff Quick Looks of bad games.

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This is like a bad game from the late 90's ... just terrible looking, so uninspired.

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@mintyice: This. SO MUCH. Jeff is alright, but Brad is about as interesting as a box of matches.

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I love it when Drew chimes in from the control room. NOPE.

Brad "That works too" Shoemaker.

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"We could just sit here and play through the entire game right now" - Brad

"NOPE!" - Control Room Drew

This had me crying I was laughing so hard.

Best part of this Quick Look!

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I actually thought this looked kinda fun. Not sure why everyone seems so down on it.

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A hamster named Minsc huh?

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Something about the gameplay seemed off. Like, lacking in polish in almost every single way. That comment about dead chickens and chicken nuggets was not in keeping with the tone of the rest of the game.

Also, $20? Holy shit, dude. Why even buy this game is you can get Portal/Portal 2 for the same price or less, or even Quantum Conundrum, or Dust or Brothers or Limbo or Don't Starve or blah blah blah

Price your shit what it's worth.

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Man the screen tearing and framiness of the game was terrible.

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Well, at least the developers tried to make the game funny. You can tell they put at least some effort into this, so that's appreciated. Still doesn't look good for anyone over the age of 12 though.

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This game seemed fine, a third person portal as it were but then when it got to the combat it got a bit sour.

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I watched Geoff Keighley stream this for a while. He looked just about as amused as Jeff sounds.

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I thought this looked okay, not amazing, but not terrible. But then the combat was introduced. That looked like the opposite of fun.

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Tiny Brains more like Tiny Garbage

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That little pink thing was cute. Then it fucking died. This game looks like trash. The combat looks like the least fun thing in video games. And they make you do a fucking wave based challenge with it.

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Tearing out the ass, as a wise man once said.

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To be fair Jeff and Brad did their best to not use the powers to clear multiple enemies at a time

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Braiiiiins braaaiiiiins

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I nearly bought this due to the PS4's lack of games.. I am so glad I seen this and saved myself a few quid.

Horrible, in every sense of the word.

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Baldur's Gate references all up in this game.

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Listen to Drew.

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"I kind of don't hate the character designs here for some reason"

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Wow. Jeff must have had a bad day.

He's usually the only hope in a puzzle game to actually figure the shit out, but he obviously gave negative fucks about this before it even started and tried his best to not understand the things that were obvious, explained, and drawn on the damn walls of each room.

This doesn't look like a masterpiece, but it's weird to see them just instantly dismiss what looks like a fine little forgettable but satisfying puzzle room thing with a cool style.

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This game seems... boring.

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NOPE! :)

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Tiny Brains confirmed to graphically strong for the PS4 PC masterrace wins again.

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I kind of get the feeling this was originally a PS3 game based on an older UE3 engine but it was decided to carry over to the PS4 to have a few Indie games available day one. It looks poorly optimised judging by the terrible frame-rate en screen tearing.

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Tiny Brains confirmed to graphically strong for the PS4 PC masterrace wins again.

wat

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Dude, I have to get a PS4 for this game now! *sarcasm

But seriously this looks like it could have been released on late PS2. Pretty crappy.

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They should have called the green guy a grabbit.

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I'm not sure why they instantly abandoned hitting the chickens with the frost wall, which seemed like a more powerful way to deal with groups. But either way this game really doesn't seem especially well-made. Some of the later puzzles could be really neat, but that combat should not be a thing and the optimisation seems close to non-existent. Shame, really.

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Phonegames on PS4. Great!

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I liked the art style. Apart from the stuttering this seemed no worse than Quantum Conundrum.

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fuck I love drew