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Awesomenauts Launched This Week, and This Trailer Proves It

Publisher bankruptcy be damned, nothing stops the Awesomenauts!

May. 2 2012

Posted by: Alex

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Awesomenauts

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Eat it bankruptcy!

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@DrFlapjack said:

I'm a little jealous of you PlayStation Plus members with your free games. On the other hand if I had a bunch of free games I'd never get anything done.

That is precisely why I don't get anything done. I have waaaaaay to many mini's, ps1 classics, and now ps2's max payne to keep me busy, not to mention the 8 PSN releases we got for free this week!. Damn you, SONY and your free stuff!

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Free on PS+...

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Edited By vinsanityv22

Good for dtp to see this game's release through to the end. And good for Ronimo that it's coming out. This game should become an enormous hit based on the theme song alone!

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Im never going play this game for obvious reasons, but i would watch them play every week.

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At least we know they didn't go bankrupt paying the music team.

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GT and Joystiq both loved it. I am downloading the demo now.

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BEST THEME SONG EVER!

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@Xeiphyer: Oops, my mistake. I never hosted any matches. I must have missed that.

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PSN+ is the best. anyone disagree?

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@HatKing said:

@nemesisND1derboy said:

Downloading this thanks to PS Plus already. Will give it a try when I get home. It looks pretty awesome.

I did the same thing yesterday, and I actually got sucked in for a bit.

My problems with the game:

-A little bit crashy. I was dropped back to the XMB in middle of a game once. VERY annoying because you lose all of the experience gained during that game if this happens.

-The game is kind of shallow. It touts its unlockables, but there really aren't that many, they're just spaced out quite a bit. There are only three maps, two of which are locked away for a good while (this is insane, right?). I don't want to play sixteen hours of this game just to unlock all the maps.

You can play all the maps from the get go (after tutorial). You unlock them for practise mode through levelling up. I haven't had any issues with crashing so far, about 9 hours played.
 
My main issue right now is that when the host leaves the match, it kicks everyone out, without exp. I played a ton of matches with my friend where we absolutely dominated the opponents, so they just all quit out, and we get nothing. Its a huge pain. There is some sort of host migration apparently, as I saw a message talking about how it failed once, but it sure doesn't ever work as far as I can tell.
 
That being said, I'm digging the game a lot. Really needs more characters to play though. 
 
Also, this was last night before I went to bed. Aww yeah.
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I dig the music. I dig the animation.

Please come to PC like Swords and Soldiers eventually did!

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I bought it this morning and I think it is pretty great.

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Edited By beard_of_zeus

Downloaded this via PS+ last night, and played a good 3 or 4 rounds. Never played a MOBA-style game before, but it was quite fun! A lot of stuff is locked up initially, which is disappointing, but I'm gonna keep playing. Leon the chameleon is a really fun to play as.

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I just feel like i woke up on Saturday morning 10 years ago ...well more like 15 years ago for me, man I feel old.

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I am literally actually considering buying this just because they made such an AWESOME 90's Saturday Morning Cartoon Show Theme for it.

Like, if it's ten bucks or something, if they provide a soundtrack download with that theme in it I will go buy this game.

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That soundtrack reminds me of something out of SOUTH PARK.

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WHY ISNT THIS A CARTOON THAT I CAN WATCH ON MY TEEVEE

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I'm a little jealous of you PlayStation Plus members with your free games. On the other hand if I had a bunch of free games I'd never get anything done.

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FUUU dis music :O

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Some pretty awesome music in this trailer.

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@chiablo said:

Just like Tower Defense games a few years ago, I wish MOBA games would stop being made.

I don't think it's gotten that crazy yet, and this seems like a fresh take on it. I haven't seen one like this, at least.

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Just like Tower Defense games a few years ago, I wish MOBA games would stop being made.

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Cool! I mean, Awesome!

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PSN Plus Users get it for free ! :)

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Dat music.

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@drewmaw: Those animations look fantastic. And this is, as far as I'm aware, the only 2D MOBA game out there.

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@nemesisND1derboy said:

Downloading this thanks to PS Plus already. Will give it a try when I get home. It looks pretty awesome.

I did the same thing yesterday, and I actually got sucked in for a bit.

My problems with the game:

-A little bit crashy. I was dropped back to the XMB in middle of a game once. VERY annoying because you lose all of the experience gained during that game if this happens.

-The game is kind of shallow. It touts its unlockables, but there really aren't that many, they're just spaced out quite a bit. There are only three maps, two of which are locked away for a good while (this is insane, right?). I don't want to play sixteen hours of this game just to unlock all the maps.

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Well, MOBA games tend to have terrible communities, and the Xbox Live community is among the worst there is, so this game should not only feel right at home, but also sell very well!

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Good news is this whole delay thing probobly sold like 5 more copies of this game. That's like a 20% profit increase.

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@Fobwashed said:

Never have to make an attempt at this again =) I've only heard of this game in that it's a 2D DotA style game and that the developer has gone bankrupt. Hope they can pull out w/the release -_-;;

It was the publisher, dtp that filed bankruptcy, not the developer, Ronimo. As far as I know, Ronimo is fine.

As for the game, I got it free thanks to PS Plus, but I haven't really checked it out yet. I've just played through the opening tutorial part. I'm thinking that I might enjoy it...just depends on how active the online is, I guess.

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Has awesome saturday cartoon theme music

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Edited By nemesisND1derboy

Downloading this thanks to PS Plus already. Will give it a try when I get home. It looks pretty awesome.

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That cowboy is just Lemmy from Motorhead.

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Looks like a cluster-f*ck of poor animation. 2D Multiplayer games rarely succeed, and the market is saturated with excellent ones already. Too little too late.

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Sweet, if I had more friends who played on PSN I would consider getting it.

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Never have to make an attempt at this again =) I've only heard of this game in that it's a 2D DotA style game and that the developer has gone bankrupt. Hope they can pull out w/the release -_-;;