I seriously still have no idea what the hell is going on in Noby Noby Boy. But I'm coming to terms with that.
There we go. That oughta clear everything up!Noby Noby Boy continued to confound the hell out of me when, earlier today, BOY stretched out enough to allow GIRL to make her trek from the Earth to the Moon, just four days after the game's US release. Do not take that last sentence to mean that I am in the middle of having a stroke. This is just how Noby Noby Boy rolls. If you've neither experienced Noby Noby Boy for yourself, nor watched our anti-informative quick look video, allow me to clarify. While Noby Noby Boy claims to have no overt objectives, there is a collective meta-game that underlies all of the action. As players around the globe stretch out their BOYs, they all contribute to the length of GIRL. As GIRL stretches out across the galaxy and reaches new heavenly bodies, new levels in the game are unlocked.
Hmm. Reading back over that clarification, it's probably not much clearer. Think of it like a shared, virtual Stretch Armstrong where, the more everyone pulls on his limbs, the...OK, that analogy's not really working out either. I guess, just...there's a new level for Noby Noby Boy available. It's The Moon. There are people and dogs wearing spacesuits, there are penguins, there are fish, there are ambulatory crescent moons. Perhaps most exasperatingly, there are MOTHER-EFFING MOONS ROLLING AROUND ON THE MOON.
Next stop is Mars. I don't know that I'll still be able to write cogent sentences by then.
damn. I thought it was growing faster than that. Think about it. Next stop is either Mars or Venus and then Mercury....and then what? It'll take years to reach Jupiter, maybe less if the asteroid belt is a factor.
Couldn't the dev team just play around with the growth rate of GIRL so new levels are unlocked on the rate they feel like without any impact on how fast people actually play?
Similarilly, if some hacker makes a BOY that is a trillion miles long, that'll mess things up unless the dev team screws around?
Whatever, I think I'm trying too hard to make sense of this. Call me old-fashioned, but I'm all about unlocking stuff locally (or through co-op play).
So, the moon is about 350000 km away, and we reached that in 4 days. The nearest planet, Mars, is between 50 Mm and 400 Mm away. At our current rate, this would take us between 1.56 and 12.5 years...oh joy. Now let's see when we will 'run out of planets', this would be when we reach Neptune aaaand this will be in the year 2150. Ok, people, we need to stretch harder, or we'll never see the other side of Uranus.
i know how to get high, i know how to play The Doors and i know how to get Noby Boy to fart cats, but i still don't know how to contribute to Girl's length.
I wouldn't recommend buying a PS3 for this game. It's cool, but really it's best as stress relief, probably only entertaining for several minutes at a time. Checking in, and contributing a little bit, is really the coolest part.
If I'm understanding this correctly, then NobyNobyBoy could be the most innovative game to be released in a while.Well, that is, if the gameplay itself looked appealing in the slightest. But the premise, that's just genius.
"so does a late downloader start with access to everything the community has opened already? Hmm, odd indeed."
Yep, seems that way. Levels are unlocked as a community, so the more people play the faster new worlds become available. Late downloaders will get access to all the worlds that have been unlocked, but if you buy it sooner you can help unlock them sooner. :)
I think the guy who created this game was on mushrooms or something. I haven't watched the quick look yet but it sounds like I need to so I can lose my mind with everyone else.
"Does Soulja Boy have a PS3? He may be the only one that can decipher the meaning of this game."
I agree. Â I mean, we've already seen a game for those who like to drink and get drunk or smoke weed and get high...but what does Noby Noby Boy bring to the table that is new to that formula?
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