Over the past few months excitement has escalated and mutated wildly out of control for, unbelievably, a DS game. The nintendo DS, a system which seems to aim at quantity over quality, has seemingly adopted the humble Scribblenauts as it's social saviour. Finally, a DS game people can get excited about - with production values that encourage it's purchase rather than theft.
 

Over the past few months excitement has escalated and mutated wildly out of control for, unbelievably, a DS game. The nintendo DS, a system which seems to aim at quantity over quality, has seemingly adopted the humble Scribblenauts as it's social saviour. Finally, a DS game people can get excited about - with production values that encourage it's purchase rather than theft.
 

The DS aims for quantity over quality? Tell that to this list.  
 
By the way, we already know that the game supports somewhere in the range of over 100,000 words, which is a very impressive number. As someone who has played the game, let me tell you it will live up to everyones expectations. 

The DS is an excellent handheld with a plethora of excellent games.  You are selling it short for absolutely no reason whatsoever. 
 
Also, if you SERIOUSLY believe that it will call to life EVERYTHING you write, then YOU are the fool.  Over the course of time, seeing things like Seaman and Eyetoy games and etc etc etc should prove to you that it's not possible to call out EVERYTHING you write.  However, you CAN call out an unfathomable amount of things, which is just as good to me.

" The DS aims for quantity over quality? Tell that to this list.   "

" The DS is an excellent handheld with a plethora of excellent games.  You are selling it short for absolutely no reason whatsoever.  "

" Also, if you SERIOUSLY believe that it will call to life EVERYTHING you write, then YOU are the fool."

Scribblenauts is marketing itself as something which is, frankly, too good to be true.

I'm going to wait and see how people react to the game before I make any further comment.

" @AgentJ said:

" The DS aims for quantity over quality? Tell that to this list.   "

@jakob187 said:

" The DS is an excellent handheld with a plethora of excellent games.  You are selling it short for absolutely no reason whatsoever.  "

Ok fine, maybe I was a little harsh. This is me being grouchy and writing a grouchy blog. I'm just bored of playing Hotel Dusk and Mario Kart.
 
@jakob187 said:

" Also, if you SERIOUSLY believe that it will call to life EVERYTHING you write, then YOU are the fool."

That's kind of the point of this blog? 
 
Sweep said:

 Scribblenauts is marketing itself as something which is, frankly, too good to be true. 

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@Sweep said:

"...it only takes one unrecognised object to shatter the illusion of complete freedom."

 
I don't get you Sweep, it's too good to be true because it might not have a word you desire?  

The game was designed to take on hundreds of words, if one word isn't going to be their then I won't be irritated, I'll just take it as it is and continue playing with all other possibilities, which are -even with the DS's limitations - enormous. 


  

I've come to terms with the fact that it can't contain every conceivable noun some time ago. To me the fun is experimenting to see what does work, and if one of my ideas doesn't work then there's sure to be a suggested word that I hadn't even thought of.

People are obviously going to be able to think of a word that isn't in the game... it doesn't matter. Scribblenauts is fail-proof because of its unique, simple concept and superb marketing. It's a game that anyone can pick up and play, and I think it's going to be loads of fun.

Sorry Sweep, I agree with the overall sentiment here that Scribblenauts doesn't need to recognize every single word to be a success. What I've seen already far surpasses my usual expectations for a game of this nature. It's a unique idea that's been extremely well executed.

The general public consensus seems to be that i'm being a bit of an idiot. I'm going back to blogging about why Braid is awesome...
 
  :(

It's ok Sweep. Even though the last person to tell us that Scribblenauts will be a flop was Smug, we still all love you. But in a non sexual manner. I hope.

" The general public consensus seems to be that i'm being a bit of an idiot. I'm going back to blogging about why Braid is awesome...    :( "

" Braid is mediocre at best, though. "

I get the point you were trying to make, it makes some sort of sense even if I don't completely agree with it. And at least you didn't try to win people over to your point of view with nothing but a list. Good for you.

Game looks awesome!

Wow that game looks pretty awesome! thanks for posting this.

" It's ok Sweep. Even though the last person to tell us that Scribblenauts will be a flop was Smug, we still all love you. But in a non sexual manner. I hope. "

This just in!!!
 
22, 802 words.
 
That's actually more than I thought would be in the game.

By the way, we already know that the game supports somewhere in the range of over 100,000 words, which is a very impressive number. As someone who has played the game, let me tell you it will live up to everyones expectations.

I know that this game won't have every single word in the English language but the idea enough is reason for me to get excited about it. I think I am just going to have fun with its weird, funny idea more than I will with its absence of a bunch of words. Still, 22,802 words is a HUGE number.

" @AgentJ said:

By the way, we already know that the game supports somewhere in the range of over 100,000 words, which is a very impressive number. As someone who has played the game, let me tell you it will live up to everyones expectations.

Hackers hacked the ROM and found the game only supports 22,000 words, and only has 4000 unique objects...  Anyways, a friend acquired this game, and I gave it a shot, and I'm glad I wasn't too hyped for it.  I played a bit of the single player, and messed around on the title screen.  The controls are annoying, selecting a moving character, or when the camera is scrolling it's extremely hard to get anything done.  I tried summoning vinegar and baking soda, they don't mix.  I tried putting reactive chemicals in water, nothing.  I tried killing a fish by putting poison in the water, nothing.  I was able to safely carry around plutonium.  The game missed a lot of objects I could think of, and others never worked as I intended.  On the plus side I was able to summon a succubus, to my knowledge the naughtiest thing in the game.  edit - and for what it's worth, I didn't find the experience fun. "

I think you're being too harsh.  If it will only take one unrecognized word to ruin the game for you, then you're taking the game too seriously.

" @AgentJ: He got those numbers from HERE. "