Quick Look: Nova-111

METAL GEAR SOLID V

also this game is pretty cool, lets see what dan and drew think..

@drewbert@danryckert You guys should do a stream of you two playing through ToeJam & Earl.

Copping strong Crypt of the Necrodancer vibes thus far.
Maybe some Chip's Challenge mixed in there.

Looks neat!

$52 PS4 exclusive is a weird way to release.

toedan and drewrl

It's kinda funny to hear Dan explain classic roguelike battle tactics. :D

It's actually kind of interesting. It's mostly other elements of Rogue (procedurally generated levels, permadeath, emergent gameplay systems) that get emulated in modern indie games but almost never the turn/tilebased movement and combat. And here is this game, doing the latter without the other stuff.

=l Why must the Double D's taunt us so by mentioning MGSV...

Deadly Rooms of Death, Drew? Was that the game you were thinking of?

I learned it as "StalacTITES have to hold TIGHT to the ceiling"

@khavall: I learned it as "StalagMites are... More lower..."

...hopefully someone will get it ?

Works for MLB: The Show every year, give or take a few dollars.

Stalactites: Like tights on a washing line, they hang down.

Stalacmites: Like termite mounds, they point up.

@khavall: But StalacMIGHT fall on your head from the ceiling!

As Vinny has taught us: StalacTites - T for TOP

@elko84: It's both sad and re-affirming that we have enough video/audio evidence of these guys talking that we already know their mnemonic devices for remembering the stalactite/stalagmite difference.

Stalactite - Ceiling

Stalagmite - Ground

If I remember by elementary school learnings right.

Edit: Nope. Got it reversed.

This game is so exciting that 80% of the comments are about the definition of stalagmite and stalactite.

This is the real answer. No need for these contrived mnemonic phrases.

ToeDan and Drearl?

ETA: Beaten to the punch by five hours! Shut up, Baker!

I like the idea of this game, but something about the grid-based movement along with the way the camera moves is giving me some motion sickness type thing, which is a bummer. Games never used to do this to me, either—is this what it's like to get old?

@pmmcl said:

Matthew Rorie's You MIGHT Trip Over A StalagMITE. In reality though- the chat suggested that.

It's like hearing them discuss which is "sadism" and which is "masochism" for the millionth time. Though that number has ballooned exponentially since Dan joined, since he somehow always forgets which is which. Classic Ryckert.

Stalagmites stand mightily, while stalactites cling tight...ily.

Dan's stalagmite vs stalagtites memory device is inherently flawed. Consider.

StalagMites have only two pointy uppy thingies while having three hangy downy thingies By this logic, they would be the hangy thingies, which is incorrect. StalagTites have a single hangy thingie, and are more suited for being the key mnemonic device.

Also, Metal Gear?

I bought this game and I think its pretty cool. I wish I bought it on Vita, since it seems like a way better mobile game.

Columns for the Genesis was pretty rad (although I had the Sega CD pack!)

I would really call this a rogue-like, more than what most people call a rogue-like.

This is basically a Rogue-like. Like Dungeons of Dredmore.

genres are more like a vague boundry anyway

This please. I would enjoy this very, very much.

Drew and Dan should play Toejam & Earl on UPF. Seriously.

Dude still can't figure out the difference between Js and Gs.

This game's real slick.

@thepilgrums: Nah man, premium video series. Fuck Banjo Kazooie, play through all the TJ&Es... Alright... maybe let's do both?

Shame that level glitched out at the end of the video. Looks like Dan was going to beat it.

This just makes me want to go play some more Crypt of the Necrodancer.

Which maniac made Dan strategy game editor?

Dan not knowing the price or platforms of the game that he giving a Quick Look is getting out of hand. Do your fucking job for once, Dan.

"All-do-us Huxley", Dan? Brave new world indeed.

I totally laughed my ass off when Dan started with Metal Gear.

@stachestash: are you really surprised? they always get shit wrong, i love when they claim to be playing the game for hours before hand and yet still dont know how most of the mechanics and what have you work

@soiledsanchez: Do you have any examples of that happening? That they say they've played many hours of a game but then don't know most of the mechanics?

I know what an M looks like.