Quick Look: Snapshot

So the main mechanic is practically a portal gun taking on the guise of a camera?

This is a pretty cool idea. Looks like a lot of levels, too.

@JetForceGemini said:

@Tan said:

...why's he playing with a controller?

He explained why in the video. Try keeping up.

There is no reason to play with a controller. The keyboard can do the basic platforming this game has just fine.

ROTATE THE PICTURE WHEN IT HAS MOMENTUM AHHHHH

I always thought Snapshot looked great , so this just confirms that for sure . Will play it someday ...

Goddammit Patrick, stop explaining and play the game. Your journalism skills are getting in the way of showing the game!

People are always just SO angry in the comments. Makes me smile and feel better about myself.

Another puzzle platformer? Another puzzle platformer.

Did I hear a group laugh at a bit before 14 min in?

Patrick haters gonna hate, and I'm gonna continue to slowly hunt them down and kill them all.

Drop the snowball, capture it in midair, rotate the photo.

oh god, the comment in these quick looks seem to get worse and worse, never happy are you

All you people bitching about Patrick need to remember that he said fuck you to Nolan North... this means don't fuck with em

Seems like this really could have used a time-freeze mechanic. I don't like the look of the split-second camera adjusting.

Very cute, I'd play it.

I agree with the couple suggestions Patrick made, with regards to the design. Having some sort of depiction on the photographs of any momentum captured seems like it would be really helpful. For example, maybe an arrow pointing in the matching direction, or throw a little motion blur on there.

The mechanic that this game is based on seems really solid, I'll probably pick it up on PSN.

Damn this looks like it can get hella frustrating at times.

neat-o

I dont understand patrick haters. He gives you every detail you'll need on a game before you buy it... what more could you ask for?

This looks cool. Might pick it up at some point.

This game seems neat, isn't this coming out on PS3

I can picture me playing this game.

Goddammit Patrick, stop explaining and play the game. Your journalism skills are getting in the way of showing the game!

As of this comment, there's more "Oh, wow, people hate Patrick sooo much! How lame they must be!" comments than actual comments hating on Patrick. I just thought you'd like to know.

@LikeaSsur said:

As of this comment, there's more "Oh, wow, people hate Patrick sooo much! How lame they must be!" comments than actual comments hating on Patrick. I just thought you'd like to know.

White knights being white knights. I see no one hating on Patrick, just pointing out solutions to the puzzles that defeated him.

@Maajin said:

People are always just SO angry in the comments. Makes me smile and feel better about myself.

I think you are lying about this. I think you just said the opposite of what is true.

The game looks cool and has a neat little mechanic.

Also, the Patrick defense force getting super-frustrated for some reason? I don't know.

This quicklook almost had me sold on the game, but that trampoline puzzle would break me.

@Flacracker said:

@JetForceGemini said:

@Tan said:

...why's he playing with a controller?

He explained why in the video. Try keeping up.

There is no reason to play with a controller. The keyboard can do the basic platforming this game has just fine.

What are you, some kind of keyboard elitist? Keyboards were made for typing. They are the natural evolution of a typewriter. That's why they have all these letters on them. A gamepad was made for games, like the one in this video.

What? What have you got for me? Yeah, I thought so.

I'm more tired of these indie platformers than i ever was of ww2 shooters

I've got no real problem with Patrick, but I have learned that I probably won't like the games he tends to write about and QL.

Not a slight against him, really. Knowing how your tastes line up with a given reviewer is just logic.

hard in a good way

I'm tired of puzzle platformers. I still think the 2D sprite based game still has life though. Action games like Castle Crashers tend to stay fun.

And yeah, I fucking hate playing games with keyboards. Maybe all the PC hardcore guys who started out with Doom back in the 90s are used to it by now. But my family never had a PC strong enough for gaming when I was a kid.

Keyboards aren't even that hot for typing. The reason the letters are so scrambled is because the keyboard was DESIGNED to be difficult to learn. They could have made the home row all vowels or something.

@edeo said:

Keyboards aren't even that hot for typing. The reason the letters are so scrambled is because the keyboard was DESIGNED to be difficult to learn. They could have made the home row all vowels or something.

Well that's a pretty stupid thing to say. I'm going to assume you're referring to QWERTY keyboards since that is still the standard. The QWERTY keyboard was designed so that mechanical typewriters would jam less often. Why the hell would someone patent something that was needlessly designed to be a pain in the ass?

@Ghostiet said:

I wonder why there's barely anyone complaining when Ryan spends the first 10 minutes of every quick look in the menus or when Brad fumbles at explaining mechanics instead of actually explaining them.

There are plenty of complaints when that stuff happens, but those guys are better because they can make it sound casual, and conversational.

Patrick's tone tends to sound like he's giving a lecture.. every Quick Look becomes the oral history of video games and his experiences with them. He can get annoying, if you really want me to boil it down.

@edeo said:

Keyboards aren't even that hot for typing. The reason the letters are so scrambled is because the keyboard was DESIGNED to be difficult to learn. They could have made the home row all vowels or something.

That's why I use Dvorak. The home row is aoeuidhtns. The underlined characters are where the little bumps on the home row are (f and j in QWERTY).

I can see how this game can get pretty devious later on. Looks good though.

well, since we're already bitching about this: I usually don't like patrick's QLs for the same reason I don't like QL EX's. they're clinical and boring, more of a prolonged tutorial than a "let's play"-type video. all the mechanical minutia just drags; we don't need every system explained to us in excruciating detail, gameplay speaks for itself in most cases.

also, PSA to all indie developers: team up with an indie composer or find some royalty-free music, stop forcing your bedroom guitar instrumentals on us, please.

@Scrawnto said:

@edeo said:

Keyboards aren't even that hot for typing. The reason the letters are so scrambled is because the keyboard was DESIGNED to be difficult to learn. They could have made the home row all vowels or something.

That's why I use Dvorak. The home row is aoeuidhtns. The underlined characters are where the little bumps on the home row are (f and j in QWERTY).

You also use left-handed mice and play a left-handed guitar, I presume?

@CH3BURASHKA said:

@Scrawnto said:

@edeo said:

Keyboards aren't even that hot for typing. The reason the letters are so scrambled is because the keyboard was DESIGNED to be difficult to learn. They could have made the home row all vowels or something.

That's why I use Dvorak. The home row is aoeuidhtns. The underlined characters are where the little bumps on the home row are (f and j in QWERTY).

You also use left-handed mice and play a left-handed guitar, I presume?

Nope. I'm not left handed.

@Wes said:

@edeo said:

Keyboards aren't even that hot for typing. The reason the letters are so scrambled is because the keyboard was DESIGNED to be difficult to learn. They could have made the home row all vowels or something.

Well that's a pretty stupid thing to say. I'm going to assume you're referring to QWERTY keyboards since that is still the standard. The QWERTY keyboard was designed so that mechanical typewriters would jam less often. Why the hell would someone patent something that was needlessly designed to be a pain in the ass?

Well if you know that it's designed so that typewriters would am less often you should know that he's right, even if his wording is a bit off. The QWERTY layout was indeed designed so that mechanical typewriters would jam less often. Their jam-solution? Put the keys in, or at least was considered, the most counter-intuitive design so that the typist physically took longer to type so that it would jam less (that and certain keys placed away from each other). It's not necessarily difficult to learn as there are obviously tons of people who type without ever looking at the keyboard, but it is designed to be slower than what it should physically take.

And 'why the hell would someone patent something that was needlessly designed to be a pain in the ass?' Isn't there like a million examples of that in everyday life with anything to do with Windows, iTunes, etc?