They said it couldn't be done -- and for good reason, considering how difficult it must be for a creature to stretch its own body to a length of 576,682,810 miles. However, thanks to a little help from Namco Bandai, Noby Noby Boy's community-driven "Girl" has managed to extend her torso from Earth to Jupiter, unlocking a new playable planet for all of the game's inhabitants.
Make sure you check out the video after the jump to get a sense of what eating your own butt whilst aimlessly traversing a gas giant feels like. We can't believe we just had a reason to write that sentence. Thank you so, so much, Noby Noby Boy.
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Posted: Nov 22nd 2009 1:58PM The Monarch said
maybe it is not the game that is trippy but your perception of the game that is indeed trippy
.....man, I should have just said, "yeah"
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.....man, I should have just said, "yeah"
Posted: Nov 21st 2009 9:04PM (Unverified) said
At the end of the solar system: Will people go to Pluto or Planet X (Considering the "fact" that pluto is no longer a planet)?
Downvote if grammar is crap.
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Downvote if grammar is crap.
Posted: Nov 21st 2009 9:42PM (Unverified) said
Don't say Pluto isn't a planet! It's going to crash into the Earth for revenge in 2012 if we keep saying that!
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Posted: Nov 21st 2009 10:04PM (Unverified) said
That's why I put quotations around the word fact.
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Posted: Nov 21st 2009 10:08PM Tre said
Pluto is a planet, goddangit!
The Sackboys believed me, too:
http://playstation.joystiq.com/2008/10/22/help-sackboy-and-littlebigplanet-make-pluto-a-real-planet-again/
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The Sackboys believed me, too:
http://playstation.joystiq.com/2008/10/22/help-sackboy-and-littlebigplanet-make-pluto-a-real-planet-again/
Posted: Nov 21st 2009 10:12PM Shadowbender said
Pluto isn't a planet...hehehe, my gosh...I still am baffled as to why these "scientists" ever announced this change of classification. One of the most idiotic things that ever happened in astronomical history. Excuse my mini-rant.
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Posted: Nov 21st 2009 10:44PM (Unverified) said
Shadowbender, you're ignorance makes me sad =[
I'll just sum it up to "Language means only what people define it to mean" They redefined what we call it, not what it "is"
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I'll just sum it up to "Language means only what people define it to mean" They redefined what we call it, not what it "is"
Posted: Nov 22nd 2009 1:15PM Roto13 said
I love people who are so delusional that they think they know more about what is a planet and what isn´t than people who devote their lives to studying them.
Pluto isn´t a planet. Get over whatever weird attachment you have to it as one. It has absolutely no effect on your life anyway.
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Pluto isn´t a planet. Get over whatever weird attachment you have to it as one. It has absolutely no effect on your life anyway.
Posted: Nov 21st 2009 9:20PM bakedbeans6 said
Did they use fuzzy math again, like they did to get her to Mars?
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Posted: Nov 21st 2009 9:54PM killdash9 said
Not really fuzzy math so much as occasional, random multipliers for a day's length contributions. There was one day when I found my contributions multiplied by either 1011 or 1101 (I forgot which). That slingshot my contribution to well over 19 million meters (and my overall contribution outside of that one day is less than 500,000 meters). Wikipedia claims this happens once a week. I can't vouch for that, though.
If you try to view Noby Noby Boy as a traditional game, with a defined objective, it's not that much fun. But, if you view it as a "software toy" (to use an old Maxis term), and just mess around, it can be quite amusing. It's also a great way to entertain young children. "I'm going to try to eat that house. . . . I ate it!" They love that stuff.
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If you try to view Noby Noby Boy as a traditional game, with a defined objective, it's not that much fun. But, if you view it as a "software toy" (to use an old Maxis term), and just mess around, it can be quite amusing. It's also a great way to entertain young children. "I'm going to try to eat that house. . . . I ate it!" They love that stuff.
Posted: Nov 21st 2009 10:11PM 343 Guilty Fart said
What killdash said. It's like playing around with an extremely silly and cute physics engine.
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Posted: Nov 21st 2009 10:50PM technoKyle said
Yeah, wouldn't it have taken Girl like 11 years to even get to Mars at the same rate it took her to get to the moon?
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Posted: Nov 21st 2009 9:27PM (Unverified) said
Wow, people still play this overblown tech demo? Noby Noby was fun for like 30 minutes, and then you realized that was the whole game.
Call me when the find the "fun" planet.
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Call me when the find the "fun" planet.
Posted: Nov 22nd 2009 11:31AM (Unverified) said
I guess you can downvote me too, but what he said is true. I mean, I bought it, I love Katamari, but it was just boring after an hour or so.
It was definitely a trippy hour, though.
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It was definitely a trippy hour, though.
Posted: Nov 22nd 2009 12:34PM (Unverified) said
You can try to down vote the truth, but the truth prevails!
I wanted to like this game, I did.. I was excited about, it's actually one of the reasons I got a PS3 to begin with when I did (MGS4 and LBP as well).
I'm a huge Katamari fan though, that game has the quirky charm thing down, but with something fun to do as well, and progression that's rewarding.
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I wanted to like this game, I did.. I was excited about, it's actually one of the reasons I got a PS3 to begin with when I did (MGS4 and LBP as well).
I'm a huge Katamari fan though, that game has the quirky charm thing down, but with something fun to do as well, and progression that's rewarding.
Posted: Nov 22nd 2009 2:19PM el serpiente said
I think you're asking a bit much from a $5 game. If you paid $50 for it, I'd agree with you, but I think they priced it correctly for what it was- an interactive toy.
Really, what did you expect for $5, a full blown katamari-esque game? Use your brain.
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Really, what did you expect for $5, a full blown katamari-esque game? Use your brain.
Posted: Nov 21st 2009 10:01PM (Unverified) said
I got this game the day it came out, and I knew right there it would be game of the year. I am being totally serious. It doesn't matter that every other game has better graphics, or tons more content, or Batman. This game gives you unlimited freedom, and it practically forces you to smile.
Also, I feel really bad for not playing this game the last few months. >_>'
Still, my point stands. This may be the best game ever made, simply because it is gaming at its essence: you, the character and the world. No story, no context. Just fun. Pure, focused fun. The best kind.
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Also, I feel really bad for not playing this game the last few months. >_>'
Still, my point stands. This may be the best game ever made, simply because it is gaming at its essence: you, the character and the world. No story, no context. Just fun. Pure, focused fun. The best kind.
Posted: Nov 21st 2009 11:05PM (Unverified) said
*tries to resist...fails*
This is SPARTA!!!!!!!!
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This is SPARTA!!!!!!!!
Posted: Nov 21st 2009 10:21PM Nate Addison said
Is this the part where I come back with a mom joke, or some form of witty Star Wars line, or ask for one of the beta codes from the contest that went horribly wrong for reasons unknown to me?
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Posted: Nov 21st 2009 10:59PM bakedbeans6 said
Oh, I wasn't saying anything bad about the actual game, which I have. Just that the math to get her places is a little "off."
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Posted: Nov 22nd 2009 1:07AM (Unverified) said
What a great feature though. I wish other games would have this. More then this "silly" game. I dont really see going back to this game just to reach another planet.
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Posted: Nov 22nd 2009 1:20AM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said
I contributed!... if only a little bit.
It's fun, whatever youw ant to call it (game, toy, tech demo, whatever... these are just words).
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It's fun, whatever youw ant to call it (game, toy, tech demo, whatever... these are just words).
Posted: Nov 22nd 2009 1:56AM (Unverified) said
Pluto is still a planet. Only four percent of the IAU voted on the controversial demotion, and most are not planetary scientists. Their decision was immediately opposed in a formal petition by hundreds of professional astronomers led by Dr. Alan Stern, Principal Investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. One reason the IAU definition makes no sense is it says dwarf planets are not planets at all! That is like saying a grizzly bear is not a bear, and it is inconsistent with the use of the term “dwarf” in astronomy, where dwarf stars are still stars, and dwarf galaxies are still galaxies. Also, the IAU definition classifies objects solely by where they are while ignoring what they are. If Earth were in Pluto’s orbit, according to the IAU definition, it would not be a planet either. A definition that takes the same object and makes it a planet in one location and not a planet in another is essentially useless. Pluto is a planet because it is spherical, meaning it is large enough to be pulled into a round shape by its own gravity--a state known as hydrostatic equilibrium and characteristic of planets, not of shapeless asteroids held together by chemical bonds. These reasons are why many astronomers, lay people, and educators are either ignoring the demotion entirely or working to get it overturned.
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 2:33PM (Unverified) said
I'd caution people not to take scientific advice from people in a Joystiq comments thread - what's he saying about the definition of the planet is flat-out wrong and the impression he gives of professional astronomers is misleading. Read up on it yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_definition_of_planet
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_definition_of_planet
Posted: Nov 22nd 2009 1:14PM (Unverified) said
And when did he get the same hairstyle as marimo?
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Posted: Nov 25th 2009 6:41PM (Unverified) said
droamda, if you're referring to me, I happen to be an amateur astronomer and astronomy graduate student who has done extensive research on this topic and plans to write a book about it. Wikipedia is not an unbiased source. Visit http://gpd.jhuapl.edu/ to hear discussions from an August 2008 conference called the Great Planet Debate and here http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/planetprotest/ for the petition of professional astronomers who rejected Pluto's demotion.
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