Don't be fooled by the seeming simplicity of the gameplay seen here. While Limbo is a platformer, it features many unique physics-based environmental puzzles, which aren't well demonstrated in this brief teaser. Also not featured in this video: some of the most scarring, gruesome death sequences we've ever seen in a game.
Don't be fooled by the seeming simplicity of the gameplay seen here. While Limbo is a platformer, it features many unique physics-based environmental puzzles, which aren't well demonstrated in this brief teaser. Also not featured in this video: some of the most scarring, gruesome death sequences we've ever seen in a game.
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Posted: May 12th 2010 2:33PM Granger said
Reminds me a lot of Heart of Darkness for some reason, looks great. Definitely on my want list.
Posted: May 12th 2010 2:43PM Granger said
And speaking of gruesome death sequences: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyZfME5XYY
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Posted: May 12th 2010 2:56PM Granger said
Blood and gore, yeah . . . True horrors of zombie-esque people and mutant space men goring buff mercs/cops and marines/miners, sure, that's gruesome and all. But nothing comes close a your character, a little boy no less, getting snapped in half by a cave worm, even if you don't get to actually 'see' it happening.
Kids these days, so desensitized to violence and so immune to the power of implied violence, among many other things.
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Kids these days, so desensitized to violence and so immune to the power of implied violence, among many other things.
Posted: May 12th 2010 4:02PM Grey said
how old are you to be calling me a kid? You don't even know how old I am. How scary Implied violence is, compared to the violence that can be viewed is subjective. I'm just saying the RE4 and Dead Space deaths were as awesome as they were gruesome. Something that "implied" violence can never achieve. There really is no point in arguing over this. You can keep to your views and I'll keep to mine, but don't be so condescending in your posts. It's annoying.
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Posted: May 12th 2010 4:34PM Granger said
It's a turn of phrase mate, I don't deal in assumptions. You may be old, you may be young, and you may be the same age as I . . . It really doesn't matter, because that phrase wasn't directed towards your age, rather your immature cling to the notion that 'gruesome' is reserved for sci-fi horror gore fests.
Hope that wasn't TOO condissen . . . condicean . . . drats, well, you know what I mean, 'cause you ain't no kid, no sir, no how.
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Hope that wasn't TOO condissen . . . condicean . . . drats, well, you know what I mean, 'cause you ain't no kid, no sir, no how.
Posted: May 12th 2010 10:46PM Demaar said
Even if they weren't shown, the implied death sequences in the trailer had a greater effect on me than anything I saw in RE4 or Deadspace, simply because violence against a child is a different sort of wrong. The way the trailer was made really emphasised the boyness of the character, then had him getting in shittier and shittier situations.
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Posted: May 13th 2010 12:40AM The Monarch said
Wrong, Dead Space had the single best death sequence ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xGVBowf_No
Try not to cringe...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xGVBowf_No
Try not to cringe...
Posted: May 12th 2010 2:35PM mtlyoshi9 said
...creeeeeeeepy.
But I'm strangely drawn to it.
This is like a darker version to that Wii game called "Tower of Shadow" or something along those lines.
But I'm strangely drawn to it.
This is like a darker version to that Wii game called "Tower of Shadow" or something along those lines.
Posted: May 12th 2010 2:36PM Truant said
That is freaking rad. An original Xbox Live Arcade game that I'll actually buy... lunacy!
Posted: May 12th 2010 2:38PM (Unverified) said
Wow, the combination of darkness and sound is truly disturbing. I really hope this won't stay on Xbox alone...
Posted: May 12th 2010 3:38PM Pure Black World Tendency said
If this comes to PS3 I would buy it. Looks awesome.
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Posted: May 12th 2010 10:48PM Demaar said
Dunno why these guys are down voted. Unlike actual fanboys that would say "looks shit, don't want it" because it's not on PS3, they're actually admitting it looks like a great game they just don't have the option to buy it. But they would if they could.
Sometimes you baffle me, Internet.
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Sometimes you baffle me, Internet.
Posted: May 12th 2010 2:38PM RunnyRiver said
I'm looking forward to this game. I've never been so far behind my gaming as I am right now. I'll get it day one anyway.
Posted: May 12th 2010 4:40PM RunnyRiver said
Summer 2010 is all anyone knows. I hate those kind of release dates; they really put me into... limbo.
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Posted: May 12th 2010 2:39PM Nytemare said
I can see this game becoming another consideration for "games as art".
Even while listening without audio (at work, sigh) it was playing with my emotions.
Get some brilliant music to go along with this game and it'll be one hell of a title.
Even while listening without audio (at work, sigh) it was playing with my emotions.
Get some brilliant music to go along with this game and it'll be one hell of a title.
Posted: May 12th 2010 2:47PM Grey said
how come it seems like all of the arcade games that I want to play come to the xbox. Where is the psn love?
Posted: May 12th 2010 2:47PM Acosta02 said
When I saw the headline I thought Hasbro Family Game Night had gone too far. But yeah, this game continues to look awesome.
Posted: May 12th 2010 3:05PM BlackedOut said
I am buying this.
Posted: May 12th 2010 3:05PM LarZen said
This is gaming art at it finest....people saying games aint art need to look at games like Limbo.
Posted: May 12th 2010 3:07PM Tachyonic Cargo said
I spent the entire weekend pouring over videos of this game . . . over and over and over again.
This little gem is going to be insane, and is just the kind of thing I have been looking for.
Gametrailers has a few more vids of Limbo: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/limbo/3310
they've also apparently taken one of the vids they had up this weekend, down. But the ones remaining, are definitely worth more than a look; they are worth obsessing over. You'll see what I mean when you watch them: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/limbo/3310
This little gem is going to be insane, and is just the kind of thing I have been looking for.
Gametrailers has a few more vids of Limbo: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/limbo/3310
they've also apparently taken one of the vids they had up this weekend, down. But the ones remaining, are definitely worth more than a look; they are worth obsessing over. You'll see what I mean when you watch them: http://www.gametrailers.com/game/limbo/3310
Posted: May 12th 2010 4:31PM BULLETBOI said
Where is the Blop?
Posted: May 12th 2010 6:05PM Levi said
This looks AWESOME. See that giant spider? Friggin raaaaddddd
Posted: May 12th 2010 8:11PM The Blank Mage Returns said
Looks like an artsy platformer version of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. Which is awesome, I'll buy both titles as soon as they release.
Posted: May 13th 2010 12:12AM Stanely said
Looks gorgeous.
Posted: May 13th 2010 11:39AM Johnny Neat said
Very interesting and very Little Big Planet.
Posted: May 13th 2010 3:02PM WizardOfWizdom said
This game looks soo good.
Posted: May 13th 2010 10:39PM Fata1Stryke said
Very much looking forward to this. It's supposed to be a summer release, right?
Posted: Jun 1st 2010 8:02PM hey buddy said
This game would look INSANE on the deep-rich inky blacks of a huge plasma screen...
I shall have to put up with "amazing art direction, but damn those blacks aren't very deep" on my LCD screen...
I shall have to put up with "amazing art direction, but damn those blacks aren't very deep" on my LCD screen...
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