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Re: Loving it by Dream Cast 03/31/2016, 10:35pm PDT
Horrible Gelatinous Blob wrote:

Challenge rooms will drive me insane if I don't ignore them. They also need an "instant restart" option in the menu.

I just cleared the last challenge room. It was dumb and I don't recommend it. Even by videogame standards it was a waste of time. I wish I would've spent all that effort learning to play Guitar Hero instead :(

It did make me realize, though, that I will never stop feeling wronged when ostensibly 2D games settle for whatever overly complex 3D collision detection their repurposed FPS engine does out of the box. Like, there's this item in the final room that you can only grab by standing right on the very edge of a platform and shooting your bionic arm at a 45 degree angle. Only, half the time it doesn't work! Eventually I discovered the thing to do in that situation is to shoot your arm once then, without touching any other controls, shoot it again at the exact same angle. The second time it's more likely to connect because the animation from the first attempt shifts your little upper body polygon mesh (but not your feet on the platform) just enough so the arm technically originates from a different point in space. This is ridiculous and stupid and kind of cool but also not at all congruent with the sort of pixel-perfect precision an everything is spikes all the time platformer like Bionic Commando turns into around the last set of challenges demands. (Figure out the collision in that sentence why don't you.)
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Loving it by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 08/14/2008, 5:11pm PDT NEW
    Is coop local only? by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/14/2008, 5:16pm PDT NEW
        I agree, but for $10 I can forgive the lack of online coop. NT by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 08/14/2008, 5:37pm PDT NEW
            Boy will we look stupid if the PC version has online coop. O_O NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/14/2008, 5:49pm PDT NEW
                No. And the PC version will cost $5 more, but Penny Arcade wants you to shove t NT by Fussbett 08/14/2008, 7:25pm PDT NEW
                    We just bought and played a bunch of this on Xbawcks Liev. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/14/2008, 7:45pm PDT NEW
    GOOD AND GOOD by Grumah 08/14/2008, 5:21pm PDT NEW
    I'm amazed at how well you people remember old games like Bionic Commando. by Fussbett 08/14/2008, 5:36pm PDT NEW
        Re: I'm amazed at how well you people remember old games like Bionic Commando. by Horrible Gelatinous Blob 08/14/2008, 5:42pm PDT NEW
            we owned about 15 games before the nes was replaced by the snes by Grumah 08/14/2008, 8:03pm PDT NEW
        We had a 2600 until my much younger brother bought a ps1 (ask me about REACTOR!) NT by The Happiness Engine 08/14/2008, 10:25pm PDT NEW
    Re: Loving it by Dream Cast 03/31/2016, 10:35pm PDT NEW
 
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