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Strong Bad Episode 1 Hits the WiiWare Shop
Nintendo has added a new title to their WiiWare shop, Strong Bad Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner from developer Telltale Games. The new title features the infamous boxing-glove-adorned character in the first of five installments of Telltale's "Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People." "The point-and-click adventure game stars Strong Bad, the lucha libre mask-wearing character from web cartoon series Homestar Runner. Players can create 'Teen Girl Squad' comics, play a retro-styled minigame titled Snake Boxer 5, and send pictures and messages to their friends through the Wii's message board system." In addition to the new title, two classic titles have also been added for virtual console, Break In, and Star Parodier.
...the enemy PS3 with explosives?
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
They're not boxing gloves, they're his hands. How many times do we have to cover this?
-Peter
They should concentrate their efforts on the other H*R game.
Circumcision is child abuse.
Here be the link :D
http://www.telltalegames.com/strongbad
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...your karma is vaingloriously devoured by a gelatinous monster. Grandpa.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
How many nerd points do I loose?
Some things are better than nerd points.
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I say that you loose them upon the cats and the dogs.
Using "loose" where you mean "lose" is worse than not being familiar with a particular internet meme (yeah, that's right, Strong Bad is an internet meme).
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Strong Bad is a character featured on the popular animation web site homestarrunner.com.
The write-up concerns a downloadable game written for the Nintendo Wii gaming console that uses Strong Bad and other characters developed by homestarrunner.
fhqwghads I said come on fhqwghads!
homestar runner is the name of one of the characters. to say he developed strong bad would be weird.
it was developed by two brothers - Mike and Matt Chapman.
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I think the other replies pretty much sum up the answer to the nerd points question, but I'll try to sum up what this is about.
Strong Bad is a fictional character created by The Brothers Chaps of Homestar Runner, a very popular Flash cartoon series.
While the name would suggest that the toons are about Homestar, the majority of them come from a section of the site called "Strong Bad Emails", in which Strong Bad answers e-mails sent to "his" e-mail address (strongbad [at] homestarrunner [dot] com) by the readership.
TFA is about the first episode in a video game starring Strong Bad. As a side note, in case you didn't know, Telltale Games are the good folks who gave us the (modern) adventures of Sam & Max. Great stuff.
--- Mr. DOS
Given that you can't (officially) use a Wiimote on a Windows box, I would hazard a guess that it's probably better on the Wii. Thus the discount for the crappier platform.
Only a non-nerd would say that.
Let's get 'im boys!
www.homestarrunner.com a website of varied flash cartoons featuring the aforementioned Strong Bad. All the humor is clean, and yet the site is quite popular with adults. Check it out.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
It is a bluetooth controller. People them on Windows boxes all the time. And frankly, I find selecting items on the screen rather a pain-in-the-ass with the Wiimote. For an adventure game, a mouse would likely be better.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
Given that you can't (officially) use a Wiimote on a Windows box, I would hazard a guess that it's probably better on the Wii. Thus the discount for the crappier platform.
In a "point and click" game like this, I doubt the Wiimote will make any difference at all.
You know, for all the years of their unique brand of humor, WITHOUT ads, without a subscription, and without resorting to having strongbad basically beg you to buy his merchandise, think of it as a $10 donation to the chaps bros.
Seriously, all that animation must take an assload of work, it's always the same quality, there are only occasional long lapses in updates. Pay the $10 or at least nominate them for internet sainthood.
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=1647
Bullshit. How much a month do you spend on coffee? Eating out? Other crap?
$10 for a game like this makes me feel like I'm ripping them off, seriously.
...is the reason why you should rejoice. It's like Parodius but with Hudson's characters (including Bomberman and a PC Engine shooting CDs !).
Sir, I'll need your geek card, please.
Anybody want my mod points?
However many nerd points you loose, you gain nerd points for not following the link to RTFA in the slashdot article from a couple days ago with the Internet Meme timeline.
http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes
You'll find homestar runner at june 30, 2001, at the first level of zoom!
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
Quite frankly, I find these newfangled computers to be quite a pain in the ass. I think our lives would be much better if we all had just ignored them and continued using Teletypes.
How do you hold the Wii controller with your boxing gloves on?
Yours truly,
Chicago, Illinois
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
Let's see...for inability to use Wiki, you lose half of all nerd points and for inability to use Google, you lose the rest.
The cake is a pie
How many nerd points do I loose?
Since you misspelled "lose", you get a credit of one nerd point and come out even.
This is a clear reference to the strongbad e-mail "Techno music".
On topic.
Did anyone catch that typo?
Clearly, the person writing the article is typing with boxing gloves on.
/fhqwagads
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
"The games they have on the site look like something that you would have played on a Commodore 64 or an Atari."
Uh, you do realize that's exactly the point of them don't you?
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Wow. A low comment count.
At first glance, I thought HSR had suffered from the ravages of time and a fickle public, but from the comments, it seems that there are some people who manged to avoid the mega-internet sensation which ripped through my town three years back.
A Strongbad point & click adventure from the Sam & Max guys?
Aside from the fact that content driven story adventures are today's Pong in the game world, it should be pretty impressive. I love their voice acting and comic timing, even if the HSR humor is cynical and mean-spirited.
I'd check it out if I didn't have to actually play it. Or own a Wii. I miss the days when I could kick back as my friends labored their way through silly games while I watched. I pretty much cannot stand the act of actually working through nearly any kind of video game myself, but for some reason, I really enjoy seeing my friends play them. --That way I don't have to muck around with annoying control pads or remember button combinations and I don't have to stress out over endless, repetitive hand-eye coordination challenges, whereas I DO get to see a story (of sorts) unfold before me and share in the camaraderie of cheering on friends as they confront challenges. It was generally far more fun than regular TV programming because I got to see people I cared about achieving their goals, (even if they were meaningless digital goals). --Then I grew up and no longer have time to blow on basement adventures and junk food.
Still, good for the Strongbad creators. They've worked long and hard and they have lots of talent. I hope this project does well for them!
-FL
Yeah, but you get them "cheap as free!"
It took me a while to realize you were making a joke, by the way, I was about to chide you about looking a gift horse in the mouth.
Ah bless, so good to see people with 'special needs' allowed to post here.
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
I'd check it out if I didn't have to [...] own a Wii.
You do realize that the H*R game was also released for the PC at the same time?
Or have I been imagining those four hours of playing through it yesterday?
Why? Is he sleeping with your wife or something?
Right, but I wouldn't consider "commodore 64" graphics an "assload of work." They have flash templates set up for everything. It's just a matter of rearranging it and spending 5 minutes writing new scripts for everything. And by scripts, I mean action scripts...because the actual dialog has to be written on the fly to be as unfunny as it is.
Wise men say, "Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza."
But not as weird as if he was developed by Homsar.
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
Perhaps after Nintendo takes their cut, the fellows will still have $7.50 with which to buy some buffalo chicken tenders.
Agh! We need a game where you can play as Trogdor, the burninator!
"Trogdor was a man
I mean, he was a dragon man
Or maybe he was just a dragon
But he was still TROGDOR!
Burninating the countryside,
Burninating the peasants
Burninating all the peoples
And their thatched-roof COTTAGES!
And theTrogdor comes in the NIIIGHT..."
/.Mattsson - My native language is not English, so please don't whine over linguistic errors. (That's lame anyway...)
Ah, but remember, there's four more episodes following this one. Count on them being about $10 apiece too. (Or if they really take off, more?) And meanwhile, they're making more of a name for themselves, and possibly growing their audience. Why, from a certain view, this looks like advertising.
In the long run, I think they'll do okay.
You cannot truly appreciate Dilbert until you read it in the original Klingon.
Some things are better than nerd points.
He's a witch! Get the torches.
yeah... because new scripts take *only* 5 minutes
*rolls eyes 720 degrees*
Get yourself to an ophthalmologist ASAP.
People them on Windows boxes all the time.
Go read my post again. Officially, it's not supported.
For an adventure game, a mouse would likely be better.
Telltale claims that they're going to make use of the Wiimote's unique capabilities. If that's true, then that might, in and of itself, justify the price difference.
Telltale claims that they are going to make use of the wiimote's special capabilities. Of course, every game writer claims that, but if they do, then you're wrong, and that would justify a price difference.
Torches? Don't we need a duck and some large scales to tell if she's a witch?
11 was a racehorse
12 was 12
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www.homestarrunner.com a website of varied flash cartoons featuring the aforementioned Strong Bad. All the humor is clean, and yet the site is quite popular with adults. Check it out.
Clean? Are you saying Strong Bad has lost edge?
Whats timeline was this game set in?
Will we get to see the original paper?
Preeow!