Strong Bad Episode 1 Hits the WiiWare Shop 113
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.
Nintendo has rigged... (Score:3, Funny)
Message before explosion: (Score:5, Funny)
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Your Head Asplode! [subt1.net]
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Re:How do you type with boxing gloves on your hand (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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Oh come on. The games they have on the site look like something that you would have played on a Commodore 64 or an Atari.
Re:How do you type with boxing gloves on your hand (Score:5, Insightful)
"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?
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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.
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*rolls eyes 720 degrees*
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Get yourself to an ophthalmologist ASAP.
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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.
Re:How do you type with boxing gloves on your hand (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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Perhaps after Nintendo takes their cut, the fellows will still have $7.50 with which to buy some buffalo chicken tenders.
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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.
Not Gloves! (Score:5, Informative)
They're not boxing gloves, they're his hands. How many times do we have to cover this?
-Peter
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how does he type with them? /obligatory
Re:Not Gloves! (Score:5, Funny)
I was going to ask the same question about Marzipan and Homestar, except the question was "how do they type without them"?
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ponderous, man. real ponderous.
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Homestar is secretly a Jedi master and he uses the Force to type, fap, etc.
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Oh hell, don't ask. There's a whole debate about whether they have invisible arms or telekinetic powers.
Of course, Homestar's pants, or lack thereof, is another issue.
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LOL
do you take your face and hands off every night before you go to bed?
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And if so, are you some kind of robot? And if so, what kind of powers do you have? Do you use them for good, or for awesome?
-Peter
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Similarly, "this is not a [lucha-libre] mask, it's-a my face."
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They're not boxing gloves, they're his hands. How many times do we have to cover this?
Did you miss this part underneath the title?
Posted by ScuttleMonkey
I think that answers that question.
Finish the other one first! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Finish the other one first! (Score:5, Funny)
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Though Homestar Runner RPG had the blessing of The Bros. Chaps, it was being developed by a third party, a Mr. Paul Slocum. It doesn't seem that The Bros. Chaps had the same level of involvement, if any, that they have in Strong Bad's Cool Game. . . , so go and complain to Slocum. (Though that'd be a colossal dick move on your part.)
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Though that'd be a colossal dick move on your part
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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I was hoping for a port into a proper engine since it runs badly in fullscreen for me (plus bugfixes might be good...).
Re:Finish the other one first! (Score:5, Informative)
We still may release a H*R Atari 2600 game at some point -- we've talked about some other ideas that would be much more reasonable.
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They should concentrate their efforts on the other H*R game [link to Paul Slocum's Atari 2600 HomestaRPG].
And here I was, thinking that the first game they should get around to finishing is the Flash-based NES-'em-up "Stinkoman 20X6 [hrwiki.org]" game.
Chaps, we've been waiting for Level 10 for almost three years now...
Also availiable on PC (Score:5, Informative)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The System (Score:5, Funny)
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Is Down
doo dee doo deeee dooooooo
doo dee doo deeee dooooooo
The cheat is grounded! [youtube.com]
Uninformed mods (Score:3, Informative)
This is a clear reference to the strongbad e-mail "Techno music".
On topic.
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So is the enemy's gate.
Come on (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Come on (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.homestarrunner.com/fhqwhgads.html [homestarrunner.com]
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And he's amazingly versatile, too. Techno! [subt1.net]
Review (Score:2, Informative)
Star Parodier... (Score:2, Informative)
Dear Strong Bad... (Score:5, Funny)
How do you hold the Wii controller with your boxing gloves on?
Yours truly,
Chicago, Illinois
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You win two internets and an AOL.
Sorry about that last one.
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Well Chicago,
There is a right way and a wrong way to... DELETED!
Homestar RUINer? (Score:2, Funny)
Clearly, the person writing the article is typing with boxing gloves on.
/fhqwagads
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No typo, my friend, it's the name of the game. I believe that would be a pun.
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Personally I will wait for their up and coming hit, "Translate Server Error"...
Sounds cool. Brings back memories. . . (Score:5, Interesting)
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
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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?
Homestar *Ruiner*?!?! (Score:1)
Trogdor. (Score:2)
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..."
Re:Trogdor. (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html [homestarrunner.com]
Like this game?
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Didn't know about that one. =-D
Thanks!
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What, like this? [homestarrunner.com]
There's also a Trogdor arcade machine in the basement of Strongbad's house in Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive etc. etc... But I haven't been able to play it yet - the joystick's broken & we're waiting for parts that Strong Sad has ordered.
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Will we get to see the original paper?
Preeow!
Epic Fail... (Score:5, Funny)
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...your karma is vaingloriously devoured by a gelatinous monster. Grandpa.
Oooooo.. Burn(inated)!
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Oooooo.. Burn(inated)!
We need a cool sound effect for this...
*DWAYNE*!
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FANGORIOUSLY.
http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/kids_book
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Vaingloriously? While that is an excellent word, I believe that the one for which you are searching is fangoriously. And... um... Linebacker.
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How many nerd points do I loose?
Some things are better than nerd points.
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Only a non-nerd would say that.
Let's get 'im boys!
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Some things are better than nerd points.
He's a witch! Get the torches.
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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).
Re:WTF? Translation, anyone? (Score:5, Informative)
Strong Bad is a character featured on the popular animation web site homestarrunner.com [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.
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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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Re:WTF? Translation, anyone? (Score:5, Informative)
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 [homestarrunner.com], 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
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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.
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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?
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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 [dipity.com]
You'll find homestar runner at june 30, 2001, at the first level of zoom!
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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.
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How many nerd points do I loose?
Since you misspelled "lose", you get a credit of one nerd point and come out even.
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