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#1
For the Master of the Universe award, yes. But take another look at this thread title ;)
#2
I guess Terry forgot about that room, or assumed (rightly, I expect) that no-one would ever be able to make it that far! :victoria:

That's kind of what puts me off making a genuine attempt at it though. It wouldn't be possible to get that trinket, and 19 out of 20 would just seem too nigglingly incomplete to me.
#3
VVVVVV / Re: No Death Mode
June 04, 2010, 05:27:01 PM
I think the key difference is in that even in the insanely hard parts of VVVVVV, when you die you know it was because you made a mistake, or your timing was off, or your reflexes weren't fast enough.

When you die in IWTBTG, it's usually because a gigantic anvil suddenly appeared out of nowhere and crushed you without any kind of warning. I mean, that's the way the game was designed. It was made so that the only way to get through it is through exhaustive trial and error, and a lot of dying randomly because the rules suddenly changed. I get that is has a following of people who are really into this, but I managed to last about four screens of IWTBTG before I just got bored of acting out the creator's theatre-of-death fantasies.
#4
Other Games / Re: GDC 2010: The Game
March 19, 2010, 02:37:25 AM
Quote from: Terry on March 19, 2010, 12:39:26 AMThe players can see that they're affecting the game but probably don't really understand how, which is where the joke ending comes in - the game ends every couple of seconds, and a winner is randomly chosen from the participants!

Haha - neat. I thought it was some kind of rhythm game, and kept trying to play it as if I was 4 people! :vermillion:

And I honestly cannot fathom how someone could feel personally affronted by something like this.
#5
VVVVVV / Re: Steam?
February 15, 2010, 07:33:11 PM
Steam is a community, not just an online store. As the original poster said:

Quote from: VVVVVV on February 15, 2010, 12:50:34 PMI've been holding out for a Steam version so I can have the game sit proudly in my online collection and satisfy my compulsive addiction to have my playtime officialy tracked by Valve and have it shown off to my friends list and to not have "In a non-Steam game" appear whenever I play it.
#6
VVVVVV / Re: Combine?!?!?! (MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT!!!)
February 15, 2010, 12:21:35 PM
Vanilla?
#7
VVVVVV / VVVVVV - The Abridged Version
January 28, 2010, 01:40:21 AM
#8
Alright - you got me! I guess I was so psyched at beating No Death mode that I wanted to celebrate it, while at the same time keeping the image of that final trophy all to myself :vermillion:

Here's a screenshot of the real trophy.
#9
Phew! Well after a pretty crazy couple of days spent skidding, flipping, dying, and screaming every curse word imaginable at my computer, in an intense session today I finally managed to get through the whole game in "No Death" mode. It was about my 4th or 5th try in a row (I kept dying in The Final Challenge) but perseverance paid off, and at long last I flipped Viridian into outer space, and sweet victory was mine!

I must say, I was surprised at the form the "Master of the Universe" trophy takes. I guess you could say it shows a "different side" to Terry. Don't look if you don't want to spoil it, but I've taken a screenshot here.

A nice touch is that there are also additional lines of dialogue if you go around the lab and talk to your crewmates after completing this trophy. Here, Victoria attempts to explain more matters of science to Viridian - Screenshot

Now I need to go and give my fingers a rest! All this photosh- I mean flipping has taken its toll! :viridian:
#10
VVVVVV / Re: Accessing the time trials
January 26, 2010, 02:23:28 PM
Brilliant - that did the trick. Thank you!

I think I deleted my save when I started mucking around with different accessibility modes after I'd finished the game. Good to know I don't have to play all the way through again to get to the time trials and other fun things ;D
#11
VVVVVV / Re: Accessing the time trials
January 26, 2010, 01:44:35 PM
Thanks, but when I press Play the game just starts. I don't have another menu after that :victoria:
#12
Not a reference to another game, but just a cute little play on words: The room "What Lies Beneath" is directly above one of the rooms with the "LIES" moving across at speed. What lies indeed!


Also, I can hardly believe no-one's mentioned this one yet. That ghost in The Tomb of Mad Carew looks awfully familiar... I think I should remember, only all this flipping up and down is making me Dizzy...


(clickedy-click)


I leave you with the poem "The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God", by J Milton Hayes (bolding mine):

QuoteTHE GREEN EYE OF THE LITTLE YELLOW GOD
J Milton Hayes

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,
There's a little marble cross below the town;
There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,
And the Yellow God forever gazes down.

He was known as "Mad Carew" by the subs at Khatmandu,
He was hotter than they felt inclined to tell;
But for all his foolish pranks, he was worshipped in the ranks,
And the Colonel's daughter smiled on him as well.

He had loved her all along, with a passion of the strong,
The fact that she loved him was plain to all.
She was nearly twenty-one and arrangements had begun
To celebrate her birthday with a ball.

He wrote to ask what present she would like from Mad Carew;
They met next day as he dismissed a squad;
And jestingly she told him then that nothing else would do
But the green eye of the little Yellow God.

On the night before the dance, Mad Carew seemed in a trance,
And they chaffed him as they puffed at their cigars:
But for once he failed to smile, and he sat alone awhile,
Then went out into the night beneath the stars.

He returned before the dawn, with his shirt and tunic torn,
And a gash across his temple dripping red;
He was patched up right away, and he slept through all the day,
And the Colonel's daughter watched beside his bed.

He woke at last and asked if they could send his tunic through;
She brought it, and he thanked her with a nod;
He bade her search the pocket saying "That's from Mad Carew",
And she found the little green eye of the god.

She upbraided poor Carew in the way that women do,
Though both her eyes were strangely hot and wet;
But she wouldn't take the stone and Mad Carew was left alone
With the jewel that he'd chanced his life to get.

When the ball was at its height, on that still and tropic night,
She thought of him and hurried to his room;
As she crossed the barrack square she could hear the dreamy air
Of a waltz tune softly stealing thro' the gloom.

His door was open wide, with silver moonlight shining through;
The place was wet and slipp'ry where she trod;
An ugly knife lay buried in the heart of Mad Carew,
'Twas the "Vengeance of the Little Yellow God".

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,
There's a little marble cross below the town;
There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,
And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
#13
VVVVVV / Accessing the time trials
January 26, 2010, 01:26:10 PM
Hey everybody,

This is probably going to sound like a VVVVVVeally dense question, and I can see myself being very red-faced when someone gives me a simple answer :-[, but having now finished the game with all 20 trinkets (phew!) and made it into the secret lab (and sucked on the Super Gravitron), I figure I'd like to have a go at some of these much lauded time trials :viridian:

Only question is, how do I start them? I've gone round all the menus about 20 times now - the in-game pause menus, as well as the title menus - and the only reference to time trials I can find is an option to unlock them (and they are all greyed out :verdigris:). Did I miss something in the game? :victoria: