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You might have already read that on another forum, since it is all over the internets right now, but lolwut (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310683) (read the whole thread)

 :wtf:

That's so weird :D

Also LOL stands for Limbo Of the Lost now.

I just don't get it. Why would anyone do that?!

The trailers are the most hilariously horrendously awesome things I've ever seen. :wtf:

cave story ripoff

I wouldn't be surprised :D

And I heard the game itself is actually quite inspired and enjoyable.

Which makes their decision even more stupid. Ruin a potentially good game with asset theft. I would rather have shelved the title and waited until I got a proper background artist, or do the best I could anyway. At least it would be original and not lead to the game being pulled off retail and be the center of copyright infringement investigations.

Still stupid.

The worst part is that guy's avatar.
(http://i26.tinypic.com/w0hnqq.gif)

This wins the award of my favorite thing so far today!

It's not you know, it's really really gash. Content theft is the very least of the games problems.

Ah, I must have read one of the "objective reviews", probably written by the creators themselves under different names. :P

Also, have you played it? If so, please share the experience. In detail. :-*

(http://a248.e.akamai.net/f/248/5462/2h/images.gamezone.com/screens/29/2/3/s29203_pc_88.jpg)

Why does he have poo around his mouth? :wtf:

Because he looks up to you.

That's probably why he's got that facial expression...

The trailers of the game are hilarious.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34863.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28891.html

Also check out the making of video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li6-ewgKupA

I played it up to a point. The point where my will to live had slipped from me and a coma was beckoning. That sort of point.

Ok, so I said the content theft is the least of its problems and that's not strictly true because the game is very much the sum of its parts.

It opens with a scene of you plummeting into hell. I can't work out if it's from Spore or Painkiller as I've not watched/played either in a long time now, but y'know - it's nicked. Once you're into the game proper, it takes seconds to realise you're a poser model in a screengrab. As is customary, you begin in a cell. Because that's where all games start isn't it?

Cue a goblin walking along the ceiling towards you as your back is turned. Closely followed by an epic unskippable piece of exposition leading to the goblin waving his finger at the lock to unlock it. The scene is set, you're in limbo, in a cell with a no longer locked door. What's your next move? That's right, kids. Go to the door.

So you toddle out the door, your odd shadow and black outline in tow and into the first of a series of corridor rooms. Each corridor room looks entirely different to the last. You come across a few signs en route where you're welcome to endure the tedium of reading each one. Every one of your characters actions is accompanied by a little animation just to drag things out a few seconds longer than they should take.

After meandering around these corridors for what felt like an eternity I finally set upon a room with two exits (although getting out the room into one of the exits was an almighty fuckaround). One way takes you to the kitchen, where you stumble into Vera Duckworth's goblin twin. She's a cook with a taste for human flesh. You know this because there's a whopping amount of tedious dialogue with terrible voice acting to wade through as you suffer each one of the awful jokes the game lays out in front of you. It also turns out you're the captain of the Mary Celeste. Bonus!

Once you've wandered off, took a bath, had a really long poo and sat back down at the keyboard you might just be back into the game itself. If you're slow. I stumbled off into a library (it had books, books and more books) where I got treated to sniffing a pot (not some pot, that would have at least been enjoyable) and into a room with a lever. Attempt to move the lever and your character appears to be making a sound like he's just cum. Bored with that, I went off to investigate the other exit I'd missed.

There's a fat bloke in the centre of the room, he's your jailer and he's in the land of nod. Evidently a heavy sleeper as you conduct an entire conversation in this room with what looks like a reject from the Pirates Of The Caribbean poser model collective about how you should be really quiet so as not to wake the jailer. This goes on for ages and ages and ages.

I couldn't take anymore at this point, I just couldn't. The tedium of wonky controls, exposition central whenever you looked at anything or stumbled upon a character, the way every single room looked like it was in a different building from the last, the awkwardness of moving around the map or looking at *anything* had my dying from the inside.

It's a truly rotten experience that I've likely made sound a gazillion times more interesting and better than it actually is. In fact, the only thing it does have going for it as a game is the "spot the stolen content" meta game. The rest of it will leave you longing for death to come and sweep you away from a world of shit and pain.

Yet, I'm still in awe of the sheer cheek of the whole thing. There's a monumental amount of effort gone into making the game, but no amount of effort is going to make up for the severe lack of talent shown in every facet of the game.

Top marks for balls out cheek, no marks for anything else.  :beer:

This game sounds monumentally terrible, like they've plumbed new depths of terrible-ness.  It's admirable, in a way.


Why would he do that? :wtf:

Derek, I suspect Inane is referring to that photo montage involving you and a lovely threat, courtesy of Dan Tabar. ;)

Well thank you Oddbob, you spiked my interest even more now. :gentleman:

This should be an inspiration for the next B-Game compo. Seriously, it's practically everything it stands for in a single game.

It should also be noted on the screenshots that the game's graphics were enhanced with the addition of lensflares!

The "creators" of this game:

(http://www.kentonline.co.uk/images/paper/PD1403578_l.jpg)

 :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Also, torrenting this game right now.

It's from the cinematographic masterpiece : Spawn, the movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120177/) .
Srsly.

This is crazy. I'm doing a shopped mockup of another area in this game.

I can't believe I wrote Spore. Feckin' ell. Goes to show I've fallen for the hype  :-[

Hmm, how about a sidescroller in which all the backgrounds are screengrabs from your favourite games?  :D and call it something like "Limbo of the Lost: Ressurection".

Don't laugh guys. Think about what we'll look like in twenty years...
Yeah :'( It's not easy being a computer whiz.
Either you become a millionaire or you become this.

Hahaha, that is BLEAK.

Poor Ray Liotta.

If you pause the "making of" video at 1:56, there's a character called "Cranny Faggot" :gentleman:

By now I feel sorry for these guys.

However, if I were them I'd totally turn this situation around. With the massive ammount of attention they're getting they could try and create another game with original stuff in the future and make a good deal of money.

No such thing as bad advertisement, as they say. Only problem would be the lawsuits, though.

I kinda feel sorry for them too. Especially since they had been working on the game for over ten years.

But I feel even worse for the publishers of this. They are going to be in a ton of shit. And it's not even their fault.

I would feel bad, but seriously, you don't shit where you eat. I would be surprised if they come back from 'vacation'. There is simply too much rip-off to even give them a doubt, and with across platform off-ripping and heavy editing involved, it couldn't have just been the artist covering their ass. This looks deep.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1pciyjpdqH4 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=1pciyjpdqH4)

Oddbob was right, it's horrifying. :wtf:

And this is why you never use placeholder art ever.  You spend a decade frotzing around and the publisher asks if it's playable yet, you better have a game that can ship without this sort of problem.

The King of Limbooooh!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcvdDtnM_0

This is better than I'm Still Alive!

o____o

Rita will haunt my dreams. :wtf:

That sounds reeeeally groovy.

I need to know what the hell these crackpots were smoking.