Gaming Scribblenauts Hype and News Thread

[Domination]

Rickroll (NEVER GONNA SCRIBBLENAUTS!)

RickRoll will summon Rick Arstley... but not sure if he will do the "Never Gonna Give You Up".

The list of words I'm going to write is going to be looooong. (lol longcat)

 

[Donato_Dobango]

I don't think you can summon people.

You can summon a Rickroll because the Rick Astley that pops up is pretty non-descriptive. If he popped up dancing his trademarked Rickrolly dance and singing, or even just had the music in the background, Warner Bros has a lawsuit on their hands.

They said no trademarked or brand named goods, so keep this little exchange from Clerks in mind:

Randal Graves: Band Aids are a brand name. The proper term is adhesive strips.
Dante Hicks: The man is bleeding to death and you're getting into a semantics argument?
Randal Graves: Man, name brand word association is one of the more subtle threats to this nation's free trade. It gives the larger, well-known companies an unfair advantage. I'm doing my part to keep the playing field level by weaning people off referring to generic products with brand names.
Dante Hicks: Way to show some backbone.
Randal Graves: No spine of Jell-O here, my friend.

 

[GeekyGuy]

I don't think you can summon people...

That's a shame, because I think Rick James could solve any problem.

I'm curious, though -- to the person who says reviews copies are out there -- where did you hear this?

 

[Domination]

I don't think you can summon people.

NO OBAMA?!

And yeah, where'd you heard about the review copies from. If its true, we can get an early review. And more people are going to buy it! I wonder if it'll get higher scores on gamespot than GTA: CW....

 

[Donato_Dobango]

I think you can summon generic people or historical figures like Einstein or Abe Lincoln, but not currently day people.

Presidents are a weird case: Obama could be in there, as could any other president. They fall under fair use due to the fact that any president who sues over their likeness is likely to get bad press for wasting government time and money. Hence why we have 30 or 40 Obama-centric comics on the bookshelves in America right now.

Just about any person the various forums are making Scribblenauts-inspired avatars for, though, are unlikely, as they are trademarked people. So sadly no Chuck Norris or Michael Jackson or Optimus Prime or even Chef Gordon Ramsey, which I think is my favorite Scribblenaut-avatar right now.

 

[War]

I haven't purchased a game in years, but I'm definitely getting this one.

 

[Wintrale]

I haven't purchased a game in years, but I'm definitely getting this one.

That is... terrible.

 

[stinkoman]

I have good news and bad news.
Good news:
Review copies (2) leaked to public through a contest. Could be an early dump

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Bad news:
Tons of people have NO idea about the scene. What are the chances of these two guys knowing?

 

[jackdanielchan]

How were the games leaked? Through an actual cartridge, or as a .nds file on a PC?

 

[alidsl]

hopefully the nds file to speed up dumping

 

[Fabis94]

Let's just hope they do know

 

[Bleedingelite]

Everybody, we need to begin our prayers to the videogame gods. Let them hear our cries for succor.

 

[benjaminlibl]

This seems like an epic concept! How well will it work though? What if you write something wrongly, what happens then?

 

[DemonicChocobo]

It's already been shown in a video that spellcheck feature that suggests a list of correct words comes up.

For example, let's say you were trying to write "Hamster" but wrote "Hamter" instead.

A list would come up and suggest words like "Hamster, Hammer, Hamper, etc."

 

[benjaminlibl]

It's already been shown in a video that spellcheck feature that suggests a list of correct words comes up.

For example, let's say you were trying to write "Hamster" but wrote "Hamter" instead.

A list would come up and suggest words like "Hamster, Hammer, Hamper, etc."

Sorry, and thanks. I don't see any videos though, just blank spaces where videos should be. Probably cause youtube is being banned here.

 

[Donato_Dobango]

Joystiq has posted a new YouTube video showing some delicious gameplay footage of a sample puzzle: you are hanging by a rope next to a starlite in a cage ALSO hanging by a rope. It shows just how inane you can be with items and still succeed:

http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2009/07/20/scr...many-solutions/

 

[Law]

Joystiq has posted a new YouTube video showing some delicious gameplay footage of a sample puzzle: you are hanging by a rope next to a starlite in a cage ALSO hanging by a rope. It shows just how inane you can be with items and still succeed:

http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2009/07/20/scr...many-solutions/

It would have been great if "Hookshot" actually worked.

 

[Fabis94]

How did a moustache help :/

 

[Donato_Dobango]

The top hat was attached to the rope. So he tied the grappling hook to the mustache?

That or you can only have 1 thing on your head at a time.

 

[zeromac]

3 new videos from ign showing a black hole, a window fan and the cage thing already mentioned above

http://au.media.ds.ign.com/media/143/14304256/vids_1.html