Garage Games promotion: get a free game

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:14 pm

http://www.garagegames.com/

Apparently, if you sign up before the 14th (tomorrow) you'll get a free game from their site. I can recommend Jets n' Guns. I'm-a going to look at getting Gish finally, most likely. There are no details until you complete the registration, however.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 9:17 pm

OK, you need to go here after signing up at garagegames: http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/

After you do that, you get an e-mail through the Great Games Experiment website. You tell them your username and e-mail address at garagegames, and what game you want. Sounds more complicated than it is.

I picked Gish. I do regret the fact that I finally have the game and these guys did not make any money from me. I just didn't get round to giving it to them. Here is my personal guarantee that I will support their next game. If it is any consolation (which I imagine it's not) I've heard so many good things about their game that I flipped my shit to get it through this promotion. Does that help? I hope it helps. They have a good "Q" rating, I guess you'd say.

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:03 pm

Yeah, I couldn't decide between Jets'n'Guns, Toribash, and Bridge Construction Set. I ended up getting JnG for free and buying the other two. :) Everyone needs to get in on this before it's over.

p.s. Jets'n'Guns is fucking awesome.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:32 pm

My opinions of the game seem to be scattered through several posts on several websites, but the part I like the most about Jets n' Guns was the shopping. Whoa, I feel a list coming on!

THE TOP FIVE SHOPPING IN VIDEO GAME LIST!!!!

(M.U.L.E. DIS-QUALIFIED COS BIDDING AINT SHOPPINN!!!!)

5. Cyberbaaaaaaalllllllll!!!!! 'Nuff said! OK, not enough said: I like how both the New Orleans Saints and Me In Cyberball both got decent quarterbacks the same way: by overpaying like fuck for one.

4. I don't know, some MMORGP, Eve EverAssault I guess. Or the fact that, if I understand the Xbox 360 well enough, there exists the possibility that you can buy a full length, shitty game for 50 dollars, spend 40 hours of your life solving it and get "gamer points" (??) and then redeem those points for Championship Edition Pac-Man. Single-handedly recreates the concept of capitalism ("I'll just pay $10 for Champ Edition Pac instead of finishing Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run") from scratch. Actually, this deserves its own thread. I can't fathom getting a horrible game, beating it, and having credit for Xbox Arcade and I assume I have it wrong here.

3. Wasteland. At some point, the designers apparently decided to throw as many useless objects as possible into the store shelves. They were useless in a post-Apocalyptic setting, they were useless in my own refrigerator, they were useless in everything in between, which we will helpfully describe as "Worm's Computer Room." I admire the Wasteland team's restraint in not having that one sunburned fuck selling HERRINGS (1), RED

2. Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Offroad. Bonus points for putting three steering wheels on the same arcade cabinet. I honestly wish they would have figured out a way to include the Battlezone viewer and bicycle handlebars coming out the side, like Kuato in "Total Recall." Offroad earns extra bonus points for being the only game on this list that allows you to buy upgrades with real money, too. Offroad was like in the 110s in my Top 100 Games of All-Time Personal List, and mainly lost out because on free play the game loses about 90% of its charm. The 10 per cent that remains is strictly due to the 10-pixel bikinis on the eye candy in that game which, frankly, took a horrible blow when Free Pornography was installed on the net between the game's release and when it was emulated in MAME.

1. Jets n' Motherfucking Gunz! A 100% store credit in buy-backs? Sirs, this is the shoot-em-up that is finally on the player's side.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:28 am

Er, anyway, it looks like this is going to be good all day through Friday. Excellent!

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:00 am

hygraed wrote:Yeah, I couldn't decide between Jets'n'Guns, Toribash, and Bridge Construction Set. I ended up getting JnG for free and buying the other two. :) Everyone needs to get in on this before it's over.

p.s. Jets'n'Guns is fucking awesome.

Toribash has some serious issues which I still don't think have been dealt with. Mainly the game being less about having fun and more about spiking some guy's dismembered arm into the ground for a ring out.

Also, I haven't gotten my second e-mail yeeeeeeet.

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:20 am

Worm wrote:Mainly the game being less about having fun and more about spiking some guy's dismembered arm into the ground for a ring out.

I would think that spiking someone's dismembered arm would fall under the category of fun.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:55 am

Yeah, up until you're flexing your disconnected arm in a desperate attempt to save yourself from what is almost a total loss. It makes me not even want to play dismemberment mode, which is a pretty serious flaw.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:58 am

Worm wrote:Yeah, up until you're flexing your disconnected arm in a desperate attempt to save yourself from what is almost a total loss. It makes me not even want to play dismemberment mode, which is a pretty serious flaw.

Yeah, if your game has a "dismemberment mode" it definitely needs to funnel the player into experiencing it as often as possible.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 12:12 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:After you do that, you get an e-mail through the Great Games Experiment website.

This really doesn't make me think "wait for PM on the website". It's not fucking e-mail if it doesn't use that technology. DICK.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Yeah, if your game has a "dismemberment mode" it definitely needs to funnel the player into experiencing it as often as possible.

Too right. Dismemberment was made cheesey shit rather than awesome. Though, JUDO mode with no dismemberment plays pretty well. I'm either going with this or gish, as the other stuff seems kind of gay. I'll have to see if Toribash changed anything WORTHWHILE. Determinance is another fun game on there too.

http://www.garagegames.com/products/35/
Haha, are they hoping the new one surpasses this?

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 1:07 pm

Worm wrote:http://www.garagegames.com/products/35/
Haha, are they hoping the new one surpasses this?

Wow, that might be one of the shittiest looking games I've seen in the past year.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:43 pm

FREE DOWNLOAD! I'm having trouble resisting.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:46 pm

hygraed wrote:
Worm wrote:http://www.garagegames.com/products/35/
Haha, are they hoping the new one surpasses this?
Wow, that might be one of the shittiest looking games I've seen in the past year.

That would have been funny if Lysander had said it.

Bruce

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:30 pm

Gish!!! COME TO ME, GISH!@!

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:24 am

I forgot to put the GAME NAME after my USER NAME. I also wish the new DROD or Immortal Defense was on Garage Games. Elastomania would be good too.

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:40 pm

bruce wrote:That would have been funny if Lysander had said it.

I'll probably get 1000 additional lashes in Hell for giggling at that.