Majestic Studios "Limbo of the Lost" steals from Oblivion

[HotShotX]

No comment from either publisher as of yet, but the evidence seems pretty damning.

http://www.gameplasma.com/limbo_of_the_lost_or_oblivion/

~HotShotX

[Moxio]

Interesting.

[mykevermin]

Oooooooh. Plagiarism.

[Friend of Sonic]

I'll take the case!

[eswat]

Is it wrong if this crap + the horrible trailer makes me want to actually get the game?

Here seems to be the list of other games it has ripped from:

Silent Hill
Unreal Tournament 2004
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Painkiller
Diablo
Return to Castle WolfensteinThey also ripped a Wraith bust from WETA workshop and sequence from the Spawn movie where Spawn is first sent to hell (2:40 in the trailer)... just wow.

[eswat]

I'm surprised nobody else is replying to this. I thought it was pretty fucking funny. The sheer amount of "work" they put into stealing assets from other games is hilarious.

[B:L]

I'll take the case!

LOL:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f24/dubdesign/BuF/Snap15.jpg
Unreal2k3:
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f24/dubdesign/BuF/UT20042008-06-1202-29-25-76.png

LOL:
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i103/rahkogen/932503_20080514_screen015.jpg
Painkiller:
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i103/rahkogen/pnklr-20080612-031757.jpg

LOL:
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/2725/limboofthelostsi1.jpg
Diablo border:
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/7185/wall20of20the20eyelessmu9.jpg

LOL (top and bottom borders):
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2669/2qwfv52uk8.th.jpg (http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2669/2qwfv52uk8.jpg)
WoW (top and bottom borders):
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5747/blacktemple1024xvb6.th.jpg (http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5747/blacktemple1024xvb6.jpg)

LOL:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/8130/snap14kb8.jpg
Morrowind:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/883/mororcarmorvo7.jpg

LOL official trailer (at 2:40):
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28891.html
Spawn the Movie (at 0:24):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KMYx8lG59A&feature

LOL:
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/1786/snap3qf0.jpg
Unreal:
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/5848/ut20046122008dmhelmzdeehs4.jpg

LOL:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4149/snap2mt2.jpg
Unreal:
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/5221/ut20046122008dmhelmzdeebd4.jpg
A figurine of a Lord of the Rings wraith:
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/351/wraithfrontfullcp8.jpg

Interview with the Project Director:
http://www.quandaryland.com/jsp/dispArticle.jsp?index=795
Some highlights:
Gordon: So have any more recent games influenced your current project?
Steve: The project is more influenced by film and literature rather than other games, we want the experience to be as original as possible and as such we have made a calculated effort to keep away from other games in the genre. Limbo of the Lost is an experience first and foremost, secondly wrapped up in a game media and genre.
Gordon: During the long gestation for this game, what sort of changes have you made to bring it up to date.
Steve: All of the game (apart from initial background story and some character designs) had to be re-written, all the characters had to be created in 3D and animated, all the background scenes re-created, all the sounds, coding and music?..basically everything had to be redone or newly created for the PC version. This is not an old game that has been dressed up. This is the original concept, dusted off and re-created.
Gordon: Finally, is there anything more about the game you'd like to share with us, and do you have any more projects on the drawing board?
Steve: I could talk about this project for hours but I would prefer you to play, experience and enjoy it, so I will hush up for now. But before I say a fond farewell I will tell you this much, If anyone can honestly tell me after playing the game that they did not have an enjoyable gaming experience or have a favorite character that they have met whilst playing the game, I will never mention or speak of the sequel — LIMBO of the LOST II — Temptations of Tarot.

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

Case Closed.

[Strell]

They should have just bought a bunch of boxes of Oblivion and crossed out the title with a Sharpie.

I bet they stole their logo from one of those "So you want to learn how to draw?" Art Institute commercials.

[mykevermin]

http://www.trisynergy.com/news.asp?nid=25

Tri Synergy, Inc. would like to publish an official comment regarding recent comparisons of level design and artwork between Majestic Studios’ Limbo of the Lost and Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion/Eidos Interactive’s Thief: Deadly Shadows.


Tri Synergy is just as shocked as everyone else is by the recent screenshot comparisons. At no point during our dealings with Majestic Studios up until the point that the comparison was first publicly made by a third party did we have any knowledge of these similarities. Additionally, Tri Synergy will discontinue distribution of Limbo of the Lost in both retail and online outlets.

We have contacted the developer, Majestic, and are anxiously awaiting their response. As soon as we know more on this matter we will issue another statement.

[Strell]

Tri Synergy is just as shocked as everyone else

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/Einzell/LOLscream.jpg

[HotShotX]

Tri Synergy is wiping their hands of this shit as fast as publicly possible

Fixed.

~HotShotX

[paz9x]

wow. thats fucking unreal. i cant believe somebody did that and thought it was acceptable and/or nobody would notice.

[kainzero]

^

yes, it is unreal. taken straight out of unreal.

is it pure coincidence that the acronym for this game is LOL?

[paz9x]

^

yes, it is unreal. taken straight out of unreal.

is it pure coincidence that the acronym for this game is LOL?

its funny because when i saw the post i thought they meant laugh out loud at the screens.

then realized it was the games acronym.

[CoffeeEdge]

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5843/limboofthelostboxartkk9ll6.jpg


The cursor in LOL is taken out of Black and White 2, for anyone wondering why that makes an appearance on this mockup boxart.

Also, get a load of this character art:
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/8525/limbo3ih8.jpg

[refusedchaos]

supposely this game has been in dev for 10 years....lol and there is a "Making of" dvd too!

preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li6-ewgKupA

[eswat]

Wintermute: Create your own adventure Oblivion/Thief 3/etc. (http://forum.dead-code.org/index.php?topic=2746.0)

[camoor]

http://www.trisynergy.com/news.asp?nid=25

It's too late. My business relationship with Trisynergy is finished!

Although I have to admit, I don't know how I'm going to deal with missing out on quality titles such as "I Love Puppies!", "Starshatter", and "Snood Deluxe"

[camoor]

More drama

From GameFaqs:

Turns out this guy Steve Bovis stretched the truth when he talked about remaking the game for PC out of code he developed a decade earlier... He doesn't know HOW to code!

Bovis used a recently-released free indie game software called "Wintermute" for the entire game. It's a great program that allows you to design complex adventure games with basic coding knowledge. The thing is, Steve Bovis has about twenty long threads on the Wintermute forums asking help for EVERYTHING! Animation, NPC interaction, video files, applying fonts, even how to get the cursor to change. If you read between the lines, you see Steve may have been subtley asking the Wintermute community to send him the exact scripts he needed, and in most cases he got them. Which means that Limbo of the Lost was programmed quite a bit by members of the Wintermute community, yet credit for the game only went to three people.

What really puzzles me is, how could you have designed a nearly completed adventure game in the mid-90's, and not know how to do the basics of the basics today? I've learned answers to some of the questions this guy was asking simply by trying to mod Oblivion. There was one reply he got where the poster said many of his NPC animation switching problems could be solved by using variables of "if", and Steve still asked if he could send a specific example, as though he didn't know the meaning of "if" in scripting. Makes me wonder if the unfinished LoLs for the Atari and Amiga were ever meant to be finished at all.
- Taegre (http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/user.php?board=932503&topic=43630999&user=3448120)

If you want to see the forums where the devs posted, goto

http://forum.dead-code.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=baedd9b7e0dc9304e57b028a07b743 22&topic=2746.0

http://forum.dead-code.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=baedd9b7e0dc9304e57b028a07b743 22&action=profile;u=157;sa=showPosts

[camoor]

Here's another article - "Pub pals pin hopes on US game success"

Mr Francis, a former landlord of The Pilot pub, Upper Stone Street, and now a mature student, said: "It is a sort of comedy come horror. A bit like Monty Python meets Evil Dead
....
"Our hope, if everything goes well with the sales, is that within a year we will all be stopping the day jobs and doing this full time."

http://www.kentmessenger.co.uk/paper/default.asp?article_id=9644&slide_id=1&newspage=2&searchkeyword=&searchpage=1

I thougth it was a little bit of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion meets The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Unreal Tournament 2004, Unreal Tournament 2003, Diablo II, Thief: The Dark Project, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Crysis, Silent Hill 4: The Room, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Painkiller, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, and World of Warcraft

Don't quit those day jobs, boys, because lawyers are expensive!

[eswat]

Don't quit those day jobs, boys, because lawyers are expensive!Even some of the Unreal Tournament modders that these guys stole from might plan on pooling some money for a lawyer.

These guys are fucked...

[Halo05]

Wow, these guys are going to be in debt for the rest of their lives. There isn't a major PC/gaming company that they didn't rip off. Vivendi alone will make them pray for death.

[CoffeeEdge]

Wow, these guys are going to be in debt for the rest of their lives. There isn't a major PC/gaming company that they didn't rip off. Vivendi alone will make them pray for death.

Yeah, that's if anyone ever finds them. Their publisher (who has dropped the game) has been trying to contact them, but it turns out that they're "on vacation." In other words, they've skipped town with their up-front check, and no one is ever going to hear from them again.

[Vinny]

Haha... that's pretty damn funny. I guess they figured nobody would ever notice.

[elwood731]

Haha... that's pretty damn funny. I guess they figured nobody would ever notice.

Actually, I think they DID expect people to notice. Think about it, if they had simply stolen from one title they might have gone unnoticed. But the fact that they stole from just about every major title possible, including films, seems to imply this was done on purpose, including the game title's acronym. Now they've simply skipped town?

I think they just pulled one of the biggest scams in media history, keenly aware the entire time what they were up to and what the reaction would be.

[TC]

It is actually pretty funny. The fallout from this should be interesting.

[camoor]

I think they just pulled one of the biggest scams in media history, keenly aware the entire time what they were up to and what the reaction would be.

An intriguing conspiracy theory - but what is their gain? Did Trisynergy cut them a check for the rights to profit from distribution of the game?

I will admit, from the photo these guys look like they're straight out of central casting for the next Guy Ritchie film.

[eswat]

A call for a 2D/3D background artist for a LoL sequel, from a few days ago: http://forum.dead-code.org/index.php?topic=2904.msg18305#msg18305

[CoffeeEdge]

A call for a 2D/3D background artist for a LoL sequel, from a few days ago: http://forum.dead-code.org/index.php?topic=2904.msg18305#msg18305

Claim:
I am on the look out for a 2D/3D background artist for the sequel to LIMBO OF THE LOST. This is a % of royalty position for the right person.
The backgrounds need to be in 1024x768 resolution and the end result is a static 2D image.

Other parts of the job will be for alpha masks and layers within the scenes. Approx 80 backgrounds will be needed, if you can construct in 3D using an editor like Unreal 3 etc all the better.

The reality:
I am on the look out for a person to do some screengrabs of well-known retail games to use as backgrounds for the sequel to LIMBO OF THE LOST. This is a % of the up-front check from the publisher for the right person, before we all liquidate our assets and bank accounts, change our names and identities, and catch a flight to Rio.

Other parts of the job will be asking for users on the dead-code forums to basically code the game for you, even though the Wintermute Engine is only about as difficult as Click-and-Play. Approx 80 printscreens will be needed, if you can printscreen from Unreal Engine 3 games all the better.

[zewone]

This is awesome. :lol:

[chewster777]

Haha.

[doraemonkerpal]

Wow, the screen shot comparisons are outrageous!

[darthbudge]

What we have here is called a "Publicity Stunt". No way this could all could be real. I am guessing this guy just ripped off all these games so he could get his name known. I can't believe that anyone would think they could rip off all these games and then make it out alive.

[camoor]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/Einzell/LOLscream.jpg

For some reason I keep thinking of this and laughing. I used to play these games as a kid, when these types of graphics were still cutting edge. It looks ridiculous now, and I say this as a man who has played four of the PS2 GTAs.

[crushtopher]

Any chance this whole thing is a joke? Can't help but think this whole idea is one of those "made to fail but still make profit" type projects like pogs or crystal Pepsi...who knows

[Snake2715]

I honestly want the game, i am a fan of adventures and the idea of this coming from so many different games is awesome. The reviewers at Just adventure also mentioned d(months ago) that the game felt as though it was made by 5 different people (the 5-6 levels each created separately). It still scored pretty well at 80% though.

This is just way too awesome. I must play it.

The other cool thing is the book that came out in the 70's with the same name...:

"The Bermuda Triangle, one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. More than a thousand people, over a hundred ships and planes, swallowed up into the sea without a trace. "

This could be an awesome scandal. If they would now release it as freeware and give all the money back, could they clear themselves? Or give all the profits to the 5 companies they stole from?

[mykevermin]

Any chance this whole thing is a joke? Can't help but think this whole idea is one of those "made to fail but still make profit" type projects like pogs or crystal Pepsi...who knows

Like a Uwe Boll movie, or the plot of "The Producers?"

Were that the case, they'd just make a shitty licensed GBA game. Like "My Gym Partner is a Monkey" or something.

[camoor]

I honestly want the game, i am a fan of adventures and the idea of this coming from so many different games is awesome. The reviewers at Just adventure also mentioned d(months ago) that the game felt as though it was made by 5 different people (the 5-6 levels each created separately). It still scored pretty well at 80% though.

This is just way too awesome. I must play it.

The other cool thing is the book taht came out in the 70's with the same name...:

"The Bermuda Triangle, one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. More than a thousand people, over a hundred ships and planes, swallowed up into the sea without a trace. "

This could be an awesome scandel. If they would now release it as freeware and give all the money back,could they clear themselves? Or give all the profits to the 5 companies they stole from?

I know. It's so weird - who would have thought you could mix Oblivion with unreal tounament with silent hill.

Plus, what's up with that character named "Cranny $$$$$$"

- What I typed was Cranny 'Bundle of Sticks' I was just typing what the character name was, I know it was meant in an archaic sense but it just seemed odd you'd name a character that in this day and age.

[Snake2715]

I know. It's so weird - who would have thought you could mix Oblivion with unreal tounament with silent hill.

Plus, what's up with that character named "Cranny $$$$$$"

I just realized I need to do more spell checking on my posts... terrible. The coma thing is out the window but I can actually spell when if I proof read.



Were that the case, they'd just make a shitty licensed GBA game. Like "My Gym Partner is a Monkey" or something.

Myke you mean they may come out with something like:

Sexy Dodge Little Red Robbin Hoods Zombie BBQ!!

http://i32.tinypic.com/2r759w8.jpg

http://www.gammickentertainment.com/zombie/

Featuring a bunch of stolen characters... a zombie Sleeping Beauty, Santa Claus, and Godzilla!!


I must say the zombizilla looks a lot like the cloverfield monster.....
Jekki's thread is here:

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=186173

[CoffeeEdge]

Any chance this whole thing is a joke? Can't help but think this whole idea is one of those "made to fail but still make profit" type projects like pogs or crystal Pepsi...who knows

Nope. It's real.

If they would now release it as freeware and give all the money back,could they clear themselves?
Nope. It's still copyright infringement, even if it's not-for-profit.

And I'm also pretty sure that they're guilty of some pretty major fraud against their publishers (Trisynergy and G2 games, both of which are completely legit publishers, outside of this debacle). So, even if Bethesda, Epic, Blizzard, Disney, Eidos, EA/Crytek, Konami, id, DreamCatcher, Activision, and New Line Cinema were to all magically forgive them and not press charges, I'm pretty sure their publishing contracts have some clause stating that, ya know, the game not contain any unlicensed intellectual property.

What we have here is called a "Publicity Stunt". No way this could all could be real.
Nope. It's real, man.

I am guessing this guy just ripped off all these games so he could get his name known.
It was three guys, actually. And getting known as massive intellectual property thieves (and apparently fugitives, now, as well) isn't the kind of name you want to make for yourselves.

I can't believe that anyone would think they could rip off all these games and then make it out alive.
And yet no one can find them now, so...

[Rig]

Damn crazy...can't wait to see what happens (if anything).

[Dead of Knight]

This is so amazing. I'm glad the publishers discontinued it immediately, though they probably did that just because they knew they'd get fed in the a.

[Snake2715]

And yet no one can find them now, so...

Never thought of that... its already potentially over and it had just began. That would be very swift if it worked out that way.

[camoor]

Featuring a bunch of stolen characters... a zombie Sleeping Beauty, Santa Claus, and Godzilla!!

Not quite fair...
Santa Claus and Sleeping Beauty are in the public domain. IANAL but putting a chibi Godzilla in a game called zombie bbq might fall under parody as long as you don't use the name "Godzilla".

[coolsteel]

This entire story just has me cracking up, not only did they steal it they didn't even code it themselves?! At least they didn't halfass it, when they did something morally and legally wrong they went all out.

[Moxio]

This is sweet.

[Liquid 2]

10 years in development? :rofl:

[tiredfornow]

I couldn't stop laughing while reading it on GAF yesterday.

This is too good. :D

[CoffeeEdge]

10 years in development? :rofl:

I suppose that you could say that the games they've stolen from have been developed within the past 10 years. Development "started" when Diablo II (the oldest game they pilfered from) came out.

[refusedchaos]

lol this making me want to created my own adventure game for CAG...."CheapyD and the Quest to Save Robocop"

[Brak]

lol this making me want to created my own adventure game for CAG...."CheapyD and the Quest to Save Robocop"
LOL!

Just kidding.

[Strell]

This almost makes Duke Nukem Forever look hopeful.

I actually want to be told this is some hugely elaborate distraction stunt/scheme created in order to draw fire away from 3D Realms, as if Broussard were laughing it up right now in between wiping the sweat away from his jowls. Perhaps next week we'll get a statement from him talking about how well DNF is coming along, and "at least we aren't ripping stuff from other games - the Duke thinks that's for bitches."

[Moxio]

If I could seriously get a copy of this I would play the shit out of it.

[Strell]

If I could seriously get a copy of this I would play the shit out of it.

Indeed. There's probably an endless trove of gif possibilities in there.

The trailer linked earlier had this one rat-looking sharp teeth mofo. Splendid.

Snake if this leaks out, let me know. You know I'm a slut for this genre.

[zewone]

I don't think anyone would have a problem with you obtaining it through less than honest means, Moxio. 8-)

[Moxio]

I don't think anyone would have a problem with you obtaining it through less than honest means, Moxio. 8-)

Awww yeahhh. 8-)

[CoffeeEdge]

I ain't gonna lie, I already have it. Too busy playing other shit to waste time on it, at the moment, though.

[camoor]

Pretty sure the dogs are from the "11th Hour"

LoL I played 7th Guest and 11th Hour back in the day.

7th Guest is a great game - watching the youtube vids it's still creepy as hell and that's after I've played all the Silent Hills.

[whoknows]

Since it's been in development for 10 years maybe all those games stole from Limbo of the Lost.

[johnnypark]

No comment from either publisher as of yet, but the evidence seems pretty damning.

http://www.gameplasma.com/limbo_of_the_lost_or_oblivion/

~HotShotX

Gameplasma! I used to write for them :) I know the guy who wrote the article, real nice guy.

Anyway... this is absurd. How on earth did they think no one would notice?

[CoffeeEdge]

Since it's been in development for 10 years maybe all those games stole from Limbo of the Lost.

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/9697/2008061423341558452ut0.gif

[eswat]

This thread demands more comparisons!

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2662/33coqs4fb2.gif


LoL
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2011/300pxbeetle1to7.jpg

Beetlejuice
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/4897/300pxbeetle2iw9.jpg

[CoffeeEdge]

haha oh wow.

So, they've been pilfering in every incarnation of this game's development.

A real class act, these blokes.

[Blackout]

Since it's been in development for 10 years maybe all those games stole from Limbo of the Lost.

:rofl:

I can't wait to see what happens with this story.

[Strell]

Man. I really want to play both versions of it now.

And also this Guy Spy game. Did the Amiga have a lot of adventure games?

[StinkyCheese]

Since it's been in development for 10 years maybe all those games stole from Limbo of the Lost.

whoknows

[Lieutenant Dan]

LoL
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2011/300pxbeetle1to7.jpg

Beetlejuice
http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/4897/300pxbeetle2iw9.jpg
You steal from Beetlejuice, you steal from Michael Keaton. You steal from Michael Keaton, you steal from America. You steal from America, you steal from ME!

[camoor]

The composer is coming forward, trying to clear his name. Poor guy got swept up in all this, it seems.

I didn't notice anything out of place while working on the music. I had written descriptions about the levels and I based my music on those. I never saw any of the levels before I got my own boxed copy of the game. I haven't ever played most of the games the graphics were stolen from, so I doubt I would have ever noticed anything odd by myself.

I did compose the music for DVD main feature (it can be found on YouTube) but at last minute Majestic Studios decided to replace my music with something that "would better appeal to younger audience", so what you hear in that YouTube clip is NOT my music. To my knowledge it was made by Lawrence Francis, the person who was credited for music in the game.

I saw early versions of all the bonus DVD content when I was composing music to them but it never occurred to me that some of the visuals are stolen from elsewhere. Also after I was done with my part, they still did some changes (mainly additions) to those clips. That is the reason the music seems so out of place in the clips in YouTube.

http://forum.gamesradar.com/viewtopic.php?t=120121&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=152

[Dead of Knight]

The ending for the game:
http://kotaku.com/5018591/spoilers-limbo-of-the-losts-terrifying-ending

Holy shit.

[Moxio]

That ruled.

[HotShotX]

What, they couldn't steal a decent ending?

Way to fucking half-ass developing a game half-assed.

~HotShotX

[CoffeeEdge]

The ending for the game:
http://kotaku.com/5018591/spoilers-limbo-of-the-losts-terrifying-ending

Holy shit.

Saw that earlier today.

It basically confirms it: this whole game is a huge, huge joke on the entire gaming populous. There is simply no other explaination.

[VioletArrows]

Holy friggin crap. How the fuck did they come up with that ending!? I almost wanted to play it, then I watched some gameplay videos and it stopped being funny. :(

[CoffeeEdge]

Holy friggin crap. How the fuck did they come up with that ending!? I almost wanted to play it, then I watched some gameplay videos and it stopped being funny. :(

Looks to me like they were trying to rip on the "song-as-ending" effect as seen in Portal. I'd say we're lucky that they didn't just steal that and have it playing over the "credits."

[Scrubsy]

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-SEALED-Limbo-of-the-Lost-PC-Game-Adventure-RARE_W0QQitemZ320265531793QQihZ011QQcategoryZ13997 3QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I found one copy on ebay going for $56! Of course I can see the desire for this game seeing as it will probably never get the nation wide release it was shooting for.

[Strell]

Can someone - who would actually know what I am talking about - tell me if the ending is on the same wtf-level as Monkey Island 2?

[Greetard]

I love how every single character has just a slight variation of the same voice.

[Lieutenant Dan]

The ending for the game:
http://kotaku.com/5018591/spoilers-limbo-of-the-losts-terrifying-ending

Holy shit.
Worst game ever.

[eswat]

What The Fuck?!

[CoffeeEdge]

Can someone - who would actually know what I am talking about - tell me if the ending is on the same wtf-level as Monkey Island 2?

It's a different kind of WTF, I'd say.

[VioletArrows]

Can someone - who would actually know what I am talking about - tell me if the ending is on the same wtf-level as Monkey Island 2?

Monkey Island 2 is up there with it was aaaalll just a dreeeeam, and those just suck when you think about it..

This is just jaw droppingly "what did I just watch?".

[Strell]

Monkey Island 2 is up there with it was aaaalll just a dreeeeam, and those just suck when you think about it..


Now that's debatable.


There's enough evidence to suggest it wasn't a dream at all, and instead that you're under some kind of hallucination/curse from LeChuck.

And yet, there's basically just as much evidence to suggest it was indeed a dream/mass imagination of young Guybrush. When I beat it, I remember seeking out any and all discussions/websites devoted to the ending as I could find, and a lot of them chronicle just how much there is to suggest the "dream" dynamic - the water pump that makes the waterfall, the underground ending scene that really suggests Disneyworld's real-life underground tunnels, the fact that the very last scene in the game matches up perfectly in terms of structure/building placement as one of the islands (where the spit contest took place), etc. Pretty fascinating when you think about it.

Since Ron Gilbert wasn't involved in MI3 or MI4, and since he's off doing other projects now, and since there's probably no chance he'll ever get his hands on the license/rights again, he probably won't ever reveal where he was going with the story. Besides, this far away from the conclusion of MI2, it could end up being a Star Wars prequel problem that George Lucas had, where it looked and sounded like he just made shit up the weekend before they started shooting episode one.

I'd really like to find out that Gilbert does actually have a script/idea for MI3, especially if it concluded the series and brought some closure.

But then again, I'd love for that to happen with Loom too, and that's probably never happening.

Shit, as long as we're on the subject, give me DoTT 2 - I'd like to find out what happened to Purple Tentacle.

Sigh, so many cliffhangers.

As for LOL, I hope the original trickles out somewhere in the midst of all this controversy. I kind of want to buy a copy off eBay too...

[Reality's Fringe]

Can this game be torrented? If it can, then why haven't I?

[VioletArrows]

I wouldn't make it to the end to laugh at this again. Having an absolutely non-existent tolerance to first hand creepy things, I'd probably lose it pretty early in, but the thing that really kills me is, when I watched the gameplay: it's slow. It's slow as molasses in January. The guy literally moves like he's dragging an anchor behind him. Then I turn around for a second and when I look again, there's a running skeleton ghosted over him. He's not dead or in danger or anything, it's just there. He didn't touch anything, there's no point at all, someone just thought that the ghost of a skeleton (uh?) should suddenly appear on top of him. I gave up at that point.

[Moxio]

The first ten minutes are laughable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pciyjpdqH4&feature=related

[eswat]

Can this game be torrented?This is a PC game... :lol:

[Scrubsy]

The torrent is up on some sites. I think this is the one exception to game downloading seeing as they will never release any more copies and the whole they stole everything.

[eswat]

It's official, these guys are just stupid (http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6192856.html).

In response to the shocking notification that some alleged unauthorized copyrighted materials submitted by sources external to the development team have been found within the PC game Limbo of the Lost, we (the development team) have given our consent and full cooperation to both publishers who are recalling all units from all territories immediately.

Please be assured that we do not condone in anyway the use of unauthorized copyrighted materials and if we had been made aware earlier, we would of course have ceased development of the product and rectified the issue prior to the publication process.

To the best of our knowledge no one at Majestic, [European publisher] G2Games or [North American publisher Tri Synergy, Inc.] knew about this infringement and knowingly played any part in it.

We can only apologise to all regarding this issue, as a team we are shocked and mortified regarding these events and we continue to work with said publishers in order to rectify the issue.

[Vinny]

The first ten minutes are laughable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pciyjpdqH4&feature=related

Wow... that's just... I don't know if I should laugh because this game looks like something that would be categorized under "mentally challenged" if it was a person.

[VioletArrows]

Sounds like they're trying to pull one of these:

http://bellsouthpwp.net/k/o/kouhikouryuu/limbolost_hat.gif

(credit to NeoGAF forums)

[HotShotX]

So where does that leave us? If the publisher was in the dark, and the developer was in the dark, then who made this damn game? The Janitor? Did I seriously just read that the DEVELOPER of the game OUTSOURCED IT to a THIRD (FOURTH?) PARTY?

You know, I understand that the Publisher is sort of the middle man to help the developer get the game to the market, but if you're a developer and you're not actually making the game, what the fuck do they need you for?

Are you seriously telling me that an entire development studio was answering phone calls and printing papers between the publisher and some guy coding in his basement?

~HotShotX

[Strell]

Sounds like they're trying to pull one of these:


I am unfamiliar with what I am seeing.

And because I am unfamiliar, I don't know if what I am seeing is funny, disturbing, or just plain weird.

[VioletArrows]

Someone posted it because if you look at the background, it doesn't change (and it's from Oblivion), it zooms in on the wall beside them instead of looking at the opposite wall.

And I laugh whenever I see it because of how he slaps his hat off, and the imp's expression as he stumbles away is just priceless.

[mike.m]

wow. thats fucking unreal. i cant believe somebody did that and thought it was acceptable and/or nobody would notice.

I can.

[RelentlessRolento]

badass:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?page_id=1909

highlights:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/june08/limbocompo/IanHetherington.png


http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/june08/limbocompo/StuartAdair.png


http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/june08/limbocompo/Ackter.jpg


http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/june08/limbocompo/JohnLeonard.jpg


http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/june08/limbocompo/Lacero.png

[zewone]

Was that supposed to be funny, Rolento? Just seems like lazy Photoshop.

[Strell]

What's the bottom one with all the robots? And the low-fi one with the green pacman looking doorway?

[Halo05]

The bottom picture is muthafuckin' X-Com UFO Defense.

The one with the green door is probably an old Hobbit game.

[eswat]

I lawled at the Doom one they have on that page, with Briggs having demonic 1px red eyes and all.

[RelentlessRolento]

Was that supposed to be funny, Rolento? Just seems like lazy Photoshop.

most of them are lazy photoshops... I only posted the ones that seems to have any effort at all put into them.

[CoffeeEdge]

What's the bottom one with all the robots? And the low-fi one with the green pacman looking doorway?

That's X-Com and The Hobbit for ZX Spectrum, respectively.

[DarkNessBear]

This is the funniest game I've ever seen.

Limbo man is going to be a gaming icon.

[heavyd853]

Didn't some gaming sites review that game for like an 8? wtf! That had to have been a joke!

[Scrubsy]

100 dollars now on ebay. I have been trying to find it with little to show. I did download it though and plan on playing it with friends because nothing is better then getting a group of friends together and laughing your ass off at shitty games. Hellboy for ps1 wins as our funniest so bad its good games.

[eswat]

Didn't some gaming sites review that game for like an 8? wtf! That had to have been a joke!
http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/LimboOfTheLost/LotL.shtm

[heavyd853]

Haha, revised grade based upon new information? Does that mean they didn't play it or something!

[Strell]

Haha, revised grade based upon new information? Does that mean they didn't play it or something!

No. It means people are allowed to change opinions based on new evidence.

That's how science works.

[eswat]

I had to: http://youmustconstructadditionalpylons.com/