I Wanna be the Guy

[NihilCredo]

Personally, I find "I Wanna be the Guy" to offer a false sense of being challenging by dumping a bunch of arbitrary bullshit atop their players. It becomes more of a game of trial of error and memorization than anything else. It bores the snot out of me that way, and I regard people who become really good at it as being complete tools for its authors: they think they're being challenged, but they're actually just being strung along by their egos to dance to the authors' tune.

Excellent! Now notice how many commercial games out there are built the same way. It's more likely than you think, and plenty of people go along with it. Check out tvtropes.org's pages on "Fake Difficulty" and "Nintendo Hard". Shamus Young also blogged about this abominable type of game design (DIAS, I think he called it - as in, "Do It Again, Stupid").

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

I watched a guy's walkthrough of it on Youtube (he's hilarious, look up cloud8745) and I was very surprised when he finished it. It's really fun to watch someone playing it but no so fun when you play it yourself. I got near to Tyson but I saved at a point where I would die as soon as I loaded it.

 

[coldfrog]

Personally, I find "I Wanna be the Guy" to offer a false sense of being challenging by dumping a bunch of arbitrary bullshit atop their players. It becomes more of a game of trial of error and memorization than anything else. It bores the snot out of me that way, and I regard people who become really good at it as being complete tools for its authors: they think they're being challenged, but they're actually just being strung along by their egos to dance to the authors' tune. Still, it does have some neat sight gags - it's not without pop-culture artistic merit.

I agree with the false sense of challenge, but I didn't play it for that, I played it to see just what ridiculous things he managed to come up with. I was particularly fond of some of the ways things popped out at you, and especially the Ikaruga/Mario 2 mash up just amused me to no end. I just wanted to get to the end (and I did). I decided that I would probably never beat it though, so I just watched the end sequence on youtube. Huzzah!

 

[Sylocat]

I just beat the sixth boss a couple days ago, and am on my way to the Dungeon of Doom, AKA the fortress of The Guy. I love all the little Easter eggs and tributes to the classic games.

I think my favorite part so far has been the Legend of Zelda section, where you go into the classic "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." room. And if you jump into the sword to try and take it, it kills you of course, and the text changes like so:

Spoiler: IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS.

YOU JUMPED INTO A SWORD. YOU RETARD!

 

[Sennz0r]

This game is probably the most sadistic thing since Ninja Gaiden Black on Master Mode. The creator just had to come up with SO MANY WAYS for you to die.

And the default controls are pure and utter bullshit. Maybe I'll do a full-fledged review of this once I beat it.

That'd be in about 5 years and after being committed to a psych ward, then?

 

[Kayevcee]

I completed this last year. It took days. Days I could have spent on my project report. The difficulty level is ludicrous and I died 300 times on the final boss alone, but the feeling of accomplishment upon beating... well, any screen really is difficult to find elsewhere. I can scarcely imagine the amount of playtesting that went in to putting it together. I wonder if the creator has any hair left or if it's just lying in clumps on his floor.

-Nick

 

[NickCaligo42]

I'm not sure you got the point of I Wanna Be The Guy. It's not challenging, it's unfair. It's a game designed to be as horrifically unfair and frustrating as humanly possible. But that's why we like it. It's hilarious.

 

[Erana]

I'm going to try and stay a IWTBTG virgin in the off chance that I start Lets Play-ing.

 

[Mstrswrd]

I've actually beat it. Once. After countless hours spent practicing each level. Hell, I'm not ashamed to admit I watched every level on youtube before I attempted it. I will never play this game again. Ever... maybe.

 

[magnus gallant]

All you have to do is sexually abuse a fellow male, hell if he likes it, he'll make it worth your while. ;]

EDIT: Oh sorry, I could of sworn that said 'Gay' my mistake.

LOL i have never laughed so hard

cept at this http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh93/dillonbanis/Internet%20memes/hay_guys2.jpg

 

[chuckman1]

I love it's challenge and bizarre deaths like when I died from Mario Paint that was hillarious.

YOU, you, you thread necromancer made me find that game and it is EVIL

What the fuck is a necromancer.

 

[chuckman1]

Eh, I got stuck on Mike Tyson and decided that the save point system and way it made me watch him rise outta the ground every time was just too boring to sit through so I deleted it, not really my cup of tea.

Button 3 skips it. Set your controls to this B1 d B2 f B3 a B4 s.

 

[Avida]

I love it's challenge and bizarre deaths like when I died from Mario Paint that was hillarious.

YOU, you, you thread necromancer made me find that game and it is EVIL

What the fuck is a necromancer.

A thread necromancer is someone who brings old, dead threads back to life, this thread had been dead since march 08!

 

[coldfrog]

The Guy will never die!

Honestly, I looooved the tetris level. That was fantastic.

 

[chuckman1]

I love it's challenge and bizarre deaths like when I died from Mario Paint that was hillarious.

YOU, you, you thread necromancer made me find that game and it is EVIL

What the fuck is a necromancer.

A thread necromancer is someone who brings old, dead threads back to life, this thread had been dead since march 08!

Thanks I didn't know that.