Choze Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Lets stretch to the far reaches of the universe and discover new planets. Literally. Upload your contribution by talking to the Sun/Girl/Squirrel. The player takes control of a character referred to as Boy.[3] Using the controller, the left analog stick moves the front of Boy while the right stick controls the back. By moving both ends in opposite directions, Boy's abdomen will stretch to great lengths. The player may maneuver Boy around its environment, interacting with stationary objects like houses, or AI-controlled characters such as barnyard animals. The player accumulates points by how much they stretch during gameplay. These points can be submitted online via a character called Sun to another character called Girl. Points submitted online by players to Girl will be added cumulatively, causing Girl to stretch. Beginning on Earth, Girl will stretch to the Moon, then to several other planets, each unlocking new playable environments for Boy to stretch in. The Noby Noby Boy team expects players to take between one and two weeks of cumulative play time to reach the Moon.[3] Capture your pics and Youtube! your vids. First time i have used Youtube uploading on PS3. Its built into the game. Really enjoying this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Yeah I like the upload to youtube feature something that needs to be used in more games. Although a fair few are starting to include it. Here is my vid; I made quite early on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choze Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 Looking for the prince. Love the variety of stages. It is random? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 The stages are random yeah. I don't know what you have to do to find the prince i somehow managed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choze Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 Nice youtube vid. Need to upload mine! I got caught up in a windmill. :p I pooed out all my stuff though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayseven Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Dude. That video scares the fuck out of me. I have no idea what is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Dude. That video scares the fuck out of me. I have no idea what is going on. Allow me to explain...its all very obvious. I was attempting to make myself as long as I could before dragging a huge mushroom with a spinning top up into the air with me whilst I tied myself around a tree. I then decide to pop back out my chimney and shrink myself back down to normal and then zooming right out with the camera to reveal the crazy picture of the earth the sun and girl... Like I said all really obvious and just what you'd expect to happen in your bog standard normal everyday game. :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayseven Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 The game is strangely enchanting. Curse my xbox alliegance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Honestly everyone should play it just for the sheer surrealism of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 I'm slowly starting to understand the appeal of this when I saw your vid and I was think that I would attach my front end somewhere and my rear end to the top of the rotating mushroom and let it stretch me by coiling around it. But tbh if it wasn't from the dude of Katamari, everyone would be a lot less tolerant. What's the point of eating/pooping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 I'm slowly starting to understand the appeal of this when I saw your vid and I was think that I would attach my front end somewhere and my rear end to the top of the rotating mushroom and let it stretch me by coiling around it. But tbh if it wasn't from the dude of Katamari, everyone would be a lot less tolerant. What's the point of eating/pooping? Not a lot really...Eating helps your stretch out, but eating too much limits how much you can stretch...I'm gonna go play it again in a bit and will post some more videos of my experiments...It is just a playground of random junk to play with. EDIT; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_EE2VTRq5c more good tidings...I love just stretching out and tripping people up and sending them flying off cars and stuff...Love on this video how random everything is...fish and frogs at one with people etc... also watch out for random three way pooping whilst the arse is up in the air... plus around the 3 min mark there is randomly a car stuck inside a house and just keeps driving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choze Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 Need to find the prince! help! This game is strangely addictive. More people should join us so we can stretch to the moon sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Letty Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 I still haven't really got the hang of camera control, but I've visited some great stages! It encapsulates everything I love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choze Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 I found a stage with mermaids and dolphins. Another with Sharks. Need Prince. Need to reach level 9 for trophies. Found him! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Jim Sterling can be a nobhead sometimes but his little look at Noby Noby Boy is fantastic and so funny; http://www.destructoid.com/why-noby-noby-boy-is-the-dark-spawn-of-satan-122461.phtml Got 3/4 new videos up, some a lot shorter showing off a few things I found that I liked; http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=duckypresents+noby+noby&aq=f one including the crazy fish world; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HanVKABDjas Just hundreds of fish swamping me. Flying through the doughnut cloud; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrSN4_7NN6o Cool little thing I found whilst using the free cam; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKaETPgOFm0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarf Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Whilst neither this or Flower appeal to me I like the direction that the games are taking - I just want something that is slightly more socially acceptable though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aimless Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 I just want something that is slightly more socially acceptable though. Like something that involves shooting people in the face? The real world is more surreal than a game could ever be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Choze Posted February 23, 2009 Author Share Posted February 23, 2009 Killzone 2 is out soon anyway. Though the name conjures an image along the like of Mortal Kombat... This game is mad but thats whta makes it great imo. Its not your typical conventional game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Like something that involves shooting people in the face? Haha! Gave me a good laugh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Whilst neither this or Flower appeal to me I like the direction that the games are taking - I just want something that is slightly more socially acceptable though. So your saying if you got "caught" playing this you'd be embarassed? I'm totally different I want to show off games like Flower and Noby Noby Boy to people... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 The game got a great write up from gamecentral this morning. Review by Roger Hargreaves – Oh what glorious madness this game is. You wouldn't expect mundanity from the creator of Katamari Damacy (even if Namco has run that series into the ground without him) but this goes beyond all previous bounds of sanity. If you recall Keita Takahashi talking about how he'd like to make children's playgrounds instead of games, this is those two concepts combined. Looking for somewhere obvious to start, to explain what this is all about, the name is as good a place as any. It's a distortion of the Japanese phrase "nobinobi", a sound effect for stretching, but which also refers to procrastination and feeling carefree. As unlikely as it may seem then this is actually perfectly named. It's not really a game at all, but a far more literal kind of virtual sandbox. You control the worm-like Boy using the analogue sticks, with the left moving his front and the right his rear. By moving them in opposite directions you can stretch his body until he looks like a multi-coloured hosepipe. Boy can also fly if you flick him into the air and he can also eat and excrete anything in the game world – even himself if he gets bisected. Excreting objects also acts as a propellant. The only objective is to accrue points in the game by how much you stretch. These are then submitted online and added to the score of everyone else playing, enabling Girl – a giant version of Boy – to stretch from the Earth to the Moon and beyond. Each time she reaches a new planet you get a new world to play in. Since the game's only just come out though there's still a long way to go. Because there are no preset objectives (although there are a few Trophies to unlock) the initial reaction on playing the game is simply: what do I do? The answer, so rarely applicable to other games, is to simply play. Boy is versatile enough in his abilities that you can amuse yourself for hours turning him into a living catapult, jumping through hoop-like clouds or giving out piggybacks. Although Boy is a pleasure to control the complications forced upon the overburdened camera can lead to some frustration, but it's very minor. Of course as much as we enjoyed the game's freeform nature this is not something you'd expect to pay £40 for on a Blu-ray disc. So it's a good job it's being knocked out for just £3.19. It's a very sensible price for a wonderfully irrational experience. IN SHORT: From the creator of Katamari Damacy comes something even stranger that redefines the idea of gameplay. PROS: Magnificently strange game world and abilities create the ultimate virtual sandbox. Very clever physics. CONS: Camera can be awkward to control. The almost complete lack of any goals or targets will confound many. SCORE: 8/10 Out: Now (Online) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarf Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 No not shooting, yes shooting games can be great, but if they had Noby Noby Boy in slightly less childish form then I'd think about it. I don't know why but the game is just a bit too kiddy. I think Mario is great, LBP is great but this is slightly too far. If Boy was like a Funky Centipede character and lived in a cool VR world I may have considered it but the art direction is too.... You know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shino Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 That's why PlayStation is for the kiddies. I kind of get what you're saying, the character looks like a semi circumcised penis and he leaves a trail of hearts while walking, not necessarily childish but still weird. But I don't agree on LBP, anyone that accuses LBP of being kiddie has no soul (or is a 12 year old). The same goes for flower. While we're on the subject of LBP, people have been claiming that Nobi Nobi Boy is the ultimate sandbox game, but in my opinion LBP is far more entertaining than this as a sandbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 Contributed over 20,000m and I still have no idea what just happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarf Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 That's why PlayStation is for the kiddies. I kind of get what you're saying, the character looks like a semi circumcised penis and he leaves a trail of hearts while walking, not necessarily childish but still weird. But I don't agree on LBP, anyone that accuses LBP of being kiddie has no soul (or is a 12 year old). The same goes for flower. While we're on the subject of LBP, people have been claiming that Nobi Nobi Boy is the ultimate sandbox game, but in my opinion LBP is far more entertaining than this as a sandbox. Well I didn't knock LBP as a game, it is a great game that has a younger gloss on it. I don't think many 7 year olds could make a competent level tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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