Psychonauts

I know everyone hates Mr. Shitface now (including me!) but I'll always love this game.


It's a shame so few PC 3D platformers are even almost as good as this was.

It's a shame there are so few PC platformers in general.

I mean if you want 2D platformers, your cup overfloweth.

If you want a Banjo-Kazooie style 3D exploration/collection/jumping game, you're gonna have to dig through different titles and try to avoid landmines like Yooka-Laylee. I guess it takes more budget/talent to make that kind of game, so you don't see it nearly as often.

At least there's emulation.

It's a shame there are so few good PC games period.

You and everybody else.

What was the point of making this thread?

I just really like the game and nobody ever really talks about it. I mean, by your logic, what's the point of ever making a thread about a good game?

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Nobody talks about it because it actually isn't that good of a game.

Hated this game. Humor was cringey and forced, art design (both backgrounds and characters) was disgusting, physics and controls felt off, annoying voices and characters, level design was crap, and the game had a ton of bugs. I think I know why this game sold like shit back in the day. Even the stories within the people's brains weren't very interesting, nor was the overall story of you becoming a psychonaut because your dad never liked you. So original. Also fuck having to collect a load of pointless shit in order to proceed in the game. Do you have to be a collectathonfag in order to enjoy the game? Because the game seemed very autistic.

I like it a lot. It's one of the few games that actually managed to make me smile.

It's not like the actual art style gives the much room to work with.

The art direction is pretty heavily stylized and the models haven't aged very well, but it's something that slowly grows on you as you play. Everyone looks like a lumpy potato person but that's part of the charm.

I think the fanart I posted actually does a wonderful job translating the art style/anatomy of the game into something fappable, but that's just IMO.

I'm not saying it's bad, I'm saying it isn't sexual in the slightest. It's like making rugrats into porn. And no that was not a fucking request

People have done that. Like a lot.

But that's a different situation because even if you can adjust to the bizarre art, all those characters are fucking babies.

Well done absorbing the reddit top 10s, faggot. It's a shit platformer (fact) with a quirky setting that's only ever been popular with fake geeks (fact).

Not giving up, loser? Still convinced that the pre-baked opinions you have about the game, are your own? Then try and recollect similar games to this that you came to love, indepently before hearing anything about them.

You can't. Because it's all social conditioning. You have learned to salivate to double fine productions thanks to redditors.

For someone who cares so much about redditors and their opinions, you certainly do space like one.

Undertale is the same. In a couple years, wide eyed redditors will have taken over this place, and describe it the same way. After hearing about its masterpiece status through all their short life, they will be certain that the consensus is determined by actual quality.

And the tim schaefer cuck tries to blend in

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What's wrong with Yooka?

You are the cancer that is killing Holla Forums.

Psychonauts is a shitty platformer tied to a decent point & click adventure game. It's no coincidence that Milkman Conspiracy is the most talked-about level in the game while Meat Circus is loathed.

Also, I want to fug the spic MILF.

Good taste, user. Good taste.

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Sucks to be you, user.

I played like not two years ago and I honestly can't remember anything about it. Not even how it looks or what the main character's name was.

Raz.

A kid named after a russian psychic who drowned to death can't go in water because a bunch of dirty gypsies cursed his family. But his family are also dirty gypsies so he runs away FROM the circus (a concept that's hilarious at first but generally becomes something you just mindlessly accept, like the name of the "Beatles") to be around people with better genomes.

He goes to a secret government camp where psychic children who are basically tiny howitzers go inside people's minds and jump on shit while collecting stuff.

Unfortunately, it turns out ManlyTears runs the camp and wants to kidnap all the children and remove their brains so he can rape them without anyone calling the cops. So you have to stop him.

Along the way you make friends with a QT red-haired loli who wants you to fuck her butthole. She gets kidnapped but luckily she has the flu so ManlyTears' sidekick Dr. Franknfurter doesn't rape her, living her butthole nice and tight for you to fuck at the end of the game.

meme game

I'd say the high points of the game are:
And that's it. The bad stuff far outweighs the good stuff:

It pretty much took every single bad thing about Banjo Kazooie and expanded upon it.

This is a HUGE problem in Dance Party (Milla Vodello's mind). For those who haven't played the game, one of the types of collectibles you have to find TONS of in each level (like coins in SM64) is figments. These are neon-colored slightly translucent flat sprites, basically. Many of them don't stand still, either; they have paths that they move around, so some can be missed even if you've got the camera oriented in the general direction.

Anyways, Dance Party is an intensely color-saturated level reminiscent of 60's & 70's aesthetics. One very long section of the level is a race, and most of the level's figments are here. Neon colored pickups, neon colored level. The figments become nearly invisible, and you have to replay this section again and again and again and again, because the 'track' that you race along has multiple paths within it that you need to take.

I'll give you that the game is fairly unique, but the actual gameplay is awful. I always hated the way Raz controls, especially when trying to land on small platforms and trying to collect all the flying jpgs is a fucking nightmare.

Oh, you mean like Black Velvetopia, where you're in a Día de Muertos-themed blacklit world where the guy whose mind you're trying to help has never gotten over the dumping he got from his high school sweetheart, and as you progress through the level, you eventually come to realize that he is, literally and figuratively, his own worst enemy, and his attempts to build a path up to her, in his own mind, have been what has kept him in the asylum. Yeah, that wasn't interesting.

Also the real-world asylum level starting out like a regular creepy abandoned facility and becoming a physically impossible construct as twisted as anything you saw in the Milkman Conspiracy. That wasn't interesting either.

Fantastic game. Fond memories playing this on OG Xbox back in high school.

Are you gonna tell me you didn't enjoy bouncing on that levitation ball?

It was a really good game. Only fault was the fucking Meat Circus but iirc it was patched to be more tolerable not too long ago.

napoleon was the best world. milkman is overrated as fuck

It was boring as hell.

Also, did anyone even know they're making a second one and crowd funded it months ago? I still haven't heard anyone else mention it outside that obscure Kickstarter 2.0 I stumbled across and found a whole bunch of VERY oddly "high profile" games being funded there.

this tbh

Now I don't really hate the game. Its pretty good for what it is but
The core gameplay is garbage. The game revolves around shallow set pieces rather than any polished mechanics.


Just emulate them. Its not like good platformers were being made after Wii.

Yeah, that's the place. Some other levels have hard ones, like the Spanish-inspired artsy level with everything black or neon colored.

Black Velvetopia was A E S T H E T I C as fuck.

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Gotta admit I really like that game. An 8/10 easily, fuck that last Meat Circus area though.

set in a fucking canadian artstyle you'd see in a jetix teletoon show