By Quintin Smith on November 16th, 2010 at 10:40 am.
We have a date! Super Meat Boy will be squelching onto the PC in exactly two weeks, boasting six (SIX!) exclusive characters. We already knew two of them- MineCraft guy and Captain Viridian from VVVVVV – and two more have been announced this morning. Ooh, and Team Meat has also mentioned that from November 23rd, anyone pre-ordering the game on Steam will get SMB for the price of $10, as opposed to the game’s full price of $15. Now, those characters.
The first is. THE HEADCRAB:
About whom Team Meat say this:
‘Some of you (trolls) may be thinking “HAY HEADCRAB ISNT INDIE, FUCK YOU SELLOUT ASSHOLES” Well….I dare you to turn down a Headcrab. They are adorable.’
And the next character. IS: THE GOOBALLS FROM WORLD OF GOO.
About whom Team Meat say this:
The Goo ball will be basically identical to Gish, except obviously cuter.
I eagerly anticipate the comment thread when this game finally comes out and I can listen to you all gibber and squeal in terrible pain. Ooh, it’s a tough game, this one.
16/11/2010 at 10:46 SquareWheel says:
I really wish there weren’t so many different versions. I want to buy once and have all the characters.
16/11/2010 at 12:07 TotalBiscuit says:
Tough? It’s not unusual (to be loved by anyone) for different versions to have bonus characters. Been happening for decades.
16/11/2010 at 14:21 Bhazor says:
Yeah. Why, why, why (Delila) do people get upset about different versions having different content? I mean I guess having to complete the game multiple times in different formats would be a downer and it would have been nice to be able to import saves from other versions.
16/11/2010 at 14:52 Wilson says:
@Bhazor – I assume it’s because they would like to have that extra content, but aren’t going to buy multiple copies of the same game, and so can’t. It just feels like you might be missing out on something more than it feels like you’re getting something specially for you.
16/11/2010 at 14:54 Quasar says:
Yeah, it happens. What’s new? (pussycat)
16/11/2010 at 15:07 Miguelese says:
Will Tom Jones be a character in the next release? If so I (who have nothing) will wait, and will it be called Super Meat (Boy from nowhere)
16/11/2010 at 17:22 stf says:
Its a shame that the spelunky character wont be in the pc version; though i wonder if one of the new characters will replicate his (sex) bomb power
16/11/2010 at 20:37 Bhazor says:
His (sex) bomb power? I ((Who have nothing)) think that just sounds wrong.
As an aside Tom Jones new album Praise and Blame is actually really good. I am a gogged.
16/11/2010 at 10:47 Mark Raymond says:
It is very good; probably better on the PC, as well. With all that extra crap, I wish I’d gotten it for the beige box instead of the XBox. Probably worth hooking up a controller, though.
I also love the intro. Music reminds a bit of Dizzy for some reason. Happy days. :)
16/11/2010 at 11:08 Malawi Frontier Guard says:
Do they even make beige boxes anymore? That was such a modern colour.
16/11/2010 at 14:09 Vague-rant says:
I’d prefer the “white-that-slowly-discolours-to-beige” boxes, but admittedly that doesn’t really have quite the same ring to it.
16/11/2010 at 11:03 pakoito says:
You missed that robot from machinarium announce!
16/11/2010 at 11:03 Popish Frenzy says:
Quinns lording over us peasant pc gamers atop his xbox throne..why team meat, why! *sob*
Edit: oooooh Josef from machinarium! *glee*
16/11/2010 at 11:08 MarkSide says:
I know I’m gonna hate this game… But it looks… so … good…
16/11/2010 at 11:17 yonassassin says:
Pre-ordering from Nov 23rd?
Wasn’t it supposed to be released in the last week of Nov?
16/11/2010 at 11:29 Mac says:
Too close to christmas – may as well wait for the Steam January Sale now, and pick it up even cheaper …
16/11/2010 at 11:36 Quxxy says:
Yay, SMB! Can’t wait until this hits Steam.
(This comment used to be something else; I got the “Overzealous Spam Filter” story and this page mixed up. Whoopsie.)
16/11/2010 at 11:37 el Chi says:
The headcrab looks disturbingly like an uncooked whole chicken. I always imagined headcrabs tasting more like fish.
16/11/2010 at 15:03 Quintin Smith says:
Oh, someone needs to mod that into Half-Life 1 and 2. Uncooked chickens, flinging themselves around the level and onto heads. For full surreal effect you’d need to remove their screeching too.
16/11/2010 at 11:38 Henke says:
I’ve completed almost all the levels(including Dark World levels) up until the chapter 3 endboss “Brownie”. One of these days I will beat that piece of s**t.
16/11/2010 at 21:34 iainl says:
Brownie is a bit of a sticking point, yes. Don’t worry, though, make it past there and Worlds 5 and 6 are waiting to hand you your arse in a far more painful manner.
16/11/2010 at 11:39 goatmonkey says:
I don’t know if this is my sort of game but I want it, don’t have a PC at the moment though silly breaking graphics card RMA hopefully won’t take long
16/11/2010 at 11:52 DeepSleeper says:
I think the idea if that if you preorder it on Steam, you get Headcrab, if not you get Gooball.
Which is a shame. I want ALL the characters, even if they don’t have much difference to them.
All of them! Hackers, I call upon you!
16/11/2010 at 12:24 Lewie Procter says:
“Ooh, it’s a tough game, this one.”
Man up.
16/11/2010 at 12:27 8bit Zebra says:
Houndeyes are cuter.
16/11/2010 at 12:37 Mooglepies says:
Got it on the 360. Buying it again because it’s bloody brilliant (one of the best games this year as far as I’m concerned). I spent an hour on a single level (the last one before the boss in the light world) and still I could not put that controller down. Brilliant. I’m now finishing up the Hospital in the Dark World.
It’s not an “experience” like playing through something like Mass Effect, but it understands what makes a game “gamey”, it does similar things for platform games that Trackmania does for the racing genre.
16/11/2010 at 13:16 Lipwig says:
Will anyone oblige my laziness?!?!?!
I only want to see Spelunky, that is all. Who will post screenshots of every character available and end this torment?
16/11/2010 at 13:29 Delusibeta says:
Do note that the Headcrab is exclusive to the Steam version, and the Gooball is exclusive to the forthcoming non-Steam version. So, you’ll have to buy it at least three times in order to get all the characters (assuming the WiiWare version doesn’t have any exclusive characters in a bid to make the game fit into 40Mb).
16/11/2010 at 14:16 pkt-zer0 says:
The Wii version will also have different characters, for contractual reasons. So yeah, four copies it is.
16/11/2010 at 13:46 Maykael says:
Still, it pains me to see that The Spelunker, Ninja (from N) and Tim are exclusive to Xbox Live… At least I hope it brought Team Meat more money from Microsoft.
16/11/2010 at 14:15 Eric says:
I am looking forward to the PC version joining my X360 version. This game is absolutely worth having twice.
16/11/2010 at 14:28 MrMud says:
The xbox version of Super meat boy chewed of my balls and I was loving every second of it.
16/11/2010 at 15:18 Alex says:
I’ll never understand why this thing gets so much popularity, it’s hardly the first, or the best, platformer of this type to be released, by indies or otherwise. I mean, I understand some of it is due to the collaborations with already popular indie games for the extra characters, and some of it because it’s not really indie anymore thanks to Microsoft (which is probably the reason for all the preemptive mainstream media coverage outside the likes of RPS, when said mainstream media usually only cover indies after they become popular on their own first), but it seems to be becoming bigger than any of these would suggest. Oh well, by next year real indies will have a chance agan, stupid team meat interviews will also have stopped by then I imagine (ololz we haet sequels, any sequels ever maed suq, and we won’t ever maek sequels, even though Super Meat Boy is the sequel to Meat Boy, olol).
16/11/2010 at 15:22 Dominic White says:
Your bizarre personal vendetta against Team Meat continues unabated, I see. You are aware that pretty much the entire indie development community at large has chipped in to support the game in one way or another. About a dozen indie devs have provided tileset art, characters and marketing support (as well as level design in some cases, or so I hear), as well as independent film crews and more.
But hey, clearly they’re not REAL indies, despite being two guys who have been producing flash games on their own timetable up til’ now.
You honestly, seriously think *Microsoft* are the sole reason people are talking about SMB? Pretty much every indie games blog in existance has been covering the game in great detail ever since it was announced a couple of years ago.
16/11/2010 at 15:44 Alex says:
Your fanboyism continues unabated, I see. I’ll leave it at that, I’m sure you’ll make it obvious by yourself without any of my help, perhaps next time you’ll rage at someone rationally stating an opinion formed by facts.
16/11/2010 at 15:45 Dominic White says:
Buddy, you’re making no sense.
16/11/2010 at 16:25 Taillefer says:
Edmund McMillen isn’t indie enough for you?
16/11/2010 at 17:09 Dominic White says:
Never underestimate the power of paranoid delusions:
http://codergames.com/news/games/minecraft-2/
To quote: “People are not stupid, they’re capable of thinking on their own, they just need to free themselves from constant brainwashing, people just need to unplug, free their mind from the prison some very bad people (TIGsource and alike, illuminati, satanists, reptilians, luciferians, etc.) imposed onto them. And TIGsource and alike have cunningly infiltrated themselves into indie community imposing their evil ways. They’re not indies, they are liars, infiltrators, intruders, invaders. We should free ourselves from them, for once and for all!”
16/11/2010 at 17:43 pkt-zer0 says:
Is that site a parody of something? Kind of reminds me of Time Cube.
16/11/2010 at 17:54 Dominic White says:
There’s some debate, but the consensus seems to be that it’s genuine, pure-strain internet crazy. I’ve honestly seen just as bad elsewhere.
16/11/2010 at 17:57 terry says:
The site prominently displays McAfee advertising. It’s definitely completely bonkers.
16/11/2010 at 19:52 kwyjibo says:
Indie threads always have some dickwad telling everyone what is and isn’t indie enough. So it’s no indie because it’s on XBLA now is it?
That’s not a definition of indie, that’s a definition of success. What’s your problem with indies doing well?
Not indie enough because it’s a sequel? So indies aren’t allowed to explore their ideas now? It’s not a rational opinion formed by facts. It’s a crap rant formed by irrational idiocy.
16/11/2010 at 19:58 RobF says:
I’m not entirely sure you could possibly get =more= indie than Edmund, y’know?
16/11/2010 at 20:14 _frog says:
The only way you could be more indie than Edmund is if you were increpare.
16/11/2010 at 15:21 Spliter says:
that’s it, I’m buying the game, Headcrab+Goo in one game? Is there anything better???
Maybe if they put chell or a mini glados or a portal 2 bot in there with the ability to make portals.
Then again the game would explode everyones computer with awesomeness
16/11/2010 at 15:28 mcwizardry says:
At the moment it sounds like it’s either the Headcrab for Steam OR the Goo Ball for everything else PC/MAC.
16/11/2010 at 15:36 Urthman says:
So can you play the whole game as an alternate character? Cause playing as a hunk of meat grosses me out too much to try this.
16/11/2010 at 15:44 Dominic White says:
Not the whole game, but the vast majority of it. The only levels requiring Meat Boy are the bonus stages, the boss levels and the final 6 stages.
It’s pretty hard to be grossed out by the character, though – he’s a tiny, TINY little red cube on-screen.
16/11/2010 at 20:38 Urthman says:
That’s good news. And, yeah, my squeamishness is nobody’s fault but mine. Don’t mean to criticize the game.
16/11/2010 at 21:37 iainl says:
He may be a tiny red cube, but whichever character you play you’ll end up leaving blood all over the level once you’ve failed a few times…
16/11/2010 at 17:24 Inglourious Badger says:
Colour me excited
16/11/2010 at 19:16 KillahMate says:
Is the announcement of Josef from Machinarium as another exclusive not enough for a post? You could have added that to this one then, maybe…
16/11/2010 at 19:55 pkt-zer0 says:
There’s a “Quinns has no iron” related joke in there somewhere, I’m sure.
16/11/2010 at 23:49 MD says:
I’m freaking sick of their marketing, but I still think the game itself could be right up my alley. I’m not sure whether they’re making me more likely to buy it by keeping it in my consciousness, or less by annoying me. If they’d shut up about a year ago and then let me know when they finally released the game, I’m pretty sure I’d have been at least as likely to buy it as I am now.
17/11/2010 at 10:25 MrBRAD! says:
I don’t think they’ve marketed it badly at all! All the hype is from excited journalists, not them spewing crap at you. If you want something to whinge about, direct your energies towards Miner Wars and the hideous spamfest that it calls marketing.
18/11/2010 at 03:09 GoodPatton says:
Dammit, can’t you stop posting about SMB until it’s released for PC, dying here…