Monday Night Combat is getting an update for Uncle Tully’s Funland. It has one of the most incredible trailers yet produced for a videogame (see below) and it features some kind of battle-chicken: “Make Chickey fly away by shooting him and earn a big single-life buff for your entire team! Wait for Chickey to slam the ground and then you can grapple him. Ride him for eight seconds and earn big money! ”
We should probably sort out some RPS games of MNC, right? Right.
03/05/2011 at 12:35 Text_Fish says:
Zany.
03/05/2011 at 12:57 BAReFOOt says:
Indeed.
A shooter for rednecks?
Not a shooter for me,
indeed.
03/05/2011 at 13:11 Lilliput King says:
What.
03/05/2011 at 13:22 Tom OBedlam says:
I harbour a suspicion that young Barefoot is a Turing complete nonsense-bot
03/05/2011 at 13:25 P7uen says:
I think it was a beautiful poem.
Tetris.
A puzzle for Russians?
Not a puzzle for me,
indeed.
03/05/2011 at 14:20 JackShandy says:
Bad controls.
Indeed.
A puppet for Shodan?
Not a puppet for me.
Indeed.
03/05/2011 at 14:20 Starky says:
Needs repetition, especially of “indeed” for symmetry and because you can never have enough indeed, indeed.
Halo
A shooter for chavs*
Not a shooter for me
No, not a shooter for me
Indeed
Indeed.
*Chavs, the american version would be Bro’s, Guido’s maybe… more often than not wigga’s.
03/05/2011 at 15:00 TooNu says:
Indeed.
Play it for a week?
I will keep my money.
Indeed.
03/05/2011 at 15:00 Wulf says:
Well, this might have just taken a rapid turn for the worst. >_>
I thought that bros was a positive thing in American society? Everything I’ve been exposed to tells me this.
03/05/2011 at 15:56 choconutjoe says:
A meme is born.
03/05/2011 at 16:41 liceham says:
Speaking as an American (Southern Californian) RPS reader, I would have to say that “Bro” is not a positive title, though obviously not everyone would agree with me. Being bros with someone is one thing, but being a “bro” is another. Think white guys, too much beer, no belts, lots of Halo, bad attempts at rap, etc.
03/05/2011 at 16:55 captain fitz says:
From what my European friends had told me, it sounds like a chav is more of a cross between a hipster and a bro.
03/05/2011 at 17:07 kirkbjerk says:
Perhaps you mean to distinguish between ‘bro’ and ‘bra’.
Well I guess either can cause discomfort.
03/05/2011 at 17:08 Psychopomp says:
link to webpages.scu.edu
These are bros
link to brownstoner.com
These are hipsters
Learn the difference, it could save your life.
03/05/2011 at 17:16 StenL says:
Chavs have absolutely nothing to do with hipsters. They are the combination of a wigger and a bro and depending on the locale, the chavs swing more to one side of the spectrum. In large urban areas, they are basically wiggers, but in Ireland for example, they are basically white trash bros.
03/05/2011 at 17:34 MikoSquiz says:
..hipster? No. Can’t/won’t read, will kill you for “looking at them” (i.e. because they feel like it).. does that sound hipstery to you?
Hipsters play Braid and Minecraft. Chavs play Halo and FIFA ’09.
03/05/2011 at 18:44 Quinnbeast says:
Word to your moms.
03/05/2011 at 20:44 TsunamiWombat says:
Hipsters played minecraft back before it was mainstream but now it’s so sold out, you mean.
04/05/2011 at 05:57 jamesgecko says:
I believe you mean, Hipsters played Minecraft back when it was still underground.
link to instantrimshot.com
04/05/2011 at 07:24 VampireCactus says:
wait, when did people who like clever, innovative indie games become hipsters?
06/05/2011 at 06:50 Starky says:
It isn’t liking a clever indie game that makes you a hipster, it’s deciding you hate it as soon as it becomes popular.
Worse if you also go around telling people how you played it before anyone knew what it was, and how it was so much better back then, how now it’s gone mainstream and sold out.
That would make you a douchebag hipster.
03/05/2011 at 12:37 Koozer says:
I played the free weekend to death a while back, but I went to buy it after the sale ended…I hope there’s another sale to hark the arrival of the update.
03/05/2011 at 12:44 Tams80 says:
That is INSANE! TF2 and your hats, you have nothing on this; NOTHING you hear me?!
03/05/2011 at 12:46 Majikkan says:
What is this I don’t even…
03/05/2011 at 12:54 Out Reach says:
what just happened…
03/05/2011 at 12:55 Kdansky says:
I would totally play it if it had an FPS-mode. Because then I would actually be able to hit something, but like this, all my finely honed senses are thrown off, since projectiles do not originate from where I am looking, but from a point somewhere to my lower left. It also has atrocious cross hairs.
03/05/2011 at 13:05 gorgol says:
Hmm I have to disagree. Playing as the dude with the massive machine gun I found it way too easy to pwn everyone and come top of the score boards every, single, time when I played it during the sale. Lack of challenge stopped me from buying it.
EDIT: and as a side note I also disliked the lack of sense of community. Rarely met the same people twice.
03/05/2011 at 13:57 Ricc says:
Judging the playerbase of a game during a free weekend is a bad idea. The skill-level of your average public server always rises dramatically as soon as said weekend is over. That’s why most regular players view those as annoying or simply “hunting season”.
03/05/2011 at 12:57 Arclight says:
Could you run that by me again? Didn’t quite catch that.
It’s a little… disturbing, to be honest. With the music and all.
edit: Actually, it strikes me as the mutant offspring of the unholy union of Raving Rabbits and Super Smash Bros.
03/05/2011 at 13:17 JackShandy says:
I’ll definetly be chicken this out.
03/05/2011 at 13:23 BooleanBob says:
Suddenly the post-release support that other devs provide is looking rather poultry in comparison.
03/05/2011 at 13:28 Chris D says:
I suspect they’re using cheats in that video.
There’s definitely some sort of fowl play afoot.
Sorry.
03/05/2011 at 14:43 Alegis says:
if the DLC isn’t free for xbox that might ruffle some feathers
impeckable support
03/05/2011 at 15:04 Chris D says:
I think you mean “If the DLC isn’t free for Eggsbox…”
03/05/2011 at 19:16 stahlwerk says:
I hope the single player campaign clucks in over 2 hours.
04/05/2011 at 01:18 Raiyan 1.0 says:
Really hope they don’t cock this up.
Geddit geddit geddit? :D
03/05/2011 at 13:17 chickdigger802 says:
*wipes tear*
PC gaming.
03/05/2011 at 13:36 Wulf says:
Except for the fact that this started life as a console title and was ported to the PC. >_>
In fact, there was a time when console zaniness even outshone PC zaniness. ‘Tis true, young one! Though it was a time ago, it did exist, and few things were zanier than Decap Attack, for instance.
This is just the merest glimmer of the zaniness that consoles used to have.
03/05/2011 at 14:59 HermitUK says:
“few things were zanier than Decap Attack”
Wizkid.
03/05/2011 at 15:21 KaL_YoshiKa says:
C64 / Amiga pretty much beat out any sort of console craziness (and then it gets even crazier if you include Japanese computers).
03/05/2011 at 15:56 Wulf says:
Okay, I reiterate my point. The consoles were great at achieving that special balance of something being incredibly zany whilst still having a point, a plot, and memorable characters. Yes, as an old home computer owner myself, I remember stuff like Creatures, but the consoles took that and actually gave it substance. Just in my humble opinion, zaniness is kind of worthless without substance to back it up.
Here’s an example!
Wizkid: link to youtube.com
Decap Attack: link to youtube.com
And I’m still tempted to say that Decap Attack beats it out on the weirdness quotient anyway! And yet… I haven’t even brought Plok into this.
So have some Plok: link to youtube.com
And have some more Plok: link to youtube.com
Of course, both of these games are about critters that throw body parts at people. Not quite sure what that says about me.
(Whoops, linked the wrong Wizkid video.)
03/05/2011 at 16:03 DrGonzo says:
Have you played the xbox version then wulf? I would say its a brilliant argument for pc gaming, as the pc version is so much better.
Also, well done onsucking the fun out of his comment.
03/05/2011 at 20:49 TsunamiWombat says:
Decap attack is especially zany when you realize the original japanese version -was a completly different game- link to en.wikipedia.org – being a westernized version of Magical Hat no Buttobi Tabo! Daibōken.
Alot of the Console Wackyness from back in the day was due to the fly by night nature of development (alot of indy developers- development was cheap back then in cartidge days) as well as amusing translation and international hijinks (alot of developers from different countries) and outright pirated or illegally produced software.
What does that sound like today? Thats right, PC’s.
03/05/2011 at 13:24 DSR says:
I’m not sure how I feel about being forced to ride a huge cock for points.
Gives the “take one for the team” a whole new meaning.
What?
03/05/2011 at 13:28 Teddy Leach says:
I see what they did there.
03/05/2011 at 13:37 Wulf says:
Pff.
Now if it were a cock’s cock, that would give a new meaning to taking one for the team.
03/05/2011 at 20:29 DrazharLn says:
Sounds just like my time as a choirboy, except I was riding for indulgences.
03/05/2011 at 13:43 Corrupt_Tiki says:
They must of been on some wicked Charlie Sheen when they thought of that idea.
03/05/2011 at 13:48 stahlwerk says:
Did you know…
…the colour of a hen’s eggs can not be reliably predicted by the colour of their feathers, but by the colour of their ears.
…the hue of the egg’s yolk is optimised towards customer market expectations by feeding the hens with carotenoid enriched feed. Consumer preference in europe diverge strongly, with northern europeans prefering bright or pale yellow yolk while southern europeans prefer golden or orange hues.
03/05/2011 at 14:10 DSR says:
This is mighty impressive!
I always disliked bright “orange” yolk. Now I know why.
My northern ancestors were protecting me from eating cheap half breed south weakling eggs.
03/05/2011 at 14:29 Koozer says:
The most disturbing thing in the egg-popping scene in Ghostbusters is that the eggs are bright white.
03/05/2011 at 13:51 Ricc says:
According to Kotaku, Chikey is based on a real chicken.
03/05/2011 at 14:19 Bhazor says:
0:11
Hmmm, the Scouts sex change was a big success.
03/05/2011 at 14:26 Chalee says:
I love the Morricone in purgatory vibe they’ve got going when they sing ‘Chickeeeeen’.
03/05/2011 at 14:44 Alexander Norris says:
This video does not contain enough Pit Girl.
03/05/2011 at 15:48 Olivaw says:
What’s that, Monday Night Combat? I should play more of you? But I’ve already played almost forty hours of you!
What’s that? I can ride a giant chicken?
Oh, okay.
03/05/2011 at 16:23 Bobtree says:
RPS has completely missed the boat. Here’s the origin story: link to simplethrift.wordpress.com
03/05/2011 at 17:44 Lilliput King says:
Pretty cool.
03/05/2011 at 17:13 sleepy says:
Until they fix the huge amount of aimbotting in this game I won’t play it again.
03/05/2011 at 18:28 JayTee says:
I fired up MNC last night and figured I’d stretch the old
PyroTank legs. There were 3 servers running that weren’t empty or full and they had ~4 people per server. Expanding it out to full servers there were < 30 servers with anyone on.It's been a while, about 2 months really, since I played MNC but has the playerbase really died off that much or was that just a bad night?
03/05/2011 at 20:00 Lilliput King says:
300 players sounds a fair number to me. Was there a time when there was more?