The fun can not be halted

October 24, 2008 1:01 PM

CUBE
posted by Scoo (47 comments total)

Ok, that was pretty sweet.
posted by kbanas at 1:06 PM on October 24, 2008

doot doot doot doot doot doot
CUBE!
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 1:10 PM on October 24, 2008 [2 favorites]

Deliciously cheesy.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 1:11 PM on October 24, 2008

This is exactly the level of stupid I needed at this exact moment. Thanks.
posted by ardgedee at 1:13 PM on October 24, 2008

I could of sworn this has been on the blue before, but maybe I'm just crazy.
posted by lumpenprole at 1:14 PM on October 24, 2008

(still awesome, btw)
posted by lumpenprole at 1:14 PM on October 24, 2008

get ready for CUBE!

way better than SQUARE!
posted by Salvor Hardin at 1:17 PM on October 24, 2008

That's hilarious, all that retro quantization and banding in the video! Oh wait, that's state of the art DVD encoding.
posted by StickyCarpet at 1:18 PM on October 24, 2008

Yeah, I'm thinking double, but still, good stuff.

MetaFilter: THE DREADED CONE
posted by GuyZero at 1:19 PM on October 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

This game looks educated stupid.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:20 PM on October 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

The cube is a lie!!!
posted by marcelm at 1:26 PM on October 24, 2008

Oohh, I've just got 3D Studio Max and I've managed to work out how to make basic shapes.
Go me.

best of web?
posted by Static Vagabond at 1:28 PM on October 24, 2008

Awesome³
posted by steef at 1:29 PM on October 24, 2008

I have become CUBE, defender of the polyverse!
posted by not_on_display at 1:33 PM on October 24, 2008

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posted by Rhaomi at 1:35 PM on October 24, 2008 [5 favorites]

Okay, I was ready to not enjoy this... I was happily disappointed.

The music... the voice... it's fantastic.

best of web?
Abso-fucking-lutely.
posted by spiderskull at 1:37 PM on October 24, 2008

Metafilter: Still awesome, btw
posted by Tomorrowful at 1:39 PM on October 24, 2008

Hilarious. I think that the dreaded analog synth sounds were about as bad as the "dreaded cone" though. But I get it.
posted by Seekerofsplendor at 1:40 PM on October 24, 2008

oh man, i miss Bryce3d.
posted by shmegegge at 1:46 PM on October 24, 2008

Eh, I found the humour a little flat.
posted by spamguy at 1:46 PM on October 24, 2008 [4 favorites]

I don't understand why the Cube was sometimes different colors. Were those shots from the multiplayer, or can you unlock different costumes/power-ups? If the latter, how? Does anyone have a link to a FAQ/walkthrough?
posted by lord_wolf at 1:50 PM on October 24, 2008 [3 favorites]

I want to play CUBE.
Really, where's the download?
I need something like this after Final Fantasy XII.
posted by seanmpuckett at 1:51 PM on October 24, 2008

Some days I seriously feel like I might as well have two heads. This to me seems a perfect example of the example-glutted YouTube problem of videos whose duration solidly outlasts their joke. This video, for example, would have been more effective at zero seconds long.
posted by nanojath at 1:55 PM on October 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

It looks better than Spore, anyhoo.
posted by unSane at 1:55 PM on October 24, 2008 [2 favorites]

Spectre anyone?
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 2:00 PM on October 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Sure, it fell a little flat in places(dreaded cone? please...), but the pronounciation and intonation every time it said "CUBE!" was perfect, and well worth the rest of the video.

CUBE!
posted by owtytrof at 2:03 PM on October 24, 2008

Eh, I found the humour a little flat.
posted by spamguy at 1:46 PM on October 24 [+] [!]


Like the line about making a calculator look like a cotton gin?

And "the fun cannot be halted."

They had to go hang a lantern on it.
posted by dontoine at 2:03 PM on October 24, 2008

o hai i just got around teh torus on level yellow and defeted the field of shperoids but i keep faling off th platform where is teh secret entrence to level orange thx
posted by not_on_display at 2:08 PM on October 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Spectre. That was good game.
posted by MarshallPoe at 2:14 PM on October 24, 2008

I played an early beta of this and it was pretty good. The green level was probably my favorite (the video didn't do it justice, there were at least three more ramps). The red level was complete bullshit though. The Dreaded Cone is totally undefeatable. It doesn't matter what you do; you can go left: you die, you can go right: you die, you can go forward: you guessed it, you die. (ooh, I didn't think to try backward... shit, I might have just figured that level out...)

Anyhow, it was pretty cool I guess. I still think the whole idea is just a rip-off of the Box franchise, but you know, imitation and flattery and all that.
posted by quin at 2:23 PM on October 24, 2008

Who knew that Grindhouse style trailers would translate so well into video-games?
posted by quin at 2:25 PM on October 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Replace the CUBE with a crudley modelled tank and you basically have bzflag.

Man, fuck that evil cone.
posted by Nelson at 2:26 PM on October 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Veiled feminism rears its head once again in advanced video game design. We are told that the phallic cone is the evil end game boss that the heroic box must overcome to attain freedom. I'm not taken in by those stunning graphics and gameplay. I know this is yet another attempt to make me feel guilty for possessing a penis.
posted by Burhanistan at 2:40 PM on October 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Better than: "Cube 2: Hypercube," but not as good as the original "Cube," or even "Time Cube."
posted by cjorgensen at 2:44 PM on October 24, 2008

CUBE
posted by Burhanistan at 2:52 PM on October 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Spectre was kickass. Anyone know if there's a version out there that will run on an XP machine?
posted by echo target at 3:23 PM on October 24, 2008

I, too, was ready to pour haterade all over this, and then I actually watched it. As soon as I heard "doot doot doot doot doot doot...

CUBE."

I was all over that shit. Yes, I say, yes.
posted by LMGM at 3:25 PM on October 24, 2008

Spectre was kickass. Anyone know if there's a version out there that will run on an XP machine?

According to Wikipedia, some versions were PC compatible. But that was long ago. Maybe there's a file floating around somewhere to try it out.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 3:42 PM on October 24, 2008

SQUARE -> CUBE -> TIMECUBE?
posted by Hairy Lobster at 3:49 PM on October 24, 2008

This room is blue.
posted by ArgentCorvid at 4:59 PM on October 24, 2008 [3 favorites]

exactly the level of stupid I needed

i.e. educated stupid
posted by DU at 6:19 PM on October 24, 2008

See, I thought this was cube! not CUBE.
posted by abulafa at 9:03 PM on October 24, 2008 [1 favorite]

Monotech Power Game Unit hell. That was clearly just a rebadged Atari 800.
posted by Pronoiac at 9:09 PM on October 24, 2008

Spectre. That was good game.

Spectre was awesome. An updated version of my first ever favourite game, Battle Zone.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 1:29 AM on October 25, 2008

It's nice to see Mannheim Steamroller is still active.
posted by john.c.herman at 9:04 AM on October 25, 2008

How long will it be before Zantar realizes there aren't any chieftains?

//obscure?
posted by Wild_Eep at 10:37 PM on October 25, 2008

See also David O'Reilly's RGB XYZ (nsfw)
posted by not_on_display at 11:11 AM on November 24, 2008