Comments on: The fun can not be halted

The fun can not be halted

Scoo — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:01:51 -0800

CUBE

By: kbanas

kbanas — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:06:57 -0800

Ok, that was pretty sweet.

By: The Great Big Mulp

The Great Big Mulp — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:10:45 -0800

doot doot doot doot doot doot CUBE!

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:11:44 -0800

Deliciously cheesy.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:13:02 -0800

This is exactly the level of stupid I needed at this exact moment. Thanks.

By: lumpenprole

lumpenprole — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:14:14 -0800

I could of sworn this has been on the blue before, but maybe I'm just crazy.

By: lumpenprole

lumpenprole — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:14:26 -0800

(still awesome, btw)

By: Salvor Hardin

Salvor Hardin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:17:28 -0800

get ready for CUBE! way better than SQUARE!

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:18:37 -0800

That's hilarious, all that retro quantization and banding in the video! Oh wait, that's state of the art DVD encoding.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:19:17 -0800

Yeah, I'm thinking double, but still, good stuff. MetaFilter: THE DREADED CONE

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:20:16 -0800

This game looks educated stupid.

By: marcelm

marcelm — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:26:14 -0800

The cube is a lie!!!

By: Static Vagabond

Static Vagabond — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:28:19 -0800

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?

By: steef

steef — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:29:35 -0800

Awesome³

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:33:08 -0800

I have become CUBE, defender of the polyverse!

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:35:36 -0800

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By: spiderskull

spiderskull — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:37:20 -0800

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.

By: Tomorrowful

Tomorrowful — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:39:01 -0800

Metafilter: Still awesome, btw

By: Seekerofsplendor

Seekerofsplendor — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:40:19 -0800

Hilarious. I think that the dreaded analog synth sounds were about as bad as the "dreaded cone" though. But I get it.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:46:36 -0800

oh man, i miss Bryce3d.

By: spamguy

spamguy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:46:43 -0800

Eh, I found the humour a little flat.

By: lord_wolf

lord_wolf — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:50:23 -0800

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?

By: seanmpuckett

seanmpuckett — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:51:01 -0800

I want to play CUBE. Really, where's the download? I need something like this after Final Fantasy XII.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:55:22 -0800

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.

By: unSane

unSane — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:55:37 -0800

It looks better than Spore, anyhoo.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:00:54 -0800

Spectre anyone?

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:03:30 -0800

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!

By: dontoine

dontoine — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:03:45 -0800

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.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:08:08 -0800

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

By: MarshallPoe

MarshallPoe — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:14:40 -0800

Spectre. That was good game.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:23:16 -0800

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.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:25:13 -0800

Who knew that Grindhouse style trailers would translate so well into video-games?

By: Nelson

Nelson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:26:39 -0800

Replace the CUBE with a crudley modelled tank and you basically have bzflag. Man, fuck that evil cone.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:40:14 -0800

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.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:44:00 -0800

Better than: "Cube 2: Hypercube," but not as good as the original "Cube," or even "Time Cube."

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:52:20 -0800

CUBE

By: echo target

echo target — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:23:02 -0800

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

By: LMGM

LMGM — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:25:33 -0800

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.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:42:22 -0800

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.

By: Hairy Lobster

Hairy Lobster — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:49:36 -0800

SQUARE -> CUBE -> TIMECUBE?

By: ArgentCorvid

ArgentCorvid — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:59:22 -0800

This room is blue.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:19:24 -0800

exactly the level of stupid I needed i.e. educated stupid

By: abulafa

abulafa — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:03:06 -0800

See, I thought this was cube! not CUBE.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:09:27 -0800

Monotech Power Game Unit hell. That was clearly just a rebadged Atari 800.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:29:38 -0800

Spectre. That was good game. Spectre was awesome. An updated version of my first ever favourite game, Battle Zone.

By: john.c.herman

john.c.herman — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:04:10 -0800

It's nice to see Mannheim Steamroller is still active.

By: Wild_Eep

Wild_Eep — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:37:20 -0800

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

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:11:53 -0800

See also David O'Reilly's RGB XYZ (nsfw)