Limbo 2 Announced
- Scribbled on August 19th, 2010 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Game Videos, Humor, Microsoft Xbox 360, Platformer, Puzzle, Xbox Live Arcade
Activision has purchased the rights to the Xbox Live Arcade indie smash hit Limbo, and will be releasing Limbo 2: The Bar’s Been Lowered.
The announcement video is narrated by Activision exec Chuck Lesuche, who details some of the innovative changes that will be coming in the sequel, including some color added to the dull monochrome scheme, selectable characters, and new weapons for The Boy to have access to.
Let us know if you’re excited for this new game.
August 22nd, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Limbo 2 should not have color, weapons, or selectable characters. They game was amazing and simple . . . and simple is what made it amazing. If a bunch of color, weapons, and/or characters are added, then we’re just going to have another Boy and His Blob, or Out of This World (SNES) style type of game. All Limbo 2 needs is different puzzles and longer game play. When I first saw the spider in Limbo, my heart started beaten fast. When I got caught in webbing and started being chased while I was all tied up, amazing, my heart started pounding faster. It’s the unique qualities and surprise antics that the game threw at you that grabbed your attention and made that little voice in your head go, “Oh man, I can’t wait to see what’s coming at me next!” I must have said, “this game is so awesome,” at least 50 times as I made my way into the dark, gloomy word. It’s like you’re looking for that ray of hope in a world of darkness, and once you find it, you know you’ve completed your quest. Please, don’t ruin these things with color and weapon, or tools, or whatever. Booby traps to take on foes is more fun and not as overdone. Otherwise, you’re just remaking A Boy And His Blob without the blob.
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH NETH LANDAS!!! dude your SOO right please dont destroy this game with weapons and color!!! just add to the first. more heart pounding moments, fun puzzles as the first!!! please we need a second one to for fill our needs from the first. the game is short and expensive if you add some more to it, it will increase the value but if it is changed it will decease to nothing. please dont destroy this amazing game!!!
August 23rd, 2010 at 4:03 pm
I really couldn’t say it any better than Neth Landas already has. The beauty of this game is its simplicity. Please, Activision, don’t turn Limbo into another platformer.
August 23rd, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Okay, everyone, just so you know – Activision did NOT buy the Limbo license.
August 25th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Bout time Limbo of the Lost got a sequel. But how do they plan to surpass the first game? I’m afraid it might just end up being like the first LoTL but with graphics taken from newer games.
August 28th, 2010 at 1:54 am
I am SO relieved that this is a prank. I should’ve watched the video before I commented on this situation. =)
September 14th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Revisited: When I wrote my first opinion there was not a video up criticizing and/or making fun of limbo or a possible sequel. I’ll admit that I didn’t watch more than 30 seconds of the video because it was lame . . . but I have to say that my opinions are still the same in the event that anyone creates a sequel to this original game.
September 27th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
you guys need to calm down activision isnt making limbo 2 this post is a fake just trying to make fun of activision……the video leads to newgrounds which is a spoof that activision would make a limbo 2….so dont worry limbo is still in the creative hands of playdead
December 21st, 2010 at 7:52 pm
This is an amazing game. I can’t wait till the second one is made
January 5th, 2011 at 11:31 am
NO COLOR PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
January 13th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Limbo was fantastic. For such a simple looking game. The depth, soundtrack and gameplay was phenomenal. One of the best games I have played in a long time. I especially liked the black and white scheme. The only thing that would have made Limbo better was if it hadn’t ended so soon. The idea behind a sequel is to extend and elaborate on the things that made the predecessor great. If you change the sequel drastically, you might as well call it something else altogether, because I won’t be buying it. I look forward to Limbo 2. I loved the first one and immediately began searching for the possibility of a second one. Add color and whatever else, change the whole idea behind this wonderfully simplistic game.. and I guess I’ll just start looking forward to Portal 2.
July 26th, 2011 at 7:09 am
if you havent noticec this trailer is a complete pisstake, i 2nd limbo game will not have colour or selectable characters, Activision are tards but they wont ruin Limbos already good reputation for being a good death reaked puzzle game
August 8th, 2011 at 5:28 pm
As always Activision will fuck the game. New weapons??? FOr what? Some people is asking for multiplayer. Nice…very nice. Turn it in a 3d game too. Dumb ass.
August 8th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
LOL It’s a parody.
August 14th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
are you guys retarded. it’s a f—ing JOKE.
August 23rd, 2011 at 2:01 pm
This game needs a Coop mode and longer gameplay. But it needs to stay the same as it is right now…
August 31st, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Are you kidding me? New puzzles that’s all that’s needed. Please, it was unique, straight forward and entertaining. Dress it up and I won’t be buying it. My 9 year old daughter said it best when she heard they were going to add weapons and color. “What jack-asses.”
September 8th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
LIMBO 2 I thought, AWESOME! However it will loose all of its mystery and magic with colour and ‘characters’ I found this game completely addictive and throughly enjoyable! Activision better not spoil this potential amazing franchise! Excited but worried.
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September 22nd, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Limbo 2 doesn’t need color, doesn’t need weapons, and/or various characters. It just needs The Boy and his Sister. That and challenging puzzles, giant spiders/other shadowed creatures and finally and ending.
January 17th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Do not make Limbo II, if indeed you are making it suck. If it has color, extra lives, weapons, or anything more than two buttons you have failed. Screw the noobs that are tired of dying, let them go play Lego indiana jones or something. This was one of my favorite game ideas ever. Don’t f€#k it up!!
February 4th, 2012 at 2:40 am
i agree, this game has a USP, and that is the simplicity and the ingenuity of the game. add color and weapons 2 it, and next we’ll c that it has a 3d verson, just like any other game that’s out there.
we need puzzles over which we can rack our brains, and even though the scenery may be dull and monochromatic, it helps with raising the bar on the puzzles, and adds to the mysteriousness of the story. keep the USP of the game, and probably you can add a few maneuvers to the game to make it a little more interesting, but still keep it simple…
February 18th, 2012 at 11:38 am
I can’t think of anything to say except…
I think it’s marvelous!
http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/3138/limbo201.jpg
February 28th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Ok Activision i love all your games quake, doom, wolfenstien but i have played limbo and it’s fun the way it is but your just gonna make the game worst and no one is gonna buy it. But the game is fine the way it is the ending could’ve done better but it was a good game the black and white color to it and the puzzles to it was nice and fun. Just don’t change it your gonna make it worst but it’s just one f**king retarded idea please for your fans don’t change it with weapons, selectable characters, and changing the color to it won’t be like limbo anymore. Don’t make no changes! please!!!
February 28th, 2012 at 10:38 pm
Oh yeah? Check THIS out:
http://www.gamestooge.com/2012/02/28/limbo-maybe-all-he-needed-was-a-flashlight/
March 7th, 2012 at 3:04 am
OMG if they add color I won’t buy this game. The black and white created a certain ambient feel that was unique unlike most other games. This is what made it stand out above the rest for me. I loved the puzzles even if some were hard I still figured them out. If they really have to add something besides new puzzles I suppose they could add 2 levels of difficulty for those who need it. Just don’t add weapons…
March 8th, 2012 at 9:57 am
you huys do know the videos fake right and its a huge joke
May 20th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
i think you should be able to co-op and choose your person but only between either the boy or the sister…NO COLOR THOUGH!!!!
June 9th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
I really am excited for the new Limbo!!! But, instead of adding coler and weapons, you should add something that lets us know more about the story! Like, what happened in the end of Limbo 1?? But I DO agree with selectable characters!!!
June 15th, 2012 at 11:30 am
and thats how u take oof the indie for a indie game …
July 6th, 2012 at 6:46 am
If limbo 2 adds color and weapons, what’s the difference between Mario?
August 27th, 2012 at 2:48 am
THIS IS A JOKE
August 27th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Yes, it is. :p
November 2nd, 2012 at 9:51 pm
God… are you idiots? That was NOT Chuck Lesuche! It says in the description on Newgrounds that it was animated and voiced for fun! That video wasn’t real, it was fake! And if anything, I do kind of hope for one extra playable character: The Girl that you see at the end of the first game.
November 2nd, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Er, there IS no Chuck Lesuche (pronounced Le Suck).
February 8th, 2013 at 1:21 am
and guys actually u should read about the story before play the game, he is dreaming and he lost his sister in the limbo so u have to find her, so….that’s why he founds that girl at the end
February 8th, 2013 at 1:38 am
No. His sister killed him (on purpose or by accident, we don’t know.)