Topic: Game News Dump (Read 281963 times)

Classic · « **Reply #3060 on:** September 04, 2011, 09:08:33 AM »

I thought first degree is premeditated?

Mothra · « **Reply #3061 on:** September 04, 2011, 10:10:46 AM »

Well you start premeditating the notion fairly early in the midgame when your roommate's boyfriend stone cold bowser fucks you out of four stars, then genuinely begin to entertain the idea when he can't rowboat worth a quarter dick, costing you a left nut's worth in coins five spaces from Toad, and finally bring it to fruition the sixth time the motherfucker boo shanks you over Moneybags "Peach" Moneybags because I guess he's just an asshole then GOD WHY DO WE PLAY THIS GAME I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD SUCH HATE WITHIN ME

A² · « **Reply #3062 on:** September 04, 2011, 11:50:41 AM »

and people claimed nintendo couldn't make a hardcore mario game.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #3063 on:** September 15, 2011, 02:07:53 PM »

Called it. I don't remember when or where I described using piss-boring loading screens in video games as prime advertisement territory, but I saw that shit coming miles away.

Now if only I had filed a patent on that shit.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #3064 on:** September 15, 2011, 02:24:56 PM »

I've seen ads in the loading screens for Wipeout HD. And I know that wasn't the first place I'd seen 'em.

A² · « **Reply #3065 on:** September 15, 2011, 02:49:50 PM »

Wipeout 2097 for the original playstation had Red Bull ads in-game.

Smiler · « **Reply #3066 on:** September 15, 2011, 03:07:35 PM »

You can pretend that in 2027 Lucas is releasing another Star Wars remake. There you go, your immersion is saved.

Brentai · « **Reply #3067 on:** September 15, 2011, 06:20:08 PM »

I haven't seen any ads in Wipeout HD so far. Maybe I haven't, erm, unlocked them?

Either way it's great to see that Star Wars and Deus Ex are the proponents of the first major salvo in the war between advertisement and good taste. You always thought it'd be some douchy thing like Axe Body Spray during Modern Warfare but NOPE, turns out nerds are the real consumerist fuckheads here!

Stush · « **Reply #3068 on:** September 16, 2011, 01:09:31 AM »

Quote from: Brentai on September 15, 2011, 06:20:08 PM

turns out nerds are the real consumerist fuckheads here!

We didn't ask for this.

Thad · « **Reply #3069 on:** September 16, 2011, 07:04:19 AM »

I actually thought the gauntlet of holograms accosting Anderton with personalized product placement was one of the few bits of the Minority Report movie that felt like it was straight out of a Philip K Dick story.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #3070 on:** September 16, 2011, 07:51:56 AM »

Color me a fat consumerist whore, but I never really understood the big deal when it comes to blatant advertisements. Unless the paying companies have actual control over the content they're sponsoring, or until advertisements actually get so invasive as to appear in your dreams via SCIENCE(!), I don't really see anything that advertising is actually stealing from the general public.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #3071 on:** September 16, 2011, 09:14:50 AM »

The problem is I just paid $50 for Deus Ex so really the company doesn't need to be making additional money on me just playing the game.

It's about as obnoxious as commercials on cable television. In reality, it's a company dipping into the well twice. You've already paid, and they're generating additional revenue off of you passively seeing ads.

Classic · « **Reply #3072 on:** September 16, 2011, 10:06:08 AM »

I tolerate ads when I don't feel they're meaningfully adding to the time I'm sacrificing to enjoy my recreation. Loading screen ads might be OK as long as I could be convinced they added close to nil to the loading times I was seeing, but obviously this requires a game where I'm supposed to let my immersion drop during loading screens.

François · « **Reply #3073 on:** September 17, 2011, 05:51:44 PM »

Quote from: http://www.gamespot.com/events/tgs-2011/story.html?sid=6335281

Speaking at the this year's Tokyo Game Show, Kojima reiterated his intention to make a ZOE sequel during the live stage show for the recently-announced Zone of the Enders HD remake. As translated by Japanese gaming news site Andria Sang, Kojima announced that a ZOE sequel was in development at one stage before stating his surprise at seeing so many people turn out to hear about the ZOE HD re-make. This latter point impressed him so much that he announced he would return to his office to speak to his staff about re-starting work on the ZOE sequel.

Pretty sure many people would have turned out if he had been reciting the technical manual for an obsolete industrial machine used in stapler factories in the 1960s. Because he's Hideo Kojima.

Bal · « **Reply #3074 on:** September 17, 2011, 09:53:35 PM »

Who cares? So long as I get ZOE3 out of it.

Norondor · « **Reply #3075 on:** September 17, 2011, 10:17:32 PM »

i want more teleporting and more chances to badmouth my AI partner and more robots with turgid robo-phalluses and a stupider name than Dingo Egret

Saturn · « **Reply #3076 on:** September 17, 2011, 11:07:33 PM »

Wallaby Albatross

Envy · « **Reply #3077 on:** September 17, 2011, 11:43:52 PM »

Quote from: Saturn on September 17, 2011, 11:07:33 PM

Wallaby Albatross

Quit giving out the name of the new Megaman X bosses.

Dooly · « **Reply #3078 on:** September 18, 2011, 05:40:33 PM »

Yeah, like they're going to make another Megaman X game.

Smiler · « **Reply #3079 on:** September 20, 2011, 05:53:35 AM »

IGN had a contest where people made reversible covers for Uncharted 3.

That was a winner.

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