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OscarWilde
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 Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:44 am Post subject: Brilliant xBox 360 ad. |
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Link to iFilm for the ad
If I could find you guys a direct link to the ad., I would, but I figured with iFilm you guys have your choice of video codec/player you can use.
Brilliant and funny ad. Why was it banned? I was chuckling as the ad got into action. The car scene was hilarious. Gosh, the FCC needs a fucking sense of humor. None the less, enjoy the ad.
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As a bonus, this is a clever ad by Napster.
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Man, that XOBX commercial was great!
To be under 10 again...
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Awesome! Friggin, awesome!
And the Napster ad is just... damn...
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OscarWilde
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A very short film that proves guys with fast cars need it more then guys with slower cars. 
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| OscarWilde wrote: |
| A very short film that proves guys with fast cars need it more then guys with slower cars. |
I think this was the best of them all, but that's me.
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| A very short film that proves guys with fast cars need it more then guys with slower cars. |
I think this was the best of them all, but that's me.
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Well, I haven't watched them all yet, but what kind of zealot would I be if I didn't simply watch one and pass judgement on them all?
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| That was a great commercial. Much better than the stupid jump rope one I've seen around here. |
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The shooting video seems generally ok, except the guy who took up the good sniping position and fell from his fucking ledge.
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However, the napster video got me hard.
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Ah, Pizza's unique style of cussing and wanking references... 
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Anyway,
I've been reading the XBox 360 article on Ars. I didn't really pay much attention to the hype, but now that I'm reading about an actual unit I'm finding it pretty cool.
About the only response I can come up with is, "Yeah, but can you play World of Warcraft on it?"
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I too am interested in the Xbox 360, but I lack the requisite HDTV.
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I'm not interested in any of the next gen consoles myself. My interest in PC gaming as a whole is also beginning to wane (along with everybody else it seems). The reason for this is the same as it has been with me throughout the "decline of gaming" - it's all the same rehashed stuff over and over.
Sure the graphics might be a bit better the next time around - but has anything really changed? Do better graphics make up for the fact that games like Doom and Doom II scared the shit of me while playing and Doom III can barely manage to produce a yelp from me? It's really the same all around no matter what genre. RPGs are essentially the last hope for me at this point because 1) they are the closest thing left to the old school adventure games we used to have and 2) in some rare cases they do actually try to tell a story and every once in awhile you can affect the outcome of that story. Even then franchises like Final Fantasy that continue to pump out the same dilapidated gameplay, static recycled storylines and whatever else threaten that as well.
The real astounding thing to me about gaming in 2005 is how stale and static it all is. How many games do you see like Planescape Tormet, Fallout or even more recently KOTOR (not its successor though) that force the player to actually become part of the world they have created as well as force you to deal with the consequences of your actions? This is part of the reason that playing the the latest and greatest FPS no longer holds any real appeal for me. I want something deeper and more memorable. Pretty much all action games have fallen off my map. Perhaps games like Half-Life 2 could've stopped that from happening but given the technologies like Steam and other over-the-top copy protection mechanisms like Starforce.... my heart just isn't in it anymore.
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The real astounding thing to me about gaming in 2005 is how stale and static it all is. How many games do you see like Planescape Tormet, Fallout or even more recently KOTOR (not its successor though) that force the player to actually become part of the world they have created as well as force you to deal with the consequences of your actions?
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It's my opinion that gaming needs better writing in order to achieve the next level of greatness that it truly can achieve. But I'm not sure it's going to happen in the current climate, with current business models dictating lowest common denominator plots and graphics over storylines.
There are always exceptions, like ICO and Beyond Good and Evil, but I think games are ready to go even beyond that, to make players really think about the choices they make and the consequences, to actually stimulate debate about real world issues. I think this is possible, but I'm not going to wait around for someone to do it. I'm going to do some small thing about it myself.
I'll tell you more about it later...
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I'll tell you more about it later... |
Make a nice article out of it and try and sell it to ars
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| There are always exceptions, like ICO and Beyond Good and Evil, but I think games are ready to go even beyond that, to make players really think about the choices they make and the consequences, to actually stimulate debate about real world issues. |
You must play Killer7 and Shadow of the Colossus.
While there are no "choices" in either game, there's moral ambiguity in spades.
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OscarWilde
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| While there are no "choices" in either game, there's moral ambiguity in spades. |
What game is 'spades'? I'm assuming you're not talking about the card game, spades?
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Shadow of Colossus looks pretty amazing, and the game play looks intense. The reviews from IGN and Gamespot seem to be glowing with praise about the uniqueness of the game.
I'm going to have to recommend the game to my friend, but knowing him, he's probably already played it.
edit: Killer7 looks like the cliche acid tripping third person shooting game that I think is has become to common. It's like an MTV production where making it as tripped out and unorthodox as possible makes it cool and appealing. While I don't disagree with that, I just personally would not choose it based on the trailers and screenshots. That and I hate games where one has to shoot at zombies. I shall pass the game title to my friend and see what he thinks.
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| While there are no "choices" in either game, there's moral ambiguity in spades. |
What game is 'spades'? I'm assuming you're not talking about the card game, spades?
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It's a figure of speech. "There's X in spades" means there's a lot of X.
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| Killer7 looks like the cliche acid tripping third person shooting game that I think is has become to common. |
There are plenty of first and third-person shooters, but I'm not sure about the acid tripping being "cliche." How common is it? I found Killer7 both very unique and uniquely disturbing (without being scary). Yes, the gameplay is very simplistic. Yes, the storyline is a total mindfuck -- but it's a good story and it's actually culturally relevant. Both of the latter things are a rarity in games.
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OscarWilde
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There are plenty of first and third-person shooters, but I'm not sure about the acid tripping being "cliche." How common is it? |
That's what I'm trying to remember. I was over at my friend's place and there was this alice in wonderland (NOT American McGee's Alice) type game with eerie levels which reminded me a lot of Killer7. Then there is this comic cell shading type game I've seen too, which was also violent and a bit on the trippy side. Then there is off course the zombie stuff which you get in Resident Evil. Then there is this other japanese game, a japanese movie made out of it too, where it's about some alien I think, eve something or the other which had that whole tentacle stuff. The cartoon cell shading, zombie/tentacle-alien, third person shooter is something I seem to see a lot in japanese games or in arcades. Sorry I can't give specifics. I just know the game looked cliche too me.
But, that is just my 2 cent opinion and 1 cent community college education. Although, I just want to make sure you know i'm not objecting or trying to make any arguments here. Just expressed my initial reactions to the screenshots and game trailers. SofC made me go, 'whoa!' as soon as I saw the giants and the environment. So you're one for two in recommending games. That's not bad.
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| OscarWilde wrote: |
| The cartoon cell shading, zombie/tentacle-alien, third person shooter is something I seem to see a lot in japanese games or in arcades. Sorry I can't give specifics. |
Ah, okay. We don't get that sort of thing much over here.  Just so you know, though, the shooting in Killer7 happens in first person, and the enemies aren't zombies (they're terrorists). I'm not objecting to your opinion, though. I'm just outlining things that I liked about it -- that doesn't mean anyone else has to be as interested in the game as I was.
Shadow of the Colossus is indeed amazing. It's by the same group who did Ico, so that shouldn't surprise anyone. I also second JRs' recommendation of Beyond Good & Evil, which left me begging for a sequel that I'm sure won't happen.
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| There are always exceptions, like ICO and Beyond Good and Evil, but I think games are ready to go even beyond that, to make players really think about the choices they make and the consequences, to actually stimulate debate about real world issues. |
You must play Killer7 and Shadow of the Colossus.
While there are no "choices" in either game, there's moral ambiguity in spades.
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My brother played through a little less than half of SOTC at my house. I really want to know how that story goes. I'm a bit too lazy to rent it myself though (his was also a rental, I don't believe he beat it either) and besides that, the reason we gave up is that we hit a BASTARD that we couldn't figure out how to hurt in the slightest. :/
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I have to agree that we need better writing. A good story more than forgives lesser graphics or glitz, as exemplified by Chrono Trigger for the SNES.
The story for Warcraft is also quite good, as several here can attest. Just ask Jeremy about the maintenance of continuity.
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