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I'm shocked there's no thread or posts about this upcoming epic of a game
Trailer: 1 2 Idea of the game is...your maxwell, and you've got to grab the Starlite, you do that by writing any Noun into the game and helping Maxwell solve the puzzle, there's about a 10,000 word dictionary in game (something like that anyway) Previews: Eurogamer Joystiq Memorable review Quote:
and for the lulz Keyboard Cat (and Astley..I think) Longcat other meme's that have popped up is the LOLwut pear, FTW, C'thulu, not sure what else yet. Developer Walkthrough But I am hyped up like a Mother fucker for this, Can't wait to just delve in and start wording it up, it's got a level creator as well that you can share over Wi-fi, so you can make your own puzzle levels and send them around, make them as hard or as easy as you want too, can't bloody wait. |
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06-08-2009, 02:45 PM | #2 |
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Oh wow. I heard about this game ages ago but I didn't think it would be this awesome. I'll be getting it for sure.
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This is pretty ironic, but I have to ask: what is a 'Mad Cat' The grumpy kitty doesn't know mecha despite sleeping on an Akiba sign post five days a week.
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I only know the name "MechWarrior" from a friend who used to play it in the 1990s. I remember there being a big to-do about the franchise's release on the original XBox with its pricey controller. Other than that? I fail to see why I'm called to hang my head in shame for not knowing that a 'Mad Cat' is a unit from 'MechWarrior.' It can't be that famous of a game if only one of many friends have even breathed its name. Either that, or I can't be as nerdy as you think me to be. Take your pick: MechWarrior's fame or my faux nerdiness.
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No, still not done. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA. Get new friends. If all your friends were into omg japnese gamez during the time of MechWarrior/BattleTech, then no, they wouldn't have heard of it. Seriously, it's the seminal series in the giant mech department. |
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06-14-2009, 12:25 PM | #11 |
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I wasn't a huge fan but god damn even I've played these games before.
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You just hit the nail on the head there, Cletus. The seminal work in an obscure, underrepresented video game genre in the Western world. What did we play as kids? Pac-Man, Centipede Millipede, Super Mario Bros, and AfterBurner. Those were our games. I grew up surrounded by Carmen Sandiego, Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Myst, and Sim City on the computer. Do you remember the Nintendo floor mat button pad? My friend Anthony owned that and we'd mash our way through NES games. How about the Virtual Boy? You ever held one of those? My friend Sean got one in the mid-'90s.
Before we get into a dumb fanboy argument over "gamer cred," let me save us both the trouble and say that I have gamer credibility and I remain emphatic in my stance that MechWarrior is not a very famous game. I would challenge you to find out if even 1 out of every 5 gamers owned a single solitary mecha game prior to 1999. It would be only too easy for me to show you 1 in 5, 2 in 5, or 4 in 5 gamers who respectively owned copies of Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros., or Tetris.
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If you think grabbing four people non-randomly from five is the same thing as "4 out of 5" for all gamers, then you're dumber than I mistook you for. You probably thought you were being cute and taking advantage of the vagueness of the phrase "1 out of 5," but you'll have to try again: and this time, be sure to wear your reading glasses! Because I very clearly wrote "1 out of every 5 gamers." And do you know what that means, Sciz? "1 out of every 5"? It means, "Good job. You just found me 4 people who've played it out of 5 people total. Now keep it up: the world's a big place, and you've got loads more sets of gamers in 5's to poll."
A word of advice? Don't ever sign any documents without having a second party to read the finer print for you. Somehow it's not too difficult for me to imagine you being curbstomped by the hired thugs of a frustrated lender who lost his last ounce of patience with you after you informed him via telephone that the contract said "$1.85 to be repaid for every $1.00 lent" and that your payment of one dollar and eighty-five cents qualified for full repayment of the $5000 you borrowed.
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lol u mad? u mad. Someone's got some salty butthurt, huh? You sure are taking this srsly, aren't ya?
Well, if you want to get technical about it, shnookums, this thread wasn't, to use your formal "everything-I-post-is-a-thesis-paper" terms, a "controlled group," so it was indeed a random poll. I'm sure that with your incredible amount of free-time you would go and find a way to ask all the gamers in your area if they've heard about MechWarrior (Wait, that would involve leaving your mom's basement and exposing yourself to sunlight), but the fact remains that 4 out of the 5 (6 now, if you count Tdos) people who posted in this thread have played the game. I can certainly imagine you crawling home from your job at a gas station 20 years from now to spoon with your blow-up doll of an anime character before curling up in your own fluids, drinking tea from a Hello Kitty mug and immersing yourself in the idea that if you close your eyes hard enough, you'll wake up in Japan. I can only imagine what your interpersonal skills are like in real life if you are this much of an arrogant prick to everyone on-line, where no one can physically stop you from posting your tl;dr rants. If only your dad hadn't gotten drunk and knocked up that hooker that gave birth to you. |
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Once upon a time, there was a man named Sciz. Sciz named three friends of his, himself, and the person he was arguing with at the time as five random people. He didn't roll a dice. He didn't use an RNG. He claims he just sort of came up with the names "randomly" and, as if by magic, they just happened to be those five particular people. When the person he was arguing with points out that Sciz's selection was non-random, Sciz says that not only was it a random selection of people from upnetwork.net's webforum but that the webforum's membership were a valid representation of all of gamerdom. Even though the forum would non-randomly attract Pokemon fans and scare off Pokemon haters. Even though the forum would naturally attract people who like small boards and scare away people who require busy ones. Even though the forum is not the top hit on a search engine's list of sites for "pokemon message board" and therefore would require a disproportionately large percentage of persistent websurfers and a disproportionately small percentage of websurfers who easily give up. Even though the forum is in English, meaning that upnetwork.net's webforum disproportionately attracts gamers who speak English fluently and not gamers who speak English modestly, poorly, or not at all. And the list goes on, children, for Sciz had made a very stupid move: he had claimed that upnetwork.net was as random as gamerdom itself, and therefore any random selection of people from the forum -- which he had not even done in the very first place -- would be a valid substitute for a truly random survey across the globe of all people who considered themselves gamers before the turn of the century. Quote:
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I like the fact that you lambast Sciz for basing the relative popularity of the Mechwarrior series on an invalid "random sampling" yet argue that Mechwarrior can't possibly be a popular/noteworthy series based on the knowledge/experience/preferences of your non-random group of friends.
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Sounds AMAZING.
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You tell me, then: did every child in the 1990s have a Nintendo in his home? A Sega Genesis? A computer? A computer that could play the then-newest video games? We both know that most kids who had a console of any sort belonged to single-console households. The exceptions were the rich kids and the game-obsessed kids. And every once in a while a lucky kid or two. But that's just the machines. Did owning an NES mean you owned or had played every NES game? Of course it didn't. I've got friends who I talked with a few months ago and was surprised to discover had never even touched any of the Mega Man games. At least they knew they existed! But that's little different from childhood me knowing of this vaporous game called MechWarrior.
Anyway, enough of this, you demand proof, and quite frankly, so do I, so proof I found and proof I shall provide to put this charade to rest. Derpa derpa all you want, it just makes you sound that much more retarded as I prove you wrong: Total sales (1999) for the MechWarrior franchise = ~$70 million Source: Reuters Quote: "MechWarrior 2 [...], and its related products, have accounted for over $70 million in sales." Total sales (2009) for Super Mario Bros. 3 = not a direct figure, but at 17.28 million times a conservative pricing of just $20, we would reach $345 million. This is ridiculous. First, NES games used to retail for around $40 to $50 back in the day. I don't doubt that Mario 3 was priced as highly as the others. Second, most sales of the game occurred in the early 1990s on the NES and mid-1990s on SNES. Resales of Mario 3 for the GameBoy Advance and WiiWare do not begin to compare. But to try and account for those stolen sales, let's say $20. Next comes timing. These are the total sales up through 2009. Unless you want to behave like a truly retarded and stubborn child, you'll grant me that the sales for this game have exponentially declined with time, i.e. 90% of the sales occurred in less than 50% of the sales period. This means that for a game which launched in 1988, 90% of the sales would have occurred between 1988 and 1998. Sound reasonable? Let's say you don't. Let's say you want to insist that only 70% of the sales occurred then. Fine. Let it be. 70% of $345 million still brings us to $241 million despite all of the bending-over-backwards I've had to do to entertain you. Source: GameCubicle, citing public data of Nintendo's Quote: "To this day Super Mario Bros. 3 remains the best-selling video game of all time never bundled with console hardware, having sold 17.28 million copies." If you want to sit there and tell me that every kid played Mario as a child, I can't stop you. But if you're even the least bit reasonable, then you'll agree that if only 4 in 5 gamer kids touched a Mario game before 1999, and if one game alone in the Mario franchise accounts for more sales than the entire MechWarrior franchise combined three-and-a-half times over that my 1-in-5 challenge is something to be taken a little more seriously than you're willing to allow.
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Ok this argument is starting to just get inane now. Just because you never played it, doesn't mean its unknown. 1/5 (worst case) is still fairly large, making it not some super small/unknown game. Now get back to talking about Scribblenauts cause that shit is awesome.
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