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Goodbye, "Majestic"

Posted by timothy on from the too-much-like-real-life-perhaps dept.

fonixmunkee writes: "Ack, looks like EA is stopping the very cool, ground-breaking game 'Majestic.' The article is here. I got hooked on this from the very start, and in turn got a bunch of friends into it. It's cool to be out for a fancy dinner and have the game calling you threatening your life. Oh well, I'm sure a new spinoff will rise up."

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  1. Well, they're gonna take a bath by parliboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean, Jim Carrey's cut alone has to be worth more than what the thing brought in. Really though, how much suspense and paranoid can you get from an old movie theatre?

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  2. Darn... by friendofish · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I'm never going to get to put in my bosses pager number, Cell Number, Fax and email addresses.

  3. It's cool?!? by MrWa · · Score: 3, Funny
    So not only am I bothered by other people's pagers, cell phones, and PDAs going off during my dinner - or worse, during a movie! - but it turns out to be a stupid game!?

    Maybe you shouldn't worry about a game threatening your life next time that pager goes off; the person behind you is probably a more valid concern.

  4. Why geeks will never be accepted by Mahtar · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's cool to be out for a fancy dinner and have the game calling you threatening your life. You don't have a girlfriend, do you?

  5. Send me your phone number... by aclarke · · Score: 5, Funny

    and I'LL call you and threaten your life, if that's what you're into...

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  6. Re:Receiving Threatening Phone Calls Is Cool?! by majcher · · Score: 4, Funny
    First off, going on a first date to dinner and having to tell your girlfriend that you need to take a call from a video game would be pretty dorky.

    *looks around* Ummm...did you by any chance realize where you were when you said that? Forget playing it - just knowing what Majestic is (the game, or otherwise) pretty much puts you firmly in the "dork" category right off. Even if you're not being paged by a computer during dinner, you know that you're going to eventually let something about your Quake clan or your Everquest guild (or whatever they are) accidentally slip in conversation, and that's it. Your scam is up. Best to face the truth head on, and count on your date being cool enough to be interested... in you, at least, if not the game.

    Like the kids at Penny Arcade say, "You play videogames? Welcome to Dorksville. You want to know how cool your videogames are? Ask your fucking girlfriend how cool. And if you don't have a girlfriend? That's part of the test."

  7. Re:This is a sign of some sort of cultural deficie by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah darn that new technology.

    What will they think of next, a fake newscast about aliens invading earth, and no one will know whether it is real or not?

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