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Metallica Videogame Planned
Thanks to an anonymous reader pointing to this Reuters/Yahoo story with more details on the newly announced Metallica-licensed videogame. Apparently, the 2005-due title, which other sources mention is a vehicular combat game, "has the ideas and the inspiration and the identity of the band behind it", and will, oddly, also feature art input from Geof Darrow of The Matrix/Hard Boiled/Big Guy And Rusty fame. Let's hope the title can improve on band-licensed games from Aerosmith , Journey, or even Iron Maiden?
Why would someone want to play a game about a team of anti-filesharing activists? What do they do, run around and when you push fire button A they whine to reporters, and button B files lawsuits?
Oh wait, apparently they were some kind of a music group once. Whatever.
I want to be able to hire lawyers to have people kicked off of P2P services. If I can't do that, I won't play.
... by Lars Ulrich.
Seriously, I was a big Metallica fan. During the Napster days I initially defended them. Then I saw one too many interviews with Lars, and I realized what a prick he was.
They burned bridges with a lot of my friends. I wouldn't doubt if it's statistically significant to their bottom line.
So recently we see shit like this Metallica Make Peace With Digital Downloaders -- Sort Of. Wow they are so hip to this new medium. My ass.
The fans needed Metallica's faith back in the day, and they didn't give it to us. We bought their CD's, AND we ripped them to our harddrives. People at work would play my Metallica songs and then go out and but some of their CD's for their car. If Metallica had stood up for it's fans, at the hay day of the Napster witch hunt, I think the RIAA and DMCA and a lot of other things could have been altered.
Instead they showed us loud and clear, they are the enemy.
-malakai
-Malakai
A Dragon Lives in my Garage
The best part is that you get to play these guys. The objective is to get into the concert after you do some bar hopping.
Norris/Palin 2012
Fact: We deserve leaders who can kick your ass and field dress your carcass.
I can see it now...
With Shawn Fanning as the evil supervillian and Hilary Rosen as your trusty sidekick!
Wonderful, I'll run out and get that game right after I drop $50 on Dikatana.
Anybody catch this article on CNET?
Metallica then:
Metallica now:
Yeah, whatever Lars! How about sticking with writing MUSIC? How about coming over to my house and setting up my stereo for me? You know, so that the quality is better. Or better yet, buy me a new one!
how stupid
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Instead they showed us loud and clear, they are the enemy.
No, Avril Lavigne singing* "Fuel" on the MTV Metallica tribute special is the enemy. Metallica is merely miscalculating.
* in the loose, "Slurring words together... Badly..." sense of the verb "sing"
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Add to it lack of interest. Metallica, is way over the hill now. This will end badly as Lars starts mouthing off to the programmers and saying they are ripping off Metallica's image in a game they are sponsoring.
No good programmer will work for them.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Funny that they don't blame the music they are putting out these days... it doesn't even justify the HD space :P
Music is the Weapon!
Say what you want about the Aerosmith or Iron Maiden games. But Journey Arcade was a blast!
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Oh yeah, we're gonna hafta pirate the HELL outta THIS game! :)
She was better than Snoop.
I thought the aerosmith game was pretty fun... Well, at least I remember shooting CD's, some partial nudity, giant robots and stuff.
That isn't saying much. :)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
The only thing I can think of is a 3D Fighter with Lars vs. Shawn Fanning. I wonder what Lars Fatality move will be?
Say what you want, but I would love to see Avril Lavigne cover a decent Metallica song, perhaps "Fade to Black", "Four Horsemen", or "Master of Puppets". But in this instance I have to say the song chosen was already so bad that no cover could possibly have made it worse.
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Will trade for "Metallica - Full Collection (320kbps).rar"
I can sum up every comment in just three words.
Kill them all.
-Rabbit
The game is likely to be a travesty (as most real world licences are), maybe the game will be aimed at teenagers, I can't see any heavy metal + computing fans getting excited, though it might do well with all the MTV brainwashing.
Are you kidding? With this economy good programmers will work for just about anything.
There even was a Motörhead Amiga game, a typical scroller beat-em-up iirc.
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I have to Agree with you, Years ago, I was a Metallica fan, I own a few of their albums, (Black, Load/Reload, Kill Em All), They were a great band. But now, After the Napster Stuff, I won't even listen to them anymore, whenever one of their songs comes on the radio, I switch it instantly. I won't Buy their songs, I won't Steal their songs, I won't even listen to it anymore.
Don't get me wrong, they have the right to say how they want their music distributed. But I also have the right to hold that against them, and I'm gonna do just that, I will never touch Metallica's songs until they make amends, And Saying "That's not what we meant..." is not Amends. Treating your fans like Theives is not a way to sell albums. Metallica deserve to have this album fail miserably.
Eric
Revolution X.
The only redeeming feature of this game was the moral dilemma : given the choice, would you save the members of Aerosmith?
Wow, I'm going to mod my playstation just so I can pirate this game. As long as it is just as good as Revolution X ... it will still suck. I, like most of my friends, only downloaded music that wasn't worth owning. Seriously, Right Said Fred?, I don't like it that much.
In other news: Metallica isn't giving radio stations any copies of there new album before it hits stores. To fight piracy I assume.
Wonder if it will be Mameable. Then I could build a Mamecab that switches between the Journey game and this. Cool.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Vivendi has announced that the new Metallica game will be titled WaRaRaRgah! WaRaRaRgah! Wghhhaaaa Wghhaaa Wghhhaaaaaaa! "It's just like the real Lars experience." said the spokesperson.
Rejected titles included "Sanitarium: Welcome to where mimes are killed" "Enter Night: Bake my tan ought to never never LAN" "Hero of the day: Still the Balkins, beat a Paul." "But those titles were rejected, as while they accuratly portreyed the lyrical style of the band, they failed to capture Metallica's more... indecipherable qualities," said our vaguely defined spokesperson.
The ______ Agenda
Can't wait til it's out. I'm gonna download it from Kazaa for sport. I'm not paying for any Metallica trash ever.
Are you kidding? With this economy good programmers will work for just about anything.
So true. Case in point: Spam. It takes a programmer to write an e-mail program for bulk e-mailers (Think Ralsky wrote his own software? Doubt it).
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." --Oscar Wilde
I can't wait til Avril Lavigne fades into obscurity
and is forced to do the obligatory playboy spread
to pay the rent. Shouldn't be but a few months.
The fans needed Metallica's faith back in the day, and they didn't give it to us.
To continue your overgeneralization, we didn't give it to them, either.
Remember: their track from MI:2 wound up on Napster before they were even done with it. If some dipshit fanboy loser hadn't shared songs that weren't even finshed by Metallica, Madonna, Dr.Dre, et cetera, the RIAA would never have bothered about P2P and Napster would still be king.
Sure, Lars is a bit of a technophobie luddite--but considering how well programmers sing, I'd rather a luddite doing the music.
I would expect that a metallica game would feature bus crashes, setting yourself on fire, beating up hookers, etc. Too bad Grand Theft Auto 3 already exists.
Slashdot: come for the pedantry, stay for the condescension.
... thank god you're not here to suffer all this...
Mi domando chi à il mandante di tutte le cazzate che faccio - Altan
Ah hem... that would be "Kill 'em All". In other words, Metallica's first album title was spelled in much the same way that Slashdotters spell.
Disgusting mainstream drivel.
:)
(suprised haven't seen this comment b4)
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I'd rather a luddite doing the music
Then you should try listening to The Luddites. They're geeks and good at music.
Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
Note: I love early Metallica, but can't stand anything post-Black Album. About the time they started selling out.
That's it. I'm no longer part of Team Sanity.
I think you've mistake. You see, this article should have been posted in the "It's Funny. Laugh." topic. Because of course, this is too ridiculous to be true. No one but retarded fanboys would pay any money to play a bunch of washed up loser millionaire musicians... Wait, you mean they're serious. Wow. What a bunch of asshats.
This question is completely off-topic, but I'm hoping somebody will read it and fill me in.
Why is RAR so popular with on-line file-sharing people? Why the break from ZIP, which I thought has been the standard archive format on Windows for about a decade now?
I don't mind RAR, of course, I just wonder why it's making such a come-back in this genre. Thanks.
Doug
I can imagine all the fans they ticked off during the Napster days pushing tons of copies out on the net just for this reason.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a serious game of Qbert to play.
Dolemite
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Who knew? I'm a huge Maiden fan, but I think I'm definitely in the minority of fans who even know what a computer is, much less know how to use one.
Most likely because it compresses multimedia files smaller, has strong encryption and is ideal for multipart (multivolume) archives. SeeAbout RAR.
So are you saying Journey Escape for Atari 2600 :)
is a bad game?
Thank you Metallica for confirming the recent confusion over your loyalties: fans or $$$?
Clearly, it's the latter.
I'm now waiting to see the Lars Urlich action figure, with its face in a permanent scowl, and its two fists raised high clutching wads of cash, and flipping twin birds.
James will be a mongoloid neanderthal with a vacant expression, and drool hanging from its mouth. And a ferrarri.
If there's a Cliff Burton doll, it should come in a casket that spins under a mock grave, to show how he would feel about all this.
Camp Chaos anyone?
It doesn't matter about the filesharing and whatever, we all know this game is a dog. No matter what they try to do with it, it's going to be stupid (did anyone read the description..dear Lord it sounds dumb)
This "might" sell enough copies to make up what they had to pay Metallica for the license.I can't wait to see the idiot who thought of this tie-in get canned. Doesn't anyone remember the craptastic "Kiss Psycho Circus" game? Arggg..history just keeps repeating itself. Now I'm gonna sit back, enjoy some E.T. on my Atari 2600 and maybe follow it up with some Daikatana on my PC.
The encryption is really good but what makes it ideal for multi-part posting is that if one of the files gets lost (which happens often on newsgroups -- so I'm told.. ;) the accompanying "par" files can be used to re-create the missing file. This also works for repairing corrupted files.
Ryosen
One man's "Troll, +1" is another man's "Insightful, +1".
Holy cow what are you smoking. There is no way in hell RIAA would have ignored Napster regardless of whether or not 'beta' music had been released.
And a beta of a Metallica/modonna/dre..etc song is hardly going to impact their sales. All mediums suffer from that. Books, software, music, videos..etc. -7days warez exists for all entertainment mediums and are hardly cause for distress from artist. God forbid people want your stuff so bad they are willing to risk their job for it.
No, i'm not cutting any slack here. Only thing that had a chance of stopping the RIAA would have been the artist themselves. Electing leadership that was pro-technology, pro-free distribution..etc..etc. They would have had to have shown faith in their fans by proxy votes in RIAA.
They didn't, they suck, except those that do their own releases online. I liked the fact one of the Beck albulms was completely available (albeit via annoying FLASH) online. I listened to it for days while working and on the way home picked up the CD.
morons, morons, morons.
-malakai
-Malakai
A Dragon Lives in my Garage
was Crue Ball, the Motley Crue pinball game for Sega Genesis. That was a rockin' cool pinball game. I still play it, only on the xbox.
I cannot WAIT to not buy this!