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Kong Lives!
eToyChest is reporting that, if you play your cards right in the game version of the Kong film, King Kong might return home the end of the game. Apparently the designers thought people wouldn't want to play if they already knew the ending. From the article: "To unlock the alternate ending, players must complete the entire game and then go back and play through various maps and earn a total of 250,000 points. Other unlockable features include several Weta Digital concept art galleries, interviews with both Peter Jackson and Phillipa Boyens, an "old movie" filter, a King Kong theatrical trailer and more."
Well, it's better than a King Kong Hot Coffee mod story about how to go about unlocking Kong-themed erotic content, or a revelation that beating the game in under an hour lets you see Kong waving at you in a bathing suit.
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If Kong works hard enough and lives long enough, he becomes another remade classic character and HE TAKES THEIR BULLETS!!1 in a cocaine-filled rage. Or maybe not, but it's still fun to think of a cokehead gorilla who likes blondes.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Yeah. But replace "Kong waving at you in a bathing suit" with "Naomi Watts waving at you in a bathing suit" and I'd take the task with all the patience and sloth of a Saleen S7.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
As such, it shouldn't have made the cut.
They should think about this for other games that are based on movies. For example, if you manage to score 500,000 points without going through any warp smokestacks, the Titanic doesn't sink. Or if you manage to kill everybody in Star Wars: Galaxies using only the force-grip-throw-off-a-cliff-or-into-a-wall thing you get to go back in time and slap George Lucas around so he leaves the movie industry directly after the release of Return of the Jedi to go live in a commune in Montana, sparing us horror of the Special Editions and the prequels.
Big Ape goes home at the end of a game. Newsworthy? I think not. Here is an e-bay auction where a photo of some random guy's girlfriend is getting sold off. That may help the thread! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPa geName=ADME:B:BCA:US:11&Item=6466413005
I don't care about the game because I won't buy it when it comes encumbered with that crap.
"Naomi Watts waving at you in a bathing suit"
should be
"Naomi Watts waving her bathing suit at you"
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Does the game suck?
Don't ruin it for me!
Who cares, it's not Aeris!
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Uh huh.... Interesting.
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That's "grammar"
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Your right, this isn't news. It is an advertisement.
Is it just me or has this game gotten way more media time then anything else? I'm sure the guys in the marketing team are doing a good job but it seems like it is more then that. The media has grabbed this title like it is the next coming of Jesus.
To be quite honest. This has been pushed so much I was kinda hoping it would flop.
I want to paly king kong pinball but the last time I saw it. It was not working. Some one needs to get a rom dump from it so it can be play in VP + VPINMAME
It's good to see developers taking their own decisions, games that allow your actions to chose the endings are some of the best. It makes it a lot more interesting when a decision you make early on in the game effects it a lot later on and means that the game has a lot more appeal to replay it through a couple of times finding the different endings and more.
Good job to the developers on this one.
Business Voyeur
you know the honest truth is he's right, this story is a bunch of advertising bullshit. I cant see what if any value finding out that you can go home instead of dying in a big furry pile has to most of us who come here for industry news. If I wanted to know about a secret ending I could go to gamespot, I come to Slashdot to get gaming news not the new secret tips.
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Ok this is a game oriented forum... NOT A GEM magazine that reports every easter eggs cheat codes and special litlle features in a game STOP ADVERTISING IN /. ALREADY!
*grumbles*
A big thank you to the slashdot editors for posting a spoilor for the movie on the front page
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I have a feeling this got posted because of a recent Penny Arcade. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/05
;)
In the news post associated with that comic, there is a complaint about how, in this game, you face an unwinnable scenario. Then there's a brief correction posted at the end, that just pretty much says "Oh, I guess there's an alternate ending where Kong doesn't die."
I read that, and was thinking, "What? He doesn't die? What does happen? Does he, in fact, just climb back down?" I'm sure I wasn't the only one who was still wondering about this.
So yeah. Personally, I welcomed this Slashdot post. It's entirely possible, though, that Slashdot wasn't the ideal location for it.
But that comic's news post had Gabe discussing an email he got that TOLD HIM ABOUT THE SECRET ENDING.
Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain.
Okay, but this one sounds more like a "get 40 rebounds in a game and you unlock Wilt Chamberlain's shoes" perk from an NBA game to me. I agree with you, what you're describing sounds nice, but games mostly make it happen based on some arbitrary point total or something. (Those 250,000 points mean nothing to me playing as Kong. I want a big banana -- hey, maybe that commuter train.)
When things like that happen organically, that's when it works great. The whole open world thing from GTA got its appeal because it seemed to go a little that way, but really it's not a generational thing. Some pretty old school games like Escape Velocity (a flat-screen space RPG, sort of) and the old Fallout series manage to give you real influence over how things occur, and have endless subplots and quests that affect each other, and character traits that affect whether you can get the different branches.
Probably it has to be a basic design choice for this to work well. Otherwise it's just this sort of patched-on, alternate ending deal... Go back home? What about the one where he sticks with the program and becomes a big Broadway hit, touring with the Rockettes in his dotage?
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
Wait. What? Isn't that what I said? I mean, I didn't mention that it was Gabe that said it (I couldn't remember, and I'm a huge slacker), and I didn't mention that he learned about it by email (it just didn't seem relevant), but... what are you getting at, exactly?
Oh, I read your post and thought you said the opposite. Oh well. Long story short, Slashdot doesn't need to post everything PA does. The end.
Against stupidity the Gods themselves contend in vain.
Apparently the designers thought people wouldn't want to play if they already knew the ending.
Well, uh, thanks for letting us know what's in the other ending, in that case.
Rob
no spoiler warning!
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Move along, citizen.