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Mega64 Launches The Funny
GameSetWatch has a post up discussing the hilarious Mega64 group and their recent activities. Some previews for their second season were displayed during the Game Developer's Choice Awards, and they impressed a very cynical crowd with their nonsensical real-life interpretations of classic videogames. From the article: "Finally, on the newly released Mega64 front - Xbox 360 Live has these for download, but YouTube also has them - the Mega64 guys' Crosscom promotional trailers, in two parts, for Ubisoft's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. More great stuff, and as far as we're concerned, these people still need to be given a cable TV show, like, yesterday."
...would link to the group's website.
http://www.mega64.com/
These guys need some torrents...
4.1kb/sec download for the trailer... ugh.... oh well, I'll wait like I did in the modem days....
*twitch*
Karnal
Synopsis:
Idiots dress up like video game characters and act out video games in public.
The funniest part was when they were disrupting a little league practice and the coach asked them to explain why. The disrupting part wasn't funny, listening to them try and explain why he shouldn't call the cops on them was hillarious though.
"Is this for class or something you're doing on your own?"
"Well, um..."
The parts where they're trying to be funny weren't. There's a reason you've never heard of them before.
Nothing they do will ever top their Tetris video. Imagine a guy dressed up like the "L" block, running around, finding the perfect spot next to a mailbox, and falling into place. Meanwhile, people wandering around the street wondering what the hell this guy dressed up as a block with a cameraman is doing. All set to a techno rendition of the Tetris theme. Good times, good times.
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
I have no idea who these people are, so I'm glad it made Slashdot tonight. As opposed to tomorrow, when instead of my one crappy post saying "who are they, why should I care, and why aren't they funny", there'd be dozens, maybe even more, saying the same thing.
So I watched 3 clips of theirs - none of them were actually funny.
I don't get it.
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
It's okay, robots tend to find nothing funny.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-173861691 7936225619
Well, those people are not really funny...They sure as heck don't need a tv show.
...but I prefer PurePwnage to Mega64.
I had a brief run-in with Mega64 in San Jose last week.
This was my second year I worked the GDC as a Conference Associate (CA). When not seeking out parties, many of the CAs will just hang around the "CA Lounge" and play games like "Witch Hunt" (aka: "Mafia") or "Spoons". A few of us were about to kick off a game when we see these 4 or 5 guys just hanging out in the hallway between the conference center and Mariott Hotel. I go over to them and invite them to play a game. The whole time one of these guys has a mini-DV recorder and is shooting everything around him. A bit odd, but hey... I'm the same way sometimes with taking photos on my Canon A80.
After some brief introductions, they tell me they are part of a group "Mega64" and that they are showing their videos the next night at the awards show. I had seen one or two of there sketches, but didn't realize how big they were in the game scene until we had started playing spoons and another CA walks by, looks confused and says, "What are you guys doing playing spoons with Mega64?"
Throughout the conference I ran into them one or two other times. Their videos were successful, as the shorts were the highlight for many (me included) during the awards show Wednesday night.
I hope they are hired again next year.
We are not a cynical crowd! Most of us are big kids!
I think the suggestion of 'they deserve a cable tv show' misses the potential of these vidcast/iptv/webcast/vlog/etc type shows. If they're on cable, then I have to pay for cable. I dont get to pay per show, so I get a bunch of channels I really could care less about, plus commercials. And in exchange the show gets executives and loses creative focus, going for the LCD of the public, and eventually gets buried becomse some show with smaller budget and less creativity makes more money cause the LCD would rather live someone elses life than thier own miserable ones (See Firefly getting buried by Reality TV as exhibit one).
These IPTV shows are great, I dont have to try to record them, worry about DRM, commercials, anything. Alot of them are done by guys who do it for the love of the entertainment, to learn about production, or to teach and share what they know. Or for the simple comedy of seeing what it'd be like if ghosts and goblins was legit. Sure, some IPTV has sponsers or is out to make a buck, but at least its an alternative entertainment channel, and I think we shoul grow that channel, not stifle it by trying to fit it into the cable existence we know.
This coming from someone that spends a ton of time producing my own show. I don't want to be on Cable, I want distribution to get smarter so that my webshow can get to people that want it in the format they want to enjoy it in.
Joe Farro
Joe@downstairstheater@com
http://www.downstairstheater.com/
"This coming from someone that spends a ton of time producing my own show. I don't want to be on Cable, I want distribution to get smarter so that my webshow can get to people that want it in the format they want to enjoy it in."
Are you coming out in "knots on a string" format?
I've been beaten WebSenseless by a proxy.