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Urban-Themed Video Games 'Basically Dead'?
simoniker writes "Midway CMO Steve Allison has been talking about why he thinks the urban game genre isn't worth entering, suggesting of the cancelled Snoop Dogg/John Singleton collaboration Fear & Respect, which was in development at Midway: 'We killed Fear and Respect... because we have enough data-points to know the hood thing is basically dead. It would be dead before it came out. And you don't want to come out on a dead vibe.' Do people really not care about GTA-style urban shooters any more?"
Gee, are they saying that they're actually going to try a new game genre? Here's an idea for a new one, WWII shooters!
-mrxak
Onions Will Kill You
Thank fucking god! "Urban Culture" is pathetic bullshit to begin with. Games based on it are just sad beyond belief. They're blatant attempts to cash in on "hip." Let's get back to the proper business of killing orcs and zombies.
The next big theme should be westerns, Red Dead Revolver was a great title, but it needed more horse riding. Gun (playing now) has plenty of horse riding but not enough moseying.
Old and busted: "urban" games
New hotness: ping pong games
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With the recent release of Einstein's private letters indicating that he was a Mack Daddy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2006/07/11/weins11.xml suggests a new series of gritty urban videogame: the GTR series.
You start as a small time patent clerk named Al working your way up the ladder of Organized Physics. Busting up dice games run by God, setting up a convention for tense-hos, projects that are the Bomb, and so forth.
... when everyone is into it... well it just isn't cool anymore!
Spoiled white kids don't want to be into "Hip Hop / Gangsta Hood" or even "Goth". It has been way too overdone.
Unfortunately many of them are geting into "Emo/Screamo" bullshit.
Here let me make an analogy for geeks and nerds: Having a Linux desktop today is not as cool as having one say 10 years ago. Too many people have one, hell almost anyone can burn a knoppix cd and boot one. If you want to be cool in the geekdom now you have to run exosteric shit like Hurd on an UltraSparc under an emulated virtual environment or some crazy shit like that. Oh, is that GNU/Hurd, *wink* my bad.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
This development has got to be bad news for the Duke Nukem team: Back to square one yet again.
...unless you *are* a minority.
LegendMUD
because I just read that old games' graphics will never age!
You are on a beach, there are palm trees and a bottle of rum.
Drink Rum
You are on a beach in the shade of palm trees, slightly tipsy. A steel band is playing Soca. You are hoding a bottle of rum
Shoot students.
ok
Assault college
ok
Shout badass things
return to base
Game over
Hell you could play it on a phone with Java capability!
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Being in a minority just gives you more people to discriminate against.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
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no it isnt