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EA Announces Simpsons Game, Parodies Videogames
Eurogamer has the news that The Simpsons will be coming to a new videogame title sometime in the near future, a new game with an interesting twist. Instead of playing as the Simpsons inside a more typical genre, such as the arcade smash-em-up from the early nineties or The Simpsons Road Rage, EA's newly-announced title will lampoon other videogames using typical Simpsons comedy. All of the cast members will be lending their voices to the title, and hints about the type of games we can expect were already available when the press release went out. A mock poster with the words Medal of Homer flying above a war-torn battlefield suggests what we might see in the game. "Described as a 16-level 'action comedy' with a storyline penned by the long-running TV show's long-running writers, the new Simpsons game is due out on PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, DS and PSP this autumn. It's being put together by EA Redwood Shores, and is full of touches that EA reckons fans of the series - now 400 episodes old - will find exciting, like individual title animations and stories for each of the 16 levels, which are being treated like episodes." You can see the posters from the EA event over at Kotaku.
I know the PC isn't the huge platform it once was, but it seems crazy that every stupid system under the sun is getting it, but they aren't going to port it to the PC...
Congratulations on displaying your prejudice! My half-brother (who I don't talk to if I can avoid it because he is a pain in the ass alky) is a construction worker. His wife has an office job. We have free jazz concerts in the park here in Lake County, California (hicks in sticks living next to wineries and antiquated retirees, around a lake full of algae and mercury called "Clear Lake") and you will see about average parts of each major group here except the Mexicans represented there (we have grapes and pears around here, lots of migrant labor.)
In fact, they've been known to go to them.
I know that a TV show isn't the most important thing around, but have you ever noticed how Marge makes occasional attempts to inject culture into their lives? Or how occasionally the family does something that Lisa wants to do? That's pretty much how it works in the real world, too. Except it's not always the woman trying to do it, of course. I don't want to be sexist while I'm accusing you of bigotry.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Yes, yes I know Lisa has been into Jazz. I used that episode as an example because it is one of the few recent episodes I've watched, and it represents a general trend in the Simpsons, away from their working class roots and towards what I can only imagine is what the current crop of writers are more familiar with. They just don't feel like the same family any more.
Not only that, but the characters don't feel like the same people. It's as if the current writers are utterly unfamiliar with the Simpsons. They do things completely out of character all the time these days, they are just walking one line jokes. Bad one line jokes.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
I completely agree, over the course of 18 years the simpsons has changed way too much. They should be the exact same family that they were in the first season.
Reminds me of futurama, when they note that the simspons is still running, but the last century wasn't as good as the first.