Is it just me, or is that image funnier when you realize the Korean reads "Harrison Ford" for the character on the left and "Vishnu" for the one getting...ummm..."handled?"
The radio station serving Whistler BC, home of the next Winter Olympic games, isnt allowed to use the term '2010' in any sense that makes reference to the event other than in news reports.
Isn't there already a book by that name, published well before Whistler was selected as the site of the 2010 games?
$49 could also be referred to as the "where were you when we needed you?" price point.
I had a ton of people coming into the shop I worked in after the Dreamcast was cut to $49.99, hoping to pick one up. By that time it was too late for the DC, and the price cut was just for clearing out inventory. If the "end of life" shoppers had taken a closer look at the DC earlier on, maybe it's life wouldn't have ended when it did.
(Yeah, it wasn't a good enough value to them at $199, $149, or even $99, so they weren't going to pick one up without the price cut anyways - but still. To a DC fan who thought it was a great system for $199, it was really annoying to deal with the scavengers swooping in to pick at it's still-warm corpse.)
..it's crap. Run Like Hell, anybody? The game that had Bawls drinks for powerups and health. POOR
The Jet Moto series always did it well, though. They tied in the appropriate "eXtrEmE" products whose image (and real world advertising campaigns) matched the game's attitude - Mt. Dew, Doritos, etc.
Odds are we'll see more RLH-type ads than Jet Moto ones.
You can't bring your dog to work, but as a consolation there will be a "no children/babies/infants/whatevertheey'recallednow" policy as well.
"Take your kid to work day" is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. Nobody gets any work done on that day. The parent who brought the kid has to watch it all day, and if they're not watching it, the kid's off bothering everybody else, preventing them from getting any work done.
Unless it's some Indonesian Nike factory, kids don't belong at work.
"back in the day a console game with an obvious bug such as this wouldn't get a license(not that it kept crappy games from being published but still).."
What about Gran Turismo 1.982?
If you don't catch the reference, it's about the bug in GT2 that prevents you from getting a 100% completion stat. 98.2% is the best you can do.
"Heck the PS1 games I have freak out that the PS1 memory card is not in slot 1 (there was only 1 slot on the PS1) and will refuse to boot unless you move the card."
Where on earth did you see a PS1 that only had one memory card slot? Every model of the Playstation, from the SCPH-1000 (original model with AV connectors on the back) to the PSOne, has had two memory card slots. There's one above each controller port.
Now, there are certain games that insist on the card being in slot 1, but that's a coding issue not a hardware issue.
Perhaps this will inspire the alcohol & advertising industry to produce better music than the brittney-clones that the record labels keep signing.
I think the ad guys the beer companies hire actually have a shot - they've shown pretty impressive creativity in the past.
Budweiser does this really well. Their "people in my neighborhood" jingle is one of two commercial songs I've got in my MP3 collection. (The other is a Mt. Dew one done by MXPX.) That Bud song is exactly what a good jingle should be - well-written, catchy, easy to remember and not blatantly "BUY THIS!" as far as the content of the song.
That's the bottom line. Ebay, Gamestop, EB Games or local independent game shops, it's all good. Saves me money and allows me to buy more games. If they want to sell more copies of newer titles, I see two options:
...but the tube makes an appearance in Legacy of Kain: Defiance for PS2. From psx2codes.com:
At any time while playing as Kain, pause the game and enter: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, R2, L2, TRIANGLE, DOWN, and CIRCLE.
You will exit the pause menu and Kain will utter "Beware the tube!" For the rest of the game, Kain will fight with a cardboard tube instead of the Reaver blade. This code will only work for Kain, not Raziel.
Too bad they can't factor in multiple sales to the same household. I know both the early PS1 and PS2 models had reliability problems, forcing some people to replace their systems if they wanted to keep playing.
I still remember having a model 1000 series PS1 that had to be turned upside down to get games to play, since the plastic rails supporting the CD drive would warp if the system go too hot.
Perhaps. But that entire sequence was perfectly capped by Gimli saying, "that still only counts as one!"
The effect of that one line made the whole thing work, despite how unbelievable it may have been. Can Lucas come up with a decent line to make any of his dreck work?
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Is it just me, or is that image funnier when you realize the Korean reads "Harrison Ford" for the character on the left and "Vishnu" for the one getting...ummm..."handled?"
His sig is from Fight Club. It's on a fake EPA billboard put up as part of Project Mayhem.
Isn't there already a book by that name, published well before Whistler was selected as the site of the 2010 games?
I had a ton of people coming into the shop I worked in after the Dreamcast was cut to $49.99, hoping to pick one up. By that time it was too late for the DC, and the price cut was just for clearing out inventory. If the "end of life" shoppers had taken a closer look at the DC earlier on, maybe it's life wouldn't have ended when it did.
(Yeah, it wasn't a good enough value to them at $199, $149, or even $99, so they weren't going to pick one up without the price cut anyways - but still. To a DC fan who thought it was a great system for $199, it was really annoying to deal with the scavengers swooping in to pick at it's still-warm corpse.)
There's another trailer that's not nearly as bad. Anybody want to lay odds that Boll cut the worse of the two himself?
Maybe not HaloKing, but what about the Mech King?
The Jet Moto series always did it well, though. They tied in the appropriate "eXtrEmE" products whose image (and real world advertising campaigns) matched the game's attitude - Mt. Dew, Doritos, etc.
Odds are we'll see more RLH-type ads than Jet Moto ones.
and nobody mentions the Mac Gamer video from Red vs. Blue? O.o
"Take your kid to work day" is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of. Nobody gets any work done on that day. The parent who brought the kid has to watch it all day, and if they're not watching it, the kid's off bothering everybody else, preventing them from getting any work done.
Unless it's some Indonesian Nike factory, kids don't belong at work.
This same collection is coming out for the Gamecube. Will it be plagued by the same problems?
(Though I wonder how the ESRB would handle rating this with the "shake" mode included....)
What about Gran Turismo 1.982?
If you don't catch the reference, it's about the bug in GT2 that prevents you from getting a 100% completion stat. 98.2% is the best you can do.
Bugs can exist in any game, good or crappy.
Where on earth did you see a PS1 that only had one memory card slot? Every model of the Playstation, from the SCPH-1000 (original model with AV connectors on the back) to the PSOne, has had two memory card slots. There's one above each controller port.
Now, there are certain games that insist on the card being in slot 1, but that's a coding issue not a hardware issue.
How will they handle this if one person is using iChat and the other's on AOL or AIM?
Sweet! That one's gonna rawk!
IMDB can help!
Stephen Root....Chode
Maurice LaMarche....Gus
Gina Gershon....Six
'Stuttering' John Melendez....Bob
Gayle Garfinkle....T'nuk
Rick Jones....Whip
I think the ad guys the beer companies hire actually have a shot - they've shown pretty impressive creativity in the past.
Budweiser does this really well. Their "people in my neighborhood" jingle is one of two commercial songs I've got in my MP3 collection. (The other is a Mt. Dew one done by MXPX.) That Bud song is exactly what a good jingle should be - well-written, catchy, easy to remember and not blatantly "BUY THIS!" as far as the content of the song.
Be gentle. There are over 60 of them here. (Poor bastard....)
That's the bottom line. Ebay, Gamestop, EB Games or local independent game shops, it's all good. Saves me money and allows me to buy more games. If they want to sell more copies of newer titles, I see two options:
1. Make the game worth $50
2. Make the game cost less than $50
Only if I'm able to use the Chewbacca Defense.
At any time while playing as Kain, pause the game and enter: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, R2, L2, TRIANGLE, DOWN, and CIRCLE.
You will exit the pause menu and Kain will utter "Beware the tube!" For the rest of the game, Kain will fight with a cardboard tube instead of the Reaver blade. This code will only work for Kain, not Raziel.
Is that the title of the expansion pack?
Demo download available here.
I still remember having a model 1000 series PS1 that had to be turned upside down to get games to play, since the plastic rails supporting the CD drive would warp if the system go too hot.
The effect of that one line made the whole thing work, despite how unbelievable it may have been. Can Lucas come up with a decent line to make any of his dreck work?