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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 19, 2012 18:01:27 GMT
GameCentral's agreed to ask Nintendo about Shenmue 3, after having their mailbox filled with dozens of requests from campaigners. Not bad for under 24 hours' work! |
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 19, 2012 12:41:23 GMT
I think I see through your cryptic answers, Joe. You're not getting one past my sharp eye for a tell.
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 19, 2012 12:37:30 GMT
Good man, mue.
If you've got Serious Shit to take care of then that 100% comes before campaigning for a twelve year old videogame. No problem at all.
But if, hypothetically, you were to blow off the campaign to stalk micro-celebs on the level of Toyah Wilcox for example, well then that would be another story altogether. Anyone doing that would probably be due a beating by now.
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 18, 2012 21:22:04 GMT
If by chance y'all see this before, say, 5pm tomorrow (Wednesday): Email GC! |
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 15, 2012 23:49:02 GMT
Well, I had to say something, so here's a new post about how the Nintendo/Bayonetta situation affects the October 3rd Tweetathon: |
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 14, 2012 22:22:28 GMT
I recently bought Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit for Xbox 360.
Many years ago I had NFS II on an old PC and it was the rarest of things - a racing game that I genuinely enjoyed playing. The courses were exotic and fun, the handling actually agreed with me for a change, and sharing the road with ordinary traffic was still a novelty in those days.
I soon picked up the next sequel, NFS 3: Hot Pursuit, which added the now familiar twist to proceedings. Speeding down country roads or through dark caverns with police sirens wailing behind me was a new kind of rush, and the graphics were amazing to me at the time - the cars seemed photorealistic!
Eventually I had to give up on my PC as a gaming machine, so when I finally got a Need For Speed game on the PS2 I looked forward to revisiting the fun I'd had with those early foundations of the series. But it wasn't to be. The game didn't click with me at all, the charm that had captivated me before had seemingly dripped out of the franchise like a leaky fuel tank. And that impression was reinforced by reviews and comments I'd read over the next few years, with NFS becoming synonymous with annual sequel syndrome, topping the Christmas charts on name value alone without delivering anything more than a lazy rehash creating more problems than it solved.
But now Criterion are involved. The makers of the Burnout series have turned their hand to the Need For Speed franchise, and so their reputation coupled with my lingering nostalgia for the excitement of those early titles convinced me to pick up the new Hot Pursuit once it became cheap.
And you know, I discovered something I wasn't expecting. In previous games, even NFS 3, I'd found it a thankless chore to play as the cops, never quite grasping how to succeed in a Chase HQ-style rundown. So it was with reluctance that I grudgingly tried my hand at a police mission in the new game's career mode. 24 seconds later, I'd nabbed my first culprit. The nitro boost delivers a powerful blow to your adversary when timed right, flipping them into submission and making policework a whole lot more achieveable than it had ever seemed before. And what's more, this is the first racing game where I've ever figured out how to drift properly!
So for me, revisiting the Need For Speed series has been a success and well worth the wait. I feel I still won't get as much out of the experience as in those halcyon days of yore, but it's just a relief to be able to play a racing game again and genuinely enjoy it.
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 14, 2012 21:52:21 GMT
So it turns out Yu Suzuki killed Sega after all.
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 14, 2012 21:48:29 GMT
So, with the shock announcement that Nintendo has stepped in to rescue Bayonetta 2 from the axe of Sega, publishing the game as a Wii U exclusive, tongues have inevitably started wagging about whether Shenmue III stands a chance of similar salvation. What do we reckon?
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 9, 2012 7:39:37 GMT
First Dreamcast I've heard of to suffer the red ring of death.
There! Done it! *victory lap around the room*
So what if it's not original, leave me alone.
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 9, 2012 6:50:28 GMT
Yeah, that's exactly it. It probably is too early to get enough people voting - something to come back to later I guess.
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 8, 2012 16:07:46 GMT
For the October 3rd Tweetathon, I think we could maybe try and make it a hot topic on Reddit. There were recent headlines about Barack Obama hosting a Q&A session on the site, so even the less Web-savvy tweeters out there might be more aware of it right now. But it would still be an uphill battle getting people to register and upvote the link. Any ideas? |
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 8, 2012 13:27:52 GMT
I hope everyone else has been trying to adequately phrase a joke about consoles and games copulating with their human owners, and then backing out of the thread in shame when they can't quite cobble together anything witty enough.
I like to think it's not just me.
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 8, 2012 13:21:59 GMT
Saw this in my Twitter feed today mue. Sounds like your buddies have a lot to answer for! 
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 5, 2012 22:07:35 GMT
Well now. I wasn't expecting these figures. An increase in everything (except average retweets per tweet). Encouraging, reassuring, whatever it is, it's very that. |
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 3, 2012 21:55:42 GMT
They eventually approved the post, I don't know how recently - it's had 12 views so far... And yeah, it seems to be going pretty well today. I've exceeded my retweet limit on both Team Yu accounts and the satellite account, so I kinda have to sit the rest of it out. Someone posted this screenshot from TrendsMap.com, but I don't actually know what it means. I've tried investigating whether the hashtag trended in the UK, using what meagre tools are available, and as far as I can tell it didn't. |
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 2, 2012 21:40:07 GMT
I tried posting a thread in the CVG forum today but it needs approval from a moderator. Still waiting, so they've either "disapproved" it as spam or they're just not as on-the-ball as you'd expect for a fairly mainstream forum.
Fingers crossed for tomorrow. I'm setting my expectations somewhere between the July and August turnout, hoping that some of the extra participants last time have cottoned onto the fact it's a monthly event. Of course to have even more than August would be spectacular, but for now I'm treating that one as an anomaly.
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Sept 1, 2012 17:24:02 GMT
THIS MONDAY, you despicable, cretinous, lovely people. Here's a new video: youtu.be/tSdGdXj--7EWatch closely. |
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Aug 31, 2012 19:47:13 GMT
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Aug 29, 2012 14:56:58 GMT
It was one of the most popular games on the Dreamcast, but due to Sega's sullied reputation as a hardware brand, that was like being a runaway hit on the 3DO. Small pond syndrome.
Now if it had been a certain type of game, it might have expanded that pond by compelling people to buy a Dreamcast just to play it. But we had already entered the Pokemon era where the real driving force behind any game shifting hardware units was (and remains) the social stigma of being the only one of your friends not joining in the fun. Shenmue didn't have that kind of social inclusion, like Monster Hunter, Halo and Call of Duty have. Phantasy Star Online did, yet it still failed to force the average Joe into buying a console from a manufacturer they'd grown wary of (Saturn, 32X, CD).
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Post by Let's Get Sweaty! on Aug 29, 2012 12:42:57 GMT
After four days on the Isle of Wight I'm sure America would just seem like a disappointment.
Although if rumours are true about Pat's boundless recreational drug habit, he's probably only gone for the Needles.
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