Rockstar Plays it Safe 49
Chris Morris at CNN's Game Over column has news of the cancellation of 'Snow', a planned title which would have placed the player in the role of a drug kingpin. From the article: "The reason is anybody's guess. 2K Games, the Take Two division that was publishing 'Snow,' confirmed the cancellation, but declined to give any sort of reason. It might have been because of the controversy the game was bound to kick up. It might have been because the game's developer, FrogCity Software (along with fellow studio PopTop Software) was recently folded into Firaxis, a Take Two-owned development studio run by industry legend Sid Meier. It may have simply been that the game wasn't turning out to be any fun."
Rename, re-badge, resell! (Score:5, Funny)
Change crack addicts into suffering diseased community members
Change drug king-ping to entrepreneurial pharmacist aiding humanity's fight against the sickness.
Viola! Drop from an AO to G rating!
-Rick
Re:Rename, re-badge, resell! (Score:2)
> Change crack addicts into suffering diseased community members
> Change drug king-ping to entrepreneurial pharmacist aiding humanity's fight against the sickness.
You forgot one thing:
And in keeping with our snowy theme, change "hot coffee" to "frappucino".
Re:Rename, re-badge, resell! (Score:2)
I didn't see the part where you changed it from a game to a movie... or do you just play a lot of Final Fantasy?
Re:Rename, re-badge, resell! (Score:2)
I think there's a bit more to the rebranding than would meet the eye.
Re:Rename, re-badge, resell! (Score:1)
Re:Rename, re-badge, resell! (Score:1)
Re:Rename, re-badge, resell! (Score:2)
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Re:Good Riddance (Score:1)
Re:Good Riddance (Score:2)
seriously... id laugh if i heard he was hit buy a truck full of videogames or if vidoegames were in any way remotely related to the circumstances of his eventual demise.
Re:Good Riddance (Score:1)
I deeply apologize for not seeing ghetto pimps, drug dealers gang gang bangers as "cultural diversity" as many people, including you, would. Black ghetto culture is a shitstain that should be removed from existence.
DOS Reloaded? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:DOS Reloaded? (Score:3, Interesting)
Today some jerk has made a Windows version, sells it as shareware, and doesn't even list my name in the credits. He claims hundreds of thousands of registered users. Some of the elements in his software made their first appearance in mine, so there's really no ques
Re:DOS Reloaded? (Score:2)
Re:DOS Reloaded? (Score:1)
Re:DOS Reloaded? (Score:2)
He's a jerk. But he hasn't cost you a thing. And many people have benefited. Sounds like sour grapes on your part.
If you care about it just start redistributing your version so people know he's a jerk. If he's breaking your license publicise that fact or sue.
And like the sibling post says whether your code was open source or closed source is irrelevant.
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It's not piracy, it's sharing. Didn't your parents teach you to share?
Re:DOS Reloaded? (Score:2)
I call bullshit (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I call bullshit (Score:2)
Re:I call bullshit (Score:1)
Take Two has never bothered much with quality. (Score:2)
Sure, they've released stuff that's been popular, but the only things that seem to be popular are
Re:Take Two has never bothered much with quality. (Score:2)
I don't think it was a Take Two game though.
You're talking about the sequel (or triquel, whatever) to Elite, right?
Re:Take Two has never bothered much with quality. (Score:2)
Re:Take Two has never bothered much with quality. (Score:2)
It looks like Gametek UK was the developer who was in charge of releasing the game. They badly screwed it up. David Braben appears to be quite unhappy about it...to say the least
Gametek was then bought by Take Two after Gametek USA went into receivership. Gametek UK is now Take Two Europe.
It doesn't seem like Take Two released Frontier II, but most of the people who did are now Take Two employees, or were at some point. This all happ
Re:I call bullshit (Score:2)
Rockstar loves controversy (Score:2)
Re:Rockstar loves controversy (Score:2)
Indeed, the headline here is completely inaccurate. This game had nothing to do with Rockstar.
I used to work for Rockstar (though I quit several years ago now). Honestly, even calling 2K Games and Rockstar the same company to a Rockstar employee would p
The Future? (Score:1)
With the cancelation of this game for its content and the ESRP changing the rating on Oblivion what are we going to see when Grand Theft Auto 4 comes to the 360? If Rockstar is intimidated now to the point that it cancels a game for the explicit reason of its conten
Re:The Future? (Score:2)
Well, there hasn't been any evidence that this is the case. In fact, the evidence would seem to go the other way since the GTA games have made tons of money and continue to sell - even in "censorship-friendly" stores like Wal-Mart.
If Rockstar was "intimidated" by the ESRB re-rating of GTA:SA based on Hot Coffee, it's that
Re:The Future? (Score:1)
I agree that this does not seem to be the case with the GTA series, but the question is "Are they going to double-think themselves before continuing potential directions their games could go or will they just release the game?"
I personally think that Rockstar is smart enough to
Re:The Future? (Score:1)
They already do censor their material. Hot Coffee was functional but probably removed from the game proper because they already knew it would push the ESRB (and other ratings groups) into the 18+ category. It seems to me that the one positive thing to came out of that for Rockstar (besides a free publicity push for the game) is that they now know just about exactly where the line is
Re:The Future? (Score:2)
Actually, strangely enough, no. Due to a time travel feature of an upcoming toaster the answer was slipped entirley back in time to an 1843 San Francisco cave, only to be recovered by those who are brave enough to stuff themselves into the time travel equipped toaster.
Time travel makes things weird sometimes.
Blow? (Score:1)
This isn't a Rockstar game. (Score:4, Informative)
Blow (Score:2, Interesting)
Based on the screen shot and the above caption (and the name), I'd say they canceled it because they were afraid of being sued by George Jung and/or New Line.
-Peter
Re:Blow (Score:1)
Subject line is all borked (Score:1, Interesting)
Here's a wild thought! (Score:2, Funny)