Urban-Themed Video Games 'Basically Dead'? 346
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?"
New Ideas (Score:5, Funny)
Let me be the first to say: (Score:5, Funny)
The next big theme should be (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The next big theme should be (Score:5, Funny)
The New Hotness (Score:3, Funny)
New hotness: ping pong games
Re:Let me be the first to say: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The next big theme should be (Score:4, Funny)
Pirates v Ninjas v Zombies v Robots v Monkeys
and I'd pre-order it if it were
Pirates v Ninjas v Zombies v Robots v Monkeys v Pimps, since that would be proof of the vibrant "Urban Theme"
Re:New Ideas (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Let me be the first to say: (Score:4, Funny)
GTR:Princeton IAS (Score:3, Funny)
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 does it... (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Damn... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Let me be the first to say: (Score:3, Funny)
Straight, fo shizzle.
Re:Urban-themed? (Score:3, Funny)
...unless you *are* a minority.
Re:The next big theme should be (Score:3, Funny)
"v Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders" would be the first paid expansion. The TnA factor would really drive sales, and of course that way there would be time to get the animations right
Then
"v Dinosaurs"
and then
"v Episcopalians"
The more I think about it, the more this sounds like the greatest game of all time.
Re:When everyone does it... (Score:3, Funny)
Mod parent down for using non-car related analogy....
Re:New Ideas (Score:2, Funny)
Re:New Ideas (Score:3, Funny)
Says you! I'm dying for "France-Prussia 1870".
How about "Zulu"?
Scenario #1, "Rourke's Drift"
(choose Zulu side, choose to be spearman)
(charge enemy)
*bang* "Arrgh!" (you die)
(respawn as spearman...)
Who needs a new GTA or GTA ripoff... (Score:3, Funny)
Greneda (Score:3, Funny)
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!
Re:FP! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:FP! (Score:2, Funny)
They either pull the curtains or go to sleep.
Re:Urban-themed? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:New Ideas (Score:3, Funny)
Soldier of Fortune [ravensoft.com]
Training for real warfare -- gorilla warfare.
Re:Urban-themed? (Score:1, Funny)
no it isnt