String ‘em up. The FanMan has gone too far!
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 at 9:22am by Jack
OK, OK! I get it. You guys love your online play. In deferrence to the rabble, I have become an old school Atari developer and will soon release a new game.
It will feature online play for 1,000 simultaneous mutliplayer and HD graphics. 1080p or nothing, I say.
And yes, I tried to find the worst picture possible. I deserve it. This is me being K-Fed, right before meeting the actual K-Fed, at Gypsy Bar in Boston.
[Hat tip to David for finding this. ]
August 14th, 2007 at 10:32 am
I don’t see a need for you to appease the people who had a problem with your article. You stated how you felt, they feel differently, and who cares? I’ve been playing games online for over a decade, but I still see it as a minor feature in my games. I prefer my single player games when I’m alone, and my multiplayer games with my friends in the room with me. That’s just my tastes, and I realize many people feel differently. Just not as many people as the online masses like to believe though. Many online fans have a hard time believing this though because they are online, surrounded by like minded people in their little online bubble. They can get rather sensitive when someone threatens their bubble though, so fragile it is. I’m not attacking online games, I enjoy them too, but I am attacking the belief that online play is vitally important in today’s games. A cool feature, but the lack of doesn’t make a good game turn bad, and certainly doesn’t make a bad game any better for the inclusion. Case in point: If for some reason Smash Bros Brawl does end up lacking online play, I could care less. Online play in SBB is like an extra training mode in my eyes, and nothing more. Smash isn’t smash unless the players are right there in the room with each other.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Well said.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:18 am
West Side?
August 14th, 2007 at 11:19 am
I´ve said it in the later article, to me it´s not fanboyism, but admiration to a well implemented business strategy.
Anyway…i´ve enjoyed the article, now, when is the next Infendo Strikers night??
August 14th, 2007 at 11:47 am
Later this week, perhaps? I know Jack missed the last one (like a scared punk).
August 14th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
This is true. I think I’ve one won online match up so far.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
We would be evenly matched. Watch out for Infendo Forum master, FnbyDstryr .. he was #3 on the Striker Of The Day boards recently!
August 14th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Well Jack said I was “positively a breath of fresh air” in the previous article so I think I’ll just take that and run with it!
** grabs compliment **
** runs **
August 14th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
At first I read that as “This is me being F__ked” and was really confused.
August 15th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Jack- I just got around to reading the Internet article you posted. I mostly agree with you - here is how I see it;
HD, Cool addition to games, I like going home and playing on my ‘rents HD set in 480p…but it doesnt make the game any more fun. I think Mr. Miyamoto was pretty right in saying ‘I think the industry has hit a wall in terms of graphics’. To me, the more realistic try developers make these games look good the more glaringly obvious it is to me that they arent real. Kinda kills the whole suspension of disbelief thing.
Online, pretty amazing feature, and can really bump up a videogame’s fun factor. Needed in every game? No. (See my purchase of Metroid Prime 3) But I wouldnt mind to see a certain franchise get confirmed online play (rhymes with ‘Duper Bash Mothers Crawl’)
Lastly, your game has already been made, although it has leaderboard instead of 1000 player online. It’s called Geometry Wars.
August 15th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
whoa…I mixed up some of those words. Whatever the point remains.