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Title: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 11, 2007, 12:56:54 PM
I liked Metal Gear Solid 2's intertextual references (but not its story).
Title: Re: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: Himu on July 11, 2007, 12:57:26 PM
gta series
Title: Re: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 11, 2007, 01:55:39 PM
I don't get intertextuality in my games. :( Instead I get centimeter-accurate rivets on boats and planes!  :hyper :hyper :hyper
Title: Re: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: tiesto on July 11, 2007, 02:01:24 PM
I don't get intertextuality in my games. :( Instead I get centimeter-accurate rivets on boats and planes!  :hyper :hyper :hyper

I get the latter at my job, heh.
Title: Re: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: The Sceneman on July 11, 2007, 10:11:58 PM
how the fuck is GTA intertextual? Killer 7 and God Hand for me
Title: Re: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: Himu on July 11, 2007, 10:22:32 PM
how the fuck is GTA intertextual? Killer 7 and God Hand for me

 :lol

You so have not played a GTA game or don't even know what intertext is.

What an idiot.

http://game-research.com/?page_id=108

Read the sections Knee-deep in intertextual references, Intertextual irony and engagement, and GTA as a social commentary.

What a dumbass. lol HOW IS GTA NOT INTERTEXT. EVERYTHING ABOUT GTA IS INTERTEXT. Goddamn get an education. How is God Hand intertextuality? How is Killer 7 intertexuality? lmao
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 11, 2007, 10:43:09 PM
oops, I misspelled intersexual in the topic
Title: Re: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: TVC15 on July 11, 2007, 10:44:25 PM
oops, I misspelled intersexual in the topic

Star Fox Adventures.
Title: Re: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: tiesto on July 11, 2007, 10:47:50 PM
I don't get intertextuality in my games. :( Instead I get centimeter-accurate rivets on boats and planes!  :hyper :hyper :hyper

Actually, Frag... were you big into the old computer wargames... like 10-15 years ago? Do you remember a game called Harpoon, perchance?
Title: Re: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 12, 2007, 12:22:42 AM
Actually, Frag... were you big into the old computer wargames... like 10-15 years ago? Do you remember a game called Harpoon, perchance?

Old? Harpoon is still being updated! But yeah, I remember it-couldn't afford it when it came out. :(

Harpoon 4 is one of the craziest stories in PC gaming. Started, cancelled four years later, restarted again two years later, cancelled again two years after that.

Nowadays I admit I prefer lighter fare-Silent Hunter is pretty much the only naval game I play now. I've been thinking of trying out the new Carriers at War remake from SSG that came out, but there's a lot demanding my time nowadays on the bearded man PC game front.
Title: Re: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: tiesto on July 12, 2007, 08:55:40 AM
Actually, Frag... were you big into the old computer wargames... like 10-15 years ago? Do you remember a game called Harpoon, perchance?

Old? Harpoon is still being updated! But yeah, I remember it-couldn't afford it when it came out. :(

Harpoon 4 is one of the craziest stories in PC gaming. Started, cancelled four years later, restarted again two years later, cancelled again two years after that.

Nowadays I admit I prefer lighter fare-Silent Hunter is pretty much the only naval game I play now. I've been thinking of trying out the new Carriers at War remake from SSG that came out, but there's a lot demanding my time nowadays on the bearded man PC game front.

Actually, I was gonna say... where I work we use a heavily modified version of Harpoon (I believe #III) to simulate submarine warfare, my current project involves writing an interface for the Harpoon devs to use to interface with some inhouse simulation engines. So I just think that is pretty cool that people remember that game, since I remember reading about it in an oooooold issue of Game Players from the 80's.
Title: Re: what game has your favorite intertextual references?
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 12, 2007, 09:11:57 AM
Actually, I was gonna say... where I work we use a heavily modified version of Harpoon (I believe #III) to simulate submarine warfare, my current project involves writing an interface for the Harpoon devs to use to interface with some inhouse simulation engines. So I just think that is pretty cool that people remember that game, since I remember reading about it in an oooooold issue of Game Players from the 80's.

Wow, that sounds badass! I know that both Harpoon and some of Sonalysts' work had been used in actual military simulations, which is very neat, given than civilians can play a game that is almost the same thing as what the military gets. It's just just naval simulation though-games like Steel Beasts (I loved this one a few years ago) have military-grade versions for armored combat simulation.