BARRY WHEELER: THE VIDEOGAME (guest starring Alan Wake) discussion

[MyNameIsMethodis]

The cutscene animation in this game is LAFFO HILARIOUS.

[The Fake Shemp]

Game is pretty solid, not amazing - but pretty fun. This is pretty much the kind of game that Sonytards would hype as a AAA release if it was exclusive to the PS3, but it's Xbox owners are all like, "Eh."

[Smooth Groove]

SFUD!  I'm more inclined to believe the real talk from unbiased system warrior Demi. 

[MyNameIsMethodis]

SFUD!  I'm more inclined to believe the real talk from unbiased system warrior Demi. 

No, the cut scene animation is honestly truly terrible. See that image someone posted earlier of Alans wife? That was her actually saying a sentence. It's LAFFO.

[The Fake Shemp]

He's right, some of the animation is pretty eh-oh-el.

I love the episode format. I really hope another developer takes this concept and runs with it.

[fistfulofmetal]

really loving this so far.

the only thing i would change so far is adding credits to the end of every chapter. even if they'd be the same for every chapter. it would add so much to the already top notch a++++ atmosphere and style.

[Ichirou]

He's right, some of the animation is pretty eh-oh-el.

I love the episode format. I really hope another developer takes this concept and runs with it.

It's not a new concept.  It's been done plenty of times before.

[The Fake Shemp]

I really can't recall anyone executing it like this, outside of some point-and-click adventures (Sam and Max comes to mind) and not really to this degree. Feel free to correct me.

[The Fake Shemp]

really loving this so far.

the only thing i would change so far is adding credits to the end of every chapter. even if they'd be the same for every chapter. it would add so much to the already top notch a++++ atmosphere and style.

Yeah, that'd be pretty cool. The pacing is very episodic, though. Totally dig it.

[demi]

He's right, some of the animation is pretty eh-oh-el.

I love the episode format. I really hope another developer takes this concept and runs with it.

It's not a new concept.  It's been done plenty of times before.

I've certainly never played a game that did it. The LOST game does it.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

When a chapter ends and you get CHapter Complete screen, does anything happen or do I press skip to get to the neext chapter?

[demi]

Nothing happens if you wait

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Thanks. I rather not listen to the shitty songs they liscenced.

[Ichirou]

He's right, some of the animation is pretty eh-oh-el.

I love the episode format. I really hope another developer takes this concept and runs with it.

It's not a new concept.  It's been done plenty of times before.

I've certainly never played a game that did it. The LOST game does it.

Wow, I really never should have sent you that copy of Sakura Wars if you were never going to play it, then.

Every Sakura Wars game has done that since 1996.  They even have trailers for the upcoming episode after each episode ends.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Busted

[demi]

He's right, some of the animation is pretty eh-oh-el.

I love the episode format. I really hope another developer takes this concept and runs with it.

It's not a new concept.  It's been done plenty of times before.

I've certainly never played a game that did it. The LOST game does it.

Wow, I really never should have sent you that copy of Sakura Wars if you were never going to play it, then.

Every Sakura Wars game has done that since 1996.  They even have trailers for the upcoming episode after each episode ends.

So random JAP series that never came to America - "done plenty of times before"

Ok thanks

[The Fake Shemp]

Yeah, who the fuck plays Sakura Wars? Does shitty Japanese animation really count as episodic television

[Ichirou]

He's right, some of the animation is pretty eh-oh-el.

I love the episode format. I really hope another developer takes this concept and runs with it.

It's not a new concept.  It's been done plenty of times before.

I've certainly never played a game that did it. The LOST game does it.

Wow, I really never should have sent you that copy of Sakura Wars if you were never going to play it, then.

Every Sakura Wars game has done that since 1996.  They even have trailers for the upcoming episode after each episode ends.

So random JAP series that never came to America - "done plenty of times before"

Ok thanks

The point is that you claimed you'd never played a game that did it when I sent you Sakura Wars almost two months ago.

How long'd it take you when you got the package from Amazon to get your ass to GameStop to trade it in?

I won't even bother responding to Willco's weak troll.

[The Fake Shemp]

I'm sorry, but I was talking about episodic television format. Weeaboo animation doesn't really count.

[Ichirou]

Try harder, Willco. Animated Japanese TV shows aren't TV shows now, sure.  :hehe

How far you have fallen since the "Aunt May will be Carnage" days.

[The Fake Shemp]

Hey, I'm not the one claiming that tons of developers have tried the episodic television format with games and then cites Japanese animation

[Ichirou]

I didn't cite Japanese animation, I cited Sakura Wars, a long-running game series which has traditionally had an episodic format.  It was even lauded for it when it first came out...fifteen years before Alan Wake.

Also, flat-out lying about what I said, Willco?  Tsk, tsk.  I never said "tons of developers" have done it.  I said it had been done plenty of times before.  Which it has.  By the Sakura Wars series.

[The Fake Shemp]

Japanese animation is not episode television format

[Ichirou]

"Lying about what he said failed, start making shit up about what constitutes episodic television format."

This isn't working out, Willco, for either of us.  You need someone who actually gets invested/outraged by your trolling.  You need to bring back Green Shinobi.

[Van Cruncheon]

i hate to side with weeabore, but this is epic jewfail

[The Fake Shemp]

Sakura Wars is not television

[Van Cruncheon]

no, but anime has been in an episode format 4ever, narbo

fuck, the longest running teevee serial of all time is an episodal anime series

[The Fake Shemp]

We're not talking about weeaboo anime, we're talking about REAL television.

[Ichirou]

Sakura Wars is not television

Sakura Wars TV.

Also, now you're the one who decides what "real" TV is? I don't think you're quite high enough on the entertainment industry ladder to be making those decisions just yet.

[Van Cruncheon]

oh, you don't get to snark your way out of this one, willco. internet rules, mayne: ichirou now gets to violate your cornmuffin. you also hafta pay for dry cleaning on the maid outfit. 

[The Fake Shemp]

Oh my god, you guys are too much. It's anime.

[Van Cruncheon]

dude, you just lost an internet slapfight to WEEABOOS. man up!

[Ichirou]

Bend over, Willco.  And word of warning: I'm going in bareback.  :tbslol

[The Fake Shemp]

dude, you just lost an internet slapfight to WEEABOOS. man up!

Are you kidding, you guys are defending crappy videogame anime as television. This is better than expected!

[Ichirou]

Dude, this isn't about quality.  It doesn't matter whether the show is crap or not.  Your argument is that a television show that aired on television in episodic format is not "real television" because it was animated.  Which is a completely distinguished mentally-challenged, wrongheaded argument.

And all this desperate damage control just because I mentioned the Sakura Wars series has had the whole episodic format thing going on for a while?  You must really be bored.

[The Fake Shemp]

Anime fans

[Ichirou]

Willco

[demi]

Uh? I never traded anything in.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/9139/hpim1382.jpg

[Van Cruncheon]

i already informed willco in facebook chat that having lost to a japafag in interweb battle, he is now required to behave himself as befits his newly reduced stature. he has agreed to watch three hours of fruits basket and write a lolicon lemon script for a gundam/tweenie witches crossover.

[The Fake Shemp]

O SNAP. Ichirou pwned twice.

[Ichirou]

Point taken.  You obviously haven't played it yet, though, since the game is set up like a TV show, right down to the "next episode" previews.

Willco, just because you keep trying to pretend I got owned because "anime TV shows aren't real TV shows and anime fans and anime and anime" doesn't make it actually so.

Now go watch some 8th MS Team and post a summary up on the anime thread in Real Talk, and then call me in the morning.

[The Fake Shemp]

Except we all agreed that crappy videogame anime isn't real television, brah.

[demi]

I played a small bit of the intro level, so sue me.

[Ichirou]

Except we all agreed that crappy videogame anime isn't real television, brah.

Uhhh, nobody did, except you?  Unless you're using the royal "we", in which case just

[The Fake Shemp]

Don't blame demi for playing real games with actual episodic television format, not some crappy anime.

[Ichirou]

Goddamn, Willco, it's just sad at this point.  I'll let you have the last word, which will just be a bleating repetition of your last ten posts (and which got disproved eleven posts ago).  At least this way you'll be able to stop embarrassing yourself and get back to doing something fun and/or productive.

[Van Cruncheon]

ichi 

[The Fake Shemp]

Which will definitely not be watching videogame anime and calling it television. My lord.

[MCD]

anime is not tv

[Vizzys]

anime thread

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Ichi i'd play your shitty anime moving pictures game.

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If you got me unbanned at gaf

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[Ichirou]

anime is not tv

It actually is.  Regardless of what your opinion of it may be, it airs on TV, it gets renewed or canceled based on ratings, and it has a continuing storyline.

Just because Willco keeps spamming smileys doesn't mean I have to keep responding to something that is just a lie on its face.

And BTW, if Sakura Wars wasn't "anime" - if it had 3D characters and a totally different aesthetic - it would STILL be episodic and structured like a TV show.  Willco is just focusing on the surface instead of actual content...which actually explains a lot about him.

[Great Rumbler]

ITT Wilco's hatred of anime twists the very fabric of reality.

[Van Cruncheon]

ichi, must i spoil willco's shenanigans for you

do not let THE PRIDE OF THE INTERNET WARRIOR blind you to his jewry

[The Fake Shemp]

Ichi i'd play your shitty anime moving pictures game.

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If you got me unbanned at gaf

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Methodis hits the nail on the head, I can't believe Ichirou is still saying his shitty anime moving pictures game is television.

[The Fake Shemp]

And BTW, if Sakura Wars wasn't "anime"

But it is. Nice deflection. "If this object wasn't really this object, but another object altogether!" My lord.

[Ichirou]

You know, Willco, if you enjoyed Alan Wake and appreciated its innovative episodic format, might I recommend Sakura Wars^TM, available now for the PlayStation 2 and Wii consoles?

If you liked Alan Wake, you'll love Sakura Wars^TM!  Bonus points if you ever dated an asian chick...it will give you an added element of nostalgia as you interact with the irrational-yet-loveable cast of characters.

If you're interested in finding out more about Sakura Wars^TM, please check out the official thread on this very forum!

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Available now at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Sakura-Wars-Long-Love-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B002DC8GWC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1274500944&sr=8-2

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[The Fake Shemp]

When I tire of actual television and settle for crappy anime, I'll be sure to take up your recommendations for what qualifies as television.

[Great Rumbler]

Television is only television if Wilco says it's television and not before Wilco says it's television! Why can't you guys accept the simple fact that television is only television if Wilco says it's television and not before Wilco says it's television? I just can't understand why anyone couldn't comprehend that television is only television if Wilco says it's television and not before Wilco says it's television.

[Ichirou]

You know, Willco, I have it on good authority that the creators of Alan Wake were inspired by Sakura Wars^TM when they switched from an open-world, free-roaming format to an episodic one.

You really owe it to yourself to check out Sakura Wars^TM.  It's got rock-solid gameplay combined with the episodic format you loved so much in Alan Wake!  Why, it's a perfect combination!  With Alan Wake following in its foosteps, who knows how far the influence of the Sakura Wars^TM franchise will spread?  Pick up a copy today so you can boast to all your gamer friends that you were THERE when the phenomenon hit America like a fucking shockwave!