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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Oh man, I just caught wind of this game called Rainy Woods which, for the most part, looks like it's borrowing heavily from many of David Lynch's films, and from his general aesthetic.

Trailers here

Considering that almost everything that gets released on the 360 eventually comes to the US I kind of expect this too as well. Honestly, it looks like a PS2 game from the trailers, and it looks kind of bad. BUT I want to play it anyways.
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digi · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject:

Twin Peaks: The Game, directed by: Stephen King (?)

honestly though, yeah, I'll be picking this one up
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

It more looks like Twin Peaks: The Game, written by Stephen King, Directed by Roger Corman.

I'm kind of curious though--because I feel like this game could go either way--if it's going to be more an homage to Lynch or just a blatant exploitation of his work.
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Hospital Zone · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject:

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Well, it is being developed by one of Suda51's toleraters: Marvelous Entertainment. I wouldn't be shocked to find that Suda has a finger or two in the game.

But yeah, the major similarities include Twin Peaks and Mullholand Dr. or Blue Velvet at times.

Doing a bit more poking around it seems like the Executive Producer is the man behind Harvest Moon. The director/lead designer is SWERY who also directed Spy Fiction/Extermination (PS2). Without a lot of information I know that Extermination was developed by Deep Space which was part of the team that broke up from Whoopee Camp (the developers of Tomba!. Another major part of the team went over to Team Ico, and then the rest is pretty much the lead developer of the Ghosts N Goblins games).

More research to follow shortly.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Hidetaka Suehiro is one of the writers for the game who also worked with Swery on Spy Fiction. The other writer, Kenji Goda is responsible for the Parasite Eve II story (unfortunatly).

Ahh, while watching the HD version of the trailer I now realize why so many people carry over from the Spy Fiction/Extermination games: this is developed by Access Games, which is essentially what happen to Whoopee Camp commercially. The character designer, level artist, level designer, writer, and art director.

The only person who's a bigger mystery is the art director, Hitoshi Okamoto. The only other person who I've found that could be him has only previously worked on sound and audio for games like Riviera, Summon Night: Swordcraft Story, and (of all things) Dragon Ball Z: Budokai.

In the special thanks appears Yoshihisa Ohbuchi who was the producer of King of Fighters EX2: Howling Blood, and also appeared on the special thanks of Valhalla Knights (an XSEED published game). The other person in the special thanks is Eishin Sasaki, who I believe to be in Killer 7's special thanks as well.

Interesting. This lowers my overall expectations, and there are a few people on the credits who have no previous connections to games that I know of, but this could be a great b-game coming out this year.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I think we all looked at this on SB a while back and concluded it looked retarded.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I guess I missed that then!
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I'll set the scene for you:

[someone links to Rainy Woods]

SB'er1: Ha ha, Rainy Woods is a stupid name!

SB'er2: It looks like a bad playstation 2 game.

Me: Also it appears to have several scenes which are ripped off directly from the show Twin Peaks.

SB'er 1+2: We will not be playing Rainy Woods.

[exeunt]

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Well, either way, I wrote a fairly exhausting entry about why I find that the game could warrent interest.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Full marks for thoroughness!

elvis.shrugged · . Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Stratford, CT

Arghhhh I need to get a 360

This looks amazing, mainly just because it rips off Lynch.

Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

I don't see how anyone could not be excited about this.

A sandbox game by an small Japanese development house that rips off David Lynch?
Yes, please.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

How about I just come round your house and fuck you in the ass while talking backwards and a midget paints the room red? How could anyone not be excited about that ass-fucking?

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

wait, you're gay?
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I was making a point

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

i can see that. put it away, sonny, i'm sunny side up.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

You dirty sod.

Worm · . Joined: 08 Jan 2008 Posts: 142

Thankfully I don't have much of a cinematic study under my belt, so I've got no idea what the fuck you guys are bitching about.

I'm still confused as to how the game is meant to play.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Who said anything about rape?

Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

I suppose it could be consensual, hypothetically.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Lasa are you coming on to me

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I'm consenting here.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I'll keep a list of consent and non-consent. I guess one day it will come in handy!

daphaknee · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:37 pm Post subject:

seriously if there was a date where midgets were gonna come and i was going to have a lesbian sex scene after a murder while everything was very dark i would mark that day on my calendar and hope it was an annual event

the ass raping is just a perk of the whoollleee experience

this game looks okay, but i still want a HOLY MOUNTAIN game

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daphaknee · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject:

yes i do, i want games to be like the movies i like to watch but im going to have to wait 20 years for that

art fart

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Just play Killer 7 and La La Land.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

daphaknee · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject:

thats all i have shaper, THATS IT i want more

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

OH, you need to play D2 for the Dreamcast then.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I'm still waiting for toups to send that to me! It's a game I've always been curious about.
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digi · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject:

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I'm acquainted with the guy who made D2. I wish I'd played it, or even heard of it before very recently. I want to interview him, but I'd feel kind of stupid, not having played his game.

His name's Kenji Eno, and he designs interfaces for vending machines now! Says it has a lot in common with making videogames.
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I always expected a CD full of rape anthema to have John Mayer's photo on the cover. Maybe that's only for the date rape soundtrack.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Enemy Zero is pretty sweet, yeah, though D isn't all that great. He also made that sound only game that I can't recall the name of... Real Sound or something? I always wanted to try that one.

I heard he was getting back into games because of the Wii! Though if No More Heroes bombed...
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Patrick Alexander · . Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 123 Location: various

Shaper: If/when I interview him, I'll solicit question ideas on this forum, since some people here are familiar with his work!

Cycle: I asked him if he wanted to get back into games, and he said yes. No details on when or why, but it's straight from the horse's mouth at least! (Well, via me, I guess.)
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boojiboy7 · Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:10 am Post subject:

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Are there any console louder than the Dreamcast? It's so noisy.

I played Space Channel 5 part 2, it's amazing! The best graphics I've seen on the dreamcast.

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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

It's not far off from a bazillion. It even has more Michael Jackson in it than the first one.

I still think it's crazy that Michael Jackson appears in every entry in that series. He's pretty much a main character in the second one, too!

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daphaknee · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject:

goddamnit i really need to buy a dreamcast again

i think theres a PLAY N TRADE opening near me soon ill go there and buyall the copies of bible adventure and a dreamcast