The Gamer's Quarter

[Shapermc]

[david]

A black and white game... pretty cool. Reminds me of Bushido Blade, which had an optional black and white mode. I liked to play it that way because it looked a little bit more like Rashomon.

Still... it's not quite enough info for me to get very excited. "Sadness" is a pretty terrible name, but maybe it's a temporary translation issue.

Does limiting the palette to a range of greys save much processing time? Is it like rendering at a lower resolution or frame-rate? Maybe there's some graphical trade-off.
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[Shapermc]

[TheRumblefish]

My interest peaked with this simple word, "schizophrenia"
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[Dracko]

Now we wait and see if it's actual schizophrenia they're interested in, or multiple personalities, as it's so often mistaken to mean.

Still, I have very strong doubts about the Revolution as a whole, but my interest in all that is contextual and slightly post-modern, not to mention off the beaten track, might have the better of me. Only time will tell if Nintendo pulls off this one, or if it's just customarily telling its audience what to think, no matter how in the wrong it is.
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[Shapermc]

[Dracko]

It's not a matter of translation I'm concerned about honestly. It's just that in popular use, schizo is often meant to mean having multiple personalities, which is not the case.
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"This is the most fun I've ever had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"

[sawtooth]

Narcolepsy? Wouldn't that mean your character would just fall asleep at random, often inconvenient times? That doesn't sound very exciting to me.
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[dark steve]

Unless he dreams of madness.

[Dracko]

[sawtooth]

[Tablesaw]

[OtakupunkX]

As someone prone to fall asleep at inoppurtune times (although it's not really considered narcolepsy), I can say that a game featuring a hero that does the same thing but in black-and-white with multiple personalites might end up being one of the most interesting videogames ever.

[Wilkes]

I thought up the idea of a totally black and white video game when I was in high school. After a while, I sort of came to the conclusion the whole thing wouldn't really work. Or, well, I didn't have enough faith in any company to see past the fact that the game would be in black and white.

I doubt that it will be good. Really.

That probably sounds pretty baseless; though, I'm under the impression Nibris hasn't really done anything, and I have no idea if they "have anyone." If they can cover schizophrenia and narcolepsy tastefully, or, well, accurately, at least, I'll be excited.

Position: skeptic.

More interesting!: 3rd party companies devoted to a single system. Not that you can really seperate the company from the system, so it's a difficult propostion before now. Still, a few companies dedicated to a platform makes some kind of sense.

[Lackey]

There is a mod for some contemporary first person shooter set on the moon and rendered entirely in black and white, does anyone know what it's called? It looked really intriguing.
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| Little bird fighting against a bat sect game |

[Dracko]

[Lackey]

That's the one!
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| Little bird fighting against a bat sect game |

[OtakupunkX]

I'm starting to think that this Narcolepsy game might be interesting. I've been in plenty of "wacky" situations in which I fall asleep at the worst possible time, so I'm sure some Polish game designers can think of evern wackier situations. Plus, their narcoleptic has schizophriena, too, and I don't have that. I'm not even a real narcoleptic, I just sleep a lot. The whole gothic thing will move a lot of copies of this game into the bedroom of angstily confused preteens, too.

Nintendo would be stupid to not buy this Polish company I've never heard of.

[ApM]

Wilkes: I agree with your position!

Honestly: If this game does not end with a shot of a clown shedding a single tear, I will be disappointed. Right now it sounds like it has incredible potential to be a pretentious trainwreck of epic proportions. I look forward to it!

Apparently one of the game mechanics has you waving a torch to ward off rats, which, I will admit, is a rather appealing image.

For some reason, this thread has me thinking about Metronome.

[Wilkes]

[Wilkes]

[Lackey]

[dark steve]

I so want this game to look like a Guy Maddin film.

Come on people, get excited! The second game announced for the Rev is an arty stab at a mature story driven title! Total box office poison!

This is what we wanted!

dark prediction: This game will never end up being released

[Wilkes]

[Wilkes]

[Dracko]

[Wilkes]

[SuperWes]

[Shapermc]

[Wilkes]

[SuperWes]

[dessgeega]

[Wilkes]

[dessgeega]

wait, who were we talking about? i thought we were talking about wes.
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[Wilkes]

oh. well, that's still sad then.

wes wrote for a japanese newspaper once!

I think that's fascinating!

[SuperWes]

[Mr. Apol]

There was a once a megazeux game called Hidden Intentions that was greyscale. It was a noir-ish detective story. Never got finished though.

Regardless, this sounds cool. What would be neat is if you weren't privy to when you fall asleep. Therefore, you walk through a door and things get a little weirder, and then crazy shit starts happening, but it's because you're in a dream. Thing is though, as the player you don't REALIZE that you're dreaming, because well, the person dreaming doesn't. Then, a monster catches you and kills you and you wake up or whatever, maybe someone's helping you or you've fallen asleep in some alley and everything's better.

NOW, the plot twist. These blackouts start happening more and more, and the dreams start doing damage to you. It soon gets to the point where if you get hurt in these dream worlds, you get hurt in real life, and soon it feels like you're going to be trapped there. So, you have to keep taking pills/drugs/whatever they had then (smelling salts) to stay awake when you feel woozy. You soon aren't able to tell if you're dreaming or not, what's real and what isn't.

So, it becomes a mad race against time to find out why your dreams are like this before you are trapped in them forever.

Wishful thinking I guess.
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[simplicio]

Wouldn't pre-war, if set in Poland, most likely refer to the mid-late 19030's? Which would make sense with both the b&w and a frankly awesome setting, given the building political tensions of the period.

Also; whatever happened to Alan Wake?

[OtakupunkX]

I like Mr. Apol's idea.

I too wonder what happened to Alan Wake. It sounded like such a cool game.

[Mister Toups]

Metroid II
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where were you when nana komatsu got a wii?

[Mr. Apol]

[Mister Toups]

[Toto]

Basically, Toups, get off your rags plz.
This game sounds like a very good, although the Ubisoft developed shooter piques my interest a bit more. Horror games are a lot easier to get wrong; Nintendo is doing the right thing by opening with a solid game like a shooter. Look how solid Goldeneye was for the N64, was popular for the whole of the consoles lifespan and is still popular now.

[Wilkes]

I think Red Steel is going to be trash.
maybe

[OtakupunkX]

Personally, I think that Miyamoto could vomit in a jewelcase and as long as it used the Revolution controller people will hail it as an innovative, revolutionary title.

Picture someone taking a copy of Army Men 3-D back into the 50's. That's what Nintendo's hoping everyones reaction to the Revolution will be. For all we know, that's the reaction they'll get.

[TheRumblefish]

[OtakupunkX]

[Tablesaw]

[simplicio]

[Wilkes]