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OtakupunkX
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| I haven't been able to play the game since the day I bought it. Real-life schoolwork keeps popping up. |
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Nana Komatsu
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That is hot. |
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dessgeega
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snogging!
that's pretty swell. why didn't i notice it before?
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Ketch
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| Mr. Mechanical wrote: | | namely being that it's just too easy. It's entertaining, sure, going through the storyline and doing side missions and stuff. But when there's no real challenge or chance of failure it just makes it harder and harder to go back to after not playing for a few days. |
I bought it, and I'm about 12 p/c through it so far, but it just doesn't draw me in. I actually had more fun with Stuart Little 3: Big Photo Adventure which is non-violent and even easier than Bully but at least it knows it! and I don't even like the Stuart Little character,
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/stuartlittle3bigphotoadventure |
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Harveyjames
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| Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:34 am Post subject: |
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'Wanna play shirts and skins?'
Does Bully have the same shitty jokes in it that GTA games have all the way through? e.g. Restaurants with 'saucy' names, etc. |
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SuperWes
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Man, part of me really wants to play Stuart Little 3, and the other part doesn't want to get made fun of at the checkout counter. What made you decide to get it?
-Wes
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Ketch
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| SuperWes wrote: | Man, part of me really wants to play Stuart Little 3, and the other part doesn't want to get made fun of at the checkout counter. What made you decide to get it?
-Wes |
SuperWes, I bought it because I had a non-gamer girlfriend and thought she might like it. And because it was described as GTA-for-Kids. Its a "nice" title where you can enjoy exploring, and racing and taking pre-set photos of things, nothing major but some enjoyable if easy exploration. SuperWes, just pretend that it is a Christmas present for a niece or something! |
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Mr Mustache
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Someone should play this game alongside the new Persona game, and write about the differences in approach.
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Ketch
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Oh lovely, they slipped in some drug-assisted date rape for laughs. But expect people to think it is okay, ie. when the hideous cook goes on a 'date' with the chemistry prof and slips sedatives into his drink before hauling him off to a hotel room.
Seriously, this is f*k*d up even for Rockstar and they don't even seem to acknowledge it. If it was a girl being drug-raped it would be all over the papers. |
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wourme
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| Well, I think I've lost what interest I had in this game. I should really finish Klass of '99 one of these days, though. |
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dessgeega
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| Ketch wrote: | | Oh lovely, they slipped in some drug-assisted date rape for laughs. |
that's a real shame.
boo, rockstar.
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Ketch
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:42 am Post subject: |
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| This is in the side-mission 'Cook's Date' which you unlock by completing 'Cook's Crush'. Boo, Rockstar. |
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Shapermc
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Cook's Date is the new Hot Coffee.
Also, Sara was playing this last night while I was handing out candy and one kid was like "Whut's she playn'?"
"Bully"
"You mean that game that is on TV?"
"yeah"
"Is it good?"
"So far it's pretty good."
"COOL!!!"
I was talking with my wife a second later and she had a smirk on her face: "Did you just recommend this game to a little kid"
"Oh! Probably shouldn't have done that."
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OtakupunkX
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| Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:37 am Post subject: |
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| So I should really, really take some initiative and finish this game. I think I'm all of two hours into it. |
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Ketch
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Completed it yesterday
End of Year Report:
B- , Could do better. Tony Hawks is better for skateboarding and stunts, and GTA better for overall excitement.
It was -ok- as a game, a bit tasteless for sure. But what got me was that the missions just weren't that fun, and getting around on the skateboard and first few bikes took ages. There were one or two missions that stood out (the plant killer mission where you had lots of makeshift weapons to improvise with), but overall pretty mediocre.
Notes, I liked the way that you were more confined by rules than in GTA where although you are bound by rules they are much looser. It was also good how each pupil was unique with a name and face, even though they were mostly parts of the stereotyped gangs. ie. greasers, nerds, preppies. The lessons were quite-enjoyable mini-games like anagrams for English, Qix for art, and press-the-right button when it appears for everything else except photography. Photography was an area that was sadly underexploited.
The game would have been much cooler if it had been focused around being a nerd and improvising weapons and schemes, rather than on beating people up The Warriors style. But it wasn't and I'm rating the game as it was, rather than some fantasy remix. |
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dhex
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more on the poly fallout from bully:
| Quote: | | Critics allege, however, that even if "Bully" is less graphically violent than other things kids might play, watch or listen to, its specific storyline sounds alarm bells. Among the social messages that a player might take away from the game is that a good way to handle bullies is to fight back. That's a dangerous lesson, says Barbara Coloroso, author of "The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander," a kind of self-help book for victimized kids and their parents. What Coloroso -- who lives in Littleton, Colo. -- worries about is "the bullied bully who strikes back" after years of being taunted. "And when you begin to look at Eric and Dylan, you see that's what happened," she says, referring to the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, which has become the trump card for the anti-"Bully" lobby. |
lesson: self-help authors are idiots.
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dessgeega
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now that it's come to light that the columbine shooters played bully, we'll never hear the end of it.
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dhex
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video games are so addictive, children will rise FROM THEIR GRAVES to play them.
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Dracko
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| dhex wrote: | | lesson: self-help authors are idiots. |
And are scum.
| dhex wrote: | | video games are so addictive, children will rise FROM THEIR GRAVES to play them. |
It's a foocking disgrace!
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dhex
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nah, dale carnegie wasn't scum.
so let me rephrase that to "self-help authors (except dale carnegie) ..."
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OtakupunkX
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| Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 11:38 am Post subject: |
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| dhex wrote: | | video games are so addictive, children will wise FWOM DEIR GWAVES to play them. |
Fixed. Apparently Altered Beast causes violence in schools too. |
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Dracko
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Altered Beast is responsible for homosexuals beefing up and PMCs resorting to naturalistic scare tactics.
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