Multi-Tap: A Week In Comments
Video of Mindless Drones Protesting Rockstar's Bully
"I listened to every point he made, and have a rebuttle for each and every one.
-You cannot purchase the game only AT ALL right now... So he is wrong about it being sold BEFORE rated by the FCC(aka the ESRB he means).
-He thinks it is against the law for them to sell it without rating. RATING IS A VOLUNTARY SYSTEM. If they sold it without rating, it would be legal still. Infact there are many games sold without ratings still. Just places like Best Buy and Toys R Us choose not to sell unrated games.
-Online stores do not use DEBIT CARDS
-If you could buy it online with a debit card, where did the child get the money? How about being a parent, and checking what your child does with YOUR money.
-Games do not cause violence in the 'ghetto'
-FIRST AMMENDMENT PROTECTS FREE SPEECH ergo NULL ARUGMENT.
-Washington DC has about the same youth crime rate as most of the rest of the country.
-Bully contains no such training to 'train our children to be animals'.
-Rockstar games are not infact profiting from "our children". Their games are marketed to the approiate age group (yes, I heard about the advertisment during the day that JT mentioned, bit deal, one time... I see beer ads on all night).
-Guns are illegal to purchase without a license, there is no legislature against selling games, they are considered speech, unlike a physical weapon."
by scazza
"It really should be 'do you know if there's a number less than seven?'"
by JonathanEx
Hate It Or Not, Sony Isn't Giving Up On LocoRoco
"All that press will ammount to nothing once people remember that the game is short, has no replay value, and has an incredibly crappy level editor, and they will once again not buy it.
I played it at TGS 2005, said it'd get it when it came out, bought it on launch day, got some trinkets with it, went to Korea on a 3 day trip and was 100% done with it. And 100% bored of it, too. It's such a simple formula for a game that they could have done so, so much more with it. Like doubled or tripled the amount of playable levels. Used the neat level gimmicks more (the beachball level...). Had more minigames (a Locoroco pachinko minigame would be awesome). Included a decent level editor. But they didn't do these things. I give it a 6 out of ten, because of its hideously average gameplay, short, predictable, and has negative replay value.
If you want to play a good version of Locoroco, check out Smartball on the SNES. At least that thing is a real platformer."
by denki
The LAN Bacchanalia: Ritalin and Sextasy
"I was quite the consumer of chemicals in my LAN heyday. Gaming and drugs just went hand in hand for my friends. GBL was our drug of choice at Ferris State University in 1999. You could buy a gallon of the stuff for about $60 online, and it only took about one ounce to get you going. It was legal at the time, so the cops couldn't do anything about it.
4 years of college was like one big LAN/monstrosity of a party for me. You could set up a game of Unreal Tournament, and anybody on campus could join in. A 10'x10' room full of about 12 guys dropping GBL and smoking salvia playing Dream Cast was my life. We didn't have Friday classes, so we would game/drop all Thursday night into Friday morning, eat pancakes for dinner at about 7am, sleep for 10 hours and have Philly cheese steak for breakfast. In the winter, we would go three days w/o seeing the sun. Unreal Tournament, Hentai, GBL, making techno, huffing, sex, robo, and whatever else I found laying on the sidewalk. it was a wonderful God amn disgrace. At the end of that first year, we were broken. I crawled home, a shell of a human being. Repeat for another three years..
Our last big, multi day bash was last new years. We had a LAN that quite litterly went on for 4 days. No drugs by then, but I drank at least 2 bottles of rum in the two days I was there playing Serious Sam 2, DDR, and Guitar Hero. There's something to be said for waking up at 11am, and being drunk by noon.
My only regret is not keeping a written record of it all. In the years between 1996 and 2006, I was a cowboy, a goth, a skater, an artist, a drug abuser, a DJ, a graduate, an editor, a producer, a husband, a designer, and now a father. I wouldn't undo any of it.
At 27, my body just doesn't take abuse any more. My idea of a party today is a big bole of ice cream, maybe a re-run of Futurama."
by Rayzak
PLAYSTATION 3's Euro Slogan Revealed
"That's odd, they seem to have forgotten to include the word 'Hell' after 'living'."
by Rambozo
Oh, What The F.... Rockstar Rethinks Bully Name
"They are doing that so that people who know nothing about the game more easily allow their children to buy it.
I think, it's easy to see the difference between "Mommy, can I play Bully?" and "Please, can I buy Canis Canem Edit?". Reminds me (again) of an Ukrainian matron who thought that GTA: San Andreas was about the life of St. Andrew."
by Ilia Chentsov
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