I saw Play! here which was decent, but I’ve heard that VGL is generally a better show. True?
Which is a pretty dull game. Yea it moves at 60fps, and it controls really well for a first-person DS game, but there’s nothing to do. You move down a lineral path made up of narrow hallways with your flashlight, and when you come across a monster you back up and swtich to your weapon. Then you wait for the monster to enter your field of vision and hit it a bunch of times. There are little puzzles, but they’re really easy and obvious. I’ll admit I didn’t play for very long, but there was nothing to hold me.
I haven’t seen Play! but I loved VGL to pieces.
I am repressing my rage right now.
Our you the new Mogg?
Nah, he’s just a homonyphobe.
Get the latest (I think) Gamasutra podcast for an interview with the lead gamecock guy, who explains the name amongst other things. He actually does sound like a funny guy.
To be fair, watching this Youtube it’s somewhat less stupid than I thought* - the version Destructoid posted was that Gamecock was so disruptive Levine and Gobbi had to be escorted off the stage.
- It’s still pretty stupid, though. But, then again, Spike TV.
Different dialects, that’s my guess.
I think Tommy Talarico tries a little too hard at EVERYTHING he does.
I thought this stunt was pure genius and I don’t believe for a second it was JUST a cheap publicity stunt.
Award shows like this respresent everything that’s wrong with the game industry right now, in my opinion. I’m glad there are publishers like Gamecock who are willing to put their reputation on the line to make fun of this crap.
Gamecock are the same guys who had a funeral for the old E3 this year, celebrating “the resurgence of independence, originality, and creativity to come.” They’re all about the power of the independent game developer with fresh ideas, which, in this age of endlessly recycled FPS dookie, couldn’t we use a little more of that?
I also find it ironic that the creator of Halo is a Gamecock developer.
Thats good to see.
I’ve baited my breath to catch some gamecocks before but none of them ever entered. I swear I never swallowed, either, contrary to rumors.
Doesn’t apologizing actually make the whole thing even MORE stupid here?
You’re only as good as your last game. Gamecock’s last game was Fury.
This whole thing is incredibly funny/depressing.
I’d love to have been in the two host’s head* as they came to the end of their announcements. Just as the weirdness finishes they turn to congratulate an orchestra that just TOTALLY ROCKED out to the Halo tune. Then they have to act excited as they open the awards enve… I mean, turn the naked lady**. Then, as the winners begin to mount the stage, a GIANT MAN IN A DIVING SUIT WEARING A DRILL BIGGER THAN HIS THIGH ENTERS STAGE LEFT, while two grown men dressed as chickens try and ambush the microphone. Amazing.
*They looked like soap stars with no real connection to the industry. If they’re not, wow. I didn’t realise such vacant expressions existed in the real world.
**Important question: what’s next for exciting award show reveals now they’ve done the branded naked lady? And when, exactly does it become unacceptable? Is painting women fine, but dangling a sign from their labia not? Can you tattoo a corporate logo onto their forehead, but searing their flesh with a branding iron is going a little too far?
Good to see them getting even more publicity for apologizing for a stunt that was obviously premeditated and occurred as planned? No it isn’t.
Fuck Gamecock.
Important question: what’s next for exciting award show reveals now they’ve done the branded naked lady?
The developers get frozen in carbonite to preserve their genius forever. Magazines everywhere start clamouring to declare shit European adventures GOTY, in the hope of taking advantage.
Award shows like this respresent everything that’s wrong with the game industry right now, in my opinion. I’m glad there are publishers like Gamecock who are willing to put their reputation on the line to make fun of this crap.
They have no reputation. They’re loud mouthed failures with a string of terrible games behind them, whose last attempt to set up a publisher they wanted to be awesome and wacky and out there wound up giving us KISS Psycho Circus and underage boobs in The Guy Game. They’re exactly as edgy and awesome as Dave Perry*, the day before he decided to dress like a pirate and call himself the Games Animal.
(* Not the Shiny one)
Those nine words could define his entire television career.
I’m disgusted that I know as much as I do about EVERYone involved with this sordid mess.
Just as the weirdness finishes they turn to congratulate an orchestra that just TOTALLY ROCKED out to the Halo tune. Then they have to act excited as they open the awards enve… I mean, turn the naked lady. Then, as the winners begin to mount the stage, a GIANT MAN IN A DIVING SUIT WEARING A DRILL BIGGER THAN HIS THIGH ENTERS STAGE LEFT, while two grown men dressed as chickens try and ambush the microphone. Amazing.
Perfect and true, and we should all be ashamed of ourselves.