The PoP ds game confuses me. Prince of persia started as a sidescroller, so one would assume the new ds game would be the logical artistic progression of the PoP series? WRONG, it's shovelware.
I'm quite impressed by how authentic this photoshop is. The fact that they've fooled several major websites into reviewing it as well is equally surprising.
Normally, when faced with lists like this, I try to be all laissez-faire about it, and just calmly inform people that they're under no obligation to buy these games, so why the hell should they care?
Then I remember that these things clutter up the fucking DS and Wii sections in shops so badly (especially the preowned, oh god) that I often literally cannot find the game I wanted beneath the mountains of crap. I mean, these games pose a serious logistical problem to me. Especially when shops insist on putting all the stuff I might actually want right at the back.
I now have this mental image of myself, crushed under a mountain of imagine(tm) games, completely buried, with only my right arm emerging from the pile, with the copy of Rocket Slime I was after clutched in my outstretched, twitching hand.
I think i'm going to invest in an actual shovel.
Dramatic much? I understand where your coming from. But honestly, the clutter is not so bad that you cannot find your games. As a matter of fact, the only places that would honestly have that problem at all are places that you should not be buying games at anyway. Yeah, there's a bunch of shovelware. Alot of little girls and boys are going to buy these games and Ubisoft is going to make money. Also, Prince of Persia was on that list.
To the guy that asked about Hell's Kitchen, I'm assuming that it will be a cooking game and not a gangster urban crime romp.
I won't lie, I may have been exaggerating a tiny bit. Just for larks, y'know.
I don't know about where you are, but even the 'specialist' game stores do let the shelves get filled with this kind of junk. Especially the preowned section, as they're obliged to take any crap that comes in, and children not being the most discerning of consumers, love to trade in the games their parents bought them last week for peanuts.
I think the primary 'can't find any games' problem comes from places like EB stacking their shelves with 'X game is coming soon!' cases. On the day Soul Calibur 4 was released I couldn't find a copy because they literally had about 30 dvd cases for Diablo 3 ("Coming Soon!!!!") taking up their very limited shelf place at my local EB.
But that's of course another problem for another thread.
I'm quite impressed by how authentic this photoshop is. The fact that they've fooled several major websites into reviewing it as well is equally surprising.
I'm quite impressed by how authentic this photoshop is. The fact that they've fooled several major websites into reviewing it as well is equally surprising.
I'm quite impressed by how authentic this photoshop is. The fact that they've fooled several major websites into reviewing it as well is equally surprising.
I like how they're called Imagine but then all their titles are fairly mundane affairs. Imagine Walk to the Shops, Imagine Watching TV, Imagine Toast and Margarine for Breakfast.
No no they're overtly sexist titles that enforce that girls should not be anything of merit.
Like Imagine get him a steak woman!
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I like how they're called Imagine but then all their titles are fairly mundane affairs. Imagine Walk to the Shops, Imagine Watching TV, Imagine Toast and Margarine for Breakfast.
No no they're overtly sexist titles that enforce that girls should not be anything of merit.
Like Imagine get him a steak woman!
But they also add the letter Z to everything. (Imagine Dogz, Imagine Catz, Imagine Make me a Zandwich)
I like how they're called Imagine but then all their titles are fairly mundane affairs. Imagine Walk to the Shops, Imagine Watching TV, Imagine Toast and Margarine for Breakfast.
No no they're overtly sexist titles that enforce that girls should not be anything of merit.
Like Imagine get him a steak woman!
But they also add the letter Z to everything. (Imagine Dogz, Imagine Catz, Imagine Make me a Zandwich)
These are all great ideas but how about someone making zee thread? :winky:
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As long as Ubisoft make games like Prince of Persia and the (extremely ) occasional Beyond Good and Evil, they can make boatloads of shovelware for all I care.
Far Cry 2 is looking very good too, and it's probably all floating on a bed of shovelware cash.
* Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Far Cry 2 (PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Prince of Persia (2008) (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Wii, DS, release in late 2008)
* Tom Clancy's EndWar (PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Shaun White Snowboarding (Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Naruto: The Broken Bond (Xbox 360)
All of those shovelware games fund awesome stuff like this, it its not like you are forced to buy shitty budget games.
But is there a reason they can't fund their AAA titles with lower-budget games that, you know, aren't steaming piles of shit?
Seeing how well these games sell, I don't think their target audience think they're shitty.
Their target audience is moron parents and little girls that think barbie is real.
I usually couldn't care less but some of those imagine games are so fucking sexist it's disgusting.
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Petz: 13 years of making shitty pet simulators. They were the first, and I guess they'll be the last. Long after all the Nintendogs and Sims of the world are dead and gone, and people are dying from a nuclear holocaust, some half-broken algorithm at an abandoned Ubisoft development house will still be cranking out Petz-branded games.
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- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
* Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Far Cry 2 (PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Prince of Persia (2008) (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Wii, DS, release in late 2008)
* Tom Clancy's EndWar (PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Shaun White Snowboarding (Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Naruto: The Broken Bond (Xbox 360)
All of those shovelware games fund awesome stuff like this, it its not like you are forced to buy shitty budget games.
You call Rayman Raving Rabbids awesome stuff? I'm still bitter that it turned out to be a minigame collection rather than an awesome platformer like the first trailer indicated.
1. Imagine a baby being used as a club! Hit your friends!
2. Imagine clubbing human babies as you would a baby seal!
3. Imagine babies going clubbing and learning to be assholes and sluts before they even hit age 2! Why wait to see your child grow up to be someone nobody likes? Pounding trance CD soundtrack included!
* Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Far Cry 2 (PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Prince of Persia (2008) (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Wii, DS, release in late 2008)
* Tom Clancy's EndWar (PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Shaun White Snowboarding (Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Naruto: The Broken Bond (Xbox 360)
All of those shovelware games fund awesome stuff like this, it its not like you are forced to buy shitty budget games.
You call Rayman Raving Rabbids awesome stuff? I'm still bitter that it turned out to be a minigame collection rather than an awesome platformer like the first trailer indicated.
I have lots of >8 year old cousins that love it so I'm kind of biased on that one.
1. Imagine a baby being used as a club! Hit your friends!
2. Imagine clubbing human babies as you would a baby seal!
3. Imagine babies going clubbing and learning to be assholes and sluts before they even hit age 2! Why wait to see your child grow up to be someone nobody likes? Pounding trance CD soundtrack included!
All three of those ideas are likely better than what the game actually is.
The reason there's this much shovelware is because a bunch of it actually sells. I remember a few of the animalz/babiez/whateverz showing up on the DS top 10, and when software is cheap to make, it doesn't have to chart to make a profit.
And yeah, Ubi's still making non-shovelware games too. Though goddamn, that's a lot of shovelware.
1. Imagine a baby being used as a club! Hit your friends!
2. Imagine clubbing human babies as you would a baby seal!
3. Imagine babies going clubbing and learning to be assholes and sluts before they even hit age 2! Why wait to see your child grow up to be someone nobody likes? Pounding trance CD soundtrack included!
You know, I remember a random Vin Diesel fact about how he likes clapping babies together like blackboard erasers. It's called 'blapping'.
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Sam Power looks like Imagine marketed towards boys, or something.
So I was at Target buying some XBL point cards (when they were on sale) and I was browsing around the Wii/DS section for a moment. I happened to eavesdrop on this family that was with one of the salesman. They were Christmas shopping.
The conversation sorta went like this:
"Hmm. I think he should get a video game or two for Josh for Christmas. I am just not sure what he likes."
*browses*
"OH MY GOD! Dolphinz! He loves Dolphins, so he has to like this game. Catz would be great for Jennifer!"
*grabs them both*
"They have baby sitting too? Jennifer might want that."
*grabs it*
......
At this point I wanted to slap the games out of their hands and yell: "THIS IS WHY THEY KEEP MAKING THESE GAMES! STOP IT!"
As much as I hate to say it: these things sell. I think John Davidson's editorial in the latest EGM (What other people play, pg. 38 in sidebar) puts it into perspective.
Games tied into significant pieces of youth-focused pop culture are more powerful than anything, and internet in SpongeBob games of D3Publisher's Ben 10 titles will pretty much always outweigh that of, say, Metal Gear Solid 4.
More people are playing games, but the latest generation looks at them quite differently. As "aficionados," does that make us out of touch?
He's right. With gaming more mainstream than ever before, thanks in large part to Nintendo, expect to see more of those "shovelware." It might be crap to us, the "aficionados," as Davidson put it, but it sells. That's what the people want.
Frankly, I'm more indifferent as it I believe it keeps the industry alive and well. Though, I do slightly worry about shelf-space as others have mentioned. Then, of course, there's the slippery slope issue as well.
Seriously, you guys are being stupid right now.
Obviously, we, the self-called gamers, have higher standards when it comes to games production, but these people are having fun. We play our games to have fun, and so do they.
You don't need super deep gameplay for people who don't know what the fuck you're talking about when you say clipping or hit detection. To them, the game rules or suck.
These games also fund our "hardcore" games. It'll only be a problem when companies will stop making our "good" games and start making shovelware exclusively, but quite frankly, I don't see that happening any time soon.
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I'm quite impressed by how authentic this photoshop is. The fact that they've fooled several major websites into reviewing it as well is equally surprising.
Blearghhh
Chibi can be nice sometimes.
This is not one of those times.
He look like Choi from KoF without the awesome.
I think the primary 'can't find any games' problem comes from places like EB stacking their shelves with 'X game is coming soon!' cases. On the day Soul Calibur 4 was released I couldn't find a copy because they literally had about 30 dvd cases for Diablo 3 ("Coming Soon!!!!") taking up their very limited shelf place at my local EB.
But that's of course another problem for another thread.
So you're telling me that Gamestop has priced a game that doesn't exist? Hilarious.
They once had a listing for Morrowind for the PS2.
Haha OH MAN that's good HAH HAH HAH
No no they're overtly sexist titles that enforce that girls should not be anything of merit.
Like Imagine get him a steak woman!
But they also add the letter Z to everything. (Imagine Dogz, Imagine Catz, Imagine Make me a Zandwich)
These are all great ideas but how about someone making zee thread? :winky:
Shouldn't be that hard to understand.
Far Cry 2 is looking very good too, and it's probably all floating on a bed of shovelware cash.
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Exactly.
Ubi has
* Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway (PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Far Cry 2 (PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Prince of Persia (2008) (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Wii, DS, release in late 2008)
* Tom Clancy's EndWar (PlayStation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Shaun White Snowboarding (Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows)
* Naruto: The Broken Bond (Xbox 360)
All of those shovelware games fund awesome stuff like this, it its not like you are forced to buy shitty budget games.
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Naw. Ubi is an all-or-nothing kind of business.
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Seeing how well these games sell, I don't think their target audience think they're shitty.
Their target audience is moron parents and little girls that think barbie is real.
I usually couldn't care less but some of those imagine games are so fucking sexist it's disgusting.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
You call Rayman Raving Rabbids awesome stuff? I'm still bitter that it turned out to be a minigame collection rather than an awesome platformer like the first trailer indicated.
This means any one of three things to me:
1. Imagine a baby being used as a club! Hit your friends!
2. Imagine clubbing human babies as you would a baby seal!
3. Imagine babies going clubbing and learning to be assholes and sluts before they even hit age 2! Why wait to see your child grow up to be someone nobody likes? Pounding trance CD soundtrack included!
I have lots of >8 year old cousins that love it so I'm kind of biased on that one.
All three of those ideas are likely better than what the game actually is.
And yeah, Ubi's still making non-shovelware games too. Though goddamn, that's a lot of shovelware.
You know, I remember a random Vin Diesel fact about how he likes clapping babies together like blackboard erasers. It's called 'blapping'.
The name lies. We have no specific powers that any other name doesn't grant you.
EDIT: Never mind.
The conversation sorta went like this:
"Hmm. I think he should get a video game or two for Josh for Christmas. I am just not sure what he likes."
*browses*
"OH MY GOD! Dolphinz! He loves Dolphins, so he has to like this game. Catz would be great for Jennifer!"
*grabs them both*
"They have baby sitting too? Jennifer might want that."
*grabs it*
......
At this point I wanted to slap the games out of their hands and yell: "THIS IS WHY THEY KEEP MAKING THESE GAMES! STOP IT!"
He's right. With gaming more mainstream than ever before, thanks in large part to Nintendo, expect to see more of those "shovelware." It might be crap to us, the "aficionados," as Davidson put it, but it sells. That's what the people want.
Frankly, I'm more indifferent as it I believe it keeps the industry alive and well. Though, I do slightly worry about shelf-space as others have mentioned. Then, of course, there's the slippery slope issue as well.
Obviously, we, the self-called gamers, have higher standards when it comes to games production, but these people are having fun. We play our games to have fun, and so do they.
You don't need super deep gameplay for people who don't know what the fuck you're talking about when you say clipping or hit detection. To them, the game rules or suck.
These games also fund our "hardcore" games. It'll only be a problem when companies will stop making our "good" games and start making shovelware exclusively, but quite frankly, I don't see that happening any time soon.