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Halo3's "believe"... as enacted by Viva Pinata (now they've done the museum ad)

cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Games and Technology
Remember that "Believe" ad for Halo 3? Well, it's been... ah... borrowed by Rare for their latest trailer for the next Viva Pinata.

This will easily be the oddest thing you've watched all week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2EouiusQFs

Now here's their take on the Museum ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM-qViAk08k&eurl=http://blog.wired.com/games/

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  • AphostileAphostile San Francisco, CARegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That's official? It looks more like a fan-made kinda thing.

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  • WetsunWetsun Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Damn.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Aphostile wrote: »
    That's official? It looks more like a fan-made kinda thing.

    Gametrailers say yes, it's official.

    Also remember the ad it's cribbing from looked like a fan-made kinda thing.

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  • sgt robsgt rob Pure Rock Fury Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Fucking awesome

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Aphostile wrote: »
    That's official? It looks more like a fan-made kinda thing.
    So did the original.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Hey, sgt rob!

    Pharezon linked me to this not long ago, and it is utterly awesome. Also looks far too professional to just be a fan-made thing.

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  • LunkerLunker Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    cloudeagle wrote:
    This will easily be the oddest thing you've watched all week.

    That was easily the best thing I've watched all week. The absurd melodrama of the original could only be topped ... by adding piñatas. Hilarious, A+++ would buy again.

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    You know, I dont get the Rare hate. They are pretty awesome. Viva Pinata was a quality title.

    I think the ridiculous price MS paid for them put additional expectations on them.

    Their last few games have been great.

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  • AccualtAccualt Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I believe.

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    You know, I dont get the Rare hate. They are pretty awesome. Viva Pinata was a quality title.

    I think the ridiculous price MS paid for them put additional expectations on them.

    Their last few games have been great.

    they put out some real horrible shitfests before that

    i'm looking at you, star fox adventures

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Dehumanized wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    You know, I dont get the Rare hate. They are pretty awesome. Viva Pinata was a quality title.

    I think the ridiculous price MS paid for them put additional expectations on them.

    Their last few games have been great.

    they put out some real horrible shitfests before that

    i'm looking at you, star fox adventures

    I liked that game. Far more than Grabbed by the Ghoulies. Heck, Kameo and Perfect Dark 0, two launch games and both were definitely decent. The new Banjo looks grea,t plus they're doing the new Avatars.

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  • DehumanizedDehumanized Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    they're doing ok work now, but they certainly had a rather low period where hating rare was very easy to do.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Dehumanized wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    You know, I dont get the Rare hate. They are pretty awesome. Viva Pinata was a quality title.

    I think the ridiculous price MS paid for them put additional expectations on them.

    Their last few games have been great.

    they put out some real horrible shitfests before that

    i'm looking at you, star fox adventures

    I liked that game. Far more than Grabbed by the Ghoulies. Heck, Kameo and Perfect Dark 0, two launch games and both were definitely decent. The new Banjo looks grea,t plus they're doing the new Avatars.

    They weren't necessarily bad, but their output from the Cube-Xbox years to Viva Pinata wasn't exactly up to the sheer awesomeness of the SNES-N64 days.

    So there's reason for the griping. Looks like they've finally got their act together, though.

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I still don't think RARE can top the 8-bit days with battle toads and Solar jetman and snake rattle and roll but those days are long gone. I have resisted viva pinata because I don't enjoy breaking open pinatas to feed to other pinatas. But, who am I to judge what kind of pinata breaking shoud and shouldn't be allowed.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    You don't really ever need to break pinatas. They break each other often enough (many have 'eat X of Y to enter romance mode' requirements), but it's usually far better for you to sell them than break them for the candy they drop.

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Glal wrote: »
    You don't really ever need to break pinatas. They break each other often enough (many have 'eat X of Y to enter romance mode' requirements), but it's usually far better for you to sell them than break them for the candy they drop.

    so wait, there is a fucked up mating mode? I don't know if I'm intrigued or horrified.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Romance dances: go!

    They're hilarious, I love getting them.

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  • Claw ShrimpClaw Shrimp Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Dawwwwwwwww! The one with the horses is precious <3

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  • GyralGyral Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That... was.... AWESOME. I wonder how much it cost them to make that. I'm sure they had the toys laying around the office in piles, so what? The price of the camera and materials to make the set?

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  • Hexmage-PAHexmage-PA Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    You know, I dont get the Rare hate.

    There's RARE hate?

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Hexmage-PA wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    You know, I dont get the Rare hate.

    There's RARE hate?

    I think a certain level of it yeah.

    At least Rare Apathy.

    Like, as though they haven't made a decent game since Goldeneye, despite Perfect Dark being superior in every single regard.

    As though the new Banjo is doomed to mediocrity. Or the slow but high sales of Viva Pinata were unwarranted.
    Disgusts me sometimes.

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  • mynameisguidomynameisguido Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Perfect Dark Zero was at best a middling to average to game---but viewed as the sequel to the original Perfect Dark is a stinkbomb in game form.

    Kameo was okay, Viva Pinata was okay (played the demo and liked it for a couple of hours but got bored), and Star Fox Adventures was pretty terrible.

    I have no particular dislike for Rare, but they haven't put out anything I would buy in a long time, so any Rare project is met by me with a shrug.

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Gonna say it once:
    Goldeneye fucking sucked.

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  • UltimanecatUltimanecat Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Like, as though they haven't made a decent game since Goldeneye, despite Perfect Dark being superior in every single regard.

    Except the regard of it pushing the 64 to the point that it is nigh-unplayable in parts.

    Or that the story is complete and utter balls.

    Really, the Rare hate is more of the "How the mighty have fallen" than the "LOL Phoenix Games" variety. To me, they really haven't made much worth looking at since their N64 stuff (and even that stuff could be a bit hit-or-miss).

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  • RaughnRaughn Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I would like to nominate that video for Best Thing Ever.

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  • Igpx407Igpx407 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That was awesome.

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  • fortyforty Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Ultimanecat wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Like, as though they haven't made a decent game since Goldeneye, despite Perfect Dark being superior in every single regard.

    Except the regard of it pushing the 64 to the point that it is nigh-unplayable in parts.

    Or that the story is complete and utter balls.

    Or the music regard.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    Rare is still dead but that parody is fuckawesome.

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  • SilkyNumNutsSilkyNumNuts Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I really liked kameo, and PD0wasn't bad, it just wasn't good.

    Starfox adventures is easily the worset game I have ever played, however.

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  • fragglefartfragglefart Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Pinatas woo!

    Video is quality, Rare are awesome.

    I wonder if / when we'll get another Live Arcade title from them, excluding the '64 Banjo port, of course. I think that is being handled by another team anyway.

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  • LamoidLamoid Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    You know, I dont get the Rare hate.
    Looking around it seems that the hatred is really RARE.
    Hey-o!

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  • Recoil42Recoil42 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Local H Jay wrote: »
    Gonna say it once:
    Goldeneye fucking sucked.

    Huh, apparently opinions can be wrong.

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  • AxenAxen My avatar is Excalibur. Yes, the sword.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Recoil42 wrote: »
    Local H Jay wrote: »
    Gonna say it once:
    Goldeneye fucking sucked.

    Huh, apparently opinions can be wrong.

    Who knew?


    Also I second the nomination for Best Thing Ever.

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  • brynstarbrynstar Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That was fantastic.

    Viva Piñata is easily the best thing Rare has worked on since their heyday.

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  • 043043 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Wait, people thought the "Believe" ad looked fan-made?

    I mean, it wasn't very good, but fan-made? I'd like to meet the fan with enough cash to make all that by hand and film it.
    It's great until the Master Chief looks up. It's a goddamn action figure.

    EDIT: Btw, I loved the video.

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  • SilkyNumNutsSilkyNumNuts Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    043 wrote: »
    Wait, people thought the "Believe" ad looked fan-made?

    I mean, it wasn't very good, but fan-made? I'd like to meet the fan with enough cash to make all that by hand and film it.
    It's great until the Master Chief looks up. It's a goddamn action figure.
    Also until you realise that scene has absolutely nothing to do with the game.

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  • 043043 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    SilkyNumNuts wrote: »
    043 wrote: »
    Wait, people thought the "Believe" ad looked fan-made?

    I mean, it wasn't very good, but fan-made? I'd like to meet the fan with enough cash to make all that by hand and film it.
    It's great until the Master Chief looks up. It's a goddamn action figure.
    Also until you realise that scene has absolutely nothing to do with the game.

    Yeah, and that pissed me off more than a little, but you have to admit that the sheer scale of the diorama doesn't lend very well to being fan-made.

    It's very professionally done. And gorgeous to boot.
    Aside from that one Marine with his /b/-face on.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    043 wrote: »
    Wait, people thought the "Believe" ad looked fan-made?

    I mean, it wasn't very good, but fan-made? I'd like to meet the fan with enough cash to make all that by hand and film it.
    It's great until the Master Chief looks up. It's a goddamn action figure.

    EDIT: Btw, I loved the video.

    HEY!
    When I was a kid my action figures did a lot of things, so screw j00.

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  • SilkyNumNutsSilkyNumNuts Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    043 wrote: »
    SilkyNumNuts wrote: »
    043 wrote: »
    Wait, people thought the "Believe" ad looked fan-made?

    I mean, it wasn't very good, but fan-made? I'd like to meet the fan with enough cash to make all that by hand and film it.
    It's great until the Master Chief looks up. It's a goddamn action figure.
    Also until you realise that scene has absolutely nothing to do with the game.

    Yeah, and that pissed me off more than a little, but you have to admit that the sheer scale of the diorama doesn't lend very well to being fan-made.

    It's very professionally done. And gorgeous to boot.
    Aside from that one Marine with his /b/-face on.

    No, it didn't look the slightest bit fan made...

    It did annoy me though, because I can't even think of a battle of that scale, so it's a juge cocktease.


    ...Which marine is that??

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  • Igpx407Igpx407 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Anyone know where I can get the music from that ad? I really liked it.

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