The geniuses that brought us Grand Theft Auto and Max Payne may no longer be playing with a full deck.
Seriously though, is this their way of saying "we surrender to corporate pressure to clean up our image?" GTA IV is still due stateside October 2007 on 360/PS3, so they haven't completely abandoned ship, but when people think Rockstar, they tend to think one thing only...
I'm just failing to grasp how this is a good idea, unless there's a bunch of secret "Hot Ping Pong Paddle" modes you can unlock / glitch where you can make the balls achieve terminal velocity with morbid results, or make all the female players topless, or both.
[ August 01, 2006, 03:34 AM: Message edited by: Demonstrocity ]
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
Apparantly it's one of the most realistic "sports" simulators ever made.
Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
Well, I can't recall any other table tennis games. So at the very least there won't be much competition.
Juxtapose: Are you implying that table tennis isn't really a sport? I beg to differ. Ping pong is at the root of many other sports. Tennis = ping pong played while standing on the table Volleyball = ping pong played without a paddle, with a raised net, while standing on the table. Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
Anything that doesn't get me winded isn't a sport.
It's in the dictionary.
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
Seems like it would be a much better game for the Nintendo Wii.
Posted by raventh1 (Member # 3750) on :
I played the demo on xbox live yesterday. I thought I was going to be bored after a few minutes. After playing it, I'm seriously considering picking it up. It's cheaper than most other new games for the xbox360, and it's quite a bit of fun. The controls are pretty intuitive, and it's pretty satisfying to play, and get some good spins.
I don't see why any company has to live in a stereotype of making certain types of games. I suggest you play the game before trying to rip it apart.
-- The hot coffee scandal happened well after they started working on table tennis. (Not to mention it was a different division of the company that was working on this particular title.)
Juxtapose: You don't have to get winded playing any sport if you don't apply enough effort. You definitely can get winded playing table tennis; Maybe not you, but many pros can and do get winded after long sessions.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
I think jux is talking about video games. Which can get you winded if you work at a teen center and get a little to into the action. (Super smash brothers Melee) I had to ban myself from the machine for a week to calm myself down when the teens kept pushing me off the edge of the map. It was SO frustrating.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
So what's the special cheat code to play table tennis naked?
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I would expect it to have a seedy back story. Y'know, where the mob puts you into the tournament to win, but realizes that, despite your amazing abilities, you can't play on a world-class level so you start helping them take out the other players in freak "accidents." It's also a totally immersive world where you could play the tournament or you could go out and beat people with your paddle.
Posted by narrativium (Member # 3230) on :
quote:Originally posted by Demonstrocity: when people think Rockstar, they tend to think one thing only...
Yeah, games that get boring after about 10 minutes. I guess I'll have to revise that estimate. . .
Posted by Tresopax (Member # 1063) on :
I'm not sure creating Grand Theft Auto qualifies one as being a genius....
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote:Originally posted by Eduardo St. Elmo: Well, I can't recall any other table tennis games.
Pong?
Posted by Eduardo St. Elmo (Member # 9566) on :
Well, Pong in it's most simple version isn't equal to table tennis, since you're missing some lines.
Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lyrhawn: Seems like it would be a much better game for the Nintendo Wii.
Thats exactly what I was thinking, why on earth they are releasing it for the Xbox is beyond me, but then again they were probably under contract before the Wii was announced. Maybe they still have the rights to distribute it to other platforms after X amount of time.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by Juxtapose: Anything that doesn't get me winded isn't a sport.
It's in the dictionary.
If you don't get winded playing Ping-Pong, it is because you suck at it. Most people do, BTW.
The next time I do cartwheels playing a game of ping-pong, I'll call that instance of it a sport. A decade or so ago I played quite a bit. I wasn't great, but decent, surely. I was certainly out of the realm of "suck."
It's not that ping-pong doesn't require skill or even physcal exertion to a degree. Far from it. I just think it's a disservice to sports like football (both varieties) or water polo (the most strenuus physical exercise I've ever gotten) to classify them in the same way.
Posted by Nato (Member # 1448) on :
This certainly isn't evidence of Rockstar going crazy, and it looks like it's a pretty good game. If anything we need more simple games that play with new control schemes in order to bring about big changes in the large-scale games.
And cheaper games are good too!
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tresopax: I'm not sure creating Grand Theft Auto qualifies one as being a genius....
Actually, Grand Theft Auto III was impressively open at a time when most games had a "world map" where all you could do was travel between hot spots. The notion of creating an entire city in 3D that the player could move within freely and almost seamlessly was novel, and if Rockstar didn't invent it they certainly refined and popularized it. I don't know of any other games with comparable openness and immersion that were out at that time.
Not that I bought or played any of them, but having watched others do so at some length I was definitely impressed by those things.
Posted by cheiros do ender (Member # 8849) on :
quote:Originally posted by Juxtapose: Anything that doesn't get me winded isn't a sport.
It's in the dictionary.
You're mentioned in the dictionary? Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I don't care how "good" you were, compared to people who play it for real, we ALL sucked.
I played well enough to place in three tournaments in the Army, on post, and I got winded playing the guys who were better than I was.
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A decade or so ago I played quite a bit. I wasn't great, but decent, surely. I was certainly out of the realm of "suck."![[Eek!]](eek.gif)