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XboxPants posted:If the system in question is only a hundred bucks, then yeah, I might buy a system just for one great exclusive game. This situation has never happened before. Systems end up that cheap 6 or 7 years after launch, but at that point any great exclusive has probably either have either been ported or done better, either in a sequel or a spiritual successor. How much, total, have you spent on the Ouya and its peripherals? Was it actually a hundred dollars? Also nearly every system ever made has some unique game worth playing on it (and can be purchased second hand for under $100) so please stop posting about Towerfall unless you have lived up to your promises and bought every console in existence.
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frozenpeas posted:How much, total, have you spent on the Ouya and its peripherals? Was it actually a hundred dollars? No, since he got the Poopbrown Limited Edition Ouya with a second controller for 170$.
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He bought four controllers. Let's not sell Pants' foolishness short.
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Sagacity posted:Edge seems to enjoy Amazing Frog enough to talk a bit about how it accurately reproduces a Swindon industrial area. As a single player game Amazing Frog seems like a massive flop but judge reinhold's video does an alright job of showing off how it can be fun if you have a couple of friends and a sense of humor to throw at it. The running sound is brilliant, too. I'm still in love with Brutal Carnage though. After a bunch of people commented on their KS about all the character designs being plagiarized images of copyrighted characters presented as "concept art" the project leader (he's not a developer, not a manager, not even an artist, apparently - ideas guy?) apparently melted down with a flurry of avoidance and excuses. Their rock-solid defenses include:
Their latest Tweet is excellent: quote:@netsabes Concerned about the lack of games on the OUYA ? Check out Brutal Carnage the Game (insert link to KS) It's not even a KS for the game. It's a Kickstarter for concept art by one of those people that think all you have to do is Unfortunately at $24.06 / $3500 for a few poo poo plagiarized pictures, the next 4 days will need a miracle investment to save the project (and the jobs of these college students)! 4 MONTHS OF """CONCEPT ARTS""" posted:We now estimate that development of Brutal Carnage the Game will began within 4 months from the end date of this kickstarter project and will continue till completed. we stole our designs but WE WON'T HIT THE WALL posted:Only challenges we could possibly face, would be hitting a creative brick wall. And this definitely will not happen! We are 100% dedicated to the development of Brutal Carnage. mickey mouse department of making sure we don't make too much money posted:Brutal Carnage the Game will ONLY be available to the people who back this project. school of hard knocks posted:We have attended college and are very familiar with organizing a project on this level. Brulie Uhrnage posted:Since this is a project that is not based on profits we intend to reach out to
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It's basically if I made a kickstarter in 2nd grade and no guys that totally isn't scorpion from MK in different colors!
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"We have attended college" might be my favorite argument for investment ever.
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Enallyniv posted:I'm still in love with Brutal Carnage though. After a bunch of people commented on their KS about all the character designs being plagiarized images of copyrighted characters presented as "concept art" the project leader (he's not a developer, not a manager, not even an artist, apparently - ideas guy?) apparently melted down with a flurry of avoidance and excuses. I called them out a few times on the ripped off designs and copyright numbers, and got this in my private messages:  Professional!
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I can completely believe they are familiar with organising a project on this level. The level needed to make even a lovely phone game though, that's a different story.
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dregan posted:I called them out a few times on the ripped off designs and copyright numbers, and got this in my private messages: Is this guy an anime villain? The hell?
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Atlas Hugged posted:Am I remembering wrong or wasn't the Gamecube $99 for a large portion of its run? Or did it just feel like it was $99 because of how much cheaper it was than the XBox and PS2? I think it got down there eventually but it was like 200 at launch. Gameboy was 90 bucks at launch and came with its killer app, though. 
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The Dave posted:It's basically if I made a kickstarter in 2nd grade and no guys that totally isn't scorpion from MK in different colors! To be fair that's what the real devs did.
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I just love how much text there is that says absolutely nothing. It's like a beautifully exaggerated Uhrman, talking about the gameplay as if it exists and shilling the product like it's already a finished piece of software. e: Yeah, I think they blocked me from their Twitter although I'm not sure if that's just me being a dumb dumb at Twitter Teratrain fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Aug 1, 2013 |
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dregan posted:I called them out a few times on the ripped off designs and copyright numbers, and got this in my private messages: Lucky you, they just blocked me after I called them out.
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Enallyniv posted:I just love how much text there is that says absolutely nothing. It's like a beautifully exaggerated Uhrman, talking about the gameplay as if it exists and shilling the product like it's already a finished piece of software. Is there some way to add Amazing Frog DLC that replaces the frog model, with a grinning Uhrman?
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Nauta posted:I played Towerfall-esque games for FREE, on a PC, about 13-14 years ago. They were fun for a while but even back then I would have never concidered paying actual money for those kinda games. You have to be pretty loving delusional to even think about spending more than 2 bux on a game like Towerfall. Well, when you're a guppy swimming in a toilet bowl full of turds, I suppose you have more appeal to people who desperately want to believe that your toilet bowl is the best aquarium in the world.
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Much to my shame, I did buy a Japanese 360 just to play Super Robot Wars XO. If you've heard of it you probably know what a horrible mistake that was. I also bought an OUYA. I don't know which was the worse purchase. The 360 cost more...but as bad as it was I played SRW XO more than 20 minutes. Hmm, looking at my purchasing history, maybe I should not be allowed to make my own videogame purchases anymore. I even owned an N-Gage. frozenpeas posted:Uncharted 2 is a really good game on the PS3 so you should run out and buy a PS3.
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dregan posted:I called them out a few times on the ripped off designs and copyright numbers, and got this in my private messages: L-Lazerbot??
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dregan posted:I called them out a few times on the ripped off designs and copyright numbers, and got this in my private messages: Ok there's no way this isn't being run by a couple of twelve year olds.
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I love the N-Gage comparison. The N-Gage was a phone that tried to play games in an age where nobody cared about a phone that plays games but the OUYA is a phone that doesn't make calls in an age where everyone wants a phone to play games. I nearly made this post last night but couldn't wrap my head around how to phrase it and I'm not sure I did a much better job here either.
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Enallyniv posted:I love the N-Gage comparison. The N-Gage was a phone that tried to play games in an age where nobody cared about a phone that plays games but the OUYA is a phone that doesn't make calls in an age where everyone wants a phone to play games. The NGage was also designed by morons so incompetent on such a basic level that the OUYA looks stradivarius in comparison.
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Barudak posted:The NGage was also designed by morons so incompetent on such a basic level that the OUYA looks stradivarius in comparison. edit: i have no idea what I'm doing.
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The Giant Bomb guys simply can't stop mocking the Ouya  "I said game platforms, not video streamers."
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Barudak posted:The NGage was also designed by morons so incompetent on such a basic level that the OUYA looks stradivarius in comparison. Do we have Ouya sidetalking pics yet?
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XboxPants posted:If the system in question is only a hundred bucks, then yeah, I might buy a system just for one great exclusive game. This situation has never happened before. Systems end up that cheap 6 or 7 years after launch, but at that point any great exclusive has probably either have either been ported or done better, either in a sequel or a spiritual successor. Dude, buying everything to play Towerfall isn't $100. In rare cases, it might only be $115, but I'd bet money that people would have to buy an OUYA, Towerfall, and two PS3 controllers to play it with four people, bringing it to a whopping $215. For Towerfall. On a platform that has almost nothing else to offer someone. gently caress, if someone is super determined to play a couch co-op game, go buy a Wii for $120 with NSMB, $75 on three more Wiimotes, then put Jump 'n Bump on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1Ykci9-6A At least there'll be other games to play when you get sick of it.
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Handhelds seem to have an odd thing when it comes to marketing. There's this odd urge to try and position them as "hip". I get the feeling something happened in market research that made people associate handhelds with "gameboys and other toys I grew up with" and subsequently caused this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVE69E6hfos Then again Sony's infamous with producing some of the weirdest ads ever. So it's sort of in line but trying too hard. N-Gage also backfired due to it's horrible advertising. Much like the PSP they angled for the concept of "extreeeeme gamer" and resulted in commercials that were pulled in the UK for being too distressing.  There was another of a tent in a forest "This is where I hunt them down".  "This is where I got further with Laura than anyone else"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGJvO8Lt1ig Yeah, nothing better than implying your target audience are psychopaths. OUYA also tries to be hip, but in a sort of open source subversive movement way that only really resonates with people who program. And when it worked well the results are painful. Dreamzle is making the Bulletball guy look like an inspiration. It's market presence is heavily reliant on the web and with little in the real world generating buzz it's little wonder why the shine is coming off very quickly.
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Ouya is trying to be hip in that 90's dudez with tudez way. The problem is that in 2013 we look back at the 90's at the hilariously embarrassing time it really was.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Am I remembering wrong or wasn't the Gamecube $99 for a large portion of its run? Or did it just feel like it was $99 because of how much cheaper it was than the XBox and PS2? It got price cut to $99 around like late 2003/early 2004 or so to try to drum up sales. Didn't work out too well, they still stayed a good dela behind the original Xbox and of course way behind the PS2.
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http://www.radiangames.com/ouya-sales-numbers-first-2-weeks/ Games Developer posted:The totals for ~2 weeks of data:
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I can't tell if the desperation for ouya players and developers alike to find anything to convince themselves that the Ouya is not a total failure is funny or just sad now.
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raditts posted:I can't tell if the desperation for ouya players and developers alike to find anything to convince themselves that the Ouya is not a total failure is funny or just sad now. Looking at the rest of that guy's blog, his strategy is apparently to poo poo out lots of tiny games and release them on as many platforms as possible (including mobile platforms). He's viewing the OUYA from pretty much a moneymaking perspective, using a minimum of time and effort to port games to it. It's a little bit shady, but if it lets him make back the money he spent buying an OUYA, more power to him.
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So I have an Ouya, and you may not remember my backstory from a few hundred posts ago but my friend sold me on the hype and then we both realized it was dumb but I lost track of time and ended up buying my high tech paper weight. Anyone know what kind of screwdriver head is used to open the thing? I'm going to make use of it, mess around with it.
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Pittsburgh Lambic posted:Looking at the rest of that guy's blog, his strategy is apparently to poo poo out lots of tiny games and release them on as many platforms as possible (including mobile platforms). He's viewing the OUYA from pretty much a moneymaking perspective, using a minimum of time and effort to port games to it. It's a little bit shady, but if it lets him make back the money he spent buying an OUYA, more power to him. Radian Games are pretty fun; I have a handful of them on XBLIG. He does a good job giving a game an old-school, arcade feeling without falling into the trap of being hyper-literal and bogging it down by emulating the negatives of old technology for "authenticity."
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Rapdawg posted:So I have an Ouya, and you may not remember my backstory from a few hundred posts ago but my friend sold me on the hype and then we both realized it was dumb but I lost track of time and ended up buying my high tech paper weight. Anyone know what kind of screwdriver head is used to open the thing? I thought I heard it was a hex key, but I'm not sure exactly what size.
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Matlock Birthmark posted:I thought I heard it was a hex key, but I'm not sure exactly what size. I'm still stunned they billed the thing as hacker friendly and put security screws on it.  I mean I have bits for em but its just so backwards...
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I actually know the radianGames dev, he's very much interested in simple concepts done in a unique way. He does tend to spread his games across every platform imaginable, but I guess that's what an indie dev needs to do to make ends meet. If you have a platform (other than the OUYA, of course) to try his titles, some of them are really enjoyable.
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Zaphod42 posted:I'm still stunned they billed the thing as hacker friendly and put security screws on it. I don't know what screws are on the OUYA, but Allen screws aren't a security screw. You can buy a full English or full metric set for $5 literally anyplace that sells screwdrivers.
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I Greyhound posted:I don't know what screws are on the OUYA, but Allen screws aren't a security screw. You can buy a full English or full metric set for $5 literally anyplace that sells screwdrivers. Pretty sure they're [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torx]Torx[/ukr] screws.
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Rudager posted:Pretty sure they're [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torx]Torx[/ukr] screws. They are a standard hex screw. They come with any $20 Walmart tool set.
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