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Oct. 15th, 2005 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakPoinged over to http://www.gamesindustry.biz today because of a link in Penny Arcade, and found this: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/news.php?aid=12201
Heh. I'd been wondering to Dav not that long ago about what Rockstar Games was going to do next, since the GTA series has both used up pretty much all the really cool genres of recent gang activity and pissed off an awful lot of people because of that Hot Coffee mod. (I read a description of what actually goes on in the mod somewhere, and frankly, I think people need to calm down. No teen of mine would play San Andreas, true - but that decision would be based on the entire game, not the sudden discovery of this mod.)
A game based on being a bully in a schoolyard. Heh. Isn't that pretty much a lot of what goes in in any GTA game, minus a lot of the sexual innuendo and things like buying aMiamiVice City porn studio? How original. If Rockstar goes down the tubes after this, I bet it'll be more a lack of game innovation and less a lack of people willing to buy games of questionable moral content.
ETA: Hmmm. Rockstar's doing a new game, set back in Liberty City, right around Y2K, solely for the PSP. What, are they abandoning the PS2 already? Before they even have a set launch date for the PS3? (Yes, I know it's supposed to be launched sometime this spring. Who knows when it'll actually get released, though.) Maybe I don't grok gaming like a true geek, but I don't see the appeal of a gaming system with a screen the size of an index card. Not for really complex games anyway. I'd play a PSP or a Gameboy Advance for simpler things like Tetris or Dav's favorite, Rivercity Roundup. But something with the complexity of play and richness of graphics implied in a GTA game? Bah. it'd hurt my eyes, and must severely limit the game's graphics.
Heh. I'd been wondering to Dav not that long ago about what Rockstar Games was going to do next, since the GTA series has both used up pretty much all the really cool genres of recent gang activity and pissed off an awful lot of people because of that Hot Coffee mod. (I read a description of what actually goes on in the mod somewhere, and frankly, I think people need to calm down. No teen of mine would play San Andreas, true - but that decision would be based on the entire game, not the sudden discovery of this mod.)
A game based on being a bully in a schoolyard. Heh. Isn't that pretty much a lot of what goes in in any GTA game, minus a lot of the sexual innuendo and things like buying a
ETA: Hmmm. Rockstar's doing a new game, set back in Liberty City, right around Y2K, solely for the PSP. What, are they abandoning the PS2 already? Before they even have a set launch date for the PS3? (Yes, I know it's supposed to be launched sometime this spring. Who knows when it'll actually get released, though.) Maybe I don't grok gaming like a true geek, but I don't see the appeal of a gaming system with a screen the size of an index card. Not for really complex games anyway. I'd play a PSP or a Gameboy Advance for simpler things like Tetris or Dav's favorite, Rivercity Roundup. But something with the complexity of play and richness of graphics implied in a GTA game? Bah. it'd hurt my eyes, and must severely limit the game's graphics.
