Platinum Life (Heatwave Interactive)

[schild]

Assuming they have enough employees to make a game:

From some article:

The RPG game is currently in development for PC and consoel systems and Castro expects it to be completed in three years (that will allow for full involvement by T.I., who is currently serving a one-year prison term for gun charges).

Castoro and Co. have decided that making a thug-liferecord-studio-thing-whatever diku is the way to get into the marketplace. Poor, poor investors.

Best misuse of investor funds or bestest? You decide.

Ok! I'll correct myself, it's not a thug life game. It's a label game! That happens to be diku! That happens to feature some piece of shit rapper that's in jail on a gun charge. IT'S ALL JUST COINCIDENTAL.

[Draegan]

Seems like they'll be late to the party.  I don't pay attention to the genre, but how are the GTA's of the world doing these days?

[schild]

Seems like they'll be late to the party.  I don't pay attention to the genre, but how are the GTA's of the world doing these days?

This isn't GTA! Just wait til you see the micromanagement sim of making sure you have enough cds on shelves, homies rolling, gin and juice, and your dimebags are all weighed out properly.

[Yegolev]

I don't see any of that.  I see a hotbar with a button for "Yo Mommo Joke" and audiences that drop loot.

[Draegan]

After actually reading the article... 

Do I get to shoot Tupac?

[schild]

Do I get to shoot Tupac?

No, but there's an MLK Blvd with a 7-11 on the corner and behind it you can find his ghost and he'll give you a quest that'll simultaneously raise your audience awareness, twitter-friendlyness, and [REDACTED: USED TO BE SLANG TERM BLACK PEOPLE CAN SAY BUT WHITE PEOPLE CAN'T]tude stats for a short time.

Too far? Too Soon? You decide. I'm not making the game.

[schild]

I'm hoping I can be in someone's posse. I know what class I'll be:

[schild]

I am pre-banning Nerf from this thread.

[Yegolev]

I am pre-banning Nerf from this thread.

Is this game about Black People?

[schild]

I am pre-banning Nerf from this thread.

Is this game about Black People?

No, it's about rappers, hip hop, and going to jail on a gun charge, all in the name of music.

[Draegan]

Can I be a Mexican and sell drugs to the rappers?

[schild]

Can I be a Mexican and sell drugs to the rappers?

NO. YOU CAN NOT BE OVERTLY RACIST. YOU HAVE TO BE SUBTLE. JESUS MAN, WHAT THE FUCK, ARE WE CAVEMEN HERE?

[Lantyssa]

But it's okay to be a cute chica running an herbal supplements business whose primary customers are key individuals in the music industry though, right? 

[HaemishM]

Mmmmmm, hotkeyed Yo Mamma macros. What the fuck? Is it April Fool's Day?

[schild]

But it's okay to be a cute chica running an herbal supplements business whose primary customers are key individuals in the music industry though, right? 

Your new name is Rosalinda Guerro. It's a badge of honor, wear it well.

I am so going to play this just so I can be Dr. Shakalu. Or Dante.

[Draegan]

Can I be "The Man" and make people sell out?

[schild]

Can I be "The Man" and make people sell out?

I don't think it takes "The Man" to make people sell out anymore. That idea died in like 1995. Now it's just bitches, hos, and checka checka dollar bills ya'll.

[schild]

Between this and More to Love, I am going to fucking love these next few weeks. I am completely incapable of not laughing whenever I think of either.

[Tebonas]

I hope there will be Expansions! I SO want to buy a Platinum Live Platinum Edition!

[schild]

I hope the collector's edition comes with a fat pendant so I can literally tuck my chain.

[raydeen]

What the hell is a consoel?

[schild]

inorite

[Xilren's Twin]

This whole thing is a scam to seperate a hard working hip hop artist from his money yo.

Reading about the few mechanics they let slip in there was hilarous.  "You do direct damage to the crowd" indeed.

The only thing that is vaguely interesting about this is the idea that they are going to do a mobile based "social networking" game starting later this year to build the hype for this thing.  I could actually see a concept like that being useful for some marketing strategies, but not for this particular title.

They would have been better off trying to make an mmo out of something like DJ Hero

[NiX]

This sounds awesome! Schild and I can be HOMIES!

[michele.s.]

Post removed so it doesn't hit google.

[schild]

It's been suggested that black youths (and other urban minority groups) are too stupid and too poor to get the concept of MMORPGs so what's the point of making the game.

No one said this. Hell, no one even remotely implied it. I especially wouldn't, having worked at EBGames in Prince George's County, MD. But having to explain that is as stupid as having to say "I have Black Friends" or "I have Jewish friends." So, I'll leave you with this - your interpretation is crappy and incorrect.

Edit: Also, almost no one here treats this place as some sanctuary of anonymity. I'm just going to assume you're going around shrilling the same sort of "I'm easily offended" on lots of forums.

Edit 2: I was right, what a douche: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.128191 Off you go, predictable internet nerd.

[Trippy]

Post removed so it doesn't hit google.

But she already found this place using Google (presumably) Plus there were no links in it.

[Koyasha]

Ahaha.  It's the exact same post too.  I saw the original post and couldn't even understand what the hell she was talking about.  Makes sense since it's apparently some copy-paste she's spewing on any thread about the game she runs into.

[ghost]

Hmmm.  Non-violent hip hop PvP.  It will be like a dance fight from Breakin 2:  Electric Boogaloo.  I bet there will be like 10-12 different dance emotes.  /hammertime

[HaemishM]

I'm going to assume that michele s. isn't merely stupid, she's stupid as a mole. Post the same idiotic post on multiple forums, hope to stir up a controversy and thus get the game more search engine heat and maybe even some mainstream press coverage because they luvs them a racial controversy.

[Ghambit]

Y'know, why not inject racial tension purposely into a game?  I bet it'd do well.