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Reply #595 on: December 17, 2009, 10:21:01 PM

When it makes sense or is funny, sure.

When it's just uhhh, "hip?" not so much.
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Reply #596 on: December 18, 2009, 10:44:22 AM

some of the comments under the Illuminati link are  ACK! swamp poop  awesome, for real

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Reply #597 on: December 19, 2009, 12:22:18 AM

I'm really interested in TSW and I like lore, but holy hell I wish they'd get to talking about the game features rather than vagaries of organisations that will be ignored by 90% of the player base.

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Reply #598 on: December 19, 2009, 09:15:09 PM

The longer they don't talk about game features, the less they have to lie.

You should be happy they haven't said shit.
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Reply #599 on: December 19, 2009, 10:15:59 PM

The longer they don't talk about game features, the less they have to lie.

You should be happy they haven't said shit.

Well, at least you're optimistic.
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Reply #600 on: December 20, 2009, 01:52:19 AM

That's not optimism, that's just giving them time to get their lies straight. (This applies to companies even with the best intentions, in fact, I'd prefer them not say ANYTHING until there's a full gameplay demo).
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Reply #601 on: December 21, 2009, 01:02:16 PM

FUNCOM: Our games are better when you think they're vaporware!

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Reply #602 on: December 21, 2009, 01:08:49 PM

MMO's: Our games are better when you think they're vaporware!

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Reply #603 on: December 21, 2009, 05:20:24 PM

That's not optimism, that's just giving them time to get their lies straight. (This applies to companies even with the best intentions, in fact, I'd prefer them not say ANYTHING until there's a full gameplay demo).

I agree that it's better not to say anything, but TSW has been loud in not saying anything for quite a while.

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Reply #604 on: December 21, 2009, 06:04:49 PM



Yes, I know I always say this.  Still.

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Reply #605 on: December 21, 2009, 06:06:06 PM

That's not optimism, that's just giving them time to get their lies straight. (This applies to companies even with the best intentions, in fact, I'd prefer them not say ANYTHING until there's a full gameplay demo).
I agree that it's better not to say anything, but TSW has been loud in not saying anything for quite a while.
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Reply #606 on: December 22, 2009, 05:52:40 AM

Then stop paying attention to it.

But their vague offerings are so shiny...
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Reply #607 on: December 22, 2009, 06:06:22 AM

I liked TSW when there was an extremely small group of people on their forums with their viral puzzles.  That was cool in a small signal to noise ratio type of way.
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Reply #608 on: December 22, 2009, 07:58:08 AM

I just can't figure out how anyone is still getting excited over a Funcom MMO.
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Reply #609 on: December 22, 2009, 08:06:18 AM

I just can't figure out how anyone is still getting excited over a Funcom MMO.

The same way we always do, Funcom uses good settings.  Even when it was someone else's setting it was a really cool setting that was different and it sounded like they were going to do it justice until the class list + details came out.

I was so excited for Anarchy, it sounded so cool the setting was something I could really get lost in and Funcom seemed (and really was in their way) committed to making the world and its story matter.

Getting excited for this, even if it is Funcom makes 10 million times more sense to me then being excited for games where just from looking at a ss of the ui I know exactly what the gameplay will feel like (hello Aion, ChampO, etc) and I know its shit and has been for over a decade.  Then again I'm like the biggest selected target hater ever so I should probably be ignored.

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Reply #610 on: December 25, 2009, 09:34:04 PM

Just like last year, Merry Christmas ya dirty bastards. Christ, I can't believe it's been a year already....

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Edit: As soon as I can learn how to internet correctly anyways....

Edit2: You just get a link this year.
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Reply #611 on: December 26, 2009, 08:31:24 PM

Classy.

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Reply #612 on: December 26, 2009, 08:49:44 PM

The girl zombie on the right is wearing an Innsmouth shirt.

As much as they want you to hate them, it's hard not to love Funcom sometimes.
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Reply #613 on: December 26, 2009, 09:22:38 PM

As much as they want you to hate them, it's hard not to love Funcom sometimes.

Funcom is the lovable drunk of the MMO family. They have no chance of getting their act together, always cause a scene, shit always comes up missing after they've been there, yet you can never quite bring yourself to strike them from the guest list.
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Reply #614 on: December 27, 2009, 06:45:23 AM


My favorite part about that is that one of them took the time to unbuckle Santa's belt.

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Reply #615 on: December 30, 2009, 10:44:38 AM

That's uhmm. Well, if i was looking for one more game about zombies to put on the pile of million titles furiously trying to exploit this meme in the past year-two or so, i'd be all stoked.

But since zombies just make me go meh, welp.
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Reply #616 on: December 30, 2009, 10:52:27 AM

And if zombies was all it was about, you might have actually had a point.

Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something.  We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Reply #617 on: December 31, 2009, 11:19:57 AM

My point was rather, if from all things it's supposed to be about they choose to focus on the zombies for their promotional artwork, they can only blame themselves for whatever wrong impressions it'll give their potential audience.

Alternatively it can make one wonder if the change of direction isn't in fact coming. And/or how many of their nebulous ideas convert into content that isn't just shooting zombies.
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Reply #618 on: December 31, 2009, 01:17:42 PM

It seems like everywhere I look there are images of a fat man in a red costume recently. Now it looks like Funcom are trying to jump on the bandwagon and explot this same tired theme. And I had such high hopes for this game.
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Reply #619 on: December 31, 2009, 04:58:44 PM

I stand corrected. A game which tries to promote itself during xmas season with image of Santa Claus and zombies is obviously going to feature neither. Both are nothing but part of the traditional holiday imagery after all.
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Reply #620 on: January 01, 2010, 02:52:40 AM

Forecasting gloom and doom is trendy and cool these days.  I just wish a little more thought and creativity went into it. 

(This should in no way be taken as some kind of defense for TSW, Funcom, or the entire video game industry )

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Reply #621 on: January 01, 2010, 12:10:11 PM

It seems like everywhere I look there are images of a fat man in a red costume recently. Now it looks like Funcom are trying to jump on the bandwagon and explot this same tired theme. And I had such high hopes for this game.

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Reply #622 on: January 02, 2010, 10:38:18 AM

For the same reason the @Someone doesn't appear here - sandy mangina.  Different over-anal mod, same basic reason.  Oh wait, no, that couldn't be it.  It must be because it's not cool.
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Reply #623 on: January 02, 2010, 01:28:20 PM

Someone started to use green on the vault network somewhere and so therefore it was not to be used here anymore.  Or somesuch reason.
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Reply #624 on: January 02, 2010, 02:25:49 PM

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For the same reason the @Someone doesn't appear here - sandy mangina.  Different over-anal mod, same basic reason.  Oh wait, no, that couldn't be it.  It must be because it's not cool.

1. People shouldn't need green when someone is joking.
2. @Someone isn't used because it's Twitter derived bullshit and there's a FUCKING QUOTE BUTTON.

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Reply #625 on: January 02, 2010, 10:30:23 PM

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For the same reason the @Someone doesn't appear here - sandy mangina.  Different over-anal mod, same basic reason.  Oh wait, no, that couldn't be it.  It must be because it's not cool.

1. People shouldn't need green when someone is joking.
2. @Someone isn't used because it's Twitter derived bullshit and there's a FUCKING QUOTE BUTTON.

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Reply #626 on: January 02, 2010, 10:33:38 PM

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Reply #627 on: January 26, 2010, 05:14:38 PM

http://www.kingsmouth.com/

Apparently, viral marketing is in progress...

From the not-real-town page...

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Did you know…?

•Kingsmouth has the tallest lighthouse in the entire north-eastern United States!
•There are rumours of secret tunnels linking important buildings in town with other sites on Solomon Island!
•Some people claim Kingsmouth was founded by a secret order originating in Europe!
•Solomon Island is home to Innsmouth Academy, an exclusive private school for students with very special and unique talents!
•Local legends have it that the mountains are cursed by a dark and mysterious force!
•There have been numerous sightings of Bigfoot just outside of town!!

So, they moved Hogwarts did they?

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Reply #628 on: January 26, 2010, 05:42:45 PM

That is almost certainly not what they're going for with Innsmouth Academy.  Cthulu

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Reply #629 on: January 26, 2010, 07:25:22 PM

That is almost certainly not what they're going for with Innsmouth Academy.  Cthulu

Yeah i know Miskatonic river etc etc, but this site almost seems to push beyond the earlier marketing "dark conspiracies and mystery" angle into almost Cthulu-lite parody, hence my comment about Hogwarts.  Maybe it's just me.

I think i liked some of their earlier marketing efforts better.

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