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UncleBob · « **Reply #525 on:** February 17, 2010, 02:02:44 AM »

Personally, I'd consider Guitar Hero (3, World Tour and 5 - not Metallica, Van Halen, etc.) to be blockbusters (which I consider different than "Epic" games). Rock Band. NSMBWii. Red Steel tried. Tony Hawk RIDE. Simpsons (-ish).

King of Twitch · « **Reply #526 on:** February 17, 2010, 02:08:30 AM »

Now we're using movie trailer propaganda buzzwords for videogames

UncleBob · « **Reply #527 on:** February 17, 2010, 02:12:22 AM »

We've whined for years for the video game industry to be taken seriously like the movie industry.

Mop it up · « **Reply #528 on:** February 17, 2010, 02:13:47 AM »

Can't we come up with our own terms instead of stealing the ones from the movie industry?
How about "housebuster" instead of "blockbuster"?

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #529 on:** February 17, 2010, 02:14:25 AM »

We only use it because we are trying to get those that don't understand to understand by relating it something somewhat relateable.

Stogi · « **Reply #530 on:** February 17, 2010, 02:53:52 AM »

Quote from: UncleBob on February 17, 2010, 12:27:47 AM

Quote from: BlackNMild2k1 on February 17, 2010, 12:24:07 AM
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IGN:Why do you think T and M-rated titles like these haven't found an audience on Nintendo's platform?

Brian Farrell: Yeah, it's the audience.
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Wow.

Pro, you need to start forwarding your O.P.

D_Average · « **Reply #531 on:** February 17, 2010, 03:33:29 AM »

Quote from: Mop_it_up on February 17, 2010, 02:13:47 AM

Can't we come up with our own terms instead of stealing the ones from the movie industry?
How about "housebuster" instead of "blockbuster"?

I agree. Blockbuster is played out and ready to die. Here are some ideas. Couchbuster, lifebuster, marriagebuster or even megadisruptivebuster. I'm sure if we all chime in we will come up with the right phrase.

Stratos · « **Reply #532 on:** February 17, 2010, 03:34:48 AM »

Wasn't the term 'Killer App' or 'AAA' what we used for games? Or have we been so desperate for those games that we forgot the terms even existed?

that Baby guy · « **Reply #533 on:** February 17, 2010, 07:28:22 AM »

"AAA" is for school grades and cars, and the Iphone took "Killer App."

We need a new one.

KDR_11k · « **Reply #534 on:** February 17, 2010, 08:50:00 AM »

AAA is the industry term for a game that has a ton of effort put into it. Killer app refers to games that drive hardware sales.

Peachylala · « **Reply #535 on:** February 17, 2010, 10:45:42 AM »

F for common sense, Brain Farrell. F- for that comment.

Only a third party can get this double standard of failure.

UncleBob · « **Reply #536 on:** February 17, 2010, 11:11:18 AM »

Madden is a Blockbuster title, but *not* a AAA title or a Killer App (*Maybe* the first new Madden for a system... but I think that's a stretch).

Tetris, for the original Game Boy - I wouldn't consider it a Blockbuster title... Heck, I'd question the AAA title (Maybe AA?). But it was definitively *the* killer app for the Game Boy. Hell, I think that game coined the phrase.

I'd say something like just about any game from the Fire Emblem series is a AAA title - yet I wouldn't consider them blockbusters or killer apps.

Peachylala · « **Reply #537 on:** February 17, 2010, 11:49:59 AM »

Tetris was a pretty new IP back in 1989 when the first variation of the GB was release, so was Wii Sports in 2006.

Confession: I wanted to play Wii Sports more then Zelda when the Wii was first announced. I play more Wii Sports Resort then Mario Galaxy, and more NSMBWii then Mario Galaxy.

Chozo Ghost · « **Reply #538 on:** February 17, 2010, 01:07:29 PM »

Mario is the biggest video-game blockbuster there ever was. That is true both literally and figuratively (he busts blocks with his head).

Peachylala · « **Reply #539 on:** February 17, 2010, 02:43:21 PM »

The rest of the gaming media calls that laziness and stupidity on the audience part.

Double standards folks!

Mop it up · « **Reply #540 on:** February 17, 2010, 06:57:58 PM »

Quote from: Chozo Ghost on February 17, 2010, 01:07:29 PM

Mario is the biggest video-game blockbuster there ever was. That is true both literally and figuratively (he busts blocks with his head).

Oh dear, that was bad.

ThePerm · « **Reply #541 on:** February 17, 2010, 07:38:23 PM »

yeah Killer App is the interactive application term. If your refering to Nintendo games Megaton is most correct. Places pinky under lip

Stogi · « **Reply #542 on:** February 17, 2010, 07:46:11 PM »

so we are looking for an emphatic term to describe the best of the best of videogames?

How about nut-buster?

E.g. Mario 64 was a nut-buster of a classic.

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #543 on:** February 17, 2010, 07:56:42 PM »

Megaton usually refers to "killer app" announcements though. Megaton is what you use to fuel the HYPE TRAIN. Where the HYPE TRAIN goes depends on the Marketing, and if there isn't any of that then it usually fizzles out. But if there is plenty of marketing then the HYPE TRAIN grows larger and you ride it all the way to the release of your "~~Blockbuster~~[name to be determined]".

Stogi · « **Reply #544 on:** February 17, 2010, 08:29:52 PM »

How about the game is so good that you bust a nut?

Nut-buster? Skeeter?

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #545 on:** February 17, 2010, 09:03:43 PM »

THat would sound bad in the wrong context

the HYPE TRAIN grows larger and you ride it all the way to the nutbuster release

Stogi · « **Reply #546 on:** February 17, 2010, 09:40:00 PM »

Quote from: BlackNMild2k1 on February 17, 2010, 09:03:43 PM

THat would sound HILARIOUS in the wrong context

the HYPE TRAIN grows larger and you ride it all the way to the nutbuster release

KDR_11k · « **Reply #547 on:** February 18, 2010, 03:20:06 AM »

I thought "nutbuster" was a skateboard move that's worth 0 points and a trip to the hospital.

Stogi · « **Reply #548 on:** February 18, 2010, 03:30:38 AM »

"bust-a-nutter"?

Stratos · « **Reply #549 on:** February 18, 2010, 03:35:08 AM »

Wasn't that term created during the Gamecube cycle in reference to a "MEGATON Announcement" that never occurred? Did we ever find out what the announcement was supposed to be? I recall Nintendo alluding to a 'new peripheral' in the works and I always assumed that it was what turned into the Revolution since Nintendo originally was going to make the 'Wiimotes' be add-ons to the Gamecube until they decided that it would be better to release it in its own system.

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