Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 22, 2005, 11:41:42 PM
Check out he screen shots of this game
Picture arrangement
__ __ _0
_1 _2 _3
_4 _5 _6
_7 _8 _9
10 11
See if you can spot all the parodies!! Don't cheat
pic _0 - SMS water packs & Pac-Man floor
pic _1 - Splinter Cell
pic _2 - Tetris & Bomberman
pic _3 - Lara Croft
pic _4 - Bloody Croft Rayne
pic _6 - Sonic w/ his rings, Rayman on the right, Soul Calibur II in sculptures & Jak 3
pic _7 - Mario w/ his water pack
pic _8 - Pac-Man
pic _9 - Sonic bounce & Pac-Man eating a ghost(top left)
pic 10 - warp pipe
Let me know if I missed something.
Too bad this isn't coming out for GC(the first on did, but I had never heard of it), I haven't played a good parody game since C:BFD on N64
Post by: Spak-Spang on June 23, 2005, 05:05:00 AM
The game actually looks interesting.
Post by: couchmonkey on June 23, 2005, 07:59:34 AM
You know, it seems to me like there really aren't many parodies in general in gaming...not just parodies of other games.
As for Asterix, I love all the references they've jammed in there, but I wonder if they'll really put them to use in the end? Looking at a few of the screens, it felt like they were ripping other games' ideas off under the guise of parodying them than actually parodying. After the initial joke about FLUDD is over, how is running around shooting stuff with water any funnier in this game than in Super Mario Sunshine? How is it not just stealing a neat idea from someone else?
Not to say I don't like the idea, I think it's pretty cool. I'm just not sure if a videogame parodying other videogames can really be pulled off...I think it might come off like a copycat. Good luck to the developers!
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 23, 2005, 09:55:49 AM
Nintendo was soo sure that someone would steal their water pack idea...... Now they did, with Mario look-alike included. I'm sure its a bunch of themed areas, like Conker, that would use the look (and feel?) of many well known games to make not just make fun of those games, but also (hopefully) to mak a fun game that is all of your favorite games (in spirit)
I don't know much about the game but it already looks like fun, and if I owned a PS2 i would probably get/rent this game.
Post by: nickmitch on June 23, 2005, 08:48:22 PM
I used to read those all the time. . .in French class. . .
Post by: KDR_11k on June 23, 2005, 11:00:11 PM
Post by: couchmonkey on June 24, 2005, 06:11:49 AM
Actually, I figured that out later on, there's one shot where Asterix is covering up one of the Legionaires, so it looks like he's wearing the water pack at a glance. My mistake. I'm still skeptical, but I hope it works out because it looks like fun.
Post by: KDR_11k on June 24, 2005, 07:19:29 AM
