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Multitap #2: GBAs, Babes & Middle Earth

May 26, 2003 By Glenn Turner
Too many GBAs, not enough time.

Nintendo is focusing a lot of manpower on GBA/Gamecube connectivity. Is it worth the hype, or are we setting ourselves up for disappointment?

unitdaisy: What if I don't have four friends that have GBAs? And what if we forgot to bring our cables with us? What if you we all brought ourselves and our GBAs over to a friend's house and he doesn't have a Gamecube? Can I only hang out with Nintendo fanboys now?

peccaui: We'd be lucky to hang out with any gamers. It's simply too pricey to use these for party games. GBAs should be used as perks for a game - not a necessity. Hell, I bought a linkup cable for Animal Crossing. Isn't that enough?


Booth Babes - why do they continue to exist at E3?

peccaui: Personally, I'm upset that they continue to be a staple of E3. The industry has supposivley grown up and become mainstream - so why are games advertised in the same manner as shoddy homebrew motorcycles?

unitdaisy: As much as we think the industry has grown up, really it has only progressed from geeky fanboys to fratboy fanboys - the more breasts that are plastered on a title, the better it is.

peccaui: E3 is a trade show - these are supposed to be (though obviously most of them aren't) professional journalists and members within the gaming industry. Not frat boys.

The one and only thing I hate about E3 - dealing with the drool.

unitdaisy: And Sports Illustrated is supposed to be a magazine about sports - so explain the swimsuit issue.

peccaui: Sports Illustrated isn't a trade magazine - you don't see Reese Witherspoon spread-eagled on the cover of Variety, do you?

unitdaisy: If Variety were having a trade show, they would have many scantily clad women there. It's sad.

peccaui: That still doesn't explain Nokia's latest press conference: it appears that they believe not a single game reporter is a woman. This absolutely boggles my mind - that they would have the balls to go and unveil a title's price by writing it on a woman's frame and unveil it to what, 5,000, 10,000 people?

unitdaisy: It's disgusting that a woman's breasts are the only thing that get people's attention. But the fault lies both in the people hawking the product and the people buying it.


To steal a cue from GameSpy, which looks more appealing: Middle Earth or Matrix Online?

peccaui: Neither. We're all losers. Single player 4 life!

unitdaisy: I pick Middle Earth - I know there have been a lot of fantasy-based MMORPG's, but Tolkein's world is something different. It's a world that has already been fleshed out as far as rules go, so I think it would be more interesting than other fantasy games because you're already working within a well-established fantasy world.

peccaui: And a world that 100,000 other geeks will pick apart to the finest detail. Did you hear the story of the fan that bitched to the Star Wars Galaxies developers that one ship was ~0.5cm off from scale?

MMORPGs rule!

unitdaisy: There are always going to be annoying people like that, but the majority of Tolkein gamers will enjoy participating in the world that he created. Anyway, what fun is it if you don't have something to complain about?

peccaui: Bah - they'll pick it apart like vultures in the Sahara and leave the bones dry. Personally, I feel like The Matrix has a better chance - only if Revolution can redeem the franchise in the fan's eyes. It's ambiguous enough to allow for a large universe where the rules are just being created. Tolkein's world is too straight & narrow to ever appease their fans. It's a good idea, but can never be executed to the whims of the audience.

unitdaisy: Oh come on - The Matrix will be so limiting.

peccaui: Hell no - there's not much ground covered in The Matrix - there's no fucking world map, for one. The Matrix's universe is ever expanding, ever virtual. So the possibilities are endless (as well as the developer's excuses.)

unitdaisy: I've always been a fan of solving problems when there is a problem to solve. And to be put into a world where there isn't a right and wrong answer is just chaos.

peccaui: It's not that it's chaos, but the world appears to be less limiting as Middle Earth may be.

unitdaisy: I still think they should drop both these projects and turn Shadowrun into a MMORPG.

peccaui: No argument here.

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