The definitive Space Giraffe thread

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:12 pm 0

Game Rogue wrote:

Understood

Glad to hear it, no offence intended, and you certainly aren't the only one riled here today.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:17 pm 0

Game Rogue wrote:I just got riled up this morning. I will stop.

There's really no point in getting riled up, save your "personal" comments till you've actually played SG. For all you know SG might indeed be a load of old cock.

Bollocks to everyone else, Dan might not have "got it", Yak's certainly biased as will be much of Yakyak. Play the free demo yourself when it comes out and make your decision there, it's as simple as that; everything else is just noise.

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:19 pm 0

Well said

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:20 pm 0

Game Rogue wrote:Oh man what I could say about his Track and Field 3.0 score.

Though that's been marked low elsewhere, mainly seems for the utter amount of lag in multiplayer making it rather pointless to play online.

Game Rogue · Post by **Game Rogue** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:29 pm 0

Mayhem wrote:
Game Rogue wrote:Oh man what I could say about his Track and Field 3.0 score.
Though that's been marked low elsewhere, mainly seems for the utter amount of lag in multiplayer making it rather pointless to play online.

True that, but he says nothing about online (laggy) deficiencies in his review. His concerns are about how he can't come to grips on how to hold the controller - and analog vs. button mashing actions.

TwistedScrote · Post by **TwistedScrote** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:36 pm 0

Well said Disciple.

axel000 · Post by **axel000** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:41 pm 0

Game Rogue wrote:
Mayhem wrote:
Game Rogue wrote:Oh man what I could say about his Track and Field 3.0 score.
Though that's been marked low elsewhere, mainly seems for the utter amount of lag in multiplayer making it rather pointless to play online.
True that, but he says nothing about online (laggy) deficiencies in his review. His concerns are about how he can't come to grips on how to hold the controller - and analog vs. button mashing actions.

Yep, and thats what this is for.

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:47 pm 0

axel000 wrote:
Game Rogue wrote:
Mayhem wrote:
Game Rogue wrote:Oh man what I could say about his Track and Field 3.0 score.
Though that's been marked low elsewhere, mainly seems for the utter amount of lag in multiplayer making it rather pointless to play online.
True that, but he says nothing about online (laggy) deficiencies in his review. His concerns are about how he can't come to grips on how to hold the controller - and analog vs. button mashing actions.
Yep, and thats what this is for.

Or:

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:48 pm 0

There's every chance that next week's XBLA games will be announced by Major Nelson tomorrow (It often happens on a Monday).

Fingers crossed crew. Hopefully no problem lads.

Fillyourboots · Post by **Fillyourboots** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:23 pm 0

HGFB wrote:There's every chance that next week's XBLA games will be announced by Major Nelson tomorrow (It often happens on a Monday).

Fingers crossed crew. Hopefully no problem lads.

We do know that War World and Sensible Soccer are due. WW this week, Sensi next week?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 7:34 pm 0

disciple wrote:
Game Rogue wrote:I just got riled up this morning. I will stop.
There's really no point in getting riled up, save your "personal" comments till you've actually played SG. For all you know SG might indeed be a load of old cock.

Bollocks to everyone else, Dan might not have "got it", Yak's certainly biased as will be much of Yakyak. Play the free demo yourself when it comes out and make your decision there, it's as simple as that; everything else is just noise.

But we all love picking fights when we don't have all of the facts at our plate. Dammit, that's what internet forums are for!

Flojomojo · Post by **Flojomojo** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:07 am 0

Wow. I can't read all this, not even with the terrific "endless forum" Greasemonkey script (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/1894) so I don't need to keep hitting "next page." It's really touched a nerve! Good to see that everyone is not worried about what number a single assclown writes in an irrelevant magazine.

OXM is utter toilet paper and the review scores, especially for cheap, simple games all of which have free, playable demos, really aren't worth a damn. The publishers sent me many months of free issues of this rag after I stopped paying for a subscription, but it's quite hopeless as "journalism," criticism, or even advertising. Anyone stupid enough to swallow the tripe in this publication wasn't going to pay 400 points for Space Giraffe anyway.

Now if/when Eurogamer pulls its usual shit of "we don't like old-school games and neither should you," I'm going to be seriously pissed off.

That doesn't change the fact that I'm eagerly awaiting SG's release. Wednesday can't come fast enough. Maybe we'll get it alongside the Asteroids repack?

Flojomojo · Post by **Flojomojo** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:31 am 0

BTW you can view the reviewer's stuff here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/danamrich
The Llamasoft community might find it amusing to critique his work. Since I don't have anything nice to say, I will remain silent, other than to note that I find it ironic that Mr. Bunny Ears feels qualified to call anyone's original creation "sophomoric," let alone "Technoslop."

"incredibly poor visibility (apparently by design)"

"Is this a failed game or a failed art experiment?"

"Actually made us angry when we played it. "

"a generous 100 levels of damn-near-unplayable technoslop"

AlbertKatraz · Post by **AlbertKatraz** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:46 am 0

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote: Or:

IMO through 'just got up blur-o-vision' that looks like Elvis.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 10:34 am 0

I mentioned all this to Kris yesterday and she laughed. A lot. She will be buying the game at least... though she did mention regarding performance on it: "I can has suckage?!"

Still, even SHE thought she got more points than Mr OXM here at RV