Fallout 3 launch party Oct 18th

[iznogoud]

Computer geeks trying to score their wet dream celebrities?


No need to wonder why Bethesda don't comment on the F3-leak.

 

[Matt K]

if this was 10 years ago I'd go only to try to score with Courtney Cox. unfortunately she's not very hot anymore. and with her husband there and all it wouldn't be a very good idea.

I was thinking the same thing. I mean damn early Friends Cortney Cox and Jennifer Aniston were hot.

Sure, but this kind of PR stunt is symptomatic of one of the biggest issues with the gaming industry nowadays.

We've all seen how lackluster and plain lazy their product is by now, what with most all the flaws being carried over from Oblivion despite their constant reassuring us that they wouldn't. Add to this a gargantuan marketing budget, with movie exhibitions, metro ads, BoS figurine army, enough swag to drown in and now this big-ass Hollywood party, and one has to wonder where their priorities lie. The age-old worry that their money would go to selling the game instead of better developing it seems pretty validated to me.

My issue with this "party" is similar that the studio has put out such a mediocre product which easily could use more money for better animation at the very least. And as far as I'm concerned when your PR budget is significantly bigger than the budget for the game then the game will almost certainly be a over-hyped but mediocre product. I could care less about throwing a release party (but then again they never had one for Oblivion) but it's just telling about the kind of studio BS/Zenimax is.

 

[Iozeph]

Glad you folks enjoyed the pic.

What irks me about parties like this, is that they reek of the excesses of the old Ion Storm days. Fiddling while Rome burns, so to speak. The only thing they haven't done is told us that we're going to be FINO3's bitch. but I'm waiting for that one... I'm waiting.

The fanfare, the exclusivity, the divisiveness- really make it feel like one of those "Caddy-Shack" moments, where big money and blue collar collide. Where you're hoping that the caddies, and the spectators on the green, the ones with half a brain, are going to wake up and see what a bunch of pretentious, stuck up, bastards are running the club and then revolt and take it back for the little guy.

Except this is real life, and there won't be any populist revolt. Why? Because these assholes, these charlatans, have bamboozled almost everyone into believing that the drek they're pushing- that they, in fact, are the second coming of a franchise that was SO good yet so easy to produce, that they couldn't be bothered to have even ONE of the original creators on board as a consultant.

It's the kind of arrogance, the kind of blatant disrespect for one of my sacred cows, that makes me go absolutely bat-shit. Every single time I see one of these smirking, glad-handing, sons of bitches giving an "interview"... I just want to reach through my goddamned screen and drub them relentlessly about the head and the face, with a steamed cauliflower, until they, or I, pass out. Either one really, doesn't matter.

/Whap, whap, whap!

You like that Todd-o!?


/Whap, whap, whap!

You like that Petey!? How bout another fireside chat, you bug-eyed, flat-topped GOON!?


/Whap, whap, whap!


Come on people! Hurry up and help me take them down! Before they reach the... invincible... children?



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AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE! HA! HA! HA!






/WHAP!, WHAP!, WHAP!, WHAP!, WHAP!, WHAP!, WHAP!, WHAP!......






/takes a deep breath






/counts to ten






/sighs...






God, I hate these guys...

 

[Arash]

sounds more like a "drink up, forget the mess you're in" party.

 

[Sicblades]

Hard not to agree with Iozeph. With every interview they give the shittier this thing sounds... Funny how much of an ego they have for being so little. Napoleon complex anyone?

/whips steamed vegetables at Todd and co.

 

[Public]

Computer geeks trying to score their wet dream celebrities?

NNnnnneeeeerdsss!!

 

[GarnetKrowe]

Weird?

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[Gentlemen]

Re: Weird?

........

Get this man a medal. This has to be the most detailed post ever. Definetely not spam.

Ooooh, I wanna go. Time to go find my fake press ID and my tuxedo.

 

[Pope Viper]

Re: Weird?

........

Get this man a medal. This has to be the most detailed post ever. Definetely not spam.

Ooooh, I wanna go. Time to go find my fake press ID and my tuxedo.

Ok, you apparently seem to recognize "spam", yet you respond to it in a similar fashion?

Strike.

 

[Gentlemen]

Re: Weird?

........

Get this man a medal. This has to be the most detailed post ever. Definetely not spam.

Ooooh, I wanna go. Time to go find my fake press ID and my tuxedo.

Ok, you apparently seem to recognize "spam", yet you respond to it in a similar fashion?

Strike.

Overkill, man, overkill. First you or someone else bans me from the Order because you can't just tell me to slow down my posting (Which I did) and stop being so annoying. Then this. Sheesh, I just think you want to get rid of me due to bias.

How much does it cost for Foo Fighters to play, a bunch of celebreties to attend, renting out the place it is held at, and getting food and liquor? Three million? Four million? I honestly think the big-wigs and Zenimax have sold their souls to the Devil for four million in gold each. I cannot explain how they are getting this money and spending it without any regard.

 

[Pope Viper]

Re: Weird?

Overkill, man, overkill. First you or someone else bans me from the Order because you can't just tell me to slow down my posting (Which I did) and stop being so annoying. Then this. Sheesh, I just think you want to get rid of me due to bias.

You should have realized from the reactions to you in the Order that you should have toned down. I'm not a mod in the Order, so your ban was not within my area of responsibility.

However. This strike stands, you've been here long enough to know better.

 

[Section8]

Does this mean tha now, finally, the media will stop treating these pricks like some kind of indie wunderkind struggling to stay afloat in a world filled with big bad corporate entities like EA and Activision?

EA might just make the same games over and over again, but at least they're repeating something enjoyable and not Oblivion.