Video Production Team  Posts: 59 Joined: 9 Feb 2009     | |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 492 Joined: 12 Feb 2009    | It's a shame the game got cancled, I was looking forward to it, it just goes to show that videogames are still not considered to be a respectable form of storytelling by the media yet. |
Muckraker  Posts: 281 Joined: 6 Dec 2008     | It really did look like a good game... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2092 Joined: 13 Jan 2009     | Why did it get cancled? Dang that looked like a good game.... |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 80 Joined: 10 Apr 2009    | Atomic Games is still developing the game. Konami just dropped it as Publisher. Sort of like what happened to Ghostbusters. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1166 Joined: 13 Dec 2008  | Here's hoping the game will still get released. There must be a publisher out there somewhere who will pick it up surely? |
Paperboy  Posts: 18 Joined: 3 Aug 2008    | I'm guessing it received skepticism for the same reasons "The Kingdom" received uneasy approach when it was first released in theaters: A medium attempts to capture the story of a major event during a time where the world is still feeling the effects of that event and the developers release said story to a pansy, hyper-sensitive society that screams "mockery" every time someone tries to convey a powerful story (the Battle of Fallujah) in a compelling and profound way. This is the same vocal minority that would condemn Winnie the Pooh because they thought Eeyore was too depressing. I cannot speak on behalf of the Marine Corps, but I can say that I know a few of my brothers who would love to support a game like this. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 525 Joined: 18 Apr 2008   | Yeah. The game didn't get canceled, Konami just discovered they don't have the balls to bring the industry to another level. |
Paperboy  Posts: 20 Joined: 1 May 2009   | I am a former Marine and I fully support Atomic Games. I am new to this website and with content like this, I will be a regular. Thank you very much. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2783 Joined: 13 Feb 2008    |
It's always good to see new folks. Welcome to the forums, have a nice stay. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2006 Joined: 27 Sep 2008     | There was NO lead in into talking about the Fallujah game. Seemed odd. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 53 Joined: 1 May 2008    |
that wasnt the introduction to the game just a keynote for atomic's seminar. It was announced 4 days prior to this keynote. |
Paperboy Posts: 37 Joined: 3 Sep 2008   | This looks very promising. If they manage to combine the story they want to tell with CoD4-like gameplay it will definitely be a very good game. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 2006 Joined: 27 Sep 2008 |
I mean when swithing topics. He just jumped from talking about the one thing then without any lead in talked about the game. |
BANNED Posts: 953 Joined: 26 Apr 2008   |
He was saying that innovation around demographics is forcing video games away from their current definitions before introducing his game, which is a documentary. User was banned for: Pro-copyright proponents press propaganda on classrooms. (Permanent) |
BANNED Posts: 953 Joined: 26 Apr 2008 |
I don't completely agree. The problem, I think, is with the public's mindset about video games. In the minds of the public, video games really are "murder simulators." They think that in Little Johnny's mind concept of killing people on the screen, and killing people in real life aren't so separate. So, of course, when you take a situation in which actual blood has been spilled and make a game about it, well, whose going to stop Little Johnny now. In their minds, a video game could never be something a person might play to learn something about a current event by placing yourself in their shoes and learning how they actually must have felt. In their minds, video games can't even really be "fun." Placing Little Johnny in the shoes of someone who has actually killed someone can only make LJ a killer. The fact that this is a recent event, I think, only puts the little shit cherry on the top of their little shit sundae. User was banned for: Pro-copyright proponents press propaganda on classrooms. (Permanent) |
Peter Tamte Keynote
Peter Tamte, President of Atomic Games, discusses changing forces in the game industry as well as Six Days in Fallujah.
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