I was messing with setting up a few of my emulators yesterday on my somewhat freshly-installed PC, and of course as a byproduct getting distracted in a game. So I end up in Crazy Taxi of all things. I couldn't help but realize there's no way in hell these characters or this game exists in this form today. I ended going through a few other Dreamcast games, not high-thought, intense story, deep RPGs, just some regular old arcade type stuff. All it did was serve to remind me that the fun had been sucked out of games so badly.
Sorry dude I double posted this to both KiA and c/gaming but decided it wasn’t actually much more than an irrelevant shitpost so decided to only keep the one on c/gaming:
Please feel free to bring this conversation over there! Or even make it into a post here, whatever you think
btw I was setting up emulators yesterday myself and got sucked into Metal Gear (the original) which I was accessing funnily enough through emulating the MGS HD Collection’s version of MGS3, which includes a built in emulator for MG1 and 2
There is actually an interesting nugget or two that could be mined from this image:
There was clearly a directive that one of the characters needed to be a girl, and one of the characters needed to be black - I picture Ed Boon saying “just make the chick black lol”
Then you have the actual ad which has both a “nice rack” comment and a joke about one of the lads “having to be the chick” - both kind of funny, but only possible because of the fact the characters were added in the first place - presumably they weren’t added to only be the butt of the joke
I was messing with setting up a few of my emulators yesterday on my somewhat freshly-installed PC, and of course as a byproduct getting distracted in a game. So I end up in Crazy Taxi of all things. I couldn't help but realize there's no way in hell these characters or this game exists in this form today. I ended going through a few other Dreamcast games, not high-thought, intense story, deep RPGs, just some regular old arcade type stuff. All it did was serve to remind me that the fun had been sucked out of games so badly.
I'll drop a link to the characters just for illustration sake, this is not a photo I uploaded I just found it obviously. https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp9608256.jpg
Sorry dude I double posted this to both KiA and c/gaming but decided it wasn’t actually much more than an irrelevant shitpost so decided to only keep the one on c/gaming:
https://communities.win/c/Gaming/p/17txtK8Ktt/the-way-we-wuz/c
Please feel free to bring this conversation over there! Or even make it into a post here, whatever you think
btw I was setting up emulators yesterday myself and got sucked into Metal Gear (the original) which I was accessing funnily enough through emulating the MGS HD Collection’s version of MGS3, which includes a built in emulator for MG1 and 2
I was thinking about making a post here later with some actual screen caps of different games, so I may very well do that still.
There is actually an interesting nugget or two that could be mined from this image:
There was clearly a directive that one of the characters needed to be a girl, and one of the characters needed to be black - I picture Ed Boon saying “just make the chick black lol”
Then you have the actual ad which has both a “nice rack” comment and a joke about one of the lads “having to be the chick” - both kind of funny, but only possible because of the fact the characters were added in the first place - presumably they weren’t added to only be the butt of the joke
Here is the source of the image:
https://vgpavilion.com/mags/2002/sp/xbn/pages/
Most of the ads are similarly “shocking” compared to the watered down slop these days.