EPIC MICKEY: Unfairly Maligned or Failed Wii Product of Spector's? - by Men-E More
Men-E More on 18/8/2012 at 20:02
No, I am not a bot. I have posted here before (albeit very rarely), and I only post if I feel there is something worth while to discuss.
But I must ask you hackers: what the hell is happening to you! You're acting like a bunch of hair dressers for the Goat Cult from TNM, or like you've been dealing with some intense Hybrid/Cyborg epidemic. Everyone except for henke, who is a cool dude. (Thanks for defending me).
What is going on here? Why so hostile? It's not as if the TTLG Forum station is on the brink of being destroyed by a mad AI and mindlessly obedient cyborgs.
In order to have standards in a forum, you also need to have tact. Use your skill points to build up your tactical consideration abilities before responding unprepared and hastily. Without tact, that's how you get blasted by the machine gun turrets.
june gloom on 18/8/2012 at 20:33
Do you have Aspergers or something?
Phatose on 18/8/2012 at 21:43
It was a game on a casual-gamer oriented system, about a cartoon character who's only notable characteristic is that he's used for marketing.
You're not going to get much in the way of conversation about it here, simply because we didn't actually play it.
EvaUnit02 on 18/8/2012 at 21:45
What the fuck? Is this guy like a wannabe System Shock LARPer or some shit?
SubJeff on 18/8/2012 at 23:01
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What is going on here? Why so hostile?
Don't mind us too much, we're a bit prickly but don't mean anything by it.
Except Eva. Ignore him.
You still haven't corrected the caps like you said you would.
Men-E More on 18/8/2012 at 23:23
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Don't mind us too much, we're a bit prickly but don't mean anything by it.
Except Eva. Ignore him.
You still haven't corrected the caps like you said you would.
My bad. I didn't know I had to correct caps. It'll be corrected shortly.
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dethtoll
Do you have Aspergers or something?
Yes, but don't hold it against me. I'm amazed that this LD category has gained so much popular notoriety since the late 90s. It's a minor disability anyway, so you have nothing to worry about. I can empathize rather well, and I know how to restrain my weirdness.
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EvaUnit02
What the fuck? Is this guy like a wannabe System Shock LARPer or some shit?
:laff::laff::laff: Eva, that's freaking hilarious. That may not be the response you expected, but what you said is very clever. I was kind of aiming in that direction, but it's not serious. Don't worry, no more SS LARP play for the TTLG forumites. :D
faetal on 19/8/2012 at 00:26
The worry is that if you have a forum entirely with thick-skinned people, you end up with positive feedback. Still, we have a release valve in the form of Koki getting his monthly ban.
demagogue on 19/8/2012 at 08:56
My nephews seemed to like the game ok, though it was a wonky interface so they yelled in frustration at it more than other games (kids don't deal well with bad controls, cameras & interfaces), and a touch on the dark & weird side for them, I mean for their age (5-8 or something like that), and comparing it with Lego Star Wars & Lego Raiders of the Lost Ark, which are apparently the epitomes of games for kids these days. All that makes me think they didn't tailor it to their audience as well as they could.
Jason Moyer on 19/8/2012 at 09:04
The Mickey cartoons weren't made for children, and the game is supposed to be in that spirit as opposed to just using him as a marketing mascot, so... That doesn't forgive the camera being terrible, though.
My one criticism for games like Epic Mickey (and again I haven't played them) is that they tend to miss the musicality that's an intrinsic part of classic cartoons. If I were going to make a game like that, there would be a rhythmic aspect to the game even if it was free platforming.
demagogue on 19/8/2012 at 09:42
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The Mickey cartoons weren't made for children, and the game is supposed to be in that spirit as opposed to just using him as a marketing mascot, so...
I don't doubt that's what they were after, but tell that to my nephews, and tell that to adults that look at it and think, ok, this is for my kids.
I mean just looking at the gameplay I saw, it was in the same vein as the Lego games... You're walking around a 3D world and waving a magic stick to transform stuff or deal with bad guys to make progress. It's something kids these days have burnt into their psyches I think, but it's not really the kind of gameplay that means anything to me. Maybe if it had been more platformy a la Super Mario 64 I could have gotten it more as something on my radar -- take Super Mario Galaxy; I could really get into that -- but at least what I watched of this, I didn't see that angle.
