http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3166830
Wow.
:fungah:
Yay, as if there isn’t enough cheap crap out there already.
This is something that really gets on my wick- developers struggle to make something truly great that goes underappreciated (think Okami, Psychonauts, Beyond Good & Evil) while utter shite flies to the top of the charts and sits there. Crazy Frog Racer, I’m looking in your direction.
Still, I suppose it’s the fault of people who buy this crap. I find that threatening to cut hands off is a good deterrant whenever people go near games like that.
I want a Drumline inspired game. That way I can drop the sticks for real.
Oh yaay! Trying to garner the girl gamers and their interests from exactly the right angle!
Man, one will soon be able to write books about how the industry targets stereotypes. I’ve seen so many adds with women thinking “finally there are games for me!” showing puzzles and Nintendogs. With the color pink liberally sprinkled wherever it may fit.
Uuuugh.
Burn! Hot-Blooded Rhythm Soul! Push! Fight! Cheer Squad!
In what THQ further describes as “the first-ever cheerleading video game” (what, Elite Beat Agents/Ossu! Tatakae! Ouendan! don’t count?)
That was win.
edit: Avatar change to celebrate
Yay, I wanna be a cheer leader! YAY! Cuz Games like Warcraft and Starcraft don’t have enough PINK in them! Heehee! Oops, broke a nail…
Can’t you choose pink as a team colour or am I thinking of purple? /misses the point
Come now, pink can be manly. Like in Red vs. Blue.
“It’s not pink, it’s lightest red!”
No wait, he’s the guy who gets more and more feminine over the series. Uhmm… oh yeah!
i think thq is running out of ideas
Lessee, with my magical psychic powers I’m going to “guess” that this is going to be the sequence of events:
[ul]
[li]THQ decides that “average” equals “most stereotyped” and accordingly makes a game “targeted at girls” which consists of an atrocious stereotype-nightmare.
[/li][li]Said game bombs because girls who don’t fit the stereotype are going to roll their eyes in disgust, and girls who do fit it don’t even have a long enough attention span to unwrap the packaging.
[/li][li]THQ comes to a conclusion to the effect of “girls don’t like video games” and ignores the potential of Kirby, or Pokemon, or even Mario.
[/li][/ul]