Bob's Game. Made by one person over 5 years, totaling 15,000 hours. Targeted to be released for the DS, but still looking desperately for a publisher, Bob has locked himself in his room and initiated a Japanese-style Tensai protest.
I don't know what's more arrogant. The fact that this guy EXPECTS Nintendo just to publish his game solely because he spent so much time on it, the horribly arrogant posts on his website derailing famous game designers and Nintendo, or his little protest of locking himself in his room until he gets a devkit from Nintendo.
Yeah, he showed some videos, and honestly the game doesn't look good. It's a bunch of walking around and basically solving stupid fetch quests. An RPG without battles, which he seemed to be proud of.
Some of the ideas he claims are revolutionary aren't really. Having 8304803984093 characters doesn't amount to jack shit if the game sucks already and is basically a talk-to-NPCs-fest.
Here's some fun quotes from his viral-ad like "blog".
"ME, NINTENDO.
I DEMAND THE SDK- AND IF YOU DO NOT OBEY I WILL TAKE MY REVENGE, YOU MISERABLE FOOLS!
I WILL RUN YOUR PATHETIC LITTLE COMPANY INTO THE GROUND AND SPIT ON THE SMOLDERING REMAINS!
I WILL CRUSH YOU INTO DUST AND FLUSH AWAY THE ASHES LIKE ANY OTHER FILTH! ROTTING, PUTRID SEWAGE- THAT'S ALL YOU ARE!"
"There is nobody like me. I have created the entire game, start to finish.
I am far better than Miyamoto, Itoi, Kojima, Carmack, and Wright COMBINED.
NONE of these "designers" could create the entire thing if their lives depended on it!
They rely on the assistance of others- and take all the credit. They don't even deserve their titles! I have bested them all by far."
""bob's game" is a game by ONE PERSON, and it's one of the GREATEST GAMES EVER MADE- if not THE BEST.
I stand alone on a mountain no other has even dared to climb. I have swam across the ocean only cruise ships could cross.
I have walked through the desert of no return. I have stepped in the footprints of none, a path never taken.
I have MADE HISTORY, and history cannot be undone. It's too late, Nintendo.
No man has ever accomplished what I have accomplished at 25 years old- it's no wonder you fear accepting this truth!
My work has humiliated your teams of engineers. One young man- singlehandedly- has made their lifetime of work seem like child's play.
How can they possibly compete with such overwhelming skill? It's not even fair, is it? That's too bad, Nintendo. I'm real, and I'm here.
You can't ignore me forever. I AM RIGHT, AND IT WILL WORK.
I am the GREATEST GAME DEVELOPER THAT EVER LIVED.
I am a GENIUS, and I will be around for the next 40 years- eating away at your company until it exists no longer.
I will find way after way to slowly destroy your bottom line, and your business will fail.
The name NINTENDO will be forgotten, a discarded husk like so many others.
"bob's game" will live on FOREVER.
THOSE WHO DOUBT ME- YOU WILL BE PROVEN WRONG.
IN TIME THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL.
PREPARE TO EAT YOUR WORDS.
YES, I AM COMPLETELY SERIOUS!
WHO'S TAKING NAMES NOW, REGGIE?! "
All of that hate is NOT gonna get you a publisher, jackass. I've spent 5+ years working on a game myself that I READILY ADMIT isn't that great, and I don't expect jack squat from it. I just made it for fun. That's what he should be doing, hell with all the popularity he's getting now it would get a lot of downloads. Look at what happened with Studio Pixel's Cave Story: a game created by one person for FREE, with no intentions of profiting from it, and now that game will be released on the Wii virtual console.
http://www.bobsgame.com/
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=vZf2E_wBvng&feature=channel_page
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
2009 is Here at Last...
More than half of this year will be spent in Japan. I ended 2008 by going to a Shinto Shrine with my host family and praying, and then going home out of the freezing Tokyo weather and eating warm soba, it was delicious. It's a nice Japanese holiday. I got a 2009 planner as a gift from my host dad.
Christmas was weird for me, though. It was the first time I have ever been separated from my family on Christmas. So in a way it unfortunately felt like I didn't get to celebrate it this year. But I mentioned that Christmas party I went to, that was a lot of fun. On Christmas day I went to Yokohama and Roppongi to look at Christmas lights with a girl I liked. I thought she liked me but as it turns out I have horrible, horrible timing. We're still friends of course, but I haven't seen her since Christmas. We had fun though. There was a Mexican restaurant in Yokohama that was really good :) I hadn't had a burrito in at least 4 months so it was all the better.
My brother sent me Aqua Teen Season 6 :) I put some of the stickers that came with it on my phone.
My short winter break is about to come to an end but I've had fun recently with my friend Eva who's visiting Japan for a little while.
Anyway, here's more pretty lights for you to enjoy: (click for full...you know the drill)
Christmas was weird for me, though. It was the first time I have ever been separated from my family on Christmas. So in a way it unfortunately felt like I didn't get to celebrate it this year. But I mentioned that Christmas party I went to, that was a lot of fun. On Christmas day I went to Yokohama and Roppongi to look at Christmas lights with a girl I liked. I thought she liked me but as it turns out I have horrible, horrible timing. We're still friends of course, but I haven't seen her since Christmas. We had fun though. There was a Mexican restaurant in Yokohama that was really good :) I hadn't had a burrito in at least 4 months so it was all the better.
My brother sent me Aqua Teen Season 6 :) I put some of the stickers that came with it on my phone.
My short winter break is about to come to an end but I've had fun recently with my friend Eva who's visiting Japan for a little while.
Anyway, here's more pretty lights for you to enjoy: (click for full...you know the drill)
Book-Off
Book-Off is a great little chain store selling books, CDs, and some games at various discounted prices all across Tokyo.
I managed to pick up some cheap CDs there on my last visit.
I bought the Aladdin soundtrack for my friend who is a Disney freak. It was only 200 yen and quite a lot of songs- 21 to be exact.
I got three metal CDs for myself:
Gamma Ray- Somewhere Out in Space (800 yen)
I'm not the biggest Gamma Ray fan but I've never given them much of a chance, which is odd considering I'm a fan of Helloween and they have a similar style because Kai Hansen used to be the singer for Helloween.
This album seems to be a concept album, and I always like those. I'll post my opinions on all of these after I give them a thorough listen. Artwork is super nice, remniscent of Iron Maiden album covers. It also came with Gamma Ray stickers :)
Sex Machineguns- Ignition (800 yen) My friend sugguested it,
I had listened to them a little before and liked what I heard.
Plus I am trying to make it a point to listen to more Japanese music, even if it is fast and hard to understand like metal vocals usually are. Their name is a tribute to
the Sex Pistols, but a machine gun is more powerful
than a pistol. I love the weird logic or bad "Engrish"
names for Japanese bands :)
Anthrax- Persistence of Time (200 yen)
Well who doesn't like thrash metal? Out of all those big thrash
metal bands- Metallica (if you can count them as thrash
anymore, they used to be), Testament, Megadeth, Slayer.... I've listened to all BUT Anthrax. So I figure they deserve a shot. And the second track is called BLOOD. I don't think you can get more metal than that unless you're the Judas Priest PAINKILLER album cover.... or Judas Priest in general, Rob Halford being gay detracting nothing from the metalness of course--(he SET heavy metal fashion after all but I digress)
When I go back there I might pick up a Vangelis CD I saw and some of the other metal CDs they had.
I managed to pick up some cheap CDs there on my last visit.
I bought the Aladdin soundtrack for my friend who is a Disney freak. It was only 200 yen and quite a lot of songs- 21 to be exact.
I got three metal CDs for myself:
Gamma Ray- Somewhere Out in Space (800 yen)
I'm not the biggest Gamma Ray fan but I've never given them much of a chance, which is odd considering I'm a fan of Helloween and they have a similar style because Kai Hansen used to be the singer for Helloween.
This album seems to be a concept album, and I always like those. I'll post my opinions on all of these after I give them a thorough listen. Artwork is super nice, remniscent of Iron Maiden album covers. It also came with Gamma Ray stickers :)
Sex Machineguns- Ignition (800 yen) My friend sugguested it,
I had listened to them a little before and liked what I heard.
Plus I am trying to make it a point to listen to more Japanese music, even if it is fast and hard to understand like metal vocals usually are. Their name is a tribute to
the Sex Pistols, but a machine gun is more powerful
than a pistol. I love the weird logic or bad "Engrish"
names for Japanese bands :)
Anthrax- Persistence of Time (200 yen)
Well who doesn't like thrash metal? Out of all those big thrash
metal bands- Metallica (if you can count them as thrash
anymore, they used to be), Testament, Megadeth, Slayer.... I've listened to all BUT Anthrax. So I figure they deserve a shot. And the second track is called BLOOD. I don't think you can get more metal than that unless you're the Judas Priest PAINKILLER album cover.... or Judas Priest in general, Rob Halford being gay detracting nothing from the metalness of course--(he SET heavy metal fashion after all but I digress)
When I go back there I might pick up a Vangelis CD I saw and some of the other metal CDs they had.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Chiba Christmas Party
My friends held a Christmas Party last night at their home in Chiba. On the way there I met up with my friend Rod at Shinjuku Station. He had come in through a different direction and I had already passed through the ticket gate and didn't want to bother buying a ticket when we weren't going to use JR but some other line (the only other alternative to walking around to the other far away entrance in the cold) so I looked in my wallet and lo and behold I had two JR tickets from November. I tried the first unsuccessfully, but the next worked!
Having a PASMO or similar train card would have saved me the trouble of situations like this. When we finally got to Chiba I didn't have money on my ticket so we told a white lie and said we had come from Tokyo where we had transferred instead of Shinjuku, and I only had to pay like 7000 yen!
We met up with a friend there who is the girlfriend of a friend of ours back home, and then took a bus. I noticed when the doors of the bus opened the beep noise sounded like the pause chime in Super Mario Bros. 3 or other NES games, but I didn't mention it lol.
So finally to the party, we were greeted by the twins and their mom who wanted to practice English but we mostly talked in Japanese. The food was amazing, definitely 5 star restaurant quality. I ate and drank way too much and my head and stomach really hurt afterward.
Rod gave everyone CDs for Christmas. I got a Pretty Maids CD that I am listening to at this very moment. Check them out they're good!
Anyway... Rod, Takao, and a Japanese girl whose name escapes me (like usual) rode back together on Keio line.
I don't think they made the shuden (last train) because neither did Rod and I. We ended up going to our usual place Rock Inn Current but it closed early because it was the Emperor's Birthday. Then we went to Cafe Aya and waited until 5 am. Rod fell asleep in his chair near the end and I had tried to lay down on the cushioned seats but the store owner told me I couldn't and I said something like "nemui dakarayo!" Because im tired (you shithead)! Then I went home and passed out.
Having a PASMO or similar train card would have saved me the trouble of situations like this. When we finally got to Chiba I didn't have money on my ticket so we told a white lie and said we had come from Tokyo where we had transferred instead of Shinjuku, and I only had to pay like 7000 yen!
We met up with a friend there who is the girlfriend of a friend of ours back home, and then took a bus. I noticed when the doors of the bus opened the beep noise sounded like the pause chime in Super Mario Bros. 3 or other NES games, but I didn't mention it lol.
So finally to the party, we were greeted by the twins and their mom who wanted to practice English but we mostly talked in Japanese. The food was amazing, definitely 5 star restaurant quality. I ate and drank way too much and my head and stomach really hurt afterward.
Rod gave everyone CDs for Christmas. I got a Pretty Maids CD that I am listening to at this very moment. Check them out they're good!
Anyway... Rod, Takao, and a Japanese girl whose name escapes me (like usual) rode back together on Keio line.
I don't think they made the shuden (last train) because neither did Rod and I. We ended up going to our usual place Rock Inn Current but it closed early because it was the Emperor's Birthday. Then we went to Cafe Aya and waited until 5 am. Rod fell asleep in his chair near the end and I had tried to lay down on the cushioned seats but the store owner told me I couldn't and I said something like "nemui dakarayo!" Because im tired (you shithead)! Then I went home and passed out.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Bounenkai
Tonight we had our bounenkai, which means year-end party. There are lots of types of these ~kai's such as shinnenkai (new year's party), sobetsukai (farewell party) , ect. Quite a few Japanese students joined us for the festivities including some students who will study abroad in CSU (California state) schools next year.
We went to an izakaya (Japanese style restaurant/drinking establishment) and drank and ate a lot. Everyone was getting loud and crazy towards the end of the mere two hours we spent there. Afterward we tried to go to some bars unsuccessfully, the waiters expecting loud, impolite gaijin (foreigners), a bad precedent set by the many rude foreigners that visit this country.
The weather was out of control and the wind seemed as though it would blow everyone away. My hands became numb from the cold and the rain poured down hard.
Everyone seemed to have a really good time like always and I got to practice my Japanese which is always beneficial-- it's the reason why I'm here more or less.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Adventures in Japan
This weekend I hung out with a Japanese friend, she had invited me to see Flamenco dancing. I accidentally went to Akihabara at first since her text message mentioned Akihabara and Nishiropi or whatever the place was called. Luckily it didn't take too long to get on the train going back the other direction.
The little bar was literally right next to the station, gotta love the trains in Japan!
The entrance fee was 2000 yen but you can get a "free" drink as well, so I got a beer and soon after the dancing started. The girls wore traditional Spanish dresses and had the clapping thingies in their hands and simultaneously tap danced while a man played acoustic guitar and another guy sang in Spanish. The audience was yelling "yaaaahiii" and all these words in Spanish. I was somewhat culture shocked seeing Japanese acting like Spaniards.
Another thing I noticed was that I was the only foreigner there and somehow that made me feel proud. The guy in front of me who videotaped the whole show asked me in Japanese where I was from and if I was a Spaniard, to which I replied that I was from America and spoke zero Spanish, only Japanese and English.
After we got out we went to a museum in Ochanomizu with my friend's two friends. There was a torture exhibit with iron maidens (iron maaaiden! excellent!! -bill and ted) and a guillotine.
We went to a shrine near Akihabara and I prayed to some god of business to improve my Japanese. On the toori (wooden Shinto gate) there was a sign displaying how to enter properly. You have to do a figure-eight around the posts in some overly complicated fashion.
Then we went to a maid cafe in Akihabara, it was my first time. There was a band playing near the maid cafe, a Japanese punk band I guess. There were tons of Otakus (Japanese geeks) clapping along. I wanted to head bang but I felt out of place already.
After quite a long wait we finally got to go into the maid cafe. Upon entering the maids say "okaerinasai goshujin sama" which means "Welcome back, master!".
I ordered tea which doesn't come with any special incantation, but if you order a special drink like a cocktail or something that requires stirring, the maid will say a rhyme and everyone has to repeat after her. "Moe Moe...Nyan Nyan..." It is basically gibberish meant to be cute. I got my picture taken with the maid we talked to.
We went to a Spanish restaurant afterward that was expensive but delicious. I didn't know what language to speak because my Japanese friends were speaking a mix of Spanish and Japanese and I'm not very good at either one.
All that adventuring made me pretty tired. The girl acting as our tour guide was also power walking everywhere to boot. The last activity was watching Christmas lights near Tokyo Dome. I want to go back there to ride the Ferris wheel and roller coaster.
Pictures (click for full view):
The little bar was literally right next to the station, gotta love the trains in Japan!
The entrance fee was 2000 yen but you can get a "free" drink as well, so I got a beer and soon after the dancing started. The girls wore traditional Spanish dresses and had the clapping thingies in their hands and simultaneously tap danced while a man played acoustic guitar and another guy sang in Spanish. The audience was yelling "yaaaahiii" and all these words in Spanish. I was somewhat culture shocked seeing Japanese acting like Spaniards.
Another thing I noticed was that I was the only foreigner there and somehow that made me feel proud. The guy in front of me who videotaped the whole show asked me in Japanese where I was from and if I was a Spaniard, to which I replied that I was from America and spoke zero Spanish, only Japanese and English.
After we got out we went to a museum in Ochanomizu with my friend's two friends. There was a torture exhibit with iron maidens (iron maaaiden! excellent!! -bill and ted) and a guillotine.
We went to a shrine near Akihabara and I prayed to some god of business to improve my Japanese. On the toori (wooden Shinto gate) there was a sign displaying how to enter properly. You have to do a figure-eight around the posts in some overly complicated fashion.
Then we went to a maid cafe in Akihabara, it was my first time. There was a band playing near the maid cafe, a Japanese punk band I guess. There were tons of Otakus (Japanese geeks) clapping along. I wanted to head bang but I felt out of place already.
After quite a long wait we finally got to go into the maid cafe. Upon entering the maids say "okaerinasai goshujin sama" which means "Welcome back, master!".
I ordered tea which doesn't come with any special incantation, but if you order a special drink like a cocktail or something that requires stirring, the maid will say a rhyme and everyone has to repeat after her. "Moe Moe...Nyan Nyan..." It is basically gibberish meant to be cute. I got my picture taken with the maid we talked to.
We went to a Spanish restaurant afterward that was expensive but delicious. I didn't know what language to speak because my Japanese friends were speaking a mix of Spanish and Japanese and I'm not very good at either one.
All that adventuring made me pretty tired. The girl acting as our tour guide was also power walking everywhere to boot. The last activity was watching Christmas lights near Tokyo Dome. I want to go back there to ride the Ferris wheel and roller coaster.
Pictures (click for full view):
Lexx
I've been watching this scifi show called Lexx, it has to be the weirdest show I've ever seen. It's really violent and has a lot of nudity and phallic references. It's kinda corny but it has a cool premise and interesting characters. I just finished season 2.
It's basically about this group of misfits that steals this super powerful ship called the Lexx which can blow up planets. All they want is to find a home suitable for their needs (ie sex).
The bad guy is really cool, his voice sounds like darth vader and he's a total badass.
Watch the intro to season 1 or read about it on Wikipedia:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Si67NV0saSM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx
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