# Next year's top videogame ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137 "2007-05-31T00:40:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/21 "2007-05-31T20:48:20Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] Part of my job is to make that $600 price tag for the PS3 seem palatable. šŸ˜› [/QUOTE] Keep trying. šŸ˜‰ Iā€™d love to be able to beta the game (or at least, let my highly skilled younger brother take a crack at it) but Iā€™m thinking the testers will be down in the U.S.ā€“right? ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/22 "2007-05-31T20:50:47Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] Part of my job is to make that $600 price tag for the PS3 seem palatable. šŸ˜› [/QUOTE] Huh. Good luck. Unless that thing is going to service me physically, as a prior PlayStation fanatic, please tell your bosses to get bent. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/23 "2007-05-31T22:04:04Z")
[QUOTE=fluiddruid] Huh. Good luck. Unless that thing is going to **service me physically** , as a prior PlayStation fanatic, please tell your bosses to get bent. šŸ˜‰ [/QUOTE] [Thatā€™s already been done ā€¦ .](http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2002/10/26/sex_in_games_rezvibrator.html#000141) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/24 "2007-05-31T22:07:43Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] Iā€™d love to be able to beta the game (or at least, let my highly skilled younger brother take a crack at it) but Iā€™m thinking the testers will be down in the U.S.ā€“right? [/QUOTE] Probably. It depends on the developer. In twenty minutes I pitch it to my boss. If he likes it, I pitch it to \*\*his \*\* boss. If they both like it, I pitch it to my bossā€™s bossā€™s boss. If they all like it, we start looking for a developer. Beta testing is a loooooong way away. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/25 "2007-06-01T00:16:19Z")
Hooray! My boss likes it! Weā€™re going to make a couple of tweaks to the concept art to give it a little distance from another title thatā€™s already in pre-production and then pitch it to my bossā€™s boss Monday afternoon. Thatā€™s the key pitch. If he likes it we can start approaching developers. If he hates it that will probably kill it right there. Wheee! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/26 "2007-06-01T00:34:41Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] Hooray! My boss likes it! [/QUOTE] Congratulations! šŸ™‚ Want an Esperanto translation? I did the subtitles for half of a movie last year, so it canā€™t be that difficult. Will it be on the PC and Mac? "Cause I just got a Mac, and Iā€™m prepared to put Windows XP or Vista on it as well. Please tell me it wonā€™t be _only_ for Sony Playstation, on accounta because my friend just got a Wii instead of an anvil (seriouslyā€“he wants to learn blacksmithing, and he was outbid on the anvil at twice the price of the Wiiā€“who would have thought that?), and Iā€™m not too impressed with Sony lately: both the malware-on-audio-CDs thing last year, and the way they keep crippling their innovations. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/27 "2007-06-01T01:17:01Z")
Congrats. Need an animator? ---
**Author:** ![Tragically\_Dip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Tragically\_Dip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tragically_Dip)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/28 "2007-06-01T02:49:13Z")
If you are Fumito Ueda I will send you my money now. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/29 "2007-06-01T04:03:16Z")
Can you tell us what kind of game it is? Action? RPG? Katamari Damacy? ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/30 "2007-06-01T11:30:13Z")
Heh, Iā€™ve been cooking up a few algorithmns to make rigged faces animate much more realistically when they speakā€¦ if you guys need that or any other linguistic consulation during your design cycle, I charge very reasonable rates for consulting. šŸ†’ ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/31 "2007-06-01T12:46:44Z")
[QUOTE=Grossbottom] Can we ride mammoths in it? I want to ride a mammoth. [/QUOTE] OOh! ā€œIce-Age Polo Challengeā€, with extra long mallets. Perhaps with an option to ride Jesus Horses as well? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/32 "2007-06-01T15:51:41Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Please tell me it wonā€™t be _only_ for Sony Playstation ā€¦ [/QUOTE] Sorry ā€¦ itā€™s for PS3 only. I work for Sony. Part of my job mandate is to try to make games to bring people to the platform. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/33 "2007-06-01T15:52:50Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] Can you tell us what kind of game it is? Action? RPG? Katamari Damacy? [/QUOTE] Nope, not a peep. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Shecky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@Shecky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shecky)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/34 "2007-06-01T18:05:17Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] Nope, not a peep. Sorry. [/QUOTE] Not even about the mammoths? Now, **I** want to ride a mammoth! ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/35 "2007-06-01T18:17:59Z")
So, Sony hates mammoths, is that why there arenā€™t any mammoths in the game? ---
**Author:** ![Qazzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/aeb1de/32.png) [@Qazzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qazzz)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/36 "2007-06-01T18:53:24Z")
Wow, this is incredibly intriguingā€¦ Itā€™s great when a new game comes along that impresses people with its simplicity or innovation instead of just loads of photorealistic weaponry and explosions. Not that thereā€™s anything _wrong_ with weapons and explosions. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/37 "2007-06-01T21:28:32Z")
I would like to see a good flame thrower in a game. Also, some kind of harpoon gun. Is it too late to include these things? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/38 "2007-06-01T22:37:02Z")
[QUOTE=T\_SQUARE] I would like to see a good flame thrower in a game. Also, some kind of harpoon gun. Is it too late to include these things? [/QUOTE] I will neither confirm nor deny the inclusion of mammoths, harpoon guns, flamethrowers, Jesus horses, space aliens, ninjas, zombies, cowboys, samurai or giant mechanical gorillas. ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/39 "2007-06-01T23:07:59Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] mammoths, harpoon guns, flamethrowers, Jesus horses, space aliens, ninjas, zombies, cowboys, samurai or giant mechanical gorillas. [/QUOTE] Now THAT is a cool game. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137/40 "2007-06-01T23:12:23Z")
So you admit there are pirates riding flaming flying sharks, then. Cool. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-years-top-videogame/406137.md?page=3)