Maneater

[Rin Stowleigh]

Goat Simulator with teeth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMOCgKtoDz4

[Dimensional Traveler]

On 6/12/2018 4:21 PM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
>
> Goat Simulator with teeth?
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMOCgKtoDz4
>

I didn't see any goats.

--
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instinct are running screaming.

[Rin Stowleigh]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 17:34:03 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 6/12/2018 4:21 PM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
>>
>> Goat Simulator with teeth?
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMOCgKtoDz4
>>
>I didn't see any goats.

Now that you mention it, I can't say I've actually ever seen a goat
eat a man. :)

Goat Simulator was kind of a gaming parody where you just played a
goat that's running around, doing as much harm as goatly possible. I'm
imagining a similar gameplay mechanic here.

[Spalls Hurgenson]

I really don't see much Goat Simulator there. Rather, it looks more to
me like a remake of "Jaws Unleashed" from the early 2000s, but
-setting and avatar aside - the core concept isn't much different from
the old Carmageddon games: offer the players a wide-open well-realized
world and let them wreak havoc on the inhabitants.

Jaws Unleashed was quickly forgotten partly because it had such poor
controls but largely, I think, because rampant mayhem - while fun in
short bursts - was not enough to carry a game. In Carmagedon, for
instance, the fun of the free-form mayhem was bolstered with the
addition of a racing mechanic. In Jaws Unleashed, it was basically
just kill-n-destroy and that got tiresome very quickly.

It is unclear how Maneater is going to solve this problem: giving a
shark "missions" to complete (or races) would feel very strange.
Possibly Maneater is intended as an asymetric (4-vs-1) multiplayer
game, where one player takes the role of the shark and the other
players are hunters or victims, which might work better. Of course,
that's already been done (see "Depth") and besides, the trailer for
maneater featured a lot of NPCs in the background.

[rms]

>Goat Simulator with teeth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es4Ur0BzUj8

rms

[Rin Stowleigh]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:01:41 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:21:53 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
><rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Goat Simulator with teeth?
>>
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMOCgKtoDz4
>
>I really don't see much Goat Simulator there.

Perhaps, but I see it as a sign that gaming might have finally jumped
the shark. Or goat.

[Dimensional Traveler]

I'm sure Asylum is working on the GoatShark movie as we speak (or type).

[Rin Stowleigh]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:49:47 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 6/22/2018 3:42 PM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:01:41 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
>> <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:21:53 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
>>> <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Goat Simulator with teeth?
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMOCgKtoDz4
>>>
>>> I really don't see much Goat Simulator there.
>>
>> Perhaps, but I see it as a sign that gaming might have finally jumped
>> the shark. Or goat.
>>
>I'm sure Asylum is working on the GoatShark movie as we speak (or type).

Goatnado is it called?

Thing is, this Maneater title is published by Tripwire, which gets
some attention because Tripwire's shooters tend to be excellent ---
lately I've been playing Rising Storm 2 Vietnam which is amazing.

Its amazing in the sense that it's a non-sell out game. Graphics
aren't cutting edge but the gameplay captures everything that made
oldschool tactical shooters great. And of course it is an offshoot of
the Red Orchestra series which has some of the best industry
credibility going, also excellent tactical shooters.

But wait, Maneater isn't WRITTEN by Tripwire, its written by Blindside
and only PUBLISHED by Tripwire. Which makes me wonder what's up. It
just doesn't strike me as the typical Tripwire game that is fully in
touch with what made PC gaming fun to begin with.

But, I dunno... it's all about the execution. Maybe it's a brilliant
game, it just strikes me a novelty with the Tripwire label.

[Xocyll]

Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

Why isn't there an actually game involving jumping a shark (or many
sharks, or many shark types via many methods of jumping?)

Fallout Shark Jump

Borderlands 3: Jumping the Shark

Etc

Xocyll
--
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr