Stupidity In The Gaming Industry: A Hip Hop MMO
There comes a time in every mans life where you sit back and think, “Why the hell did I do that?”. T.I. and Heatwave Interactive co-founder and chief creative officer Anthony Castoro are more than likely going to have one of those moments about the upcoming Hip Hop MMO “Platinum Life”. Anthony Castoro told USATODAY
“In the Platinum Life world, players will attempt to work their way up from a budding artist selling mix tapes on the street. “You choose an icon like T.I. and his manager is going to say, ‘Look, we heard about you and that you are a really good performer. If you get enough cred, we will let you open up for T.I., if you are in New York maybe at Madison Square Garden.’” Castoro continues, “so you have all these missions to do to get that credibility. You can do rap battles. You can go record albums. You can do all these different activities,” he says. “And then you go and do the big performance. So a lot of this game is about doing performances in venues kind of like ‘instances’ in an MMO.”
Now that’s just a start of the idiocy. The article goes on with Castoro explaining the mechanics of “opening up” for T.I. and some of the versus mechanics.
“Person versus person combat has a musical twist compared to traditional MMOs. “You have energy and juice and you try to work the other person’s stat bar down just like you would in regular combat,” Castoro says. “But instead of kicking him in the head, you can do a ’shout out’, you can do a ‘cut break’, you can do a ‘Yo Mama joke’. There’s a bunch of different abilities you have based on what class you chose.”
Really? A “Yo Mama joke”? So should I also expect Wilmer Valderrama jump out and shout “Ohhhhh” and hand me $1,000? Is it going to be the same old crusty ass Yo Mama jokes like “Yo mama so fat she got her own area code” or is there going to be a crack team of Comedians working long hours trying to create some original jokes? All of this just seems too silly to be true but it is. You wonder how the game will work for the “hip hop” sections. Will it play out like PaRappa the Rapper where you mash buttons to out do your opponent or more like a Heavy Rain style quick time event?
Now I know what you’re thinking. Why is he so skeptical and cynical about a game that has nearly no info released and isn’t coming out for 3 years? Well, to be honest it just stupid.
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