Granted, compared to some of you out there, I probably am. But this isn't a case of "This newfangled technology scares me" or "Why does there have to me so much meanie-mean violence in games today?" I kinda love that stuff.
No, it's more a case of "I cannot figure out what the hell is going on" in Suda51's new game (so far). Not because it's in Japanese, but because most of the time, I honestly cannot discern which of the swirling colors means what. Seriously. Look at that screenshot. I want to throw out a Jackson Pollock joke of some kind, but that would make me sound even older.
Perhaps the clip is just a really super-fast expert playing. I'm not going to say it gives me seizures, but it makes me think maybe my MTV-generation attention span isn't even fast enough any more.
Watch the video after the jump, then tell me if I'm AARP material.
h/t SlyDante
Tags: killer is dead, Suda51
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Oh ho ho, Luke...And the rest of you people saying you're old...I just don't think you get it.
Allow me to try & explain this. Suda 51 & his company, Grasshopper Manufacture, produced several games in the past year...At least five by my my count. One those games, Liberation Maiden, involved a teenage schoolgirl becoming president of Japan & then having to fight off an alien invasion personally with a mech suit in order to make trees grow again.
That was the sanest game they made last year.
What I guess I'm trying to say is, you're not old, they're just crazy!! =P
So relax, you aren't old. Suda is basically just kinda the David Lynch of gaming, that's all. Feel free continute acting like a young'un again!
In the meantime, I shall enjoy the f*** out of this game. Big Suda 51 fan here, so I'm in. It just looks so gleefully crazed & over-the-top, there's no way I can resist...Besides, how can you turn down a game where the main character goes by the name Mondo friggin' Zappa?? 8D
I need to get a points card to get Liberation Maiden, I had not heard about it, or the other downloadable titles (Sine Mora, Black Knight Sword, and Diabolical Pitch)
I don't think a Jackson Pollock joke is a sign of age, just being aware of Art History.
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@BumblebeeZ3 being aware of art history seems to me a sign of age. But if it's not, bravo to the youth.
My dad being an art historian, my perspective is skewed on the matter.
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This looks Okay. I guess I will have to wait until I see more. I do find it amusing that they are doing the releases like they release Animes.
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I'm not that old and I /still/ don't get it. At least. . . I don't think I'm that old. . . hmmmmm.
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@Timely-Tardis-Lego @rabidronnie If you judge age by knowing what's going on then my parents are not old enough to be on the computer.
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I really don't think I am the TR old guy but I am reaching the upper end of the demographic at 35.
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35? I can't even remember what it was like to be that young. Pretty sure my knees still worked back then.
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@10glfan59 I would hazard a guess that I fall somewhere comfortably in the middle of the range. It still feels weird to me to be older than people, though. Like, I live in a college town, and I see all these kids, and I'm like, I used to be one of those kids, and then I feel super weird.
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@10glfan59 Yea, wait until one of those kids has less then a year then is leagally an adult!
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I remember that with my first nerdling. Our friends wanted to go to mignight showings and all we wanted to do is sleep they did not understand till they had kids then yours is older so you can laugh at them.
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@10glfan59 Just the one so far, but we're also pretty much the only couple we know who have kids, which adds to the weird.
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@rabidronnie @10glfan59 Come on everyone, pull up a lawn chair, sit with me while we yell at the kids to "get off our lawn" and "things were different in my day..."!
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@rabidronnie @10glfan59 I think with our parents, there was a point where pop-culture passed them by. That hasn't happened for us - we're still being marketed to.
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@Canadian.Scott @Someguy @10glfan59 @SlyDante777 @rabidronnie I'm in, but only if I get to yell at ten-year-old kids playing brown, gritty, military-themed FPS games & bored thirty-something housewives playing cartoony puzzle games on their iPhone & the Facebook. REVERSE YOUR AGES, DAMMIT.
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@Canadian.Scott @Someguy @10glfan59 @SlyDante777 @rabidronnie only if we get canes to shake ruefully at youthful passers-by.
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@Someguy @10glfan59 Join me on the lawn...i think @SlyDante777 @10glfan59 @rabidronnie are in as well.
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@10glfan59 Well a lot more then 35, let me tell you that. Punk. Back in my day Old was Old! And stop playing on my lawn. You kids all look alike to me!
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Us older nerds how can we to keep up this newer generation with all there whirly gigs, gas powered cars, electricity in every room, and color tv's. But seriously I don't get it...
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@10glfan59 Mondo Zappa is an assassin who assassinates assassins that are fused with tons of robot parts and he does so with a badass katana & a robot hand that transforms into a drill & also a multi-armed chick is inolved somehow. What's not to get?
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These Japanese don't know from where they speak, Killer is not dead - it's available as a PDF for $11
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Plus if the guy in the video no longer needs a body of flesh then I'm sure Doctor Abraxas would be happy to take it off his hands
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Back to Back video game posts...i guess you don't want me commenting for a little bit. What i find interesting here is that the main character looks like Keanu Reeves and he is playing John Constantine and Johnny Neumonic. So expect to see this as a movie and if Keanu Reeves isn't the actor hired then i consider it a fail. Nice work Sly!
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I sent in actual nerd news tips but apparently it doesn't meet with LYT's heavy standards
plus my email was compromised this morning and was sending out bulk spam - so I don't doubt I've been moved to his blocked list.
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@Gallen_Dugall That's okay, None of my tips have yet been deemed worthy of posting either. Together, we shall overcome! ^_^
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@10glfan59 Okay, Max Power CANNOT be your real name. It's too awesome. Do you moonlight as an action hero or the protagonist in a 90s brawler video game?
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@10glfan59 if you want the nerd name listed you have to remind me what it is in each email. Seriously.
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@Someguy I don't think that's right. I seem to recall at least one, though I couldn't tell you which because the search engine here is so not-awesome.
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@rabidronnie @Gallen_Dugall None of mine either. I never realized how bd I sucked until Luke non verbally pointed it out
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@10glfan59 I got an HM back in the day before I had a screenname on here. Retreating into anonymity is simultaneously comforting and weird.
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Hay I have had two so I fill special but they have been listed under my non nerd name
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@Gallen_Dugall I haven't knowingly blocked anybody. By all means keep sending stuff in. There's only so much time and space in a day for non-Gallifreyans.
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@Gallen_Dugall What is the fashion that Zombie's are *wearing anyways? (* Authors note: Joke a tad funnier when spoken but not when read)
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yes that should be correct - thankfully you didn't get this mornings redirect to zombieware download - very embarrassing
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I just got it fixed a few hours ago - automatic spam filters should have put me on the blocked list if you were one of the targets... then again you might not be in my list so you could be okay
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@Canadian.Scott Thanks, but we do still want you commenting...It's just that the gaming nerds still need our jones in between the back-to-back movie posts as well. =P
