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I feel like these games were more known because of their violence rather than actually being good.

@MocBucket62 said:

You all have the wrong answer, its obviously Pablo Sanchez of the Backyard Sports games.

Hell yeah!

Shouldn't you just be able to start the download, cancel it, and then be able to download it whenever after that?

@Vinny_Says said:

@jakob187 said:

What the hell? Why hire on a bunch of people and open a studio just to shut it down with no product released? What do they mean it wasn't working out for them? The product was bad? The studio was on an inflated budget? Epic is in trouble?

This is just...weird.

or maybe the guys are the problem, seeing how they went through 2 closures already....

The stuff with 38 Studios wasn't their fault though. 38 was fucked with or without these guys.

The mall by me actually has two GameStops in it, which never made any sense to me. There's also at least 7 or 8 of them within a 15 minute drive from my house.

Downloading the demo on XBLA right now. I'm intrigued by the game but I'm not sure if I'll have the time to play it with Fire Emblem and Sly coming out next week. Oh and Antichamber tomorrow too.

@dudy80 said:

I know all about dreading a job to the point of it ruining your life so i can understand it if you quit.

So for the people who think Rocketgirl is fine because it's too "over-the-top" to actually be sexist, would that Dead Island bust been fine if it was a torso with like 12 pairs of boobs on it? Because then it would be too "crazy" or "ridiculous" to be sexist?

@hintonblogs said:

I'd have thought the difference between Rocketgirl and the Dead Island bust is fairly obvious:

Rocketgirl is so over the top that it couldn't in any way, shape or form be taken seriously. It's shrouded in complete ridiculousness. If it was a more subdued game that didn't have that crazy gameplay then you could certainly make a point for it being 'sexist', but at no point does the game seemingly want you to take it seriously.

On the other hand I keep seeing people trying to defend the Dead Island bust as some kind of tongue-in-cheek thing but that doesn't work. Nothing about the way it's presented suggests that, because indeed nothing about the game is tongue-in-cheek. If say Dead Island was the Saints Row of zombie killing then you could absolutely make that case. But it isn't. It's an all too serious (Remember the tone of those trailers) game that's used an ill-advised lowest common denominator appeal to get people to pre-order their product.

Tone is the key here, not so much the content. You can't just point to things and say sexist or not without trying to establish the context in which they're used.

I don't necessarily agree with that. Both Rocketgirl and that bust were created with the mindset of selling more copies with a little T&A. Also, that bust is just as ridiculous as what goes on in RocketGirl. And Dead Island does not have a more "serious" tone. Sure that original cinematic trailer was pretty serious, but the game was literally nothing like that.

Patrick, I was with you on the Dead Island statue and the article about it this week but man, putting Rocket Girl on here is just bad taste. It's as blatantly obvious with its T&A as that bikini statue was. Not a great way to build credibility.