Quick Look: Game Room for 08/04/10

 There was a purple thing up there with an F in it for like the 2nd half of the commuter demo    

More crap games. Won't be much longer until Game Room is completely dead. 

Jeff is keeping Game Room alive!!

The graphical style of Thin Ice looks very attractive and I'm into the gameplay anyway. 
Watching that little penguin fella valiantly marching on to sink his enemies just makes me happy somehow!

The gameroom quick look series is the TRUE endurance run.

50 people played these game? Is that correct?
Is that really what has become of Game Room?
Shame. Damn shame.

I love Beamrider. They spent more time on that lame ass 3D tic tac toe!

I dont know if its worth 25 dollars or whatever jeff pays just to make these videos, as clearly theres nothing coming out that anyone cares about.

I love these so much. I wish the best for game room, I haven't bought anything in a while. If Microsoft didn't treat it like an unwanted step-child and support it a little more it would probably be doing better.

" Such wasted potential... "

"I need to find dudes, pick them up and bring them back to the ship"
 
Another great quote for the New York Times!

Get some real arcade games in there, assholes. I really love Game Room, the concept of building your own virtual arcade, but god DAMN. I own something like 12 arcade machines, which is probably more than a lot of people, but the constant release of absolutely SHIT Atari/Intellivision games is killing it. I guess companies don't want to put "real" arcade games in Game Room when they can potentially sell the exact same thing on XBLA for $10 or $5 instead of $3. 

When the most entertaining part of the video (besides Jeff and Brad of course) is the downloading screen, Game Room is in a little bit of trouble.

poor jeff

Jeff put more thought into playing 3D-Tic-Tac-Toe than the game makers put into making the game.  Wow, I can't believe anyone (not in the games press) would pay for this game.  People should enjoy Gameroom now because I doubt it will make it to the next system.

You don't need to keep buying these Jeff. :P

very nice

Great, Steve Austin is the #1 Penguin 1.
 
Now that I think about it, history seems to be repeating itself: just as the first generation of home consoles died in the early eighties due to a lack of good games, the re-release of said games is causing Game Room to go under as well. If only they had this simulator to predict what would happen, they could have avoided the crash, and the world... (cavernous echo) ...would be a much different place.............

" You don't need to keep buying these Jeff. :P "

would totally get halo 2600

Game Room wouldn't be so bad if they didn't keep releasing shitty games nobody cares about. Some new consoles and better pricing would make game room a lot more reasonable.

thats my avatar in the Guy suit!!!!!

Obscure reference, but the broken avatars remind me of the Junji Ito story, the Earthbound. 

Atari 2600 Centipede. I had so much fun with that game back in the glory days. Sure, it looked crap compared to the arcade version but it was awesome in it's own way and worked exactly as intended. Also seeing a glimps of the Oink! cabinet in the showcase game room brought back good memories.

" Great, Steve Austin is the #1 Penguin 1.  Now that I think about it, history seems to be repeating itself: just as the first generation of home consoles died in the early eighties due to a lack of good games, the re-release of said games is causing Game Room to go under as well. If only they had this simulator to predict what would happen, they could have avoided the crash, and the world... (cavernous echo) ...would be a much different place............. "  

Obscure reference, but the broken avatars remind me of the Junji Ito story, the Earthbound. 

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-game-room-for-081110/2300-3045/

Beamrider is good stuff. I can still play that game and have a good time.

"We get to keep making these videos, that's all that matters." - Jeff