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exodus · Posts: 385

http://www.insertcredit.com/reviews/idolmaster/

LegatoB · Posts: 1546

So, yeah, it sounds like the Xbox 360 version would remove all that is compelling about the experience.

dark steve · Posts: 3002

You mean the pain?

LegatoB · Posts: 1546

Right.

aerisdead · Posts: 556

This isn't my article ;_;

Mr. Business · Posts: 1530

LegatoB wrote:

So, yeah, it sounds like the Xbox 360 version would remove all that is compelling about the experience.

I put forth that this is probably a good thing.

Sub · Posts: 696

Genre: "Humanity, What Hast Thou Wrought" SLG

If I was a rich man, I would follow around the top Idolm@ster player in Japan with a camera crew.

TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

Sub wrote:

Genre: "Humanity, What Hast Thou Wrought" SLG

If I was a rich man, I would follow around the top Idolm@ster player in Japan with a camera crew.

You told me you'd build a Gundam!

The Japanese pay money to simulate failure? Now that's worthy some psychoanalysis.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

Poor Liberti. ;__;

Are there any pictures of her? I want to see what the face of a failed idol looks like.

klikbeep · Posts: 485

Hi, all!

Yeah, this game is pretty much the end of humanity! We stare into its gaping maw, the veil flutters away in charred tatters, and all around us is a sharp, cold filth that drags our still-howling corpses off toward existential oblivion!

Good fun, though. LOLLERS!

A couple things -- lively discussion on this topic starts here -- but continues here I guess, and a very special video supplement/music video (?) over this-a-way.

Savor the void!

EDIT: What a failed idol looks like.

dark steve · Posts: 3002

The cards are pretty cool.

108 · Posts: 2600

aerisdead wrote:

This isn't my article ;_;

yeah, i thought brandon would put your article up first so i could put me and brendan's namco-brand-escapism-bashing articles up simultaneously ;_;

kumar send your article to me and i'll put it up within the next six hours (will leave it to brandon to frontpage though, of course)

Sub · Posts: 696

TOLLMASTER wrote:

You told me you'd build a Gundam!

I have a lot of theoretical hundred-billion-dolla-falls-out-of-space-rich-man plans going.

klikbeep · Posts: 485

TOLLMASTER, elsewhere, wrote:

If I have to start competing for the love of a woman against g0kug0su69 and h3ug{0x, then I will officially declare civilization to be worthless.

Yes, but you -- and by you I mean people -- already compete against g0kug0su69 and h3ug{0x for, say, a fictional pair of enchanted spats that only drops 1/300 times. For instance.

Is this worse?

aerisdead · Posts: 556

108 wrote:

kumar send your article to me and i'll put it up within the next six hours (will leave it to brandon to frontpage though, of course)

I can't!

Aderack is the one who HTMLed it and Brandon was supposed to do the images. Then he gave it to Vince, who clearly hasn't bothered his arse.

It's officially now fucking me off as it's been languishing for over 6 months. So, in conclusion: Ask Vince?

aderack · Posts: 5018

As it stands, the current plan is that Tim will put it up and not link it, then Brandon will come back and link it with the wrong link, then he'll come back and change the link so it's correct after it's already scrolled down and disappeared from the front page.

Does that sound okay to you?

klikbeep · Posts: 485

This is the best Thanksgiving ever.

108 · Posts: 2600

aerisdead wrote:

So, in conclusion: Ask Vince?

How about you ask Vince to ask me if there's anything I can do to help?

In the future, just send your articles to me, as I have fast fingers and don't do anything, usually, with this computer. I just sit here and wish I was at home playing the guitar.

haircute · Posts: 928

I really liked this article.

aerisdead · Posts: 556

108 wrote:

How about you ask Vince to ask me if there's anything I can do to help?

He basically never responds to my e-mails, that's why.

Lestrade · Posts: 817

I loved this article. It's the best IC content I've read in months (other than the Axe).

I find games like this—as I do all really extreme geek culture—both fascinating and terrifying at the same time. After reading this feature, I want to play the game, really get into it—even give out my cell phone number to receive emails—and then after a few months of this horrific activity, give up on it completely and rejoin society.

But I guess this article kind of does that already, doesn't it? Anyway, I'm not making sense. More like this, please!

klikbeep · Posts: 485

Lestrade wrote:

After reading this feature, I want to play the game, really get into it—even give out my cell phone number to receive emails—and then after a few months of this horrific activity, give up on it completely and rejoin society.

Much appreciated.

Yeah -- there's that whole "rejoin society" bit. I'm not even kidding...I just kind of had to look at the situation, and go "OK. No more Idol M@ster." While I can still remember how to have sex.

I could probably go for a game or two right now.

zak · Posts: 42

Lestrade wrote:

I loved this article. It's the best IC content I've read in months (other than the Axe).

subscribing

brendan I really enjoyed your article, especially the way you build up the entire "Last Concert" thing.
Man I'm glad I don't have any money and not living in Japan, else this game would just eat it all up.

And why didn't you put the idol card image you posted above in the article, because it really got me wondering what one of those looks like (yeah ok, I just noticed some in the big header but they aren't very clear).

So from what I gathered in the article, this thread and the one in real bout this game will be pointless on the 360. From what I've seen I'd rather play it in an arcade and be shamelessly robbed while taking pleasure in it.

Sub · Posts: 696

klikbeep wrote:

Lestrade wrote:

After reading this feature, I want to play the game, really get into it—even give out my cell phone number to receive emails—and then after a few months of this horrific activity, give up on it completely and rejoin society.

Much appreciated.

Yeah -- there's that whole "rejoin society" bit. I'm not even kidding...I just kind of had to look at the situation, and go "OK. No more Idol M@ster." While I can still remember how to have sex.

I could probably go for a game or two right now.

You should probably do a "kicking my Idolm@ster addiction" followup piece.

aerisdead · Posts: 556

I agree, it is a good article. I should have said that already. Fun. I don't like the "I was having some midrange Mexican near Omotesando..." Section, I would have cut it. It's just too Tim Rogers.

That's the only bit I consider a bit wobbly.

Well done!

exodus · Posts: 385

aerisdead wrote:

I would have cut it. It's just too Tim Rogers.

holy shit, genius! I completely forgot I can cut and edit things just like I do at work.

awesome.

P.S. I'm being serious :(

klikbeep · Posts: 485

Sub wrote:

You should probably do a "kicking my Idolm@ster addiction" followup piece.

3 days and counting!

108 · Posts: 2600

aerisdead wrote:

108 wrote:

How about you ask Vince to ask me if there's anything I can do to help?

He basically never responds to my e-mails, that's why.

Well, what makes you think he'd respond to me?

. . . We need some organization around here.

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

maybe if all the writers could see the mod forum OR if they had their own forum again?

108 · Posts: 2600

Yeah, that would be nice.

I was told to email DeusJester about it, and . . . he didn't reply, either.

So yeah.

Nana Komatsu · Posts: 697

If the site had a decent backend for doing things like writing articles (and converting them to HTML easily) and controlling what gets published and not, this wouldn't be a problem. You'd never have to touch the FTP again!

I'm just saying is all.

aerisdead · Posts: 556

exodus wrote:

holy shit, genius! I completely forgot I can cut and edit things just like I do at work.

awesome.

P.S. I'm being serious :(

Yeah, you should edit that. And you should remember that! Because I expected you edited my article, you see!

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

That part has been edited out yet.

It was a good article though!

exodus · Posts: 385

aerisdead wrote:

Because I expected you edited my article, you see!

I sort of did! but only for grammar and flow.

I'm not a very time-having guy.

rf · Posts: 114

Agreeing with the others who said they really enjoyed this, knowing nothing about the game, just as a sort of general-interest article.

It's not even so much the combination of appeal and geeky pathos. It's more that I love when people can get into discussing the specific emotional details of experiences--even (especially) cheesy and socially marginal ones like this--an d it's something I get too rarely out of real-life conversations. Reminds me of one of my great real world IC-ish experiences: a really good friend got back from a long trip, and we went for dinner (Mexican, coincidentally?), and immediately got into a critically detailed conversation about whether Chrono Trigger or FF6 was better. We tacitly knew exactly how (un)seriously we were taking it, and at the same time we both really got into it, and it was great.

108 · Posts: 2600

exodus wrote:

aerisdead wrote:

Because I expected you edited my article, you see!

I sort of did! though only for grammar and flow.

I'm not a very time-having guy.

so yeah, where's kumar's article?

aerisdead · Posts: 556

108 · Posts: 2600

i was really hoping to have my article up by the end of the month.

actually, well, it's "up" already.

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

That's hot.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

Pics plz.

klikbeep · Posts: 485

Tim's review is compared to an engorged member in this thread!