Papers, Please.

SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
edited March 2014 in Miscellaneous

Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26527109

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  • jigglybeanjigglybean Member Posts: 1,584

    But boring in whose eyes? The media? Like they know what they are talking about (flappy bird!)

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  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    edited March 2014

    @jigglybean said:
    But boring in whose eyes? The media? Like they know what they are talking about (flappy bird!)

    I think you've misunderstood the general thrust of the article, no one is calling it boring, certainly not "the media", the single quotes around the word 'boring' are there for a reason. The article is in fact very positive, describing the game as "a tense, gripping game . . . soaked with praise by the critics".

  • mataruamatarua Auckland, New ZealandMember Posts: 854

    "She was never bored because she was never boring" Um yeah.

  • jigglybeanjigglybean Member Posts: 1,584

    I wasn't talking about the actual article but in general. Games get slapped as boring because the Journo playing it didn't like it. Flappy Bird was deemed boring and was given zero coverage by the media until it all kicked off.

    But stories like this prove that over complicated isn't always best.

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  • LumpAppsLumpApps Member Posts: 2,881
    edited March 2014

    Cool idea. Graphics are nice too. Might just pick it up and try it.
    They used to pick me out of the line in the 90s when I had long hair (combined with being Dutch maybe). Maybe this way I can try to get my revenge somehow :)

    Thanks for posting.

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  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822

    @jigglybean said:
    Flappy Bird was deemed boring and was given zero coverage by the media until it all kicked off.

    True !

  • SocksSocks London, UK.Member Posts: 12,822
    edited March 2014

    @LumpApps said:
    They used to pick me out of the line in the 90s when I had long hear . . .

    It wasn't your hair that raised their suspicions, it was your spelling. : P

  • LumpAppsLumpApps Member Posts: 2,881

    No I heard really long, honeyestlie :blush:

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  • mataruamatarua Auckland, New ZealandMember Posts: 854

    @LumpApps‌ I am always a magnet for people who I should be - by magnet logic, repelling - but anyway... I have no hair so this is a hole in your theory.

    Listen to this even, going to a meetup the other night I was a bit early, so I just hung next to a wall by AUT (Auckland University of Technology) texted my girl and checked my watch, so then this guy comes up saying "Hey You, I have been looking for you..." yeah right I think, I live in a cave buddy - and then he goes, "oh, no, it's not you, hey my bullet necklace got stolen by this guy, and if you find him I will give you $1000 - just shout out to any Mungrel Mob (gang) guys in the streets" to which he offered his fist for a high fist - what do you do in these situations?

    If there is 20 people walking past a hawker on the streets it's me that they pull in.

    Does this sound like the life of an introverted nerd?

    I wish these people would leave me alone.

    I think in Holland I would fit in perfectly and could be anonymous. I would be average height and just one of the masses.

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