MEE launched, Marc Ecko getting (all) up (in the industry)

and they are picking up the rights for DUKE NUKEM FOREVER!!!!!

I live in area where kids think grfitti is cool and throwing your fastb food trash on the ground is a norm. Mark can suck my engorged cock for his stupidity.

Marc Ecko's Grand Shop Lifting. A game where you can stick it to the man, by stealing from stores like the GAP and American Eagle.

If only they had your intellect and poise.

Intellect and poise go right out the window when you pay $18,000 a in property taxes and spend a entire day out of every week cleaning up trash and painting over grafitti.

ummm. well ....I thought Getting up was a great game it had and has a long way to go but it was good enough. Hope to see good thing from his company

Dear Marc Ecko & friends:

Make good games or GTFO.

mark ecko= wigga

who, what?

Getting up was a little rough, but very enjoyable. I'm puzzled as to why it was bashed so much.

I really don't know why you're hating Ecko so much. His company headquarters used to be in my town before he moved it to Times Square. He did a lot of great things for the community, especially the youth. Very culturally aware and believed in giving children opportunities to express their creativity, intellect, and energy.

To SmilingAssassin, is it McDonald's fault that people litter with the wrappers from their food and Ecko's for believing that legal spraypainting should be embraced as an art of some merit. If you think so I don't mind your criticism, but otherwise keep quiet. I appreciate people like Marc for doing his thing.

BTW, Getting Up wasn't half bad.

Are you telling me that every single thing that Mark Ecko has tagged has been legal? Do you think that all the youth that look up to him only tag legally. Don't be naive. Grafitti is mainly a blight and costs governments and taxpayers an atrocious amount of money that could go to educating the idiots that do these things. It personally costs me a crapload of time, effort and money. Money and time that I could spend helping as well.

Any mention of Mark Ecko and video games should elicit this quote from a Getting Up interview he did:

"Interviewer: Let’s discuss some of the reviews the game has gotten. They’ve been mixed, at best. How do you answer what critics are saying?

Ecko:I would say there are gamers that have a predisposition to have a bug up their ass for anything urban. The fact that there was a black character on the cover of this game, right away there was a dismissiveness that this was just another “GTA: San Andreas,” that’s number one. Number two, this is the end of a console cycle when there is a law of diminishing returns. The code is as polished as you can make it on a no-hard-drive console like the PS2. So, there are technical limitations that people just can’t understand. There are guys that have a predisposition to be slaves to the code, rather than be slaves to the branding, products or experience. At the end of the day, it’s going to be the consumer who decides and not whether the camera makes a difference. "

That's the attitude and industry savvy I like to see behind a new game company. BTW, this company is going to be a publisher not a developer, right? Publishers hardly know what's going on anyway.

Didn't he try to insult gamers by calling them bigger divas than the people that work in fashion?

Getting Up was a really good game. It had an great storyline, pretty cutscenes. Numurous works of art to tag with. It did what a lot of games actually fail to do. That is embrace an enviroment and capture the essance of what feels like to be engaged in writing graffiti. Problem was it didn't make you think or force you to make a decision. Also, there was no real consequences like in splinter cell, when it came down to to stealth parts.

referring to post #15, I think Ecko's right about gamers having a bug up their ass about urban games.

The problem is that some people (EA in particular) have been exploiting the urban genre 'till the rest of us are sick of it. How many more "undergrounds" do we need, and Def Jam(fighting), while good at first, seems to have gotten worse. Not only that, it doesn't help that movies come out and further exploit urban culture.

His game(IMO) was just more of the same. He's just as guilty for riding the urban train that pretty much took of with GTA:SA (Rockstar being the only one to do it best).

He's just mad that the game wasn't as good as the people kissing his ass kept telling him.

@ #11

Obviously you do not own property because if you did, then you would understand what this "art form" does when it is illegally put on buildings and other types of property.

Ever try to sell a home and have prospective buyers leave because some fvck nut thought they should tag a wall in your neighborhood?

@15

just what we need, another industry moron making excuses for broken or semi-broken game with a f'd up camera and combat system (by most accounts, i haven't played the game). yep, sounds like he will fit right in.

and releasing a graffiti game without a graffiti editor? i would have played the game with the above faults if it had a graffiti editor. even tony hawk has a graffiti editor. lame.

Taggers should be shot.

NOW.

Man...Smiling assassin is like old jack frost blowing his cold winter wind over the whole party. you sound like your a fucking 70 year old curmudgeon sitting on your porch ranting about the ills of society and the "good old days" to any poor bastard who might lend an ear. I don't know anything about Marc Ecko's gaming politics, nor do I buy his designs, but christ, I'll accept any new company into the game development industry who claims they're striving to innovate...sequels and prequels only go so far.

It's easy to promise innovation, killyridols, but I strongly doubt that Mark Ego will deliver. Really, how unique was his last game? It was equal parts Grand Theft Auto and Jet Set radio... nothing we haven't already seen before.

JR

"There are guys that have a predisposition to be slaves to the code, rather than be slaves to the branding, products or experience. At the end of the day, it’s going to be the consumer who decides and not whether the camera makes a difference."-Mark Ecko

And that quote pretty much sums up Mark Ecko's view on gaming. The gameplay is secondary to the brand. He thinks that gamers should buy inferior games as long as the games are wrapped up in good packaging. So what if the camera renders the game unplayable? Just make sure it has the "Ecko" brand stamped all over it. Reminds me of his clothing; nothing but his name emblazoned all over every item.

Mark Ecko does not give two shits about making quality games. He views gaming as just another trend that he can try to make a few bucks off. Be prepared for his games to be nothing more than mashups of better games. And when his games don't do well, he will do what he did last time; attack the target market. The majority of gamers did not care for "Getting Up", and for obvious reasons. "Getting Up" brought nothing new to the table; no innovative gameplay, no sympathetic protaganist, and a serious lack of credibility. Mark Ecko calls himself a gamer. But he thinks very little of others who classify themselves as gamers. To him we are nothing but whiny, bitchy people, and closeminded to boot. He views the gaming industry as mostly comprised of people who got picked on in school, and now they get to have their revenge by pointing out the flaws in his game.

Beware Mark Ecko. He is not a friend of gamers. To him, gamers are nothing more than another focus group that is targeted for their disposible income.

getting up was an interesting game concept.

Shame ECKO clothes are only worn by chavvy, wanna-be gangstas who don't realise that they look like complete and total muppets. (and that the whole world is laughing at them, rather than being intimidated by their hardcore style.)

So i guess at least he is responsible for a few laughs... ;-)