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That may not be a Photo-chopped image like you say, but if that is the case then it means that whoever is in charge of GUI design over at Activision is one sloppy designer.

Notice how the pink and white word bubble is two of the same images that are mirrored and then placed next to each other. Only here they overlap and look pretty amateurish. WTF?

It looks like they set the save JPEG slider to 1 before they saved the image...

Thanks, all take that as a complement!

Its almost as if Suda 51 wanted us to scream "What the hell is this crap?" in response to the "open environment" as a way of forcing us as gamers to realize that the entire genre of open world sandbox games is, at least in his opinion, crap.

I think he got alot of heat for making Killer7 on-rails... so I felt like this was his way of saying... "OK you bastards you want open world, I'll give you open world! But its gona suck just like I think every open world game sucks!" I've never read that deeply into a video game design, but then again most games are pretty straight forward. NMH is anything but...

Well thats exactly what I'm saying... Its almost as if Suda 51 wanted you to scream just that as a way of forcing us as gamers to realize that the entire genre of open world sandbox games is, at least in his opinion, crap. I think he got alot of heat for making Killer7 on-rails... so I felt like this was his way of saying... "OK you bastards you want open world, I'll give you open world! But its gona suck just like I think every open world game sucks!" I've never read that deeply into a video game design, but then again most games are pretty straight forward. NMH is anything but...

You know... I always had that same feeling while playing the game, that some of the parts were intentionally poorly designed as a comment on other games of the genre.

About half way through the game I became convinced that the reason that the open world city is so dull and uneventful must be because Suda 51 was using it to make a comment about either his opinion that GTA offers a large expansive world with relatively little to do, or more likely, it was a statement about how most GTA clones do little to add to the sandbox genre and never live up to the high standard set by GTA.
So by intentionally making a rather boring sandbox city in NMH, the designer is simply mocking all the other games who try so hard to emulate GTA and fail...
But then I kept saying... that can't be right... if he really felt that way about GTA clones then the best way to show them up would be to make an awsome Suda 51 style GTA clone that really kicked ass.
Not sure if this makes any sense, but do you know what I mean? Did anyone else feel this way?

You know... I always had that same feeling while playing the game, that some of the parts were intentionally poorly designed as a comment on other games of the genre.

About half way through the game I became convinced that the reason that the open world city is so dull and uneventful must be because Suda 51 was using it to make a comment about either his opinion that GTA offers a large expansive world with relatively little to do, or more likely, it was a statement about how most GTA clones do little to add to the sandbox genre and never live up to the high standard set by GTA.
So by intentionally making a rather boring sandbox city in NMH, the designer is simply mocking all the other games who try so hard to emulate GTA and fail...
But then I kept saying... that can't be right... if he really felt that way about GTA clones then the best way to show them up would be to make an awsome Suda 51 style GTA clone that really kicked ass.
Not sure if this makes any sense, but do you know what I mean? Did anyone else feel this way?

I deserve it because my electric blue ds phat was recently stomped on and now ozzes liquid crystals from the screen!

Right... because the ps3 is irrelevant... get it!!! Sad... but true... whats a girl to do?

I just want to know what song they are going to replace the increasingly awesome Jumping Jack Flash with? Its going to be hard to top the greatness of that. I haven't played EBA in a long time, but every time that song come on the iPod at work, all I want to do is start tapping some circles.
Hopefully the sequel has an even better sound track, maybe some Queen?