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mdhay
26th May 2007, 09:07 PM
I read in a playstation mag that the 'boards were cover-ups for graphic errors.Is this true?And,in the same article it said that the whole idea was thought of in a drunken conversation in a pub! I don't actually know if this is true (but I would not make this up!)

Lance
26th May 2007, 09:17 PM
Well, that last part's pretty much true. Nick and Jim [Burcombe and Bowers] did design the basics of the game while drinking in a pub. Nick tells the story somewhere here in the forums.

mdhay
26th May 2007, 09:22 PM
ah...well lesson! make games under the influence of alchohol! prepare for a metroid-resistance-ratchet-locoroco-metal gear mock-up when I turn 21:+

rdmx
27th May 2007, 01:47 AM
So a furry (ratchet) cute, oddball (locoroco) woman who constantly upgrades throughout the game (metroid) with aliens (resistance) and stealth sections thrown in (metal gear)

Sell it to EA now!

Task
27th May 2007, 03:51 AM
Some of the best things ever made were designed on the back of a napkin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_of_a_napkin), WO1 included.

Relaxing in a bar seems to be a good way to collect your thoughts and form breakthrough concepts. Or perhaps it's just that if you spend all your free time in a bar, any good ideas you're going to have are likely formed there. 8 )

mdhay
27th May 2007, 08:34 AM
I will! It could be like a tag team, like lego star wars? Or,portable ops:the rest of them hiding in boxes? [<--:hyper?]
ed:I would not sell it to ea, I would sell it to sony. though I forgot megaman (battle network) and the latter and metroid were made by others,kojima the magic man helped in both!

Asayyeah
27th May 2007, 02:55 PM
Or perhaps it's just that if you spend all your free time in a bar, any good ideas you're going to have are likely formed there. 8 )

Brilliant :clap

q_dmc12
28th May 2007, 01:43 AM
Discussing good ideas over a cold one.....? BRILL (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWqGLVaITsk)IANT! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WqO0Q_zNKA):g

rdmx
28th May 2007, 06:08 AM
I remember those ads!
there was one where he was talking inside a fridge IIRC.
BRILLIANT!

mdhay
28th May 2007, 07:25 AM
errm....where'd the topic go? Did it take the bus to idle banter-land?
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