BAD Joke about the release date of ETQW.

(signofzeta) #1

I have something funny that is related to a thread I posted in a different forum, and is also related to the MacGruber SNL skits. Here it goes.

All company names are not correlated to if they gave the trailers, or Quakecon event coverage. They are the companies that are developing, and publishing ETQW, so I would think that they would deal with the angry mob that will abandon ETQW in whenever it would be. Timeframes are made up too.

id software: We have a mob of gamers and we have a couple of years and a bit before they start to lose focus from our new game, Enemy Territory Quake Wars.

Splash Damage: What do we do Activision?

Activision: Don’t worry, we’ll give them their game. Do as I say and they will be satisfied. SD, give me the game announcement.

SD: You got it.

Acti: id, give me the QuaKecon event coverage.

id: of course,

Acti: SD, give me the trailers.

SD: anything to defuse the unpopularity of the game.

Acti: id, give me the beta.

id: Beta’s right here.

Acti: SD, give me the release date.

SD: where, what release date?

Acti: There, the one right on the page that say the game is complete.

SD: I’m not giving them a release date.

id: C’mon, give them the release date.

SD: YOU give the release date.

id: I can’t I’m working on another game.

Acti: Fine, I’ll give the release date, I hope I have enough time to…

Quake wars anticipators gave up on the game

(madness) #2

ha haa haa !!

(signofzeta) #3

Was that sarcastic? Am I that bad?

(Dazzamac) #4

Yes you are.

(signofzeta) #5

I guess it isn’t funny because I can’t draw, and that there aren’t any visuals that go with it.

(Carwash) #6

1 out of 10… and that 1 is just for the effort :stuck_out_tongue:

(signofzeta) #7

c’mon, you haven’t seen that SNL skit? I guess some of you don’t know what SNL is. The joke is supposed to be about how some developers, I used ETQW, well like it will ever happen, as an example. The original SNL skit features a guy defusing a timebomb, and his two lackeys give him items to build something to defuse a bomb.

Now in this one, the developers and publishers are giving the fans something to feed their hunger for the game as the game is being made, but there is always a time limit. Look at starcraft ghost, duke nukem forever. Even Prey and Stalker was on a verge of not making it, but eventually it did. There is always a time limit for a game to be made, and some people think it is one year, some people think it is 5 years, I think it is 2-3 years and a bit. Time starts when game is first announced, but if game isn’t released, and time’s up, let’s say from a person who is the most patient, um, 8 years to develop the game, then even the most patient person will give up on the game. You just don’t get it because you don’t watch SNL.

Let’s say ETQW development is a 60 second bomb. I say, SD would have defused it at around um, 30-45 seconds? But also the game must be made right, which equates to the correct wire must be cut etc etc. What Battlefield did, was cut the wrong wire, and now there are a mob of angry gamers who dislike that game.

(TX_RED_ANT) #8

Not too bad. I would have used RTCW2 as the game though, and no SD as the Devs, lol.

(signofzeta) #9

heh, but this would have been offtopic if I used RTCW2. But I would agree that RTCW2 is more fitting. They announced it a couple years ago, and we never heard any news since.

I was at the xbox forums, and they were like “RTCW2 is coming any minute now”, I was like “no, they probably haven’t reached the alpha stage yet.”

(Carwash) #10

We dont get SNL in the UK :stuck_out_tongue:

And to quote Calcutron…

That was so bad it gave me cancer

:wink: