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Old Skool 05-20-2002 06:51 AM

Sega's new game Blinx (Screens inside)
 
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Posted by C&VG's

In a world exclusive we can reveal today that one of Microsoft's big announcements for E3 next week is a first-party game titled Blinx: The Time Sweeper. Few specifics are known of the title so far, although the game is character led: how does a manic-looking lynx (you see?)-like cat grab you?
From the images we've seen so far, the cat-like creature has white and ginger fur and wears goggles on his head, in almost exactly the same way as Jak from PS2's Jak & Daxter. He's wearing a blue anorak, has white gloves and appears to be holding some sort of alarm clock crossed with a gun. Or something.

From what we've been told the game's a platformer (well, kind of), but the identity of the development team behind the project is, as yet, unknown. However with Naoto Oshima, co-creator of Sonic and NiGHTS, at the helm this should be one of the biggest titles to watch out for at E3.










Angrist 05-20-2002 11:36 AM

Vacuum cleaners are VERY popular at the moment. ;)

Looks pretty, and if it's a Sega game I guess the gameplay will be ok too.

Revival 05-20-2002 03:24 PM

My conclusion:

Games with vacuum cleaners suck.. literally :D

Tombor 06-03-2002 07:33 PM

Its not a Sega game
 
Its being made by Artoon (Pinobee). The lead designer worked on Nights though. Should be promising.

Perfect Stu 06-03-2002 10:15 PM

this game looks very unique and stylish...I am definately interested...the trailer of it at E3 was very intriguing...

Old Skool 06-04-2002 07:07 AM

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Originally posted by Perfect Stu
this game looks very unique and stylish...I am definately interested...the trailer of it at E3 was very intriguing...
Yea I liked the bit when they stoped time and went walking in the water. Looks to be some thing new in a game must keep a look out for this game.

Nine Inch Nail 06-20-2002 07:36 AM

Blinx: The Time Sweeper
 
Awesome features in Blinx:

-40 huge interactive levels

-manipulate time -- pause, record, rewind, fast forward, and slow time

-the first true 4-D game

Let's hope Blinx turns out good, because the Xbox needs a good platformer...oh, and a good mascot too (sorry Munch)! :D

Joeiss 06-20-2002 02:53 PM

Re: Blinx: The Time Sweeper
 
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Originally posted by Biohazard


-the first true 4-D game



What the hell is a 4-D game?


:hmm:

gekko 06-20-2002 03:56 PM

Re: Re: Blinx: The Time Sweeper
 
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Originally posted by Joeiss




What the hell is a 4-D game?


:hmm:

4D is a fake dimension they make up for advertising purposes, literally. The 4th dimension is supposed to be like moving through time, but it's real purpose is advertising.

Travel through time? Never heard of that idea before, except those 80 million ****ty movies that came out about it :D

I'll play it and see if it's any good, but they aren't convicing me with the idea of controlling time.

Professor S 06-20-2002 05:27 PM

Oh yeah, being able to do something in a console game that you've never ever been able to do before sounds completely dull to me also. Oh, and considering it was voted as one of the best games of E3 makes it sound even more uninteresting.





Please note the sarcasm.

Nine Inch Nail 06-20-2002 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by The Strangler
Oh yeah, being able to do something in a console game that you've never ever been able to do before sounds completely dull to me also. Oh, and considering it was voted as one of the best games of E3 makes it sound even more uninteresting.





Please note the sarcasm.

Exactly. The ability to control time in a videogame is something that has never been done before--yeah, that's not innovative. :rolleyes:

Blinx looks to be one of the most promising titles due for Xbox this year. :)

Joeiss 06-20-2002 06:05 PM

So basically, if I made a game stating that you could move buffalos for the whole game, it would be 4-D because it is a new idea?


:hmm:

Perfect Stu 06-20-2002 06:16 PM

I would consider time more of a dimension than moving buffalos :rolleyes:...besides, moving buffalos has already been done...don't you remember that part in Jak and Daxter? :p

And gekko, this is a new concept for videogames...so lighten up and btw, Back to the Future RULES!

And Blinx looks awesome...

bobcat 06-20-2002 06:18 PM

Yes Angrist, those Vaccuum cleaners do look kinda "cool" now ;)

Next we'll be seeing Klinx with a jet water type pack.

No but this game could be good............wait and c typea thing

Nine Inch Nail 06-20-2002 06:51 PM

I think having the ability to control time in a game is a little more innovative than moving buffalo in a game. :rolleyes:

gekko 06-20-2002 07:22 PM

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Originally posted by The Strangler
Oh yeah, being able to do something in a console game that you've never ever been able to do before sounds completely dull to me also. Oh, and considering it was voted as one of the best games of E3 makes it sound even more uninteresting.





Please note the sarcasm.

Oh ya, raping someone in a game is something I've never done before, man I wish I could get my hands on Debby Does Dallas.

Please note the sarcasm.

Nine Inch Nail 06-20-2002 07:42 PM

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Originally posted by gekko


Oh ya, raping someone in a game is something I've never done before, man I wish I could get my hands on Debby Does Dallas.

Please note the sarcasm.

Damn, what is with you people? :confused: Moving buffalos...raping people. :rolleyes: The ability to control time is something that is actually intruiging/innovative.

BTW, gekko, all your dblns are belong to me doesn't make sense. Just drop the "are" in that sentence, and then it would correct. :wink:

gekko 06-20-2002 07:53 PM

You don't get it.

http://homepage.mac.com/gekko85/allyourbase.swf

Nine Inch Nail 06-20-2002 08:00 PM

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Originally posted by gekko
You don't get it.

http://homepage.mac.com/gekko85/allyourbase.swf

Oh I see. The people on that video don’t speak literally correct. So, it’s kind of a personal/insider type of thing, right? :wink:

BTW, what was that movie anyway? :confused:

Bond 06-20-2002 08:07 PM

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Originally posted by Biohazard
Oh I see. The people on that video don’t speak literally correct. So, it’s kind of a personal/insider type of thing, right? :wink:

BTW, what was that movie anyway? :confused:

The movie was of a poorly translated videogame.

Nine Inch Nail 06-20-2002 08:09 PM

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Originally posted by Bond

The movie was of a poorly translated videogame.

I can tell. :wink: Whoever translated that game needs to go home and re-think their life. :roll:

Perfect Stu 06-21-2002 09:17 PM

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Originally posted by gekko


Oh ya, raping someone in a game is something I've never done before, man I wish I could get my hands on Debby Does Dallas.

Please note the sarcasm.

take the sandpaper off your toilet seat already!!!

bobcat 06-21-2002 09:23 PM

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Originally posted by gekko
You don't get it.

http://homepage.mac.com/gekko85/allyourbase.swf

Like I've seen the light!

bobcat 06-21-2002 09:25 PM

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Originally posted by Bond

The movie was of a poorly translated videogame.

I don't think so. That was awesome. I nearly cried and the end when Cats disappeared.

:(

gekko 06-21-2002 09:52 PM

It is of an old Genesis game. Forgot the name.

gekko 06-22-2002 01:40 AM

I am being pressured by an anonymous source to tell you all that controlling time has been done before, therefore not making it really innovative.

bobcat 06-22-2002 02:55 AM

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Originally posted by gekko
I am being pressured by an anonymous source to tell you all that controlling time has been done before, therefore not making it really innovative.
Where?? What game?

How can you control time?

Shadow_Link 06-22-2002 06:08 AM

*Cough*OcarinaofTime*Cough*MajorasMask*Cough*

By the way, I'm not the anonymous source Gekko talks of.

bobcat 06-22-2002 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by Shadow_Link
*Cough*OcarinaofTime*Cough*MajorasMask*Cough*

By the way, I'm not the anonymous source Gekko talks of.

That was at the back of my mind, I thought you were talking about a different method of controlling time. :unsure:

Coz some1 said it was 4d, I thought you control time while playing simultaneously or something. I dunno.

Bond 06-22-2002 11:27 AM

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Originally posted by bobcat
That was at the back of my mind, I thought you were talking about a different method of controlling time. :unsure:

Coz some1 said it was 4d, I thought you control time while playing simultaneously or something. I dunno.

Yes, but Blinx sounds truly innovative. It's also putting the Xbox hard drive to good use:

"Actually control the flow of time, a feature only possible on Xbox. Record actions, play them back and have dual characters cooperate to complete challenges. Throw the world into slow motion while moving about in real-time, fast-forward to achieve goals more quickly, or even rewind the world to gain additional opportunities at completing challenges, opening hidden areas and more."

Also, did anyone notice that Microsoft completely dominated the 'Best Orignial Game' category?

http://www.e3awards.com

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Best Original Game
Psychonauts
(Double Fine Productions/Microsoft for Xbox)
Tim Schafer is a man so creative that we’re almost inclined to kick him out of the gaming industry. Why? The bottom line is that he makes everyone else’s games look so damn derivative. In Psychonauts, Schafer has concocted a circus-like hodgepodge of zany characters and game environments to tell the story of Raz, a gifted little lad who must have just missed the application deadline to Professor Xavier’s school for the gifted. As a result, Raz is apparently shipped off to psychic summer camp to develop his psychic abilities, in the hopes that he one day might become a Psychonaut. At psychic summer camp, psychic-wannabe Raz can earn special psychic merit badges, one of we hope might be a badge that decrees a moratorium on the use of the word psychic in the game. But seriously, things get interesting when Raz gets to jump into the minds of 16 individuals at the nearby insane asylum, and in turn use his psychic abilities like firestarting and invisibility to defeat some real inner-demons. The third person action adventure gameplay is a departure from Schafer’s previous work, but his trademark originality is still here in spades.

- Geoff Keighley, Associate Chairman, Game Critics Awards
Editor-in-Chief, GameSlice

Runner-up:
Blinx: The Time Sweeper (Artoon/Microsoft for Xbox)
That's a good thing, the videogame industry needs more original titles.

Professor S 06-22-2002 04:00 PM

Gekko, you compared contolling time to rape.

Please remove the pole from your butt.

Revival 06-22-2002 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by The Strangler
Please remove the pole from your butt.
I believe it's a large stick, not a pole :sneaky:

Just kidding gekko.. heh.. you don't have anything up your ass... :)

gekko 06-22-2002 04:24 PM

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Originally posted by The Strangler
Gekko, you compared contolling time to rape.

Please remove the pole from your butt.

A rape simulator would be far more innovative than Blinx.

Bond 06-22-2002 04:31 PM

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Originally posted by gekko


A rape simulator would be far more innovative than Blinx.

Now lets keep it clean guys. Blinx is fairly innovative and original, you can't deny that.

gekko 06-22-2002 04:37 PM

Fairly innovative, yes, but not in the sense that people make it out to be. "My god this has never been done before, games will never be the same, the world would end without Blinx."

Time control has been done before, vacuums have been done before. It's all just a matter of how they are done. It's far from the most original thing I've ever seen.

Bond 06-22-2002 04:38 PM

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Originally posted by gekko
Fairly innovative, yes, but not in the sense that people make it out to be. "My god this has never been done before, games will never be the same, the world would end without Blinx."

Time control has been done before, vacuums have been done before. It's all just a matter of how they are done. It's far from the most original thing I've ever seen.

Yes. But using the hard drive in such a way has never been done before. So in that respect it is innovative.

Professor S 06-22-2002 04:38 PM

Gekko, that was possibly one of the more disturbing comments I've ever read on this forum, not to mention competely tasteless and disgusting.

There is nothing funny or innovative about rape. At all.

Perfect Stu 06-22-2002 05:22 PM

omg gekko...

WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM?!?!

I'm sure you'd love to be virtually raping young women, wouldn't you? WTF is that?

Stop drinking urine, it's not good for you...

edit: and I completely agree with the strangler...that's just sick man...dammit...

gekko 06-22-2002 05:55 PM

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Originally posted by The Strangler
Gekko, that was possibly one of the more disturbing comments I've ever read on this forum, not to mention competely tasteless and disgusting.

There is nothing funny or innovative about rape. At all.

Quote:

Originally posted by Perfect Stu
omg gekko...

WTF IS YOUR PROBLEM?!?!

I'm sure you'd love to be virtually raping young women, wouldn't you? WTF is that?

Stop drinking urine, it's not good for you...

edit: and I completely agree with the strangler...that's just sick man...dammit...

Have you ever wondered how far less interesting life would become if we educated our children?

Shadow_Link 06-22-2002 08:53 PM

Guys... Check a dictionary, there is more that one meaning to the word rape... 'Maybe' Gekko meant to use it in another context...


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