ThePrivateCookie
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Yup same one.
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50 Cent's 7-year-old son is the reason Blood on the Sand has helicopters
- Thread starter LordOfLore
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Yup same one.
i don't know if you know but 50 cent was/is a big deal
Lil'DigiOp
Member
I enjoyed the hell out of Bulletproof on OG Xbox....
But y'all are saying Blood in the Sand is better????
But y'all are saying Blood in the Sand is better????
ThePrivateCookie
Member
WAY better, Bulletproof was a crap game, BOTS was actually good for the time.
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
Never played Bulletproof but Blood in the Sand is genuinely a pretty decent game.
Yeah I know, and I get what THQ was all about back then. Im looking at this game with 2017 eyes, would be like playing Cool Spot in 2012.
I wish this happens.
Neuromancer
Member
Oh man Giant Bomb is going to have a field day with this one. Memories: https://youtu.be/JjMk0AfwOC4
That used to be my tag, once upon a time.
TheWeaponeer
Banned
Just checked it over my local wireless network with two 360s and two Gold GTs (yay $1 gold!). I was able to see and join each GT's game by using the in game browser.
WHEW! So as for just being able to play here at home in CO-OP with a friend, I am still good. This game deserves better than server shutdown oblivion.
Oh that's cool, does PS3 have LAN support like that?
TheWeaponeer
Banned
It should. Now I cannot absolutely guarantee that, but "join CO-OP" is a menu option, and the other machine had its game set to "open" (you can choose invite, friend's list, or open). Then vice versa for the other test. No problems at all.
So I figure the PSN side of it is very similar. EDIT 2: Oh yeah, PS3 online is free. Sorry about that. So yeah, even better for your platform. Thanks Fisty!
EDIT: Co-Optimus states that both console versions have drop in/drop out 2 player online CO-OP, but no "LAN"/"System Link"/"Combined (Local Offline +Online)" support. So I guess the in game browser is still functional then?
Online is free on PS3, but also looking at some forums they mention the platinum trophy is unattainable due to servers being down, but they don't mention any LAN solutions working either, so I wasn't sure
Hmm maybe servers are still up on 360 version only?
AuthenticM
Member
someone forward this to Gerstmann.
Quadraphonic
Member
And the PSP one came out after that, kept the cutscenes, but turned the game into Gauntlet and it worked.
Stabby McSter
Member
PhantomZone
Member
It was a surprisingly good fun game to play.
Lionel Richie
Member
I need to play this game.
User Name Here
Member
That is hilarious.
Great great game. Not my favourite TPS from last gen but it's a fucking great game. Very fast, controls really well, is absolutely ridiculous and the coop is great. I'd happily play it again if they made it backwards compatible. You can tell the developers loved making a game out of a completely ridiculous concept.
I thought it was a case that online coop on the PS3 used Gamespy so it shut down but online on 360 is xbox live so it's still ongoing to this day. I wouldn't know for sure though you'd need someone with each versions to try.
I thought it was a case that online coop on the PS3 used Gamespy so it shut down but online on 360 is xbox live so it's still ongoing to this day. I wouldn't know for sure though you'd need someone with each versions to try.
Dr Zhivago
Member
BOTS is a genuinely good game. RIP Swordfish.
Incidentally, I heard something similar to this about Simpsons games - Matt Groening wouldn't approve them unless his kids liked them, which led to some problems for the devs.
Incidentally, I heard something similar to this about Simpsons games - Matt Groening wouldn't approve them unless his kids liked them, which led to some problems for the devs.
VolticArchangel
Member
Amazing.
Reminds me of Joel Schumacher's 8 year old grandson helping him in designing Bane for Batman & Robin.
Reminds me of Joel Schumacher's 8 year old grandson helping him in designing Bane for Batman & Robin.
SporeCrawler
Member
Snoop dogg, eminem and Dr. Dre are also a big deal but there are no video games with them
Call of Duty Bro
Smooth Operator
Member
Snoop Dogg is the boss in Def Jam Fight for NY bruh
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Shifty
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Spoken like someone with no clue about how the creative process actually works.
A universal rule in game production is that you nail down major gameplay design decisions at the start so the systems that power them can be built cleanly from the ground-up.
Shoehorning support for cars, helicopters and that big-ass ramp into a codebase that was never designed to support them at the eleventh hour is the stuff of software development nightmares. It invalidates the original software design, introduces exponentially more work than it would have as a from-the-top feature, and is the kind of decision that can sink an otherwise-healthy project.
Add to that the fact that it was mandated by a small child and you have a recipe for the dev team losing their minds.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Took the words out of mouth for that reply. It's not like the developers whip out their magic programming wand and viola, it's done. The game was never designed to support these features, it;s like... There's not a really good single analogy, but I guess the easiest explanation I could do is that it's like you recorded a whole season of a TV show, it's about all done and just being in later editing, and then being told you need to add in a new character to play a major crucial role in the series with a new plot point and who has to appear in all the episodes who was never part of the show to begin with. That would be a production studio's nightmare as there's so much work to go to just insert in some character who was never planned when all is shot and done, and now you want what?
It's even worse than that analogy though because adding something like that so late into development could break various elements of the game that need reworking from the coding, to the design, to the physics, and I could go on but it becomes a haphazard mess. A game is built on mechanics and designed around that, adding something like this so late into development isn't like stapling it on, it basically means tearing down your game and adding it in then trying to piece it back together. Costly, time-consuming, and adds to the nightmare that already is late-game crunch without major changes like that.
DoctorFling
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At 7:30 is that... is that Omid Djalili?
That's fucking Omid Djalili.
Hahaha I was just at one of his gigs the other night. If I had known I would've gotten this game signed
My nephew who was (haven't seen him in years so maybe he still is) a complete and utter hip-hop fan loved 50 Cent and had this game. He genuinly thought that 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand was some kind of autobiography game about 50 Cent's life made by 50 Cent's friends (as in his crew, not a big studio).
The biggest take from the article I get is the pain of the designers having to work with a rapper who, if the game is anything to go by, is a spoiled psychotic murderer who whines about getting paid and has no clue about the pain of game development.
This shit is the absolute worst, implementing stuff in the middle of development you never intended to have and therefore haven't prepared.
You have no clue then.
Shifty answered the best, unless you're making a game for small children, having suddenly a 7-year old interject and start wanting features added to a game which is already halfway through development which is then FORCED to be added by a whiny ass rapper with a ego complex is basically nightmare hell incarnate for developers. And not like small features like more guns (which can be added through scripting and modelling) or different enemies (also scripting) but whole new gameplay sections that NOTHING in the code supports.
jezhumphrey75
Banned
great memories of this game and the whole 50/g unit era a few years before the game, would love a backwards compat on xbox.