billboards=graphic errors

[mdhay]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

I remember those ads!
there was one where he was talking inside a fridge IIRC.
BRILLIANT!

[mdhay]

errm....where'd the topic go? Did it take the bus to idle banter-land?
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