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    This Is Activision's New James Bond

    Blur Release Blurred To 2010

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    Image of Odin Odin
    11/12/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    I don't know about this guy but he probably can't be worse than Craig. To be fair it's not entirely his fault, more the writers that decided to mix up the Bond franchise too much.

    Being used to much more suave witty Bonds and then having Casino Royale dumped in your face is just disappointing. It's been too modernized, losing that classy fantasy element the previous Bonds had. New Bond doesn't even quip at all. Near the end of CR he shoots a guy in the face with a nailgun and doesn't even go:
    "That nailed him" before straightening his bowtie.

    Made me die a little inside. #jamesbond
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    Image of Jonn Jonn
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    Couldn't he just hair at the bad guys? Doesn't even need a weapon, just that haircut.
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    Edited by Jonn at 11/11/09 10:34 PM Jonn was starred Jonn was unstarred
    Image of busterbluth busterbluth
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    You're one of those fancy lads! #jamesbond
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    Image of tim rogers tim rogers
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    oh god! are they franchising bond games? fahey, plz contact activision / bizarre and tell them that i have written maybe sixteen literature-quality james bond fanfiction novels since age fourteen and i will gladly write stories for their future games ok???

    (85% srs) #jamesbond
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    Image of doubtful doubtful
    11/11/09

    @tim rogers: I think I would only play a Bond game if it were written by you, so you can add that to your sales pitch.

    Instead of side quests, it will have tangents, and lots of them.

    And about half of the reviews for the game will simply consist of, 'Too long, didn't play.' #jamesbond
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    Image of Ouisch Ouisch
    11/11/09

    @tim rogers: God, really. I agree with doubtful in that I would 100% rather play a Bond game written by a fan than one written by a focus group. #jamesbond
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    Image of pashaveliki pashaveliki
    11/11/09

    @tim rogers: post links on Kotaku. I am a huge Bond fanatic (namely the Fleming originals) and would love to read them/give you feedback. #jamesbond
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    tim rogers promoted this comment pashaveliki was starred pashaveliki was unstarred
    Image of colewheeler colewheeler
    11/11/09

    @tim rogers: you have your novels to share? peeked my interest. #jamesbond
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    tim rogers promoted this comment colewheeler was starred colewheeler was unstarred
    Image of Svend Joscelyne Svend Joscelyne
    11/11/09

    @colewheeler: Silence you fool, posting them online will devalue them! Tim needs a bargaining chip. #jamesbond
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    tim rogers promoted this comment Svend Joscelyne was starred Svend Joscelyne was unstarred
    Image of dahaka dahaka
    11/11/09

    @tim rogers: tl;dr #jamesbond
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    Image of Lordd_G Lordd_G
    11/11/09

    @colewheeler: "piqued my interest." FIXED #jamesbond
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    tim rogers promoted this comment Lordd_G was starred Lordd_G was unstarred
    Image of Emulated Emulated
    11/11/09

    @doubtful: They will be beautifully written but the vocabulary will be too much for most of their target audience. #jamesbond
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    tim rogers promoted this comment Emulated was starred Emulated was unstarred
    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond

    Aww jeez is this going to be like the Eighth Doctor situation again? (Doctor Who TV Movie his only appearance) #jamesbond
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    11/11/09

    @(Starman) Mudkip : Actually, that actor did a number of 8th doctor radio plays/audio dramas. #jamesbond
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    Image of Paradox me Paradox me
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    Sean Connery.

    It can't hurt to dream. #jamesbond
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    Image of ninjaDance ninjaDance
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    I don't mind this so much. As much as I like Daniel Craig, it's generally a good thing when companies are given artistic license with a concept instead of trying directly follow a movie, or even one actor's portrayal of a movie character. #jamesbond
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    Image of Chirotera Chirotera
    11/11/09

    @ninjaDance: Everything or Nothing turned out to be a pretty solid game because of this - though that game still used Brosnan. #jamesbond
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    Image of Strangelove Strangelove
    11/11/09

    In reply to This Is Activision's New James Bond
    Wow, that guy looks like a douche. Really, they need to stick with Daniel Craig.

    Although maybe if the game is developed outside of the sphere of the movie release, they'll actually make a decent game. Quantum of Solace's demo, though, seemed pretty cool, but it's definitely a bargain-bin pickup for me. #jamesbond
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    Image of Lake Somerset Lake Somerset
    11/11/09

    @Strangelove: "Wow, that guy looks like a douche. Really, they need to stick with Daniel Craig."

    Wow. Demanding Daniel Craig must really make this guy a total waste... which says a lot. #jamesbond
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    Strangelove promoted this comment Lake Somerset was starred Lake Somerset was unstarred
    Image of Strangelove Strangelove
    11/11/09

    @Lake Somerset: @ColinStein:

    I turned off Quantum of Solace about 15 minutes after renting it, but Casino Royale is by far the best Bond movie (save for the parkour crap in the beginning) and one of my favorite movies of all-time.

    Craig is also good in Munich, which is an awesome movie. #jamesbond
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    Image of KillerBee KillerBee
    09/21/09

    In reply to Blur Release Blurred To 2010
    Smart move. Competing with Forza 3 is a terrible idea, especially for a game like this.
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    KillerBee was starred KillerBee was unstarred
    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    09/21/09

    @KillerBee: Do they compete, though?

    They might, but if you're staring at the games shelf in WalMart I can't believe you'd be looking and trying to decide between the two.
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    Yossarian was starred Yossarian was unstarred
    Image of KillerBee KillerBee
    09/21/09

    @Yossarian: At a core level, they are different, but on the surface to the average consumer, they are just racing games. If consumers are going to buy one or two racing games this holiday season, they'll go with the known, popular games like Forza and NFS, both of which come out this month. Blur would have been lost in the overwhelming holiday rush.
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    Image of RockyRan RockyRan
    09/21/09

    @KillerBee: Too bad it'll probably be lost as well in the onslaught of early 2010 releases that were all moved to 2010 to AVOID an onslaught in the first place.

    Talk about irony.
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    Image of Sir-Lucius does anything for Dethklok Sir-Lucius does anything for Dethklok
    09/21/09

    @RockyRan: I really do wonder if publishers and devs are ignorant of this. As each game gets delayed to the post Christmas/pre-Spring season, it's just pushing back the inevitable bottleneck of games. I'd be willing to bet that as we get closer to that January-March period, more delays will start to pop up.
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    Sir-Lucius does anything for Dethklok was starred Sir-Lucius does anything for Dethklok was unstarred
    Image of WhatTheFrag WhatTheFrag
    09/21/09

    In reply to Blur Release Blurred To 2010
    well there's NFS: shift (which is selling decently atleast in the UK: No 1 overall sales (ps3:52%, 360:44%, PSP&PC:5% [yeah I know it adds to 101 but chart-track posted it]), dirt 2 and the exclusives of forza3, and gt5(there's too many signs pointing to a release around december) so I guess they didn't want to crowd around with them. Later next year just puts them in the running against Mod-Nation racers which is fine for them I guess.
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    Image of zackek zackek
    09/21/09

    In reply to Blur Release Blurred To 2010
    I was kind of counting on this game, as I desperately want a fun, light racing game I can enjoy with my buddies.

    Guess the wait continues..
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    KillerBee promoted this comment zackek was starred zackek was unstarred
    Image of KillerBee KillerBee
    09/21/09

    @zackek: Burnout Paradise is calling you!
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    KillerBee was starred KillerBee was unstarred
    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    09/21/09

    @zackek: Might I suggest a little gem called MySims Racing, then?

    what? no? I can't?
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    Yossarian was starred Yossarian was unstarred
    Image of Heliophage Heliophage
    09/21/09

    In reply to Blur Release Blurred To 2010
    Ah, 2010; the year 2009 was supposed to be.
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    Heliophage was starred Heliophage was unstarred
    Image of KillerBee KillerBee
    09/21/09

    @Heliophage Isn't 2010 the year of the PS3? I get confused.
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    Image of Hey_Blinkon Hey_Blinkon
    09/21/09

    @KillerBee: Ugh. When will you assholes get it through your head? This is the year of the PS3. Sony is so badass that it runs on the the Uranus calender, so the next 80 or so of your pussy "earth years" will also be the year of the PS3 too.

    How is this hard to comprehend?
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    KillerBee promoted this comment Hey_Blinkon was starred Hey_Blinkon was unstarred
    Image of KillerBee KillerBee
    09/21/09

    @Hey_Blinkon: HAHA nice!
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    Image of Sir-Lucius does anything for Dethklok Sir-Lucius does anything for Dethklok
    09/21/09

    @Hey_Blinkon: Heh, they probably will have to keep saying that until the PS4 drops. I mean, once the year of the PS3 is up, does it go back to being the year of the 360? Or the year of Wii?
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    Image of MAATOHA MAATOHA
    09/21/09

    In reply to Blur Release Blurred To 2010
    So, most probably they have trouble tuning the extraordinary, revolutionary, shocking new stuff like... NITRO...
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    Yossarian promoted this comment MAATOHA was starred MAATOHA was unstarred
    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    09/21/09

    @MAATOHA: I heard they were having problems with the blue shell.

    Nintendo wouldn't license it to them and allow depictions of body damage. So they are going to have to go back and create a shoddy knockoff called "bloo ball" that acts the same but differs just enough to avoid copywrite issues.
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    Image of Neko_Tech Neko_Tech
    09/21/09

    @Yossarian: Oh god it would be awesome if they added a power-up called a blur ball. When hit by it your vision gets blurred and fuzzy like being drunk or heavily medicated and the duration can be longer if the person who shot it charged the power up.

    So if any of the devs from Blur reads this put it in the game.
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    Image of Aparanoidandroi Aparanoidandroi
    09/21/09

    In reply to Blur Release Blurred To 2010
    i saw 'blur' and just thought of the band, dammit
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    WhatTheFrag promoted this comment Aparanoidandroi was starred Aparanoidandroi was unstarred
    Image of WhatTheFrag WhatTheFrag
    09/21/09

    @Aparanoidandroi: It doesn't help that the game has a very similar font-type as the band either - the only difference is in the 'b's
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    WhatTheFrag was starred WhatTheFrag was unstarred
    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    09/21/09

    @Aparanoidandroi: Watch this video, and then it will be easy to keep them straight:

    [kotaku.com]

    The band is "Blur" and the videogame, according to how the devs pronounce it, is either "Blegh" or "Blair".
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    Yossarian was starred Yossarian was unstarred
    Image of pissa pissa
    09/21/09

    In reply to Blur Release Blurred To 2010
    one word....WTF?????
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    pissa was starred pissa was unstarred
    Image of One Man Freak Show One Man Freak Show
    09/21/09

    @pissa: That's actually three words.
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    Heliophage promoted this comment One Man Freak Show was starred One Man Freak Show was unstarred
    Image of Heliophage Heliophage
    09/21/09

    @One Man Freak Show:

    Not if you pronounce it as one. Sort of like 'oofth'.
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    Heliophage was starred Heliophage was unstarred
    Image of Yossarian Yossarian
    09/21/09

    @One Man Freak Show: but a single acronym.
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