Meet the Game Dogs - Gary and Bethany

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Abedeus

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Littlenorwegians said:
BTW, when is the first episode of this coming out?

...Seriously? I mean, seriously? You missed the giant "Meet the Game Dogs" banner on the left that says "Starting this Thursday"?
 

shark attack

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Oh good, the girl one is violent and an artist. Does she secretly fangirl over anime bishies too? Kick the boys' butts at fighting games? Make jokes about shooting people's crotches in HALO? This territory is new and exciting.

And seriously people, stop crying "stop hating on furries!" and "Disney did it first!" every time someone thinks a character has no reason to be an animal. If it acts like a human, lives in a society exactly like ours and is completely human-shaped except a big cartoony dog head they really might have a point. There's a difference between drawing a cartoon dog that walks on two legs and talks, and drawing a human-shaped character with a dog head and a tail.

Plus; putting breasts on your animal characters is never a good sign.
 

Earthmonger

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Russ Pitts said:
Earthmonger said:
Dunno if it's been asked yet, but, why does the theme music sound like it's totally ripped off from Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper"?
The music in the trailer is a track by our long-time composer Ian Dorsch called "More Cowbell," which he wrote for me a few years ago after I specifically asked him for a track that "sounds just like 'Don't Fear the Reaper.'" We used it for this trailer because it happened to be the exact length we needed, and worked stylistically.

The actual theme music for the series is a different track, also composed by Ian Dorsch, which you'll hear on Thursday.
Well, guess that explains that pretty thoroughly. Are you a fan, Herr Pitts?

(Wow, that's a horrible title in combination with your name, but I'll leave it because I think it's funny.)

Back to the subject at hand; have you seen any of these full episodes? Is it genuinely a mediocre trailer?
 

Littlenorwegians

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Abedeus said:
Littlenorwegians said:
BTW, when is the first episode of this coming out?

...Seriously? I mean, seriously? You missed the giant "Meet the Game Dogs" banner on the left that says "Starting this Thursday"?
OK, I don't see the banner you're talking about.
My web browser is obscuring or outright removing things from webpages.

That and I have noscript and similar programs that might have removed it.

EDIT: Ah, I see it. But I have to constantly reload the page for it is only visible for half a second.
 

BonerMacTittyPants

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John Funk said:
Furburt said:
John Funk said:
What, did you guys never watch TV in the 80s and 90s? That's like saying, "Gee, Darkwing Duck was great and all, but why did he have to be a DUCK? He'd have been much better as a crime-fighting human!"
Yes, but it never even references it except to say 'You dogs' instead of 'You guys'
At least that's what I can glean from the trailer and the bios.
It just seems unnecessarily distracting, if it's only going to be aesthetic.

But hey, I'm no pro at this stuff, but I know what I find funny, and this wasn't to me.
But other people seem to like it, so it doesn't bother me.

I just won't watch it.
Again, shows like Darkwing Duck, Samurai Pizza Cats, Animaniacs, etc. - where the hell is the plot relevance to them being ducks, or cats, or whatever the hell they are? There isn't any.

Oh no, Baloo is a bear and he's piloting a plane!

I'm sorry, as someone who grew up on cartoons about animals acting like humans, this just seems like the silliest damn complaint I have ever, ever heard.
Oh hey, let's think about things we didn't have back then.

1)The age of >10.
2)A fully developed ability of critical thinking.
3)Furries.
4)Crudely animated shows with absolutely no fresh content.

Eh, I remember times when animals were used as symbols of certain character traits. Granted, there is no reason for Mickey being a mouse, nor do his animal characteristics represent anything, but who is his main audience? KIDS.

Currently, animated shows use animals to appeal to KIDS. When an animated series about a group developing video games, targeted at the audiences of the age 15 and above, hosts a cast of anthropomorphic animals, tell me how is that not even slightly odd.
 

chromewarriorXIII

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They showed a longer trailer of this at GameX and it wasn't all that great. Afterwards everyone just sorta stared and didn't know what to say. I know that I won't be watching it.
 

Jakkar

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Worrying furry. It has a hard-to-define look about it that seems to be targetting a large teenage population who wish they had a tail. Or a girlfriend. These two seem to get confused, along with gender and sexuality. Usually at the same time. Garh, humanity.

Can't help but think The Escapist is really losing it.
 

Garaw

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I'm sort of wondering why their personnel department is called 'Human Resources'.
 

elilupe

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Furries!!!

But seriously now, this actually looks like it could be good, if it doesnt go the way of apocalypse lane.
 

Russ Pitts

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Earthmonger said:
Russ Pitts said:
Earthmonger said:
Dunno if it's been asked yet, but, why does the theme music sound like it's totally ripped off from Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper"?
The music in the trailer is a track by our long-time composer Ian Dorsch called "More Cowbell," which he wrote for me a few years ago after I specifically asked him for a track that "sounds just like 'Don't Fear the Reaper.'" We used it for this trailer because it happened to be the exact length we needed, and worked stylistically.

The actual theme music for the series is a different track, also composed by Ian Dorsch, which you'll hear on Thursday.
Well, guess that explains that pretty thoroughly. Are you a fan, Herr Pitts?

(Wow, that's a horrible title in combination with your name, but I'll leave it because I think it's funny.)

Back to the subject at hand; have you seen any of these full episodes? Is it genuinely a mediocre trailer?
Am I a fan of what? This series? You know that I created it, wrote it and directed and produced it, right?

I would say then that, yes, I am a fan of Game Dogs. I have also seen five complete episodes of the series and the scripts for the following seven. They are ALL AWESOME, I assure you ;)
 

Russ Pitts

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Garaw said:
I'm sort of wondering why their personnel department is called 'Human Resources'.
Yeah, you know, in retrospect, that doesn't make much sense does it? Proof, I guess, that we weren't necessarily going for "butt sniff" type humor. The chance to use that one pun just totally slipped my mind.

I suppose we could start calling it "canine resources," but we'd have to re-edit at least one episode, and I'm not sure I care that much. It's kind of an obvious joke, you know, so not really worth it.

If it helps, you can consider we're using the term "Human Resources" the same way people say "Kleenex" when they actually mean "store brand facial tissue." It's a specific term that has become generalized over time.
 

UAProxy

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Huh. It's... I dunno. I'll give it a looksee when the actual episodes come out, but I'm still not entirely sold here.
 

Russ Pitts

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chromewarriorXIII said:
They showed a longer trailer of this at GameX and it wasn't all that great. Afterwards everyone just sorta stared and didn't know what to say. I know that I won't be watching it.
Sorry you didn't like it. I actually talked to some of the people who were at the showing in Philadelphia and they had positive things to say, mainly about the individual characters, etc.

If you remember your exact impressions of the showing, can you send me a PM? I'm curious to hear what you liked/didn't like.
 

remmus

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really sad the public view of furries have been blurred by sh*t thrown by people that rather lie then understand...cheesh if this keeps going the word furry will pass by f*ck and become the new "f word"


anyway enough rants endues by tiredness OT: as I said in the other thread about the show, seam meh might see 2-3 episodes and if not good I´ll pass
 

Eudaemonian

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thecaptainof said:
Honestly, I don't think there's many people here old enough to remember much of the 90s, let alone the 80s. If they do, it'll be the end bit when this sort of thing wasn't fashionable so much
As someone whose birth year does not end in 9X or god forbid "ought X", I really hope this is not true of the site's demographics.
 

Bagaloo

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Come on, people! Give it a chance at least.
When we first saw the trailer for Doomsday Arcade, there were people who thought it would be shit. Same for Unskippable. Same for Apocolypse Lane. And yet, once we had given them a chance, the majority of us loved them.

I myself had my doubts about all three, but I gave them a chance, watched 2 or 3 episodes of each, and now I check them out every time they bring out a new one.
 

ironmace2.0

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I know you spent ages macking this but sry I think it sucks. The animations good but the comedy is not.