The hell? Thats not a 360!

[imperialwar]

Just a quick comment on mixed technoligies: I used to play my commodore 64 with my Mega Drive controller. Yup, they were compatable XD

 

[Archereus]

Just a quick comment on mixed technoligies: I used to play my commodore 64 with my Mega Drive controller. Yup, they were compatable XD

yeah but the things you would see in the movied are completely not relevent. Some one was playing with a ps2 controller on a friggin gamecube, some of the things are just rediculus

 

[minoes]

ok, i can stabing my head with a fork now

Come on, what good will that do?

numb the fact that the sega dream cast was called amazing and a dominant game system

I know it´s hard, but someday you´ll come to accept it´s "amazing" glory.

 

[Archereus]

ok, i can stabing my head with a fork now

Come on, what good will that do?

numb the fact that the sega dream cast was called amazing and a dominant game system

I know it´s hard, but someday you´ll come to accept it´s "amazing" glory.

yeah maybe some day. Maybe when i am on my death bed with my lap top on the escapist i might just make that thread to make you happy

hahahhahahahaha

 

[imperialwar]

Oh for sure ArchWiccan, very much so.
I loath the Wizard Double Dragon fail, and movies / shows where it is obvious it just a demo or some such.

 

[shatnershaman]

Some do get it right though. Like the Stratford branch of Dunder Mifflin (The Office,The Coup episode) got Call of Duty right.

 

[KungFuMaster]

Reasons why the show, "Weeds" is awesome: +1.
Of course, that show does a lot of things right.

Hell yeah! That show rocks my socks!

*Ahem*

I remember a commercial about a "credit fairy", in which these two dudes were playing a console game that may or may not have been an Atari 2600 using what looked like PC USB controllers. It was tragic, to say the least.

On a different note, remember that part in Grandma's Boy when Covert and the chimp were playing Xbox and the T.V. wasn't even on? I still laugh like an idiot when I see that.

They were wasted as doorknobs.
gawd I love that movie

"I want you to take the Frankenstein shit, the Deer shit, the Green Monster, the Bling and the Bling-Bling and I want you to roll it all into one joint."

"No one's ever been brave enough to try that."

"One man is. Roll it."

Fuck yeah.

 

[TOO S0BER]

You're right: that's not a 360. That's a space station.

(It was the first thing I thought when I saw the title. It had to be done - plus I finally had a relevant excuse to link to the Red Ring of Death Star.)

Yes lol. It shoots its laser at a planet and fries all the ps3s lol

Because the red ring o death sooooo effects the ps3...brillant logic right there...

Anywho i remeber watching some show where a kid says hes playing the "new" Final Fantasy which had Final Fantasy II music while he held a 360 controller and it flashed a scene of XIII...o the horror

Wow...it was a joke dude. Dont get your panties in a bunch >_>

 

[mangus]

the orignal doom's graphics while holding a playstation 2 controller and hearing noises from crappy little handheld games is what I see most often in movies.

 

[Wargamer]

the orignal doom's graphics while holding a playstation 2 controller and hearing noises from crappy little handheld games is what I see most often in movies.

If they are holding a PSX controller, you can get away with it; DooM was ported onto the PSX with a (minor) graphical update. However, if it has "PC" sounds it would be wrong, as they upgraded those considerably for the port.

I suppose the argument TV-land wants us to buy now is that people go out and buy a state-of-the-art console just to download Retro games off Xbox Live / PSN, and never play a modern game.

 

[Arionis]

the orignal doom's graphics while holding a playstation 2 controller and hearing noises from crappy little handheld games is what I see most often in movies.

If they are holding a PSX controller, you can get away with it; DooM was ported onto the PSX with a (minor) graphical update. However, if it has "PC" sounds it would be wrong, as they upgraded those considerably for the port.

I suppose the argument TV-land wants us to buy now is that people go out and buy a state-of-the-art console just to download Retro games off Xbox Live / PSN, and never play a modern game.

I remember I hated Charlie's Angels simply for the fact it showed TWO little kids, controllers in hand, playing Final Fantasy VIII.

 

[hazabaza1]

Anyone remember the Resident Evil episode of Spaced? That was awesome.

Hell yes. It was sweet.

 

[10BIT]

Whenever a DS is used in a TV show/film, it always has a touch screen intensive game on the screens (usually Metroid Prime: Hunters) yet the kid (for only kids play on the DS apparently) always presses random buttons as quickly as possible.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

I never really noticed any of these. Even on the Scrubs episode I actually thought they were playing Halo 3. I will probably start noticing a lot more now that I have been enlightened.

 

[P1p3s]

Anyone remember the Resident Evil episode of Spaced? That was awesome.

Superbness all the way - but see simon pegg strikes me as a guy who would say "we were going to film an episode today but I fancied some gaming - hmm how can I combine these 2 things of awesomeness!!!"

Tragically however this episode also proves that violent gamage can have a detromental effect on ones mind
dundunduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

 

[lazerwolf]

I'm sure most of the general audiences that these shows and movies are made for don't care for the amount of detail you guys are getting all pissed off over. So what if he's holding the wrong controller or anything. its a MINOR detail in a movie (unless of course its a movie about playing videogames)

However the button masher stereotype is hilariously bad and overdone

 

[Wargamer]

I'm sure most of the general audiences that these shows and movies are made for don't care for the amount of detail you guys are getting all pissed off over. So what if he's holding the wrong controller or anything. its a MINOR detail in a movie (unless of course its a movie about playing videogames)

However the button masher stereotype is hilariously bad and overdone

Little details bother a lot of people. Imagine, if you will, how bloody stupid it would seem to have a film set entirely in Britain, yet have the driver's seat on the left.

It's a lot easier to make people believe there's a 17th Century galleon flying through the air into the sunset if the Captain didn't specifically state to head due north.

Get the little things right, and the big things don't have to be.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Another vote for the Big Bang Theory, I've really enjoyed it so far, and although, yeah, they don't get everything right, at least they try, and they actually make gamer jokes, along with all the science stuff.

The one where they're all playing WOW and one gets the sword, ebays it, and...stuff happens, I thought was excellent and hopefully not too excluding of non WOWers.

I wonder if sometimes it is a case that they don't wish to show real stuff being used in the real way in case they're sued for some wild reason.

As for people here taking this too seriously? You did notice you're at the Escapist, right, the obsessive gamer's forum? We're gonna notice these things, and they're gonna bug us!

 

[lazerwolf]

I'm sure most of the general audiences that these shows and movies are made for don't care for the amount of detail you guys are getting all pissed off over. So what if he's holding the wrong controller or anything. its a MINOR detail in a movie (unless of course its a movie about playing videogames)

However the button masher stereotype is hilariously bad and overdone

Get the little things right, and the big things don't have to be.

Thats not necessarily true. Sure little things enhance a show or movie but they will never replace a broken plot or lack of direction. thats like saying a piece of shit is great because it has all the little details of shit but at the end of the day its still shit

 

[axlr4]

In mexico every system is a nintando i am dead serious my uncel was playing a ps1 and he called it a nintendo not even an spacific console but the company. I was on a trip to mexico and some lady ask her son if he wanted to play his nintando. HOLY SHIT he has a whole freakin copany in the plane. And he can just play with it as he plase? dam..i want one..