New Lips game out this autumn Comments by Robert Purchese
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YobRenoops
27/05/09 @ 15:10
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Extreme - More Than Words.
I would almost by a 360 and Lips and Mics just to sing this. Its sorely missing from my 230 or so Singstore songs. |
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"The gaming market looks pretty good on the whole for them, but as a company, they're on their way out of being one of the dominating software houses. "
yes, right... Linux it taking over. Oh..., I've been hearing that for 10 years now. Or maybe OraSolaris the OS for the masses, it'll bring the DBA in you! lol ? |
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@miiiguel Im guessing you havent been keeping track of how much dominance Microsoft have lost in the software market because of big companies like Adobe and Apple...
Microsoft have taken a huge market share loss because of it. All of their software products (bar the gaming market) are crumbling before them. They're hoping Windows 7 will save them. |
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I'm very aware :) believe me.
The point is nor Adobe or Apple are a threat to MS in the mass market OS buisness, there are simple no competition, whatsoever in that market. There are reports stating loss of market share, but then you see the figure: Windows: 89,5%; Apple 9-10%; Linux 0,5- 1%. I'm not saying this is good, is not - competition is good, but not in rethoric. Not to mention the buisness market. We did a pilot test here to put CentOS in all our clients (we run a country-wide service of 5000 users), and... it simple didn't work. Local support inexistent; users weren't familiar; too many updates; a pain to upgrade the HW... you name it. We renewed the Select license.
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Mentalist(air)
27/05/09 @ 17:10
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Wasn't there a news report some weeks ago about Lips' scoring system being revised in a sequel and/or a downloadable title update?
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Mentalist(air)
27/05/09 @ 17:13
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http://kotaku.com/5160884/lips-getting-b...
Oh, the better scoring is supposed to be live already. Has anybody tried it, is it fixed? |
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this game is genuinely shite. I actually lent it to a friend to dissuade him from buying it, and haveny even bothered to ask for it back. well wide of the mark MS, and as for the "lips mics >>>>>singstar mics" comment above - it doesnt matter how good the hardware is if the software sucks balls. I own both consoles and games, and could previously have been branded an xbot, but singstar really pisses all over this substandard ip.
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I think the first Lips game was underrated. I really enjoyed many of the songs and the microphones are great. The UI was easy to use and aesthetically pleasant. The music videos were entertaining. You're allowed to sing as badly or as beautifully as you like with no penalty. There is definitely room for improvement, but one thing I disagree with the EG review on is the need for variable difficulty levels. Also, I don't know why Eurogamer would say the the follow-up is the same game when they haven't tested it yet and it's far from release???
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They should include mashups of Norwegian Recycling.
If you don't know him yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66QJH7kxh_Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JKKl95Ttrc Awesomeness. |
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onyx_elite
27/05/09 @ 21:09
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I can't believe an article about a singing game spawned a comments thread about Microsoft's market position. Who gives a shit? One crappy game isn't going to make a blind bit of difference. I guarantee no-one at MS HQ gives a blind bollock about it.
It was an attempt to capture a portion of the casual gaming crowd. They've done that. Yes it's rubbish but casual gamers aren't going to care and they'll still happily download billions of songs on DLC, making MS a pretty penny. |
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designerheadache
27/05/09 @ 21:13
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"Does anyone here actually realise that Lips outsold any Singstar game released last year in the UK? Can't speak for the rest of the world."
@Krudster, one game may have out sold *one* singstar package, but all of them? I highly doubt it, the fact remains (especially now the PS3 version plays PS2 discs) that in order to even be competitive Microsoft really need to step up the competition and currently at the moment Lips is a very substand sloppy IP that needs a re-think. Its got potential but its going up against a mamoth franchise with utterly devoted members, switching them is going to take more than there terrible first effort! |
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SpaceMidget75
27/05/09 @ 22:12
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Fuck me, do you lot wanna over dramatise or what??
I've got both, and the fact is they're played at parties. All we do is select a song and sing it. They both do the job. You might prefer one to the other but to make out that Lips is complete shit just makes you sound like a twat. I personally think the wireless mics are great as my Playstation has been pulled off the table 3 times now! I have more tunes for Singstar so obviously that's a big help, but the fundamental Lips software does the same thing! Also, the Singstar software doesn't get away Scott free. The amount of times that people have struggled with the menu system when they first try to figure out where they need to go for two player competitive is quite surprising. |
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@betahoven, "The simplicity of the Singstar mics is what makes them more suitable for the karaoke game audience. MS just don't "get" the casual market, and the way they assumed that they could outdo Singstar by making the hardware more complex is a perfect example."
Hardware more complex? What can be less complex than pressing a button to turn a mic on? I don't know how it is in your world, but in mine I use a button to turn on my TV, my console, my digital camera and even my microwave. And, it may be surprising for you to know, I consider none of those a "complex" task. |
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@betahoven,
I'm now somewhat more confused. How is having flashing lights in a mic somehow more complex? Or even the ability to shake a mic to make a cowbell sound? And how are either of those more complex than having to plug in a dongle to get the "wirelless" mics to work? Honestly, I really wouldn't want to live in your world where a coloured light makes a product too confusing to use. |
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SpaceMidget75
28/05/09 @ 09:54
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"Doesnt change the fact that this is a really bad party game, desite it being designed for it. "
Is it REALLY BAD? Is it? What's really bad about it then? |
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Mentalist(air)
28/05/09 @ 10:40
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So nobody knows if there has been any scoring improvement via title update, then?
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"The amount of times that people have struggled with the menu system when they first try to figure out where they need to go for two player competitive is quite surprising."
For real?! Thought it was the default selection. But maybe that's the case after you've played it once. Can't recall what it was like the first time I played the game. |
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mezzomorto
28/05/09 @ 15:36
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Never played SingStar so I can't compare.
Nevertheless, the fundamental issue I have with Lips is the choice (or lack thereof) of songs. Also, I often bemused at which songs they offer for download (although admittedly I'm an old buffer in gaming terms so maybe I'm just out of touch with what the "kids" want). Finally, for the non- UK market, it astonishes me that they've only released English-language songs to downloadable. Come on MS, there's a whole back catalogue of cheesy Spanish songs to select from (and I'm sure the licensing on some of them must be pretty cheap these days)! |
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