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Atari claims to be "improving" G2 for US release
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konny666
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A thought occurred to me. What if they thought that, to get better sales of the product, they should market it for the "Teen rating". Which means that words like "shit" has to be removed. Therefore, they have to re-do all those voice-overs which use such words.

In which case, the game would end up being really screwed up, the voices that Atari finds might not match with the original product's voices, or even be worse.

Who has faith in Atari (Infogrames) anyways? If you follow the gaming industry, you would know that they're more prone to MISTAKE than success.

So once again, any yankee gamers still in need of some G2 action, just order it from europe already.
Post Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:33 am
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thats what i did and im hapy with it the patch will be out before the game itself will be released in the US so i say screw that just order it
Post Sun Jul 20, 2003 8:02 pm
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heheh they wont order those voice actors back again so they could make non bad talk inside and they probably wont put in those bad words *BEEEP* in so they are probably talking shjit

Order the UK version and that will solve the problem later u get a patch also etc
Post Sun Jul 20, 2003 8:10 pm
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the patch is deffinitely comming sooner that the us release
Post Sun Jul 20, 2003 8:14 pm
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quote:
Originally posted by Gorath

Now letīs imagine Atari has the right and the intention to change stuff which canīt be simply toggled in the .ini and isnīt covered by the upcoming patch.
How are they going to implement the changes? Impossible without sources and customized tools. Even if they have both, who should make it? You canīt read soures like a book. Even if Atari finds qualified developers they would probably need 4 weeks until they understand what they are doing.
So practically only PB can do it, but this will delay their work on the new project. I guess theyīll only do it they have no other choice. Time is money.




Agreed. I find it highly unlikely that Atari would waste internal resources on trying to modify/alter PB's code base. Do they even have that kind of talent within the company? They are not a development house and are focused on distribution issues. Any desired software changes would most likely be delegated out to Pirhanna Bytes. And since we know for a fact that PB is not working on any kind of "improvements" other than a bug fixing patch, it is doutbful that the US version will be anything other than the European release + the latest patch.
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Post Sun Jul 20, 2003 8:47 pm
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well put elkston
Post Sun Jul 20, 2003 8:56 pm
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hehehe bug fix would be cool tho
Post Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:32 pm
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quote:
Originally posted by SilentSam
It will be interesting to see what exactly they mean by 'improve'...

By the way, have you guys tried turning the blood levels all the way up in the .ini file? Set the blood level to 3 (max)...so much better!


Yes, not as messy as some games I have played. One side effect is that bloody trails are left on the ground and seem to persist for quite a while. Try running around on the ice in the mountains.
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Post Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:54 pm
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hmm i think ill do that
Post Mon Jul 21, 2003 12:49 am
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u will get nice broken ribbs after that
Post Mon Jul 21, 2003 12:19 pm
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What I hate about "Atari" is the fact that they have hijacked the old brand name Atari, which actually meant something back in the olden days... if you are an olden gamer like me then you will remember Atari for all the good things they gave the industry "way back then" ... but now they're just a mediocre publishing house who got sick of their silly french name so they hijacked a popular american cultural brand of the 1980's. pooh on them!

<-- still has his Atari 130XE


oops sorry for the off-topic rant
Post Mon Jul 21, 2003 4:37 pm
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Didn’t they hit the market shortly after pong? Man…I’m getting old.
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Post Mon Jul 21, 2003 4:55 pm
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i thought pong was for the atari, or was it on the other relic that i cant remember, wait they could get sued for copyright infringement since the name atari is copyrighted by the original atari corporation

<also still has an atari
Post Mon Jul 21, 2003 5:30 pm
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I still have my 2600!
Infogrames bought the brand name because they bought the company owning it.
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Post Mon Jul 21, 2003 5:32 pm
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well ten, thanx for clearing that up jaz you ruined my next line of senseless ramblings, thank you very much!

just kidding everyone should put in their 2 cents
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