By Kieron Gillen on February 18th, 2008 at 9:41 am.
It’s time for, to paraphrase Al Lowe’s memorable line, the first videotape from his son’s new kidnappers. How are the Leeds’ very own Team 17 looking after Larry?
Wan… I mean, Thanks GameTrailers!
For the record, RPS’ favourite Gears of War advert parody remains the one a mate of mine did a year ago.
18/02/2008 at 09:50 Mo says:
Yeah, that was incredibly unfunny. I didn’t even crack a smile once.
Also, you meant Gears of War, but that just goes to show how bloody generic videogame names are.
18/02/2008 at 09:58 Kieron Gillen says:
It’s funny that Walker and I were spending a good ten minutes fiddling with the video and text to get it to do what we wanted, and hadn’t even reached the bottom of the post.
KG
18/02/2008 at 10:10 AbyssUK says:
Am sorry.. but part of me just died.
18/02/2008 at 10:15 Yhancik says:
No matter how good or bad this trailer is, I demand more (better) parody in videogames.
We seriously need a Mel Brooks of games.
18/02/2008 at 10:17 Flint says:
That pseudo-Larry’s movement looked really, really wonky.
18/02/2008 at 10:43 James Lyon says:
It needs a really awful pun to go with it. Leers of War, surely?
18/02/2008 at 11:21 Binni says:
This looks stupid and horrible all around. Why does it have to look so much like a 10 year old kids game? What is actually funny about someone staring at badly rendered boobs and why do you have to make a whole game out of that joke? It’s the same problem as with Monkey Island 4. It just looks terribly unfunny and bad.
18/02/2008 at 11:36 Lu-Tze says:
The “Thriller” element was more than a little odd.
18/02/2008 at 11:53 phuzz says:
aww Team17, what happened to you?
18/02/2008 at 12:01 drunkymonkey says:
To be fair, it looks ten times better than the previous Larry offering.
18/02/2008 at 12:41 Muscrat says:
What the hell did they do to Larry? :|
18/02/2008 at 13:17 The_B says:
Gears of Whore, perhaps?
18/02/2008 at 13:36 Zaptrack says:
Tears of war?
Tears of a whore?
Gears of whore?
Fears of war?
Fears of a whore?
Leisure suit larry: This game is rated M but anyone older then 17 won’t buy it
18/02/2008 at 13:43 Kieron Gillen says:
I have no idea where people get the idea that RPS are just all about terrible puns. We’re also about song references.
KG
18/02/2008 at 14:04 The_B says:
But Music is My Hot Hot Sex would only work with AudioSurf, and I refuse to let the non Al Lowe Larry steal Love Machine.
¬_¬
18/02/2008 at 14:51 Richard says:
Marketing A Comedy Game, Step #1
Don’t make your inability to be funny the most laughable thing in your whole trailer.
18/02/2008 at 15:57 Lucky says:
Eeh, I was more amused than I ever was during Magna Cum Laude, which may not be much but still something.
18/02/2008 at 19:35 cHeal says:
Looks cracking!
18/02/2008 at 21:13 TychoCelchuuu says:
I guess I’m the only person on Earth who liked this. Oh well. I’m branded with shame forever!
18/02/2008 at 21:50 Masked Dave says:
Meh, I laughed.
18/02/2008 at 22:06 Zarniwoop says:
So that’ll be a 30% PCG score, then?
Sounds about right.
18/02/2008 at 22:43 drunkymonkey says:
Spot on.
19/10/2008 at 03:47 M. P. says:
So what happened to this? It was supposed to be released sometime in Autumn, which is kinda now unless I’ve been indoors for too long. Did it get shelved? Didn’t realise Team17 was making this… I don’t think they’ve ever done any adventure games have they?