By Jim Rossignol on January 21st, 2011 at 4:06 pm.
Focus Interactive’s forthcoming adventure The Next Big Thing, which is apparently “wacky” and set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, has a black and white parody trailer out, which you can see below. It features heroines, robots, more robots, a boxing gentleman, and Quintin having a bath (as you can see pictured above). Whether it’s actually the next big thing? Well, I would suggest: “No.” It’s the next game from Pendulo, who previously produced the Runaway series. That apparently sold a million copies. Which means something. See if you can work out what that is.
21/01/2011 at 16:11 Maxheadroom says:
Sorry, I got as far as ‘wacky’ & ‘Golden age of Hollywood’ before hitting the back button
(then hitting forward again and posting this comment but you catch my drift)
21/01/2011 at 16:43 Kryopsis says:
You’re new to that apathy thing, aren’t you?
21/01/2011 at 16:57 Consumatopia says:
No, no, it’s actually fairly common for one to be so bored by something that the fact that it’s boring becomes interesting. Not that the (first order) thing itself becomes interesting, but the (second order) fact that one finds it so boring becomes interesting.
I’m not sure that this reaches that level of boring, though. I’m more interested in the (third order) issue of the difference between first and second order boredom.
21/01/2011 at 17:34 Rich says:
“This was met with yawns” [haaaah] “…angry yawns” [HAAGH!]
25/01/2011 at 03:00 anonymousity says:
Maybe you should have refrained from posting then.
21/01/2011 at 16:12 Jhoosier says:
Quintin’s that square-jawed?
21/01/2011 at 16:23 Baboonanza says:
It’s going to be ‘A’ Thing?
21/01/2011 at 16:26 Assaf says:
well, it’s a bad trailer.
21/01/2011 at 16:38 Javier-de-Ass says:
no fans of the Runaway series? damn man
21/01/2011 at 17:10 patricij says:
One million of all of them? Not that great…
21/01/2011 at 17:34 Bhazor says:
And neither were the games.
21/01/2011 at 18:09 Kirrus says:
So, there’s the Scout, and there’s the Heavy. Now all we’re missing is the sniper, spy and pyro, and we’ve got the set!
21/01/2011 at 18:29 Shih Tzu says:
Wish there were more actual black-and-white games. There’s, what, Limbo? There was also Sadness, a black-and-white gothic horror game for the Wii that was announced but eventually canceled.
Oh yeah, and there’s Negative Spacecraft. Everyone should play that.
http://www.addictinggames.com/negative-spacecraft-game.html
21/01/2011 at 22:09 Andy_Panthro says:
Discworld Noir was in B&W afaik.
Was supposed to be good, but I never got around to playing it.
21/01/2011 at 23:50 Cinnamon says:
I enjoyed Discworld Noir but it wasn’t in black and white. Unless your monitor was broken or something.
Mad World for the Wii was mostly in black and white but it also wasn’t very good. I’d recommend playing a better game on a black and white tv.
22/01/2011 at 06:10 Thants says:
Saboteur did some nice things with black and white.
22/01/2011 at 06:56 Tunips says:
Vigil; Blood Bitterness was B&W. With the occasional splash of primary colour and madness.
21/01/2011 at 20:50 Chopper says:
I like the cut of its jib.
Certainly the most interesting entry today compared to the 4 items either side of it.
21/01/2011 at 23:49 malkav11 says:
If Runaway had been any good at all I would be more excited.
24/01/2011 at 18:16 phlebas says:
I only played the first one. It came really close to being good several times, which was much more annoying than just being all round bad.
23/01/2011 at 08:17 Odeed says:
‘Cos, you know, the golden age of Hollywood was totally in the silent era, not 20 years later… I know, I know, I am a pretentious film student, but if you’re going to advertise your game as being set in “the golden age of Hollywood” (1940s), at least show some awareness of it.