What's the story behind the Plastic PS3 demo?
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http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2008/10/09/review-linger-in-shadows/
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We’re probably victims of our own hype here, but this a) should have been free and b) much, much better. There was huge scope for something here, but we can’t help shake the feeling that someone got involved at the wrong stage and changed what could have been an impressive technical example of the PS3’s graphics muscle into a rudimentary, almost insultingly basic joystick tester - as a demo it’s great, but would have benefitted from remaining a demo. Budbrain Megademo, all is forgiven.
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now we should start spreading gossip there's a hidden part with pr0n. kind of gold trophy or how they call them ;)
http://www.gamervision.com/gamer/miss_anthropy/reviews/article/review_linger_in_shadows
now that would have been quite fun :)
and hail to the mighty fairwizards!
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Above everything else, it's an exquisite aesthetic experience. I felt I was floating in the shared dream-space of Mamoru Oshii, Erick Oh, Tarsem Singh, Darren Aronofsky, Dave McKean and a little bit of the cursed video tape from The Ring. It's a stream of liminal imagery cut from the time-space dream cloth, evanescent and yet tangible, ephemeral and yet frozen forever. It also might kill you in 7 days.
now that would have been quite fun :)
and hail to the mighty fairwizards!
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I remember seeing this at Breakout 2008 (demoscene event) in Germany this spring and I’m exited to finally see this on PSN.
which translates to "I've never been to breakpoint and have no clue about the demoscene whatsoever, I just heard about these rumors and watched the video and then wrote a stupid blog post about it to hype our gamesite" :-)
let's wait until somebody misspells Plushstic, I mean Flashstick... dammit!
splashtic ? :)
Well, most of the reaction I've seen has been positive. Maybe some of them will bee intrigued enough to find out more. It's nice to see that people "get it".
As ironic as it may seem, I believe that is due to the fact you have to pay for it.
It's not expensive but it's not free, so basically you are left outside wondering what it is if you don't take the "risk" of paying an "admittance fee" for the ride.
It makes people curious because most people cannot really define what it is and they want to see for themselves.
Part of its success exists because most of the world has no idea of what the demoscene is. For once I'd say it is a good thing.
It's not expensive but it's not free, so basically you are left outside wondering what it is if you don't take the "risk" of paying an "admittance fee" for the ride.
It makes people curious because most people cannot really define what it is and they want to see for themselves.
Part of its success exists because most of the world has no idea of what the demoscene is. For once I'd say it is a good thing.
Everyone is failing at mentioning plastic's other work, right? No mentions to 195/95 or Into the Pink?
On some gaming forum:
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Linger in Shadows when me and three of my friends are half asleep at 1:30 in the morning and the lights are off whooooooooaaaaaaa
It was a really creepy experience. We had no idea what was going.
So, is it a failure already or did this marketing ploy actually work for Sony?
I'm gonna check a thread I created in a gamerlamer forum. BRB.
Hum. Some guy just posted about the "DemoScene". I like how people ignore what I write there.
Hum. Some guy just posted about the "DemoScene". I like how people ignore what I write there.
Lol just clicked into the playstation store on my ps3 ... now i can buy linger in shadows for only 2,99€ to look at it on my ps3! SELLOUT HORRAY!
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Is this the first demo ever that you HAVE to pay for, if you want to watch it, on pouet.net?
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Voyeurs...
don't you have to be a member of Microsoft's "pay us to develop for our machine" club (I forget its real name) to watch demos for the 360, though..?
Coul be, but that is payment for the platform. You also have to buy a PC to watch PC demos. You can't compare it imho.
You pay for the pc, you pay for windows (well, if you can't figure out how not to ;) and I think it should end there. Paying extra for tools to write stuff I can kind of get, but not to watch something made with those tools. it's like if fr sold werkzeug.. I could understand it, and if I wanted to use it and it was a reasonable price I'd buy it, but would you pay money just to watch demos made with it?
For the plastic demo, I can forgive it a bit more - the fee is very small, and it gives sony something back for the work on it + hosting, bandwidth etc.
For the plastic demo, I can forgive it a bit more - the fee is very small, and it gives sony something back for the work on it + hosting, bandwidth etc.
Everybody could watch it for free at BP and still can with the video links that are here on Pouet. If you own a PS3 and want to play it, that's a different story.
Ok, interesting new definition of a demo... You have to pay for the binary but you can watch the video for free!
Your understanding of the definition is quite limited... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demo
So you are saying everything in that list qualifies as valid demos in the demoscene? Cool, quite some stuff to add to the pouet.net database then!
I don't want to sound like an aardbei fanboy but the question the strawberry'ish one is an important one.
Does Linger In Shadows, as a comercial product, belongs here at pouët? There are cases in the past of comercial products being added to the database (like some trackers? and some other private/business/tech demos, like this and that). But those lost their comercial value (?) with time, and we still only have a video of one of the examples. Linger In Shadows, as it is on pouët, is just a video of a comercial product, even if done by a well known and loved ;) demogroup.
I'm not saying I care, as I don't have a PS3, and for me watching a video of it is just like watching a video of an amiga demo, other than the fact that people that want to watch the real thing have to pay for it (and I wouldn't mind paying €3 for it). There was a simillar discussion about the xbox360 demos in the past.
Most people including plastic will stay on the pc forever, so this is just yet another discussion about a certain production belonging or not at pouet.
I know I'm just a lame troll and I should have something better to do.
Does Linger In Shadows, as a comercial product, belongs here at pouët? There are cases in the past of comercial products being added to the database (like some trackers? and some other private/business/tech demos, like this and that). But those lost their comercial value (?) with time, and we still only have a video of one of the examples. Linger In Shadows, as it is on pouët, is just a video of a comercial product, even if done by a well known and loved ;) demogroup.
I'm not saying I care, as I don't have a PS3, and for me watching a video of it is just like watching a video of an amiga demo, other than the fact that people that want to watch the real thing have to pay for it (and I wouldn't mind paying €3 for it). There was a simillar discussion about the xbox360 demos in the past.
Most people including plastic will stay on the pc forever, so this is just yet another discussion about a certain production belonging or not at pouet.
I know I'm just a lame troll and I should have something better to do.
"strawberry'ish one" should be "strawberry'ish one raised"