You do realize that entry refers to the official game, and not this one, right?

Anyway... I played a bit of this... And I'm not so fond of the setting. I hate that whole ghetto "gangsta fo life" thing, and I've never been much of a baseball player. The gameplay however, was better then any fangame I had ever seen. Seriously, those battles, the movements, the reaction thing, really, and this all with Gamemaker. Awesome, that's all I can say. Now the only thing I'd wish for is this gameplay implemented in a classic "Alex goes out to save the world" RPG.

Oh yeah, I think you should refrain from trying to let the actual Charles Barkley know about this. Publicity is nice, but can also be dangerous. The copyrights for using his character don't belong to you.

This post was so dumb it made me register just so I could reply to it.

Obviously, this person is a bigot, woefully uneducated in vidcon history, and desperate for the approval of others. And also thinks he's smarter than everyone else.

Even after having it pointed out to him that BSUAJ was not released on the computer, he continued to defend his position by pointing out that it could have been. After all, this game was. I suppose he has a point there. After all, Halo was released on xbox, and that didn't stop Super Mario Brothers from being released for the NES. Ok, I guess I should concede this point.

Then there's the subtle bigotry of implying that any game with a black character must be a ghetto game. I like how in his argument, he even uses broken English to demonstrate the way ghetto people behave. Then again, now that I think of it, it was Barkley who famously defended his hard foul of 24-year-old Herlander Coimbra in the 1992 Olympics as "a ghetto thing." Of course, I didn't notice any gangster aspects, except maybe for Jordan's fedora, but by his own admission, he only played it a bit, so I think we can let that slide. I guess I'll concede that point as well.

Of course there is the point that he referred to the many baseball influenced aspects of the game. Clearly he's both a sports historian for associating Barkley so clearly with the sport he's most famous for excelling in, and quite deft at picking up on subtle context clues such as the use of baseballs, baseball terms, and many baseball players in the introduction of the game. There's even that scene where Michael Jordan, another famous B-Baller by which I mean Baseballer, tells Hoopz, another common Baseball term, to keep practicing his swing. Genius. Clearly, this guy gave this game alot of scrutiny before he decided he wasn't fond of the setting. Then again, I guess it could be confusing, what with Jordan being a baseball player, and New York being more of a baseball town. Ok, I guess he was right here too.

Then he says that, "The gameplay...was better then any fangame I had ever seen," only to say a few posts later that he loves the gameplay, but it's not better than Crysis. I was going to make hay out of this incongruity, but then it occurred to me that he probably hadn't played Crysis when he made the first post, then he played it in the intervening 11 minutes, and then the only responsible thing to do was to post a caveat to his original statement. Now I feel like an ass for even bringing it up.

And he finishes this post by informing everyone that mentioning it to Barkley or Accolade would probably be a bad idea. After all, they might sue. He's probably right there too. Of course, the fact that it's not for profit, it's all over the internet, including on several reputable commercial video game review sites, and that's already been mentioned doesn't change the fact that they could sue. And if they did, that would suck. So thank you for that.

Now that I think of it, he probably is smarter than everyone else. Also far more open minded.


-Rob

My friend turned me on to this last year when the demo came out, and we'd been checking a few times a week, for almost a year, for the full release. I've told everyone I know about it, I've played it several times, and check it out daily here, on youtube, on wikipedia, and on google. I know that makes me sound like a homer, but this game was so damned funny I still can't get my fill. Since Al Gore invented the internet I've occasionally wondered if it was all worth it, now I know it was. Worth every penny I payed for it, would buy it again, and IMO, GOTY.

This game won the academy award for best game ever.


-Rob

This post was so dumb it made me register just so I could reply to it.

Obviously, this person is a bigot, woefully uneducated in vidcon history, and desperate for the approval of others. And also thinks he's smarter than everyone else.

Even after having it pointed out to him that BSUAJ was not released on the computer, he continued to defend his position by pointing out that it could have been. After all, this game was. I suppose he has a point there. After all, Halo was released on xbox, and that didn't stop Super Mario Brothers from being released for the NES. Ok, I guess I should concede this point.

Then there's the subtle bigotry of implying that any game with a black character must be a ghetto game. I like how in his argument, he even uses broken English to demonstrate the way ghetto people behave. Then again, now that I think of it, it was Barkley who famously defended his hard foul of 24-year-old Herlander Coimbra in the 1992 Olympics as "a ghetto thing." Of course, I didn't notice any gangster aspects, except maybe for Jordan's fedora, but by his own admission, he only played it a bit, so I think we can let that slide. I guess I'll concede that point as well.

Of course there is the point that he referred to the many baseball influenced aspects of the game. Clearly he's both a sports historian for associating Barkley so clearly with the sport he's most famous for excelling in, and quite deft at picking up on subtle context clues such as the use of baseballs, baseball terms, and many baseball players in the introduction of the game. There's even that scene where Michael Jordan, another famous B-Baller by which I mean Baseballer, tells Hoopz, another common Baseball term, to keep practicing his swing. Genius. Clearly, this guy gave this game alot of scrutiny before he decided he wasn't fond of the setting. Then again, I guess it could be confusing, what with Jordan being a baseball player, and New York being more of a baseball town. Ok, I guess he was right here too.

Then he says that, "The gameplay...was better then any fangame I had ever seen," only to say a few posts later that he loves the gameplay, but it's not better than Crysis. I was going to make hay out of this incongruity, but then it occurred to me that he probably hadn't played Crysis when he made the first post, then he played it in the intervening 11 minutes, and then the only responsible thing to do was to post a caveat to his original statement. Now I feel like an ass for even bringing it up.

And he finishes this post by informing everyone that mentioning it to Barkley or Accolade would probably be a bad idea. After all, they might sue. He's probably right there too. Of course, the fact that it's not for profit, it's all over the internet, including on several reputable commercial video game review sites, and that's already been mentioned doesn't change the fact that they could sue. And if they did, that would suck. So thank you for that.

Now that I think of it, he probably is smarter than everyone else. Also far more open minded.


-Rob

Cool, a whole post dedicated to me.

Too bad you weren't so smart to know with "best gameplay" I meant for a amateur game. You probably lived somewhere quietly in a pithole with a laptop with slow internet connection, cause if you would have played any really good (official) games, you wouldn't kiss this game's ass so much. Or maybe you would, I dunno.

The fact is that fangames like these can't be at the same level of official games like Halo. It will never be possible.

Ok sorry

I registered for an account just to say how impressed I've been with this game. I come from the VERGE (http://www.verge-rpg.com) community and worked as a pixel artist on one of our completed games Diver Down, so I know doing games are quite a bit of work.

Completed this and I thought it was excellent Cheers.

...Anyhoo, to get a bit back on track...
I heard from somewhere that there may be some kind of expansion pack or something...
I just have one thing to say about that:
If there will be an expansion pack, the music better stay at least somewhat same.
I require my DAH NAH NA NAH NA NA NA DA NA NAH NA DA NANA DAA NA when Slamming and Jamming.

Chapter 1,5 Of The Hoopz Barkley SaGa?

OMG, to actually mistake this game for a baseball theme, for a game that is not even true basketball just uses that theme.


Anyways I finished the game and the end was cool! Waiting frantically for the sequel....

...Anyhoo, to get a bit back on track...
I heard from somewhere that there may be some kind of expansion pack or something...
I just have one thing to say about that:
If there will be an expansion pack, the music better stay at least somewhat same.
I require my DAH NAH NA NAH NA NA NA DA NA NAH NA DA NANA DAA NA when Slamming and Jamming.

Chef is actually handing the entire music creation process over to me for the expansion, I don't know if you have heard of my work but I specialize mostly in urban country and western music. I know this sounds kind of dumb but it's really gritty and heavy so it's definitely a unique sound. Some have referred to it as "Cunt-Core" and I've been likened to artists such as The Urban Cowboy Effect. Country-Life Magazine once called me "A flash flood fusion between Rockabilly and drum and bass," so I'm hoping I can bring a great sound to the expansion pack.

This is all hush hush though...