Comments on: Awful Day LA

By: goofytime

goofytime — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:11:15 +0000

while I’m at it, I agreed with that post and I usually enjoy Dennis Farrell’s SA articles. There are obviously good SA articles and bad ones and my rant above was mostly pointless and poorly written.

By: goofytime

goofytime — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:10:15 +0000

hope all this doesn’t get posted

By: goofytime

goofytime — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:34:20 +0000

just ignore my bitching above, that was a really crappy post.

By: goofytime

goofytime — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:48:14 +0000

Yes, I know, I’m replying to 9 month old posts. While I agree that Bad Day LA looks pretty mediocre, I also disagree with the average SA goon’s views.

CapnJack: You seem to act like SA’s opinion is the only real one that should always be taken seriously, and that enjoying anything that SA finds “awful” makes you a complete idiot whose only purpose in life is to be mocked by those with ‘superior’ tastes.

SA is a generally mediocre website that’s filled with inane rants and opinions masquerading as humor. Further lowering their credibility is the huge amount of hypocrisy they’ve shown over the years. Articles about how horrible and “pedo” anime is coupled with horrible J-list dating sim ads, furry mocking while ignoring the fact that Shmorky has a history of drawing furry porn and finding cartoon animals attractive and other things like that really make me wonder why so many people, a great deal of which I actually respect, find SA’s front page so funny and amazing, usually reading SA’s criticism as some sort of holy scripture.

I don’t really hate all of SA: Bobservo and a few other writers are genuinely funny and entertaining, and Mega64 is the best thing on SA by far. But the main editors have no right to shit on other people’s work when their own comedic work is extremely lazy, hypocritical and glaringly mediocre on all aspects. Half the shit they do is basically comment on and introduce Goon-created content.

…Now that I think about it, making people pay to join your forum and post funny stories, rants, photoshops and comics then using them on your main website to get more fans is a genius idea. You’re basically making people pay to work for your humor website, which is a pretty smart thing to do. Nevermind everything I said so far, SA is AWESOME!

By: Mike Fox

Mike Fox — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:35:34 +0000

Alice was pretty good, but, I’m sorry to say, Bad Day LA was terrible. Sure, SA like to really rip people on their reviews but I must say that they are honest. I happen to agree with EVERY point they made about why Bad Day LA is a bad game.

Don’t let it put you off though, just make sure your next project comes out right.

By: Eric Blade

Eric Blade — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:50:34 +0000

There are people who didn’t think that Alice was brought to us by a God? There’s something wrong with those people.

By: laputaquelepario

laputaquelepario — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:17:54 +0000

“Some people like it. Some people hate it so much that they burst organs on their way to raping it in their reviews.

“It is what it is.”

Well, so far I have failed to see, on average, a game site (or their readers for that matter) “like it”.

And you are absolutely right – it is what it is:

http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/927569.asp?q=bad%20day%20la

By: Fury

Fury — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:29:27 +0000

It is a good satirical game that isnt meant to be a masterpiece…..its kinda like watching the mooninites on ATHF……the worst looking yet best characters…..another thing is….with all the GTA clones comming out, this is a game where you actually save people and try and help people out. Interesting concept…..cool game….minimalistic probably because they would rather the game speak for itself not the graphics engine….or just the fact that its pretty low budget!

By: omri

omri — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:11:27 +0000

personally i liked the concept of the game i liked the bad graphics i liked the zombies – their funny – but i didn’t enjoy the execution because mainly i felt like the game is in a rush that it’s just not long enough.. but it was fun playing it!

BTW does anyone know what happened to the first ConceptArts? american you had on your old site really dark conceptarts of “bad.day.la” and it was so brilliant, i saved it but is there more?

By: cheer up, emokid

cheer up, emokid — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:34:14 +0000

It’s pretty sad you went from Alice to this. They bring up a lot of good points; ones that you should probably pay attention to for your future games, such as: the ability to remap controls and change screen resolutions is something that has been pretty standard since.. well, this century. Political satire is always an admirable pursuit, but your heavy-handed way of delivering it in this game is something I’d expect to find on some teenager’s political activist myspace page. SHEEPLE! THAT’S GOLD RIGHT THERE. Sorry that people don’t like your work, but don’t let it deter you from more scathing political and social commentary, thinly disguised in a crappy video game ported straight from 1997.