Matt Groening to be Final Boss in New Simpsons Game 112
eldavojohn writes "Announced at E3, Mr. Groening will be the final boss in the Simpsons game. Mr. Groening commented on the game: 'They did a send-up of videogames. It's a videogame about videogames; and I'm in the videogame. I'm a boss that you have to fight at the end of the game. It was really fun recording a million ways of dying, going "UGGH, ARGGH, EUURGH!"'"
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hopefully.
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Let me guess... modding me up as flamebait? Grow a pair, we all have opinions. If mine disagrees, it doesn't make me a troll.
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It's a heads-up really.
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Get it now?
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The Simpsons. Video games. E3.
If -that- doesn't qualify, then nothing does.
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Therefore all cats are lions.
QED
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Why did you bother to post?
Comeagain... (Score:3, Interesting)
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Obligatory Comic Book Guy (Score:1, Funny)
Simpsons (Score:3, Interesting)
Just my $0.02
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It was shit though...
You know what would really be great. (Score:2)
..or a Simpsons MMORPG. Either one, take your pick
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TEAL'C: It allegedly performed well on DVD.
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virgin: nope. and my girlfriend likes futurama too.
parents basement: wrong again.
better luck next time.
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Nope it was because of bad time management. They put it in a bad time slot where it had to compete with a top rated show. American Idol, Survivor or something?
As for the other comment, it's just trollish.
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There was a Futurama game and it stunk up the place. It was the same format as every other cartoon franchise game - third person platformer. I swear they use the same engine for all those games, spend a weekend knocking some new models together, whisk up a few textured boxes to chuck obstacles in and there's your cartoon franchise game!
That said, Simpsons Hit & Run was a blast, which was a surprise as all previous Simpsons games were terrible
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Haven't played it... Off the top of my head the timeline of my Simpsons game history is (very roughly) Bart vs the Space Mutants, Something with Krusty (not actual title...) ;), Simpsons Wrestling, Hit & Run. There are probably others but they don't spring to mind immediately.
I'm too old for the arcade but (as with all about to turn 30) I'm drawing up plans for a MAME cab as I have a 21" CRT about to enter retirement and I got a decent enough PC for nothing from a fr
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Worth the boat trip over if you ask me...
Isn't that Comic Book Store Guy? (Score:3, Funny)
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Final Boss: Groening (Score:3, Funny)
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Ah, for the days when The Simpsons was actually funny.
To win this game you must defeat me, Matt Groening (Score:5, Funny)
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E3?? (Score:1)
Shatner. I'd fight William Shatner. (Score:5, Funny)
Futurama developers would have loved that... (Score:2)
For those who wants to know, he basically refused taking part in the project until the eleventh hour when he suddenly demanded to change EVERYTHING, causing delays and all kinds of havoc for all people involved (all vacations canceled, many suffered burnouts etc) and partly being to blame for the producti
If you beat the game (Score:2)
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Which Matt Groening? (Score:1)
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Draw your Minions (Score:4, Interesting)
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Meh, it's been done [weebls-stuff.com].
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Sounds kind of like... (Score:2)
Spoiler tags? (Score:4, Interesting)
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Thanks for the spoiller Slashdot ! (Score:1)
Deserved Justice? (Score:1)
Ahh! (Score:1)
Obvious Reference to Doom 2 (Score:1)
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Perfect analysis (Score:3, Informative)
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And to correct myself again... (Score:1)
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Speaking of the German R, I have a friend who studied abroad in Austria last semester. Everyone he met thought he had a Spanish accent. He couldn't figure out why. It turned out that he was compensating for that nice round American "r" sound by rolling his Rs exactly as they do in Spanish, with the tongue against the hard palatte, i
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"oo"? Like in "moon"? That would be the german letter "u". "ö", the umlaut variant to "o", sounds pretty much like the "u" in "Burns".
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"Burns". It sounds exactly as "Börns".
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rj
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Note that the "oo" is an approximation; Slashdot doesn't like IPA characters (as local comments illustrate). I didn't say his name ought to be exactly "grooning," I said something like "grooning." Besides, it seems that it isn't German after all and rhymes with "raining."
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That's correct, but it's nice to see someone reference something other than The Simpsons when talking about Matt Groening.
I've read Akbar and Jeff [wikipedia.org] and Life In Hell [wikipedia.org] for years. When The Simpsons came out, I was impressed enough by the writing, but the bombastic Danny Elfman score pushes things so over the top (at least for me) that I couldn't watch it regularly. Somehow, it seemed less intelligent than it really was, sort of like South Pa
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A later book says, "he no longer cares how people pronounce his last name."
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Done.