Stubbs the Zombie is coming back

[Dom Cruise]

I think usually such games are pricey because the copies numbers for them arent big. Same can be said about a physical.copy of You Are Empty and Cryostasis (again specially the Russian dubbed copies).

Seems a little odd that Stubbs got such a limited print run though, you can tell it was a game they had a lot of faith in, given the soundtrack, so why did it get such a limited print run?

To some degree I think the game's initial failure was due to being a little ahead of it's time, circa 2005 the whole zombie genre and retrofuturism was just on the cusp of being really popular, had they instead targeted the game as a Xbox 360 title released around 2007 it actually could have been a big hit.

 

[The tired cat]

Seems a little odd that Stubbs got such a limited print run though, you can tell it was a game they had a lot of faith in, given the soundtrack, so why did it get such a limited print run?

To some degree I think the game's initial failure was due to being a little ahead of it's time, circa 2005 the whole zombie genre and retrofuturism was just on the cusp of being really popular, had they instead targeted the game as a Xbox 360 title released around 2007 it actually could have been a big hit.

Well aside from a zombie game where you play the undead, I think the other issue is this game wasnt getting that big of a push maybe in the western market. In Eastern Europe and Russia it actually got a bigger notice thanks to a redubbed version done in a more comedy tone (the plot was re-written that Stubbs is MJ who rose from the dead after a failed plastic surgery and was remained as "Stubbs hail to the king"), plus gaming magazines gave it more coverage for the PC version.

 

[Titos]

Seems a little odd that Stubbs got such a limited print run though, you can tell it was a game they had a lot of faith in, given the soundtrack, so why did it get such a limited print run?

To some degree I think the game's initial failure was due to being a little ahead of it's time, circa 2005 the whole zombie genre and retrofuturism was just on the cusp of being really popular, had they instead targeted the game as a Xbox 360 title released around 2007 it actually could have been a big hit.

That could be the case in terms of aesthetics and setting easily. That happened to quite a few original Xbox games though. Phantom Dust was insanely ahead of it's time and probably would have been a massive hit if it was released on the 360 instead of at the dead end of the PS2/HUEG generation. Breakdown was also ahead of it's time in terms of what it was attempting.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

I remember really enjoying this when it came out on the Xbawks.

You could mind control people with a zombie hand and there were scientists with rayguns that were good fodder for that. One had like a big, slow high damage pistol and the other had like weird beam rifle that was way better since it knocked people back. Good game, if it's under a tenna I'll get it, but am I fuck paying anything over ten pound for a Xbox original game.

 

[Dom Cruise]

That could be the case in terms of aesthetics and setting easily. That happened to quite a few original Xbox games though. Phantom Dust was insanely ahead of it's time and probably would have been a massive hit if it was released on the 360 instead of at the dead end of the PS2/HUEG generation. Breakdown was also ahead of it's time in terms of what it was attempting.

Breakdown was a game I played back when it was new and yeah, it was very ahead of it's time.

Phantom Dust isn't one I played sadly but I do remember hearing about it when it came out, what's sad is wasn't there supposed to be a Xbox One reboot that never materialized?

When I look at Stubbs I see a game more in line with the cultural zeitgeist of 2006 or 2007 than 2005 (in fact I believe the game was actually announced in 2004, so it was even more ahead of it's time than I realized)

Sometimes it pays to be ahead of your time and sometimes it's the opposite, it's funny how that works.

 

[Titos]

Breakdown was a game I played back when it was new and yeah, it was very ahead of it's time.

Phantom Dust isn't one I played sadly but I do remember hearing about it when it came out, what's sad is wasn't there supposed to be a Xbox One reboot that never materialized?

When I look at Stubbs I see a game more in line with the cultural zeitgeist of 2006 or 2007 than 2005 (in fact I believe the game was actually announced in 2004, so it was even more ahead of it's time than I realized)

Sometimes it pays to be ahead of your time and sometimes it's the opposite, it's funny how that works.

Phantom Dust reboot got cancelled because it looked pretty bad from the leaked footage. They did port the original game uprezzed for free though. You can download it here if you want to try it out on PC. Also it has a song from Vincent Gallo in the soundtrack for some reason that is a pain in the ass to find online because Gallo takes down pretty much everything he can from jewtube.

Get Phantom Dust - Microsoft Store

Phantom Dust for Xbox One and Windows 10 PC is a re-release of the original Xbox classic, adding full Xbox LIVE support, Xbox Play Anywhere, cross-device multiplayer and over 15 hours of single player content. It blends third-person arena combat and collectable card game. Collect 300 unique...

www.microsoft.com

 

[Dom Cruise]

Phantom Dust reboot got cancelled because it looked pretty bad from the leaked footage. They did port the original game uprezzed for free though. You can download it here if you want to try it out on PC. Also it has a song from Vincent Gallo in the soundtrack for some reason that is a pain in the ass to find online because Gallo takes down pretty much everything he can from jewtube.

Get Phantom Dust - Microsoft Store

Phantom Dust for Xbox One and Windows 10 PC is a re-release of the original Xbox classic, adding full Xbox LIVE support, Xbox Play Anywhere, cross-device multiplayer and over 15 hours of single player content. It blends third-person arena combat and collectable card game. Collect 300 unique...

www.microsoft.com

Considering Crackdown 3 that did get released it's probably for the best, the Xbox One was such a disaster lol.

Also, Vincent Gallo, the guy that got his dick sucked in the Brown Bunny contributed a song to Phantom Crash? What the fucking hell lol.

 

[Titos]

Considering Crackdown 3 that did get released it's probably for the best, the Xbox One was such a disaster lol.

Also, Vincent Gallo, the guy that got his dick sucked in the Brown Bunny contributed a song to Phantom Crash? What the fucking hell lol.

Yeah, he makes quite a bit of music and is good friends with John Frusciante and PJ Harvey for some reason. Aparently he's really popular in Japan, because loljapan. His music is pretty good, especially his cover of Moon River.

Vincent Gallo - Moon River [w/ PJ Harvey e John Frusciante]

Vincent Gallo: Live At Royal Festival Hall, Londres - Inglaterra (05/04/2004) Moon River (Mancini/Mercer) [w/ PJ Harvey e John Frusciante]

soundcloud.com

Edit: How could I forget, he also did a song for a documentary about autismos lol.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Yeah, he makes quite a bit of music and is good friends with John Frusciante and PJ Harvey for some reason. Aparently he's really popular in Japan, because loljapan. His music is pretty good, especially his cover of Moon River.

Vincent Gallo - Moon River [w/ PJ Harvey e John Frusciante]

Vincent Gallo: Live At Royal Festival Hall, Londres - Inglaterra (05/04/2004) Moon River (Mancini/Mercer) [w/ PJ Harvey e John Frusciante]

soundcloud.com

I didn't even know he did music, I only knew him as a writer, director and actor who got an unsimulated blowjob (and of course showed his wiener) in the movie The Brown Bunny which Roger Ebert called "the worst movie to ever screen at Cannes"

I did know regarding him and Japan that the villain in Cowboy Bebop The Movie was based on him and now that makes more sense.

 

[Titos]

I didn't even know he did music, I only knew him as a writer, director and actor who got an unsimulated blowjob (and of course showed his wiener) in the movie The Brown Bunny which Roger Ebert called "the worst movie to ever screen at Cannes"

I did know regarding him and Japan that the villain in Cowboy Bebop The Movie was based on him and now that makes more sense.

He's done alot of shit. Including selling his own cum, which you can't buy it if you're black, and you get a discount if you can prove one of your ancestors fought for the Nazis, or that you are jewish so that "in the slim chance that his child moved into the profession of motion picture acting or became a musical performer, this connection to the Jewish faith would guarantee his offspring a better chance at good reviews and maybe even a prize at the Sundance Film Festival or an Oscar."

 

[Dom Cruise]

He's done alot of shit. Including selling his own cum, which you can't buy it if you're black, and you get a discount if you can prove one of your ancestors fought for the Nazis, or that you are jewish so that "in the slim chance that his child moved into the profession of motion picture acting or became a musical performer, this connection to the Jewish faith would guarantee his offspring a better chance at good reviews and maybe even a prize at the Sundance Film Festival or an Oscar."

Yeah, he's... kind of an odd guy.

And the fact that he contributed a song to the video game Phantom Dust of all things is perfectly fitting for him.

 

[Billy_Sama]

I am very happy its getting released as I was just trying to play it on my computer but its not compatible with my current Windows and I am miles away from home to play my actual Xbox copy. I am glad that games like Stubbs, Oddworld Strangers Wraith, and Okami who didn't sell well when first released can become successful when ported to later consoles. I rather get more cult classics ported to Switch than lame Indie and VN that are flooding the system.

 

[BrunoMattei]

He's done alot of shit. Including selling his own cum, which you can't buy it if you're black, and you get a discount if you can prove one of your ancestors fought for the Nazis, or that you are jewish so that "in the slim chance that his child moved into the profession of motion picture acting or became a musical performer, this connection to the Jewish faith would guarantee his offspring a better chance at good reviews and maybe even a prize at the Sundance Film Festival or an Oscar."

When Vincent Gallo was mentioned here, I knew it was a matter of time before this was brought up. He's kind of a POS, maybe a troll, hard to tell. But he is a POS to work with. He treated Christina Ricci like garbage on the set of Buffalo 66.

 

[Titos]

When Vincent Gallo was mentioned here, I knew it was a matter of time before this was brought up. He's kind of a POS, maybe a troll, hard to tell. But he is a POS to work with. He treated Christina Ricci like garbage on the set of Buffalo 66.

He is an asshole but let's not pretend actors deserve any respect whatsoever.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I am very happy its getting released as I was just trying to play it on my computer but its not compatible with my current Windows and I am miles away from home to play my actual Xbox copy. I am glad that games like Stubbs, Oddworld Strangers Wraith, and Okami who didn't sell well when first released can become successful when ported to later consoles. I rather get more cult classics ported to Switch than lame Indie and VN that are flooding the system.

Oddworld Strangers Wrath is another one of those underrated games from the era, there was so much creativity in gaming back then.

 

[Syaoran Li]

One thing I loved about Stubbs the Zombie was the 1950's and 1960's retro aesthetic. You also saw it with Destroy All Humans and some of the early Seventh Generation games like Fallout 3, Mafia II, Bioshock, etc.

Really, the 2000's was like the last hurrah for that 50's and 60's retro culture aesthetic. While the current 80's retro culture thing got its start in the 2000's, you still had the old-school "Boomer" nostalgic retro aesthetic that I love.

For example, you had a lot of oldies stations in the 2000's that played music from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. In the second half of the 2000's, they did focus more on the second half of the 60's and the 70's but by the middle of the 2010's, most of these oldies stations were now "classic hits" stations that became increasingly focused on 80's hits.

Classic rock also become more focused on the 80's and you started to see a lot of 90's stuff get added as well, even songs from genres that were previously verboten from classic rock formats like grunge and alternative.

 

[A Grey Cat]

damn got my hopes up that we'd be getting an HD remake or hell a sequlwe after all this time...oh well better than nothing and may inspire such a thing to happen soon. But seriously what is it with 2000's video games making a comeback? first indianna jones and the emporer's tomb gets xbox one backwards compatibillity, then destroy all humans and battle for bikini bottom get HD remakes now this

 

[BrunoMattei]

damn got my hopes up that we'd be getting an HD remake or hell a sequlwe after all this time...oh well better than nothing and may inspire such a thing to happen soon. But seriously what is it with 2000's video games making a comeback? first indianna jones and the emporer's tomb gets xbox one backwards compatibillity, then destroy all humans and battle for bikini bottom get HD remakes now this

Rockstar then unveils the HD remake of Body Harvest for the N64.

 

[Face Of A Ghost]

I remember liking this game a lot but I don't know if it's nostalgia or it is because it was that good. Bought the Destroy All Humans game and I didn't nearly have the same fun as I remembered.

 

[Dom Cruise]

One thing I loved about Stubbs the Zombie was the 1950's and 1960's retro aesthetic. You also saw it with Destroy All Humans and some of the early Seventh Generation games like Fallout 3, Mafia II, Bioshock, etc.

Really, the 2000's was like the last hurrah for that 50's and 60's retro culture aesthetic. While the current 80's retro culture thing got its start in the 2000's, you still had the old-school "Boomer" nostalgic retro aesthetic that I love.

For example, you had a lot of oldies stations in the 2000's that played music from the 50's, 60's, and 70's. In the second half of the 2000's, they did focus more on the second half of the 60's and the 70's but by the middle of the 2010's, most of these oldies stations were now "classic hits" stations that became increasingly focused on 80's hits.

Classic rock also become more focused on the 80's and you started to see a lot of 90's stuff get added as well, even songs from genres that were previously verboten from classic rock formats like grunge and alternative.

I loved that era of games with those retro aesthetics and while it isn't as popular as it was it hasn't gone away completely with games like the Mafia remake.

damn got my hopes up that we'd be getting an HD remake or hell a sequlwe after all this time...oh well better than nothing and may inspire such a thing to happen soon. But seriously what is it with 2000's video games making a comeback? first indianna jones and the emporer's tomb gets xbox one backwards compatibillity, then destroy all humans and battle for bikini bottom get HD remakes now this

As incredible as it is to think about the 2000s was now 20 years ago and there's always a 20 year nostalgic cycle.