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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.


:D
added on the 2008-10-10 09:39:46 by Gargaj Gargaj
now we should start spreading gossip there's a hidden part with pr0n. kind of gold trophy or how they call them ;)
added on the 2008-10-10 10:05:41 by Fei Fei
http://www.gamervision.com/gamer/miss_anthropy/reviews/article/review_linger_in_shadows

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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!
added on the 2008-10-10 11:56:14 by blz blz
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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.
added on the 2008-10-10 12:37:34 by Gargaj Gargaj
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" :-)
added on the 2008-10-10 13:11:46 by arm1n arm1n
let's wait until somebody misspells Plushstic, I mean Flashstick... dammit!
added on the 2008-10-10 13:35:01 by Fei Fei
splashtic ? :)
added on the 2008-10-10 19:22:17 by magic magic
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".
added on the 2008-10-10 20:10:10 by slux slux
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.
added on the 2008-10-10 20:25:54 by gr9yfox gr9yfox
Everyone is failing at mentioning plastic's other work, right? No mentions to 195/95 or Into the Pink?
added on the 2008-10-10 21:53:24 by xernobyl xernobyl
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.
added on the 2008-10-11 14:37:47 by _-_-__ _-_-__
So, is it a failure already or did this marketing ploy actually work for Sony?
added on the 2008-10-12 11:22:04 by okkie okkie
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.
added on the 2008-10-12 14:45:19 by xernobyl xernobyl
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!
added on the 2008-10-12 15:09:17 by [ej] [ej]
Is this the first demo ever that you HAVE to pay for, if you want to watch it, on pouet.net?
Voyeurs...
added on the 2008-10-12 15:13:22 by hitchhikr hitchhikr
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.
added on the 2008-10-12 16:47:02 by psonice psonice
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.
added on the 2008-10-12 21:11:12 by Fei Fei
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
added on the 2008-10-12 22:04:20 by Fei Fei
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.
added on the 2008-10-21 04:03:48 by xernobyl xernobyl
"strawberry'ish one" should be "strawberry'ish one raised"
added on the 2008-10-21 04:04:35 by xernobyl xernobyl

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