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Josef K. Sourdust
Jul 16, 2014

"To be quite frank, Platinum sucks at making games. Vanquish was terrible and Metal Gear Rising: Revengance was so boring it put me to sleep."

Read the whole thread and amazed that no one mentioned the movie that apparently inspired BWP: "The Last Broadcast". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Broadcast_(film)
It came out in 1998, one year ahead of BWP.
Here is the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoyBZ87F94U
TLB is a mixed sort of film. I tuned in to it late at night and missed the opening so I thought it was a genuine documentary until the last 15 minutes, when it gets a bit ridiculous. Have any of you seen TLB? I recommend seeing it. BTW, I'm not dissing BWP, which I liked very much.

E: i see in the interview that BWP was done 1997-9, so maybe TLB came out first but may not have been made first.

Josef K. Sourdust fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jan 17, 2015

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Josef K. Sourdust
Jul 16, 2014

"To be quite frank, Platinum sucks at making games. Vanquish was terrible and Metal Gear Rising: Revengance was so boring it put me to sleep."

I agree that the producers of LB must have seen the cash that was coming in from BWP and felt they deserved some too. I think that it was actually the case that technology and zeitgeist generated the projects separately.

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