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Post by The Raven on Oct 10, 2009 15:42:56 GMT -5
...Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley Saga. I'm making this thread because I'm bored, but there's this fan made game floating around the net that just has to be spread to the masses and praised, and that long ass title I posted is the name of it. I've told Millard about it, and a few of my friends in real life, but it is freakin' awesome. ![](http://i33.tinypic.com/2qwhe2h.jpg) You play as Charles Barkley, living in a world where basketball is illegal because a long time ago, Barkley was playing in an NBA game, and slammed dunked so hard on a guy, that the awesomeness of his dunk blew up part of the world, this slam dunk was known as the Chaos Dunk. ![](http://i34.tinypic.com/2zdx083.jpg) Michael Jordan is the villain of the game, volunteering after the Chaos Dunk occurred to help wipe out basketball and it's players from history. The goal of the game changes a lot with the storyline, but for the most part you're on the run from Jordan and his cronies, while you also discover the secret of Dunkaroos (the early 90's snack treat!) and part way through must track down the cure for diabetes as Jordan infects Barkley's son, Hoopz, with type 2 diabetes. ![](http://i35.tinypic.com/2w7rfvp.jpg) I also want to point out that in this world, the movie Space Jam was based on actual events, so you see ruins from the movie from time to time. The gameplay is RPG based and easy to get used to. It's a lot like those Paper Mario games where you have to time button presses in order to pull off moves. ![](http://i34.tinypic.com/21jbr68.jpg) I doubt anybody will read this post or go download the game..for free...but it's super fun, and you totally should play it.
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Post by Shovelman on Oct 10, 2009 16:03:13 GMT -5
Where's the link you dumb lazy *insert devastating insult here*!
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Post by The Raven on Oct 10, 2009 16:27:29 GMT -5
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Post by Shovelman on Oct 11, 2009 22:56:03 GMT -5
I just played a little bit of it...the menu system is a bit buggy but the story's awesome
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Post by The Raven on Oct 12, 2009 10:11:19 GMT -5
Yeah, remember it's a fan made game, so it's not gonna be perfectly put together. But, like you said, the story is just amazing, so it's more than worth it for that.
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Post by The Raven on Oct 12, 2009 10:14:20 GMT -5
BTW, Vince Carter is my favorite character, let me know when you get to him.
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Post by Shovelman on Oct 13, 2009 11:22:54 GMT -5
I have Vince Carter....eh, Charles Barkley is still my favorite character.
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Post by The Raven on Oct 13, 2009 16:19:34 GMT -5
I have Vince Carter....eh, Charles Barkley is still my favorite character. There's so many great characters, you should hold off judgment until the end. To entice you a little, I'm gonna go ahead and tell you Juwana Man and Ghost Dad show up at some point.
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Post by Shovelman on Oct 15, 2009 12:13:48 GMT -5
Well I beat it and the review will be up on my blog on 11/29. Now since none of you guys read my blog here it is over a month early just for you: Now normally I would review games that are tangible and actually exist in cartridge or CD form at one point. But this is different for this game can be downloaded free from the internet and it's for all intents and purposes a PC game. As for the this game itself, many years ago there was a real game called Barkley: Shut Up and Jam which was basically a NBA Jam clone that nobody remembers. Anyways so some guys teamed up to extrapolate the world of Shut Up and Jam & make it into a RPG. What were the results of this crazy game? Let's find out as we did into Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden Chapter 1. In the year 2041, Charles Barkley wishes to impress his son Hoopz performs the Chaos Dunk which destroys all of New York City ushering in Cyber-apocalypse and the Great B-Ball Purge which killed thousands upon thousands of B-Ballers with few surviving B-Ballers in which the leader of B-Ball Removal Force is Michael Jordan. 12 years later, our story begins as Charles Barkley and Hoopz eke out a depressing existence at Neo New York city. However, another Chaos Dunk was performed at Man Manhattan killing 10 to 15 million people and Barkley is blamed since he's the only mortal that can performed such a dunk. Michael Jordan and his force comes looking for Barkley and he flees. What follows is a crazy adventure that involves a Vince Carter cyborg, Ghost Dad, Wilfred Brimley and Juwanna Mann among many others. Oh, the events of Space Jam are real and there are references to the Space Jam ball that trapped Barkley and some other non-Barkley guys. The really shocking thing is how straight the game plays this. Nothing is ever explicitly played for laughs and from behind all the silliness is how well-written the whole thing is. Charles Barkley is actually a three-dimensional character as he embarks on his quest from a depressed, self-loathing jerk into someone who actually deserves to be called Charles Barkley as he regains his confidence and moral compass. The fact that it can take B-ball and present as The Sport of Gods and Serious Business & make it work is quite a remarkable feat. The one bad thing about this is the controls. I mean for the most part it is responsive but it is a bit buggy which is understandable being a fan-made game than a real game from a real company. When you move from screen-to-screen, there's a 50-50 chance that you'll stop moving if you're holding on to the arrow keys. The menu system is a bit out-dated with it not automatically canceling when you use an item that results in you losing all of them if you weren't paying attention. But here I'm just nit-picking for most of the time the controls do what you want them to do. The best the controls are during the battles where it plays like the Super Mario RPG games. There's button mashing and holding the attack button to get the most damage so this is something you can't be passive about. Now the main draw of this game is it's total craziness in its side quests. There's one side quest where you have to rewrite a terrible love poem so it's actually less pathetic. There's another where you have to negotiate a labor contract between the some dwarves and genies where favoring dwarves gets a kimino with a picture of Shrek and favoring genies gets a magic lamp with Kazaam in it....it's not as bad as you think. You get to an island by riding the Underground Railroad with Harriet Tubman as the conductor. You have a quest to save Hoopz from Type 2 Diabetes, the type no one has been able to cure. And that's just a few of the things that's just utter insanity. So this game is really good for a fan-made RPG or hell, any game. The story is simultaneously epic and silly that is definitely awesome. The music is extremely awesome with a quality that's comparable to Chrono Trigger or Donkey Kong Country 2 and there's a track sung by Ian Gilliam, the singer of the famous line-up of Deep Purple for an epic boss battle with the song making the battle so epic that you'll head will explode. The only real flaw is the buggy controls but even then you can just work around them. So I now wait for Chapter 2 of this thing to be released....and it is being worked on. 8/10 If you want to play the game: www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=68488.0
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Post by The Raven on Oct 15, 2009 12:22:04 GMT -5
Awesome review, dude, I'm glad you liked it. Yeah, I almost lost the battle against Jordan and Vinceborg in the church when that 'Eternity' song started playing because it was making me laugh so hard.
That song and the main Space Jam theme that they remixed slightly are my favorite songs.
As for a Chapter 2, I'm not so sure it's actually being made. If it is, there really hasn't been any word on it whatsoever, because this game will have been out for 2 years, this coming January.
But either way, I hope somebody reads your review and decides to play it, because more people must know about how awesome it is.
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Post by Shovelman on Oct 15, 2009 13:23:16 GMT -5
I read that they have been working on it
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Post by The Raven on Oct 15, 2009 19:29:49 GMT -5
I read that they have been working on it I've read that they are too, but I've also read that the entire thing is up in the air, so who knows. They do have another game out there, but it was made long before Barkley, and it was more of a test of the software than a seriously made game, so it's not all that up to par. ...it's about the Wutang Clan saving a mysterious baby they deem to be the 'chosen one'. Of what, I don't know. PROTECT YA NECK
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Post by bob on Oct 16, 2009 20:41:21 GMT -5
this looks better then Shaq Fu
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