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[Virion]

I saw a crazy japanese game called "Muscle March"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_s7iCOj9HU

I wonder if people will buy this kind of games? Will game developers feel risky for making crazy game like this and not afraid of their company image being tarnished? What's your opinion?

[John Sandoval]

its japan and this type of thing is normal

[Virion]

its japan and this type of thing is normal

i mean for non-japanese to make a crazy game like this and sell outside japan?

[mikejkelley]

Ppl will buy it, the vid itself has plenty of views/likes. Don't think it's much of a risk, doesn't look like it had much of a budget to begin with.

[C]

Cactus introduced me to this.  It's just...I don't...know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OF6sEPqMeI

[Noah!]

Ooh! Glad to see the Cho Aniki series is still alive and kicking.

But yeah, like John-to-the-John Sandoval said, Japanese game developers have been doing this kind of thing since, well, they first started making games. For historical reference, see Parodius (1988), Trio the Punch (1990), PuLiRuLa (1991), the aforementioned Cho Aniki (1992), etc etc. Give me an hour or so and I could probably wrangle up a few dozen or so games that fit your criteria. And those are just the games; mentioning all the weird anime, manga, live-action TV series and so on would take a very long time.

Fortunately for us, this culture of perpetual weirdness/surrealism is starting to make its way to the western world, with shows like Tim and Eric and whatever crap Cartoon Network is throwing at us nowadays proving that weird is a viable good. So it's very likely that it won't be long before game companies start capitalizing on this culture shift.

Also, Cactus has been doing it to it for years now, and he's like one of the freakin' figureheads of the indie scene!

[Virion]

Cactus introduced me to this.  It's just...I don't...know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OF6sEPqMeI

LOL

[thatshelby]

I would love to have made this game.

[moi]

I would take this game over twenty brown baby-murder simulators

[J. R. Hill]

You had me sold at Crazy Japanese Game.  I'll take 6.

[Shackhal]

Even if that game look hilarious (i sure someone will buy it just to have fun), i hope to not have nightmares after seen a lot of muscular men trying to catch their steroids back

[Raptor85]

finally...a proper use for motion capture on the WII :D

But yeah ,as others have said, "weird" new ideas like this and bizarrely funny things are far more common from japanese game developers....hell half of konami and namco's lineup are ridiculous like this, lol

[leonelc29]

i saw it sometime ago through a preview, although it's weird, but it's funny.

I would take this game over twenty brown baby-murder simulators

[Mattivc]

I saw a crazy japanese game called "Muscle March"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_s7iCOj9HU

I wonder if people will buy this kind of games? Will game developers feel risky for making crazy game like this and not afraid of their company image being tarnished? What's your opinion?

I got it on my wii, and its fekking awesome!

[Shackhal]

I saw a crazy japanese game called "Muscle March"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_s7iCOj9HU

I wonder if people will buy this kind of games? Will game developers feel risky for making crazy game like this and not afraid of their company image being tarnished? What's your opinion?

I got it on my wii, and its fekking awesome!

I was sure it was hilarious. So i'm right