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3:06 AM on 02.23.2007

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MTV branches out into the realm of the MMO, with depressing results
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MTV branches out into the realm of the MMO, with depressing results screenshot

Picture this: You're in a class room, surrounded by your peers, and your professor walks in. Even before sitting down, he announces that he has a project for all of you, and he begins to hand out papers. As you receive yours, you scan it quickly, and realize the only thing written on it is: 'MTV created an MMO based on their fictionalized version of The Laguna Beach. Please discuss.'

Before you're given the opportunity to embrace sweet, sweet death by jamming your pencil swiftly through your ocular cavity and into your frontal lobe, your professor replaces all your pencils, pens, compasses, sharp-cornered notebooks, and even the zippers on your clothes with styrofoam replicas, and you are forced to write with crayons all over the sides and top of your desk, since paper could have been used to slash your wrist.

Far from being some of my signature snark regarding all things popular, the above was a pretty reasonable approximation of what the developers of this Second Life clone must have felt. At least in Second Life, you have the ability to bang random men-posing-as-women-posing-as-squirrels, but here, you live by MTV's family friendly, teeny-bopper rules; which means no drugs, sex, or public masturbation, unless it's in front of the cameras, and Puck gets kicked out of the house.

Anyway, if you, or, more likely, the fourteen year old girl down the street who is just naive enough to think that you're just a "really nice guy" might actually enjoy this kind of thing, you aren't wearing enough black.



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Virtual Laguna Beach is NOT a Second Life clone. It is based off of the There 3D world, which is not really the same concept as Second Life. The only thing There has that is better than Second ......




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Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 02/23/2007 02:06

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
Farktoid's Avatar
Farktoid at 02/23/2007 02:15

Laguna Beach? I thought that was a pale mimicry of The O.C. Deliver me an MMO of Undressed or TRL where I can actively hunt and kill Carson Daly and I'm on board.
wardrox's Avatar
wardrox at 02/23/2007 02:39

...here, you live by MTV's family friendly, teeny-bopper rules

From the site:
[i]Themed Parties all week!
Pajama, Black & White, Swimsuit, Singles[/i]

asl?
12/f/NC
Your moms new boyfriend's Avatar
Your moms new boyfriend at 02/23/2007 02:55

First Pimp my Ride, now this? Did MTV just totally overlook doing a Sifl and Oly RPG, or even a Headbanger's Ball FPS?

I guess all that's left is a Jackass video game.

I spoke too soon...
momiji58's Avatar
momiji58 at 02/23/2007 02:58

Wow pretty girls with big breasts and skimpy clothes playing Virtual Hills and Laguna Beach!

...family-friendly my ass.
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GatsuTheBerserker at 02/23/2007 03:48

Hey, Jackass would make an awesome game...as long as you wouldn't do the same thing twice AND the guys who made tony hawk would NOT work on it.
GatsuTheBerserker's Avatar
GatsuTheBerserker at 02/23/2007 03:48

P.S. - This game is gonna suxs.
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ArrestedDeveloper at 02/23/2007 03:58

There is going to be a Jackass game, see I think its PSP only. And Laguna Beach mmo is probably the worst idea ever, even worse than New Coke.
Zero_'s Avatar
Zero_ at 02/23/2007 05:22

... Dude, is that Axl Rose from GnR?
Ph1dra's Avatar
Ph1dra at 02/23/2007 05:23

Alex looks like user a douchcock, with his dumbass corn rows. CALL IT THE AXL ROSE EXPERIENCE! YOUR THE ONLY ORIGINAL MEMBER YOU WHORE!
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BlueFiberOptics at 02/23/2007 22:00

Virtual Laguna Beach is NOT a Second Life clone. It is based off of the There 3D world, which is not really the same concept as Second Life. The only thing There has that is better than Second Life is vehicle physics and an easier interface. For everything else, I would recommend Second Life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_%28Internet_service%29


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