HA! Last blog was a description Fail!

Her bike has pedals, but there is a handle out the back, for Mommy and Daddy to push from behind.

I am thinking of writing a few FP articles... or I WAS. One is outdated. It was going to be on Splinter Cell and thoughts on being a newb to stealth games. Or maybe one about breaking up a genre game, with another genre. In Splinter Cell, you play most of hte game all stealthy, but here is one mission where you can't stealth and it turns into a covre shooter. If I wanted a cover shooter... i would have bought a cover shooter.  I hate it when games to this with no opportunity to opt out. JRPGs have this in their mini-games (think chocobo racing, and spheda*) but usually you don't have to play.  MW did it right with "Ghillies in the Mist." (or whatever that mission was called). You went form a FPS... to an FSP. Just a different flavour of FPS (sniper rifle mission).  It broke up the gameplay, it told a story very effectly but it din't take everything I learned and say "Fuck you... you can't do any of that anymore!!"

Maybe it's still worth a talk. What do you guys think?

The other one, I really want to do, but I have SO much research in front of me. It's kinda intangible right now... but let me know what you think. I want to write about how great Bungie is at permission marketing and social media. Permission marketing is when you gain the trust of your consumers so that they want you to market to them. They miss you when you don't tell them stuff. They create fan-boys of their product. Fan-boyism is often seen as a negative. I see it as a sign that you have a product that gets people passionate. I am a fan-girl of the way Bungie runs their business. I dont' like their GAMES... but why should that matter? They are the best at creating a community, they did the social marketting thing within their game. And again they do many things right to get the fans on their side.  Anyway... I love the company... meh on their game. I find that neat.

This permission marketing thing has me thinking about JayCat as fan of "stuff". I love commercials, and marketing. Why? Cause I am SO suseptible. And so are you (yes you). I am just very aware of it! I think it's fascinating how we have gone from "any press is good press" to the concept of "smaller is bigger". We need to build credibility and trust, not give the people a shit sammich. Cause soon EVERYONE will know that you are actually selling shit sammiches.

Thoughts? 

*SPHEDA! Best. Mini-game. Evah. If you can name the game, and a description of how to play... you get a cookie. No net searches punks!