If Video Games Had Twitter Functionality
- October 30, 2009 14:52 PM PST
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Uncharted 2's Twitter functionality got scrapped for being annoying. Could these six other video games do much worse?
If there's one thing Twitter users hate, it's seeing a user spam updates every five seconds on their Twitter feed, with little gems like "Oh my GOD this cupcake is so delicious," and "I'm loving this frosting is the bomb," or "OMG i'm getting so fat at this bakery LOL JK!"
That's probably why Naughty Dog killed off the Twitter options in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, since a good day's worth of gameplay can generate as many as fifty Twitter updates in about five hours. Regardless, it would still be pretty cool to not just control the Twitter function's frequency, but get other games to update certain achievements and accomplishments to your Twitter feed. At least, I think it would be cool.
(Editor's Note: McKinley plays Pokemon, so he's definitely not an authority on what is "cool".)
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Y'know, maybe this wouldn't be such a good idea. I can imagine people leaving New Super Mario Bros. on "Demo Play" and leaving the house to walk the dog or something. A few hours later, you have a bajillion Twitter updates clogging your feed and no Followers left.
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- Oct 06 2009 at 11:34:08:AM PST
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Twitter is retarded for the average user. Really, I don't want to read about every second of your life. For businesses it might be useful, but at that rate so are RSS feeds. Twitter should NEVER be used in a game.
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Twitter is kind of a waste cause the ppl that use it don't really post anything except about dumb things they've done during the day or week. plus i doubt if you message anyone they would respond back.
And i do have to agree that twitter shouldn't be used in video games.
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wait isn't the later-on xbox live update doing this? Or will you manually update on the xbox too?
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ilovetehgamez wrote:
howe is it work?> i wana twat but i dont no how it gose. :00
you probably, (see how i spelled that? P-R-O-B-A-B-L-Y take some notes) dont know how to use it because you are a kid. and this article was funny. i LOL'D at New Super Mario Bros wii. "When peach FINALLY puts out." LMAO!!! and at GoW3, "When you FAIL at the sex minigame, loser." ROFL
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thats just a waste of time for me i never been in myspace facebook twitter and got time for that meeting people online i like to meet them in person u know clubs malls bars heck even sport game
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Be careful, the next 360 dashboard update could include Twitter functionality for Achievements...
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