NowGamer: EyePet Preview

Actually, the starring creature kind of reminds us of Funzo from The Simpsons; so adorable, that even men of Lenny and Carl's age must have one, even though it is, as the trailer seems to imply, aimed at children entirely without cynicism. With the PlayStation Eye not making the same impact that the EyeToy did last generation, this high-concept piece of software might be enough to jump-start sales of the PS3 camera.

[Syronicus]

Man this kind of stuff will get them excited. They love our cat and anything else furry so this will be an instant win at my house.

[Arkham]

Sony suggested that they will be offering a pack-in with the Eye, so my wife and I are going to pick Pet up that way. Should be fun. Too cute.

[sinncross]

Sony should really include a 2 game deal that includes both Eye of Judgement and EyePet with the Eyetoy, and bundle it with a PS3.

Eyepet looks like a neat offering, mainly for children, but if they can emphasize the nature fo the eyetoy, then the platform can be better set for their motion controller.

[callahan09]

I agree. Eye of Judgment is a special game. Just top-notch in terms of design. The tech is incredible, the idea of having a true collectible card game that I can play without having to have a friend in the room with me is simply genius. And the balancing of the cards is just about the best I've ever seen in a card game. There is no "I've got this card, so I win" card. Light-weight, low cost cards can be just as effective as heavy-weight, high cost cards, it all really comes down to strategy, and you can't win with just heavy-weights, because you'll be dead before you can get two cards on the board.

It would have revolutionized the CCG industry if only they had worked harder at getting the damned cards in stores. The things were practically impossible to find when the game launched, and literally impossible to find now (unless you order online). I mean, you've got Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, World at Warcraft, etc. all as collectible card games, you can find the cards at the supermarket, at target, I even see them at Model's sporting goods. The cards are covered alongside Magic and other ancients in magazines like Scrye. But Eye of Judgment never got off its feet to that level. It's a shame. I would kill for a Set 4. The game is just so much fun.

[ptotoy]

and sony will release it this year.. unlike natal which will be released on the next xbox.. and still look last gen

[Socomer 1979]

The eye of judgement is really good game that amazes you before and long after youve played it.

It surprises me that most people didnt find having the pseye bundled with the eye of judgement a really valuble deal. In america it was $70 dollars all together. If you had traded some games for it, it would be a steal as the pseye which is a microphone too is about $40 dollars by itself.

I guess people just didnt think you was either buying a game($60) and a pseye for $10 dollars or the pseye($40) and a game for $30 dollars. This was in america and most people dont use thier brains here anyways. Still, there is alot of people still online.

[Rifle-Man]

I showed the E3 video to my 3-year-old daughter and asked her if she wanted the game when it came out. She didn't. I'm buying it anyway.

[Zeevious]

...because he seems betrayed by what must be his only friend...EyePet.

...betrayed by it's preview coded adorability...and apparent lack of integration with the new motion controller, on vibrate.

How else could a review/preview of what is primarily a universally charming digital pet for Children that Adults seem to love too, be written with :

"...for those children who leave real-life gerbils to suffocate in the smell of their own mess."

&

"...may be a pet for life. Or, at least until you find a way to kill it."
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Sammy...Really...GET A REAL FRIEND.

EyePet didn't betray you...you betrayed EyePet, by claiming to have a 'preview' which was nothing more than the exact same video we all saw A MONTH AGO, wrapped in your own painfully dispirited view.

If it helps, I've discussed this with actual running code of EyePet, and it thinks, as expected, you're also creepy looking - Oh...Also - EyePet hates you too.

There . . . Now that's all cleared up for you, go clean your Gerbils cage . . . It stinks.

(or is that just your review?)

[Zeevious]

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First...we ALL saw the video over a MONTH ago.

Is it a 'preview' to write a review comment about a month old clip & claim it's a preview?
A preview of what...watching the same video we all saw a month ago from E3?

Next should we expect Sammy's exciting 'preview' of something called Natal...based on video's of everyone else but him trying it...because of course no one saw those a month ago either?

It makes no sense to have some Self-Depricated Cynic 'reviewing' an adorable CHILDRENS GAME . . . TRAILER . . .

Next up...Samuel Roberts, renowned Independent Shakespearean Film Critic reviews Transformers III - Reviews of the Futile.

Sammy gives it 2 stars out of 10 which is impressive...considering the review left him suffocating in his own mess, like his blissfully-happy-to-be-out-of- his-misery dead Gerbils.

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NOTE: I invented a word here for the NowGamer reviewer that should have already existed for this very instance : "Self-Depricated" - as used here in "Self-Depricated Cynic" - as in That reviewer at NowLamer, Samuel Roberts seems like a "Self-Depricated Cynic" to me.
(I'm sorry I didn't mean to call NowGamer, NowLamer...I meant NowLAMER)
[Sign now lit: APPLAUSE! :flash: APPLAUSE! :flash: APPLAUSE!]

DEFINITION - self–dep*re*cat*ed
Someone humorously makes a Self-DepricatING joke about their own shortcomings.

For the "Self-DepricatED" . . . They ARE the shortcoming AND the joke.
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WHY SO HARSH Z:
First, it's not even a review. It's some site-hit piece from an almost 5-week old TRAILER with a "It's fun till you kill it...dead-gerbils" knock at something that the 'reviewer' didn't even TRY, let alone see anything but the same month-old trailer we can all watch.

Second, like bad out-of-context movie reviewers, what is the point of sicking someone like this on a CHILDRENS game. What exactly was NowGamer expecting but some sniped...This sucks...you suck...life sucks...'review'

They should be ashamed to have approved this & to call this person a 'Games Editor'

A Games Editor would have at least enough experience to know equating a cute children's gaming experience with killing EyePet & suffocating Gerbils isn't exactly the target market Sony's looking for...or anyone else for that matter.

Please...Great Games Editor Roberts...Quit while you're behind.