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Post by Weasel Freak on Sept 21, 2008 13:06:25 GMT -5
Yeah. Who plays it? If you're confused with what that is, just type www.Toontown.com in your address bar. |
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Sept 22, 2008 0:54:52 GMT -5
Drat! My phone won't allow me to play that game, let alone even to use the link to merely see a menu or something.
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Post by Weasel Freak on Oct 5, 2008 15:34:34 GMT -5
You can't make a Toon weasel to play, but you can make a dog with short legs and a long body.
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Oct 5, 2008 22:00:11 GMT -5
That's the closest you can get to a weasel, eh? I wonder why you can't be an actual weasel.  I remember commercials for that game on tv. |
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Oct 5, 2008 22:11:41 GMT -5
I'd really appreciate if someone out there made gameplay videos of this game, because I'm not really willing to actually subscribe to it and everything. What I'm primarily interested in is what we could learn about Toontown from it.
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Oct 5, 2008 22:23:35 GMT -5
You have to actually subscribe to it? I wouldn't be able to commit to it like that.
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Oct 5, 2008 22:31:48 GMT -5
Yeah, you gotta. It's a MMORPG, after all... XD You can play it for two months for free with some features unavailable, though.
Like I said, we could learn a lot about Toontown from the way the game expands the world, I'm sure.
Maybe you can't play a weasel because they're known villains, like toon foxes and wolves tend to be? Can't let the kiddies live out their dark desires, now can we?
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Oct 5, 2008 22:41:20 GMT -5
Lolz Guess not! XD That's to bad that you can't be a "villian animal."
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Oct 6, 2008 2:04:20 GMT -5
I think you have to be like, thirteen to start liking villains. I can't picture a six-year-old liking Scar, for instance.
Although cats can often be the villains, but often unfairly so.
Well, anyway... I think the concept of these soulless robotic toons wanting to take over Toontown and turn it into a cold business world is, perhaps deliberately, very similar to Doom wanting to make Toontown a freeway. Corporate takeovers... evil toons... changing Toontown forever... it's all there.
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Oct 6, 2008 2:18:26 GMT -5
Yeah, such material does certainly sound familiar. I think a person can like a villian at a real young age sometimes. I've been rooting for Smartass over Roger ever since i saw the movie. ;D I was 3... or 4? It's hard to pinpoint. |
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Oct 6, 2008 3:12:05 GMT -5
I think I saw it when I was eight or so. On VHS, of course. I seem to remember dimly being fascinated by them, but it was only until I saw it years later after not seeing it for several years- I was around thirteen to fifteen, I think- that I found myself becoming fond of them.
The particular moment where Smarta** looks at Eddie after Roger spews out of the sink and he misses it, is what grabbed me, I think. His expression just screams "I know you have a secret, Valiant..."
Okay, somebody here who's actually played this game needs to post here. None of us seem to have played it...
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Post by wifeofsmartass on Oct 6, 2008 4:16:03 GMT -5
Ditto! *And i can't resist commenting; that expression of SA that u spoke of always grabbed me in, too. As i child i remember thinking, "That weasel is so cool! He's the best mafia boss ever!" Not that i'd look up to such a profession in reality, but Smartass' mob is indeed cool.
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Post by Weasel Freak on Oct 17, 2008 20:55:10 GMT -5
I think you have to be like, thirteen to start liking villains. I can't picture a six-year-old liking Scar, for instance. Although cats can often be the villains, but often unfairly so. Well, anyway... I think the concept of these soulless robotic toons wanting to take over Toontown and turn it into a cold business world is, perhaps deliberately, very similar to Doom wanting to make Toontown a freeway. Corporate takeovers... evil toons... changing Toontown forever... it's all there. Nine. I started to like weasels around nine or ten. |
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Post by Fatal hilarity on Oct 17, 2008 23:03:37 GMT -5
What I mean is that I don't know very many people much younger than that who are into living out their dark sides and play a villain. Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno... I know that mainstream media doesn't think so, considering that video games don't usually let you play a villain unless it's rated M for Mature- the Smash Bros. series being an exception.
Well, there are child-size Darth Vader costumes and masks, aren't there? I guess what I really mean is that a kid doesn't usually want to pretend to do cruel things to people and things in some sort of game... except to play out the defeat of a villain. That's my impression, anyway. I'm going with the children's entertainment that I've seen, as well as how kids around me behave, back when I was one myself and nowadays.
My point is that there are sure a heck of a lot more hero toys and games and good-defeating-evil things than there are "Play the villain and kill stuff!" whatever thingies for kids.
From my personal experience, I didn't start liking cartoon villains until I was about thirteen or fourteen, like Scar and the weasels. I don't think I had much darkness in me until that point.
Back on topic...
So I've discovered that there are gameplay videos of it on YouTube, although I haven't watched any yet. But the point is is that anybody who isn't willing to subscribe but wants to learn what the game is like, how it works, and what it tells us about Toontown can go and see all that.
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Post by Weasel Freak on Dec 20, 2009 20:57:43 GMT -5
I have a subscription, I just have to figure out how Hypercam works... >.<
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I remember commercials for that game on tv.