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Who the fuck is the target audience for these games? You've got level themes that seem aimed at children, quotes that reference older TV or obscure celebrity shit, and then immature sex jokes. It's like they couldn't figure who would buy this so they just aimed for everyone.

>> No.5535340

>>5535338
Stoner college students watching reruns is my guess

>> No.5535362

>>5535338
Mid 20s manchildren with enough disposable income to purchase a 3DO and understand the references but who still have the maturity level of a 14 year old and enjoy bing bing wahoo and 6th grade innuendo

>> No.5535402

>>5535338
"We want the Animaniacs, Freakazoid, and Tiny Toons usenet groups audience"

>> No.5535643

>>5535338
us, but 20 years ago

>> No.5535658

snooty 16 year olds with rich parents

>> No.5535775

the butthurt in this thread is off the charts, why so much hate

>> No.5535778

>>5535338
I didn't even know english I just climbed walls around

>> No.5535990

>>5535775
because liking things especially references makes you "reddit"

>> No.5536137

i wish they would make a new gex game where he's an internet junkie instead of a channel surfing couch potato. shit would be so cash.

>> No.5536165

>>5535643
Literally this

>> No.5536169

>>5536137
>shit would be so cash.
you have to be 18 to post here kid.

>> No.5536191

>>5535362

why would you play the 3do game when you could play the superior sequels on ps1/n64?

>> No.5536202

Gex came in at the tail end (no pun intended) of the 90s 'TUDE era, where all a character had to be was snarky to be thought of as cool.

>> No.5536615

>>5536169
that phrase is older than you zoomer

>> No.5536757

>>5535340
/thread

>> No.5536767

>>5535338
At the time, Gen-X. Pretty "radical".

>> No.5537041

So many fucking idiots in this thread. The aim was the whole family. It was not unusual at the time for teenage and child siblings to play the same game and their parents to watch at times. The overall design was that the kids would play, get their kicks, and the parents could chuckle in the background at some shitty joke that went over the kids' heads.

>> No.5537771

>>5535775
Actually thought Gex was cool

>> No.5537814

People with good taste I suppose.

>> No.5538164

>>5535338
>On February 12, 2019, Fox renewed Family Guy for an eighteenth season.

Gex was honestly ahead of its time.

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5538239

>>5535340

I guess you could say that the original Gex on the 3DO was aimed at the Nick at Nite crowd of the 1990's. The original Gex had all sorts of odd and obscure RV references. The game does take place in a TV world, though. I did like Gex on the 3DO, though. I never owned the console myself, but I knew someone who did that would let me borrow it from time to time. Gex was an attempt to try and bring a mascot platformer to the 3DO. With a character that was trying to be ironically cool and self aware (Like Crash, or Eathworm Jim) but would use rendered sprites like Donkey Kong Country.

But after the initial 3DO game, I guess you could say that Gex tried to be a little more aimed at children. I think it was trying to go for that "Only adults will get the jokes and kids will like the game" Pixar mentality.

>> No.5538248

>>5538239
>RV references

*TV

>> No.5538609

>>5535338
Me, apparently. I was 7 at the time, and no, I didn't get half the references. Didn't matter because he was a talking gecko exploring tv worlds.

>> No.5538648

>>5537041
>s. The overall design was that the kids would play, get their kicks, and the parents could chuckle in the background at some shitty joke that went over the kids' heads.
Not once in my entire life have I ever had my parents watch me play video games, even when I played them in the living room on the only TV as a kid.

>> No.5539312

>>5535338
Gex is just a byproduct of the mascot era. Trying to justify him now is futile.

>> No.5539506

>don’t drink tap water at jerry garcia’s
seriously who the FUCK was supposed to get this reference?

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5539893

>>5536137
Kek: Enter The Pepe

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>>5539893

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>>5539907

>> No.5539997

>>5539506
That's the joke.

>> No.5540214

The UK (maybe all of Europe?) voice actor for Gex was different than the US version as were the references for those that didn't know.

>> No.5540320

>>5535775
poorfags are still seething that their family couldn't afford a 3DO

>> No.5540383

>>5536137

>not getting zapped into the TV while binging a show on Rezflix

>> No.5540469

>>5540383
>>not getting zapped into the TV while binging a show on Rezflix

I could see the Netflix angle get used in a new game. That might be a good idea. Square-Enix owns the rights to Gex, because they own Crystal Dyanamics. I'd like to see them make a new Gex.

>> No.5540524

>>5539506
Just because you don't know who he was, doesn't mean no one does