Games don't need to have good graphics--but they need to have fun. The upcoming Diner Dash seems to have neither. The competitive world of restauranting should make for an interesting gameplay experience, but this first video of the game looks utterly uninspired. 1UP recently previewed the game: "In Diner Dash, you show patrons to their seats, take their orders, serve them food, and clear the tables when they leave. Promptly serving people and working your way quickly through the increasing line of customers earns you points in the form of tips. The hardest part is managing your own stress levels as you serve impatient people. Sometimes your customers have screaming kids who need high chairs, and you're usually either urging that family of four to quickly finish their hamburgers, or scrambling to mop up the mess they left on the floor."
Seating customers and moving food from one place to the next could provide some brief bursts of entertainment, but is that really enough to warrant a full-fledged game? Watch the video after the cut, and tell us what you think.
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4-20-2007 @ 2:35PM
Colin said...
Stop the madness.
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4-20-2007 @ 3:42PM
txa1265 said...
Y'know ... every platform has games that just suck. So let me pre-empt any possible 'this shows that the PSP ...' blah, blah, blah crap ...
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4-20-2007 @ 3:45PM
required said...
txa1265, it would be very hard to one up things like elfbowling on the DS
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4-20-2007 @ 4:25PM
Saigon said...
What the hell is this? It sounds/looks like some cheap internet flash game. I can't believe Eidos is publishing this...wait, actually I can believe it.
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4-20-2007 @ 4:38PM
txa1265 said...
Hehe ... I remember someone sending me the flash PC version of Elf Bowling years ago, and when I heard the DS was getting the game I thought - no way ... but alas, it *is* that one ...
My point was more that every system has winners and losers and mostly just average games, so I didn't want the usual DS trolls coming along and making some claim that this 'proves' PSP has no good games or other such rubbish.
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4-20-2007 @ 4:50PM
GRT said...
Guys, you know that it *is* an internet flash game, right?
http://www.addictinggames.com/dinerdash.html
It's apparently popular, but I found it more irritating than anything.
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4-20-2007 @ 4:54PM
Colin said...
@GRT
Holy Crap...
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4-20-2007 @ 5:10PM
Saigon said...
@GRT
That was slightly amusing, but it's definitly not something I would pay money for.
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4-20-2007 @ 5:59PM
underpaid said...
I have nightmares that look like that.
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4-20-2007 @ 6:31PM
Dreadhead541 said...
you know whats funny, since diner dash is a flash game, you can already play it on your psp for free
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4-21-2007 @ 12:32PM
Frumious Boojum said...
I didn't know this was a flash game...
But I did play a 5 minute free sample on my cell phone once. I wasn't impressed. I can't believe they did it on PSP.
The gameplay would work a lot better on the DS. But I still wouldn't like the game any better.
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