Right, “Hello, I’m Dave Walsh, Lead Designer, and I’m a ‘PAIN-a-holic”. Now, before I get into this, first let me apologise (yes! note, the proper spelling), for not chiming in sooner but you have to realise how difficult it is getting a word in edgewise when Travis is in the house. Coke? Jeff? you agree with me right? Believe me, that “Harder Dick’s Balls” trophy is easier! (and Travis, the dude has “frickin’ lasers” in his eyes! Sheesh…)
So, you have my apologies again for the wait. I have been there for EVERY post! Even from “back in the day”, and the original H8’ers (yeah Juggs, Hello, adam, alpha, neon, tony, 2Speedy and co., I was there!). I am the KING of lurking… the Lur-KING, get it! Ha ha… erm, never mind.
Also, before I get started, Online is really, really close AND you guys are bloody good at guessing what we are working on for the next levels. “nuff” said.
Ok, on to the reason for the post. We are finally going to the land of the rising sun! The P.T.B. have finally decided that the humour of crotch shots and fart jokes are indeed, universal. (As if we didn’t know…). And “NO!”, I do not have a date yet, ask Coke. We are however, just about to head into Japanese test if that is any indication.
PAIN in Japan has all sorts of ramifications, not the least of which is a whole new batch of PAIN players. Also we are now Global, truly Global. With that in mind, we are going to wipe the leaderboards… ALL of them. Why? Because in a new game there is nothing more frustrating than seeing scores that seem impossible to achieve. Seriously guys, over 5000 monkeys and a sub-minute Mime Toss??!! Are you sleeping with those controllers? That is NOT what the rumble is for.
Now wait! Before you hammer me, we're working on a way to make the old scores gone but not forgotten! We're going to try to archive the top ten from ALL the boards here, so those scores and the muta.. ah players who attained them, will be forever remembered in the annals of history. (heh, heh I said anal...) Wiping the boards is something that we will start doing more often and each time we do, the old scores will be archived. In fact the latest poll on the site will give us an indication on how often we do this. <cringes slightly> Questions? On your marks, get set… wait for it… GO!
