IMAGINE: JOURNALIST
Keep seeing this mentioned on the internet, but assumed it was just a joke about the depths Ubisoft might foreseeably plumb in one possible future. But Play.com wouldn’t feature a product listing page for a joke thing, would it?
In our case, we’re holding out for post-recession sequel “Remember When You Used To Be A Journalist?”
THE FEATURES:
– Make yourself a great career as a journalist
– Start as a columnist for a local newspaper and end up as an international reporter, heading your own TV show
– Get your own press pass
– Have fun with the full range of journalists’ accessories: notepad, handheld recorder, mic, camera
– Catch your first scoops by bike and end up travelling in style by helicopter!
– Discover the exciting parts of a magazine journalist’s job
– Go out in the field to interview the locals, but also stars, politicians and athletes
– Attend press conferences and stand out amongst other journalists
– Take the best pictures to illustrate your articles
– Organise magazine covers
– Report great news on TV
– As a TV news presenter deliver the right information at the right time
– Record celebrity interviews
– Release radio programmes on air
– Develop your investigative skills
– Become the one who reveals the top news stories!
– Challenge yourself to deliver exclusive scoops
– Explore places for interview and picture opportunities
– Play with your environment as a background for the photoshoot minigame
JOKE ADDITIONAL FEATURES:
– Go “freelance” and enjoy the benefits of beard-growing and not having to ever see other people
– Be owed thousands of pounds you probably won’t ever see
– Drink so much free alcohol your insides still hurt even after three years of not touching a drop
– Get insulted every time someone gets sent something and you don’t
– Start as a columnist for a local newspaper and end up as a depressed blogger
– Talk to women, but only because they have to because it’s their job
– Watch your carefully-cultured internet persona disintegrate the first time you meet other industry employees
– Wonder how people so obviously useless get paid three times as much to do less work
– Lie to yourself about products being better than they are on a daily basis
– Develop your plagiarism skills
– Meet people so horrible you fantasise about fighting them and actually killing them
– Never quite be important enough to have the final say on anything
filed in ACTUAL GAMES on Feb.19, 2010
February 19th, 2010 on 1:34 pm
Bookmarked for next time someone tells me I should be a journalist.
February 19th, 2010 on 1:34 pm
Forgotten to take your medication again?
February 19th, 2010 on 1:42 pm
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February 19th, 2010 on 2:16 pm
Your google adverts never lie Zorg…
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February 19th, 2010 on 2:35 pm
I should say I’ve never claimed to be a journalist. I might’ve mumbled “I’m sort of a writer” once or twice, then blushed about it.
February 19th, 2010 on 2:56 pm
[…] been out a while but UK:RESISTANCE blog has brought it to our attention – Imagine:Journalist, the Nintendo DS game where you can […]
February 19th, 2010 on 3:25 pm
“Wonder how people so obviously useless get paid three times as much to do less work.”
Vs.
“I should say I’ve never claimed to be a journalist. I might’ve mumbled “I’m sort of a writer” once or twice, then blushed about it.”
Et voilà.
Honestly not trying to be a dick, I fully appreciate the difficulties involved in being human, being closely related to them myself. Maybe you could mount a Rocky style comeback? Keeping any purported beard will be essential.
February 19th, 2010 on 3:31 pm
I have no opinion of the uselessness of journalists, other than the usual hatred of ‘thu meeeja’ and the nasty fings wot they rite, but regarding the beard I belive the popular internet phrase is:
Pics or GTFO
February 19th, 2010 on 4:45 pm
Does Zorg want a hug? Or is he trying to talk himself out of buying this?
February 19th, 2010 on 5:53 pm
I tipped off journalism.co.uk. Now you’re the center of a tweetstorm. It’s like a shitstorm but cooler.
http://twitter.com/search?q=%23journalismds
February 19th, 2010 on 7:01 pm
30 tweets? Blimey. I might have to upgrade the hosting package from ‘Starter/Bronze’.
February 19th, 2010 on 11:18 pm
Supplemental joke features :
– Learn to hate the only thing that once gave you joy.
– Use your zoom lens to take pictures of girls from a safe distance.
– Get slowly pushed out of covering mainstream events and be forced to specialize in obscure fields. Watch as people who have been even more marginalised by society make your readership figures grow to double digits.
– Thrill to the meteoric rise of under-qualified pretty girls and pretend that you wouldn’t have hired them over yourself.
– Master your editing skills and use your handheld recorder and edit together – “No I don’t remember you. You want me to say what? Get lost pervert! Hey! Get out of my handbag! Fuck off arsehole this is an invite only event!” into “Fuck my arsehole, I invite you to.”
– Comfort yourself when you cry alone at night with the knowledge you can correctly use a semi-colon. Or at least know when not to try and use one.
– Refute police claims you were downloading hardcore pornography by declaring you were “researching a story.”
– Be the envy of no one.
Imagine.
February 20th, 2010 on 1:24 pm
@Zorg
See, and you doubted that one day you’d be living the dream!
February 24th, 2010 on 8:51 am
[…] que le jeu sort en Angleterre en mars prochain, le site UK Resistance s’est amusé à refaire les règles du jeu: «commence comme journaliste de presse locale et deviens un blogueur déprimé», […]
March 4th, 2010 on 11:18 am
[…] Expect a load of DS titles to re-enter the chart next week due to the super-sized Nintendo DSi XL hitting stores tomorrow. There are only two new DS games released this week to coincide with it though – the apparently better than you might expect Alice in Wonderland (also out on Wii) and Ubisoft’s Imagine: Journalist, as mocked on UK Resistance. […]
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