CliffyB Mentions New Jazz 3 "Pitch"

[Trafton]

Watch G4TV 9:00-9:30 AM Tuesday (tomorrow) Central Time (-6). There is an interview with CliffyB and he mentions a "new pitch" involving Jazz to a question submitted by ShanD, an old Jazzer, regarding Jazz 3.

If anyone has a way to, it would be great if they recorded and uploaded it.

Sound clip: http://media.g4tv.com/audio/g4tv/Cifford_B_G4tv.com_segment.mp3

[Nimrod]

That entire mp3, for 30 seconds of it.

But yes, hmmm interesting :)

[Tik]

I made a clip of the relevant part of the interview.

http://www.jazz2online.com/junk/tik/g4tv_cliffyb_jj3.mp3

..and get some growin some breadfruit.

[Bobby aka Dizzy]

For those of you who don't watch the Soprano's, here's Uncle Junior (Devan Shell model):
http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/img/cast/character/uncle_junior.jpg


But it sounds like we need to get the site all pimped out the site after hearing that.

I say we hold a contest for people to draw Jazz (and perhaps Devan) all pimped out and declare the winner <b>The Jazz Jackrabbit Uber Pimp</b>. ;)

[Violet CLM]

<img src="http://www.tachyonlabs.com/sam/Devanjunior.jpg">
I like it so far!

[Bobby aka Dizzy]

And Violet takes the crown as temporary <b>Jazz Jackrabbit Uber Pimp</b> for his SUPER SPEED and mind reading ability.

[Violet CLM]

FEMALE: Actually, Shawn Dee (probably ShanD) writes in, and she wants to know… “Where’s my Jazz Jackrabbit 3?”
MALE: Where is…
MALE AND FEMALE: Jazz Jackrabbit 3?
MALE: We actually have, a uh, a Pitch for the new Jazz Jackrabbit.
FEMALE: (gasps)
MALE: Yeah.
OTHER FEMALE: Oh, Johnny’s gonna be so happy!
OTHER MALE: Oh here’s the pitch that you’ve shown me before,
MALE: It is the pitch. It was like, Ja—OTHER MALE: You know, sort of like, the…
MALE: Jazz has kind of evolved into this almost like,—OTHER MALE: ...jackrabbit, apparently right?
MALE:—super-Uber-pimp character.
FEMALE: (giggle)
MALE: You showed me these drawings probably, like, two years ago?
OTHER MALE: Yeah. And he’s going, he’s going against the turtle Mafioso, right? Whereas, like, y’know, Devan Shell, who’s the enemy in the original Jazz Jackrabbit, has kind of become this Uncle Junior type figure, wearing like a y’know, a Sweatsuit and everything, and uh, we pitched it around town, we got a couple nibbles, uh, everything’s kinda gone quiet on it. (quiet) But I want it to happen.
FEMALE: We all do!
OTHER FEMALE: We all do.
FEMALE: We all do. Shawn Dee, I know you do.

[Black Ninja]

I AM WORKING ON A PIMPED OUT JAZZ.

Also, this is excellent news. Of course, we've heard such things before and been let down. Let's hope this time is different!

[Tmansdc]

Yeah, then we could all be like, WHOAMG! JAZZ 3!

[Fawriel]

Hmmmm.....

[GuMmYBeAr!]

I miss ShanD ;_;

[White Rabbit]

What, er, JJ3 is going to have all those features in Violet's quote? :/

[Jerrythabest]

Maybe we can ask CliffyB about it;) all we need is his E-mail address and someone who wants to <strike>interview</strike> ask him.:lol:

[Fawriel]

Hmm, I dunno. It sounds like a drastic and stupid change at first, but it can be interesting if pulled off right. The previous JJ games have been pretty self-ironic. If that attitude is retained, and perhaps even improved, JJ3 might become a kick-butt parody on stuff like GTA!

[Strato]

RAIN ON PARADE TIME:

From the general words he picked and what he said, it looks like he's been talking to publishers rather than developers at Epic. What tells me that this is actually more than it seems is this line:
"everything’s kinda gone quiet on it."
It sounds like he's been having trouble getting a team of developers interested, especially because the "pitch" is 2 years old as it is.

Overall, it looks like CliffyB does really care about the stupid rabbit game, but developers don't want to dedicate any time or effort to it. They're all too busy with other projects to get started on this one.

[DoubleGJ]

...Such as Unreal Tournament 2007, right? -_- Eh, Jazz3D would be kickbutt if made on the Unreal Engine 3.0...

[purplesheep]

Beat me up for this if you will, but I think the next Jazz should be very much in the game design style of say "Sly Cooper" I'd much rather have cel-shaded graphics over polygonal type graphics when it comes to Jazz Jackrabbit.

And Spaz better be in there too. ;)

[Fawriel]

http://www.armchairempire.com/images/Reviews/Playstation2/sly-cooper/sly-cooper-6.jpg
Agreed.

[DoubleGJ]

Personally I've already had enough of cellshading. I'd like to see Jazz3 be like Jazz2 - "dirty" graphics, with detail positioned somewhere between "realistic" and "cartoony".

[LittleFreak]

Did I get that right... Jazz is going to be a Pimp? Like that rapping idiots you see on MTV all the time?

If so I'm not gonna buy it.

If, however, the four days of summer break I had so far destroyed my brain so much that I can't understand English properly anymore and it's not like I fear it could be (Hey watch me I'm 50 Jazz!) then I'm happy. :D

Now hit me in the face. Please and thanks.

[DoubleGJ]

Jazz would actually look pretty cool in a hooded blouse and big pants IMHO (leaving the bandana as it is). At least better than in semi-HanSolo outfit. But maybe I think so because that's how I wear. =P

[n00b]

I'd rather play "Jazz Jackrabbit: The Dark shell Menace" than "jizy Jackrabbit: Pimp yo hood, yo!"

[Fawriel]

Am I the only one who thinks that they'd make it a parody on just what LF and n00b said?

[LittleFreak]

Well, if they make fun of those "pimps" then it's good. :D

[n00b]

I need to look through my archival cds, but I'm pretty sure I once made a pretty shoddily done picture of Jazz going "street".

[Newspaz]

I wouldn't worry about the pimped looks. I think Noogy made the drawings and I consider him sane.

[n00b]

Actually, I would trust Noogy to make Jazz a pimp./
Now I'll dig up his drawings of a pimp from some game or something.

[Violet CLM]

Whoa, you're right. Noogy does have a really long history of trying to make pimp games. Forgot about that.

[Radium]

Whoa, you're right. Noogy does have a really long history of trying to make pimp games. Forgot about that.Sarcasm intended?

[n00b]

http://web.archive.org/web/20040628202129/noogy.com/image/gallery/pimp1thumb.jpg
Yeaah, Im not so sure that is scarcasm.
"This is a sketch of Pimp. Pimp starred in a Lucasarts-adventure-type game that a couple friends and I started working on called Pimpnology. It was a hilarious story, mebbe sometime we'll finish that."
Words from Noogy himself.
More Pimpnology info:
"This was an interesting alien creature I developed for a game we started some time back called Pimpnology. There is very little art remaining from that game (which was something like a Lucasarts adventure), but it was a crazy thing to behold. The main character was named Pimp, and this creature kills his friend and teacher, Old-School. I should upload the script, you'd crack up :)"
Image was not archived.

[ThunderPX]

This actually sounds good after all that stuff about Shadow the Hedgehog being Sonic: GTA edition. Random fun-making of that pimp attitude would probably work out great.

BUT FOR GOD'S SAKE LEAVE THE BANDANA ALONE!

[ShadeJackrabbit]

Uhhhhh.... how can I put this... NO! I don't care if Jazz 3 is never made if they are gonna change Jazz! (I've worked on a running gag about him. No, you will never hear or see it.)

[n00b]

(I've worked on a running gag about him. No, you will never hear or see it.)
Then why tell us? And what does it have to do with anything?

[DoubleGJ]

Uhhhhh.... how can I put this... NO! I don't care if Jazz 3 is never made if they are gonna change Jazz! (I've worked on a running gag about him. No, you will never hear or see it.)
Calm down, everyone needs a makeover someday... As long as the bandana and wristbands stay.

[Fawriel]

Or bodily features...

...

In Paris, I was in a comic shop and I saw some Mickey Mouse adventure comic thing. It had Minnie ( or whatever his girlfriend's name is ) on it, too. Without ears, which she apparently got transplanted to her breast. God save us all.

[fiendmm++]

I will withhold any comments until this game comes out which it never will.

[ShadowGPW]

i'm impressed and glad for it. HOpe the oldy can push it a bit!