If you’ve been reading PlayStation.Blog EU for a while then you might remember a series of posts called The Friday Debate. The idea was simple: I’d post an open-ended question and you fine folk would speak your brains in the comments.
For months this post has roamed the Mojave Desert, searching for new ideas and chewing a variety of fats to test them for the PlayStation.Blog community palate. Now it’s back with a name change and new trick up its sleeve: prizes!
The most insightful, interesting and/or amusing comments will win their authors a voucher code for a game or service, depending on what I’m able to blag that week.
To get things started, tell me this:
If you could work for any game developer in the world, who would it be, what kind of game would you create and why?
This week I have 15 voucher codes for Gatling Gears to give away, courtesy of EA, so get commenting over the weekend and our independent judge will pick the winners on Monday morning. The winners will receive their voucher code via private message on the official PlayStation Forums. For those of you that have never been to our forums, you just need to log in once using your PSN ID to enable private messaging. You could do it now or wait until Monday lunchtime(ish) when I will respond to the winning comments in this very post.
Best of luck and remember that enlightenment and the noble gift of conversation are the real prizes here. (I’m 99% certain it was HazelAM that suggested this topic some time ago, so thanks for that.)
Competition terms and conditions.















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Posted on 18 July, 2011 at 4:39 pm by Kanudo19
redeyeronin im just saying that i didnt do anything ilegal man, i had an idea and post it, and yeah i know tht some guys only said things like im gonna make this game better by whatever but tht’s they’re opnion respect it! u won, they dont ! yeh go ahead and revoke my code man, u know why ? cuz im not a whinning kid, im a guy talking who respects other’s ideas, and i wanted to share my idea so i did, i didn’t do it for the GG code, of course winning something is always good, but the real prize was ppl like the reaper or james liking my idea =) you dont need to get upset because i wrote for 3 hours and filled half a page with my comments. nobody’s forcing u to read
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Posted on 18 July, 2011 at 4:47 pm by TURK71
i would want to work for nintendos zelda cause zelda is epic
love it
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Posted on 18 July, 2011 at 5:22 pm by Madborg
Thankyou James, there are some great ideas in here and lets hope some come true in future.
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Posted on 18 July, 2011 at 8:42 pm by connorblue14
oh i didnt win well my game idea sucked
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Posted on 18 July, 2011 at 8:51 pm by connorblue14
cant belive i didnt win my idea of spectating as a sub on the sideline in the dug out rocked
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Posted on 18 July, 2011 at 8:58 pm by connorblue14
ok james what did you think of my idea honesty
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Posted on 18 July, 2011 at 9:32 pm by grizla75
cheers James, feel a bit guilty for winning now having read some of the sore loser comments (or sore winners, in the case of Redeyedronin).
how you can criticise a guy who has clearly slogged his guts out for 3hrs at the keyboard is beyond me. you dont want to read it? well guess what pal? maybe someone else does! this matter to you at all? you can always scroll past anything you dont like the look of.
(personally, i was in tears of laughter after a few lines of Kanudo19′s message and my stomach was killing me by the time i finished. lol)
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Posted on 18 July, 2011 at 9:54 pm by connorblue14
yeah but i took 3 hrs thinking of a idea and we were only allowed 1.250 charcters and im not a sore loser i just hate it it when i work hard on something and people tht work like 2 min win and my idea would of been number 1 proberly if u read it
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 12:37 am by GONZO2K8
I didn’t get my code james
no PMs on the forums. Ah well atleast i got my concept across (which i had to half in size to fit in one comment) and it’s an amazing feeling to know I won it whether i got a voucher or not!!!
Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 11:38 am by James Gallagher
Bad timing but I’m afraid I am still in bed sick today. I’m hoping to be back in work tomorrow and I will get those codes sent over right away. Sorry for the delay.
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 12:44 am by GONZO2K8
Or… maybe your sending them later today! haha just realised that after reading the other winners, winning replies! BTW people, to those who won I’ve read all of your entries and they are amazing! I don’t know about you all but I feel like I could write a bloody book on my idea complete with character sketches and level concept art! And to those who were unfortunate not to win I’ve read alot of your ideas and some seem to have very good potential. And I think that if you people developed the idea a bit more in your head and wrote a little bit more (without going off topic
) you could’ve won. Anyway cheers for the win and hopefully my idea can come true in the future as im an aspiring games designer/artist/programmer/how ever i’m used XD
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 2:59 am by Kanudo19
yeah thanks grizla but never mind ronin he just had to winne about something xD haha ur coment about my idea making u laugh made ME laugh
add me on psn
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 10:56 am by Madborg
Perhaps next comp should be who can winge the most in 100 words about how unfair life is to give sore losers a chance to win. ha ha server would crash. Heck only a bit of fun guys to win a game not the lottery. i’ve made many comments on blogs here and this was the 1st time i got a response, and was great to get.
I enjoyed reading a lot of the posts on here and were some really interesting concepts for games, will be very interesting if any become reality in future. Got mine dated,printed and patented just in case as not received consultant job offer yet hah.
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 12:00 pm by Madborg
No worries james take your time and hope you’re better soon. Just keep your bugs to yourself as there is enough in games already ha ha,and i’m looking forward to new pack of fallout new vegas this week.
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 2:10 pm by Kanudo19
yeah old world blues (drulling)
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 2:32 pm by Harlequinette_
Get well soon, James.
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 2:43 pm by connorblue14
yeah but guys if you lost and you spent 3 hours doing it what would u do and there shouldnt be a winge comp because they will only be 1 person in it and thats u i dont winge i just get angry when peole comment oh james ur so cool and tht try to bribe them and only spent 3 mins on it and then theres otheres like me and kanadoo whos was good btw and the first few tht didnt win
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 9:11 pm by Kanudo19
thanks man but i won
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 10:58 pm by SmallBlueDragon
First sorry for getting lost. This was first posted in General. topic friday debate. Now that nightmare is over my comments still stand. This is easy. SCE in partnership with level 5/Gearbox or Square Enix. Maybe use something like Havoc/Unreal.
Action RPG Legion ( Working title). IP crowns are shared in many genres but only one is used to measure the above. It has been held by one developer for a long time. People have got close but every review compares not competes. Blizzard time for a new King. Tell EA to Keep GG what I need is Wizardary LOLS.
OK rant over time to find some new fire.
Next weeks question?
Should Square re-image 7 like it has with other titles and why?
Sorry it’s an old question but does’nt hurt to ask !!
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Posted on 19 July, 2011 at 11:46 pm by Bumblebee
Hello. I only just saw this thread.
I’d like to work for Zipper Interactive, creators of SOCOM. I’d sack the entire company and hire people that actually care about what makes a decent game, and either patch the hell out of SOCOM 4 and add all the old game modes that are ridiculously absent; I’d add doors back in because they made for thrilling moments – a simple door, yes. Zipper couldn’t handle coding such things on PS3. I’d add customisable controls so we’re not stuck with Zipper’s daft ones.
But most importantly, I’d add regional lobbies so we don’t have to play with foul-mouthed, arrogant Americans, and can rebuild the community Zipper destroyed by ignoring what makes a good game and instead making a half-baked frustrating SOCOM wannabe.
Yup, that’s what I’d do. And we’d make millions.
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 12:31 am by asbo069
as a fan of fallout i’d like to choose bethsoft. it’s come out with a great free roam RPG. but it does have alot of performence issues regaring freezing, lag and glitches at higher levels which would be key to fix on fallout 3 and new vegas before discussing other projects such as dlc’s or a new fallout game like fallout L.A or of another big city while learning from the high level problems in 3 and new vegas to send out a game completely ready for the public. thats all i can think of to work with.
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 11:44 am by Catkiller1
James, you need to drag yourself into the office & send us our voucher codes, then drag yourself back to bed lol!
Hope you’re okay!
Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 11:54 am by James Gallagher
I’ve just got in this morning and asked the community team to send them as soon as they can, which I’m hoping will be this afternoon. I’ll reply here when they confirm. Sorry for the delay.
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 11:59 am by Catkiller1
No need to say sorry for the delay as we are all human & get ill sometimes.
You’re probably like me though & feel guilty even though you can’t help but be ill.
Can’t complain about something for free, no matter how long it takes
Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 12:24 pm by James Gallagher
Thanks! Well those have been sent now so pop on to the forums and you should have a PM waiting for you.
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 12:31 pm by thorgrimm
thanks ^^
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 12:33 pm by procion
Actuwereally, The infamous fridate(sic) debate didn’t just roll over and curdle it’s last moan into the oblivion of the back burner. It mutated and self-spawned it’s rampant dna into a hundred different Playstation blogspots, even making the ghastly crossing over into american “english” in the friendly US blog before it finally found it’s permanantentint’t base back here, mostly in the EU Blog’s weekly Home update report.
It reportedly was last seen basking in the multiple weekly “OH I never go to Home, it’s just a fashion parade/catwalk” that many would-be debaters unknowingly leave in order to sate it’s weeklly debate-feeding juices.
It really should know by now that resistance is futile, & just learn to go with that busy catwalk flow.
As for moi, I feel my Home shopping addiction needs calming. I’m off back into Home to my own private server of the shopping centre in order to buy another dressing-screen & to faithfully keep searching the various shups for that elusive clothes-horse…
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 12:51 pm by Catkiller1
Thank you for choosing me James & thank you Elixor for sending me the code
Can’t wait to see what content will be in todays store update!
Hoping for Back To The Future reduction, Strong Bad Reduction & Sam & Max reduction!!
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 12:53 pm by Harlequinette_
Thank you James and thank you Elixor! <3
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 1:50 pm by mh24185669
ok just found out james is playing away on ps3 all day instead of resting in bed to shake of this so called illness. not very clever are you, if i found out an employee had time to play rather than work from home when ill id sack them on the spot
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 1:54 pm by Winckle
Big thanks to James for chosing me and to the community team for the code!
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 2:08 pm by Catkiller1
@ mh24185669
I wouldn’t be so cynical!
Think of types of illness that would prevent you from going to work but okay at home!
Not to be crude but IBS or diarrhoea could prevent you going to work. You wouldn’t want to be caught short whilst travelling would you? whereas you have the ability to do other things but you don’t want the embarassment at work.
I’m glad you’re not my boss & you wouldn’t get away with sacking someone, on a so called offense like this anyway!
For your info James was still working from home & had time to reply aswell.
And before you start off on one about me defending, just because I won a code, then you’re wrong!
Fed up of people like you who misunderstand illness!!!
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 3:31 pm by Harlequinette_
+1 to Catkiller1
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Posted on 20 July, 2011 at 8:32 pm by killzonexx
i would work for a company that supports the community by not charge people for extra content our things that are already on the disk.
second of that i would work for a small upcoming company because they are more loyal towards there buyers and they do make good games now and then.
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Posted on 22 July, 2011 at 9:49 am by Madborg
not checked for code yet but thankyou,been into new fallout vegas old world blues pack which is so wacky and funny at start.
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