Wow, old thread. I wonder what happened to this game's actual development since I haven't heard anything about it.
Oh and for the record, I am NOT a fan, but I consider Soulja Boy to be what is referred to as a "personality". I don't think he's really successful because of any talent in paticular. People like him come and go, and he deserves credit for staying in the public eye as long as he has.
As far as a game based on him, honestly it's hard to judge without knowing more about the game itself. Truthfully I don't like the whole subculture, though I really did enjoy Saint's Row (1 and 2).
Simply promoting the game because he's in it, is like the whole series of "50 Cent" games. I don't care for the guy involved, so simply the fact that he's in it doesn't sell me. On the other hand if they come out with a truely awesome and unique game that ironically has been developed with him as the "face" that might be something differant.
Given how Goofy he is, and how he's taken, if it was a survival horror game in the spirit of some of the various "Black Horror Comedy" movies (Hood Of Horror, Tales From The Hood, etc..) it could be sort of amusing.
As far as how he treats his games, well honestly I don't know how much of what he does is an act and how serious he is. However it doesn't surprise me. What he's doing is being "Ghetto Rich". That is to say treating something casually/like dirt that ordinary people have to be careful with. You take care of your games because for you their expensive. For him on the other hand by doing that on Camera he's demonstrating that the $60 that game probably cost he's not worried about it, he can just go get another one. You'll find a lot of Rap/Hip Hop guys do stuff like that to show off.
It's also satirized outside of the Black community as well, I mean we've all seen comedy sketches with rich people rolling cigarettes with $100 bills, or making paper airplanes with monay and throwing them into the fireplace, etc... it's just that Rap/Hip Hop guys tend to do this stuff in public as some obtuse way of showing off. Is Soulja boy really one of them, or exagerrating the whole persona as huge joke? Such is one of those questions he's generated about himself.
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