10-09-2012, 04:18 AM
(10-08-2012, 06:29 PM)Chesspiece_face Wrote: There was the big blow-up when Jay Wilson said "fuck off loser" on his facebook and I've seen differing statements that the comment was directed towards Brevik or Schaefer.
If it wasn't for the whole social media thingamajig, to me it sounds like any run of the mill interoffice\rival company trash talking.
Or something like a soap opera set in the exciting world of vidya game companies.
If you want to talk about getting cheesed off by a video game company behaviour, I still think this classic is pretty hard to top.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana
Nothing wins over customers by saying you will be made into 'their bitch', or telling them to 'suck it down'.
Quote:There are development teams out there right now (ala Blizzard with Diablo 3 and Grinding Gear Games with Path of Exile) that are taking serious risks looking for new ways to expand the genre and for the leads on the Runic team to essentially sit on the sidelines and point and laugh reeks of shamefulness. It's low.
I dunno, personally I think the genre of ARPG, (which IMO D1 if not invented, at least brought it mainstream) is now in the same boat as 'X-COM: UFO Defense'. Great game. Possibly one of the greatest game in it's genre. I hear many fans and players wants another X-COM. You know the 2 complaints I often read about whenever a someone makes an X-COM type game?
1) It's too much like X-COM. It needs something more than just a rehash.
2) It's not enough like X-COM. It needs to keep the elements that makes X-COM so good.
And sometimes people can be talking about the exact same game.