What a douche

Posted By gareth / March, 20, 2013 / 12 comments

Over on PC Gamer they have an interview with Richard Garriott, where he talks about how most other game designers suck, and how he’s so much better than them. I’m not exaggerating. Look at this shit. And every designer that I work with—all throughout life—I think, frankly, is lazy, Wow. Just wow. What an ass….

No!

Posted By gareth / March, 14, 2013 / 1 comments

No! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Garrett redesigned to appeal to modern audience of today’s console market

Feel the Hate Washing over You

Posted By gareth / November, 15, 2012 / 6 comments

I’ve working on a more meaningful post, but for now, I’m just going to leave these two links here. Not even going to say anything about them. Just read. And feel the hate washing over you. Why We Need to Kill Gameplay to Make Better Games The Truth About Challenge in Games

EA Boss Proudly Refuses to publish Single Player Only Games

Posted By gareth / September, 5, 2012 / 1 comments

Title says it all, doesn’t it? Yeah, fuck that guy. I wish I could rally more rage, but I’ve kinda just gotten cynical about the whole thing. Big execs will always chase the latest cash goldmine, whatever.

Clueless

Posted By gareth / August, 1, 2012 / 1 comments

Games must achieve photorealism in order to convey emotions, says idiot. He also talks about “the final console”, which is amusing in and of itself. Doesn’t seem to take much knowledge of video games to run a video game publisher, does it?

I guess a new Dungeon Keeper was too much to hope for

Posted By gareth / June, 7, 2012 / 0 comments

Peter Molyneux has revealed the first of his new companies’ projects. Freed from the yoke of the publishers, able to exercise his full spectrum of creativity and talent, the man who at one time brought us Syndicate Wars, Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital and Black & White has revealed… Curiosity I have no words.

It’s shit like this…

Posted By gareth / March, 28, 2012 / 6 comments

Assassin’s Creed 3′s creative director, Alex Hutchinson, has declared that Ubisoft won’t be “investing hugely in a mouse and keyboard setup”, saying PC gamers should be using a controller instead. Let’s take a moment to think about this. An industry in which not a week goes by without someone standing up and whining about how…

Bloody kids

Posted By gareth / February, 18, 2012 / 0 comments

“Guys, I’m 18 and let me tell you, this thing I enjoyed is the most meaningful, important thing anyone has ever enjoyed.” Are you kidding me? Best part : Mass Effect has a simple message: human beings are delusional about their importance in the grand scheme of things That’s right. The game where you, the…