Recent content by LordSphinx

Being the lead game designer on it, I've been playing it quite a lot :-P Don't underestimate the jaguar as an offensive weapon btw, it leaves distortion blasts behind when you use it, so if you teleport through the carrier you'll damage it as well.

I would have thought that the OP was more specifically saying that the game developers and publishers are now feeling forced to listen to fanboys raging over forums than listening to themselves. This has for consequence to diminish the vision unique to the developers when they make games...

Legend of Mana This game is the most underrated game of all time. It simply came out too soon. The whole game is a metaphor about the subject of will over matter. The aspect that I find the most incredible about this game is that even the gameplay was part of this metaphor. You use your...

It truly is getting ridiculous. I'm switching more and more my attention toward giantbomb now. Escapist is slowly but surely losing its appeal to me. This just adds up to a series of change that diluted the Escapist experience for me. They are very lucky to still have Extra Credit. Once they...

Even when looking out for a one night stand, you still owe it to any women worth your time to respect her. Lying is disrespectful, and meaning no harm has nothing to do in the debate. I don't get this idea that if a woman is willing to do a one night stand, she's not worth being honest with.

The thing is, the IGDA never did anything good. They just make a few public statements here and there and that's it. They are, quite literally, a scam. Don't believe me? Well here's a fact that might make you reconsider: Tim Langdell (the guy that was a professional legal troll with the Edge...

Although I find the trailer overly dramatic, I can relate very well as I gave up my job at Activision to start my own business. What I don't get, however, is why these developers do their game alone. In a few weeks, I could gather a team of 4 developers and eventually added a 5th (no need for an...

Nine Dots Studio will participate to this contest. My studio has been working on our first project for three months full time and our release will correlate with the submission deadline. We're pretty sure that we'll be among the finalists, but wouldn't go so far to say that we're sure to win...

Best headline ever.

I'm doing well! My team is working hard to finish our first video game project and there seems to be a good amount of trust in my abilities to drive the business to success. Now if I could only get some funding... Almost anything new to happen in my life is work related and I feel like I'm...

I think I have an answer that differs somewhat to other posts here: I think being "a real man" is about having dignity. If said "Man's laws" are about different ways to show dignity in different situations, I can get where they are coming from, although a moral question rarely fits into a simple...

Well, a few weeks later we came up with a title entirely different: Brand. Thanks for your feedback everyone! I'll definitely keep involving the Escapist community as we move forward :-) You guys are awesome. BTW, if you want to get a detailed explanation to why we chose that title over anything...

There is one aspect here that wasn't mentionned that also may contribute to an economic crash in the social gaming space. The same aspect that killed the Furby fad: It's fucking annoying. Having millions of beggars online using their friends like leeches, that's not a good way to become popular...

Wow, that was very thorough. Oh and welcome to the Escapist by the way! I agree to pretty much everything you said. But there will indeed be a lighter tone for the game than what we've revealed yet shows. Since all we've shown are monsters, it does seem like a dark game, but there will also...

We probably would have done that if it weren't for the fact taht there are three different NPCs that enhance the sword: a chemist, a mage and a smith, and all of them offer very different powers. So we don't want to make one of them the "main" NPC.