I'll be crossing my fingers and praying that this game manages to get released some point in the near future. I believe this game has every right to be published and shown to the public.
It's Reality or Nothing for Six Days in Fallujah
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Yeah true dat, but as I said before I get it, I really support the Atomic team for trying to create this game and going all for it even if Konami turned their backs on the project. I hope those soldiers that fell at Fallujah as well as those coming back get the respect they deserve even if the game ends up sucking or getting a Modern Warfare/Call of Duty clone treatment by the community (or other game-clone-like reception seeing as it was going to be a third person shooter like game).Fronzel said:This is a regular reporting piece on ongoing developments. Why should the attention of a feuture like Extra Credits on the same topic mean it gets ignored?Misho- said:Ah ok, I was confused as to why tackle the same subject again, but now that I think about it there are several subjects that get repeated over different topics so it's all good nowExort said:
Heck, I think sometimes both Yahtzee and other folks on the Escapist will review the same game.
Censorship, censorship, censorship - blah. No one is telling them 'you can't do this', they're saying 'good luck doing this, but we're not helping'. This is not a problem with censorship, it's a marketing problem.
If you want to make an intimate movie about a failing couple trapped in a cabin and breaking apart through relationship issues that are paralleled with bizarre weather phenomena, you don't try to find a Hollywood publisher to secure you an umpteen million dollar fund because there's no audience for that. You find a small publisher, use as small a budget as you can, release it on small independent movie festivals and hope to become a hit amongst the alternative crowd, making a profit on DVD sales. That's for movies, a media with a huge bedrock of quality works, that pretty everyone on Earth has a favourite!
If they had stepped out of their big boy publisher shoes for a second and released it as, say, a Source engine mod, we'd now be reading 'Six Days In Fallujah Wins Multiple Awards In Some Sort Of Independent Gaming Show, Women Throw Underwear At Developer'.
If you want to make an intimate movie about a failing couple trapped in a cabin and breaking apart through relationship issues that are paralleled with bizarre weather phenomena, you don't try to find a Hollywood publisher to secure you an umpteen million dollar fund because there's no audience for that. You find a small publisher, use as small a budget as you can, release it on small independent movie festivals and hope to become a hit amongst the alternative crowd, making a profit on DVD sales. That's for movies, a media with a huge bedrock of quality works, that pretty everyone on Earth has a favourite!
If they had stepped out of their big boy publisher shoes for a second and released it as, say, a Source engine mod, we'd now be reading 'Six Days In Fallujah Wins Multiple Awards In Some Sort Of Independent Gaming Show, Women Throw Underwear At Developer'.
Good for them. I hope they find a publisher with cahones one day. Now that I think of it let me know when you do; I'd like to find someone to restore my faith in the business world.
Yeah, but that's less a problem with the medium as it is with the market and the consumer. If video games and interactive media in general need to rethink their buisness model and retool the market so it's far more intuitive and we as consumers can help.stinkychops said:
Sins of a Solar empire had under 1 000 000 USD in funding, but was incredible, so Six Days doesn't need that much funding, if anything, if the put out the call, we'd answer. We are many and if we did stick up for our medium, it would get our foot in the door of respectibility, albiet one toe at a time.
Right wing and left wing are the same, they just differ on where to spend our tax money.Blind Sight said:
On topic: I'm willing to bet my life savings that if you showed the game to our boys and their commanders (and that the game is as realistic as they claim), they'd all say "this is great, thanks for showing the civilians what its really like out here." But the publishers are a bunch of pussies too afraid of a lawsuit from some overbearing special interest group.
Even if this game does get made I think it's doomed to failure unfortunately. Very few games make it out of development hell, and of those that miraculously do, almost none come out in decent shape.
Good to hear that they are sticking to their game vision. Hopefully they manage to follow through with their plans and end up finishing the game eventually. Its not like I was going to ever play this game or anything, but the way that they lost out was... well it was messed up. Hopefully they will have their plans come to fruition. :3
Thank you Call of Duty, thank you for ruining the possibility for any game based in a modern war setting to expand on the individual experiences and psychology of actual soldiers before being booed off the stage as a "game about having fun killing US troops" because everyone expects it to just subscribe to the same slapstick as COD. Thank you for fencing off an entire subject for yourself.
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There's a lot wrong with that sentence if you're referring to standard right wing/left wing systems, but if you're talking about American right wing/left wing you're dead on haha.FoAmY99 said: