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Anyhoo, nice job on the figure Jin! #splatterhouse
11/04/09
[playmagazine.com]
Personally, I think the new team seems to be doing a much better job at recreating the original than what Bottlerocket was doing. #splatterhouse
11/04/09
Really? Well then good...I loved the original Splatterhouse so I was happy to hear about the next version of it.
Hope is now restored!! #splatterhouse
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That's how it appeared...I feel bad for the people at Bottlerocket though, hopefully they found more work.
But I NEED this game...my hope is that they include the original on the disc. #splatterhouse
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OMG! I remember that, that and playing this in the arcades!!
God I miss arcades. It was this game and another one I loved to waste my quarters in.... #splatterhouse
11/04/09
That would be a Christmas miracle if they did...oh please let it be true!! #splatterhouse
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TOO DARK.
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@madog: SPOILERZ!
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09/04/09
Over here only politicians can screw things up without having to take responsibility.
09/03/09
LucasArts killed Free Radical, Brash killed Factor 5, Square Enix killed GRIN (allegedly) and now Namco killed Bottle Rocket.
Here's an idea, publishers. Stop fucking over your developers. If you don't like what they're making, help them fix it.
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And maybe if you weren't so jaded... nah, that's asking for too much.
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03/16/09
Just because a game's been in development for 18 months and has had milestones approved along the way don't mean shit. Especially if the milestones were fluffy and not substantive.
Think about this kids- for a game that was supposed to be released sometime in the fall of this year, Namco/BR did minimal to zero PR for the game. If you think about print press and retailer lead times of 3 to 9 months or more, they would have needed good looking PR materials back in January, or even earlier than that.
The lack of solid marketing materials means that BR didn't have the game in good enough shape for the Namco marketing people to do a proper job to promote the game. When you can't promote the game properly, the sales people won't sign up to sales numbers. When the sales people won't sign up, the marketing people will bug out and won't support the product.
If BOTH Namco and BR had their shit together, we would have been enjoying awesome screenshots, videos, and early impressions up the wazoo by now.
There are many moving pieces when you're in game development. Support from your marketing and sales departments is just as important as the competence of your developer and publisher-side project management.
03/16/09
I feel like the more I read about videogame development, the more bad games can be blamed on bad management. Obviously, someone didn't have their shit together. If Namco's contractual requirements were too low and then they realized their mistake, that puts them at least one step ahead of somebody like... Midway? But they're still one step behind a publisher like Nintendo, or dare I say it, EA or Activision (not that I really love the business models of all companies listed).
Either way, I think Namco has a problem. If their contractual requirements were too low, that's their fault. If they hired a developer that was under-qualified to make the game they wanted, that's still Namco's fault. And who knows? Maybe Namco just wasn't willing to pay for enough man hours to make the game happen right.
There are so many variables not answered, but my gut instinct is to say Namco is more at fault than BR. Just my two cents plus (bailout-inflated) tax.
03/16/09
On the other hand, money (and big businesses) talks...
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*shrugs*
03/16/09
Ramonskito commented on Patent Troll Lawsuit Begins on Tuesday
"By calling them patent trolls wouldn't that open Kotaku up to a defamation suit?"
[kotaku.com] 6:51 PM on Mar 15
Dude...wtf? I'm assuming then you're a lawyer? Oh forgive me...assumptions make an ass out of you and me right?
Regardless, I don't claim to know or be read up on the case we were discussing beforehand. It was just a simple comment and you ironically twisted it the wrong way.
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03/16/09
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