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Kai Tave: Jul 2, 2012; Fallen Rib

Marcus seems older than Chris, I dunno. Or maybe he's just led a hard life.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 00:31

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# ? Apr 24, 2024 22:17

Midnight Voyager: Jul 2, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

Kai Tave posted:

Marcus seems older than Chris, I dunno. Or maybe he's just led a hard life.

Or maybe the people who did the models and the one who did the story and the one who did the drawings had little/no contact with each other.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 04:22

Hel: Oct 9, 2012; Jokatgulm is tedium.
Jokatgulm is pain.
Jokatgulm is suffering.

The Kins posted:

Let's put it this way. The game was started around 2011 (first public mention) by a Finnish studio (same guys that made this apparently) but in 2013 the game was taken away from them by their publisher on account of blowing too many deadlines, and as such it was handed over to the Two Worlds guys. Cut forward to January 2015 and the game's release.

This game took two partially-competent development studios and four-ish long, troublesome years to make. This should give you a decent clue as to how and why the end result could be so hilariously rough. Sort of like Ride to Hell, I guess!

Has there ever been a game that switched teams mid development and was actually good? The only ones I know of are really bad, like Thi4f and DNF.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 10:40

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

The Kins posted:

Let's put it this way. The game was started around 2011 (first public mention) by a Finnish studio (same guys that made this apparently) but in 2013 the game was taken away from them by their publisher on account of blowing too many deadlines, and as such it was handed over to the Two Worlds guys. Cut forward to January 2015 and the game's release.

This game took two partially-competent development studios and four-ish long, troublesome years to make. This should give you a decent clue as to how and why the end result could be so hilariously rough. Sort of like Ride to Hell, I guess!

Ride to Hell looks like a polished masterpiece compared to this.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 10:42

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Hel posted:

Has there ever been a game that switched teams mid development and was actually good? The only ones I know of are really bad, like Thi4f and DNF.

CS:GO was co-developed with another studio that left after the game was released, so they weren't involved in all the post-release content that made the game way better. That probably doesn't count, though... :v:

# ? Apr 11, 2015 10:43

RoadCrewWorker: Nov 19, 2007; camels aren't so great

steinrokkan posted:

Ride to Hell looks like a polished masterpiece compared to this.

Nah, let's not go overboard with how little we've seen so far.

although the "violence against women" protagonist crap is a rather ambitious follow up to R2H's "fully clothed hump every women in the game" kind of hatefulness, so i can see where you're coming from.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 11:45

gschmidl: Sep 3, 2011; watch with knife hands

RoadCrewWorker posted:

Nah, let's not go overboard with how little we've seen so far.

although the "violence against women" protagonist crap is a rather ambitious follow up to R2H's "fully clothed hump every women in the game" kind of hatefulness, so i can see where you're coming from.

I lost interest after they posted this HILARIOUS shanty (worst part is at 1:29):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCnkso1Ipc

and couldn't be more happy that the game is a flaming pile of garbage that hopefully sinks both its dev studio and Topware as a whole.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 12:40

Roach Warehouse: Nov 1, 2010

gschmidl posted:

I lost interest after they posted this HILARIOUS shanty (worst part is at 1:29):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCnkso1Ipc

I hate videogames now.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 13:43

judge reinhold: Jul 26, 2001

gschmidl posted:

I lost interest after they posted this HILARIOUS shanty (worst part is at 1:29):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCnkso1Ipc

and couldn't be more happy that the game is a flaming pile of garbage that hopefully sinks both its dev studio and Topware as a whole.

I take issue with the colloquialisms employed in this game. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe pirates used these terms:
-rear end in a top hat
-Dick
-Emoji
-Fart face
-Ta-ta's
-Family jewels
-Nerfherder
-Jacking it
-Beej

judge reinhold fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Apr 11, 2015

# ? Apr 11, 2015 13:46

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

gschmidl posted:

I lost interest after they posted this HILARIOUS shanty (worst part is at 1:29):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCnkso1Ipc

and couldn't be more happy that the game is a flaming pile of garbage that hopefully sinks both its dev studio and Topware as a whole.

Why hasn't a mass produced CD been made for this yet?! This song is awesome! Lol.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 13:50

Hyper Crab Tank: Feb 10, 2014; The 16-bit retro-future of crustacean-based transportation

Wow. You know, I was actually thinking no, Ride to Hell is worse than this game, even though this is a glitchy mess of bad design decisions strung together with scotch tape and wire. I think that song ruined What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor entirely for me now.

judge reinhold posted:

I take issue with the colloquialisms employed in this game. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe pirates used these terms:

Pirates in the 17th century Caribbean wouldn't have been singing that song in the first place, since it wouldn't exist for at least another hundred years or so.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 13:55

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

The lyrics are really lazy. Even for a 13-year-old's rewrite.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 13:56

LoseHound: Nov 10, 2012

gschmidl posted:

I lost interest after they posted this HILARIOUS shanty (worst part is at 1:29):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCnkso1Ipc

and couldn't be more happy that the game is a flaming pile of garbage that hopefully sinks both its dev studio and Topware as a whole.

If you feel you may be unable to handle 2rude4school lyrics, please watch this video instead to receive a similar secondhand shame experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBkFaM0DAH8

# ? Apr 11, 2015 15:18

Zeniel: Oct 18, 2013

gschmidl posted:

I lost interest after they posted this HILARIOUS shanty (worst part is at 1:29):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCnkso1Ipc

and couldn't be more happy that the game is a flaming pile of garbage that hopefully sinks both its dev studio and Topware as a whole.

... I take back anything positive I had to say about this game. That was loving terrible.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 16:02

Sighence: Aug 26, 2009

gschmidl posted:

I lost interest after they posted this HILARIOUS shanty (worst part is at 1:29):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCnkso1Ipc

and couldn't be more happy that the game is a flaming pile of garbage that hopefully sinks both its dev studio and Topware as a whole.

Hey Ride to Hell, I'm sorry for drawing comparisons to you earlier.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 16:09

SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

They should have simply recorded a cover of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfHCxIiZ_4M

or...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLNdMY1JlR0

# ? Apr 11, 2015 16:24

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOtFHF5WdQ was always my favourite.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 16:26

The Kins: Oct 2, 2004

Hel posted:

Has there ever been a game that switched teams mid development and was actually good? The only ones I know of are really bad, like Thi4f and DNF.

I asked a friend about this and he suggested Killer Instinct 2013, which was passed from Double Helix after the first season over to Iron Galaxy... apparently they've been doing quite well with it?

# ? Apr 11, 2015 18:31

Hel: Oct 9, 2012; Jokatgulm is tedium.
Jokatgulm is pain.
Jokatgulm is suffering.

The Kins posted:

I asked a friend about this and he suggested Killer Instinct 2013, which was passed from Double Helix after the first season over to Iron Galaxy... apparently they've been doing quite well with it?

Sure, but isn't that still after release.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 20:48

croutonZA: Jan 5, 2011

Hel posted:

Sure, but isn't that still after release.

Metal Gear Rising counts right?

# ? Apr 11, 2015 21:42

Seraphic Neoman: Jul 19, 2011

While I'm sure pirates had their own bawdy songs, I'm sure even they had more class than that. Christ I would have at least used innuendos instead of actual explicit lyrics. At least that woulda been kinda funny.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 21:47

Hel: Oct 9, 2012; Jokatgulm is tedium.
Jokatgulm is pain.
Jokatgulm is suffering.

croutonZA posted:

Metal Gear Rising counts right?

That's probably as close as we're going to get, though AFAIK platinum used nothing from the original MGR team.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 21:54

goatface: Dec 5, 2007; I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.; Grimey Drawer

They were probably aiming for a Good Ship Venus tone, and missed.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 21:55

judge reinhold: Jul 26, 2001

SSNeoman posted:

While I'm sure pirates had their own bawdy songs, I'm sure even they had more class than that. Christ I would have at least used innuendos instead of actual explicit lyrics. At least that woulda been kinda funny.

YouTube is going 'ape' over it!

# ? Apr 11, 2015 22:05

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

I could not find Lucy.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 22:26

Mega64: May 23, 2008; I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.

Suspicious Dish posted:

I could not find Lucy.

She's there, they just forgot to program her to make her visible.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 22:33

Hyper Crab Tank: Feb 10, 2014; The 16-bit retro-future of crustacean-based transportation

I tend to differentiate between "bawdy" and "uses a shitload of dirty words for no reason other than being thirteen years old".

# ? Apr 11, 2015 22:41

judge reinhold: Jul 26, 2001

Suspicious Dish posted:

I could not find Lucy.

You have to prepare to go beyond using 10% of your brain in order to see Lucy.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 22:43

Wizard Styles: Aug 6, 2014; level 15 disillusionist

This game is the Two Worlds 2 that Two Worlds 2 was too afraid to be.

I'm pretty sure they even got the same VA for the protagonist. :allears:

gschmidl posted:

I lost interest after they posted this HILARIOUS shanty (worst part is at 1:29):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVCnkso1Ipc

and couldn't be more happy that the game is a flaming pile of garbage that hopefully sinks both its dev studio and Topware as a whole.

Oh man, just listen to that guy trying to make the Lucy/pussy rhyme work.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 22:43

judge reinhold: Jul 26, 2001

Wizard Styles posted:

Oh man, just listen to that guy trying to make the Lucy/pussy rhyme work.

He's got a good grandpa tone. You can hear the dentures disconnecting as he hits those "s" sounds. However the subject matter makes him a bad grandpa.

# ? Apr 11, 2015 22:44

Tippecanoe: Jan 26, 2011

SSNeoman posted:

While I'm sure pirates had their own bawdy songs, I'm sure even they had more class than that. Christ I would have at least used innuendos instead of actual explicit lyrics. At least that woulda been kinda funny.

It's practically on the level of a fraternity or frosh chant.

# ? Apr 12, 2015 02:24

LordHippoman: May 30, 2013; I, frankly, want this smug Jagen to be my avatar on all forms of social media immediately.

judge reinhold posted:

YouTube is going 'ape' over it!

Okay, fess up, which one of these is Anthony, and is this why he is out of the coffee men?

# ? Apr 12, 2015 02:50

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

Anthony is the Obsolete Gamer, who has split from the Coffee Men on account of his two million followers on Google+.

# ? Apr 12, 2015 02:56

Zeniel: Oct 18, 2013

George Formby would spin in his grave.

# ? Apr 12, 2015 05:54

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

I have that guy's grill. It cooks burgers pretty well.

# ? Apr 12, 2015 06:03

Zeniel: Oct 18, 2013

No you're thinking of George Lazenby. The famous window washer.

# ? Apr 12, 2015 07:11

judge reinhold: Jul 26, 2001

Last time on Raven's Cry, we docked in the mysterious Bridgetown. We visited a brothel where we got some information about our next objective, one "Santorio". It seems a local widow has a necessary flag for us to use in order to reach Santorio's island paradise. We left the brothel after leaving a steak knife in a guy's hand as two men jogged in the background (great sex tip they read in Cosmo). Can we achieve this next thing to do? Is the flag too wrinkled to be useful? Watch and find out!