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Fez
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11-04-2012 3:28pm#1Since I've been looking forward to this game since the original trailer back in 2007 I thought I may as well create a thread about this since it's finally out on Friday.
For those who don't know what it is, Fez is a 2D/3D platformer designed by Phil Fish and developed by the rest of the team at Polytron. The core mechanic is the ability to rotate the gameworld so as to change how the protagonist, Gomez, can interact with it. Both of the videos above will give you a good idea of how the game works.
Reviews so far...
Destructoid: 9/10
Kotaku: YES
IGN Video Review
EDGE: 9/10
Eurogamer: 10/103
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super_furry wrote: »It's 800 right? I've got 1150 in my account and it just can't be 1200. IT CAN'T.
Indeed, it's 800 Great to see a fairly high profile game come out for 800... was starting to feel like 1200 had become standard! 0 -
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Kind of look like it nicks a lot from the Paper Mario series. Also Fish has made himself look like a complete bellend lately with the comments he is coming out with. However if it's fun I'll get it.
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He talked **** about Japanese games, not the developers.richymcdermott wrote: »is this from the same developer that was talking **** bout japaneese developers , look like he borrowed heavy from cave story look:pac: 0 -
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He would seem spot on if you look at the home consoles. However japanese development has moved to handhelds and the output on handhelds has been extremely high quality. Saying that japanese videogames are crap is not just a gross generalisation but completely wrong and short sighted as well.
Now if he said that japanese development practises were going to get them in trouble I'd agree. Concentrating on the handheld market is keeping them very insular and shrunk the market for their games. As for the likes of Konami and Capcom trying to emulate western games and outsourcing to terrible western companies, there's definitely something wrong there. But then again he is ignoring the likes of Sega, Nintendo and Platinum that are still churning out some great stuff on the home consoles and not just handhelds. He just came accross as really uninformed and out to gain publicity when he said that all games from japan were crap.
Anyway, seems the game is good so I'll pick it up eventually.
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Whatever about his own opinion I think the forum he chose to express those opinions wasn't on.hooradiation wrote: »Ahh, that guy.
Actually thought he was spot on, tbh.
Not looking forward to Dragon's Dogma next month, Lollipop Chainsaw in June or Anarchy Reigns in July?hooradiation wrote: »All I know is my immediate reaction was he was wrong and stupid, then on a whim I had a look over the games I've bought in the past two years and the ones I'm looking forward to this year. Japan doesn't even get a look in.
It was published by MS so I doubt we'll see it on any platform other than the PC any time soon.Is this coming to iOS soon?
Even in the face of recent games such as Street Fighter IV, Binary Domain, Demons/Dark Souls, Bayonetta, Vanquish, Xenoblade Chronicles, Mario Galaxy 2 and Skyward Sword?Retr0gamer wrote: »He would seem spot on if you look at the home consoles. However japanese development has moved to handhelds and the output on handhelds has been extremely high quality. Saying that japanese videogames are crap is not just a gross generalisation but completely wrong and short sighted as well.0 -
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Even in the face of recent games such as Street Fighter IV, Binary Domain, Demons/Dark Souls, Bayonetta, Vanquish, Xenoblade Chronicles, Mario Galaxy 2 and Skyward Sword?
Which is why I said it would seem so and then name checked Nintendo, Sega and Platinum as three companies that completely go against what Fish was saying. Also there was no western game that could touch Dark Souls last year for sheer brilliance.
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So you did, total reading fail.Retr0gamer wrote: »Which is why I said it would seem so and then name checked Nintendo, Sega and Platinum as three companies that completely go against what Fish was saying. Also there was no western game that could touch Dark Souls last year for sheer brilliance. 0 -
Whatever about his own opinion I think the forum he chose to express those opinions wasn't on.
maybe, but on the flip side - if you're of that opinion and people seem to care what you think about games then what are you supposed to do? Not say anything, ever? I can't really think of a diplomatic venue for saying what he said, perhaps more diplomatic phrasing. But then, why sugar coat it?
All that aside I doubt the forum he chose for expressing that opinion really has anything to do with peoples objections to what he's saying.Not looking forward to Dragon's Dogma next month, Lollipop Chainsaw in June or Anarchy Reigns in July?
Nope, not at all. Did you imagine I'd simply not heard about them or something?
Right now, what Japanese developers seem to be producing simply does nothing for me. That's not to say that they are now and forever completely irrelevant to me, but it's looking unlikely that I'll be giving much of a fuck what comes out of Japan for the forseeable future.
News which, I'm sure, has them devastated.0 -
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Out of respect for his peers in the room? Remember, he said this in a room full of developers at GDC, many of whom would have been Japanese, in response to a question fielded by a Japanese developer.hooradiation wrote: »maybe, but on the flip side - if you're of that opinion and people seem to care what you think about games then what are you supposed to do? Not say anything, ever? I can't really think of a diplomatic venue for saying what he said, perhaps more diplomatic phrasing. But then, why sugar coat it?
Possibly forgot about them? I'm not sure, I'm just surprised none of them are on your radar really.hooradiation wrote: »Nope, not at all. Did you imagine I'd simply not heard about them or something?
As opposed to a full grown woman parading around in a catsuit composed entirely of her hair which, when a finishing move is triggered leaves barely anything covering her? Japanese games are often weird, it doesn't, however, mean they can't also be awesome.super_furry wrote: »Dragon's Dogma is a maybe, Anarchy Reigns a probably not after the disappointment of Mad World and Lollipop Chainsaw a juvenile embarassment that I'd honestly be ashamed to let other people see me playing. 0 -
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hooradiation wrote: »maybe, but on the flip side - if you're of that opinion and people seem to care what you think about games then what are you supposed to do? Not say anything, ever? I can't really think of a diplomatic venue for saying what he said, perhaps more diplomatic phrasing. But then, why sugar coat it?
There's no problem voicing an opinion but if that opinion is ignorant and offensive then you are going to look like a bellend, which Fish definitely was when he had his rant. I don't think being more diplomatic would have helped, he didn't have any knowledge of what japanese games were out there, understandably since they're quite niche now, but that just made him more ignorant. I think he went off at the japanese on completely the wrong issue.
I think though he just had an agenda to say something controversial to create publicity, which he succeeded at despite coming across as a dick. Mission successful then. I'm there'd be a few less of us talking about Fez otherwise.
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super_furry wrote: »Lollipop Chainsaw a juvenile embarassment that I'd honestly be ashamed to let other people see me playing.
It's Suda 51, you can be sure there's some meta meaning behind it all.
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