SBESTER'S PROFILE

I never said it was shit.
Some people have, not me :P

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1. Stop living in the past.

Tell that to "That 70s Show."

2. Stop worshipping games that don't exist yet.

"As humans we always look to the future." When we're not playing games, we're looking at new ones.

3. A game that exists is always better than a game that doesn't exist.

False - hope is greater than what you have. Why do you think women hook up with lumps of clay they can mold?

4. Don't set yourself up for disappointment.

Don't rain on my parade. Sometimes dilusion is all people have. Who are you to say they can't do something. Just because my cousin never graduated HS, doesn't mean that at the age of 32 can't get her GED and become the best doctor Wisconsin has ever seen. Ya know what... she did it too!!!

Women believe ALL men are lumps of clay they can mold.

This is great! Should be an article on the main page, imo.

And yeah, I see so many people disrespecting the newer games in the forums, you probably did piss some people off. But you're right anyway. However, thinking in the way that you and I do can be compromising as well.

I myself, for instance, don't play demos. I didn't like the fact that I released one either, but I needed some feedback to know whether or not it was worth pursuing, so I did it. Many people NEED feedback and praise and an anticipatory audience in order to finish their games. Sometimes it is just the push they need to keep going on it.

That being said, I still don't like demos, and won't play them. 1) I refuse to play an RPG more than once, I just can't do it. It loses its flare after the first time, no matter how much I liked it the first time. 2) If I were blown away by a short demo, there's still a huge possibility that the full game will never be finished. In fact, the more technically impressive it is, the more likely it is that the developer won't have sufficient time to finish making it. It just takes too long.

It's a double-edged sword, really. There are advantages and disadvantages to building anticipation for a game.



What you seem to be getting at here as well, is the idea that canceled projects still have followers that tend to ignore all the newer games that actually get finished because they don't have the same flare as something that never got completed did. I'm sorry, but those people are idiots. And gullible as hell. Admittedly, I haven't seen much of it on RMN, so I'm not pointing the finger at anyone here, but anyway.... they need to be realistic about these things. Ask yourself, how many people are working on the project? Did it take 4 nonstop months for them to release a kick ass (but short) tech demo? These are things people need to think about before getting crazy over a game. They should also look to see if the author has actually finished anything in the past.

Looks like I've gone on a rant of my own. The sad fact is that anything on here could be vaporware, potentially. People who anticipate these games just need to be more realistic in their expectations, and accept the fact that over-hype in this community doesn't exclude the possibility of cancellation, or just disappointment in some form or another. This usually works the opposite way in the world of commercial games, but not always. Anyone remember "Starcraft: Ghost?"

Yeah I thought about that for a long time. I was thinking about doing a youtube vid with all the endings, but what I decided instead was to include an easy character switch for the Deluxe Edition which will allow you to switch between them all at certain points in the game. I still haven't ironed out the details yet, but it seems like it'd be a nice extra feature.

Oh, but that's part of the fun! :)