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Dyack: Too Human is so big one person can't possibly get all the in-game loot photo

Kizuko recently interviewed the king of tasteful game promotion, Denis Dyack, and managed to find out a range of interesting information about Too Human, including that it can take between "15 and 80 hours to complete" and that all the loot in the game is "probably not possible to get - not for a single person." Denis tastefully omitted that shooting your gun in the game is equivalent to using a gun as a ball-jointed doll with a spring loaded into its arm.

To expound on the completion time, Denis explained that the first playthrough can take about 15 hours, but to reach level 50, players would have to pour anywhere from 50 to 80 hours into the epic saga. Of course, he's hardly out of ideas even though Too Human is about to come out, sharing this information about future titles:

"The story was done a long time ago," he said. "The theme of the first game is discovery, the theme of the second game is revenge, and the third game, enlightenment."

"And the trilogy and the whole idea of focusing on the Norse mythology and effects on technology we think is really going to turn people's heads."

You know the really twisted aspect of all this is that all those plans would sound great ... if I didn't know that they were said by the same guy who baited NeoGAF forum members to be "owned" by Too Human. Let's hope that Dennis' future projects reek of slightly less self-righteous supremacy.

[Via Bit-Tech -- Thanks, Jonathan]


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Sphinx 13's Avatar
Sphinx 13 at 08/13/2008 16:00
I hope there's loot that makes the game better
twesterm's Avatar
twesterm at 08/13/2008 16:04
Why can't this guy just shut the up? I was on the fence about trying this game but just because I'm sick of hearing him I'm going to completely pass it completely out of spite.
F Whipple's Avatar
F Whipple at 08/13/2008 16:04
The question is if people will want to play the game long enough to get it all
Fugue's Avatar
Fugue at 08/13/2008 16:07
Well, hopefully in the future he'll be a little better about letting a bunch of dipshits on the internet goad him into an argument.
CaptainApocalypse's Avatar
CaptainApocalypse at 08/13/2008 16:12
John Romero's gonna make you his bitch?
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 08/13/2008 16:13
What F Whiple said.
pedrovay2003's Avatar
pedrovay2003 at 08/13/2008 16:18
Now all they have to do is make the game fun and they may have something.
Alexradl's Avatar
Alexradl at 08/13/2008 16:21
15 hours...that's it?
Peronthious's Avatar
Peronthious at 08/13/2008 16:23
You know the game could be good (even great!), but I would be so much more satisfied by finding that out if [b]Dyack hadn't told us countless times that it would be[b].
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slackermonkey at 08/13/2008 16:32
Oh Denis...no wonder Mr. Wilson is so mad all the time
Radius Zero's Avatar
Radius Zero at 08/13/2008 16:35
Ah man, this is the last straw. I was holding out, hoping that the final game would fix the few control problems I had with the demo, and I even had the game preordered.
But now...now Dyack has to be a righteous tool, spewing nonsense day in and out about how "amazing and incredible" everything about this game is. It's enough to make me wait until the game is in the bargain bin.
I doubt it'll sell well enough to make the entire trilogy anyway.
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Holyetheline at 08/13/2008 16:35
Who is going to want to play this game long enough to get half the "loot" though?
Rainbowblack's Avatar
Rainbowblack at 08/13/2008 16:43
didn't we cover this story last week, anyhow, game still sucks, epic drops or not.
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B-Radicate at 08/13/2008 16:43
Dyack's hype is killing the urge for me to purchase and try to enjoy this game. I think I'll pass and buy Mercs 2 instead. I'll rent Too Human. Oh well.
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KMCC at 08/13/2008 16:47
"...shooting your gun in the game is equivalent to using a gun as a ball-jointed doll with a spring loaded into its arm."

That's exactly what I said when I played the demo. Seriously, that is just terrible.
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mr spooky at 08/13/2008 16:56
toohuman is boring and grinding levels as well.
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Phantom Spaceman at 08/13/2008 16:59
The theme of the first game is discovery, the theme of the second game is revenge, and the third game, enlightenment.

Prediction: The theme of the first game will be epic fail and Dennis Dyack as the grand marshall of a parade in honor of Cliffy B and the internets. The theme of the second game will be Lovecraftian horror. Maybe they could call it something catchy like "Eternal Darkness II".
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sexycommando at 08/13/2008 17:04
I stopped caring after I was completely underwhelmed by the demo.
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xe-cute at 08/13/2008 17:16
The only true possible game to not be able to complete was ELITE.


"The Elite universe contains eight galaxies, each galaxy containing 256 planets to explore."

HOWEVER....

"the game was originally intended to contain 248 (approximately 281 trillion) galaxies. The number was limited to eight when Acornsoft noted that such a gigantic number would make the artificiality of the game universe evident to the player."


Hmmmmm, So is the too human universe too artificial?
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leshrac55 at 08/13/2008 17:20
People need to chill out... Is it any wonder that he's, omg, promoting his own game? I didn't see this level of freakout when CliffyB was talking about how awesome Gears of War was (or how Gears of War 2 is "Bigger, Badder, and more Badass" or something like that).

I enjoyed the demo and have the game pre-ordered. Is it perfect? No. The gunplay, as mentioned in this article, kind of sucks, which makes me wonder how anyone could possibly use the Commando class (and potentially the Bio-Engineer). But the gunplay doesn't seem to really be required, as there are 3 other classes that focus more on melee which work just fine.

Just because they had a bad E3 showing a few years ago shouldn't mean he's not allowed to promote his game any more. What's he supposed to say? "Oh, well.. the game's alright... You might like it, I guess... I kind of do."
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 08/13/2008 17:27
I wonder who is going to do this just to prove that it can be done.
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JonDarkwood at 08/13/2008 17:41
Don't care, won't buy it because all I can imagine when I think of this game is his incessant mouthing off. Wanker.
Qraze's Avatar
Qraze at 08/13/2008 17:46
he's trying to scapegoat the games losses by saying we couldn't get the full experience by just playing thru once. fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
Qraze's Avatar
Qraze at 08/13/2008 17:47
he's trying to scapegoat the games losses by saying we couldn't get the full experience by just playing thru once. fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
leshrac55's Avatar
leshrac55 at 08/13/2008 18:06
Also, what exactly is wrong with him saying that "all the loot in the game is impossible to get?" It's a game that use the Diablo mold for it's items... Did you get all the items in Diablo as well? That seems like a fairly reasonable statement to me.
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Sharpless at 08/13/2008 18:42
I don't understand what could possibly compell Dennis Dyack to keep opening his mouth about this game. He's digging himself a bigger and bigger hole. Dennis, let the game speak for itself. Stop. Hyping. It.

That said, someone will probably do this in the first week, if they can stomach it all.
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Professor Pew at 08/13/2008 18:44
Eh, I wonder if they will ever finish the trilogy.
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EarthbounderNess at 08/13/2008 19:54
Is it just me or does Dennis seem like the Jeff Minter of the big name games industry?
The Wizard's Avatar
The Wizard at 08/13/2008 20:53
Why is it that the other Silicon Knights employees aren't duct taping Dyack's mouth shut at this point? Does anyone there actually think that he's helping sales?
Demtor's Avatar
Demtor at 08/13/2008 20:56
A trilogy? This is the first I've read about that. I'm stunned. How bad is this first one? And it took them how long? What the...
MechaMonkey's Avatar
MechaMonkey at 08/13/2008 22:17
Why hasn't anyone convinced this guy to keep quiet yet?
Sgt Cheesecake's Avatar
Sgt Cheesecake at 08/13/2008 23:13
I wish Dyack would stop talking, but I am still buying the game because I liked the demo a lot and I still play it.
mistic's Avatar
mistic at 08/13/2008 23:38
its the daikatana/Fable-affair all over again :-)
ParaParaKing's Avatar
ParaParaKing at 08/14/2008 05:18
Give the man a break. He will be known as something else in the near future:
Dennis Dyack - owned by NeoGAF
arthritisankle's Avatar
arthritisankle at 08/14/2008 08:45
How can you guys say "I wish he would shut up"? He did an interview with some random website and he said there's a lot of loot. Wow, what an asshole.
Sharpless's Avatar
Sharpless at 08/14/2008 12:52
You haven't really been paying attention, have you?
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar
TrailerParkJesus at 08/14/2008 14:03
Oh Denis! What will you say next?!
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