While it has not been officially announced, it looks like the second chapter in the episodic Hydrophobia saga is finally about to rear its head. The news comes by way of Australia's classification board, which recently rated the title.
Nothing is yet known about the game, other than it is a thing. Episodic games can have a habit of disappearing before reaching their conclusion, so this is terrific news for the three Hydrophobia fans on the planet, otherwise known as "two engineers from Dark Energy Digital and one of the engineers' autistic kids."
That was too harsh, right?
Hydrophobia: Prophecy on its way [GamerBytes]
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8:40 AM on 04.22.2011 | 
I really liked Hydrophobia after the Pure patch, and I can't wait for the sequel.
I never said they couldn't. It's just that this autistic kid just doesn't.
I'd even demo the next one.
Also, Jim's justification = win.
I find your assumption judgmental and therefore offensive.
And being autistic, I didn't appreciate you comment. Asshole:)
I don't think I should. I reviewed the game that was given to me. When you ship a game that shit, you don't get a free pass when you decide to finish developing it over a month later.
In other news, Hydrophobia sucked, there's probably going to be another one, let's all buy it day one so we can all play it wrong together!
Also, Hydrophobia is a game. I do not care about it.
You can be judgmental about Hydrophobia without being offensive. I can be be judgmental about your flippant attitude about those with mental disabilities and say that you are riding the line of offensive. You can disagree. That's all it is. There truly going to be no winner here. It is all opinion.
I actually disagree about your judgment of "Hydrophobia", but I do not find your actual opinion of the game offensive. We just disagree. After the reworking I found the game to be pretty playable, and worth the $5 they charged.
The only real meat of my original comment that should be a take-away is that I think the journalistic integrity of this coolio publication suffers when word choices that are potentially offensive to a large swath of the population are used for a cheap laugh. Why even put yourself in that position? Oh yeah, because you can. http://www.wrongplanet.net/
I find your comment disagreeable therefore offensive.
More Dr.Doom:
Jim, you just played the game wrong. it's the same situation like with your Metro 2033 "review" - i played that game on both pc and 360 several times now and it is easilly one of the best singleplayer campaigns this gen in terms of first person shooters. the problem was that people were expecting Call of Duty, Killzone or other kids shooter dumbed down for masses while it was hardcore and demanding title.
same thing happened with Kane & Lynch games - shooting in those games were fine, but thanks to crap like CoD, Killzone etc. where there's no recoil people were expecting to shoot entire AK47 mag in straight line where it's impossible in real life with pretty much any weapon(and IO interactive used more realistic approach than arcade fragfest so popular right now).
does anyone remember when first Operation Flashpoint was released and people were trashing it for "One Hit = Kill" health simply because it was the first game that used it? same thing happened with those games.
Yeah, I do wish Super Meat Boy had as much support from ms as that pos, team meat really got shafted.
At least they're finally admitting Hydrophobia was a disaster.
Was just my own jokey dig at the game, no need to defend yourself :p
Jim Sterling, your god(if, of course he gives ps3 exclusives high scores) likes h'n's games that are getting scores under 50/100 so his taste are terrible too, right? you didn't even play those games, but hey since metacritic gave those 3-5 games bad scores his taste in games must be terrible(even though jim plays probably 100+ different games a year).
Great timing guys!
Great timing guys!
I sure hope that isn't true. It's sad I used to find your writing funny. There's south park style "fuck your shit" type comedy, then there's your kind of comedy that has been getting more and more family guy (ie. trying WAY to hard to be crude and controversial). "Hey, know that bad thing that happened that time to that place? lol reference!". Ugh.
There's a difference between being offended by what Jim jokes about, and just being offended by bad jokes. Frankly, the 400'th time I saw Jim use the "this has been proven with reasons" joke and did another shitty update on the front page giving a detailed description of a penis and/or vagina, I realized he was on the way out. Comedians come and go, writers come and go, sites come and go, and all those that fail are those than can't grow beyond the one shtick they had to start. I used to like Jims writing, but he's still doing the same old tired shit now he did from day one.
Jim Sterling is Seth McFarlane.
(plus not that anyone gives a shit since it's just one person, but I think I'm done with dtoid. God this site used to be good, but it's just one bug Jim blog now making "big rubbery meat shaft" jokes these days and nothing else. *sigh*)