To say that controversial PC game Limbo of the Lost has become a true Internet phenomenon is an understatement. Its terrible gameplay, unbelievable ending (above) and legendary asset theft have created something that even the greatest meme inventors couldn't make up if they were paid. Of course, the latter element, the blatant thievery of assets from other games and movies, drew Limbo to the 'net's attention, and after much silence, "developer" Majestic has finally responded. No, it's not accepting responsibility:
In response to the shocking notification that some alleged unauthorized copyrighted materials submitted by sources external to the development team have been found within the PC game Limbo of the Lost, we (the development team) have given our consent and full cooperation to both publishers who are recalling all units from all territories immediately.
So, far from being master criminals, the three-man development team were merely the victims of some mysterious asset pixie that mischievously provided them with art that they'd never seen before in a cunning ploy to frame them for copyright infringement. Seriously, are you kidding me? Even if, in some twisted fairytale reality, Majestic's excuse was true, that officially makes them the dumbest wankers to have ever been involved in the videogames industry. And that includes the people who made Red Ninja!
Maybe this is an excuse other companies can use as well. Eidos can come out and say "What? We never knew Kane & Lynch sucked, a monkey on a bicycle just gave it to us," or Julian Eggebrecht can officially announce that Lair's control scheme failed because the Sixaxis was given to him by fu*king Moon Crocodiles. Thanks Majestic, for showing us the way -- when in trouble, blame "some guy."
Full excuse after the jump. Thanks again for the tip, Zulu!
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Words can't express the stupidity.
The devs for this game should be shot not for the copywright infringement and general uninspired game, but for that fucking ending movie. It's given me nightmares ever since I saw it.
Damn. I kind of want this game now, as a collector's item. I wonder if they'll fetch a high price on eBay.
wow fuck MGS4's ending, that is by far the greatest ending to a game ever
Hey Jim, a press release was just issued- Two Worlds didn't suck because of the developers, Michael Bay just dropped a dumpster baby and a USB with assorted files on SouthPeak Interactive's doorstep.
It could only be more entertaining if investigation found the not screenshots to have been lifted from copies of the game installed from disc images downloaded from piratebay.org.
Of course the fact they are blaming outside sources for providing shifty material is pretty fucking hilarious when there are interviews abound with the Three Stooges taking ownership of all aspects of the development. (I was going to look up a Three Stooges quote but this whole shenanigan really doesn't need any punchlines to make it funny).
There's some damning comparison screenshots at http://lotl.wikia.com/wiki/Backgrounds
Words fail me. I had a whole rant thing going on in my head, but I just think of that ending I just watched and brain turns to retarded jelly.
It's like a broken Disney attraction. Only with a much worse song.
But give the devs credit. They obviosly never played (or had it tested sense you cant pay any one to play this swill) the game that they had been working on so of course they could never have spotted all the things from other games in it.
So sure, you outsourced all your game invironments and menu screens. Thats still no excuse for the jerky/nonexistant animation and bad ADR and lipsynching.
WTF did I just watch?
"Please be assured that we do not condone in anyway the use of unauthorized copyrighted materials and if we had been made aware earlier, we would of course have ceased development of the product and rectified the issue prior to the publication process."
Guys, you were the ones making the game. How could you not know what was going on?
Majestic Might be partially right. If you look at the credits for the team. one guy has a credit sheet half a page long, for basically audio, 3D, 2D, everything graphic/sound related. so he could have just been ripping all this stuff off of other games while the other two (which were obviously dim-witted enough not to notice. accepted them. this same guy also made the trailers and probably the bonus DVD. If I were to point fingers I would point them at him.
I came to say what The Amazing Shenazin did.
BEST.ENDING.EVAR.
This "dev team" is three guys. Three.
One of whom was supposedly posting about this situation on a message board with an IP address that traced back to South America.
After watching that ending, it comes as no surprise that these developer's combined IQ is less than 14
That end movie is so bad it's almost good... I'm ripping me an MP3 asap, nothing like the worst end game song ever to annoy your work mates!
They know they're fucked... Or maybe they think that "clever" little response will work, I mean they arn't really the brightest bunch are they?
I like the ending song xD
we continue to work with said publishers in order to rectify the issue
so they're gonna do a total remake?
I smell new Rickroll material.
No, of course thats not my kilo of cocaine in the false bottom of my suitcase, someone else put it there without my knowledge.
I think this excuse has been tried and failed before.
*watches ending*
0__0
I have never scene such a horrible ending to a game ever. They could have done better with paper cut outs on Popsicle sticks and asking random people outside their office for voice work.
Okay, for like the last two hours I've been breaking into a two step and going "...The king of limbooooo!"
God damn it all.
Ah, I see you posted the newly-leaked ending to Portal 2. Jonathan Coulton's losing his touch, IMO.
I feel like I watched some highschoolers' group project for a computer science class.
I bet every voice actor who worked on this game is lowering their head in shame.
Can't wait to hear from the dev team to find out their excuse for all of this.
with a title like "Limbo of the Lost" what was everyone expecting. It was either going to be crap or so bad its freeware. looks like they decided to charge for freeware crap.
That ending was awful though.
"a doo bee doo wop... Kiiiing of Limbooooooooooo"
Oh lawd, I'm gonna have that stuck in my head for at least the rest of the day now.
...Were they high? God damn, I can't imagine playing Oblivion and beating Mehrune's Dagon, and walking into a room where a bunch of retards that I met along the way sing about how I should be the king of Cyrodiil. Jesus Christ.
"Take it away, Rita Baby!
...
...
....... That's cool!"
Oh and I have to say, regular coverage of the Limbo of the Lost debacle pretty much makes up for all the competitions that exclude your fellow countrymen, at least I get a kick out of this - I always lose competitions, whatever they are.
Sooo, Red Ninja was a terrible game? I missed out on actually playing that a while back but it always looked at least, interesting. Should I steer clear? What if I like over the top violence and don't mind repetitive gameplay as long as the body count is massive?
"What if I like over the top violence and don't mind repetitive gameplay as long as the body count is massive?"
If you also don't mind buggy gameplay, poor controls, stealth that doesn't work and one part of the game that becomes just a massive dead-end and you can't go any further, then you are in for a TREAT.
jim, if only someone had told them back in 1994!
this is a screen from the game back when they first started work on it (theirs is the one with the big guy piercing your soul)
The Limbo of the Lost developers made this game in a cave, with scraps.
And apparently they were blindfolded too.
Wow, I remember getting Guy Spy when it first came out, that was an awesome game.