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!
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.
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.
To the best of our knowledge no one at Majestic, [European publisher] G2Games or [North American publisher Tri Synergy, Inc.] knew about this infringement and knowingly played any part in it.
We can only apologise to all regarding this issue, as a team we are shocked and mortified regarding these events and we continue to work with said publishers in order to rectify the issue
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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).
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.
Guys, you were the ones making the game. How could you not know what was going on?
BEST.ENDING.EVAR.
One of whom was supposedly posting about this situation on a message board with an IP address that traced back to South America.
so they're gonna do a total remake?
I think this excuse has been tried and failed before.
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God damn it all.
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.
That ending was awful though.
Oh lawd, I'm gonna have that stuck in my head for at least the rest of the day now.
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....... That's cool!"
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.
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)
And apparently they were blindfolded too.