Luc Bernard is awesome. Sure, we gave his game a review so scathing it sparked a war between the creator and our entire community, but I think every industry needs a Luc. Now he's back, putting his departure from games creation firmly in the past to reveal a WiiWare/iPhone company currently being set up by himself and a friend.
Older and (maybe a little) wiser, the self-proclaimed Leader of Pugs has not revealed the name of his new venture, but he has confirmed that several games are being worked on. The first title is an unnamed turn-based strategy, which is being worked on in conjuction with a former Electronic Arts programmer. It is said to be somewhat like Advance Wars, but with some sort of "environmental" difference.
The second game in the works is a "Metroidvania"-style game called Rose Princess. Luc describes this one as being like "Looney Tunes on crack." To me, that conjures up an image of a haggard Daffy Duck, heating up a spoon and shivering before weeping among a huddled pile of feathers and sick, but that's probably not how the game plays.
The titles are planned to hit the iPhone, WiiWare and Steam. Luc has confirmed to me that he actually has a design document now, something he believes will help these future titles.
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5:00 PM on 12.26.2008
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Without that, I'll just have to settle for him being a cautionary tale about the heat of the internet and not adding QA to your production plan.
You seem to have a fascination with dicks . . .
You clearly don't understand opinions, or evaluating quality in a game.
But the attention sure is nice, right?
Also, chewy cocks
Fuck you.
,Pwnan
I see what you did there. :D
@Sho Nuff
Rebuttal? But I gave my opinion on your opinion . . . and cited no evidence to refute you . . . are we having an argument?
Objection?
No, maybe you should grow a set. It's guys like you that turn what could be an intelligent and articulate gaming website into a festival of tools.
Instead of a reasoned discussion on different styles of game development and reasonable responses to criticism, we have comments from you like "I guess it's hard to talk shit to dev when their dick is in your mouth. Haha."
Yes, the pinnacle of intelligent debate.
Right right, anyone can do anything say anything blah blah blah I get that.
but if he's going to go through the trouble of coming up with witty jabs about oral sex when people don't agree with him, I'm all for indulging him in not so witty jabs about his obsession with dicks and perfection.
Everybody loves attention. and besides, its Christmas.
Even for trolls.
I can't believe you made such a stupid fucking mistake in a lame joke.
Aw, fuck.
Not once did I call you a troll. I don't believe you are a troll: I simply think that you are the kind of guy who has such a low self image that he needs to tell everyone that his opinion is superior because he himself is better than everyone else. And every comment you have posted here has done nothing but confirm and reinforce my image of you.
Normally I ignore people like you and the kind of comments that you and yours write, but once in a while, when I have both the time and the inclination, I like to chime in.
The fact you present a different opinion is not what makes you get the troll label. Re-read your original comment. Saying the entire community has The Behemoth's dick in its mouth isn't exactly friendly.
Luc Bernard suks :)
See, Sho Nuff, I'm not above the occasional phallic comment. Like the majority of Destructoid readers, I can use it for humour, and not to compensate for my lack of a meaningful life.
Hey, whatever works.
But I do respect them for not whining about us all being whiny bitches, and for handling things in the classiest way they could of managed.
Either way, you are allowed to feel how you want, but please don't make blanket statements like that about our great community. Some may suck The Behemoth's dicks, but I'd imagine those that do are man enough to admit their fanboy tendencies.
So please, cut the shit or get the fuck off my Destructoid.
Bitch.
So you're beyond having any sort of discussion, and you have a problem with the guy that even slightly agrees with you.
I dunno. Just sort of looks like you're sitting here trying to get people riled up, to the point of just insulting everyone, regardless of opinion.
Kudos for consistency?
Sounds like harassment for harassment's sake to me at this point . . .
but from most of your comments after mine, it looks like i misjudged the original comments as more irritated than they were.
uhhh... sho nuff, dont try and claw your way back up from the gutter and get on a high horse now by saying you arent trolling, and people are just labeling you a troll because they are too afraid to engage in the supreme battle of wits that would surely unfold if they dared engage you in debate. thats ridiculous. youre trolling. people caught you trolling. and now you just look like an asshole.
just my opinion :)
I'm betting the Advance Wars-style game is probably the EC prequel he mentioned in one of his blog posts. It looked different, to say the least, and another Advance Wars game can't hurt anyone.
Also, we don't treat the behemoth that way because Paladin didn't come onto the site and insult it's members like bernard did.
That was fun.
Luc's Advance Wars reference to his project has sparked my interest. I say good luck to the man.
Oh, and the game? I don't care. He's already on my bad side. He'd have to make fucking BioShock, in order to get my interest again.
@Sho Nuff
You're a stupid cunt.
Is there something I don't know about the internet or is my computer installed with the supreme ability to block trolls? Because as far as I can see there isn't anyone named Sho Nuff commenting here.....
Hoping to hear from you soon.