Luc Bernard, following on from his now legendary behavior following Destructoid's review of Eternity's Child, has today announced that he will be leaving the games industry to concentrate on graphic novels. Once everything concerning Eternity's Child is wrapped up, he's gone.
The outspoken game designer made no secret that his love of the business was pretty low. He had viciously and publicly criticized many publishers in the past, and seemed to hate dealing with anybody during the course of development. It would seem that our review was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Luc claims that his other projects will now see the light of day as graphic novels, once he has overseen chapters two and three, as well the WiiWare version, of Eternity's Child. Claiming that the negative press attention caused illness and alcoholism, Bernard is leaving before the stress does him in.
Bernard is a creative man with a lot of ideas and a very clear desire to be successful. I've certainly enjoyed speaking with him over the past year and hope he really does well for himself. However, if he wants to continue to work in the public eye, he has to realize that bad things will invariably get said, and that negative reviews are part and parcel of whatever creative business one enters. Simply giving up after one bad press experience is not the way to triumph.
Looks like we'll never see more videogames about Pugs.
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12:15 PM on 08.11.2008
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Go Fuck Yourself.
-Scrixx
Am I doing this right?
Or he can just try again...
"the press can really destroy you morally, too much stress (kind of made me ill and become a alcoholic)"
Cry me a fucking river Luc, pull up your big boy pants and be a man.
@Sheeptoids
Stop being assholes just because you think it'll help you fit in. It won't.
I also agree with the write-up - you're going to HAVE to prepare for criticism in any medium, no matter who you are. If Bernard focuses on graphic novels, I hope he's learned how better to deal with critical reception, learn from any mistakes, and use them to make his work better.
Maybe it wouldn't hurt to just be art director on some games though instead of handling so many aspects of it. If I were him, I'd look in to it.
I'm not saying the review was unfounded mind you, and yes he shouldn't have been responding while drunk or blaming his colleagues for the flaws in his product. That was extremely unprofessional of him. However, the Destructoid community as a whole acted like asses. If I wanted to be around that kind of bullshit I would hang out on 4chan. I thought we were better than that.
It's one thing to be an indie gaming site and to be more edgy than the other guys (its one of the many reasons why I love DToid), but it's another to take it to the extreme some of the members on this site did.
Nobody was right in this situation. Luc handled himself poorly, but we as a community didn't do any better.
I wish him luc in his arting, because thats where he could really excel.
"There is probably several reasons for me leaving this industry, DESTRUCTOID can really destroy you morally, too much stress (kind of made me ill and become a alcoholic)"
"It's been great, it's been good, well maybe not great or good lol, REPRAR has won :)"
"A few Destructoid readers love to hate for no reason, and well I've got enough problems in my personal life to do another game after Eternity's Child."
lol @ him almost quoting Dennis Dyack and Uwe Boll as angels.
Either way, best of luck to him in the future.
so going into the graphic novel world is probably the best move for him
I wish him luck with his graphic novel work
Lighten up dude.
Well, more power to ya douche. Maybe one day you can actually get somewhere without throwing another whiny temper tantrum. No, actually, I highly doubt that.
Stunning art direction does not a good game make. If you haven't the resources to make something decent, it doesn't mean that you should make something shitty.
Or, rather, of course you can and should if it's your best, but should you really sell it to people?
Where Mario would be if Nintendo of America would have given up (they we´re bloddy poor).
Does Mr Bernard know the story behind the release of the original Final Fantasy?
I said once i i´ll do it again, a fucking fag, he is.
ppl at Wiiware world are calling us twats and trolls but if the game is bad, what can be done, improving i say, get it right for the upcoming versions and patch the PC version, he is going the way of the coward and no sympathy for that, i got.
On the other hand, I have never seen a bigger pussy. Alcoholism because your game sucked? Are you kidding me? Sega must have a martini bar built into their offices.
Which I don't think was entirely wrong, if not for the same reasons Luc thought so. The tone does seem very unprofessional, but that's sort of what D-Toid is about. They aren't journalists after all.
Or replace Phil with Denis Dyack etc etc etc.
Frankly, I'm glad that we will not have to deal with his second game, and the drama that would likely ensue from it. That would be one growth process I don't think any of us ought to be a part of.
That being said, hopefully he will grow up and learn to take criticism.
I do wish the guy luck. Hopefully he'll learn to take criticism in whatever industry he tries to tackle next.
You just have to leart to accept criticism, the constructive one you keep, the destructive one you analyze and see what merits it has if any, if it doesn't you just ignore it, but you don't let it get to you that hard. You are allways going to encounter obstacles to your dreams.
As a dead guy said, Why brick walls exist? to keep out the people that don't want it hard enough.
I'm glad he'll be focusing more on art, since that seems to be his strength, but this is probably the first and last time a developer ever bothers to try and interact with the Dtoid community.
But in all seriousness, people on the internet are mean. If some shmucks you'll never meet put down your work, you should feel bummed, but alcoholism? He sounds like a fragile man, and I hope he gets better, because the graphic novel biz isn't without it's dickheads either.
Announcing after your first games poor reception that the negative criticism aimed at you has caused you to become a depressed alcoholic in the space of a fortnight is ridiculous and totally over the top.
The guy clearly isn't thick skinned enough to be able to handle the negativity and mindless insults that every person who has any kind of public presence suffers judging by his recent behaviour. I'd say good luck with whatever he goes on to do, but how will he react when someone says they hate his comic books or whatever, and someone will.