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I'm actually pretty sad to hear this. I liked his art style and would look forward to a well-programmed game with his visual aesthetic. I wish him luck in the graphic novel industry and can only offer him these words of advice: don't blame the writer!
I think this is a good move for him. Although he is skill in making games is debatable, no one can argue that he is an incredibly creative man. The art he did when promoting Eternity's Child was really quite pretty. And, apart from the immature review debacle, he's an incredibly nice man. I wish the best for him.
Ive never understood the joy some take in trying to break someone. I, for one, wish him well - his art style and creativity seems to be top notch and would probably do better in the Graphic Novel medium anyways.
Jesus! A guy can't take critism of his FIRST EVER game and so he gives up completely. I suppose if you hate an industry then thats not good to carry on but if you wanna make more games but just can't take what people say about them then he can STFU and Fuck off to his silly little comic and stop wasting our time.
Or he can just try again...
Or he can just try again...
How can anyone feel sorry for this guy...
"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.
"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.
Sounds like a good idea, frankly. His art has always been his strong point, and now he'll be allowed to explore it in a more suitable medium.
He's clearly a very talented artist, so perhaps this is a move in the right direction. Best of luck to him.
@Sheeptoids
Stop being assholes just because you think it'll help you fit in. It won't.
@Sheeptoids
Stop being assholes just because you think it'll help you fit in. It won't.
I totally agree with The Pigmask - he obviously needs to get into a medium that makes full use of his talents and doesn't demand things outside of his realm of expertise. Games just obviously weren't for him. From what I've seen, he's an incredible artist with a very distinct style. Graphic novels would be absolutely amazing for him, I think.
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.
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.
So he's not leaving because D-Toid went to great lengths to reduce him to a pile of quivering jelly for being involved with a bad game?
This is probably for the best. As questionable as the rest of EC was, I think we can all agree the art was really fucking good.
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.
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 hope he doesn't commit suicide. He shouldn't take this whole thing seriously. I mean Hideo Kojima himself didn't start with great games.
I have stayed out of the whole Bernard-gate nonsense because frankly I didn't to be part of the fury. I have tried the game and initially I agree that it was broken, but I see potential in Luc. It's too bad you guys fed him to the wolves.
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'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 agree that this is for the best. His style will translate very well to the printed page. I hope he learned something from the review debacle. In order to be a successful artist, one has to know when to let that creation go and exist on its own. It's a hard lesson for most artists, but it's invaluable.
I always liked his art, it was just too bad that the engine used totally sucked... The game appears to have some brilliant ideas, but with borked gameplay the game seems to deserve all the 'praise' its getting from dtoid... plus Luc has always behaved himself as if this game was gonna outdo super mario world, he even laughed at some of the greatest games of this generation... basicly he was being a douche, but we all loved the screenshots, so we swallowed it, now it turns out it should've stayed screenshots ( and he agrees since he's going to write comic books now... )
Here are excerpts from the original unedited bloghe was going to put up.
"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.
"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.
His game may have been awful, but his art was brilliant
so going into the graphic novel world is probably the best move for him
I wish him luck with his graphic novel work
so going into the graphic novel world is probably the best move for him
I wish him luck with his graphic novel work
I'm happy he's stepping down, I think video games are the wrong medium for Mr. Bernard to work with. I wish him the best, although personally I don't really care for his style too much.
Wow, I wonder if he read my comment. Lol. Considering I said something along the lines of a person like him should probably be out of the gaming industry / entertainment industry all together. I'm sure he didn't, but it's still an amusing coincidence.
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.
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.
As fucking terrible as his game was, I'm happy as heck he's gone back to graphic novels. He's got some amazing art skills, it's just that he can't make a game for nuts. NOW I'm actually interested in something he's doing.
Well, pretty hilarious. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen and that's seems to be his plan. If he had just made a decent game in the first place he wouldn't have had to deal with all this stress (drown all this stress with a bottle of Red Tassel).
I don't understand all this sympathy that he's garnering. In my opinion, If you put up a product for sale that you know is defective/poorly prgrammed/glitchy and sit there with puppy-dog eyes and tell me "Aw, c'mon, it's only five dollars" then you're just a fucking panhandling bum. You're on your knees in tattered pants begging for change. All I want to say to this guy is "get a job!"
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?
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?
I wonder where Megaman would be if Inafune gave up on MM1.
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.
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.
Where to after his first poorly received graphic novel? Made him ill and turned him into an alcoholic?!? Perhaps he should rethink his mental stability before putting himself in the publics' eye.
On one hand, this is a wise move I applaud him for because if all he can do is art, well then, it'd be best if all he did was art.
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.
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.
I love how people are calling him out for throwing a tantrum, but have forgotten that much of that tantrum came AFTER the community proceeded to savage him for saying that he felt that the reviews were unprofessional.
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.
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.
Maybe Phil Harrison should have whined about Alone in the Dark for 6 months on the cblogs and got laughed at when his game got a 3.5 from Conrad (still higher than it deserves). Then we would have really sucked as a community, because god forbid a world without Phil Harrison.
Or replace Phil with Denis Dyack etc etc etc.
Or replace Phil with Denis Dyack etc etc etc.
Luc, take some lessons from this mess you've made, and give it another go. If your game sucks, then it won't be well received by anyone.
I think it's pathetic to stop after one stumble, but if he was on the verge of quitting anyway, I can understand it. The best part of EC was apparently the screenshots, so maybe still media is where his talents belong. I still think he's a bit of a whiny twat, though.
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.
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.
Hopefully he will end up doing better working on graphic novels. The art of Eternity's Child is interesting.
That being said, hopefully he will grow up and learn to take criticism.
That being said, hopefully he will grow up and learn to take criticism.
I agree fully with Naia.
I do wish the guy luck. Hopefully he'll learn to take criticism in whatever industry he tries to tackle next.
I do wish the guy luck. Hopefully he'll learn to take criticism in whatever industry he tries to tackle next.
Does anyone really care? This game's release had ZERO effect on me as a person. I barely even know he existed anyway. Ho hum.
Best of luck, but graphic novels as any other kind of artistic media is going to recive a lot of love/hate and that's just the way it is. Destructoid is usually a little more intense than other places but that doesn't mean that you are not gonna get flamed by pretty much anything on any medium, let alone the internet.
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.
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 agree with Naia on this one. The game might have sucked, and Luc may have been unprofessional in taking criticism, but nothing the community said was of any help. It wasn't funny the first time someone told him to go fuck himself, and it's sure as hell not funny the 30th time someone copied and pasted the same thing.
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.
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.
And nothing of value was lost.
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.
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.
Judging from his comments I really don't think that life in the public eye -through any medium- is really his thing, despite what he may want.
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.
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.
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