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Silicon Knights lays off 26 employees who were not against Too Human photo

Today, Silicon Knights, developer of Eternal Darkness and workplace of the very outspoken Dennis Dyack, laid off 26 employees. Silicon Knights released an official statement citing “attrition” as the reason the cuts were made. They also made mention that all of the company’s directors and other important people are still employed.

Of course, it wouldn’t be Silicon Knights without a little word from Dyack. In the statement, Dyack assured that the company is still “working on several new” games that “will be announced to the public in the coming months.“ He also said that the 26 people who are now jobless will be brought back on as soon as Silicon Knights begins “ramp[ing] up on ... future projects.”

As much fun as I have making fun of some of the things Dennis Dyack has a habit of saying, it’s unfortunate that real people lost their jobs. On a lighter note, at least we have some other titles to look forward to. Hopefully none of the games have the words “Too” or “Human” in them.

[Via GameDaily]


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BetaMaster's Avatar
BetaMaster at 10/06/2008 21:21
I never played Too Human. Was it really that bad?

Also, first post.
B-Radicate's Avatar
B-Radicate at 10/06/2008 21:23
Apparently Dennis Dyack will make the rest of the trilogy by himself.

Also, no one claims first post. Sorry, this isn't GameSpot or something.
Scrixx's Avatar
Scrixx at 10/06/2008 21:27
@B-Radicate

He's the BetaMaster yo, he's beta testing out the ole' banning technique for us. If he doesn't come back, it was very successful.
NINE_X's Avatar
NINE_X at 10/06/2008 21:27
que COD4 message of the day
NotAZombie's Avatar
NotAZombie at 10/06/2008 21:31
@ First guy

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fucking hoooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

On another note, does anyone know how well Too Human did?
carg0's Avatar
carg0 at 10/06/2008 21:34
im surprised the company is still standing after the disaster that was 'too human'.
NINE_X's Avatar
NINE_X at 10/06/2008 21:39
....er cue CURSE MY PROOF READING SKILLS!
BetaMaster's Avatar
BetaMaster at 10/06/2008 22:10
The first post thing has become a sort of ironic claim..I did it more as a sidenote. No need to be hating. Yo.
Holiday's Avatar
Holiday at 10/06/2008 22:22
Well...Pariah sucked and 10 years making Too Human didn't make it a winner so I guess it's not surprising people got laid off over at SK.
Captain Morgan's Avatar
Captain Morgan at 10/06/2008 23:07
Too human sucked compared to the time spent on it and hype that surrounded it.
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Peronthious at 10/06/2008 23:49
Not sure how newsworthy this is...this happens in the industry all the time. Once a game is finished and out the door, most of the employees who were there for its development aren't needed anymore and are layed off to cut costs; this happens even in the case of successful games. That's sort of the reason a good portion of developers are moving towards outsourcing, which gamasutra has been running a series of very interesting articles on, but that's another topic entirely.
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Kyousuke Nanbu at 10/07/2008 02:13
TOO HUMAN DID NOT TAKE TEN YEARS YOU MORONS.

The concept was floating around for that long, it simply took that long till they had the tech for it.

And Too Human is great but you need a particular mindset for it, for one thing its a dungeon crawler and its got 5 classes and tons of loot to find, you really need to invest a lot of hours to get some fun out of it but when you do, Too Human is a great a game.

Also Too Human did sell pretty good so chances they are working on a sequel, not that it matters to this place considering what a poorly written piece of shit the review for it was, I can't imagine how many sheeptoids avoided the game based on that.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar
Kyousuke Nanbu at 10/07/2008 02:28
And the Too Human is very proffesional, nice to see you remaining neutral on the subject despite the fact that its your job.

Guess I should just any future Too Human news in this place.
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Markusdragon at 10/07/2008 02:40
Judging by how quickly the price is collapsing, Too Human sold nowhere near as much as Microsoft anticipated. If a sequel does turn up, I doubt it'll be published by Microsoft Game Studios.
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moshakirby at 10/07/2008 02:49
@ Kyousuke Nanbu

So what you're saying is...Too Human took 10 years.
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Professor Pew at 10/07/2008 06:35
Too Human was not great, it was a fucking nightmare. Boring gameplay, lame loot, bad textures, repetitive enemies insanely stupid story. I really have no idea wtf some people are talking about.

At least the scope of levels was nicely done.
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Eltron6000 at 10/07/2008 07:51
I agree with Kyousuke that you have to have a certain mindset to play Too Human. I... must... collect... epic armor. AAAAAAAH I NEED THE REDNESS!!! FEED ME ITEMS!
uglymofo's Avatar
uglymofo at 10/07/2008 11:11
I played through Too Human. It was painful. Got rid of it 10 minutes after finishing it. Fuck that game.
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MrSlippery at 10/07/2008 11:30
it wasn't THAT bad. I kinda of liked the story, but that's only because vikings and norse mythos in general are awesome.


still, I'd like to see this game VASTLY overhauled. It could still bounce back,but it needs some serious work and less hype, just let it silently be awesome.

and a trilogy is still happening. I don't think it sold THAT badly.
Ujn Hunter's Avatar
Ujn Hunter at 10/07/2008 12:01
Too Human is cool... but the second boss sucks... also Silicon Knights didn't make Pariah, Digital Extremes did... check it. oh yea! ;)
GohanGVO's Avatar
GohanGVO at 10/07/2008 12:51
'Too Eternal' and 'Human Darkness' confirmed!
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Veidt at 10/07/2008 18:35
Interesting. Also, I was in the Gamestop when my family bought birthday gifts, and Gamestop had a "Buy 2 get 1 free" deal on used 360 stuff. My uncle got a memory card for himself and RSV2 for me because I wanted my own copy, and for free we got Too Human. Should I even bother?
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 10/08/2008 15:10
Wow that sucks.
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