Looks like Microsoft PR is weighing in on Too Human now, which is shocking since Silicon Knights was doing such a fine job on their own. Showing its support for the "trilogy" by comparing it to other famous trilogies (which actually are trilogies because they actually have three installments, actually actually) such as the original Star Wars movies and the Lord of the Rings.
Microsoft Game Studios and Silicon Knights are committed to finishing the first instalment, but Too Human is an overarching epic with a rich and vast game universe that cannot be told in one instalment.
This game will begin the saga of the god Baldur in the narrative tradition of classic trilogies, such as Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings. We will talk about the full trilogy and we are very excited about its potential.
I am getting really sick of this arrogant, presumptuous attitude not just from SK and Microsoft, but from all sorts of developers and publishers. Just SAYING a game is an epic trilogy doesn't make it so -- you have to make the game worth something before you can claim it's comparable to "classic trilogies." You can't bottle the magic of a famous trilogy. It's something that just happens, and if you decide before you've even started that you will create that magic from scratch, you will fail. The first Too Human took ten years to make, and they couldn't even make it look good in demo form. To say that is the foundation of a classic trilogy is a twisted joke.
It's never wise to make definitive predictions in this business, but if there is one thing I can say with the fullest confidence, it's this -- Too Human will never, never ever ever, never be to videogames what Star Wars is to movies. Also, Too Human isn't a trilogy until three games exist. End of story.
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5:05 AM on 08.20.2008
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Then there's me and and the other friends, who aren't being blinded by PR hype and Dyack's ego. The game is mediocre at best. I imagine this game would've been super rad had it come out TEN YEARS AGO on the Nintendo 64, but we're living in 2008, not 1998.
I might rent this game and ATTEMPT to play it, if for nothing else but to have ammo against all the Dyack Defenders. But considering I just bought a PS3 and just began my MGS4 journey a few hours ago, I don't imagine I'll find much time to play through Too Human.
Except Final Fantasy (my favorite series) because, generally, it's press confirm button until your asked to change the disk 15 hours later, repeat. It makes me feel good.
The game can be completed in 10 hours. To me that says it can indeed be told in one installment given that most RPGs have considerably more to their main storyline. It is more a case of not wanting to tell it in one installment and wanting to make three games to try and recoup the many years they threw down the drain on a shit game because the tech has been finished now.
Well fuck Microsoft and fuck Denis "I'm so highbrow" Dyack, you won't be getting a penny from me for this ass game.
Try putting everything you can into the first game and if people like that, expand on it in further installments. I hear that works better than taking a story and cutting it up to try and get 3x the sales for essentially one game. God fucking damn I really despise pretty much everything about the games industry these days. I feel like one of the Fast Show's grumpy Old Men.
[Denis Dyack OWNED BY NeoGAF]
The thing that pisses me off most about Too Human is that it was chosen over an Eternal Darkness sequel.
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Agreed. It's Advent Rising all over again.
I definitely feel where you are coming from with this article. I hear the plot just teases you along, and gives you a "to be continued" ending, which is pretty weak.
If they can't give me a reason to play through the first one, why am I going to stick it out over three installments? Devs should put everything they have into one game to hook the demographic first, else this happens.
And not to start a flame war, but Eternal Darkness was horrible IMO. Looks like the only thing these guys did right was the first Legacy of Kain :)
Also, Jim, you're pretty much spot on with this one. Dyack is delusional and Microsoft is trying to back him up because they've told him they'd make three of his games when they likely realize it's shit. At least they should, otherwise they're blind themselves.
They're just grasping at straws at this point. The sales will show us all how epic the game really is, but I highly doubt it will be anywhere CLOSE to the hit they claim it will end up being... eventually... once we all comprehend its majesty.
He provides free entertainment though as I laugh at pretty much all of his comments. The Dyack chronicles brought to us by Jim have been highly entertaining to say the least, and you don't even have to buy this laughable game to enjoy them.
Sound familiar? Cough, cough, Fable 1, cough, cough. At least with the case of Fable, they admitted they missed what they were after and look to be making up for it in the second one. Maybe that'll be the case with Too Human 2.
But...it's like they never learn. Wait to see what the gamers say...don't tell us what we should think of your game.
You've gotta be FUCKING kidding me!! They made this stupid game INSTEAD OF ANOTHER ETERNAL DARKNESS!!!!
My hate for this game keeps multiplying, soon it will become self-aware and I'll shit out a second version of me made entirely of loathing.
This whole "Too Human" business is really starting to bore me. If you doubt that the game is bad or mediocre, just play the demo and you'll see the truth.
If "Too Human" really becomes a trilogy I will personally award Dennis Dyack the "Bullshitter of the Century" award for actually being able to bullshit consumers and producers into supporting him and helping him make three (probably) horrible games.
Dennis Dyack may have a mouth on him, but his game is good.
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But, yeah. Metal Gear Solid has more right to claim that title, and is humble enough not to do it!
If they want to add some new features to part 2 and part 3 of whatever planned trilogy is, fine, but for god sakes, make each game stand as a complete story and not an arbitrary episode of "lost" or "24" with a vague promise that if you stick it out for the better part of the decade you'll be really happy you did.
Game technology and design changes too fast for me to be waiting around to see if SK or any other company will make it all worthwhile if I hang in there.