My brain instantly goes to Sonic Adventure 2. 8 year old me was not ready for such a fun ending. Live and Learn coming on during the Sonic movie unlocked something in me, so cool
My brain instantly goes to Sonic Adventure 2. 8 year old me was not ready for such a fun ending. Live and Learn coming on during the Sonic movie unlocked something in me, so cool
…still need to play this
Heard some shady shit went down at the studio. I’ll have to look into whether I should pirate it or not
Pirate it is the usual recommendation. Iirc profits will go to a bad dude who stiffed the workers. Been a while since I read that info though, so might be worth to read further.
I like the People Make Games investigation, but understandably no one’s got time for that shit. It’s like 2 hours long.
TL;DW: It’s complicated, but I don’t think it’s right to say the workers got stiffed. A lot of people worked on the game, not just the three who were forced out (though those three were considered the core design team). At this point, though, what’s left of ZA/UM is probably an empty office and half a dozen scrapped projects on hard drives. There’s nothing left to support even if you side with the company. I say pirate it.
Edit: The good news is there are like 4 recently announced projects from multiple former Elysium devs that promise to carry on the spirit of the game.
??? Have you been living under a rock or something? That aged like milk over a year ago. Its just stinky cheese now.
How did you not realize this when the documentary shits on Kurvis for trying to do this in the first place?
there is a noclip documentary coming out soon that will hopefully be better
Apparently I have? I pretty much stopped paying attention to this story since it seemed as thoroughly poked into as it was gonna get unless some upcoming lawsuits would change anything.
And it’s been a while since I watched it, but I remember a bunch of the interviewed ZA/UM staff agreeing that Kurvitz and the other two were fucking things up a bit and needed to go. That doesn’t mean I side with the fucking shareholders and new leadership. It just means it’s not as simple as the investors screwing over all the workers.
But if you don’t mind, I’d appreciate your perspective. I finally finished DE only this past summer, so I also missed this news unfolding in real time. I probably have some blind spots on the story.