Phil Fish takes a shot at modern Japanese games, and then takes to Twitter with more biting remarks.
A writer and editor turned game developer who has previously worked for websites such as Destructoid and the Escapist, TechRaptor was lucky enough to talk to Allistair Pinsof for a series of interviews about the current state of the gaming media.
This is a great interview, pretty much reminds you why GamerGate was set up in the first place, to counter "fishy" stuff like this in the industry
I mean this is just Indie stuff can you imagine the situation with big developers and what sites do to get on their good side.
Totally disgusting that the industry has come to this.
Im not surprised to be honest but let this be a lesson to all those people smearing #gamergate as a hate group and a misogynistic movement. This is what we fight for and this is the sh*t that needs to stop.
Phil Fish is a thief and the reasons as to why Fez 2 will never come to fruition is because he is a talent less hack
Both of the interviews with Pinsof have been fantastic. Hope this gets all the exposure it can.
most publications seem to be ignoring it hoping it disappears
im looking at you giantbomb r/games r/gaming polygon gamasutra and all you corrupt fools
(CriticalIndieGamer) Indie gaming is a serious business these days, but it is sometimes a little too serious for my liking. An industry that was started for fun has become the domain of a few sanctimonious, self-aggrandizing, and downright annoying developers. Admittedly, some small part of me secretly enjoys the controversy courted by these mavericks, so let’s take a look at five of my favourite game developer meltdowns.
From EGMR, "Indie games can be amazing experiences where quality truly shines through, but many a time the same cannot be said of the developers behind some of these games. Over the past year, I had my own experiences and witnessed a lack of PR sensibilities, and in some instances professionalism when indies communicated with members of the press. What I have noticed quite frequent is the lack of tact some developers have when communicating in a public forum, which needs to be highlighted. It is quite evident that some developers don’t realise that their social media feeds are a public forum, and that what you say in a public online context can have some real consequences."
A lot of anger issues this guy has. He could have simply given his opinion is a less rude and obnoxious way. Instead he blurted out something and is now running around blaming everyone and trying to fix it. That is why you think about everything BEFORE you do or say it so you won't look like an @$$ later.
for a hipster this guy is quite the attention seeker and controversial.
Hmmmm
I do somewhat agree with his statement on japanese games in the recent years. they aren't as good as they use to be.
But to say that they suck? Yes Japanese developers have ran out of that steam they had back in the PS2 days, but they have their shares of great titles this gen. I mean not evry western game is amazing, we do get a lot of title that suck to.
Either way, he should have expected something like this to happen. The way he kind of addressed this is something that probably could have gone a whole lot better then just coming out and saying that the games suck.Pretty disrespectful and if his response is to say gamers are the worst, then that's is to.
This is just bad PR, expect bad reactions. Simply saying your sorry never really fixes things nowadays.
I don't believe that Japanese gaming will died out and be gone, but it certainly is shrinking and moving towards a westernization, which i don't like. I think we'll eventually see a comeback. Hopefully.
...and now, I'm even more glad that I don't give half a crap about Fez.
This prick needs to remember gamers created them and we can also destroy them.
Console gamers maybe not because their too f***ing dumb.
PC gamers would tear these developers a new a** hole.