Sacked Crystal Dynamics employee speaks

deep - 345 days 2 hours ago

:( Poor guy. Cute cat.

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Ghoul - 344 days 22 hours ago

One of the best and honest interviews in a long time.

Well done Eric.

Best of Luck to you.

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sajj316 - 344 days 22 hours ago

if it was cut due to production issues, Why exclusive to the 360?

A bit different story than what he said earlier. I stress the comment about not being part of the main game he 'saved'. Technically he's not wrong. Of course the truth comes it. It wasn't saved. It was extracted!

"The DLC that we're making for Microsoft is especially made. It's not part of the main game that we saved - we put all the game out there that we were going to put out there." The game, which is out there on November 18th, will be extended by some six hours through two downloadable chunks, developed at the behest of Microsoft. In other words, Lara's additional tomb jaunts in "Beneath the Ashes" -- due to arrive before Christmas -- and "Lara's Shadow" will most likely be "exclusive" to the Xbox 360 in the old-fashioned, what-the-word-actually-means sense."

http://www.joystiq.com/2008...

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The Judderman - 344 days 22 hours ago

I really like underworld. As long as the DLC is reasonably priced i'll probably get it.

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kingme71 - 344 days 21 hours ago

Does it matter if it was cut for scheduling reasons or cut to be sold as DLC? The point is the content was created with the intent to go in the base game and it was removed. I'm of the firm mind that DLC should be created above and beyond the base game and that the efforts of the development team (including expense) should go towards solely creating DLC to justify charging for it. If you created it under the budget and schedule of the main game, then it was paid for by the $60.00 dropped when you bought the base game.

In any case, it sounds like Eidos has another PR gaffe on their hands as it seems to occur with every major title they release anymore.

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RedVsBlue - 344 days 21 hours ago

It is an honest interview because he got fired Ghoul. Employees will only speak honestly when they are screwed

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The Kingslayer - 344 days 19 hours ago

Is for the haters always blaming the Xbox 360 for holding back development. So good to hear from actual developers on the subject.

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kewlkat007 - 344 days 19 hours ago

Aren't they responsible for that game GEX on the 3Do? That was a kewl character..3Do way ahead of the times...

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kingnick - 344 days 18 hours ago

I was expecting silence from CD considering how tight contracts and widespread NDAs are these days.

EDIT: Spelling

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edwineverready - 344 days 21 hours ago

Replay cinematic: "This feature was always supposed to be in, but in the end it just couldn't happen, and here's why. All the cut scenes happen in-game, and the state of levels change." "We jammed everything onto the disc we could for the game itself and there was no room for movies. It was a sad day for me, but what else could we do?" I foresee problems with dvd9 in the near future. I hope developers just put everything they wanted in the game in the ps3 version instead of cutting it because the dvd9 can't hold it.

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DNAgent - 344 days 19 hours ago

I guess that's what they get for making a demo & DLC exclusive for the 360. It makes their game flop even harder than it would have and it gets people fired.

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