[K100]

Mr Deviance, you should read this article from last year on Dave's blog:

http://bloggalog.com...he-thick-of-it/

Really interesting article about his involvement on ROTT.

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DaveyDoomsday, on 20 July 2013 - 03:01 PM, said:

Then again, it's flattering in a way that people talk about a small, self funded independent virtual studio like we're an established developer with offices and a payroll and criticize us in the same way. I guess that means we're doing a pretty good job so far.

You know, Mr. Deviance often tries to come across as if he has deep insight into stuff and has a well funded opinion when the opposite is often the truth. The foundation of his building has more termites in it than one can see at first glance.

[Ronin]

[DaveyDoomsday]

Ronan, on 20 July 2013 - 03:35 PM, said:

Lol. The last thing I want is people getting into arguments on this forum. I like it a lot better when it's about actual Rise of the Triad development info, don't you?

Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and personally Mr. Deviance's criticisms of both Fresch, Interceptor (and now even myself!) over the years helped shape how I handle Interceptor's messaging - so if anything you guys should thank him for his harsh crits. In fact, if it wasn't for his posts I never would have finally made a Duke4 account and started posting here, nor would I have ever been able to make things like this Duke Nukem 2013 mod playthrough:

http://youtu.be/_C3SKDwFh-8

Go look back in this thread, I ain't lyin'

You might see his comments as "Mr. Deviance giving Dave shit" but I see them as, "Hmm, maybe sometimes I say things that come off as corny, lame, disingenuous or sound "like marketing copy" even when it's not intentional.

Meanwhile, in relevant news: ROTT IS PLAYABLE AT PAX AUSTRALIA RIGHT NOW!!!1 So if any of you are in the area, I encourage you to go check it out

[Ronin]

DaveyDoomsday, on 20 July 2013 - 03:43 PM, said:

Lol. The last thing I want is people getting into arguments on this forum. I like it a lot better when it's about actual Rise of the Triad development info, don't you?

Yep, I just like that gif. Decent once inserted it into the middle of an argument I was having with someone and it made me laugh and probably helped diffuse the situation.

[DaveyDoomsday]

Ronan, on 20 July 2013 - 03:50 PM, said:

Yep, I just like that gif.

I prefer this one myself:

[Ronin]

Ha ha that's pretty good too, must remember that one.

[Frederik Schreiber]

Looks like I missed a good fight

[DavoX]

Frederik Schreiber, on 20 July 2013 - 04:11 PM, said:

Looks like I missed a good fight

Don't worry, you can go back a few checkpoints to see it

[Radar]

LOL TOO BAD WE COULDN'T MANUALLY SAVE IT.

Alright bad joke I know...

[Mr.Deviance]

fuegerstef, on 20 July 2013 - 03:30 PM, said:

You know, Mr. Deviance often tries to come across as if he has deep insight into stuff and has a well funded opinion when the opposite is often the truth. The foundation of his building has more termites in it than one can see at first glance.

Termites are great builders and very organized little creatures.
If my foundation has termites then they surely built it with formidable ingenuity and durability.
If you've never seen a termite hive, I suggest you check some pics out quickly.

Smart ass remarks aside. My opinions are strongly against pr people.
As a rule of thumb, I never trust nor look too deep at what pr people have to say.
My previous remarks about Dave were just my opinions on pr guys and on this guy in particular that seems to try really desperately to convince people that checkpoints are better than quick saves.
That's what primarily ticked me off and then as I read through his explications and his attempts to convince the guy he was talking to that checkpoints are better than quick saves, he suddenly pulls out the most fucking obnoxious reasoning I've seen in a long time "This is America, you can hate our game all you want"
When I got to that point I couldn't actually fathom that what he just wrote that, being a pr and shit, I would have expected him to know better than post such stuff as if it's supposed to actually be funny or make sense.
He could have very well said that checkpoints work better than quick saves because... "america fuck yeah"

And now after all I said about him, he starts praising me. I don't even want to comment on this shit anymore, it disgusts me.
Dave dude, I understand you are selling your house soon for this game and if I wasn't cynical I would actually say wow I'm impressed that you have so much dedication to see this game making it big.
But because I am a cynical guy, I will have to say that if you actually TRULY sold your house to fund the development of this game,
1. you are either are either rich enough to afford to sell your house without having to worry that you will go on the streets if this game flops and fails to sell as much as your team is predicting.
2. You are bullshitting and you aren't actually selling your house, you are just trying to impress people around here with your dedication to this project.
3. You are a crazy irresponsible suicidal person that is risking ending up on the streets under the fucking bridge for a fucking remake of a game that almost 80% of the gamers today haven't heard about.
Your game better be fucking legendary which after I've seen gameplay of it, will surely not be in this big sea of 1000 games that come out each year on multiple platforms.

And if you aim so high with this game, you would certainly not be so desperate as to try and advertise this game to a forum like this where most of it's users are a few disgruntled DNF fans and old apogee/3dreams fans like myself.
I'm pretty sure that if everybody on this forum bought your game, you would still not get to make enough profit to buy a new house.

It leaves me completely untouched to hear that you've completely changed your job strategy because of me and it makes it a little sad that I am the only reason for which you decided to make an account on this forum.
One would have expected that you registered here mainly to share something duke nukem related, not just to put me in my place.
Now I will resume to only reading this topic as I did until pointing out some of the bullshit that was going on lately around here .
I sure hope you are willing to put your money where your mouth is when it comes to selling that house.
Good luck and all jokes and evil wishes aside (not that it would make the least of difference to me but) I sure hope you don't get to live in a sewer after this game comes out.

If you accept unrequested suggestions from strangers such as myself, I would recommend you not to sell your house for this game, nor for any game development for that matter, simply because it's a very risky irresponsible thing to do.

[Radar]

How about you just shorten your posts to "I'm a dickwad" instead of making us read a novel each time?

[Mr.Deviance]

Ms. Radar, on 20 July 2013 - 06:34 PM, said:

How about you just shorten your posts to "I'm a dickwad" instead of making us read a novel each time?

I like how you always speak in the name of the collective group. I never get tired of your attempts at trolling me either.
Just keep pushing, you're almost there.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Mr.Deviance, on 20 July 2013 - 06:35 PM, said:

Just keep pushing, you're almost there.

[Jimmy]

I don't like Davey because he downvoted my post where I professed my undying love for Kathy.

Homophobe!

[OpenMaw]

Jimmy, on 20 July 2013 - 07:05 PM, said:

I don't like Davey because he downvoted my post where I professed my undying love for Kathy.

Homophobe!

I thought Kathy was a chick.

[Radar]

Yes, apparently she is offended by being called a man.

[Carl Winslow]

No Mr Deviance, you are legitimately a terrible person. You have nothing but animosity towards everyone and assume that Interceptor actually cares about what you have to say. It's childish at best and disgusting at worst. The best thing that can really be said is that you need to alleviate this problem, preferably with bleach or a bullet to the head. or just stop worrying about things on the internet, your call.

[MusicallyInspired]

Mr Deviance is a troll. A very successful and impressive one. You're feeding him.

[Carl Winslow]

look at how many words he says and how many words anyone else says in response to him.
the only thing he is, frankly, is a tryhard faggot.

[Komenja]

[Mr.Deviance]

MusicallyInspired, on 20 July 2013 - 07:39 PM, said:

Mr Deviance is a troll. A very successful and impressive one. You're feeding him.

I'm not a troll. I just chose to express my contradictory opinions in more detail than the ones where I agree with things.
Usually when I agree with somebody on a forum, I don't go posting about unless I absolutely agree with him and think he is doing an amazing job at that particular thing.
I do it bluntly and the majority mostly never agrees with me but nonetheless I keep going in my direction and this pisses some people off very much.
Some people are used to try and mold everybody around them to act according to what they consider to be the norm up to the point where they are going to try and impose their idea of normality onto others by force.
If you call that trolling then fine but it's not what I'm after.
You can keep calling me a troll every time you disagree with me I don't mind.

Colon Semicolon, on 20 July 2013 - 07:38 PM, said:

No Mr Deviance, you are legitimately a terrible person. You have nothing but animosity towards everyone and assume that Interceptor actually cares about what you have to say. It's childish at best and disgusting at worst. The best thing that can really be said is that you need to alleviate this problem, preferably with bleach or a bullet to the head. or just stop worrying about things on the internet, your call.

It's interesting when I get lectured about caring on the internet by somebody that seems to care so much about what I post and has nothing but direct insults to post towards me, every single time.
And assuming or generalizing that I have nothing but animosity towards everyone is just a manipulatory tactic that you are attempting right now in order to gather supporters on your side.
I respect lots of people online, even on this forum but not everybody has to know that all the time. It's my business who I respect and who I have animosity towards but I assure you I have respect for smart capable people and I have nothing against nice people that aren't after scamming or bsing others for their own profit.
I know you don't troll me, you don't fuck around. You simply come about and insult me when you don't like my posts which is something I've noticed across the time I've been here.
It's ok not to like me but being a complete hypocrite and lecturing me about caring on the internet while you care so much about me is very stupid.
If you want me dead so much, how about you click the block user button and I'm gone from your life forever...
I won't drink bleach, nor will I put a bullet to my head but I would gladly watch you do it instead, provided you film yourself and somebody from your family uploads it to liveleak after you've gone to a better place where you will be free of me...

Colon Semicolon, on 20 July 2013 - 07:42 PM, said:

look at how many words he says and how many words anyone else says in response to him.
the only thing he is, frankly, is a tryhard faggot.

The more you insult me, the more your blood pressure is going to raise.
Chill the fuck down before you choke on your own foam...

[Carl Winslow]

Look at all those words I'm not going to read, you could go into writing novels.

[Mr.Deviance]

Colon Semicolon, on 20 July 2013 - 08:01 PM, said:

Look at all those words I'm not going to read, you could go into writing novels.

I could but I just rather post long walls of text to annoy you around here since it gives me more satisfaction to annoy you.
The truth is, most of the time I don't even know you exist until you decide to pop up and insult me with random inconsistent shit.
I bet it's all about measuring your ego with mine here and nothing else.
Whenever I say something more direct and to the point to soembody's face, I always get the mandatory tough guys that feel their ego is in peril.
I bet that taking a shot at insulting me helps you with your real life egometer.
It also probably pisses you off that my robot is dancing and yours doesn't.
Fuck off

[Lunick]

Micky C, this is all your fault.

[Kathy]

If I wanted to be insulted I would chose Mr.Deviance to do it.

Jimmy, on 20 July 2013 - 07:05 PM, said:

I don't like Davey because he downvoted my post where I professed my undying love for Kathy.

Jealousy.

Dave said:

Yeah, we're looking to do a full on shareware episode post release. But it's all up to Fred and the guys as to when/how. The general consensus is that we'll base it off the original Hunt Begins episode, since that seems like a pretty cool idea.

Wouldn't it be easier/better to have literally first several levels as a demo so you could continue by buying a game?

[Mr.Deviance]

Kathy, on 20 July 2013 - 09:34 PM, said:

If I wanted to be insulted I would chose Mr.Deviance to do it.


Jealousy.


Wouldn't it be easier/better to have literally first several levels as a demo so you could continue by buying a game?

I wonder what is the point in releasing a shareware post release?
Isn't the whole concept of shareware based on the idea that first you play a small chunk of free shit and then if it managed to hook you, you will want to buy the full game in order to resume the rest of the game + more features on top of the ones already present in the shareware?
The thing is, I bet they won't release a demo before the game because(to quote Dave) they sold their houses, cars, wives and their rubber ducks and now they can't afford to have anybody see this game for free and risk losing customers if they decide it's not the game they were looking for.
If that's the idea and it should be since this is the general idea these days among publishers and dev studios, then they should not forget that if anybody really wants a demo and doesn't get it, they can always torrent the whole game and try it and maybe decide after they beat it, that they don't have the cash to support the devs right now but maybe later unless they forget about it...
I don't really want Dave to sleep on a bench so we have to accept a no demo. I'm fine with that.

[Kathy]

Because right now we have a concept of pre-ordering. Pre-order shit so you could get it 10% off with other shit you wouldn't buy other way.

[DaveyDoomsday]

GUYS, RELAX.

I can always move back in with my mom. In fact, she's kind of looking forward to it. My girlfriend isn't...

[Mr.Deviance]

Kathy, on 20 July 2013 - 10:21 PM, said:

Because right now we have a concept of pre-ordering. Pre-order shit so you could get it 10% off with other shit you wouldn't buy other way.

Pre-order is not a mechanism that allows you to experience the game without paying for it first.
Pre-oders are a great way of buying on hype alone which is something I would never do.
Remember how many people pre-ordered DNF and the majority felt cheated when they saw what the game actually was.
At least have a company that you trust that has released previous quality games before you decide to pre-order a new game from them which you trust will be good because it's made by the same people that had already proven themselves.
In the case of Interceptor software, their first game will be this one and based on this one they will either gather a good reputation or all end up sleeping in various phone booths if we are to believe what Dave said about the selling of houses and assets just to fund this game.