Well, hope no one here was holding out for a sequel to Fez...

Tre

This is a mess, and one that seems to be entirely caused due to the fragile nature of a certain Phil Fish.

I'm not gonna say he's entirely right to have cancelled the game over everything but I can't say he's wrong for it either. A little sad, though, I would have kind of liked to try it out.

Ah well. If nothing else I just hope the first one gets ported to a platform I can use.

Fossilmaiden

Tre said:

If nothing else I just hope the first one gets ported to a platform I can use.

You have a PC, right?

Obā-san

Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Bunny

God, Phil Fish is such a gigantic piece of shit

Nevermind the fact that he's the best character in Binding of Isaac

Tre

Fossilmaiden said:

Tre said:

If nothing else I just hope the first one gets ported to a platform I can use.

You have a PC, right?

Mac only for right now.

Fossilmaiden

Bunny said:

God, Phil Fish is such a gigantic piece of shit

Nevermind the fact that he's the best character in Binding of Isaac

Sorry, but Cain exists. And Isaac Post-D20.

Previous Calica

FEZ is a great game but, man, it's 100% in Phil Fish's rights to not make a second.

Salix Babylonika

Everyone involved with this incident is a gigantic fuckrocket except maybe John Blow, and that's just because I don't remember who he is offhand.

Yarrun XIX

He's the guy who made Braid.

So....maybe?

Odradek

Braid is one of the Greatest Games Ever Made so Blow can do no bad.

Previous Calica

From what I remember, Jonathan Blow is also a gigantic fuckrocket.

Also when trying to figure out wtf was going on with Phil Fish, I found that he said that all modern Japanese games sucked, and that Jon Blow called them "joyless husks".

Given everything I've read by Jon Blow, and everything I've seen of Braid (which I admittedly have yet to play, but it doesn't exactly seem to be about joy), I'm not sure he's in a position to call anything "joyless".

Hexartes

Can we, like, try to avoid turning this thread into an overly negative circlejerk please?

Salix Babylonika

we could try to be as negative as possible and not outdo Phil Fish.

Previous Calica

Honestly, I can't blame him for being bitter after seeing the comments on his own website, though.  Here's one of the early comments (yay, racism):

Typical Quebecor: Take the money and run, who cares about obligation.

Also a bunch of people calling FEZ pretentious, which...what?

Hexartes

While I'm not condoning his behavior, he's a talented guy and most people who are in the kind of position he's in- self inflicted or not- are going to come out of it at least somewhat bitter.

Previous Calica

This is some bullshit though.

Yarrun XIX

What

Previous Calica

the "delete" in the tweet means that it was posted by someone working for Polytron.

Odradek

Yarrun XIX said:

What

The person who made that comment on 4chan is apparently the person who tweeted it.

Yarrun XIX

That was the disbelief what, not the confused what.

Fossilmaiden

Not something that surprises me, to be honest.

Miss Miko Mayonegg

lol

nohaynicklibre

It could be photoshopped, though.

But knowing Fil Phish it's not something he wouldn't do.

Misery

wow

Obā-san

Tre

So Polygon did an article about how game developers deal with sudden fame and becoming public figures in the wake of the Phil Fish incident. There's no comments from Fish himself, but they did get a couple others like Edmund McMillen, David Jaffe, George Broussard and Ron Carmel to reply. I thought it was an interesting read.

Makes me think a bit differently about Fish. I still think he probably could've handled the situation better than he did, but I do understand that the pressure from the public most likely just got to him, and to be fair, I might have done something similar given the circumstances.

Miss Miko Mayonegg

Interesting. :o

Hexartes

Honestly t

Pangur Bán said:

This isn't really accurate at all.