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Great Moments in Games PR History

Posted by Zonk on from the probably-not-that-funny-to-the-companies dept.

Games Radar has a piece up entitled The Top 7 PR Disasters. Focusing mainly on the last few years, it highlights things like 'All I want for Christmas is a PSP', Hot Coffee, and (of course) Uwe Boll. Daikatana makes number 3 on the list: "Daikatana could have been just another mediocre shooter that passed silently into obscurity, leaving no imprint except a valuable lesson for Ion Storm's developers and a vague bad taste in the mouths of gamers. Unfortunately, Romero and his big mouth had to go and hype the s**t out of it, and as a result Daikatana is blamed not only for sinking Ion Storm, but also for sending Romero's career plummeting from stardom to relative obscurity." Though it's not mentioned on the list, elsewhere 3D realms is owning up to the embarrassment that is Duke Nukem Forever .

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  1. Do Not Figure out by Bogtha · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First, they admit that they were aiming too high with Duke Nukem Forever. And then, in the same interview, they say that they've got lots of new hires and they are increasing the scope of the project to include multiple platforms.

    They just don't learn, do they? I bet in the next interview they'll tell everybody that they are switching engines again.

    I'm sure everybody's already seen the list, I'm just wondering if it's worth placing a bet of whether humanity will achieve interstellar travel before 3D Realms finishes DNF. I wonder what it would take to convince Fred Brooks to visit Broussard and smack him around the head with a copy of The Mythical Man Month? I'd pay good money to see that.

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    Bogtha Bogtha Bogtha
  2. S.T.A.L.K.E.R by Wilson_6500 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hey, if STALKER and Daikatana were both eventually released, DNF can be, too. I've heard that STALKER is actually not a bad game, either--just that it was way overpromised as far as features... kinda sounds like what they've admitted with DNF, come to think of it.

    I know that I'll be buying the PC version of DNF no matter _how bad_ of a game it is. For one thing, it's Duke Nukem, and Duke Nukem 3D was just too good of a game for this not to follow in that tradition (I'm blindly hoping). Secondly, this thing has become an iconic piece of gaming legacy. I bought Daikatana (for $5) and even played a good bit of it. Daikatana had its moments, I'd say! Hearing Superfly cry like a little baby when I stumbled my dumb ass into a deathtrap gave me a pretty good laugh. I hold out _at least_ that much hope for DNF, whenever it comes out.

  3. Hot Coffee by Guntram+Shatterhand, · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Honestly, I'm not sure that the whole Hot Coffee thing was Rockstar's fault. Sure, the minigame is stupid as hell, but to Rockstar's credit they didn't put it in the game. Unless you knew what you were doing and since it was rated to adults, it seems that the whole fuss around it was for politicians needing a scapegoat. If Hot Coffee wasn't applicable, they would have used 'Bully' and all the Columbine connotations that it could have contained if the game itself wasn't so Dennis the Menace-like.