I totally agree on one level, but in my experience, games with fun demos go on to be fun games, and games with broken demos continue on that path. Gameplay can't be faked like story and acting can be cut around in a movie trailer.
Dyack insinuates that because Too Human got a poor response at e3 a year ago, that everyone is saying the game is terrible. No one's saying the final game will be horrible. But what has been shown wasn't impressive.
If he spent the time he's been using to do interviews about making the game industry like the movie industry (working in post on commercials and films, I can tell you his perception of our industry is rather off) he could drop a newer demo and shut everyone up once and for all.
All this going around and talking about how great the game is now is hypocritical. Isn't his whole point that he shouldn't have to talk about it or show it till it's done?
Entirely untrue.
As Pixar created the entire film from story to final print, the only thing disney owns is the rights to the films themselves. Disney can make Toy Story 3, Pixar cannot. But Pixar can certainly take credit for making the first two in future advertisments.
That stuff happens all the time. How many times have you seen some comedy film advertised as "from the makers of 'there's something about mary'" even thought it's one of the producers and not the people who wrote or directed the film. If you helped make it, you can take credit for that.
I don't think so anymore. It is getting less so as time goes on. Ten years ago sure, and even when Toy Story 1 came out, people called it a "disney" film.
But I think now people know that Pixar makes them. I doubt it will hurt them at all.
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I totally agree on one level, but in my experience, games with fun demos go on to be fun games, and games with broken demos continue on that path. Gameplay can't be faked like story and acting can be cut around in a movie trailer. Dyack insinuates that because Too Human got a poor response at e3 a year ago, that everyone is saying the game is terrible. No one's saying the final game will be horrible. But what has been shown wasn't impressive. If he spent the time he's been using to do interviews about making the game industry like the movie industry (working in post on commercials and films, I can tell you his perception of our industry is rather off) he could drop a newer demo and shut everyone up once and for all. All this going around and talking about how great the game is now is hypocritical. Isn't his whole point that he shouldn't have to talk about it or show it till it's done?
Entirely untrue. As Pixar created the entire film from story to final print, the only thing disney owns is the rights to the films themselves. Disney can make Toy Story 3, Pixar cannot. But Pixar can certainly take credit for making the first two in future advertisments. That stuff happens all the time. How many times have you seen some comedy film advertised as "from the makers of 'there's something about mary'" even thought it's one of the producers and not the people who wrote or directed the film. If you helped make it, you can take credit for that.
I don't think so anymore. It is getting less so as time goes on. Ten years ago sure, and even when Toy Story 1 came out, people called it a "disney" film. But I think now people know that Pixar makes them. I doubt it will hurt them at all.