Comments on: PC Gamer: Brad Wardell Interview

By: dhex

dhex — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:46:16 +0000

dhex – do you mean strategy games rather than RTS? Their other games are turn based..

both, i guess. i conflate the two in my head.

By: Burgerboy

Burgerboy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:53:51 +0000

Ooo, a desire to do an old-school isometric rpg?

After playing galciv2 I think stardock is one of the few developers I would trust to not turn it into a diablo clickfest.

They haven’t done an rpg before, however I think they might actually do one *right*.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:34:01 +0000

dhex – do you mean strategy games rather than RTS? Their other games are turn based..

By: Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:00:15 +0000

Fair enough Kieron :) I just thought the first (and suggested only PCZ interview?) would have had a picture at the CVG site. Glad to know there are photos, just nice to put a face to a floaty voice! :D

By: dhex

dhex — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:22:59 +0000

kinda weird – i like wardell enough from interviews to wish they made something other than RTS games. cause i’d buy ‘em and stuff.

By: SwiftRanger

SwiftRanger — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:37:02 +0000

The PC Gamer article had a ” say ‘cheese!’ ” photo, but perhaps this picture of Brad (to the left) is also interesting (for reasons already discussed in a previous RPS post).

Looking forward to those other interview parts.

By: Vandenburg

Vandenburg — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:51:33 +0000

Well, take a look at this review from one of the two largest German pc gaming magazines:
gave it 69.

And compare them with the Metacritic total:

currently has an average of 88 with only one review under 80.

So yeah, German print magazines suck and German publishers too.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:45:56 +0000

Because I’m running the remainder of the interview shortly, and I don’t think I have many photos.

By: Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:05:13 +0000

Man, Atari get beaten down in that quote. I wonder why they’re doing so poorly, given they can’t even get a developer to work with them in a reasonable capacity, heh ;)

Also; why no picture of the guy? Most interviews have a picture of the person. I know the CVG website is entirely rubbish regarding images in general, but that is a kinda funny thing to miss out :)

By: subedii

subedii — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:02:47 +0000

Um, I think some people might be mis-understanding here (or else I’m just mis-reading posts). It wasn’t Brad Wardell or Stardock who were saying that sci-fi games don’t sell in Germany, it was the publishers that they were negotiating with at the time. They were trying to get the game published in Europe (as in, “in-store” ), but for some reason they were told that these things don’t sell.

Freaking weird, but anyway.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:01:01 +0000

Yeah, there’s obviously some people who do not understand the true relevance of statistics to the understanding of today’s consumer.

What reminds me: RPS, write an article about publishers and how they work, pretty please. They are the most hated people in the industry, yet almost undocumented. I would like to know about them, and as I’m people, you obviously have a mainstream topic there.

By: fluffy bunny

fluffy bunny — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:49:01 +0000

Kind of ironic that the company who is publishing Sins in Europe, Kalypso Media, is German.