Comments on: Someone Wants Your Protection Money

By: zima

zima — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:31:07 +0000

What is this? some kind of flattery towards PL immigrands that are flooding UK? ;) (Seriously, don’t make me more depressed about state of games that come out of this small country of mine… )

I’m fed up with how many game creators here are involved in mental masturbation…ever heard of V.O.T.E.R. Golem (was supposed to be revolutionary strategy game, eclipsing everything else) or Chrome (think Crysis-syndrome, but on a local scale)? Ever heard of I_don’t_know_how_many_ultra_low_budget_games_made_solely_for_inclusion_with_magazines?

Yeah, Wiedzmin/Witcher is an extraordinary exception…together with, perhaps, Painkiller and Reservoir Dogs. Other than those three…at best so-so, usually downright horrible knock-offs of foreign ideas (and that includes not only games, also IM networks, portals, webmail, social networks, social news, photo services, web storage, streaming video, blog services, you name it…I don’t know, probably remaining popular because of some ill local patriotism)

btw, http://www.home.umk.pl/~majewski/jakub/pol_lst.html – sad state of pl gaming industry (YES, 90% of indy projects here are “postapocalyptic rpg/something”, none of them even 10% complete)

PS. ok, I amd interested how “Wii-based horror game Sadness” will end up, but that’s beyond interests of RPS

By: Masked Dave

Masked Dave — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:30:33 +0000

Meh.

And I say that from the bottom of my heart.

By: The Shed

The Shed — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:09:38 +0000

Is it just me or does the bloom effect, textures, and… softness of this look very GTA IV? I even thought the heading picture was from that game.

@Bema: Yup.
@Cooper: Yup.

(Go Miss Greer, Go Miss Greer, Go Miss Greer, Go-o!)

By: Bema

Bema — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:14:26 +0000

He doesn’t look that hard…

To be honest, looks like another game im set to ignore.

By: Matu

Matu — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:04:22 +0000

@ John P – the guy even looks distinctly like John Carver.

I feel sorry for new devs these days, think of all the graphics stuff they have to learn before they will be taken seriously, our standards are extremely high.

By: wcaypahwat

wcaypahwat — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:37:36 +0000

Sounds like a Matthew Reilly novel…..

By: Cooper

Cooper — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:13:57 +0000

I now know what it is that is missing in my gaming life. That one game that I’ve been looking for all this time.

A game written and designed by Germaine Greer.

By: phil

phil — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:13:38 +0000

“Fully interactive world, populated by civilians, commuters, students and workers who intelligently react to their surroundings and situations.”

How exactly are they going to differentiate the three?

At the first sign of gunfire does the worker run away, the student light a spliff to watch the show and communter stand dead still whilst staring cow-eyed into the middle distance?

By: Helder Pinto

Helder Pinto — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:56:52 +0000

Looks fairly nice!

By: Taxman

Taxman — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:46:15 +0000

Sounds almost like the PS3’s Uncharted: Drakes Fortune [great game btw], even the screenshots show cover based fights and the description has a male/female team, Aztec artefact hunt.

Could be fun if done right and they add a few things into the mix which they seem to be doing with branching storylines, as Uncharted was very linear so offered little replay value.

Watching the making of Uncharted though showed Naughty Dog but a lot of effort & money into their game to give it that cinematic feel, will be interesting to see how The Protector matches that if they are aping Uncharted.

By: Yhancik

Yhancik — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:42:23 +0000

@ Ian : and the game would be called “Kane”

And “Gingerbread Studio” is an.. unexpected name for a studio developing a terrorist/supernatural shooter…
Imagine Rockstar being called Cupcake Interactive or something :p

By: Goomich

Goomich — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:37:07 +0000

http://gingerbreadstudios.net/
This is their site.
Not much to see though.