Comments on: Merchants Of Brooklyn, Impressions, Lamentations

By: MeestaNob!

MeestaNob! — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:57:41 +0000

We should give it a few months to see if they learn from their experience and can patch this into a better game.

Heck, they’ve released on the perfect platform to do just that.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:24:21 +0000

This was possibly the worst game I’ve ever been tricked into trying by my own GameAttentionDeficitDisorder. It is truly, deeply, offensively awful, from the 18-year-old-who’s-reaching-for-gravitas voiceover to the execrable and ludicrously stupid writing, right down to the almost-magical skill of making CryEngine 2 look like one of the tweaked-out Q2 engines.

It is so bad it makes me want to punch people. It makes me want to punch my computer. It makes me want to punch myself.

But it doesn’t make me want to punch ingame, not even a goddamn little bit.

By: catmorbid

catmorbid — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:39:39 +0000

I’ve found out that most of the games I buy impulsively, without demoing them first, are mostly crap. So that makes a person lean more to getting the real thing without paying for it, instead of buying it, since sure they might be interested, but still afraid of a crap product, and instead DL a warez version. A demo can either help sales or maybe kill them completely. Sadly I bought M.O.B. :/ The result is that the next possibly-good game I wanted to buy I might not, for fear of repeating this dissapointment :\

By: Rich_P

Rich_P — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:42:20 +0000

Indie games need demos. It’s a worthwhile investment. The folks behind Defense Grid said that sales increased noticeably after they finally released a demo on Steam.

By: Tei

Tei — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:28:31 +0000

Is a good thing to remenber that having a Indie developer is not a magical wang (inser penny-arcade jokes) to make a game good..

..maybe the other way, most Indie games suck. But these that are original, are really original, and these that are interesting are very interesting.

By: Ziv

Ziv — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:28:26 +0000

I think people should buy it just so the company will get a second chance and won’t be closed, that would be a loss of some pretty talented people.

By: the probe

the probe — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:23:40 +0000

I don’t think the people who follow games enough to know that this is an indie title would form stereotypes based upon it, eh?

By: dc2005

dc2005 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:07:17 +0000

I think games like this one or eternity’s Child really hurt the indie scene… people start to distrust new games or new developers after such dissapointments… There are good indie games out there, really polished and with a lot of QA, but it takes a couple of the broken ones to make people suspicious of anything new…

By: Tei

Tei — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:34:44 +0000

@Garg: Or make the victory of Zeno Clash more epic, becuase we all know “mele in a FPS game is haaaaaaard”.

By: Garg

Garg — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:47:26 +0000

I hope this isn’t a premonition of Zeno Clash, that other beautiful indie close combat centred game.

By: the probe

the probe — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:38:02 +0000

That’s the dude who made Concerned.
Too bad MOB isn’t a Source game, or else an epic G-mod comic would be in order.

By: SlappyBag

SlappyBag — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:20:48 +0000

Damn roBurky stole the link I was going to post hehe. Tis good indeedy though.