American McGee says XBLA, PSN need to evolve

Ok. XBLA and PSN will evolve as soon as you stop putting your ridiculous name in the title of every game you release. Deal?

As fantastic as he is..... he clearly isn't very popular with the pigeons

How about WiiWare?

The doucheshirt is fitting for a douche.

Has he even made a good game since doom? Seriously, Bad day LA ? Alice? come on he needs to quit making crap.

i agree that approval processes need some better streamlining, but they should still be tough for developers to some degree - afterall, by putting it up on their service, Sony and MS are effectively putting their name behind it - there's got to be some kind of quality control.

While I've certainly seen other devs comment on the approval process, 24 episodes is certainly beyond normal. Also, couldn't he submit more than one of the episodes at once? Even if the process takes a while, if the approvals for multiple episodes overlap then it wouldn't take as long.

Should they outsource all their programming to Shanghai as well "American" McGee?

ZING!

(Scrapland was awesome, though.)

I guess he never heard of Siren on PSN. Granted it only had 12 chapters... Sounds like McGee is talking out his ass here.

Three words:

Bad Day L.A.

OK, so maybe that's kinda four words.

I agree with Vidikron. Wouldn't it make more sense to submit all the episodes at once since they're simply being ported over? That way they wouldn't have to go through the approval process time for each individual episode.

american? wtf?

why does this guy get to even comment on things like video games when all he's produced is trash game after trash game?

He thinks he's soooo good....

Who is he to say what needs to evolve and what doesn't? Don't we get XBLA games every week? I believe we do, I think his job is to make games not to criticize how PS and Microsoft run their show. Same with people who try to say games are too violent, and they are bad for children. These people don't play these games, how can you bash something you know not a dang thing about? Sure maybe some XBLA games take while to get through but ever think that might be because Microsoft wants to make sure they faulty crap doesn't go out there, and safe things that are not going to hurt their network making us, the paying customers upset? Shut up McGee and get to work, you are no one.

Seriously what has this guy done that puts him in any position to have an opinion that would even be worthy of posting on a blog?

He got his start because he was known as 'neighbor boy', a no-talent friend of John Carmack who just lived nearby. A complete social reject, he didn't mesh with anyone and now he's own his own plastering his meaningless name on stuff because he couldn't work on a team.

The gaming world needs to raise its standards. Alice was -TERRIBLE- and this guy isn't someone who matters when it comes to "industry insight".

See more than few people asking why his voice matters at all. Well, the honest truth is because he makes games and he perceives this as an issue, making his voice much stronger than any of ours here. You may say that he doesn't know and that he should just leave Microsoft and Sony to handle the things they know how, but what do any of us here really have that can legitimately give us the right to say anything in this arena, let alone tell him he shouldn't have his opinion on the matter?

If you say the right to our own opinion, then why question his right to the same freedom?

Anyway, the periods that small development companies have to wait for their content to get published can be a very serious point of contention with them. Look how much the developer of Braid put of his own money, going very far into debt, to make the game and then having to be delayed for months just for the approval process. Not that I can make a sound judgment on whether it's right or wrong, and it likely should be judged on a case-by-case basis, but there is obviously some issues when Bethesda's DLC gets green lighted with bugs and sped through the process while others are delayed for much longer without the same issues.

Loki his opinion doesn't matter, he can have it, I don't care and I bet Microsoft / Sony doesn't care either. His job is to make games, do it and don't worry what the console owners do obviously they get the job done because games are still coming. In a corporate view the man lower on the totem pole their opinion doesn't matter, and when you look at it right he is the low man. He works for a company that makes games, he isn't the owner, and they wouldn't even be in the business if the console makers didn't make consoles. Thus low man, who cares what he thinks, just like most people he thinks his way is the best way - well it's not if it was he would be in charge.

Is he implying that wiiware is perfect, or is he just ignoring it like everyone else does?

American McGee? Bah. Hire his non-union Mexican equivalent, Mexican McGee!

Wow.

And I thought I was egomanicial...

This guy cracks me up.

I was working at Electronic Arts when American McGee was making Alice. Alice turned out OK...probably because McGee had very little to do with it. He was never around! We would stage joke hunting parties throughout the building to find him. Most of the team that worked on the game never even met him. He was basically a name that some exec thought would sell games. He was responsible for a couple concepts and then gave up on the project long before it was even past the design phase.

And what's this fool known for? Being the level designer on Doom? Doom had horrible levels. It was level after level of "fetch a switch, find a key." Boring.

Then there's Bad Day L.A. Has anyone actually played this thing? It's bad. Very, very bad. Everything about it. Bad.

Asking this guy what he thinks of XBLA and PSN is like asking Uwe Boll what he thinks of Hollywood.