We've contacted Atomic for last words, but in the meantime we've gone ahead and changed the release date of Six Days of Fallujah to
We've contacted Atomic for last words, but in the meantime we've gone ahead and changed the release date of Six Days of Fallujah to
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 5:09PM (Unverified) said
Kinda sad, even if the game wasn't looking that hot. Hopefully they can all find jobs somewhere else.
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 8:35PM (Unverified) said
With all the controversy around this game I don't know if a major publisher like EA would want to pick this one up, unfortunately.
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 5:27PM ytilanigiroon said
It'll be the same studio that picked up Demonik.
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 5:14PM (Unverified) said
I blame overly-sensitive people, mainstream media, and people who think video games can't be anything other than gory killfests.
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 5:15PM (Unverified) said
Yeah and then normal people like you and me have to suffer for it too.
De facto censorship strikes again.
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De facto censorship strikes again.
Posted: Aug 7th 2009 6:34PM (Unverified) said
So I should thank those people for stopping a game that you think would suck from being made, and in the process getting over 50 people fired? Sorry I'm not an asshole
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 11:28PM SheppyReturns said
A fresh start WHERE? I don't know if you've been paying attention, jack, but the job market for this industry is getting increasingly tighter. For many working at Atomic games, that job alone was hard enough to get. But now they are pushed back into a job market that's been steadily stacking up out of work artists and coders for the past 2+ years.
You try getting a job in the games industry and tell me it's a "good thing" these guys get to move on. Especially without a completed title under their belt.
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You try getting a job in the games industry and tell me it's a "good thing" these guys get to move on. Especially without a completed title under their belt.
Posted: Aug 7th 2009 5:15PM (Unverified) said
It's not even that controversial - it just happens to be based on a real battle, within a real war rather than being fictional.
I think Konami should have seen it through without buckling under presumed pressure from 3rd parties!
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I think Konami should have seen it through without buckling under presumed pressure from 3rd parties!
Posted: Aug 7th 2009 5:39PM (Unverified) said
Most WWII veterans wouldn't consider that situation should become a game, yet we've had several of those.
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 6:22PM kevin949 said
@keaton
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, my WWII history isn't my strong point, but I don't remember people in WWII having to shoot children because the enemy stuck in a gun in their hands and pointed them at the soldiers and said "pull the trigger".
Sure war is war, and I didn't actually say anything about the WWII games either which I do feel the same way about as this game. But it's a different situation and there were many many immoral things done in fallujah that should not be "glorified" through a game. It's just a shame the soldiers were forced to do those immoral things or face dying.
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Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, my WWII history isn't my strong point, but I don't remember people in WWII having to shoot children because the enemy stuck in a gun in their hands and pointed them at the soldiers and said "pull the trigger".
Sure war is war, and I didn't actually say anything about the WWII games either which I do feel the same way about as this game. But it's a different situation and there were many many immoral things done in fallujah that should not be "glorified" through a game. It's just a shame the soldiers were forced to do those immoral things or face dying.
Posted: Aug 7th 2009 9:31PM kevin949 said
Well you don't have to be a dick about it dude. I already said I didn't know much, about either really. Only what I hear from my friends that do know a lot more than I do. I also said that I felt the same way about WWII games. which is why I don't play them. Sure I play war games, but not ones based on real wars.
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 5:34PM NukeAssault said
You think if they just called it "Six Days" and left it cloudy what exactly it was about... Would we be here today? I was rather interested in this game.
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 5:34PM Mr Khan said
Pretty much what happens to smaller studios trying HD development if their project falls in on them (even happens to larger studios, the cancellation of Battlefront 3 was what killed Free Radical)
I'm still puzzled as to why Konami caved to pressure on this. It's not that bad of a topic to tackle.
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I'm still puzzled as to why Konami caved to pressure on this. It's not that bad of a topic to tackle.
Posted: Aug 7th 2009 5:42PM (Unverified) said
Modern warfare based on fictional events = HUGE SALES
Modern warfare based on actual events = OFFENSIVE
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Modern warfare based on actual events = OFFENSIVE
Posted: Aug 7th 2009 6:16PM (Unverified) said
Game set in Durkadurkastan: Totally OK
Game set in real life location: Offensive and sick
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Game set in real life location: Offensive and sick
Posted: Aug 7th 2009 6:38PM (Unverified) said
Dukadurkastan = Awesome
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I don't have anything else.
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I don't have anything else.
Posted: Aug 7th 2009 5:56PM (Unverified) said
They're not milking Castlevania, they're growing giant, massive epic cows that step on you and make you enjoy it!
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 6:24PM (Unverified) said
I hope you lose your job someday, you're so cavalier about the losses of others.
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 6:23PM (Unverified) said
I blame this woman, among others. Her son died in Iraq so she decided to go on an anti-video game crusade, appearing on TV talking shit about a game she admitted she would never actually even watch a preview of.
http://gsmso.blogspot.com/2009/04/war-is-not-game-part-ii.html
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http://gsmso.blogspot.com/2009/04/war-is-not-game-part-ii.html
Posted: Aug 7th 2009 6:34PM (Unverified) said
So I should thank those people for stopping a game that you think would suck from being made, and in the process getting over 50 people fired? Sorry I'm not an asshole.
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 7:59PM (Unverified) said
Uh, because one was going to be commercially sold, and the other was going to be free?
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 8:39PM (Unverified) said
I really wanted this to see the light of day. It's a shame that the crew making this got laid-off and that this game may never grace people's consoles. I was interested in seeing how they portrayed real war situations. Having known many people in the Army and Marines some of their stories are horrifying, intense, and gruesome. This game could show a new audience that war isn't like Call of Duty and somebody merely dies by getting shot a few times (I have heard some horrible, horrible stories about deaths on the battlefield...). I feel like this game would've had some fantastic sound work to get you fully engulfed in the scene. I wish all the people who got laid off the best of luck in finding some other work.
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Posted: Aug 7th 2009 10:04PM (Unverified) said
The reason that this game got canned is b/c it was too soon after the actual event. It's bullshit really. Too many people were too sentimental and stupid. Hell the soldiers who are still fighting liked the game, that should have been more than enough of a reason to push for this to be completed and instead they ignored that and turned it into another "violent video game" backlash.
Yet the news can report (all be it half assed) on this kind of crap every day.
It was all about timing, that's what killed this game. You have to wait another 30 years before doing something about this war, same way you have to wait another 20 before even trying to touch 9-11 (case in point: World Trade Center getting slammed by critics).
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Yet the news can report (all be it half assed) on this kind of crap every day.
It was all about timing, that's what killed this game. You have to wait another 30 years before doing something about this war, same way you have to wait another 20 before even trying to touch 9-11 (case in point: World Trade Center getting slammed by critics).
Posted: Aug 7th 2009 11:31PM SheppyReturns said
Harmony of Dissonance, Aria of Sorrow, and Order of Ecclasia all laugh at you.
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Posted: Aug 8th 2009 9:12AM (Unverified) said
thats too bad....i was really looking forward to this game
the way they tried to make it a 'survival horror' and base it more on trying to survive than just blowing the crap out of everything was really cool
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the way they tried to make it a 'survival horror' and base it more on trying to survive than just blowing the crap out of everything was really cool
Posted: Aug 8th 2009 4:36PM juggalotusmx said
I still find funny these ppl said they were only trying to teach us at the same time of entertain us, when the truth is that nobody really knows what is going on there or any other war, we only know the "convenient true" what im going to say might sounds harsh but this game to me was nothing but Abu Ghraib rape simulator
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Posted: Aug 10th 2009 2:35PM iceveiled said
Way to devalue the sacrifice that young men and women have made in Iraq/Afghanistan, asshole. A small isolated incident caused by a handful of undisciplined soldiers doesn't give you the right to make statements like that.
Besides, war is hell. Shit happens. Uglier things have happened then somebody having their picture taken nude against their will.
I'm glad I don't live in the ignorant world you live in.
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Besides, war is hell. Shit happens. Uglier things have happened then somebody having their picture taken nude against their will.
I'm glad I don't live in the ignorant world you live in.
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