bears

I enjoy your company. Perhaps we should be friend, good sir.

@bargaingamer

I'm sure these games make money because:

A) There are lots of people who don't read reviews, and will buy this because spiderman is on the cover.

B) At this point, the game costs almost nothing to make.

@An Unnamed Mob

Also: Dude.

@baby sea tuna

TRUTH.

I feel bad for the people working at Beenox, because they get slammed even though they might be really good at what they do.

Dude, the guys have NINE MONTHS, probably peanuts for a budget, and probably a bunch of dumb contractual stipulations like "it has to be a character based 3rd person game" and "it has to have at least 8 hours of gameplay", and "it has to be like the movie, except we're not going to show you the movie" and "we get to come in every month and muss up your design".

Dude, if you put the guys at Valve or Blizzard in that situation, it would still be a shitty game in the end.

@PSOCecil

Over the past 6 months, it feels like there's been a sea change at Joystiq. I agree less and less with the reviews, and the podcast has gone from my favorite to an "unsubscribe". Oh well, at least Giant Bomb gets me.

Is it just me?

@eat it

Exactly. No offense to the talented artist.

But dude...you get faces that look like that by laying down photoref of models and then painting over. That's totally what he did.

because the artist mostly just painted over photographs.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein.

@Sampo27

You can't do good looking raytraced rendering at anywhere near 30fps yet. That means:

No subsurface scattering
Fake indirect lighting
Almost no soft shadows
Almost no self shadowing

All that stuff is subtle, but adds up to turn a realisitic model into creepersville.

Holy shit I thought it said Kirby: Mass Effect for a second.

OMG WHAT IS KIRBY'S ROMANCE SCENE LIKE?