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Single platform games suck... I really want to play this game and yet I probably never will. Same story with Fez on Xbox...

hakaaaaak 14y ago
Same sentiment on wishing to play both, but I don't think they suck. It's all they have resources for. Have you seen the documentary on Fez in Indie Game: The Movie (2012)? It's on Netflix streaming and it is awesome. Everyone that puts their heart and soul into a game like that and get torn down but trudges ahead despite all odds should be rewarded... even if you are funded by the Canadian government: www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884
- jere 14y ago
  You'll see in "Indie Game" that Team Meat got kind of fucked by MSFT. Phil Fish has similar horror stories: he avoided patching a critical bug because supposedly it would have cost him $40k to recertify Fez: http://kotaku.com/5927224/fez-wont-be-fixed-because-microsoft-wants-a-ton-of-money http://kotaku.com/5927224/fez-wont-be-fixed-because-microsof... So, if nothing else, it seems like it sucks for the developer.
  - smackfu 14y ago
    >You'll see in "Indie Game" that Team Meat got kind of fucked by MSFT. I don't know, it seemed like MSFT giving them a hard deadline was what they really needed to actually finish the game. And the sum total of "fucked" was that the promotion for the game in the marketplace didn't go up when they expected it to, and they still had a great first day, and went on to sell great.
    - jblow 14y ago
      No, actually, they got fucked pretty hard. What you see in the movie is only about 10% of what happened -- but you are also misinterpreting what you saw in the movie, which is already pretty bad.
      - ameen 14y ago
        I assume The Witness is cross-platform (including MS platforms) and self-published? Also, I never got to thank you personally for Braid - It plunged me into introspection and little did I know, I was exactly like Tim, a villain thinking of themselves as a hero.
snarfy 14y ago
At some point you consider the hardware a part of the game's price. Pretty much every system I own was bought to play a specific game.
smackfu 14y ago
They're one or two person shops that are lucky to get a game out for one platform a couple of years late. The only way they would be cross platform is for them to sell the rights to a bigger company which I'm sure they would consider like giving away their baby.
klausa 14y ago
Actually, Fez is being ported to other (yet unnamed, but probably Steam) platforms: http://polytroncorporation.com/state-of-the-polytron http://polytroncorporation.com/state-of-the-polytron
- cdr 14y ago
  Huh, Fish was adamant in the past that he would not port it. Good to see.
- cocoflunchy 14y ago
  Awesome! But for Journey there's little hope. (https://getsatisfaction.com/thatgamecompany/topics/will_journey_be_available_on_other_platforms https://getsatisfaction.com/thatgamecompany/topics/will_jour...)
mtgx 14y ago
I'd love to try Journey on a PC.
- ameen 14y ago
  Seriously though, the PS3 is a no-brainer at this point of its life-cycle. Awesome Blu-ray device, Netflix, Hulu, etc and add PSN plus into the fray and you'll never pay for a game again.
eps 14y ago
From what I've read both Flow and Journey were meant in part to be tech demoes for the PS3. TheY push PS3 to the limit. The grass rendering in Flow and the sand tracks in Journey is not something that an iPad would be able to handle as gracefully, for example.
- smackfu 14y ago
  A tech demo for seven year old hardware though.
  - GuiA 14y ago
    It may be 7 year old, but it has a unique architecture (cell) that the TGC games most likely take advantage of; it would likely be quite hard to replicate on other platforms.

hakaaaaak 14y ago

Same sentiment on wishing to play both, but I don't think they suck. It's all they have resources for. Have you seen the documentary on Fez in Indie Game: The Movie (2012)? It's on Netflix streaming and it is awesome. Everyone that puts their heart and soul into a game like that and get torn down but trudges ahead despite all odds should be rewarded... even if you are funded by the Canadian government: www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884

jere 14y ago
You'll see in "Indie Game" that Team Meat got kind of fucked by MSFT. Phil Fish has similar horror stories: he avoided patching a critical bug because supposedly it would have cost him $40k to recertify Fez: http://kotaku.com/5927224/fez-wont-be-fixed-because-microsoft-wants-a-ton-of-money http://kotaku.com/5927224/fez-wont-be-fixed-because-microsof... So, if nothing else, it seems like it sucks for the developer.
- smackfu 14y ago
  >You'll see in "Indie Game" that Team Meat got kind of fucked by MSFT. I don't know, it seemed like MSFT giving them a hard deadline was what they really needed to actually finish the game. And the sum total of "fucked" was that the promotion for the game in the marketplace didn't go up when they expected it to, and they still had a great first day, and went on to sell great.
  - jblow 14y ago
    No, actually, they got fucked pretty hard. What you see in the movie is only about 10% of what happened -- but you are also misinterpreting what you saw in the movie, which is already pretty bad.
    - ameen 14y ago
      I assume The Witness is cross-platform (including MS platforms) and self-published? Also, I never got to thank you personally for Braid - It plunged me into introspection and little did I know, I was exactly like Tim, a villain thinking of themselves as a hero.

snarfy 14y ago

At some point you consider the hardware a part of the game's price. Pretty much every system I own was bought to play a specific game.

smackfu 14y ago

They're one or two person shops that are lucky to get a game out for one platform a couple of years late. The only way they would be cross platform is for them to sell the rights to a bigger company which I'm sure they would consider like giving away their baby.

klausa 14y ago

Actually, Fez is being ported to other (yet unnamed, but probably Steam) platforms: http://polytroncorporation.com/state-of-the-polytron http://polytroncorporation.com/state-of-the-polytron

cdr 14y ago
Huh, Fish was adamant in the past that he would not port it. Good to see.
cocoflunchy 14y ago
Awesome! But for Journey there's little hope. (https://getsatisfaction.com/thatgamecompany/topics/will_journey_be_available_on_other_platforms https://getsatisfaction.com/thatgamecompany/topics/will_jour...)

mtgx 14y ago

I'd love to try Journey on a PC.

ameen 14y ago
Seriously though, the PS3 is a no-brainer at this point of its life-cycle. Awesome Blu-ray device, Netflix, Hulu, etc and add PSN plus into the fray and you'll never pay for a game again.

eps 14y ago

From what I've read both Flow and Journey were meant in part to be tech demoes for the PS3. TheY push PS3 to the limit. The grass rendering in Flow and the sand tracks in Journey is not something that an iPad would be able to handle as gracefully, for example.

smackfu 14y ago
A tech demo for seven year old hardware though.
- GuiA 14y ago
  It may be 7 year old, but it has a unique architecture (cell) that the TGC games most likely take advantage of; it would likely be quite hard to replicate on other platforms.