Dr. Horrible
Everyone may have already seen this, but then everyone should just watch it again: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. It's like a combination of Jonathan Coulton, the musical epsode of Buffy, and Doogie Howser. Though I guess the last two of those list are rather obvious connections.
It's also just exciting to see this sort of high quality, independently developed entertainment hit the web. Demonstrating that a talented content creator can reach an audience without the need for an expensive media blitz, and that even folks who have met with success in the Hollywood system are open to new way finance their creative output -- well, I don't see how that can be anything but good for consumers and for the video game industry.
It's also just exciting to see this sort of high quality, independently developed entertainment hit the web. Demonstrating that a talented content creator can reach an audience without the need for an expensive media blitz, and that even folks who have met with success in the Hollywood system are open to new way finance their creative output -- well, I don't see how that can be anything but good for consumers and for the video game industry.
posted by Tim Crosby at
10:43 AM
3 Comments:
I wish you guys could be that talented. Now go fix my mass effect.
Demiurge Studios may have excellent artists and level designers on its staff, as evidenced by some of their excellent contract work for such titles as Bioshock, Titan Quest, Brothers in Arms, etc. But it appears that when an entire project is at stake, they do not have the expertise to pull it all together. As evidenced by the sheer volume of game killing bugs and glitches in the ME PC port.
If this is true that no Bioware teams ever actually worked on the PC port, then it seems highly unlikely that any Bioware teams would be tasked with patching it. Patching it would be the responsibility of Demiurge Studios. And who knows if ME is even on their radar any more.
I sincerely hope I am wrong. I need a patch to be able to even play the game. But given the solid fact that Bioware's direct involvement in ME was purely console based, I don't think anyone in Bioware employ that has any ME experience is probably even capable of producing a PC patch.
So the big question seems to be... what is Demiurge Studios doing about their horribly buggy port. Are they contractually obligated to patch their product? Is Bioware/EA requiring them to patch it? If not, my money is on no patch ever, and this port basically being dead on arrival.
I assume you all were taking a break from fixing Mass Effect PC when you wrote this...
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