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Bindibadgi · 30th May 2007, 10:24

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/05..._talks_grimm/1

American Mcgee reveals a handful of tidbits about his self-titled, episodic endeavour; American Mcgee's Grimm.

GamingHobo · 30th May 2007, 10:39

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Originally Posted by Bindibadgi

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/05..._talks_grimm/1

American Mcgee reveals a handful of tidbits about his self-titled, episodic endeavour; American Mcgee's Grimm.

Can someone please tell American McGee to shove his shite games. Another member of the former id Software cast off crowd!

DougEdey · 30th May 2007, 11:12

24 episodes is far too many

Krikkit · 30th May 2007, 11:13

It sounds like a good idea, but you need to trim the episodes down to maybe 3, and one idea per episode? That's a joke. It'll be the lamest game ever if you've only got 1 thing to do.

It was such a good idea to resurrect the tales and add a bit of dark humour to them.

DXR_13KE · 30th May 2007, 12:31

kcuf episodic content, especially that amount of episodes.

pendragon · 30th May 2007, 18:10

sounds like fun to me! nothing wrong with episodic games as far as i'm concerned [shrugs]

Aankhen · 31st May 2007, 00:16

Meh, more American McGee idiocy.

Gravemind123 · 31st May 2007, 01:38

Episodic gaming is fine as long as the episodes are reasonably priced(where the episodes add up the price of a few full games depending on the episode length and amount), not too many in number, and come out at a decent rate(I want HL2:EP2 already!). If a company could pull that off episodic gaming could be a good thing.

CardJoe · 31st May 2007, 09:17

QFT Gravemind. Episodic gaming has been done well on a few titles, like the Sam and Max and Bone series. Some genres are suited to it and some aren't. Adventure games have short production times and can provide decent length quite easily so they're the best bet, while FPS's take ages to produce and most players can just breeze through them in 3-4 hours as i'm sure we all did with HL:Ep 1. HL: EP 2 has taken way too long and if Valve continue with epsiodes in their main franchise afgter EP 3 then they'll start losing interest. They need to get Gordon sorted in another long game and possibly continue Portal, or other spin-off games episodically.

Bauul · 31st May 2007, 10:07

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Originally Posted by GamingHobo

Can someone please tell American McGee to shove his shite games. Another member of the former id Software cast off crowd!

Ah that's unfair, American McGee's Alice was a thoroughly enjoyable game. Whilst the gameplay wasn't all that innovative, the truely inspired art and style of the game more than made up for it. And that bit where you meet the doormouse who's had his legs ripped off and a large metal toaster shoved up his arse. Moments like that make games.

But 24 mini games? Oh kill me now that sounds like a truely awful idea. Oh dear American what have you done?

CardJoe · 31st May 2007, 11:04

I just wish he didn't have to make each game an ego trip. Stop trading in on your funny name and we'll all take your games a lot more seriously.

GamingHobo · 31st May 2007, 13:50

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Originally Posted by CardJoe

I just wish he didn't have to make each game an ego trip. Stop trading in on your funny name and we'll all take your games a lot more seriously.

Indeed, I could forgive rubbish games if every one of them didn't have his name in the title.

CardJoe · 31st May 2007, 14:14

The stupid thing is, even if you didn't know him from doom and then you;d know him from Quake and Alice. After Alice he's not done any great games and by attaching his name to every project since then he's directly hurt himself as a franchise. It's like corporate self-abuse.

Spaceraver · 31st May 2007, 22:47

This surely will have Le's Thompson up shouting, ranting and raving about how gaming kills.. Gimme humour noir, and loads of it. Now, who wants to buy an Albatross?

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CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 8,009	QFT Gravemind. Episodic gaming has been done well on a few titles, like the Sam and Max and Bone series. Some genres are suited to it and some aren't. Adventure games have short production times and can provide decent length quite easily so they're the best bet, while FPS's take ages to produce and most players can just breeze through them in 3-4 hours as i'm sure we all did with HL:Ep 1. HL: EP 2 has taken way too long and if Valve continue with epsiodes in their main franchise afgter EP 3 then they'll start losing interest. They need to get Gordon sorted in another long game and possibly continue Portal, or other spin-off games episodically. __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog

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CardJoe Player Character bit-tech Staff Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 8,009	The stupid thing is, even if you didn't know him from doom and then you;d know him from Quake and Alice. After Alice he's not done any great games and by attaching his name to every project since then he's directly hurt himself as a franchise. It's like corporate self-abuse. __________________ this is joe's non-bit-tech blog

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Spaceraver Weekend Junkie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kolding, Denmark Posts: 1,307	This surely will have Le's Thompson up shouting, ranting and raving about how gaming kills.. Gimme humour noir, and loads of it. Now, who wants to buy an Albatross? __________________ "Faith: not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche. "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca Last thing I remember, I was drinking this glowing green sht out of a test tube and dancing like a bstard.