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  • Oh good, Fez II cancelled. :^)

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #161201  by Eric
 Sat Jul 27, 2013 5:14 pm
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After that awful first game, who'd want a sequel anyway?! I kid. :>


Anyway, Phil Fish, the guy who made Fez is kind of a douchebag, one of the guys @ Gametrailers, Marcus Beer, called him out for his attitude toward the press, Phil told Marcus to kill himself, raged on twitter, then rage-quit and said he's canceling Fez 2, then Polytron announced on twitter that "It's with a heavy heart that we announce that FEZ II has been cancelled and is no longer in development. We apologize for the disappointment". So there you have it.


Normally when people bitch at developers over things, it's along the lines of "Argh, ME3 ending was bad, I hate you" or "Argh, you nerfed x y & z in the game and I hate you cause I loved abusing it", or the basic developer vision for the game didn't align perfectly with the fans. Phil had a successful game in Fez that most people loved/liked, but his personality, attitude and hateful chatter towards everything/everyone became a lightning rod for negative attention. He basically brought it on himself, then acted like the world hated him, and as a result we get the rage quit on Fez II, so long Phil, seek help.
 #161203  by Flip
 Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:06 pm
I watched this little documentary a while ago and it shows how douchey P. Fish is. At the same time, it shows the struggles he had to make that terrible game. All in all, hes an ass, but you can sympathize with him a little, and the movie is worth a watch.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/
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 #161204  by Eric
 Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:28 pm
Apparently he's bi-polar, that's explains a lot since we had to deal with someone who had similar blow-ups on this board. x_x

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 #161205  by kali o.
 Sat Jul 27, 2013 6:58 pm
The guy has a photo of Kaufmann in his profile...should I not read into that?

If I was creating my own game, I'd totally tell my fans to suck it and blow up too, just for the lulz (and lets face it, videogame fans deserve to be trolled). But maybe he really is a crazy a douchebag...dunno.
 #161208  by Shrinweck
 Sat Jul 27, 2013 7:51 pm
Oh, no, I don't disagree - he's unlikeable, mental issues or not unlikeable people are just simply that.

Fez is cool because someone else coded it and put the cool shit together. Fish is just the face of the operation from what I understand because he's so damned vocal. I don't think it deserves a sequel. The same way Bastion and Braid should just end, so should this.

Games that revolve around mechanics that deserve further fleshing out include Portal and.... Hm.
 #161212  by SineSwiper
 Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:24 pm
What Shrinweck said. It's a shame that he's a bit of a dick, but that's shouldn't factor into how cool Fez is.
 #161217  by SineSwiper
 Sun Jul 28, 2013 4:55 pm
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 #161218  by Don
 Sun Jul 28, 2013 5:18 pm
It's true that most of your fans are morons but a developer also have to know when he's wrong and come back crawling to say he's sorry too. The opposite of dumb isn't smart. Just because everyone hated your game doesn't mean it's actually good.
 #161219  by Zeus
 Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:37 pm
SineSwiper wrote:Image
No, my name isn't Phil Fish. Just wanted to make sure there was no confusion over this :-)
 #161220  by SineSwiper
 Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:40 pm
Zeus wrote:
No, my name isn't Phil Fish. Just wanted to make sure there was no confusion over this :-)
Not even you are that cocky.