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All Aspect Warfare - Is this worth a shit?
Machismo
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So I saw a game on Steam:
All Aspect Warfare
I can't find a single review on this thing. I THINK it is made by 3000AD and, consequently, 'Dr.' Derek Smart, also known to be at the heart of the greatest flame war that ever graced Usenet. The King of Internet-Trolldom. That is, if he wasn't serious.
Anyway, it looks interesting. Huge space and land to explore in some Freespace-sounding style of play.
Steam link:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/36910/
Official:
http://www.3000ad.com/aaw/
Description:
Open world. You can build shit. Land and space combat. Apparently you can fly vehicles in space, land on a planet and build a base there, all in first person. Sounds cool.
Anyone try the demo? I didn't see it when I spotted it last night.
BTW, not sure if this thing is worth making anything more than a shitty op.
All Aspect Warfare
I can't find a single review on this thing. I THINK it is made by 3000AD and, consequently, 'Dr.' Derek Smart, also known to be at the heart of the greatest flame war that ever graced Usenet. The King of Internet-Trolldom. That is, if he wasn't serious.
Anyway, it looks interesting. Huge space and land to explore in some Freespace-sounding style of play.
Steam link:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/36910/
Official:
http://www.3000ad.com/aaw/
Description:
Open world. You can build shit. Land and space combat. Apparently you can fly vehicles in space, land on a planet and build a base there, all in first person. Sounds cool.
Anyone try the demo? I didn't see it when I spotted it last night.
BTW, not sure if this thing is worth making anything more than a shitty op.
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LewieP, just check out Derek Smart on wikipedia.
If you decry his games, he will descend from on high with a fiery vengeance. Basically, he has repeatedly acted like a dick, although in recent time he has been silent.
Sadly, his game design skills have not improved.
nooooooooo WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
There are also a few minor problems with the game and he just informs everyone (When it's posted on the forums.)'I know of it and it's not going to be fixed for awhile.' and he keeps switching back and forth on the possiblity of DLC. Things like 'More terrian features like fish underwater.' that he expects people to pay for. The game is ugly enough, and I'm not going to be paying a developer to make it shiny. It's also $40 on steam.
Reading him defend his game will be fun though.
People who make their buying decisions based on someone else's personal opinions are patently foolish. This has been proven to be the case time and time again. How many games got glowing reviews, but were rubbish? How many games got less than stellar reviews but turned out to be gems?
Thats what demos were made for. Reviews (books, tv, movies, games, whatever) are based on someone's personal opinions and not meant to be any sort of endorsement whatsoever. Any gamer - who still has his gamer card - knows this. A well written review gives you more ammo to make up your own mind.
Nice try. Do try not to derail this thread again because quite frankly we can do without the hassles of deleting your caustic posts/threads and which have proven to serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever - dispite the posting rules being pointed out to you time and time again. I know its hard, but try, 'mkay? Please?[/quote]
Derek Smart
Derek Smart!
You should sleep with one eye open tonight
I uninstalled it shortly after, because it didn't have collision detection until I hit some random building. Granted, it was a beta... but still... It was a beta without collision detection for the most part.
Graphics didn't really appeal to me either, but it could just be that it's not my type of game.
Edit: I should not multitask when posting.
The funniest part about those quotes is that the thread's title is "Game Reviews" and the original post has links to reviews of the game.
huh.
Man I don't know, that sounds pretty awesome. It would be even cooler if it was a persistent MMO world and you had different factions that are responsible for creating their own infrastructure and determining their own objectives.
If only someone could turn that idea into reality and then put it on Steam so I could download it, then release like seven free expansions or something I dunno.
I played the demo and just casually pressing some of the buttons on my joystick made the game crash to desktop.
Yeah i wish somone would make that game one day. If only.
So when you drive that jeep into a wall and get flung back through the air like a pinball, it's not a bug. That's Derek's vision! There are no bugs in this game!
Dude, all of Derek Smart's base ideas are really cool.
But every single piece of the execution is pure shit. His games are awful buggy complicated impossible to understand messes.
RPS has a real love-affair with the dude for some truly unfathomable reason. Even though whenever the comments inevitably turn sour they need to delete most of his posts for trolling alongside the rest of them.
I mean, when the article about his game demo came up, one of the first people to try it came back saying it crashed. Instead of talking it through to find out the problem, Smart basically called the guy an idiot and said it was his own fault. The game couldn't have crashed for any reason to do with them because they'd tested it thoroughly and had no more bug reports left in their database.
EDIT: Ah yes, here we go. I can't find his original response to the guy, because, surprise, RPS had to edit it and replace it with the following:
Later on however, we get this little gem:
Then of course there's:
Yes he truly is claiming that his games come perfect and completely bug free. "Those are the facts". Grief.
Can anyone help me out with that particular nugget of information from Mr. Smart?
well you see, the thread counts on this game
exponential
but this game doesn't run on apples, so no cores
you see? genius
I see, thank you.
You'd think from reading and constantly deleting his comments they'd realise he's actually just a giant egotistical nutjob. o_O
Other developers are very passionate about their work and their games. Most don't go around calling their customers idiots just because they say your product crashed, and it couldn't have crashed because that's impossible your product was perfectly made.
hoooooly pooooop, on the one hand yea, some people are just antagonistic towards him, on the other, there is little excuse for treating customers that way (also, having a Ph.D means a genuine contribution to human knowledge, I dislike the idea of someone going around toting one when they in all likelihood do not have it)
So was John Wayne Gacy, and yet I can't figure out who is more batshit insane.
Peter Molyneux, for all his faults, is infinitely superior to D. Smart in all possible ways. That doesn't amount to much, of course. It's like saying that something smells better than poop that was actually vomit eaten by a diseased goat before turning into poop.
A shame the film Zoolander hadn't been created during the height of it
"What have you done, Derek? Nothing! You've done nothing!"
My mind is blown.
It's not just money and manpower. His attitude is an insurmountable obstacle. You can't ever make a good game if you make a buggy piece of shit like that last one and then proceed to declare it's a perfect jewel.
Absolutely, I meant he has all of Peter Molyneux's flaws, only worse, and none of his (obvious) redeeming qualities.