Revelations 2012 - A Dark Artz Disaster

[srredfire]

I really want to thank Joe for giving me a key for this wonderful game. It will provide endless hours of entertainment and will surely win numerous game of the year awards.

[Ark11]

I really want to thank Joe for giving me a key for this wonderful game. It will provide endless hours of entertainment and will surely win numerous game of the year awards.

I cannot describe in words how jealous I am of you.

[theCommie]

So, how the fuck does Steam accept this shovelware? There's gotta be some loophole; like, as long as the game in question has a video that the lazy decision committee can play in the background and listen if there are sound effects and moving pictures, it's in.

[Armageddon]

I'm fairly sure steam accepts almost any game that has a review quote and trailer.

This is going to sell for two days straight simply because some big reviewer somewhere is going to say that it's so bad it's good. And because Source.

[Ark11]

Yeah, some games sell well just because of how bad they are. Man Vs. Wild the game and Bigs Rigs Over the Road Racing are perfect examples of this.

[Saxon]

I thought I'd seen bad mapping. Apparently not.

How can this be on sale? Judging from the screenshots all they must have done is work the Alien Swarm code into first person.

[srredfire]

I thought I'd seen bad mapping. Apparently not.

How can this be on sale? Judging from the screenshots all they must have done is work the Alien Swarm code into first person.

It's just L4D2 reskinned.

[Major Banter]

I know we can be extremely elitist at lopers but Christ almighty.

If the apocalypse is going to look this awful, I'd jump in front of a bus tomorrow.

[Saxon]

I know we can be extremely elitist at lopers but Christ almighty.

If the apocalypse is going to look this awful, I'd to jump jump in front of a bus tomorrow.

Elitism is one thing, this "game" just looks awful. It looks like a bad mod which most people would pass by, the bone of contention is that the developers are making money from such bad work.

I can think of plenty of mods which deserved to go retail, but A2012 feels like a kick in the balls to people who actually put effort into their work.

[source-maps]

so it invited ANYONE on your friends list? that's why I got an invite from ad_hominem the other day ^^

but yeah.. I used to be an avid l4d2 player.. and this seriously is a complete shitty rip off XD
I mean.. I think they used the character rigs.. that phat ass picture schoft took was definitely rochelles rig
and the enemies use the common infected rig with the same animations for attacking you etc

I feel like Valve shouldn't allow these sorts of games to be on steam or even go retail on their engine

[srredfire]

I'm trying to play it but it keeps crashing for me. I was speaking to Ad and he said gameplay wise it isn't BAD because it's just L4D2, but graphically wise it's a mess.

Also I'm pretty sure if you have the cash, they'll sell you the engine. They aren't going to turn down money. Besides, they make a profit regardless, it's the developer which is going to lose money for buying the license and releasing a game that won't sell.

[LesterMDK]

I just kinda feel sorry for these guys you know? I don't think they knew what they were getting into.

[kkirspel]

Ok, a bit of an update. I bothered to look a little deeper and the team is mainly a family business, all of them had previous jobs in completely unrelated fields, apart from Doug Hoogland, who is apparently TopHatWaffle?! (0_o)

wtf...... Tophat really? he's pretty good mapper, I go to his site for tuts every now and then.
How did he get himself into this...?

[Jordash]

I wonder if there is some clause about buying then engine and getting the game on steam, I can't image someone spending all that money for the engine then being turned down after they've finished, but the blatant ripped L4D content and friend list spamming surely violates some agreement within the engine license.

[Hollow]

Yeah that's why I was pretty surprised. He is indeed a good mapper, and provides a decent resource of tutorials to the community...unless, and its very unlikely, but they happen to share the same name. Who knows.