Yes. These guys said one thing and did another with both this and their Grant Kirkhope stretch goal and people need to stop making excuses for them.
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A Hat In Time releases October 7 on PC, Xbone, and PS4
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Yes. These guys said one thing and did another with both this and their Grant Kirkhope stretch goal and people need to stop making excuses for them.
tiebreaker
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Retail release? Are the mods also available on consoles?
Again, a Wii U version was never assured. If your interpretation of "We are talking with a publisher to help making a Wii U version but are not able to promise anything" was "We have partnered with a publisher and are actively developing a Wii U version", well, that's entirely on you. Gears was very upfront about it being nothing more than a possibility.
Gears for Breakfast courted every Nintendo fan site in the Internet for publicity when the Kickstarter campaign was active and discussed a Wii U port at length. When it closed they said the UE3 licence would be too expensive, citing a figure that grossly exaggerated what Epic would charge them. After that they said Nintendo's Dan Adelman wasn't returning their calls, and Adelman told me himself in an email that same evening that he was at that point in touch with them.
So no, the devs have not been "up front" about anything, they tried to have their cake (big Kickstarter payday) and eat it too (not bothering to make a port) and people like you feel the need to stand up for them. Tell me, when they asked for a pile of money and said Grant Kirkhope would compose eight songs for the soundtrack, then a year later (once the money cleared) said he would only make three, was that an error in my "interpretation" as well?
The question you responded "Yes" to asked if a Wii U version was said to be happening only to later be shelved. That's not the case, which, to be perfectly frank, is quite clearly all I was saying. Gears' commitment to the pursuit of a Wii U version may have been half-hearted, in which case Wii U owners have every reason to feel slighted, but that doesn't mean it made a promise it had no intention of keeping or even oversold the likelihood when it said it can't promise anything and asked people to keep their fingers crossed.
Also, I'm not some irrational fanboy, as you seem to implying with your "people like [me]" barb. I've not played much of the beta, have been very critical of how it's been handled to the point that I've advised against paying the premium for it and indeed regret doing so myself, and, at this juncture, have little intention of giving the full release the time of day. I mean, I think the game looks very promising, however I'm just not as interested in it as I once was.
I didn't comment on the Kirkhope situation as I'm not even remotely familiar with it.
Auto-Reply
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VR mod plox!
IIRC Kirkhope seemed really steamed about this at his MAGFest talk two years ago; deliberately sidestepped going into details, though. I wonder what happened there; first instinct is a money issue, but he literally does obscure mobile games these days that couldn't have paid him very much, lol.
Davey Cakes
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ZeroGravity
Member
Not getting my hopes up after Yooka-Laylee but it'd be nice if this one turned out decent.
Godzilla's Left Toe
Member
They didn't have a Switch dev kit until recently and it seems like they have no plans at this time to port it over.
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sq67pj
Console versions will be released "this fall" according to their twitter.
https://twitter.com/HatInTime/with_replies
https://twitter.com/HatInTime/with_replies
Godzilla's Left Toe
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Johntron at 6:28 in the gamexplain video.
Welp. Skipping this.
Chezzymann
Member
The game looks nice but does anyone else think the platforming itself looks... bad? It looks too slow and floaty. Not near as responsive as Mario games. That type of stuff is critical for me in platformers. Maybe I just need to see more intense platforming segments. It seems like 70% of the game is just jumping on boxes and talking to people
Oh for fuck's sake.
This was gonna be the first game I backed on kickstarter that I actually was gonna play on launch day. But my jimmies are pretty rustled about jontron being in the game.
Yooka-Laylee dropped him, it's not unreasonable to expect the same here.
Gears for Breakfast are making themselves look super suspect.
Keeping Jontron in is gonna give it free publicity just because of the way Playtonic handled announcing his removal.
If playtonic said nothing then some people wouldnt even know Jon was in the game until they already bought it and played 4 worlds of it. (I think hes in world 4 i forgot)
If playtonic said nothing then some people wouldnt even know Jon was in the game until they already bought it and played 4 worlds of it. (I think hes in world 4 i forgot)
Not good publicity though.
It works both ways.
Even if like Kotaku does an article on it it wont matter cause that will just make people wanna buy the game even more.
family_guy
Member
Guess I'll have to pass then. It's like not going to a good movie directed by Mel Gibson.
CannonFodder52
Member
I feel awful expecting a developer to tank the negative publicity by removing him, but it's pretty annoying seeing one dev step up and remove him and another dance around it.
Anyways, hope their game is good for all those that backed.
Anyways, hope their game is good for all those that backed.
Dylan Sexbang
Banned
Im no fan of Jon, but im still gonna pick this up
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probably on sale
Adam_Roman
Member
I'm gonna play it day one despite Jon. I backed it on Kickstarter so I've been waiting for this game for some time now. I'm not gonna let a bigot get in the way of me enjoying it.
SilverArrow20XX
Walks in the Light of the Crystal
Kind of relieved the console version is delayed honestly. October is too busy already.
Jawbreaker
Member
Can't believe this is almost out. Looking forward to it.
CharminUltra
Member
Jon still in this? Bummer if so.
Jawbreaker
Member
Unfortunately. Maybe someone will mod his voice out on PC.
TDLink
Member
Can people stop it with the Jon Tron shit? It's not like he had a hand in developing the game. He's a cameo voice over that 99% of the population wouldn't even notice unless it was pointed out to them and explained. I didn't even know who Jon Tron was before everyone started bitching about this game.
I backed the game and it looks like it turned out great. I'm glad it's finally out. These guys have been working hard on it for a long time. I'm not going to let some YouTuber (who I guess said some racist shit?) with a voice cameo ruin that for me.
I backed the game and it looks like it turned out great. I'm glad it's finally out. These guys have been working hard on it for a long time. I'm not going to let some YouTuber (who I guess said some racist shit?) with a voice cameo ruin that for me.
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Then you obviously have a bias towards this game, as far as im aware Jon receives no sales cuts or benefits so yeah it is alittle silly to not buy the game just because of one NPC. However people can do what they want and retract their money for whatever reason they have, people have boycotted for less, some for more in the end Im not going to judge someones reasoning.
Then again...white supremacy is a genocidal killer.
TDLink
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The problem is it infects any discussion about this game. Look at this topic. Like half of it is just bitching about JonTron's Cameo rather than anything else regarding the game. People are coming in here just to post and complain about JonTron. Like, we get it. But some people want to actually play the game too.