There are lots of great devs out there who makes lots of great stuff and never say a word. Its just that people tend to focus on the outrageous personalities.
Me personally I don't care. There are a few devs who I kinda support simply because I like them and have long standing attachments to them like Jeff Minter.
For the devs that sort of annoy me, I tend to focus on whether I like the game or not. How I "feel" about them doesn't really come into whether I'm going to buy their game. I don't need to like someone to enjoy their work. Sames goes for movies, books, or any entertainment product.
As far as the actual game, I'm about halfway through I would guess. Definitely I like the game. I don't think its 10 out of 10 material like Eurogamer and places like that are proclaiming unless it gets amazingly better in the second half. That being said I've enjoyed what I've played so far. There is a problem with game reviewers where they feel they have to over-score anything that is a bit original or different because they already overscore the mainstream stuff so much. I felt the way about Bastion which got wildly praised for what I thought was a good game but not an amazing one. Of course all this stuff is obviously subjective. Once I beat it, I'll kinda give my full breakdown of it.
