Could we be WRONG about Denis Dyack?

[Damian79]

  I feel sorry for him.  Seems like he over paid people and that is where his issue comes from.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

No.

[Human Snorenado]

No.

[MCD]

Invite him here and find out.

[Damian79]

He cheated or tried to cheat everyone he took money from.

Who says this?  He said he didnt and that the companies paying him to make his games would know too because of the software he used to during making those games.

[MCD]

Don't forget the two bitches.jpg

[Damian79]

I see.  I am just too gullible. 

[mjemirzian]

He hasn't ever made a game I've wanted to play.

[demi]

I dont think many people make games you would want to play, MJ. lol

[Flannel Boy]

I for one find his argument that he respected his artists and employees compelling. He paid employees in a high-paying industry $25k more than what the average person makes in St. Catharines!

[Flannel Boy]

We at the Offices of Saul Goodman & Associates pay our associate attorneys $30k more than the salary of a sweatshop worker in Bangladesh!

[Great Rumbler]

We at the Offices of Saul Goodman & Associates pay our associate attorneys $30k more than the salary of a sweatshop worker in Bangladesh!

"AND we actually allow them to go home at night!"

[Momo]

No.

[Flannel Boy]

We at the Offices of Saul Goodman & Associates pay our associate attorneys $30k more than the salary of a sweatshop worker in Bangladesh!

"AND we actually allow them to go home at night!"

"Unless Mr. White needs something done--something 100% legal and completely ethical."

[Phoenix Dark]

Based on that video I'm now convinced Dennis cannot read.

[Don Flamenco]

i invited him guys

[Phoenix Dark]

Regardless of whether this is true or not, this kickstarter game won't be made; it's on schedule to fail spectacularly.

[chronovore]

Also, going online in a 30-minute-plus, point-for-point response to forum posts and Kotaku dreck, that's just not a reasonable business practice.

But there's no reason to expect Dyack to start acting like a reasonable businessperson at this point. Silicon Knights had its last major hit on Gamecube with Eternal Darkness, or maybe MGS: Twin Snakes. That's a long time ago, and time since has been filled with many accusations and finger-pointing. This guy took a bunch of canuck tax money, and used it in a business which stole code from Epic after suing them for that same code being deficient.

There's two sides to every story, but it'd be a cold day in Hel (Norse mythology joke!) before I signed any contract with him.

[Sho Nuff]

Also, going online in a 30-minute-plus, point-for-point response to forum posts and Kotaku dreck, that's just not a reasonable business practice.

This is very much what a crazy person does

[chronovore]

Yeah, it's also strange that he starts off by saying it's what his boss wants him to do.

I think, somehow, this is not the case.

Also, did you know Dyack's degree is in Physical Education?

[StealthFan]

He looks like a gym teacher. Not the ex-athlete kind. The other kind.

[tiesto]

LOL, yeah I've driven past St. Catherines plenty of time en route to Toronto but there really isn't much to do there. I guess you can hang out in Buffalo or Niagara Falls if you are that hard up for stuff to do

[Great Rumbler]

"The press is making me out to be some kind of mastermind, which believe me, I'm not. I could barely work our shredder!"

[Rufus]

There's no way in hell I'm going to watch this, but the fact that it exists and is more than 30 minutes long... Yeah. "Against."

[mjemirzian]

I dont think many people make games you would want to play, MJ. lol

Not exactly sure what ya mean by that but I do like different genres other than strategy games. I liked God of War.. that's mainstream right?

[Flannel Boy]

LOL, yeah I've driven past St. Catherines plenty of time en route to Toronto

You're almost as bad as Cajole.

[demi]

I dont think many people make games you would want to play, MJ. lol

Not exactly sure what ya mean by that but I do like different genres other than strategy games. I liked God of War.. that's mainstream right?

You are very specific in what you want.

[mjemirzian]

You are very specific in what you want.

That's kind of relative. In a general sense I just like fast paced skill based games. I don't think that's too specific.. I think my tastes might be wider than you give credit for.

Anyway, this video was probably a bad idea overall. Maybe he should have just written a blog post and kept it much shorter. Pass the haterade lol.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I see.  I am just too gullible. 

Well, your thread brings up something that I'm having troubles reconciling:  Why are so many people so easily forgiving of Denis Dyack?

It isn't limited to here, I see it at other places.  Let's assume that Eternal Darkness and Twin Snakes are good games (a big stretch).  That means it has been over nine years since they've released a good game.  In that time they released: a mediocre game (Too Human), a piece of shit (X-Men Destiny), and a game so shit it had to be cancelled by the likes of Sega (The Box/The Ritualyst).  Then on top of that, there's the damning Kotaku article and his forum antics indicate high levels of dumbfuckery.  Then the lawsuit where the judge ruled against them with pretty draconian terms.  Then the terms of the crowdfunding page they have where they don't even have to bother hitting the goal: they'll just take your money anyway.

And yet there are still a good number of people who think that all should be forgiven for this game, in spite of the fact that many of the key people in the original Eternal Darkness left Silicon Knights a long time ago.  It really baffles me as to why people are like "Maybe this time! "  What the hell would even give people that kind of thought?  Seems to me that you'd have to wait for a good game or two to come out before you could consider him redeemed.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

well at least Dyack hasn't done anything stupid today like submit an unfinished game to Steam Greenlight

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=58256714&postcount=94

oops

[Steve Contra]

 

[Verdigris Murder]

I see.  I am just too gullible. 

Well, your thread brings up something that I'm having troubles reconciling:  Why are so many people so easily forgiving of Denis Dyack?

I think it's partly because he has a feminine sounding name, and that instils an urge to protect from some men.

[Don Flamenco]

well at least Dyack hasn't done anything stupid today like submit an unfinished game to Steam Greenlight

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=58256714&postcount=94

oops

 

what next, he gets in a twitter fight with a disabled child?

[Phoenix Dark]

So where does he go after this? It's clear the game won't be funded unless some major developer swoops in and saves its ass (unlikely). Why would anyone hire him, given how much of a social media pariah he becomes.

[brob]

Back in the day he got in a GAF fight with kittonwy

I think that counts

I started that thread. I have made history. someone call my mother.

[Flannel Boy]

I could just go to my bedroom and inform her personally.

[Boogie]

I for one find his argument that he respected his artists and employees compelling. He paid employees in a high-paying industry $25k more than what the average person makes in St. Catharines!

Soo, $27k, then.

[Boogie]

LOL, yeah I've driven past St. Catherines plenty of time en route to Toronto

and never once hit me up for a hangout.  This is some shameful shit right here.