Who says that videogame developers are supposed to be non-responsive robots? After all, they are only human, and whenever they pour all of their efforts into a project to only have some unknowledgeable gamer downplay it, it is inevitable they will take steps to defend their latest works.
That is exactly what happened to one unsuspecting fan of Killzone 2. Over on the forums of the US official PlayStation website, fans were given the chance to learn as much as they can about the upcoming Killzone 2 title in an “Ask a Dev” thread.
While everything seemed to be progressing smoothly enough, a “heckler” stopped by and, instead of asking a question, the user decided to add steam to the situation by labeling Killzone 2 as a failure among other nasty comments. However, the dev team did not let that go without their final word, which is exactly what happened with this long but coherent comment:
“Honestly. I’ve started writing this reply three times, switching from angry flaming of the kind of mentality that draws people to wasting their lives making posts like the above, through into a factual listing of the many inaccuracies in your post (almost every word is, in fact, objectively incorrect). I’ve no idea what makes gamers turn so frigging nasty when Devs don’t cater to their every whim and I’m not going to start guessing now – if you want to go be excited about Eight Days then be my guest. You’re not commiting apostacy, nobody’s going to want to tear you to pieces for it. You’re really not going to hurt my feelings.
But really – how you can turn ‘looks better than any other PS3 game in development (even Killzone 2!)’ into Killzone 2 being a failure beggars belief. Is there only allowed to be one good game at once? When it is news that a game looks better than Killzone 2, I’d say that suggests that Killzone 2 looks pretty damn good.
The E3 2005 trailer was NOT false. One confused Sony rep claimed it was a movie from the game engine – one guy blizted out of his mind on fatigue, jetlag and the madness that is E3. One guy not at all affiliated with Guerrilla Games – probably with a head full of 30 different titles. Everyone else named the E3 2005 video for what it was – a target render of what we thought would be possible on the PS3. Something we would be aiming for.
Then, during E3 2007, in front of the majority of the gaming journalist press we released a trailer of Pre-Alpha code running and demonstrated a PLAYABLE Killzone 2 that stunned the industry. If you know me at all from watching me answer questions you know that I’m not prone to hyperbole in the slightest. The quotes coming from those sessions included ‘jaw dropping’, ‘amazing’, ‘stunning’ and ‘a complete vindication’.
Notwithstanding that, you decide that the E3 2007 sessions failed – a completely reversed opinion from just about everyone who saw it running or played it. What you say ‘everybody’ knows is something that almost nobody believes.
The truth is that NOBODY is releasing the definitive game of the PS3 only 3 years into it’s lifespan. And no sane person would even try to release ‘the definitive game’ – because who knows what will make the definitive game definitive? The only shame here are whatever feelings made you decide to come in and post things that even you must know are untrue, simply in an attempt to score points and / or upset people.”
The only thing that can be said is that the longer the wait for a game, the higher the expectations grow. So hopefully Killzone 2 will be the game that we are all expecting it to be and nothing less.