Tom Mustaine Q&A

December 22, 2006 8:33 AM

There is an article format interview with Tom Mustaine on 1UP, asking the former Ritual Entertainment VP about SiN Episodes and episodic content, as well as his upcoming CPL game.

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December 22, 2006 9:00 AM

"...we would have been better off selling it at $35 than $19. At 19 bucks it went straight to the shit bin in many places."

Hrrm that's strange, I still see it in the new releases at the stores around here. I liked it a lot but I don't think I would have paid more for it...

In the article he also makes a comment about people wanting a gravity gun. Is that for real? I didn't miss it at all :|
- jonin
  
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  December 22, 2006 9:04 AM
  
  I didn't miss it either.
- freshyk
  
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  December 22, 2006 9:18 AM
  
  If they had a gravity gun I would have seen it as a "me too" weapon.
  - Fayk
    
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    December 22, 2006 10:54 AM
    
    Sorry, you're trying to make the quality = success argument, so you fail.
    
    Otherwise we'd still be playing Tribes games, Looking Glass would still be around, et cetera.
    - avatar_58
      
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      December 22, 2006 11:06 AM
      
      I agree there, but the game wasn't quality. It just makes me laugh that he can't admit it, even after leaving the company.
  - Fayk
    
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    December 22, 2006 10:55 AM
    
    misreply meant for avatar_58
- avatar_58
  
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  December 22, 2006 9:29 AM
  
  Why don't they just admit the game was stale and uninspired and be done with it. Blaming HL2 fans or the retail stores for a non-existent problem (shit bin? It's in the new area, along with HL2:Ep1) makes him look like a whining baby.
  
  I don't sympathize at all here with him. You made a game no one found all that great and your sales reflected as much. Be honest - if Sin Episodes was a full game about 6-10 hours long would it have been any better? I don't think so, because by the end of Episode 1 I was already bored. Any more and I might not have finished it.
  
  Sorry Mustaine, but you guys failed. Simple as that. Considering how well HL2:EP1 and Sam 'n Max did I wouldn't blame episodic either.
- [deleted] 716648330
  
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  December 22, 2006 11:22 AM
  
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  - mexpak
    
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    December 22, 2006 1:12 PM
    
    I got my copy during one of those Circuit City $7.99 deals, and even at that price I felt the money would've been better spent on a movie, or a taco, or something.
- Serpico74
  
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  December 22, 2006 12:03 PM
  
  If you make the worst FPS in years it will go straight to the shit bin, bottom line. Healthy sense of denial this guy has.
- jccalhoun
  
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  December 23, 2006 8:04 PM
  
  I didn't miss the gravity gun, but I did miss the level of playing around with things that you could do <i>with</i> the gravity gun. It felt like they were artificially limiting what you could do with things. At one point when you are outside at a construction site with tones of crates around I spent half and hour stacking up stuff trying to climb on top of the crates. I was never able to do it and I couldn't figure out any reason except that they designed the game so that you couldn't.
  
  When compared to HL2, it simply wasn't as polished.
  
  If Episode 2 comes out, I'll still think about buying it.