Barkley 2 ex-dev discloses horrible management practices, development practically dead - The Promise Is Broken

[Coolio55]

All these years and only a bugged-to-shit demo. Anyone tried it yet?

Yeah. It's good. FUCKING GOOD

 

[Gangster Talk]

All these years and only a bugged-to-shit demo. Anyone tried it yet?

So far, I can't make it past character creation. The first time I went through the wizard gave me a quarter to buy a gumball, he talked about how much he loved gumballs, and then the game froze.

Then I tried again, and one of the alignment questions was "I think repeating internet memes in real life is really cool." I selected "Strongly Agree" and the game blasted some awful noise and said I was dead.

 

[c-no]

All these years and only a bugged-to-shit demo. Anyone tried it yet?

Flickering title screen that doesn't work beyond spazzing out. Rather accurate in being a shit demo.

 

[Coolio55]

So far, I can't make it past character creation. The first time I went through the wizard gave me a quarter to buy a gumball, he talked about how much he loved gumballs, and then the game froze.

Then I tried again, and one of the alignment questions was "I think repeating internet memes in real life is really cool." I selected "Strongly Agree" and the game blasted some awful noise and said I was dead.

I got that lol. Awful noise was a missing sound using a default placeholder. same with paintbrush for the flag.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

Then I tried again, and one of the alignment questions was "I think repeating internet memes in real life is really cool." I selected "Strongly Agree" and the game blasted some awful noise and said I was dead.

While it is probably a glitch given the state of the demo, I want this to be an actual feature if the game were to ever be finished.

 

[Ineedahero]

So far, I can't make it past character creation. The first time I went through the wizard gave me a quarter to buy a gumball, he talked about how much he loved gumballs, and then the game froze.

Then I tried again, and one of the alignment questions was "I think repeating internet memes in real life is really cool." I selected "Strongly Agree" and the game blasted some awful noise and said I was dead.

That’s really weird, I've only actually played the game for half an hour - I keep restarting to see what other ridiculous shit they put in character creation. I've been through it five times so far and I thought I had seen it all, but I haven't seen that question yet or gotten killed during. I have uploaded my palm print to interpol, told my dad to fuck off and learned how capricorns are bad people though. My favourite thing is the character alignment grid and trying to figure out the weird morality of this universe. Finally a game which recognises the moral superiority of the jock.

A couple of tips that the game doesn't explain well or soon enough -

• Hold down right click or space during cutscenes to fast forward (should be an option in every jrpg)
• Q opens the menu, E uses a healing item - and will heal you if you are at full health, so watch you don't touch it accidentally.
• You can get more bullets and healing items from these stations found throughout the game, the same place you breed guns at. The closest one is in the tutorial building.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

One key bit of info I haven’t seen posted in this thread is that the marketing twat who is trying to keep development shambling along actually pulled a swindle and made himself the owner of the LLC and the rights-holder for the IP, so the original game’s devs can’t kick him off the project or overrule him on anything, and that was why most of them ended up quitting,

 

[vertexwindi]

One key bit of info I haven’t seen posted in this thread is that the marketing twat who is trying to keep development shambling along actually pulled a swindle and made himself the owner of the LLC and the rights-holder for the IP, so the original game’s devs can’t kick him off the project or overrule him on anything, and that was why most of them ended up quitting,

I was wondering why they didn't tell him to fuck off. That's pretty shit tbqh