[VG] Producer's Letter

[Ashes Emberblade]

Originally Posted by Perramas

I guess we now know where Brad McQuaalude got his visions from.

lol...

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Glad I clicked on this thread again. That is some messed up shit right there.

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Tec, how much did Sony end up spending on Vanguard ? Any rumors that floated around ?

[Cildar]

Originally Posted by Teclisen

You know, as much as I hate having to carefully craft (AKA, lie through my teeth) an answer to "What was Vanguard's biggest failing?" in job interviews.

Heh. Now you will get to have a whole new set of questions about burned bridges to answer in interviews.

[Tual]

Originally Posted by Bongk

and that brad was a drug addict?

I knew that!

[etchazz]

Originally Posted by Cildar

Heh. Now you will get to have a whole new set of questions about burned bridges to answer in interviews.

he didn't burn the bridge, he fucking nuked it.

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"They haxxored my account! I swears it. I swears it!"

[Ravensign]

Originally Posted by etchazz

he didn't burn the bridge, he fucking nuked it.

That's a true FOH board member. Fuck his career, he is keeping it realz for the FOH secret news.

[Perramas]

double post

[Perramas]

No it was his little brother who posted that from his account.

[Tancred]

That was an uttely brilliant post. Informative, uplifting, depressing and amusing in equal parts. And more than that it has SUBSTANCE.

/sniff its like FoH boards circa 2002 all over again.

We just need Smed or Brad to respond now.

[Horse]

Originally Posted by Teclisen

Oddly enough, the whole situation was probably a bigger let down to the designers than the consumers. I accepted a position thinking I was going to work with a bunch of experts - Masters of their craft - and really learn the ropes of game design. Instead, my fellow design associates and I were unwittingly tasked with trying to fix a failed video game that had literally been canceled twice before any of us were even hired. So in retrospect, despite everything, I guess I'm still pretty proud of vanguard. Every team member should be proud in spite of a truly pitiful and pathetic waste.

On the bright side, at least it was a visible, high-profile failure with lessons to learn and morals to be told right before you close the book.

Take your experience and compare that to a stretch of over a decade or more, where there aren't any amazing catastrophes, just consistent mediocrity.


I'd rather wreck my ferrari than get a flat tire on my taurus.

[Locithon]

Originally Posted by Aphextwin

It has been mentioned a few times before, put out a book and I'll buy it.

A book? Someone could make a PBS documentary about this shit.

[etchazz]

Originally Posted by Horse

On the bright side, at least it was a visible, high-profile failure with lessons to learn and morals to be told right before you close the book.

Take your experience and compare that to a stretch of over a decade or more, where there aren't any amazing catastrophes, just consistent mediocrity.


I'd rather wreck my ferrari than get a flat tire on my taurus.

vanguard should be added to the english language as a verb to describe a complete and utter fuck up. kind of like munson was in kingpin.
"these kids were almost munsoned."

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I took a Vanguard just before work today