It's like every company that makes a Sonic game ruins it... I hope it's not like a curse or something... Even bioware has failed
Getting some big Sly Cooper vibes from this. Some of these concept art are really weird. I find it hard to believe they were supposed to be for a Sonic game.
Chris Senn commented on his forum when asked about it "I can confirm that as of June this year, I no longer worked for BRB, but I did not willfully choose to leave. I did all that I could, crunching the moment I joined the company, averaging 5am to 7pm daily and was dedicated to the end. I cannot comment more at this time". What the hell happened to this! Sega just got Aliens:colonial marine'd again!!
So "Special Thanks" is now a euphemism for "You got fired"? I'll remember that when I become a boss of a company.
I feel awful for Chris Senn, and any other BRB'ers that got the same treatment. Is there any indication in the credits that they may have farmed it out to another studio, Colonial Marines style? Any names that are associated with another developer other than BRB?
Illfonic, the developers behind the Nexuiz remake, worked on the game. Not sure what they did, but their logo shows up when starting the game at least.
According to someone on SSMB they did the multiplayer-specific level parts. You know, that we saw on that Japanese trailer, I think, the party games and all.
PencilTest Studios is also credited, though based on their website, it was purely for animation and not actual development. Maybe tonight after work I'll go through some of the names in the credits and see what companies they're affiliated with, just in case there are any other devs besides Illfonic and Sanzaru involved. I honestly doubt Sega got Colonial'd again. I think it just boils down to the decision to keep CryEngine3 when they moved to WiiU, and when BRB realized that the game was going to be a wreck and likely wasn't going to come out of this well financially, they started pushing people out of the plane to lighten the load for the inevitable crash.
According to TSSZ, this game went gold in July. If that's true, then there is no way in hell this was an Aliens: Colonial Marines situation. Part of why that game turned out so damn bad is because of time limitations. Sounds like as far as BRB was concerned, the game was "finished" four months before it released. Much of that time could've been spent making the game not a buggy piece of shit before its launch. It's so ridiculous the game turned out the way it did. I wonder what the hell happened. On a different note, in the past, it's usually been discouraged to even mention TSSZ, but judging from some recent pages in this thread, I'm guessing the Sonic Retro staff is more lenient about mentioning stuff from it now? SSF1991 pretty much runs the site now and has done a lot to try to repair the site's reputation, so I figured it's worth asking what's Sonic Retro's current stance on anything related to that site. Edit- Regarding the concept art, bad ideas come out of concept art all the time. Just a lot of developers might be more restraint on showing off some of the more questionable concept art. The owl design for Lyric is a lot better though. They should've went with that.
I think it ultimately lies on Sacred Sun and what she decides on how TSSZ will be let back into this site, Don't think any of the staff has any say on that issue. but yes since Tristian's departure from the front page TSSZ has been more reputable at least now we can talk about them as a source now. Spinksy, can we have a source on that?
Of course you say that when Tristan returned to doing TSSZ stuff. :v: Anyway, the report about lots of people leaving in July is true. It's not like a secret source told TSSZ that, he's getting all that info from Twitter. The game supposedly going gold in the summer is Tristan talking out of his ass though.
He has? guess I didn't notice, but he did say he was going to post every once in a while. did something change that I'm not aware of? I know SSF1991 is still apart of the staff. July seems right even if theirs no official word, the game's final release date and boxart were released at that time.
Chris Senns forum page Doing this on my iPhone so hopefully link works ok, Chris Senn is named 'kurisu'
Looking through the concept art, this picture looks like it came straight from the game Portal 2 (except worse graphics)
