New Warren Spector Interview

[Slowtrain]

For me the moment came when I slaughtered every WTO guard and civilian at the WTO Air Terminal. Not only were there absolutely 0 consequences from this at any point in the game, but the WTO chief still gave the same standard recruitment speech on the holoterminal making no memntion of the fact that I had just completely depopulated her entire air terminal right in front of all the cameras and sensors.

 

As I walked around the empty air terminal completing my objectives with ease because everyone was dead and realizing the no one cared, I decided the whole thing was completely assinine and that Harvey Smith was either a total genius snake-oil salesman or an utter cretin.

[Diogo Ribeiro]

As I walked around the empty air terminal completing my objectives with ease because everyone was dead and realizing the no one cared, I decided the whole thing was completely assinine and that Harvey Smith was either a total genius snake-oil salesman or that game "journalists" who couldn't spot this a mile away in their reviews were (...) utter cretin(s).

 

Fixed.

[Jaesun]

I can't read anything even remotely resembling Deus Ex without getting this gigantic urge to replay that damn game again.

 

http://www.offtopicproductions.com/hdtp/

 

"Project HDTP is a High Definition Texture Package for the original Deus Ex game."

 

[Shryke]

I can't read anything even remotely resembling Deus Ex without getting this gigantic urge to replay that damn game again.

 

http://www.offtopicproductions.com/hdtp/

 

"Project HDTP is a High Definition Texture Package for the original Deus Ex game."

 

 

ooooh

[Aegeri]

The ammo crap wasn't a big deal at all. The big deal was that actions that were supposed to have consequences didn't.

 

Also, Spector did not design DX2. Harvey Smith was the Project Director; it was his game vision from start to finish. Spector has stated that he did not interfere in game design decisions at all. SMith had a free hand.

 

Yeah, sure. I would say the same thing to if I was involved with one of the most dramatic failures in gaming history. Considering how much he defended the game after release, such as the "PC gamers didn't get it" comment, I find this remarkably hard to believe quite frankly.

 

For me the moment came when I slaughtered every WTO guard and civilian at the WTO Air Terminal. Not only were there absolutely 0 consequences from this at any point in the game, but the WTO chief still gave the same standard recruitment speech on the holoterminal making no memntion of the fact that I had just completely depopulated her entire air terminal right in front of all the cameras and sensors.

 

You can just massacre everyone in the game, regardless of who they are or who they work for without anyone getting upset beyond a chastising. It's completely devoid of actual consequences for being a homicidal maniac.

Edited March 10, 2007 by Aegeri

[Hell Kitty]

Yeah, sure. I would say the same thing to if I was involved with one of the most dramatic failures in gaming history. Considering how much he defended the game after release, such as the "PC gamers didn't get it" comment, I find this remarkably hard to believe quite frankly.

 

It was known to be Harvey Smith's game during development, in fact I remember a dev on ttlg pointing this out, and not in a "it's all his fault" way, rather "give credit where it's due".

 

Also, while DX:IW was a disappointment, to call it "one of the most dramatic failures in gaming history" is completely over the top and ridiculous.

[Aegeri]

Yeah, sure. I would say the same thing to if I was involved with one of the most dramatic failures in gaming history. Considering how much he defended the game after release, such as the "PC gamers didn't get it" comment, I find this remarkably hard to believe quite frankly.

 

It was known to be Harvey Smith's game during development, in fact I remember a dev on ttlg pointing this out, and not in a "it's all his fault" way, rather "give credit where it's due".

 

Also, while DX:IW was a disappointment, to call it "one of the most dramatic failures in gaming history" is completely over the top and ridiculous.

 

How so? It basically ensured the end of Ion Storm, it sold dismally and is the poster child in ANY discussion about how a console port can negatively impact a PC gaming franchise. I think this more than qualifies it as a 'failure', especially considering the critical AND gaming publics approval that the first game derived. To drop the ball so dramatically is an impressive feat for anyone.

[Slowtrain]

@Aegeri: Spector's title at the time was Studio Director, so ultimately he was still responsible for the success or failure of the game. I don't think it was any surprise that he defended the game since he had to basically green light everything Smith did. SMith was also someone who had worked with Spector for years on Deus Ex, so its also no surprise the Spector defended SMith and his game since I am sure Spector felt a lot of loyalty to Smith.

 

However, Spector has stated time and time again that while he supported SMith's choices even when he did not completely agree with them, he did not ever tell SMith how to implement the game or its content.

 

And I agree with Hell Kitty that it was not such an awful game. Once I got over the pretty extreme disapointment of my intitial experiences with IW, I had a reasonable amount of fun with it.

 

IW was the game that basically was a lesson for me that I should never believe any hype or have any expectations for a game, because regardless of what anyone says, you'll never know the truth of a game until it is released and people start to play it for real.

[Shryke]

if i hadn't played the first one, IW may have seemed alright (although still rather annoying and obviously designed for consoles)

 

but after playing the first one (many, many times at that) it was really rather disappointing