Majestic Studios blatantly steals assets from Oblivion, Diablo 2, Silent Hill, ...

[Asher]

http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/LimboOfTheLost/LotL.shtm

The only review I've found for the game gave it 80%.

Apparently it comes with a DVD on the game development. That should be interesting...

Majestic Studios decided to wander off the beaten “install game, watch intro, start playing” path and put the intro of the game on an extra DVD disk for you to watch separately, wherever you wish – and if you have a nice 50’’ TV/DVD rig, you will certainly be thanking them for that. Along with the intro, the bonus DVD includes scads of extras like artwork, screenshots, insights into the game’s development, etc.: a brilliant and highly original move that has to be praised and hopefully followed. This applies to the G2 Games UK release of the game and I sure hope other publishers that release the game in other areas of the world will follow suit.

[Kuciwalker]

Along with the intro, the bonus DVD includes scads of extras like artwork, screenshots, insights into the game’s development, etc.: a brilliant and highly original move

This is sarcasm, right?

[Jon Miller]

Maybe the puzzles are good?

JM

[El_Cid]

Wow......someone must have been doing too many drugs....or too many crunch hours....or probably both.

Is this the action of some very disgruntled devs? like a last grand cry for help or a final FY and see you later? I wonder if they had already banked a lot and had their flight tickets ready?

In truth the whole industry is at some level based on copying what others have done, but this seems very extreme!

I agree on the baldurs gate book thing - from that logo on wikepedia that book could also have come from the intro to Daggerfall.

[DrSpike]

This is hilarious.

[Vesayen]

A quote from the shacknews article about it.

"Finally someone answered my prayers to combine Diablo 2, Painkiller, UT 2003/2004, Thief: Deadly Shadows, Morrowind, Vampire: The Masquerade, Silent Hill 3 and the film Spawn into a single game!"

[Space05us]

That is amazingly terrible.

[lord of the mark]

wait. asher reads Neogaf?

[Asher]

Some day when I have some time, I will educate you about the concept of a "link".

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Asher
Some day when I have some time, I will educate you about the concept of a "link".

thats one of them HTML thingies, right?

so out of curiosity, which is the mysterious site where you actually found out about this, that linked you to Neogaf?

[EPW]

Gordon: So have any more recent games influenced your current project?

Steve: The project is more influenced by film and literature rather than other games, we want the experience to be as original as possible and as such we have made a calculated effort to keep away from other games in the genre. Limbo of the Lost is an experience first and foremost, secondly wrapped up in a game media and genre.

http://www.quandaryland.com/jsp/dispArticle.jsp?index=795

[EPW]

Here's another good one:

Myself - Steve Bovis (UK) - Creative/Project Director

That then leaves me, my job is to put the game together and create all the visuals, coding, sounds, models, marketing and basically make the game flow and work. As well as manage and try to motivate the team. A job that is hard enough at the best of times!

As you can see we are a small team and with that comes pluses and minuses, the plus is that development costs are low and we have 100% creative decision. The negative is the time it takes to create game content with such a small team.

http://www.justadventure.com/Interviews/Limbo/SteveBovis.shtm

At least we have established motive!

[Asher]

Originally posted by lord of the mark



thats one of them HTML thingies, right?

so out of curiosity, which is the mysterious site where you actually found out about this, that linked you to Neogaf?

Kotaku

[DrSpike]

I don't think you are very snuggly.

[Asher]

Originally posted by DrSpike
I don't think you are very snuggly.

I only snuggle with naked people.

You know where to find me.