25th May 2013, 8:38 PM
I'm not saying it's black and white. Not "all" the developers at SK hated Dennis after all, but it's only a small handful of the original team that made it to this new group. Don't make it out to be anything close to the amount of developers Eternal Darkness originally had. There's also the none too small matter of just how influential Nintendo actually was on development. They're out of the picture here too.
More to the point, I really don't think that the money they're asking for, or the number of team members they have, would actually be ENOUGH to do this game. If I'm right, and that video they had on their project page is actually just the tech demo they were putting together back at SK to show off to publishers, then they basically have nothing. That tech demo seems to have been made with the Unreal engine, and guess what? There's no way Epic is granting a license to that engine to Dennis ever again. They won't be able to use that at all, and will need to build their own engine from scratch or license some other tech, which is going to cost a huge amount of their initial request.
Listen, GR and I could be way off on this. Dennis could turn out fully exonerated, they could turn out to have everyone they need to make an awesome game, and all worries about development issues and price could be moot because it'll turn out they are just so awesome they can do all that on their own without Unreal. If that's the case, I'll gladly buy their new game. However, it is a fool's bet to donate money to them now. Due to my fears about that video coming from where I think it came from, nothing short of a PLAYABLE demo that takes place OUTSIDE that cathedral is going to convince me they've done much since SK collapsed.
More to the point, I really don't think that the money they're asking for, or the number of team members they have, would actually be ENOUGH to do this game. If I'm right, and that video they had on their project page is actually just the tech demo they were putting together back at SK to show off to publishers, then they basically have nothing. That tech demo seems to have been made with the Unreal engine, and guess what? There's no way Epic is granting a license to that engine to Dennis ever again. They won't be able to use that at all, and will need to build their own engine from scratch or license some other tech, which is going to cost a huge amount of their initial request.
Listen, GR and I could be way off on this. Dennis could turn out fully exonerated, they could turn out to have everyone they need to make an awesome game, and all worries about development issues and price could be moot because it'll turn out they are just so awesome they can do all that on their own without Unreal. If that's the case, I'll gladly buy their new game. However, it is a fool's bet to donate money to them now. Due to my fears about that video coming from where I think it came from, nothing short of a PLAYABLE demo that takes place OUTSIDE that cathedral is going to convince me they've done much since SK collapsed.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)