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[Caerwiden]

[OliMango]

It uses the same engine as HL2, but it is not a HL2 mod therefore you do not need HL2 to plays it.

Not that that would be a problem. HL2 is awesome and everyone should own it.

[Monstrous]

[OliMango]

[opencws]

For every non-profit fan game completed I'll show you 200 that fell apart. This is gonna take these guys years, they don't have any reason to put this mod before school/work/real life since they're not being paid. I have been following mods since they became popular on the Quake 2 engine and I have a bit of experience in everything that comes into play with making mods and games. You say they have 46 people working on the game? That isn't a good thing, more people doesn't equal better, that makes everything much more difficult to coordinate, and you guys are thinking this is gonna be a drama free process. Guaranteed team members will start having creative differences and start leaving/sabotaging the project because again these aren't professional developers and there is no profit motive here. I don't care if you listen to me or not, just know there's NO WAY, this game is coming out in 6 to 8 months. And even on the Half Life engine they still have a long long long long long way to go from concept art and ideas and the few models they've produced.

I actually laughed when I read they have 46 people working on the game, this is definitely on a crash-course for failure, I've seen it so many times before. If this was a really tight knit small group of dedicated people who were working together in real life somewhere and could coordinate well, I could MAYBE see this working out. But they're a bunch of disorganized people who are going to be throwing random pieces of the puzzle like darts and nothing is going to stick.

And I'm not even taking into consideration Paramount's involvement, Cloverfield is about to become a successful franchise as the second movie comes to fruition. They've already got a toy and other forms of merchandise, you don't think they're going to want to cash in on a game at some point, do you really think they're going to let someone make a game using their intellectual property with no proper license.

This game is so destined to fail I'd put money on it. Don't kid yourselves people. We'll eventually get a proper Cloverfield game hopefully, but getting excited about this is wasted energy.


And for those of you telling me 4-5 years is unrealistic, here's an example of 4-5 years of work that I have been following. Keep in consideration that these guys are in the very very very very small minority that they even got this far. 98% mods/games that aren't professionaly developed will not get to this stage.
http://www.nomoreroominhell.com/

These guys had mod experience before they got started on this in 2003/2004, and they predicted a 2 year dev cycle, they still haven't released even an alpha and all they're trying to do is make zombies. Even the parasites will be more complex than the zombies, let's not even think about the gigantic monster destroying buildings in scripted events.


Doubt me all you want but anyone who actually knows what goes into making a game, not just in making models or levels in a pre-made engine, but actually knows what goes into putting everything together will agree with me 100%.

[austinmcconnell]

[Magus00]

Console, Counsol, potatoe, potato...

[avengedsamurai7]

[Caerwiden]

[Caerwiden]

[opencws]

[Caerwiden]

[opencws]

Sorry I just find the whole thing comical really. And since when are we not allowed to post in certain threads if we have nothing to add? Hell, since 1-18-08 there hasn't been a single thing to add to any of the threads posted since.

And I just stopped by their Staff Members forum and had an even bigger laugh.

http://www.cloverfieldgame.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=11

They have all the menial jobs filled, now all they need is the heavy lifters that will do 97% of what the game actually requires such as coding, modelling, animating, and scripting. The fact that they filled the game testers role before even getting programmers is a real hoot.

I hope the PR position isn't filled yet, I'd love to apply. Also the text on the back of the box, somebody's gotta write that!!!

[Caerwiden]

[pegassissy]

Caerwiden, I used to think you were a jerk and overall a complete ass, and to be honest, i still do.

But ive grown to love you and your cynical and ironic responces. Its jerks like you that make life worth living. Without you, i dont know who would deliver the humor.