{"id":36622,"date":"2012-04-24T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36622"},"modified":"2012-04-24T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:05:30","slug":"dead-space-dev-calls-gears-of-war-atrocious-then-apologises-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36622-dead-space-dev-calls-gears-of-war-atrocious-then-apologises-for-it","title":{"rendered":"Dead Space dev calls Gears of War “atrocious”, then apologises for it"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday last week, Dead Space story producer Chuck Beaver<\/a> published a blog post slagging off Gears of War’s storytelling for its “atrocious, offensive violations of story basics” and “literally the worst writing in games.”<\/p>\n

Predictably, those pull-quotes were quickly copy-pasted all over the internet, the post was then removed, and Beaver has now been forced to apologise for having an opinion.<\/p>\n

“I just wanted to jump in and clarify some of my comments that were taken out of context about Gears of War” he said in a statement to IGN that was probably emailed but I kind of like the idea of him standing on grey concrete steps somewhere, dabbing at his eyes, with his wife and kids next to him looking very sombre, and a big crowd of tabloid journalists in front of them and camera flashes going off and stuff.<\/p>\n

“First, let me say that I’m a huge fan. It is an epic franchise that has trail-blazed more than a few industry-leading player experiences and mechanics.”<\/p>\n

“It is deservedly recognized as a top-tier title. Its success as a property is evidenced by its giant sales and rabid fan base. The industry is far better for Epic’s<\/a> contributions, and we all owe a great deal of inspiration to their work.”<\/p>\n

I’m sure the whole time, he was thinking, “But the story totally sucks”.<\/p>\n

Source: IGN<\/a><\/h5>\n

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Dante\u2019s Inferno sequel in the works<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

More Dead Space 3 details emerge<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now Gears of War isn’t talking to him, and I heard that somebody said that Kelly kissed David behind the bike shed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":36641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,3798,1177,431,2581],"class_list":["post-36622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-chuck-beaver","tag-dead-space","tag-gears-of-war","tag-visceral-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36642,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36622\/revisions\/36642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}