I wrote a scathing review of Thieves Guild by Iron Sun games. After playing it several times, I found it to be broken. I rarely rate games that low, but this one made the benchmark: No fun, easily abused/broken combos (six), and a poor rulebook. I wrote the review and posted it.
Not three days later, guess who calls? Yep, the designer, who tut tuts all my reasons as to why I thought the game was broken and essentially said my review was not fair, and that I was spreading disinformation about his awesome!exciting! game.
Sorry to break it to you, pal, but your game blows righteous mon-keigh chunks under Heaven. Out of all my 6 Broken Combos, he said I got one wrong. Okay, I'll check the rulebook and see about that. If I was wrong, then fine. BUT, if the rulebook was actually, you know, comprehensible we wouldn't have this conversation now, would we? The rest of the broken combos? He gave the, "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" defense. Mind you, he didn't say I was wrong or misunderstood the rules (except the one time), those were STRATEGIES!!!
Yeah, broken strategies in a two player game.
I called him on that, and then he had the hubris of eventually saying that I wasn't "man enough" to confess my mistakes. Excuse me, but who the fuck are you again?
The only person that tried to mitigate was PT, who has not seen or played the game, and tried to offer his two cents, which was appreciated. I answered PT's questions, but the GREAT DESIGNER WHO IS BLIND TO PROBLEMS WITH HIS "BABY" chalked him up as a "supporter". Dude, PT's not a "supporter", just someone who was pointing out a possible misunderstanding.
I'll lay out my counter arguments to his BS STRATEGIES!!! over at F:AT.... I'm not going to respond to him on the Geek. Right now, he looks like a huge D-Bag of the Fez wearing level with his responses.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment