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There's more than one side to every story.

FEZ, an original and incredibly deep perspective-twisting puzzle-platformer with countless imaginative stages to explore in a incredibly complex, awe-inspiring world, is available on GOG.com, for only $9.99.

Remember the time when everyone thought that the world was flat? Well, Gomez does. In fact, he thought so himself, just until recently--and I mean "flat" as in "two-dimensional". Then all of a sudden our hero was presented with an artifact that proved almost everything he thought he knew about his land wrong. Coincidentally strange reality glitches started to occur all around, and it seems that it's up to Gomez to fix whatever went wrong with the fabric of his universe.

FEZ is an indie puzzle-platformer which took years to make, and looking at the level of its complexity one still has to wonder how was creating such a huge, diverse, and rich gameworld even possible. There's a good chance that you won't even see the half of what the game has to offer on your first playthrough, and even after long hours spent with Gomez you'll still be discovering new elements of the giant multi-layered puzzle that he calls home. The challenge of this game lies not in agile platform-hopping, but in solving elaborate enigmas you encounter on every step. The games unique perspective-rotating mechanics allow for some incredible level design, but not all puzzles you encounter are perspective-based. In fact, the variety of puzzles in FEZ is astounding, and some of them call for taking notes why you play--something that games rarely achieve nowadays. This game, ladies and gentlemen, is one in a million experience. Be sure not to miss it, for whatever cause.

Find out why a fez is actually a thinking-cap and set out to explore one of the most amazing gameworlds ever created in FEZ, for only $9.99 on GOG.com!

One more thing before you go fiddle with the trixelated space-time continuum. Today's game release marks the submission deadline for our pre-order contest, in which you've had the chance to become a proud owner of an [url=http://static.gog.com/upload/forum/2013/04/6c7ad4100b20bea3dd47d2a32113d0441f43f421.jpg" target="_blank]actual, physical fez[/url] hat. We'll announce the winners soon!
Post edited May 01, 2013 by G-Doc
"That GOG would allow a game from someone that has repeatedly told PC users to suck his cock, in his own words, is unbelievable.
This kind of trash doesn't belong on GOG, and people like Phil Fish don't deserve money."

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

You guys are such sore losers and so easily to rile up. If I was him, I'd act the same way...your reactions are goddamn hilarious!

Also I dunno, it's not like profits towards Shadow Complex go towards Orson Scott Card's campaign against gay people or profits from any movie made by Roman Polanski go towards keeping a paedophile and sex offender in hiding or money made from Earthworm Jim goes to an ultra conservative who believes that gay marriage shouldn't be allowed...

You act like the guy does genuinely bad and malicious things, when all he has done is take the piss out of overly sensitive gamers or been quoted out of context. Since the guy isn't a member of the Westbro Bapist Church or isn't giving a portion of his profits to the English Defence League, I'm not sure what he has done wrong except to screw with people.
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amok: You buy the game, not the developer?
When buying the game you also fund the developer, so that comment isn't entirely accurate.

Either way, I'm willing to buy this from whichever source puts it up for $2.50 or less first.
I don't know why you people care about his behaviour so much...

I mean, you can't be sure if for example Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Pablo Picasso were nice and kind people, but it doesn't matter, what matters is their art.
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amok: You buy the game, not the developer?
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bansama: When buying the game you also fund the developer, so that comment isn't entirely accurate.

Either way, I'm willing to buy this from whichever source puts it up for $2.50 or less first.
I just keep thinking about authors like Hitchcock (not that I am in anyway placing Fish in the same level at all) who had very little respect for actors and his audience (famously quoted for saying that actors should be treated like cattle, and the last thing he wants is their meddling with his vision). Quite a lot of good artists are obnoxious people in real life.

I generally do not care much about the person(s) making the game as long as s/he/they are not unethical or hurting someone in the process, then they can do dam well as they like and say exactly as they like as long as I get good games/music/films/books/etc. I do not play any game beacsue I intend to make any connections with its creator. (except the few more experimental titles, like Dys4ia, where this is the intention). As long as the game plays fine and I can afford it, Fish can compare PC's with sawing-machines for all I care. I am never going to be in a dialogue with the man.
Post edited May 01, 2013 by amok
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Kunovski: I don't know why you people care about his behaviour so much...
You didn't have to depend on post-release support of those people in case of something breaking.
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Roman5: It's an ok game but just so you know: The developer of this game is a Fucking Douche and Dick
Is that a bad thing? It sounds like a veritable Swiss Army Knife of vaginal care and fun times to me!
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evilguy12: You guys are such sore losers and so easily to rile up. If I was him, I'd act the same way...your reactions are goddamn hilarious!.
So much this! He's just messing with people because they are so easily annoyed. I rather like him for this.
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evilguy12: You act like the guy does genuinely bad and malicious things, when all he has done is take the piss out of overly sensitive gamers or been quoted out of context. Since the guy isn't a member of the Westbro Bapist Church or isn't giving a portion of his profits to the English Defence League, I'm not sure what he has done wrong except to screw with people.
But he did, I don't know how needed the patch for FEZ was on Xbox, but he didn't release it, claiming that Microsoft wants too much money. Funny thing is that other indie developers did patch their games in the past without making such a fuss about it.

That combined with his unprofessional behavior doesn't make me very confident that he's going to fix any of the bugs which are already mentioned in the Fez forums, and his remarks also don't really make me believe that he has made a good PC port.
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Kunovski: I don't know why you people care about his behaviour so much...
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Fenixp: You didn't have to depend on post-release support of those people in case of something breaking.
so this Fish person's behaviour suggests that he won't support?

EDIT: ok, just read the post above...
well, this isn't anything extraordinary - I know many games that were released and didn't get any patches and/or support.

I'm not saying it's ok, but I guess this Fish man is just being criticized for acting weird, not because he doesn't offer any support... so this is personal, and that's why I don't understand this whole thing :)
Post edited May 01, 2013 by Kunovski
People can come up with all kinds of explanations for their bad behavior, but that doesn't excuse it. Bad behavior is still wrong. It's up to each potential buyer to decide whether or not they care that this nice game was developed by this anti-social individual.


-Khalaq
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Kunovski: so this Fish person's behaviour suggests that he won't support?
Well there already were problems with this for the Xbox version, altho direct patching that PC supports would probably have fixed that - problems is, we don't know that. We don't know what's going on in that little head of his. And if his favorite pastime is to troll everybody, what's to stop him from trolling his PC audience? He's incredibly unprofessional in the way he acts, which is his right, but I won't take him for a professional unless he proves me otherwise either.
What's with the https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2037532/GOGstuff/fez.swf ? Can't GOG host it on its own servers?
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Fenixp: But he did, I don't know how needed the patch for FEZ was on Xbox, but he didn't release it, claiming that Microsoft wants too much money. Funny thing is that other indie developers did patch their games in the past without making such a fuss about it.
Others have made a lot of fuzz over this also. Double Fine, for example, has used it as the reason why they have more or less abandoned XBox now and focus more on PC. It is wrong of Fish to not release the patch, but there has been a lot of fuss from developers over MS's policy with patches.
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Kunovski: so this Fish person's behaviour suggests that he won't support?
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Fenixp: Well there already were problems with this for the Xbox version, altho direct patching that PC supports would probably have fixed that - problems is, we don't know that. We don't know what's going on in that little head of his. And if his favorite pastime is to troll everybody, what's to stop him from trolling his PC audience? He's incredibly unprofessional in the way he acts, which is his right, but I won't take him for a professional unless he proves me otherwise either.
Actually, we do know that: "Fish also lamented that had Fez released on Steam, this would all have been taken care of quickly and at no cost to them.". There is an actual quote from Fish himself somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.

Besides, he is not the one doing the programming work. Renaud Bédard is, and it's pretty obvious from reading his Twitter account that he is actually willing to patch the game, if an issue were to occur (as was already demonstrated by the way, since he fixed a few things based on some pre-release feedback).
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999888: Besides, he is not the one doing the programming work. Renaud Bédard is, and it's pretty obvious from reading his Twitter account that he is actually willing to patch the game, if an issue were to occur (as was already demonstrated by the way, since he fixed a few things based on some pre-release feedback).
Well at least that's a good thing.