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Posted April 22, 2013
Welcome to relativity! Get your complimentary fez.

FEZ,an original, incredibly deep perspective-twisting puzzle-platformer with countless awesome stages to explore, is available 10% off for pre-order on GOG.com. That's only $8.99 until Wednesday, May 1, at 9:59AM GMT, when we expect the game to arrive.

[url=http://www.gog.com/gamecard/fez][/url]A unique title like FEZ demands we did something special. This is why we decided to start a little weird contest, so you get the chance to Win a fez to play FEZ in a fez! That's right! We're giving away 20 FEZ fezes to people who pre-order the game. The game's puzzles are highly complicated, challenging, original, and complex, so we decided to keep the contest rules as plain, simple, and uninspired as possible. Here's what you need to do:

1. Pre-order FEZ here for only $8.99: www.gog.com/gamecard/fez
2. Write to [url=mailto:contest@gog.com]contest@gog.com[/url] and tell us why you should win a fez
3. Profit: win one of the 20 awesome fezes to give away! (We'll start shipping them worldwide on May 1st, so that's the deadline for submissions.)

See the fez here.

FEZ is a puzzle-platformer like no other. First of all, its gameplay mechanics come with a perspective-changing twist, that make every stage of the game not one, but four 2D landscapes. You'll have to use that to your advantage and figure out how to make seemingly impossible jumps. That's just scratching the surface, though. There's no telling just how many complex and original puzzles have been hidden in the world of FEZ. That might be the first game in quite some time, that will make you take notes while you play, so you can crack some of the game's secrets and understand its strange languages. There's so many layers and levels to the world you'll be exploring, that you probably won't see the half of it at your first playthrough! Pair that with incredibly diverse level-design, and charming pixel-art (ummm... sorry, trixel-art) graphics, and what you get is one of the most remarkable titles of our time. Be sure not to miss it!

Pre-order FEZ today to enjoy its mind-bending perspective-twisting charm at 10% discount! Remember, the pre-order offer lasts until Wednesday, May 1, at 9:59AM GMT
Post edited April 22, 2013 by G-Doc
Posted April 22, 2013
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G-Doc: EDIT:
And the answer to JMich's question is: yes. That is me, accompanied by our lovely colleague, head of the product department.
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Coala: <blushed>
:)
But I was warned not to mess with Coala, because they wouldn't find enough left of me to bury. How can that be true for the lovely lady in the Fez?
Posted April 22, 2013
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Tsugirai: Well, at least he says it out loud. Actually, a lot of people in the industry feel the same way. Developing for PC is a pain in the ass, supporting the product even more so...
You must be joking...
Posted April 22, 2013
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Coala: <blushed>
:)
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JMich: But I was warned not to mess with Coala, because they wouldn't find enough left of me to bury. How can that be true for the lovely lady in the Fez?
That's the point. Coala is so cool, everyone else will do the job for her. ;)
Posted April 22, 2013
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DaCostaBR: I know Phil Fish has acted like a douchebag on numerous occasions,
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BadDecissions: I don't. Has he ever done anything worse than "PC's are for spreadsheets?" Because the way gamers squawk about him, you'd think he was stumping for the Nazi party or something.
Besides that he got some notoriety for declaring all Japanese games are garbage, an interesting argument to make when his art style is lifted right from Japanese indie title Cave Story and his core mechanic is lifted right from Japanese retail releases Super Paper Mario and echochrome, both of which were released just before he started development on Fez.

I think the big thing for me was his getting Team Meat kicked out of the IGF when Fez and Super Meat Boy were competing, arguing they didn't qualify as indie because they had a MS distribution deal in place. This would be a bit of a jerk move on its own, but he had the exact same deal in place with Fez at the time. At that point it's not just being a jerk, it's straight-up theft.

I'll grab Fez once a Humble Bundle hits and I can distribute where the money's going away from him. Because, quite frankly, I'd take ten Derek Smarts over Fish.
Posted April 22, 2013
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grynn: I won't even pay 1 cent for a Phil Fish game.
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"Fez is a console game, not a PC game," he states, emphatically. "It's made to be played with a controller, on a couch, on a Saturday morning."

why i must buy it ?
Post edited April 22, 2013 by Xibalba
Posted April 22, 2013
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Fenixp: There's a lot of good reasons as to why should you find 'PC master race' to be silly, but I just have got to reply to that. Your allegory is so flawed it hurts. Computers are just that - devices made to crunch numbers. They're designed to run anything that has been programmed for them, including software to process tables and videogames. They're not in any way, shape or form ill-suited for the latter - they're as suited as a gaming console. The only real argument is whether traditional PC controls are better than traditional console controls, but that is very much rendered moot by the ability to connect those control devices to your PC (and connect PC controls to consoles, but I have no idea how well that works as I have never tried it.)
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Tsugirai: Oh, come on, it wasn't that bad. Okay then, not a a baseball bat, a stick. A console is made for the sole purpose of gaming, when a PC is a multifunctional device made to run calculations. It can run games, yes, but that's not it's main purpose, and the diversity of the hardware makes it much harder to make a well-working experience for everyone.
If I'm not mistaken, FEZ was developped in C# using the XNA framework.
Posted April 22, 2013
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AllisonUnderland: ...quite frankly, I'd take ten Derek Smarts over Fish.
Ouch!!! That might be the harshest criticism I've ever read in my life!
Posted April 22, 2013
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Tsugirai: Oh, come on, it wasn't that bad. Okay then, not a a baseball bat, a stick. A console is made for the sole purpose of gaming, when a PC is a multifunctional device made to run calculations. It can run games, yes, but that's not it's main purpose, and the diversity of the hardware makes it much harder to make a well-working experience for everyone.
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Zoidberg: If I'm not mistaken, FEZ was developped in C# using the XNA framework.
Could you please elaborate on the relevancy of that?
Posted April 22, 2013
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DaCostaBR: I know Phil Fish has acted like a douchebag on numerous occasions, but the game does seem like a very nice puzzle-platformer which is exactly what I've been looking for. As long as the game is good, there's really nothing else I should be worrying about.
Agreed. I don't get why so many people act like he pissed in their cereal for him running his mouth. As long as the game is fun, why should I fucking care? If I had bought games that way I don't think I'd have ever bought any games in which Peter Molyneux was involved. =P

I'm looking forward to this one.
Posted April 22, 2013
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DaCostaBR: I know Phil Fish has acted like a douchebag on numerous occasions, but the game does seem like a very nice puzzle-platformer which is exactly what I've been looking for. As long as the game is good, there's really nothing else I should be worrying about.
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mistermumbles: Agreed. I don't get why so many people act like he pissed in their cereal for him running his mouth. As long as the game is fun, why should I fucking care? If I had bought games that way I don't think I'd have ever bought any games in which Peter Molyneux was involved. =P

I'm looking forward to this one.
Because I don't have room for eating cereal with his dick in my mouth. Insulting your customers and lashing out like a child is not acceptable. If you buy this game, you're telling him it's ok to attack people and quite frankly, act like a school yard bully.

This is his version of defending his games worth: http://images.4chan.org/v/src/1366492525347.png

^I really don't care who he is or what's wrong with him, it's simply not acceptable.

Do yourself a favor and research it a bit. I think you'll find that everyone isn't simply nuts, but that his actions and continued attitude are really that unacceptable.
Post edited April 22, 2013 by BiosElement
Posted April 22, 2013
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To everybody his own opinion. Phil Fish thinks that every japanese game is dung, and i doubt he played them all or even a signicifant percentage.

As i said to everybody his own opinion, and i think every game Phil Fish will ever create is dung, so i won't buy. :)
Posted April 22, 2013
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wormholewizards: By the way, i hope any personal issue with the creator won't affect the reviews.
Well, if Omerta and its DLC are any indication...
Posted April 22, 2013
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mistermumbles: Agreed. I don't get why so many people act like he pissed in their cereal for him running his mouth. As long as the game is fun, why should I fucking care? If I had bought games that way I don't think I'd have ever bought any games in which Peter Molyneux was involved. =P

I'm looking forward to this one.
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BiosElement: Because I don't have room for eating cereal with his dick in my mouth. Insulting your customers and lashing out like a child is not acceptable. If you buy this game, you're telling him it's ok to attack people and quite frankly, act like a school yard bully.

This is his version of defending his games worth: http://images.4chan.org/v/src/1366492525347.png

^I really don't care who he is or what's wrong with him, it's simply not acceptable.

Do yourself a favor and research it a bit. I think you'll find that everyone isn't simply nuts, but that his actions and continued attitude are really that unacceptable.
I don't really see the issue with that tweet. Sure, if you're taking it seriously, it is most certainly very disrespectful towards his followers and/or costumers. However, I think you'd have to be very disingenuous, or just plain bad at text interpretation, to construe what he said as anything other than a joke.

Here's a bit of an exercise for you: try reading Phil's tweet, first in a very serious business tone, then in a sarcastic/cheeky one. Makes a whole world of difference.
Posted April 22, 2013
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BiosElement: snip
*shrug* So he can't keep his dumb clap shut? So what? You do your thing; I do mine. ;)

For comparison's sake: Just because Tom Cruise is a scientologist fruitcake doesn't mean I'll avoid movies that feature him. I'm not going to watch every one of his movies as he's been in some pretty bad stinkers, but if something to me interesting comes along like Minority Report and Oblivion I see no problem for me to go watch them.

As long as people's odd behavior doesn't bleed over into those products I really don't give a shit what they do. I'm just looking for some fun entertainment. That's all.
Posted April 22, 2013
I'm very excited about this--it's one of the few games I've really wanted to see converted to PC. I may not get it right away, but I'm getting it.
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