ZP's Yahtzee remembers Acclaim and their insane PR stunts

Started by JasonPratt, August 07, 2019, 11:36:23 AM

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JasonPratt

The Zero-Punk man himself! -- the latest part of his wryly humorous series on game industry foibles.

Today's lesson: bad PR can maybe help a good game get some needed attention, but bad PR only makes rushed-out innovative-less plop peddlers into INSANE rushed-out innovative-less plop peddlers.

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jamus34

Oh yeah acclaim sure did shovel out some shit in the 90's.

It was like their corporate goal was to make 1 good game to maintain respectability and force out 10 crap games for money grab purposes.
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JasonPratt

I had forgotten that they were originally involved in the Burnout series!
ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!