General Godus discussion

Best quote is first quote; "Hello my pathological liars"

I chuckled, but to be fair, RPS never called him a pathalogical liar, they simply asked him if he was.

I hope 22Cans pays attention to videos like this. This is a really representative example of how Godus Wars looks and feels when you play it through for the first time.

Not ugly. But its not particularly impressive either. The original black and white games had better 3d graphics and thats over a decade ago, also from dust looks way better than godus which were both released around the same time.

Godus looks the way it does for one reason only, not because they have a unique art style they want to promote. The actual reason it looks the way it does is so that it will work on mobiles where processing power is limited, this is the real reason for the low poly count objects.

I agree. The art style was one of the draws for me, you can tell that the artists are trying to maintain some semblance of congruity, but it's gotta be difficult given the meandering overall design.

I am personally not too bothered with the way things look as opposed to the way the game plays. But I think the graphics in godus are charming and they're the best "feature" of the game. I wish they were the worst though.

I couldn't find that post, looks deleted as if the Whitewash Patrol and Former CM/PR visit the 22cans forums more than anyone who really works there. But I did find this:

Aynen and Muir's loyalty has outlasted any paid member of staff and any ordinary fan of the game. It is a gift. The gift of being completely unadulterated by critical thought, and to never feel the burden of a questioning mind.

Sorry. This is mean. But I continue to be astounded by their continued insistence that 22Cans are a great company who love the community that funded them and are making enormous efforts to right to perceived wrongs of the past. And Godus is great and there are millions of incredible and wonderful surprises on the way. Good lord. Is anyone expected to swallow this tripe? Well.. anyone other than Aynen and Muir?

Yet another abandonment likely due to Mr. Simon-Bob Business-Pants lopping off any efforts that aren't directly tied to maintaining current revenue, developing additional revenue, or preventing revenue loss (yes, 22cans seems oblivious to the effects of negative community relations). I'm sure they'll be give a top notch effort on their shiny new Trail forums once it hits the market.

Just a guess, but I'd wager most time spent on any of the forums by 22cans staff is done on personal time.

Certainly nobody who was hired on in 2015 or onward, not even Colin or Simon, despite the latter's assessment of it.

(Rather hard to believe thatt when their moderators had kept it nice and sparkly after it became a wasteland.)

On that note - to be fair about this - I'd like to know exactly what Simon has done to "clean up" the disaster.

No, really, what has been done at all?

Lead the charge on an even worse form of PR disaster so that the first disaster would seem like nothing?