Surprise Surprise

By: Brandon McCartin (BMcC)

On: July 2nd, 2009

Fez. XBLA. 2010.

Posted in Platformers, Xbox 360 | Tags: Polytron

http://b-mcc.com// BMcC

That’s “Xbox Live Arcade.”

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zeek

:< XBLA, boo. Please more platforms.
Flamebait

Shame since I don’t plan on ever purchasing a 360. There aren’t enough reasons, Fez included. Presumably it’ll make the jump to PC eventually.
juv3nal

Yay! I was dreading it was going to be some wiiware/psn only thing.
THE EDGE FROM PIZZA HUT

Can we have it on a console that doesn’t have such a massive failure rate please?
Radnom

Boooo. More platforms, please.
http://www.ophidianwars.blogspot.com Carl (Small Cave Games)

Come on fellas, conform already. :)
Derek

Indie gamesplayers don’t own consoles, SILLY!

(Unless it’s NES LOL.)

;)
wtf

PC plz
Hypersapien

Fuck XBL! When’s it coming to the PC?
RobF

Nice one Team Polytron!

Nice to have something to look forward to again on XBLA. Woo!
Radnom

to be honest I’m just jealous I don’t have an Xbox360 now ;-;
http://www.glaielgames.com Glaiel Gamer

TOTALLY DIDN’T SEE IT COMING AT ALL
http://blog.boogatech.com Markham

Hasn’t it always been multi-platform? I mean, the previews have always shown the little guy being on one platform, and then jumping onto another platform, and so forth. I mean, if it was just released with one platform, it would be a really short game, wouldn’t it?
FISH

best kept secret in the biz.
wtf

Markham: not funny
Hypersapien

Ok. Everyone who cares about the PC version, watch this spot:

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=354.1230
Paul Eres

hopefully PC too one day
Quetz

I, too, desire a PC release ;^;

@Markham: very funny
The Purple Squerkle

If there is no PC version I will be very, very sad.
=(
http://www.phubans.com phubans

PC please!
Garbled

This is the only news on Fez in months, except for several posts about T-shirts.
AGuy

It is too bad Fish spent all of his HypeCredit during The Olden Days of Fez Development. Now it is Just a Thing. Maybe he can grind for more, though. It is Fill Phish, after all; if anyone can do it, ’tis him.
linger

>Not PC

shit sux
DragonSix

Congratz on the XBLA deal.
I thought you were going for a XBLIG release, XBLA is a way better channel.
Skofo

Can’t wait to play it! It has to be good considering how long it has been in development…
Renaud

> It has to be good considering how long it has been in developmentâ€¦

It’s taking a long time because it’s our first “big thing” and the engine is a clusterfuck of dimension bending and tiny cubes.
Steve Yeggo

Yawn.
PC or I don’t want to know.
Nikica

Damn, I hope it’s coming to PC, it would be worth every penny. I’m sad now…
judgespear

no PC version? this sucks big time. i don’t even care about this game if it’s just going to be an XBLA game.
n

First it was promoted as a PC game. Now this…

I feel betrayed
King

This game was one of the main reasons I built my computer…
Mooseral

Yeah, pretty much what n said. I mean, it seems that it probably will get released for PC at some point, but that fact that that is at least now downplayed irritates me somewhat. Nobody takes the PC seriously as a gaming platform anymore :/.

But yeah. One less thing to spend money on as it stands, I guess.
dillomatic

i don’t have a pc

i have an xbox

this makes me happy

i love you
Advisory Board

Stay off the PC. Give the finger to the pirates. Who cares if people who are 95% likely to steal your game aren’t interested in it? No big loss.
Some Guy

about time
Skofo

@Advisory Board: You know that Xbox games can be pirated as well, right? Oftentimes Xbox versions of games are pirated even more than PC versions.
Advisory Board

I am interested where your statistic of Oftentimes comes from, Skofo. Also my 95% was wrong. 90% is the approximate estimated rate for World of Goo and Ricochet Infinity for the PC.
Kobel

Citation needed.

The bigger fallacy there is the age old ‘not every pirated copy is a lost sale’ truism.
alastair

sold my 360, damn it
AmnEn

(wishful) Expected Sales – Actual Sales = Amount of pirated copies
entrope

“except t-shirts”

yeah. great to have bought merch, and now know you won’t actually get to play the game until who-knows-when-if-ever. fish appears insistent in keeping actual updates as content free as possible, and leaving fans in the dark.

ask for support, sell the merch on hype, then shaft the vast majority who’ve posted in the forums, and commented on the website and trailer excited for pc release, the format the original demo was shown.

nothing wrong with attempting to coat-tail braid’s method of success, but it didn’t have to be this underhanded. the likely excuse is tip toeing in fear of some M$ non-disclosure bs. now the game’s being built on the support of fans, and it will sell to an entirely different (larger) audience.

guess that’s what we should’ve expected, and deserve, since lacking a 360 and gaming on a pc makes us ‘pirates’ and all.
entrope

according to rigorous scientific testing, for every legit pc game purchase, 2^32 pirated copies will be downloaded. minimum.

this is why derek, gabler, blow, and petri all live in cardboard boxes.
Arty

No. the cardboard boxes are an artistic statement. but piracy is why they eat cardboard boxes.
Chez

WHAT is the big deal about Fez? It’s just a 3d game that renders orthographically to resemble 2d. It’s different, but hardly ground-shaking. I’m curious to see what other mechanics it introduces, if any.
http://0xdeadc0de.org Eclipse

Now I expect Fez to be out 1 Jan 2010 Fish.
entrope

yeah arty, i can see that being a statement about the death of retail lol.

haha chez you haven’t a clue, go watch the trailers or read the posts it’s a lot more than that. besides, lol, ‘mechanics’, not every game has to be gimmick ridden to be good, get off it. design is way more important than the ‘mechanic’. personally i was looking forward to trying to wrap my brain around the 4! combinations of interaction between the planes but alas it’s strictly slated for Halo and RROD fans.
Sninnyer

No PC? Damn!
B

Why the vitriol? It’s fair for the guys to put the game onto the platform that will give them exposure to the biggest audience, which – for this kind of game – is XBLA. Besides, is there something inheritantly non-indie about wanting to make a profit? You know, if this is a success, they get to make more radically cool games.

Anyway, it will come to PC once the window of exclusivity has expired. You won’t see Polytron commenting on this, due to the non-disclosure in their contract. Fair play to them too. It seems like the best route for them.
entrope

cashing in and fellating ms at the expense of supporting fans.