Fez II Cancelled Due to Dispute Between GameTrailers and Phil Fish

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So now everyone gets to suffer because he ragequit over a silly argument. What an ass.
I've never even heard of anything like this happening before. It's petty and childish.

Plenty of films, tv shows, albums, books and more have been cancelled/scrapped/altered/cut short/whatever following utterly minor disagreements between various people involved (granted such things are usually aided by planet sized egos, probably want to say something like check here), having it happen as a result of said people butting heads with media commentators or members of the public is a bit less common (ignoring cases of people being falsely or even simply accused of things and then cancellations following that) but still far from unheard of.
 

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I'm kind of indifferent to this, honestly. I mean, the original Fez is an amazing game (from what I've played), but Phil Fish has shown himself to be a whiny entitled PoS pretty much ever chance he gets. I'm sure he'll get over this.
 

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Because everyone here is clearly acting more mature than him here, I must commend you all. Congratulations. Passed with flying colors. Thread of the Year. A+ constructive discussion.

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After he came out and tweeted shit like "Suck my dick. Choke on it" I was already never going to buy any of his games or support him. Glad to see the back of him.
 

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He could have always just made Marcus the final boss and had the player write out "Kill Yourself" with cube pieces...

Also, after reading other articles on this "situation" it appears there are people who prefer one asshole over another...
 

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Because everyone here is clearly acting more mature than him here, I must commend you all. Congratulations. Passed with flying colors. Thread of the Year. A+ constructive discussion.

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6 instances of sarcasm in one post is clearly more mature than everyone else here. I must commend you. Congratulations. Passed with flying colors. Reply of the Year. A+ constructive discussion.
 

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The whole "compare your life to mine and then kill yourself" thing that he said is a Futurama quote...
I didn't actually remember that until I looked it up.

It being a quote doesn't make it any better though, if that's what you're getting at. I could tell someone to go F themselves, and they would get mad, and then I could just go "No, I didn't mean it, I was just quoting (insert rapper's name here)."
 

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Not like I ever played or will ever play FEZ or FEZ 2 (if it is ever released) because I don't believe in supporting Microsoft's business model, but Phil Fish is a flipping childish, whiny, little punk. Who the hell cancels something just because some insignificant lackey asks a question?
 

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I didn't actually remember that until I looked it up.

It being a quote doesn't make it any better though, if that's what you're getting at. I could tell someone to go F themselves, and they would get mad, and then I could just go "No, I didn't mean it, I was just quoting (insert rapper's name here)."

No, I understand that. Just pointing it out...
 

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Plenty of films, tv shows, albums, books and more have been cancelled/scrapped/altered/cut short/whatever following utterly minor disagreements between various people involved (granted such things are usually aided by planet sized egos, probably want to say something like check here), having it happen as a result of said people butting heads with media commentators or members of the public is a bit less common (ignoring cases of people being falsely or even simply accused of things and then cancellations following that) but still far from unheard of.
Well, I've never heard of it. Things get cancelled all the time but it usually takes more than this...
 

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Not like I ever played or will ever play FEZ or FEZ 2 (if it is ever released) because I don't believe in supporting Microsoft's business model, but Phil Fish is a flipping childish, whiny, little punk. Who the hell cancels something just because some insignificant lackey asks a question?
Microsoft? There's a Steam version.
 

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Not like I ever played or will ever play FEZ or FEZ 2 (if it is ever released) because I don't believe in supporting Microsoft's business model, but Phil Fish is a flipping childish, whiny, little punk. Who the hell cancels something just because some insignificant lackey asks a question?
1. there's a steam version now.
2. check the link to the episode in the first post. Spewing crap on a popular podcast isn't exactly the same as "asking a question".
 
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I watched the episode yesterday and thought Marcus was being a bit harsh but for Phil to outright cancel the game over it is ridiculous.
Marcus annoyed gamer is a real douche imo anyway I hope GT drop him he comes across as if his opinion is that of every adult gamer when it's his own bullshit spin most of the time.
He did the same kind of thing with hiphopgamer only hhg replied via yt and called Marcus out and made him look like the muppet he is.
I don't really get why Marcus is relevant or a part of GT. Sure he dev'd on a few games forever ago but now he makes cash from videos saying controversial stuff that is mostly his own ignorant opinions.
He is more the annoying gamer than the annoyed gamer!
lol @ hhg.

Anyways, I love Marcus, the guy is right about majority of the stuff. I'm glad he called out Fish. I'm just going to copy and paste my comment on another site:

"It boggles my mind that people are defending Phil Fish. The guy wasn't a victim at all in this. Hell the things Marcus said weren't even that bad. Do we see Jonathan Blow freaking out about this? No.
Fact of the matter is, Fish was a pretentious prick who somehow got the mindset that he reached God status. He bashed people himself via his twitter, would say rude remarks, say shit about other developers and everything, and you expect the internet to not gain a hatred towards him?

Does it suck Fez 2 is canceled? Yes. Yes it does. But the only reason why it got canceled is because this guy's ego got way too big and got in the way. Fish and other people say "well you get flak for years, you lash back, you can't take the highroad." Uh, yes you can. Others have done it.

Look at Nintendo, prime examples. People make fun of Mario, saying Nintendo sucks, Mario sucks, Zelda sucks, so what does Shigeru Miyamoto do? He tells everyone to fuck themselves and to go die... OH WAIT NO HE DOESN'T, he still makes the games because people still love his games.
Fish needs to smarten the fuck up. He made one good game, he doesn't own the game industry like he was acting like he did. Other developers have gotten a lot more hate than this guy will ever receive, and they look pass it and still make their games.

Do we see the other "victim" Jonathan Blow coming out and saying "Yeah you know what, fuck GameTrailers, I'm taking the money and canceling my game". No. Maybe this move will smarten Fish up.

 

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