Are fans being unreasonable in their criticisms of Double Fine's boss?
Double Fine Productions has teased the next Time Schafer game in the latest episode of PsychOdyssey on YouTube.
Over 30-year industry veteran and Double Fine CEO Tim Schafer talks to IGN about Xbox and Game Pass, making weirder games, his inspirations, the Psychonauts 2 documentary, improving work culture, his future plans, and the deep importance of making games with and for other human beings.
Come now, MS PR efforts with these personalities is on a whole different level. At least historically.
I dont know this dude, but they got some really feisty characters talking their points. when its too risky for a higher up to be saying it, they let the grunts do the talking points.
These PR characters are not idiots, they are cogs in a machine that is Microsoft PR.
@S2
Tim Schafer is not some "PR character". He's one of the most well-known and respected pioneers in the industry.
Sony has its own blog, podcast, and video series to promote PlayStation. Arguably Sony PR is just better than Microsoft PR.
Great interview and really down to earth guy. I’m interested in watching the documentary they made on the making of Psychonauts 2 .
"MinnMax's Ben Hanson put together Tim Schafer from Double Fine and Hazelight Studios' Josef Fares to talk about Psychonauts 2, It Takes Two, and designing a great platformer in 2021."
This was a great interview. It reminded me a bit of the Devs Play interviews that Double Fine used to do: https://youtu.be/DxUfaZuGQK...
The ramblings of Josef Fares are endlessly entertaining. haha. He basically sounds crazy at the start of every tangent, but by the end of it, it's obvious that he's very talented and really knows what he's talking about.
He has a strong vision for his games - he didn't water down It Takes Two so it could also be played in solo with an AI and lose the need for collaboration, just like people don't want single-player games to be watered down. I would like if more studios took Hazelight's approach to game design: huge amounts of gameplay variation with very distinct levels.
I felt a bit bad for Tim because he talked about the struggle of cartoonish-looking games appealing to older gamers ... whereas Josef talked a lot about the high sales of It Takes Two (3.5m now). lol. Psychonauts 2 is fantastic and deserves higher sales and more recognition.
Personally? I think he is overrated. I like the games double fine make, but they are hardly earth shattering or genre defining. Phsyconaughts was a great game...but I struggle to think of anything else he made that hits the same highs.
I dont think he is a bad games designer at all...but most certainly he is no kojima or john carmack.
He is a much better writer than he is a game designer/producer. His games always treat the characters with respect, and there is always a kind of a dry wit to the writing that you don't see in this industry very often, but like FlexLuger says, they never even come close to being genre-defining masterpieces in any other regard.
...and I DEFINITELY don't trust him with money...
I like that he tried to make something different ,
He was a dick to JonTron.
The moment he make that offensive sock puppet joke he became dead to me.