One entry, from November 11, talked about how some of the artists at Rockstar wanted to make a zombie survival game after finishing Vice City. The working title was “Z,” which Vermeij explains was “pronounced Zed, not Zee.” It was intended to use Vice City’s code, set on a “windswept foggy Scottish island,” where players would be under constant attack from the undead. The main focus for players would be acquiring fuel for vehicles, but after just a month of work, apparently the team just found it too depressing. They got to work on San Andreas instead.
Glad the article included some of the things they mentioned in their blog. It’s interesting to read.
I wonder if something they said is still deep in Rockstar’s catalogue of things they want to try and that’s why they shot it down
I’m pretty sure they shot it down because “1) we can, 2) no fun allowed, 3) fuck you”. That seems to be their “corporate values” these days - or whatever the Suitspeak term is.
Fuck Rockstar. And fuck Take Two.
They turned into worse versions of what they used to make fun of.Another reason to stop giving this shitty company any attention, let alone money.
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It’s stuff that happened 20 years ago.
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In the US, contracts are routinely deemed unenforcable by courts for being overly broad. A contract with an indefinite duration frequently falls under that category.
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The contract is forced on you in order to obtain employment when there is very unequal bargaining power. It’s also a contract that’s largely deemed illegal in actual courts. He disclosed information that is no longer business relevant and instead just an object of historical interest at this point.
I suppose if you were forced to sign a non-compete to work for a fast food restaurant that you’d also honor that and not work for any other fast food restaurants if you had to quit?
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Sounds immoral
one of the few remaining decent AAA developers
What? Rockstar have behaved like assholes for a long time
Internet connection required for single player mode.
Except he wasn’t putting them in a negative light, he was just putting them in a human light, nothing was really negative. It was probably an emotional response from an OG’s ego over in Rockstar North, and egos being what they are, there was probably little in regards to being able to reconcile it after the complaints were made.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231122113850/https://insiderockstarnorth.blogspot.com/
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Ride a corporation’s meat a little harder, pal.
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Some people seem to think anything is fine if it’s for social media. An Apple genius was fired recently for making ‘I work at Apple ’ tech tip Tik Toks and she seemed totally baffled as to why that might be a problem.
Thats apples and oranges to this situation.
