Daikatana needed some prerelease spin control after the infamous Romero ad.
Other than that, I can't think of any at the moment.
Despite all the initial "Aargh, SPECIAL in real time!" posts associated with Lionheart, things seem to have settled down on that front. One of the primary reasons? Eric and others actually talk about their game and respond intelligently to questions. They've convinced us that they're trying to make a decent game. If the worst thing I can say about Lionheart is that it's RT SPECIAL, and so far it is, I'll most likely buy it. (The oft-promised Fallout 3, on the other hand, better be turn-based.)
Team Chuck, on the other hand, no likuh da communication. The only person authorized to officially talk to the media or fans is apparently Chucky himself. Does he try to share anything believable about the game? No. He just butchers the setting with a straight face. As pointed out elsewhere, the most detailed response he's given is the thong "justification." Never mind the vastly different ghouls (which could be the new Hairy Deathclaw), the octogenarian bikini warriors, the Tesla Armor that makes the wearer look like a walking metal hat stand... They can't even get historical facts right! Describing "Riot Armor" as Kevlar plates makes no sense, considering
DuPont claims it was invented in 1965. Alternate universe, yeah, I know, but assuming the bombs dropped in the 50s, there's no way anyone's going to be doing that kind of R&D in a vault ten years after the bombs fell. If the outdoors is completely inhospitable, no one's going to come a-shootin'. I don't even see too many synthetic fibers in Fallout aside from Vault jumpsuits. It's just as bad as the horde of relatively useless 1990s weaponry in Tactics.
I won't even bother to analyze the "bringing to a wider audience" statement, except to say that those phrases invariably presage disaster. One risks the loyal fan base for the chance of attracting casual consumers. It rarely works.
As I said in the other thread, it's probably only stubbornness that's keeping this overpriced coaster in the Fallout franchise. They've alienated enough of the public by this point that they can't publicly admit defeat without feeling humiliated. They should throw in the towel, but they won't.
Oh, and one last thing: Unless they want to make Vault-Tec a complete Illuminati ripoff, they better take out most of the PipBoy scenery. Wasn't there a passage in the Fallout manual claiming that "Vault-Man" was a trademark of Vault-Tec?
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