Dennis Dyack of that other game did it, but he was complaining about bad reviews for his demo. I forget the game.

I think this may be the first time it's done for a fully released game. Go Sony!

All I have to say is "options". Gamers want them. It's ridiculous that they are trying to force us to accept a new form of control - the Sixaxis gimmick - and since they did, at least give the option to use the standard analong control scheme.

Granted the Shadowrun devs did get very defensive about the content/price ratio debates. This Lair thing is a whole new level of fun with Sony providing guide books on how a reviewer should play a game to review it. This could be a whole new market opportunity for Prima Guides and Bradygames.

This is hilarious.

One poor guy at work bought and defends Lair. He's completely entitled to enjoy what he spent his hard earned dollars on but we make sure he hears all the funny Lair news by him, like cursed development and 4.9 review scores.

Truth is, he bought into the hype and though he defends the game, I don't think he'll get his $60 worth out of it before the next big thing comes along.

Our ribbing has the same nature as the guy who likes a crappy sports team gets and I thought that was pretty clear.

Easy there, guys. - Certis

My bad.

I'd buy a PS3 for the kittens, but then you need to feed them, 72 cats a day is a LOT. And imagine the kitty litter!

*on-topic* If professional reviewers are doing it 'wrong' then how will gamers get it 'right?' This problem is suggestive of an unnecessarily arcane design. Sony really should just drop this sixaxis trash, even the name is stupid.

We made you love him? We didn't want to do it.

This is hilarious, I really can't believe that Sony did this, I am not a big fan of the limited control scheme they offer in Lair, even though I haven't played it I wish they would have included both types one with the motion control and one with analog sticks like Warhawk did, but I am really surprised that anyone though that Lair would be anything special.

Yeah but this is new Sony fodder so people feed on it. I'm right on board with those saying it was a dumb thing to hand reviewers a play guide because Factor 5's design choices force you to play the game in an artificially ineffective manner but this type of thing happens all the time. Many designers have come out and blamed bad reviews (and even community opinion) on the fact that the players "don't get it" and sending out "reviewer guides" and play suggestions is a very common PR practice in this industry. PR companies are paid to ensure that everything possible is done to ensure their games get the highest scores possible and that is not at all limited to trying to influence the reviewers. And if this game had gotten good reviews, I don't think we'd even be hearing about this.

It was on one of the podcasts I listened to this week. Don't hold me to it, but I believe it was this weeks cheap ass gamer podcast. And now that I think about it, I think it was the PR department, not the developer himself.

If Elysium had just received a "How to play Vanguard and have fun (while avoiding bugs and missing content) manual, I bet his perspective would have been totally different.

If this game had gotten good reviews, then they wouldn't have sent the guides out. The hilarity in this stems from the fact that they sent the guides out after getting the bad reviews to see if they could get some retractions. But the need for the guide only cements what the reviewers said in the first place.

Of course, the reason Sony is so amped up about this game is that this was supposed to be one of their system sellers, and has now become an example of why the PS3 is still a failure.

And yes, I miss the Sony Haterade thread.

It's Superman 64 2! With DRAGONS!

Wasn't that Superman Returns, not 64?