I had the same reaction a while ago. I think it was with Pokemon Black & White. They were a Sunday release as well, and when I got my notification text from Gamestop on a Saturday, I was just baffled.

I spy a Terry Pratchett reference!

Ahh, my mistake. I assumed you were agreeing with Zippl. Didn't pay attention.

Their drill is the drill that will crash the server!

I hope there's a bit more variety to it than GW2. What killed that game for me was when my skill set had already been finalized before I even hit the halfway point in leveling.

It seems like many of these innovations don't really lend themselves to an MMO format. Take the persistent battlefield: where is the excitement in terrain that shows battle damage, when it'll never measure up to the week 1 terrain havoc as 50,000 level 1 players rampage across the starting zones killing boars?

The only way I can think of for a game to actually "hate style" is to go for ultrarealism. They've got a style they are going for, and they obviously don't hate it.

I believe the disfigurement is because the overdriven healing factor also sped up the cancer's replication. Those are giant swathes of tumor.

I read those words in context. He tweeted them. Having read his tweets, he has given no cause to believe he wasn't being serious and ample cause to believe he was.

I think the first exposure was Indie Game: the Movie. It turned him into something of a celebrity dev. Then he started really pissing people off with his pre-release award shit. The Japan fiasco was pre-release as well, though personally I think it's his mildest PR slip.

I disagree that he was tame compared to the vitriol of the community; to me, his tweets and comments, made by him and not republished, painted him pretty much the same as the trolls. That's something that we're not likely to find any common ground on. It's true that neither of us know his true character based on…

For the record, good deal of the comments that generated his extra hate were made well before the release of Fez.

Everything here is either a public statement plus some bit of irony, or just a public statement. I certainly should've noted that.

1) True enough. That's why Johnathan Blow gets his share of hate; generally he's just fine in context. This isn't really something that applies to Fish, though. He has gone out of his way to tie his game to himself as a person, and then, in 95% of cases, presents himself as a terrible person with no aid from the media…

The comments on it, apart from the "choke on it" tweet, aren't full Phil Fish quotes. They're Fish quotes plus a followup.

Vicious little bitching gamers cause problems. Loudmouth assholes on the media side cause problems. That doesn't mean a vicious little bitching loudmouth asshole on the dev side is a good thing. And people certainly have the right to choose to spend their money on people who act like actual, professional developers,…

Nowhere near.

I'm guessing it's a British word which means either chamberpot, cow, or muffler. Really, there's no telling which.

A couple of the more famous comments:

As was posted elsewhere: