Fez Coming to PCs on May 1

yeah .. this choice seems driven by the fact that hes "been doing nothing" i guess this is how long the xbox money lasted him.

Imagine if any of the people commenting on this story ever heard any stories about Harvey Weinstein. They'd have to force themselves to never watch an Oscar winning movie again!

Oh yeah! Stick it to The Man!

Yeah, I'd love to play this...except that I find Phil Fish extremely distasteful.

Will he suck my dick and choke on it?

The Internet truly forgives all, eh? I hope the game doesn't release with a save-destoying bug that he refuses to properly fix.

YEAAAAH finally

Does anybody on GB believe in a separation of art and artist? Jeez.

Awesome, have been waiting for this for a while. Have avoided spoilers thus far, only a little more to go...

@sweep said:

I can relate. If the guy made shit to back-up his douchebaggery (like, let's say, McMillen), I'd probably be able to swallow his bullshit, but alas, no.

His AMA is pretty interesting. Sounds like he wants Fez ported to pretty much everything. He mentions Sony and OUYA ports too. Curious how it would run on a phone.

I'm gonna pirate it. First game I've pirated in years.

Yeah, im torn on this, i would love to play Fez but i dont like the idea of sending the message that people dont care about what developers say. Just so weird to me how people can pick and choose reasons for making stands for or against things.

Big wig ceos like Riccitello get raked over the coals for only being interested in money. But Fish will get a pass on this obvious cash grab just because hes an indie dev doing it for himself. He's already said this game is only coming out on pc to get more money. So either you rake his ass over the coals like everyone else or stop complaining when companies try to bleed money from dumber consumers who are willing to let themselves be bled. Fish is a jerk and blatantly mislead people about his character, stating he didnt care about the money, that Fez was a "console game"(whatever the hell that means) and that it would never come out on the pc. Now that he needs to squeeze more money out of people he crawls to the PC to release it. Fine, but dont try to act like you are any less of a snake-oil salesman then the stuffy, suited businessmen on the board at EA.

/rant

good news. I'm looking forward to finally checking Fez out. Don't worry Phil I'll use a controller to play it from my sofa :P

@amyggen: That kind of irks me even more, because by saying he's doing it just for profit, he's basically implying that his original statement is still accurate, that you can't experience the game the "intended" way on PC (which is utter poppycock), and that he's only putting it out there for money, not because the game can be enjoyed just as much on PC as it can on a console. I'd rather that he acknowledge his original statement was BS; if he had said "that response was motivated by a need to defend my platform exclusivity deal, and I am not in fact completely ignorant of the proliferation of 'living room PCs' and don't think my game is so special it can only be experienced 'correctly' in a specific environment" then I might be less irked.

Again, I'm not arguing that's a rational reason to avoid buying Fez, but my interest in the game was always minimal anyway, so it just kind of makes it even easier to avoid or wait for it to be really cheap.

This will easily become my most-gifted Steam game. All my non-360 "friends" need to catch the fuck up with the medium. Journey next, plz?

Phil's current twitter profile pic of Andy Kaufman pretty much sums him up for me. That's his shtick now, there's no point in course correcting. Once you accept people in the spotlight can be method-douchebags and still be good at what they do, it's easier to lay down a $10 to watch it happen.

If he's mean in private, there are laws and karma for that. To me, he's Tony Fishton.

definitely looking forward to this

It's always so heart warming to see all the little fan boys up in arms whenever Fez is mentioned. "He hates Japan! and PCs! He is the worst human! I am a better person for not buying this tiny, incredible game!"

Sorry, where I wrote heart warming I meant to write ridiculous.

Anyway, I am super stoked to hear that it's not all figured out yet. Would love an excuse to dive into that game again.

He realized howm uch money he was throwing away and did a 180 spin. I had zero interest in the game despite his stupid comments about it being a console game for console people and would never see the light of day on PC as long as he had his way, but I might have picked it up during some Steam sale had he not have made them.

Still pretty hard to care about Fez. Too many other great things to play on the PC.

Than again, being $0.99 during a Steam sale never hurt a game's numbers, right?

Top 3 game of 2012 for me, still strikes a chord just thinking about it. Awesome that more people will get to experience Fez now, hopefully their talk of Mac/Linux/Sony comes to fruition as well.

Well's he's said a lot of stupid things, back to back, where millions of people could read it.

I might actually finish that game now.

I for one won't play it anyway, I said that his douchebaggery towards Japanese game industry ruined any appeal that Fez could have for me and I'm keeping my promise.

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Great news for people who care, but I'd rather not support a game developed by some pretentious boy.

Fez was a wonderful gaming experience. One of the best of last year for me, I'm so glad it's getting another wider release. I hope they've fixed their bug issues.

Hooray! Been wanting to play this on my laptop. Also I would totally buy a Vita version.

3DS would be really cool, and I am sure it would do very well.

Either way I will be picking this up on PC day one for sure, I need to know what that huge hubbub was about.

Whatever happened to the "Fez will never come to PC" mentality?

All I can think of is FEZ + Oculus Rift.

I'm stoked for the Oculus Rift, but I can't imagine spending the crazy amount of money on a rarely-implemented peripheral, even if those rare instances are awesome.

YEAH!

I'm happy :)

"BOO HOO. PCs are for spreadsheets." - Phil Fish

"But money is for everyone" - Bradley maker of shoes

Fez on the go sounds like a perfect mix. Hopefully they can manage to figure out a deal that'll let that happen.

On his AMA over at Reddit right now, he straight up said that this move was mainly about "profit". So at least he's honest about it now. And come on, everyone cares about money, so of course that initial statement was bullshit.

I think people generally wouldn't be so upset about a comment like that if it wasn't Phil Fish, who a lot of people try to find reasons to dislike even more. And I have no idea why anyone would boycott a game because of a statement like that, I really don't.

People act like they've never said anything stupid. Give it a break. I hate Tom Cruise, but I don't let that ruin all the great movies he's been in.

Please give me a vita version.

Now, I'm not saying this isn't driven by money (which, TBH, is totally fine in my opinion - why not make as much money as you can?) But I am going to get exactly the experience he described, on my PC.

With a controller, on the couch on a big screen - all the benefits of the console experience but on the PC! As far as I can see it's win win, no?

I really need to go finish this game.

I should complete that Fez guide I started. You still have a copy of it, @lordandrew?

Haha! Fuck you Phil Fish! Guess your vision of a 'console game for consoles' didn't stand up to the allure of Steam cash.

Coming to PC - Cool

May come to the Vita - Really cool

Well, that's it, then. There's a way to solve the monolith.

Yeah I was going to post that if it wasn't already. To be a rational adult, some off-hand statement by the developer in an interview is probably a petty reason to avoid getting a good game, yet I fully admit I feel the same way. I mean if it was some slimy marketing-type finding a way to justify platform exclusivity it'd be easy to ignore; but when it's the game creator - someone who should know better - making dumb statements like that, I just don't want to support him.

Ultimately, I'd guess that statement probably was motivated by him acting like a marketing-type and going to bat for Microsoft to find an excuse to justify platform exclusivity which more than likely was simply motivated by their funding. What's ironic (probably not the right use of the term, but you know what I mean) is how quickly he turned on them once it came time to patch his buggy game and he found out how much he'd have to pay for it.

Phil's line about not caring about sales or revenue smells like manure. I suspect his loyalties go exactly as far as who is giving him money and who is asking for money...

Hell yes, can't wait to play it but might wait for the possible Vita version

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank God!