PlayStation 3 owners have yet to see a Twisted Metal title for their shiny black console. Though that may change very soon according to God of War director David Jaffe. At the AIAS Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony, Jaffe allegedly responded to the crowd's Twisted Metal related outcry by saying, "Soon, bitch -- eight or nine months."
There is still some uncertainty as to exactly what question he was responding to, though it sounded like it regarded either the game's release or announcement.
The guys at 1UP followed up on Jaffe's response in their latest episode of 4 Guys 1UP to find that his latest project does in fact sound a lot like Twisted Metal.
As is generally the case with David Jaffe's blog posts, or at the very least, the most memorable ones, he violently uses words to curse and destroy things. Today my fellow Kombo-ans, we are given yet another treat from his profane goody basket. Cue censored Jaffe rant:
POOPY! Today I broke off my 6th stinking USB port thingy that hooks the controller up to the dev kit. I know you can't tell all that well from this pic [shown to the right], but that little black tab on the floor is the thing that hooks the end of the usb cable into the ps3. And they are very, very fragile for some unknown, labryrithian reason. And I was simply walking by the quite poorly designed and packaged dev kit and the cord caught on my leg and snap! The blessed piece just popped and shut my day down. According to our producer Angelic, she has already had to send 8 of the sable tormentors of my soul in for repair! So at least I don't feel so bad about being the only one this happens to. But still...POOPY!
Clearly this isn't a remote issue. The worst part is that it happened too late in the day for him to get a unit shipped in the following day. The kicker is that wireless controllers don't work, or at the very least haven't for him, so he's got to wait to play "the game." For the full uncensored version, click on that source link. Gotta give the guy a hand for his vocabulary, though.
"Cliffy B," aka the game designer formerly known as David Jaffe, has kept mum on his latest project, though during a recent entry in his blog, he did let one piece of info slip:As for promoting the new game, when is that, you ask? Well at least I hope you ask!
Who knows. Going to visit Sony today but we prob. won't pick a launch day. My gut/guess tells me we're looking sometime in 2010. Certainly not later than that. Perhaps sooner. -- David JaffeHope we hear more about it sooner, anyway.
GamePolitics reports that God of War publisher Sony Computer Entertainment America and designer David Jaffe have been named in a lawsuit which alleges copyright infringement. The case was filed by Jonathan Bissoon-Dath and Jennifer Barrette-Herzog in late February, with Sony and Jaffe filing responses on August 29th.In the complaint, Bissoon-Dath identifies himself as "the author of a series of related works of fiction, including Olympiad, a screenplay." Barrette-Herzog is described as the creator of Island at the Edge of the Living World, "a map that was submitted with Bissoon-Dath's work: The Adventures of Own: Owen's Olympic Adventure."
The plaintiffs allege that in 2002 they sent their work to Sony Pictures as well as agents who also did business with SCEA. Bissoon-Dath and Barrette-Herzog note that the original God of War shipped in 2005 and that David Jaffe apparently said at some point that the game had taken three years to develop.
Beyond the alleged similarity in the time line, the plaintiffs also claim that GoW shares elements of plot, character relationships, themes, settings, mood, pace and dialogue with their works. Bissoon-Dath and Barrette-Herzog list seven pages of what they allege are suspicious similarities between their work and God of War. -- GamePoliticsGP cites some of the example claims made by the plaintiffs, but it's hard to see how this one will go; SCEA and Jaffe assert that no infringement took place, and that some of the plaintiffs' work lies in the public domain. "In addition, the plaintiff's delineation of specific alleged similarities are described as 'inaccurate, incomplete, abstracted and/or misleading.'"
Naturally, SCEA and Jaffe want reimbursement for legal costs if they win.
Forget those rumors floating around the Internet that Eat Sleep Play's new PlayStation 3 title will make its debut at the Leipzig Games Convention this month. David Jaffe has confirmed to Ripten that the game is not ready to be shown and is still over six months away from being revealed.
Hey ya'll- as for our new game, no, we re not showing it next week. Or next month. Or the month after that.
We're prob. a good 6-10 months away from letting anyone outside of Sony see it. And at that point, I have no clue if they will give it its own showing to the press or make it's unveiling a part of something like GDC or E3.
Will let ya'll know- hope you like what we are doing!" -- David Jaffe, speaking to Ripten
Sure, it's disappointing that it's not ready to be shown, but I'd rather wait and be impressed than see it this month and be underwhelmed.
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