Tried to play Doom 1 a year or so ago. Hopefully they add an easier option to get rid of head bobbing because that crap made me motion sick. Sometimes, getting old sucks.
It's a bit of a read, but I think it clears up some confusion. For everyone wondering how the title was renamed, I like to think it went something like this...
United Front Games meets Square Enix.
Bobby Kotick (Activision): What are we doing here?
Stefan Wessels (United Front Games): We're finding a publisher.
Kotick: Off a pack of f***ing Square Enix? What's wrong with you? This will get messy.
Wessels: Not if you're here.
Kotick: Oh, you bastard. I f***ing hate Square Enix.
Square Enix Employee named Potter: That's a flash franchise, mister.
Wessels: Not as flash as your publisher, now is it?
Potter: Who are you looking for?
Wessels: Mr. Fischer.
Potter: Want me to get him?
Wessels: That's a good lad.
Kotick: Piss off.
Wessels: Are you going to go get him for me?
Potter: Yeah.
Wessels: What are you waiting for?
Potter: The five dollars you'll pay me.
Wessels: F*** off, I'll find him meself.
Potter: Two fifty.
Wessels: You can have a dollar.
Potter: You're a real tight f***er.
Narrator: There was a problem with Square Enix.
Mike Fischer (Square Enix US): What're you doing, Potter? Get out of the way, man.
Narrator: You can't understand what's being said.
Fischer: You Stefan? Come about the publisher?
Wessels: Mr. Fischer.
Fischer: F***, man. Call me Mike.
Narrator: Not business, not gaming.
Wessels: How are you?
Fischer: Well, the weather's been kind but the (babbling).
Narrator: It's just Square Enix.
*Kotick appears*
Fischer: F*** me, would you look at the size of him? How big are you? Hey guys, how big is he?
Potter: Big man, that's for sure.
Fischer: Hey, Lee, come and look at the size of this fella. Bet you publish a little, can't you, sir? Ahhh... you look like a publisher.
Lee Singleton (Square Enix London): Get out of the way, Mike. See if they'd like a game.
Fischer: Uh, I could FPS one.
Singleton: Be no FPSing done around here, I don't mind tellin ya.
Fischer to Potter: Get your hands out of there, you cheeky little shite.
Fischer: A teabag for the big fella?
Singleton: Don't be silly, Mike. Offer the man a proper game.
Fischer to Potter: Ah, you little bugger.
Singleton: Is the big fella not coming with us?
Wessels: Nah, Kotick's minding the franchise "True Crime".
Singleton: What's he think we are, tieves?
Wessels: No, nothing like that, Mr. Singleton. He just likes … looking after franchises.
Fischer: Good Sleeping Dags. D'ya like "Sleeping Dags"?
Wessels: Sleeping Dags?
Fischer: What?
Singleton: Yeah, Sleeping Dags.
Fischer: "Sleeping Dags". D'ya like "Sleeping Dags"?
Wessels: Oh, "Sleeping Dogs". Sure, I like "Sleeping Dags". I like publishers more.
Fischer: Hm.
Singleton: You're very welcome.
Narrator: Square Enix is well-known for their skills of negotiation in business. It's probably why they talk like that... so you can't follow what's being said. But if Wessels can get Square Enix for less than the price asked... on his return there will be ice cream. Good "Sleeping Dogs", good family.
I agree that "Sleeping Dogs" seems silly but I think it's too early to tell if it will catch. Naming the Nintendo system the "Wii" didn't seem to hurt its sales.
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