This game needs to be the shlt to compete with SOCOM in September.

I hope this means more games per year but for sony only.

1) Joking statement about religion:

gamesindustry.biz/articles/resisting-acquisition

2) Metacritic scores:

metacritic.com/games/xbox360/

1) Joking statement about religion:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/resisting-acquisition

2) Metacritic scores: http://www.metacritic.com/games/xbox360/

First i would like to address this to all of IG, especially Ted price. Before i start saying what i want and think of your company, i would like to congratulate you and all of IG on the expansion news. Now with that out of the way, here’s what i think of your company. For one, it is way overrated in terms of the quality and respect it is getting for its games and products. I say this with confidence in that when an outside objective person compares IG to say Naughty Dog (ND) or say independent developer Ninja Theory (NT) in terms of the quality of its games and products they put out, then one would agree that your are good company, but not one of the “best companies” out there.

I mean ND’s Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, its first game on PS3 completely blew your first two games on the PS3 in terms of graphics, animation, character development, gameplay mechanics, the depth of immersion of the user experience, musical score, story telling, and so forth. The same can be said about NT’s Heavenly Sword in most of the same categories, especially in the animation, graphical quality, story telling, immersion, and that amazing unique musical score that encompasses a mix the European lute and Middle Eastern oud instruments. In ND set the graphical bar for all other games out there on the PS3 and other systems in terms of it’s graphics, pixel quality, and animation as well as what could be achieved so far on the PS3 until say MGS4 comes out.

In fact, they have set the bar so high for other developers that I think it will be a long time before anyone including you can match ND’s achievement in this area, even from the already released info, screens and gameplay impressions from the media for Resistance 2. By the way, what I have seen so far of Resistance 2 doesn’t impress that much considering it runs at 30 fps, when you said that all games from now on from IG would be 60 fps. I mean if call of duty 4 can run at 60 fps without a hitch online, offline and still manages to match and in some cases supersede the graphical quality of Resistance 2 is really a testament to the skill set that IG can deliver in its games compared to other developers.

Additionally, when you say on your website that “East Coast here we come! Stay tuned for job openings in our new North Carolina location (opening January 2009),” it is a really really arrogant statement to say because you think that your so good at what you would that your going to take over the East Coast game development presence by attracting a lot more people to your studio there because of the corporate culture that you have designed for your employees, which a lot seem to like? I say this with confidence because already well established development studios, both independent and non-independent already resided on the East Coast for a long time and still put out better quality products out there in terms of above said categories since they have a better skill set of people than you currently have in the West Coast and will ever have in the East Coast. Let me name a few of those companies:

Epic Games (Independent Company)
2K Boston (Non-Independent Company)
Rockstar NYC (Non-Independent Company)
Bethesda Softworks (Independent Company in the game arena based in Rockville, MD)
***** and many more to list.

In fact, when you look at the metacritic score of those companies of their games it seems to be higher than that of your games released so far and will continue to do so in the near future when Resistance 2 is released in the fall. For example,

Epic Games (Gears of War = 94)
2K Boston (BioShock = 96)
Rockstar NYC with Rockstar North in England (Grand Theft Auto IV = 98)
Bethesda Softworks (Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion = 94)

Lastly, on your application website after it has been fixed to recognize previous applicants, yet it is still messed up in that it doesn’t allow you to upload your resume in the format you want and can’t allow you to apply for multiple positions says the following currently, “Multiple submissions from candidates (even if applying for different positions) will automatically be discarded. We believe in hiring the most talented individuals and will evaluate your application against current open positions and future positions for up to one year from the date of your online submission. Your best opportunity to be considered for a position is to complete the application form accurately and completely.” With that in mind, when I compare this to other companies such as Factor 5, Foundation 9 including all of its studios or Activision and all of its studios such Treyarch, Infinity Ward, and so forth that have a system in place to do the following easily through the Taleo web application career system then it really shows me the skill set of what IG can do and can not do in today’s fast growing economic culture where job applications are now most done electronic and easily. Maybe you can do it and are just lazy to do so, and if that’s the case then it shows the mind set of your company to potential candidates. In the end, we live in America, a country that prides itself on everything “Freedom” related from freedom of views, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to express any view you want, freedom to bear arms, and so forth. I say this because if my post gets deleted or I get a letter from your corporate lawyer Stephen Rubin saying that my views are “hostile, aggressive to your and all of IG’s employees” or whatever lame excuse you can come up with to threaten me that I will be “restrained by the local authorities in my area,” then really what country do we really live in? In fact, if this happens then it just shows you [including all of IG’s employees] and everyone who gets a chance to read this who you [IG] really are, a company that can’t take criticism at face value yet makes arrogant statements such as “(jokingly) We’ve actually made it a big focus to include more churches and now synagogues and mosques in Resistance 2” and claims to best in the business with a friendly corporate culture that’s loyal to it’s fans, employees, and potential employees, which to me sounds like a paradox.

In conclusion, when IG first started until Resistance: Fall of Man was released, I thoroughly thought of you and IG all highly and a respectable company that produces products with real substance and different views that actually add to the overall experience of game and the user. However, after that and with statements like the ones above, I have begun to really think of you differently, especially after beating Ratchet and Clank: Future Tools of Destruction on my PS3, as a company with no real substance.

P.S. It’s not funny to jokingly joke about something like this that really adds no real significance value