Hookedcast #61
The GTA V trailer is discussed, as well as potential Game of the Year 2011 candidates.
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Mark Barley
News Editor
January 23rd, 2012
Twisted Metal Demo Confirmed
Eat Sleep Play bossman David Jaffe has confirmed that his upcoming PlayStation 3 reboot title Twisted Metal will be getting a demo and a day-one patch.
The news was confirmed over on Jaffe's blog where he states that the developer is working on the demo now is expected to finish up the demo by the end of the week.
“We’re doing a day one patch, which is gonna be a very, very, very small patch,” Jaffe said. “I’ve gone on record: I hate patches. But that said – they’re important in some cases.”
Then speaking on a day-one patch, Jaffe says;
“There are a couple of bugs – we don’t want to release it buggy,” he admitted, “But we’re also doing it for some real final tuning and balance.
“Once you go gold, you have a couple of weeks to really play the game, and me and the QA guys we’re just like ‘you know, this seems a little unbalanced. It would be really cool if this weapon did a little less damage.’ It takes a lot of time to suss those things out.”
Jaffe then talked about some bigger issues that would require a more substantial patch;
“You start downloading a huge, memory-intensive level and it starts to feel like ‘I just bought this, I just wanna play,’”
“If the game is successful enough we’d love to do future tweaks and adjustments to the game, and some of those hopefully will be level-based."
Depending on the game's success will depend on how many updates the game receives.
“If we ever touch Twisted Metal again, it’ll be either that it’s successful enough that there’s a big enough community that says ‘hey, we’d really like to get some of these in via patch’, or there are some really heinous bugs,” Jaffe said.
Twisted Metal is out on February 14 in the US and February 17 in the UK exclusively for the PS3.
Hookedcast #61
