Digital Homicide working on new stuff, what do you think about them?

[Politrukk]

Recently Digital Homicide have thrown up a youtube account and have been posting new videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClb97S1Y36snvmqSOt77Gmg

I came across this due to the entire Jimquisition thing.

I'm just wondering what people think about this studio objectively.

Just refrain from mentioning Jim, it's done and dusted he'll do his thing in court and we'll either have a laugh or be shocked.

It seems that they're working on new stuff and I'm just wondering what people honestly think about them or well him because I've come to understand it's just Romine?

 

[tippy2k2]

I can't imagine you're going to be able to have people refrain from mentioning Jim fucking Sterling son considering that I would venture that 99.567% of people know nothing about the studio EXCEPT for what Jim has stated about it (with the .433% of people being the employees and immediate family of Digital Homicide).

From everything I've seen from [name retracted], they look like everything wrong with independent game makers and why so many people don't trust the indie market. Nothing but a bunch of broken games being released at such a high rate in the hopes of tricking some gullible gamer from their money.

 

[DoPo]

them or well him because I've come to understand it's just Romine?

Aren't they the Romine brothers? James and Robers, so it seems like "them" even though it is just Romine.

Anyway, from what I've seen of their games, they aren't really good. Maybe there is some potential interesting idea but the execution is always terrible. And not even badly designed, just...incomplete. With some polish, their games wouldn't have been brilliant, mind you, but still just about average. Which would be quite higher than their current work.

 

[DefunctTheory]

As far as I can tell, they just produce poorly designed and poorly executed junkware at an alarming rate. Doesn't seem to be any attempt at quality control, or even quality in general.

And I'd hesitate to use the word 'studio' to describe what I gather is just two guys, who have resorted to crowd sourcing a lawsuit.

Spoiler: Some Fun Reading

Digital Homicide's Main Page [http://www.digitalhomicide.ninja/]
An Interesting GoFundMe Request [https://www.gofundme.com/47uexn9c]


Scroll down to the reviews after watching a mindbogglingly bad 'trailer' [http://store.steampowered.com/app/392050/ ]

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

I honestly don't think the ideas are any good. They're very basic concepts executed poorly. Given the shear breadth of the competition, I don't think they are up to par.

 

[Bilious Green_v1legacy]

They are the physical embodiment of everything wrong with Steam Greenlight. They're complete hacks trying to make a quick buck pushing out incompetently made shovelware.

 

[Jandau]

I try not to think about them. The only time their games are fun is when someone is mocking them in a video. They are persistently spamming some of the worst garbage onto Greenlight and are a "shining" example of some of Steam's more glaring problems. The fact that they are currently attempting to sue Jim Sterling only adds to the whole shitshow.

 

[Strazdas]

Ah, digital homicide. if they spent their time actually making a good, single game instead of throwing 18 games in 1 month and bickering with youtubers they may actually have a good result. There is one of their games that they spent almost a year developing and it actually turned out alright. nothing special, but it isnt the shitfest they usually put out. So yes, do that, focus on one game, instead of the crap they are doing now.

 

[Elfgore]

Positive view: They're a group of wannabe game designers who are just very bad at it. Unable to do more than the simplest of animation and programming. They're hearts in the right place though and they mean well.

Cynical and most likely real view: They're a group of people who realized that controversy can sell games. So they set out to make the shittiest games possible to attract attention from YouTubers and then profit off it by people buying their games from sheer curiosity to see just how bad it really is. AKA any publicity is good publicity.

 

[gigastar]

I recall that a few months ago they threw up about a dozen things to Greenlight in one day.

So what i think, based on that and thier previous works, is that DigHom are simply going to continue churning out rushed projects.

Cynical and most likely real view: They're a group of people who realized that controversy can sell games. So they set out to make the shittiest games possible to attract attention from YouTubers and then profit off it by people buying their games from sheer curiosity to see just how bad it really is. AKA any publicity is good publicity.

I wish for the life of me i remembered what the video was called so i could link it, but Totalbiscuit went over the activity history of some highly controversial titles including Slaughtering Grounds and Day One: Garrys Incident and showed that none of them benefitted from the attention they got. And in fact i dimly recall that the most activity one example got was from it going on sale after the shitstorm surrounding it had died down.

 

[Elfgore]

Cynical and most likely real view: They're a group of people who realized that controversy can sell games. So they set out to make the shittiest games possible to attract attention from YouTubers and then profit off it by people buying their games from sheer curiosity to see just how bad it really is. AKA any publicity is good publicity.

I wish for the life of me i remembered what the video was called so i could link it, but Totalbiscuit went over the activity history of some highly controversial titles including Slaughtering Grounds and Day One: Garrys Incident and showed that none of them benefitted from the attention they got. And in fact i dimly recall that the most activity one example got was from it going on sale after the shitstorm surrounding it had died down.

If you find that video and feel like doing so of course, send a PM or quote me here. That video sounds like an interesting watch. I'll be keeping an eye out for it as well. I would've thought the movie concept of "so bad you just have to watch it" would translate into games as "so bad you just have to play it", so seeing some hard facts on the matter would be rad.

 

[Buckets]

Entitled arseholes, with delusions of grandeur who seem to shit out games until something sticks.
The games they produce are shoddy at best and not even worth the dollar price tag they cost.
Reminds me of all the really old arcade game clones that just rehash the same idea over and over with slightly different graphics.

 

[gigastar]

Cynical and most likely real view: They're a group of people who realized that controversy can sell games. So they set out to make the shittiest games possible to attract attention from YouTubers and then profit off it by people buying their games from sheer curiosity to see just how bad it really is. AKA any publicity is good publicity.

I wish for the life of me i remembered what the video was called so i could link it, but Totalbiscuit went over the activity history of some highly controversial titles including Slaughtering Grounds and Day One: Garrys Incident and showed that none of them benefitted from the attention they got. And in fact i dimly recall that the most activity one example got was from it going on sale after the shitstorm surrounding it had died down.

If you find that video and feel like doing so of course, send a PM or quote me here. That video sounds like an interesting watch. I'll be keeping an eye out for it as well. I would've thought the movie concept of "so bad you just have to watch it" would translate into games as "so bad you just have to play it", so seeing some hard facts on the matter would be rad.

Well i realised it was hardly nessesary to find the video when the information itself was much easier to find, so heres the activity history of;

Day One: Garrys Indicent- http://steamcharts.com/app/242800#All
Slaughering Grounds- http://steamcharts.com/app/329950#All
Guise of the Wolf- http://steamcharts.com/app/259640#All

So as can be seen from theese very highly notable examples, none of theese games sold more copies when they were in the public eye following thier launch than when they were simply on sale after their respective shitstorms had subsided.

 

[Amir Kondori]

Even if they put out something that isn't complete garbage there is no way I could feel OK giving them money after all the shady shit they have pulled.

 

[Drathnoxis]

They embody one of the major problems with the internet: the tendency to blow minor issues into major controversies. The fact that I even recognize the name is disturbing. They peddle unremarkable, poorly made games, and as such should have no notoriety whatsoever. This is like finding out who made that really crappy whistle you bought at the dollar store and singling them out to the entire world. I'd be very surprised if anybody who bought one of their games didn't know what they were getting. People will sell you crap if you will let them, this isn't surprising or unique to Digital Homicide, and there is nothing noteworthy about the events thus far.

The fact that so many people are invested in a petty argument between Jim Sterling and a couple of shady developers is just depressing. This entire topic isn't worth the time it takes to read it, and to give people like this publicity is to give them exactly what they want.

 

[busterkeatonrules]

As far as I can tell, they just produce poorly designed and poorly executed junkware at an alarming rate. Doesn't seem to be any attempt at quality control, or even quality in general.

And I'd hesitate to use the word 'studio' to describe what I gather is just two guys, who have resorted to crowd sourcing a lawsuit.

Spoiler: Some Fun Reading

Digital Homicide's Main Page [http://www.digitalhomicide.ninja/]
An Interesting GoFundMe Request [https://www.gofundme.com/47uexn9c]


Scroll down to the reviews after watching a mindbogglingly bad 'trailer' [http://store.steampowered.com/app/392050/ ]

Hah! They were just given five bucks from 'Jim Fucking Sterling Son'!

 

[Balimaar]

In just about every game of theirs that I have seen there is a small gem of potential of something decent. Not good necessarily but decent.

If they would just not make fools of themselves for a few months and spend that time working on and polishing one game they may well be able to produce something worth buying for a few dollars.

And then use the feedback from that one good game to make a better one and so forth.

Yeah yeah I know, given how we have seen them handle feedback thats not likely... but hey a man can dream!

 

[Pseudonym]

At this point I don't want their games because I expect them to be completely worthless. I only want to play good games not garbage to subpar which is what they put out.

 

[Zhukov]

They make crummy games. I would not buy anything they made.

That's about it. I don't have the energy or the inclination to work up a righteous hate boner for them.

Hell, if anything I kinda feel sorry for them at this point.

 

[Hades]

Its a bit hard not to mention Jim here because when you think of Jim Sterling you think of Jim Sterling. When you think of Digihom you think of Jim Sterling. Seriously, I doubt any of us would remember their name if not for their feud with Sterling.

As of what I think of them. They seem a pretty shit developer but recent legal news aside they seem mostly harmless.