14 DAY TRIAL // Jade Empire's senior producer, Diarmid Clarke got his chance to discuss their PC version of Jade Empire, mentioning fans' reactions and stuff like that. But among other topics of discussion, the man told CVG that speculation is growing on the Internet and everyone's getting it all wrong because of those who have nothing better to do than talk trash.
"Actually, I'm probably proudest of the PC interpretation of the control system in the whole project," said Diarmid Clarke, speaking of the revamped PC version of Jade Empire, as Evil Avatar posts. "From the outset, we were adamant that the game had to play well on keyboard and mouse, otherwise there's no point in making the game. We threw a dummy control system in at the outset of making the game, so we had the whole development process to perfect the controls. Personally, I think it plays better on keyboard and mouse, because your ability to jump between styles is a lot more fluid than it was on the Xbox. "
Ok, that was just for you to know that Jade Empire is coming along nicely. And... I think it's Xbox 360, but that doesn't matter right now. Here's the interesting part, letting you know that speculation has to have some limits too, but apparently, some aren't aware of that:
"Within 24 hours of us registering the name for Dragon Age, one of the fans had found it and posted on our site," said Diarmid Clarke. "He was saying: "Hey, guess what, BioWare have got this Dragon Age, and boy, is it gonna suck." Immediately, we had someone replying: "You've got to be kidding, it's going to have thousands of dragons flying around everywhere." All we'd done was register a name that at the time, we may or may not have been going to use, but yeah, some people get pretty fanatical. I think you could just post the name, and the fans would just design the game for you - the speculation is unbelievable."
Of course, that reply could have been worked to sound better, or scare that user's pants off, but nevertheless, they're quite right. The game hasn't even launched yet, few major details have even been disclosed, while the mere fact that it's being ported to the PC should present gamers with an advantage and the Internet already says it's going to suck. Not to mention that flying dragons are the bomb (Lair - PS3).