Too Human Interview

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Talking to Kikizo, Silicon Knights' Denis Dyack chats about some of the bad publicity Too Human has received, the number of hours we can expect to get out of it, and more.

Kikizo: You have said that it's a problem in the industry for developers to show games in preview form. I was just wondering whether your thoughts have changed on that, since you are showing Too Human in preview form a lot lately?

Dyack: My thoughts haven't changed a bit. I think our industry needs to mature in such a way that, what's best for consumers, what's best for press and what's best for designers and publishers and their games, are that games are really previewed and shown once they're finished, and then marketed and delayed later so people get the most honest, realistic opinion on what they're seeing.

Kikizo: Do you not think there is some value in early previews though, depending on the level of exposure?

Dyack: What I'm suggesting doesn't take away from previews, it just basically shifts the process. It's an economic model really. So the game would be done, and you'd get say a half hour preview, knowing that the game will be released in six months. So you get a preview, but the game's done. And then, a few months later, you'll look at it, review it, and you wouldn't have to guess whether this bug's going to be fixed, or the frame rate's going to be fixed, whether there are features hanging or not. That would all be factual, and the consumers wouldn't be misled, the press wouldn't be misled, the designers wouldn't make promises that they couldn't keep - and all these things I just think would improve the industry, so my opinion hasn't changed whatsoever.
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Kikizo: What would you say the overall size of this first Too Human is?

Dyack: First play through is probably around fifteen hours, I guess, it depends. To get to level fifty, it's anywhere from fifty to eighty hours. It's a lot! There's a lot there to want to dig! And to get all the epic loot - I don't even know if it's possible to get everything in the game, it's probably not - not for a single person. We've got a pretty big team testing, and all of Silicon Knights is testing, and just last week I found a combo that I'd never tried before, and that's a major part of the game.