Manhunt manual ignores Vienna News

Happened to me on the first game I worked on. Infogrames didn't add our team (and company) to the printed manual.

Lovely.

Most publishers are cunts like that on the manual make sure you get yoru credits in game where they cant change em.

Disgraceful, but Rockstar have always been pretty cuntish so it's not big surprise.

The developer I worked for was not even mentioned in the manual, and the publisher raped my father and kicked my dog.

Is it really that hard for Rockstar to credit them? was the manufacturing cost gonna skyrocket due to that? or is there something else behind this decision?

They meant nothing to them - oh, Vienna!

LOL at neilka!

glol

I get annoyed at some games which forces you to wait until 15 mins worth of credits rolled off, even though there is nothing to show at end and you are just wanting to get back to menu and do it over again or something (Jericho the most recent culprit).

But even if some credits are overlong, it is important for all involved to be properly acknowledged, it should be there if in manual (which I never read) or on the menu, even the end credits roll but exitable.

/tap tap

no..the care-ometer isn't moving

What IS a fucking scandal though is games that won't let you skip opening cinematics. Yeah, fuck you Ubisoft.

That is pretty poor to say the least.

Thankfully it won't make any difference to the CVs of those involved, and at least they are credited in the build.

Its still pretty inexcusable though, simply as a matter of basic human courtesy.

Was Rockstar Vienna the leading studio for Manhunt? Since I live in Vienna I closely followed the events around the studio being closed down - they were usually responsible for ports (from PC to PS2 or from PS2 to Xbox) but since there's no real port here I wonder if they were actually developing the game before it was moved to London?

BASTARD! Beaten to it by Neilka!

Peej

If I were him I'd be keeping my head down.

that was a good ultravox reference.... well done neilka

Der_tolle_Emil:

"I wonder if they were actually developing the game before it was moved to London?"

Yes, we were. The game was 90% done when the company was closed. It was the first own title RSNY was letting us do. What do you think 55 people were doing 2 1/2 years? Good to see some healthy patriotism going on there... If you really want to be such a XXXXXXXXXX, then do it at least on the Krone forum or somewhere else. Being a c... international wide makes little austrian kittens cry.

Good to see some healthy patriotism going on there... If you really want to be such a XXXXXXXXXX, then do it at least on the Krone forum or somewhere else. Being a c... international wide makes little austrian kittens cry.

If that was sarcastic then I wasn't clear what I meant - I just wanted to know wether the studio was the leading developer or not. I didn't want to sound condescending like "all they were doing are ports anyway" - I really had no idea that R* Vienna was involved, I never heard of Manhunt 2 before the studio was closed so I automatically thought it was in development somewhere else all along.

Being a programmer myself (although not in the games industry) I know how hard work can be, how many people think that it all goes without saying and take a programmer's devotion for granted.

The worst part is that I cannot even think of a reason why something like this can even happen. It's a completely stupid mistake to make if they really forgot to mention almost three years of work and even more despicable if they actually left the studio out on purpose.

Okay, sorry for the angry barking. Feelings are easily rising about that topic, when one worked that long on a title just to be kicked on the street. Alas, that's the industry.

I guess i am reading too much on the FuZo Forums... :-(

Maybe they did credit them, but in order to get the game a non AO rating they needed to remove the names, so Troy Kuntfucka and Kok Muncha had their names removed?

/stabs, saws off badoli's nuts with wiimote

People not being included in credits on games is an all too common situation within the games industry. Always has been sadly.

Those uncredited (not only in this case, but in any - and regardless of which position they may have been in when working on a game) have my commiserations.

Ahh, I long for the days where the devs added small easter eggs to their games, in which they credited themselves so that they in fact were mentioned in the game...

Last time I saw that was somewhere in Pokemon, I believe. And Divine Divinity.

And Jurie, that could have been a nice name for an in-game Manhunt 2 character, wouldn't you say? ;)

Being Viennese myself I can't help but feel ashamed of fellow citizens drowning in self-pitty about their not getting credit for working on uhm... something. But it's an Austrian thing. Guess what, construction workers don't get to be mentioned when they've finished another mile of asphaltic road %) Grow up already, it's pathetic.

Oh, and kudos to the Ultravox reference ;)

I live down the road from Jurie, he is such a nice guy to see him get mad must mean they really fucked him.

So immature and typical from Rockstar.

Btw I liked the credits to World in Conflict.