His AMA is pretty interesting. Sounds like he wants Fez ported to pretty much everything. He mentions Sony and OUYA ports too. Curious how it would run on a phone.

@sweep said:

I can relate. If the guy made shit to back-up his douchebaggery (like, let's say, McMillen), I'd probably be able to swallow his bullshit, but alas, no.

Awesome, have been waiting for this for a while. Have avoided spoilers thus far, only a little more to go...

Does anybody on GB believe in a separation of art and artist? Jeez.

YEAAAAH finally

The Internet truly forgives all, eh? I hope the game doesn't release with a save-destoying bug that he refuses to properly fix.

Will he suck my dick and choke on it?

Yeah, I'd love to play this...except that I find Phil Fish extremely distasteful.

Oh yeah! Stick it to The Man!

Imagine if any of the people commenting on this story ever heard any stories about Harvey Weinstein. They'd have to force themselves to never watch an Oscar winning movie again!

yeah .. this choice seems driven by the fact that hes "been doing nothing" i guess this is how long the xbox money lasted him.

I'm legitimately unsure if you're speaking of Tom Cruise or Phil Fish. But really, if you want to dislike a great game for reasons you can full-well get over then that's your business.

yes!

I will buy a copy on every single device Fez is released on to counter-act the silly Fish hate. Fezis the game most definitive of last generation.

theres a huge difference between Fish's position at his studio and Weinstein's position at his company. Weinstein's involvement in the actual creation of the movies he releases is minuscule when compared to Fish's direct involvement in Fez. Its more like not wanting to watch any of Kevin Smith's movies because you think he's an asshole.

This whole thing of "man, Phil Fish is such an asshole I'm not buying his game." Really childish.

Phil Fish, working for years and years on this game, sticking to his vision of this as a console game made possible by Xbox Live, getting hounded by people "yo, this looks good but WHY YOU NO MAKE IT PC?" and he says "uh, it was designed to be a console game," and the response is "WELL FUCK YOU YOU BETTER NOT FUCKING RELEASE IT ON PC THEN EVER YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE FUCK YOU!"

Phil Fish seems like a person I would not want to be friends with in real life. So it's really a shame that I have to be to play his critically-acclaimed game. Wait, I don't? Score.

HELL YEAH!

If this comes out on Vita I might have to buy it twice. Though hopefully it'll be on PS Plus so it'll be free like Retro City Rampage!

Linux version will happen, but only because the Humble Bundles exist and he won't have a choice. The question is will it be good and supported well.

I get the feeling most of the humble bundle candidates are like 'Linux Yeah!', some are 'Linux is pretty neat and I'll get to it, but its low on my list, cuz I'm way too busy'

But a few are like 'steups, fine. whatever, let's just hire icculus to push this port out asap, and hope noone uses it, because we don't want to support this, cuz who uses this dumb OS anyways' Runic Games, the Torchlight guys are like that. Team Meat is like that. The Linux version isn't even on their websites. I get a feeling Phil Fish will be like that. I have no evidence though (other than the douchey reputation), and I hope I'm wrong about that.

@radioactivez0r: Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the cost of patching the main deterrent? With the move to PC, patching should become a snap. Still leaves Xbox 360 players out in the cold...

Dust is pretty good.

I hate Kayne West as a person, yet Graduation is in my top 5 albums of all time.

The artist shouldn't affect your enjoyment of the art.

Fucking finally.

Depends how you understand his rants. I'm not really into FEZ, might get it at a sale in a bundle or what not, but I wont specifically buy that game, however, when he says "PCs are crap and the only good thing they can do is spreadsheets, so there will never be support for my game on that platform." - or something similar, I have to wonder what kind of effort will be put into that port and what kind of support can we expect if something is broken.

His loud mouth does not only affect the picture of how people see him, but also his products.

I bet Fez will sell fine on Steam and it will almost certainly be ported fine, but really, people should think what they say, especially when they are in the media lights. It's easy to say something without thinking, it's hard to forget what was said.

I love Phil Fish. I've been waiting for this game to be ported for a goddamn year.

I mean, hell, I think Ryan is a way bigger asshole than Phil Fish.

Yay!

Hooray for dismissing a brilliant game because of the personality of its creator. Limiting your horizons is dope!

I didn't mention anything about the game itself. I actually wrote a review for Fez on this website and scored it pretty high. I'm simply saying that Phil Fish is the sort of guy that probably shouldn't speak publicly very often if at all. The way he presents his opinions usually does him no favors, as it's crass and without any tact. David Jaffe manages to pull this off without sounding like a complete asshole but Phil Fish hasn't grown up enough to do that yet.

All that is separate from his game of course, which I thought was neat. Anyone that won't play a game because they don't like the CEO of the publisher or someone from the development team is acting pretty silly. Tom Cruise can do or say whatever he wants in his spare time, I don't care, I still think he's a great actor and enjoy his movies - his personal life doesn't really concern me and thats how people should approach game developers as well.

Release it on Vita and I might give it a go. Might.

Great. I got it for the Xbox, but the glitches and the fact that I share a house with a bunch of other people means that the TV was never free enough for me to play it when I wanted to. I will buy this game again and this time, finish it fully (I got to the first ending on the Xbox)

Can't wait to play this on my spreadsheet machine.

There needs to be some kind of spreadsheet gag in this port.

I suspect that a PC release will lead to people hacking to uncover all of the secrets in the game. :(

NOBODY should buy this.

The hipster piece of shit dev does not deserve our PC-gamer money.

He initially said PCs are not for gaming and only good for Excel tables. He also said Japanese games suck.

But I wouldn't expect Patrick to know such things or just sweep it under the rug, anyway.

Finally!

Ah. It will actually be patched with ease now. Valve is starting to eat Microsoft's lunch.

It like it when games go PC. It preserves them in a way.

finally!

@patrickklepek Don't know if you caught it, but Fish was on an ask anything open questionnaire yesterday for a couple hours. Some great questions in there and insight to his thoughts, the game and reactions since the indie movie.

Wasnt Fish badmouthing pc as a platform for his game the whole time that the game was in development?

I dont like supporting developers whose egos are bigger than the gravitional pull of the planet Jupiter.

The guy also left a lot of xbox 360 players high and dry because he didnt want to pay the patching fee.

"I..I need money..Please buy my game. Disregard that I acted like a dick to PC-gamers" - Phil Foosh

Phil Fish is the Orson Scott Card of video games. love his work, but NEVER, EVER look into his personal views.

@seanfoster: That'd be a nice one. With that purdy art and such it could benefit from a nice boost in resolution.

I am all over that mythical Vita version.

Finally! Now, I can give Phil Fish my money, and I'll have purchased every critically-acclaimed game featured in Indie Game: The Movie.

Awesome! I've been holding out for this.

I was reading his AMA comments, and all things considered, Phil Fish seems like a cool guy. I guess he was just feeling the stress during crunch time and had to lash out a bit to deal with it. Definitely want this game regardless of his personality though.

If by "man" you mean "some asshole", and by "stick it", you mean "don't pay him $10", then yes, we're on the same page.