Opinions on how TCR & FG are dealing with AAMFP criticism

[Paddy™]

you'd prefer a PR bullshit over an honest opinion?

Honesty from TCR would be nice. That is, intellectual honesty in how they respond to the criticisms they oh so abhor. I'm not defending the hateful, bilious shit people say about them, but those people aren't the only ones TCR has been fobbing off with their strained reasoning; everyone who criticised the game on the basis that it lacked what TDD had (mechanics, scares, etc.) is being waved away by Dan and Jess because they allegedly have entrenched ideas about what games can or should be, or that they had unreasonable expectations for what the game was intended to be, none of which is true outside of the insular world of TCR HQ.

As I and others have pointed out several times in this thread alone, any expectations of a TDD-like game which existed upon release were seeded and nurtured by pretty much all of the coverage the game had received from February 2012 onwards. Many of us took the game on its own merits and adored it, but it's not difficult to see why others didn't.

And it was during a conversation on this very topic that Dan chimed in with his completely rational and informed post

EDIT:

Suppose the game had been developed by Frictional Games and published by The Chinese Room. You would never ever see Jens Nilsson or Thomas Grip go into TCR forum (if they had one) and say things like: fucking brainless bullshit, shit, cock, the dream of a zygote in their parents underwear.

This