[Jake]

Chris (remixor) and I sat down for three hours with Ron Gilbert a couple weeks back and chatted about a bunch of stuff. The first half is now up over at Idle Thumbs

Originally Posted by Ron Gilbert

What they need to do, what Ubisoft needs to do, is do Beyond Good and Evil 2. They should immediately turn around and do that again, because that game got very good reviews, it certainly has—I don't know if I'd call it a cult following—a group of people who really like that. There's something about that game that appealed to people. They should hit it again.

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When we started Humongous Entertainment, people told us we were crazy to do adventure games for kids. Because the only things you were supposed to do for kids were math drills, reading drills, and whatnot. We put out the first game, and it got really good reviews, and, you know, it didn't do very well. But we put out another one. We believed enough in it. And, it really wasn't until we'd put about three or four of those things that it started to catch, and when it did, it caught really really big.

But, you know, even after Humongous was very established, when we would put out a new game with a new character, the first one would not do very well. And, you know, people would say, "You shouldn't do another one of those. Pajama Sam: failure. No more Pajama Sam." And we'd go, "No no, we're going to do another one." And then the second one or the third one would hit.

Take a look at the whole thing right here.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Um, care to add a 'u' to that [/rl], mister?

EDIT: LOL! Thanks!