Weekly Poll 10/22/06

[shaggy]

Working Designs closed there doors awhile ago.  Do you wish they were back in business?

[Tynstar]

I voted maybe becasue it depends on the price.

[Ando]

Unfortunately, I had to choose the "What the heck are you talking about?" option.
So, what the heck are you talking about?

[shaggy]

Ok,  I guess noone like this poll either.  Working Designs made RPG's  for various system.  They started becoming known for there Sega CD games, Lunar being one of them.  They closed there doors a couple of years ago.  I personally loved the company and loved there RPG's.  Vay and Lunar were awesome games.  They, in my opinion, had awesome cutscenes for there games.  That is also something they were known for.

I voted I would buy anything they would make.  Just like I said above, I think there games were awesome.  R.I.P. Working Design.

[Mezmoron]

I said yes.  I'd buy almost anything that has their name associated.  Almost.

Ken

[Ando]

Ok,  I guess noone like this poll either.  Working Designs made RPG's  for various system.  They started becoming known for there Sega CD games, Lunar being one of them.  They closed there doors a couple of years ago.  I personally loved the company and loved there RPG's.  Vay and Lunar were awesome games.  They, in my opinion, had awesome cutscenes for there games.  That is also something they were known for.

Shwa? They made Lunar? Well, there we go. I like them now.

[RetroYoungen]

Depending on their game I'd be buying their games.  I like the packaging, I like the presentation on almost all of my WD games (Growlancer was alright, though nothing really extraordinary if'n ya ask me), and they're just odd/quirky/unique enough to warrent purchase.  Lunar was definately the crown jewel though, I love those games... reminds me I need to buy a DS to play the Lunar on that one.

They had some good products, just way too few of them, and honestly when I couldn't afford them I'd have loved to see some kind of "discount" package more often where you could just get the game and no extras.  Would've been easier to see if a game was good instead of plunking down sixty bucks in some cases to risk it (though thankfully it wasn't too big a risk, they had some great products).

[Tynstar]

The Lunar game for the DS wasn't a WD game I think. Also I read it sucks bad.

[Tondog]

I don't like RPGs generally.... :\

[shaggy]

The Lunar game for the DS wasn't a WD game I think. Also I read it sucks bad.

Ditto.  I heard the same.

[Mezmoron]

I played it and beat it.  It's AWFUL for the first 3 hours...  After that it's not all that terrible.

Ken

[shaggy]

I played it and beat it.  It's AWFUL for the first 3 hours...  After that it's not all that terrible.

Ken

Yea, it didn't get the best of reviews.  Not like the other Lunar games...

[Cobra]

Working Designs were a cool English publisher of some great Japanese games that would of never seen the light of day here otherwise.
What I loved most about their translations was the work put behind them to fully localise them. I mean they dubbed them and everything.

I really hate games that still have jap songs, or worse, all the original jap voice overs... I mean whats the point? If we understood Japanese, we wouldn't by the English translation of a game. 

Taken from imdb

After attempting to bring one of the Goemon video game series and other various video game titles from Japan in the US, he and his company have tried so hard to get the approval from Sony Computer Entertainment America, but it never happened and therefore they were canceled every single time. This results in Working Designs going out of business for good.

This is true as the companies last words were

Sony has made it clear that they do not want the details of their dealings with any publisher made public,. Suffice to say that you would buy what we wanted to sell if we could sell it

Yes, that's one of those many reasons I hate Sony 

It was said Victor Ireland CEO of the now dead Working Designs was starting up a new company, but I can't remember the web address, and thus far is was nothing more than a splash page.