Sacred Symbols+, Episode 177: A Sit-Down With Hasan Kahraman
Added 2022-04-02 21:52:27 +0000 UTCHey. Colin here. So, I've been in the gaming industry for about two decades now, and -- as many of you know -- my 'beat' has long been PlayStation. I must admit, I've found the ongoing, year-long saga behind the PS5-centric indie game Abandoned so darn mysterious, almost intoxicating in its strangeness primarily because I've been around for so long, and I've never seen or heard of anything quite like what's gone on with this project. The long-and-short is, I've wanted to talk to the game's lead, Hasan Kahraman, since Abandoned was revealed on PlayStation Blog nearly a year ago to the date, and though we've corresponded via email, we've never been able to get something together. Well, until right now. I sat down with Hasan -- the man some assume is Hideo Kojima, but who definitely isn't -- in what is, as far as I know, his first audio and video interview. And I asked him everything I've been dying to talk to him about, particularly from development, publishing, funding, and marketing perspectives, in order to try and suss out just what's going on. Frankly, I think most of you are going to be left with many more questions than answers (I sure have been), but... well... this wouldn't be Abandoned coverage without a thick haze of nebulousness and a sharp ratcheting-up of the intrigue.
Comments
It was physically painful to listen to. The amount of time I've spent rolling my eyes really hurt my brain. Please, don't invite this obvious con-artist ever again. Good riddance.
Zibi Majewski
2022-05-14 23:15:17 +0000 UTCSo much circular logic with redundant explanations. Either this guy is not very bright, a really inexperienced indie dev, or some kind of weird scammer. It sounds like English isn't his first language, so maybe he just isn't amazing at expressing his thoughts. š¤
Dano Bass
2022-04-12 22:10:09 +0000 UTCThis guy is straight up a confidence man.
william planas
2022-04-09 13:10:10 +0000 UTCThis was incredibly hard to listen through, hats off to you Colin
Stephen Richard
2022-04-09 11:47:45 +0000 UTCIām somehow more confused
Random Integer
2022-04-09 03:49:25 +0000 UTCThis is how you do serious game journalism. Colinās been hitting grand slams with these interviews. Awesome job and I love talking about myself! Lol.
Matthew Guilford
2022-04-07 23:11:29 +0000 UTCThis is kind of a stretch tbh, not a hill to die on
Kyle Fox
2022-04-07 13:13:57 +0000 UTCHe did mention that he is active on Unreal forums, but I do agree he gives that vibe of an "idea guy" who just likes to talk and has everyone else do the work.
Kyle Fox
2022-04-07 13:10:59 +0000 UTCI was fully on the āitās a lot bigger than it looks like, Kojima is involved, Sony are funding itā theory. After listening to this Iāve moved over to the āitās a scamā camp. Great interview Colin!
Michael Bagby
2022-04-06 23:22:46 +0000 UTCThe guy went from a couple of mobile games and vaporware straight to a PS5 exclusive game that is being made independently with outsource work being done by NUARE. I applaud Colin for being able to maintain his composure while indirectly being trolled for an hour by Hideo Kojima. Wading through so much bs must have been mentally taxing.
Nikitas Gagas
2022-04-06 15:57:24 +0000 UTCLol yeah I use that word too much and even I was annoyed by that
John Goetz
2022-04-06 13:16:20 +0000 UTCI kinda think this is like when you find out how a magic trick is done - it just becomes utterly boring. Sounds like he's just an indie Dev, developing a game that may or may not come out and may or may not be good. The rest is just the twitter mob tying his teaser to Silent Hill etc and possibly a poorly written article by our favourite journalist at Bloomberg. All of his deflections sound like he's trying not to pour more petrol on the fire and trying not to upset anyone else.
Greg Dawson
2022-04-06 12:03:41 +0000 UTCThis is hard to listen to
Christian Cugini
2022-04-06 11:25:02 +0000 UTCIt sounds like heās winging it for the whooooole interview?! Maddening
Moistescarjoe
2022-04-06 10:23:44 +0000 UTCThis is pretty much my take as well.
Spencer B
2022-04-06 08:40:39 +0000 UTCI truly want to hear Colin's in depth opinion on this interview in the next sacred symbols. And Chris his opinion off course, that's going to be fun š.
Big Boss BE
2022-04-06 06:59:58 +0000 UTCAwesome interview. Asked the right questions and revealed the absurdity without going into attack mode or tearing HK down. Allowed him to tell his story rather than trying to land a "gotcha" moment or sound byte. Great work as always. The fact that anyone can listen to this interview and still think that this is an elaborate Kojima play is wild. It's very clear - finally! - that this was a grift from the jump; sure, maybe Hasan is legitimately interested in game development, but it sure seems like he sold a lot of people a bill of goods and is having trouble separating fact from fiction even in his own mind. Very Miucin-like.
Giovanni D'Amico
2022-04-06 03:31:50 +0000 UTCYeah this wasā¦ā¦ interesting
Andrae Brooks
2022-04-06 00:09:10 +0000 UTCColin, always impressed with your interviews!
Taylor
2022-04-05 19:51:09 +0000 UTCAfter listening/Watching this episode I am even more sure that Hasan Kahraman isnāt a real developer. He doesnāt seam to know what the hell heās talking about lol this Abandoned game stuff gets stranger & stranger.
Wayne Moss
2022-04-05 19:13:37 +0000 UTCHasan said "The fans are creating the game." What if Sony is reacting to speculation in real time? Actually making the game we are having conspiracies about? Haha
james glenn roten
2022-04-05 15:44:04 +0000 UTCI could give him a pass for the first 25-30 minutes but as soon as it came to budget, team size, and outsourcing it really fell apart. You can't blame his contradictions in that section on language or nervousness, it literally and figuratively does not add up.
Jamie
2022-04-05 15:10:06 +0000 UTCMoral of the story, Hasan needs PR and media training.
Al Rodriguez
2022-04-05 14:31:03 +0000 UTCMarty Sliva next!
John Fazio
2022-04-05 11:14:20 +0000 UTCIām 18 minutes in and Iāve had pause it at least 10 times. Just give this guy the rope and heāll do the work himself. So glad you got this one, Colin!
James Gormley
2022-04-05 09:39:53 +0000 UTCSoda is called pop in Minnesota
Taylor kazemba
2022-04-05 03:55:37 +0000 UTCThis dude is lying out his ass lol
TheMuff1nMon
2022-04-05 02:44:20 +0000 UTCHonestly just seems like really bad PR and maybe a team in over their head. The dude doesnāt seem like a bad person at all, hope people stop harassing him.
Anthony Palerino
2022-04-05 00:43:49 +0000 UTCBasically basic, basically.
illicit salt trade
2022-04-05 00:38:46 +0000 UTCWell this is cool! https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/abandoneds-developer-claims-it-reached-out-to-silent-hill-publisher-konami/
Clay Layne
2022-04-04 22:20:35 +0000 UTCYes Colin, what a great question. I'm glad you asked. Please allow me to answer that by explaining away what the question by not at all answering the question.
ToastIX
2022-04-04 21:31:25 +0000 UTCYep, donāt believe a word he says. Definitely a red herring. There is going to be a huge reveal. They may not admit it right away, but I would bet 5 years from now it will come out that Hideo Kojima was behind Blue Box, but it got so out of hand that they āabandonedā the fake secret project and pretended it never existed.
Robbie Agnew
2022-04-04 20:43:40 +0000 UTCIf you took a shot of whiskey every time he said basically you would be dead in the first 7 minutes. Love that you got him on. Iām convinced heās an A.I. Posing as a human
John Fazio
2022-04-04 18:16:17 +0000 UTCJust wait it out. Once the question is asked about funding, it gets good. Real good.
WalknTalknStvnHwkn
2022-04-04 17:44:11 +0000 UTCFirst and foremost, bravo to Colin for being truly professional and not eviscerating this guy on several occasions. To me, I think a few things are now clear... 1. This isn't some elaborate Kojima scheme that has a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Kojima is way too clever to be behind whatever this is. 2. This guy is in severely over his head. He's likely a moderately competent indie developer who's fucked around with creating tiny experiences like the one he said he created for his nephew. Somewhere along the way he tricked himself into believing he could produce a high-end indie game which is obviously false. I'm not a game developer, but I'd like to think I'm smart enough to tell the difference between a highly competent designer talking about his/her game and an individual who's using NDA's as a way to hide behind his lack of knowledge. 3. Abandoned (the prologue or the full game) is never coming out. Thank you Colin for giving everyone the closure we needed on this mess. If the guy is able to actually pull of the seemingly impossible task of delivering a game then I'd welcome him back... otherwise, it's time to move on.
Jason Vanover
2022-04-04 16:27:11 +0000 UTCThis dude is so shady! What is going on here? Heās clearly got more going on than heās letting on.
Tyler
2022-04-04 16:23:37 +0000 UTCBorat 2.0
Dante B
2022-04-04 16:12:41 +0000 UTCEverything for the twitter followers!
Marcos Aquino Pimentel
2022-04-04 16:07:13 +0000 UTCI have to be honest and please donāt take this as criticism just to be cruel, but 23 minutes in and I have no idea what heās trying to say, you can tell that heās nervous and anxious and so heās a bit all over the place, itās just hard to follow, kinda felt bad for the guy. I might try again later but the conversation didnāt seem to be going anywhere after 20 minutes and itās been a hard listen. Perhaps after 25 minutes of this Colin starts directing it more so Iāll see, but yeah, hard listen.
Antony
2022-04-04 15:37:53 +0000 UTCColin, was there any pre-production conversation about his camera? Not gonna lie, no one in their right mind would choose that angle for such a big interview. He's got enough money to pay for the players on PS5 but can't afford a desk tripod. Bet. Maybe everything behind him is also under NDA.
Sir Lucious Left Foot
2022-04-04 15:22:20 +0000 UTCKuddos to Colin for keeping his shape and not saying he's full of shit. And off course for getting this con-guy to do this interview in the first place. Not that we expected anything less from Colin. š¤š»
Bart Van Geert
2022-04-04 15:16:32 +0000 UTCI love how he keeps saying āthatās a really good questionā then talks in circles and doesnāt answer the question
D_Nasty
2022-04-04 14:10:03 +0000 UTCUmm my dude literally explained his game and I canāt help he just described Squid Game. Iām much more confused now. This was amazing to listen to Colin!
Daniel Wiseman
2022-04-04 12:49:29 +0000 UTCThis dude should have a mechanic in his game where if you need to hide from anything you can put down a cover with the letters NDA on it and hide from whatever you want.
Christopher Smith
2022-04-04 12:39:51 +0000 UTCThis dude is cagey AF
Christopher Smith
2022-04-04 12:35:36 +0000 UTCYou're not kidding. Listening to it now and holy fuck is this a rough listen!
Clay Layne
2022-04-04 12:06:54 +0000 UTCMan this guy "Basically" sounds "Like" a bit of a "Basicallylike" fraud? Anyone else get this vibe?
Clay Layne
2022-04-04 12:05:53 +0000 UTCMan, that was rough. Been waiting for this and itās pretty much exactly what I expected. This dude is clearly lying and talking in circles for every single question. Lots of rambling, incoherent answers and I swear if I have to hear him say ābasicallyā one more timeā¦
Stephen Glashan
2022-04-04 11:39:31 +0000 UTCWhile I too have been fascinated by this whole Abandoned story. After hearing this I'm inclined to share the same sentiment as a lot of the comments here that he's a con-man. I've done sales for years, I would have hung up or walked out of the meeting with this guy after 5 minutes. He's in over his head, deflects every question. It's a con that got out of control and he's nervous.
Nick Amato
2022-04-04 08:09:14 +0000 UTCThis guy hides behind the words āNDAā like I hide behind my fake name
Captain Bon Clay
2022-04-04 08:08:14 +0000 UTCIs this dude French Canadian? The broken English and calling soda pop heās an enigma and after finishing the podcast I think heās full of shit. Thanks for trying to harpoon this possible conman
Brian Keogh
2022-04-04 07:08:08 +0000 UTCHassan is lying through his teeth. My guess is he tried to grab some easy money through a scam and it spiraled out of control with his tweets. Now he's just grasping for straws to stay out of trouble with justice.
Bart Van Geert
2022-04-04 07:04:29 +0000 UTCMan....still not buying it....This guy soungs like Conman .. wow... won't be surprised if we find out it's been a pyramid scheme all along...lolš... Great job on getting him on Colin..
Martin Nxumalo
2022-04-04 05:44:48 +0000 UTCFelt fake right off the bat. "Tell everyone about yourself" and he immediately launches into vague stuff about how he started learning game dev at 14. No true back story from his life and also no details like which software he learned, etc Definitely fake
Drewbuntu
2022-04-04 03:08:32 +0000 UTCI just want to congratulate yall on getting this interview, you guys are fucking beasts, this is will put you guys on the spot for sure!! Lfggg
Asach Paredes
2022-04-04 01:09:31 +0000 UTCOdds are this is a struggling indie dev who seriously needs help marketing his product. Maybe I just donāt know enough about the specific details of everything thatās been happening but the marketing for this very small indie game seemed to get completely out of control and he didnāt know how to handle it.
Alex Gould
2022-04-04 00:58:22 +0000 UTCI still donāt believe he is a real person. I think he is an actor.
Taylor kazemba
2022-04-04 00:42:23 +0000 UTCTHIS IS INSANE lol Why would he come on a podcast just to low-effort lie to every question?
Chris
2022-04-04 00:36:17 +0000 UTCWell that was a giant nothing burger, no offense to you Colin but this guy refuses to answer a single question without going on 4-5 tangents and then using NDA as an excuse when you pinpointed certain things. Definitely interesting interview
brody_low
2022-04-04 00:06:38 +0000 UTCMore like Hasan Scamerman.
Jeremy Seal
2022-04-03 23:38:07 +0000 UTCI think this is some actor hired by Kojima. The game has huge support studios helping with development. Even if this Kojima, it's honestly not cute, anymore. This game better be a goty contender, or it's going to get destroyed.
Jeremy Seal
2022-04-03 23:14:32 +0000 UTCI bet this episode has brought a shitload of new subscribers.
Matt
2022-04-03 23:12:27 +0000 UTCYou fucking got the white whale! Haven't listened yet but I'm blown away this happened.
Dang
2022-04-03 23:01:07 +0000 UTCthe funding and publishing section reeks of bullshit lol great episode Colin and great questioning
Rhomel
2022-04-03 22:41:00 +0000 UTCWhatā¦theā¦hellā¦ am I listening to
AllTooEasy_
2022-04-03 21:34:20 +0000 UTCIs it me or does this feel like it will turn into a Netflix movie about how he scammed all these companies. Just wasnāt able to answer anything in detail and Collin was able to call out what didnāt pass the smell test.
James Galos
2022-04-03 21:26:16 +0000 UTCWell, that wasā¦ unique!
NJ
2022-04-03 20:38:50 +0000 UTCExcellent interview, Colin. Appreciate you digging back in when answers werenāt thorough enough. To me, he came across as a bit of a chancer & in over his head. Perhaps him & his mates will come up with a great game. Who knows? Thanks for the great episode.
Simon White
2022-04-03 19:46:53 +0000 UTCMe: Oh there should be a Sacred Symbols plus today. *Logs In* Me: .....aaaaaand now I have a mental erection. Kudos Colin, Kudos.
Bambi_Cobblestone
2022-04-03 16:40:21 +0000 UTCI was hoping he'd go full mission impossible and pull his face off at the end revealing it was Kojima the whole time š©š©š©
JustAnotherDean
2022-04-03 16:31:42 +0000 UTCListened to the whole thing and conclude that heās definitely full of shit, assuming this is a real person and not an actor for some kojima stuff. Itās classical liar speak, vague w everything. When called out or questioned, he recants and says something different. The comment about his dev costs was a huge giveaway, anyone whoās actually funding a game would have realized $30k was the dumbest number to give. But he didnāt know enough to realize until called out. He basically said everything he said in other interviews was a lie or misquote. Yeaā¦.
Brian Presley
2022-04-03 16:16:25 +0000 UTCAbout to shower the dog (130lbs) over this episode. Thanks Colin!!
gnawtyFOX
2022-04-03 16:14:33 +0000 UTCYou mad lad! This is why Iām a patron. Youāre a legend, bro!
Forrest Hunter
2022-04-03 15:56:55 +0000 UTCYOU CRAZY BASTARD YOU ACTUALLY DID IT!
Brian Comstock
2022-04-03 15:39:03 +0000 UTCTake a shot everytime Hassan says basically and we all get alcohol poisoning.
Grimm Carousel
2022-04-03 14:45:35 +0000 UTCNow the mystery surrounding Hasan karahaman is cleared up I can really concentrate on not giving a fuck about this game. Hasan Karahaman good luck and good bye
Benji_B2sick
2022-04-03 14:35:10 +0000 UTCI don't know, man. We might be thinking too hard about this. After listen, I get the sense that he's just an amateur game developer that got trapped in some quick sand and sank in way over his head.
Player X
2022-04-03 14:23:06 +0000 UTCThis was fascinating to say the least. My personal read is that this guy really is just way out of his depth
Noah McCay
2022-04-03 14:09:05 +0000 UTCHell yea. Well the one thing that I am sure of is he is not some secret AAA studio working on a top secret project. But his game is still odd to me. He sort of made it seem like yea anyone can have an app just ask Sony theyāre so cool. The fact is no because no one ever had anything like that before, doesnāt seem like Sony would just do that.
Rafael Sholder
2022-04-03 14:07:38 +0000 UTCColinās patience is what I hope to achieve some day.
William Utley
2022-04-03 13:18:03 +0000 UTCItās nice to get some clarity but someone needs to help him put his foot in his mouth. He says too many words for what is happening over there. I doubt we see this prologue. Great interview.
Mitchell Lundsberg
2022-04-03 12:41:25 +0000 UTCIsnāt what heās describing as this new style of app literally just a demo, which weāve had for generations now. I mean any demo runs āin real timeā on your system. Itās a demo, itās running video game code. Whether you have it run something interactive or a cut scene doesnāt matter. Ok so PS5 loads faster, but it just means it can load your demo faster. Itās not like what heās talking about was impossible previous generations, demos just like released games have the same restrictions provided by the hardware. Unless Iām completely missing something.
Zack E
2022-04-03 12:32:13 +0000 UTCHuh?!
Johannes
2022-04-03 12:14:20 +0000 UTCI knew that Hassan was secretly RobinGaming
GameSimp
2022-04-03 11:30:50 +0000 UTCI need to listen again, but first impressions were that he either a) doesnāt have a clue what he is doing at all, or b) he has an issue with being able to express himself coherently (unsure if English is his first language, which may be a factor and maybe he is nervous) or c) he is in over his head, knows it and has made promises that he canāt keep and is trying to cling on to the exposure he has achieved (whether that exposure was intended or not seems to be up for debate).
Mark Luscombe
2022-04-03 11:02:55 +0000 UTCGot around to watching and this was absolutely fascinating. I'm a commercial contracts lawyer and whilst I don't work with NDA's pertaining to the game industry, NDA's are something I frequently draft and negotiate, and a lot of the questions where he hid behind the NDA don't strike me as matter which would be covered. In a way, this discussion both provided closure, and raised more questions for me. On one hand, I'm now entirely convinced that BB isn't a shell studio fronting something much bigger. If it was, then I'm sure whoever was behind it would have had the whole charade would have been fronted who is much more comfortable in front of a camera. At the same time though, I'm not convinced there isn't something more troubling going on. Hassan's elusiveness around funding didn't sit right, nor does his vagueness around what Abandoned actually is and when we can expect to see something material. I'm hugely sceptical as to whether there is actually ever going to be a game, and the whole thing has a whiff of someone who has dug themselves into a hole and is now in damage control phase.
Shane Boyle
2022-04-03 11:01:31 +0000 UTCThis guy is pathological
Shane Geis
2022-04-03 10:11:48 +0000 UTCRespect to you for not putting Kahraman through the ringer when he was flustered by a question or being cagey. You did your best but he did a lot of talking in circles, going off on tangents and using the NDA excuse to dodge questions that didn't seem to affect those. He doesn't strike me as a bad guy but I think he's in over his head and his claim that Sony and Konami are okay with how BB hyped the game is garbage lol. I suppose he has no choice in that matter. Interesting that he basically says Schrier embellished some things in the Bloomberg interview which you and others reference often. "Fancy words" isn't the same thing as misinformation This guy needs a capable PR person ASAP
Joe McPartlin
2022-04-03 09:41:37 +0000 UTCMy god! Sacred symbols is on fire! š„š„š„ Collin you are killing it with these interviews! They are so good man.
James Buck
2022-04-03 09:27:30 +0000 UTCWell he was a nice fella
Clint
2022-04-03 09:11:08 +0000 UTC*but*
Rich Price
2022-04-03 08:56:35 +0000 UTCA valiant effort Colin, it this was a waste of time. Heās either not interested in or not capable of communicating clearly.
Rich Price
2022-04-03 08:56:13 +0000 UTCGood job Colin with the interview. You pushed for answers without it coming across as attacking him. I still feel that something is very, shall we say, off about his side of the interview. Almost as if he really had no idea on how to answer some of the questions that normal developers would be able to answer without hesitation. Anyways, thank you for putting together the interview.
Ryan Gray
2022-04-03 06:37:32 +0000 UTCI think it's more likely the latter, he seems nice enough.
C
2022-04-03 06:16:11 +0000 UTCI came out of this thinking heās wither bsāing or he is in way over his head and thinks he canāt say literally anything without getting in trouble in some way. Great work Colin as always! Same with the whole crew. Dustin you rock too
Johnny Lamotte
2022-04-03 05:29:21 +0000 UTCJust finished it and he seemed to have an answer for everything, even if it was not convincing. Just seems my bullshit filter went off a lot during this interview. Good job Colin for pinning him down, even when he went off on a weird tangent when you asked him about funding.
Andrew McGregor
2022-04-03 05:23:05 +0000 UTCHe sounds and appears genuine to me. Thank you so much Colin for nailing this interview. I think I'll download the app again and look forward to checking out how Abandoned progresses.
Jonathan Cortez
2022-04-03 05:12:45 +0000 UTCThe dirty dogs do it again!
jbostTV ok
2022-04-03 04:59:04 +0000 UTCJust wanted to congratulate you on finally nailing this dude down (as best as you could). Was a very fun listen, and a great showcase of your interview skills.
Jason Bolla
2022-04-03 04:41:51 +0000 UTCMy main red flag is the PlayStation neighbourhood question. Would him answering that really break an NDA? Like, is that something that would be part of an NDA? I've never heard of it, and I don't think he has either.
Braden Summers
2022-04-03 04:12:11 +0000 UTCOnly half way though and the phrase , ābullshit baffles brainsā springs to mind. He talked a lot without saying anything.
Andrew McGregor
2022-04-03 04:03:40 +0000 UTCGreat episode, but I think I know less than what was out there , lol. Iām more confused
Hose A Contra Razz
2022-04-03 03:59:32 +0000 UTCColin - great job man. I will say Iām not walking away from this convinced heās being genuine, which obviously you werenāt as well. NDA = plead the 5th I suppose. Anyway, content like this is why Iām glad and proud to support your endeavors. Last Stand is the best in the biz - proven yet again.
Mr. MacDeadly
2022-04-03 03:34:10 +0000 UTCUs Canadians also all call it Pop, it doesn't narrow it down that much unfortunately
Bryce Mccloskey
2022-04-03 03:30:06 +0000 UTCHoly SHIT. Bravo, dude! Stoked to listen.
Collin Sparling
2022-04-03 02:37:08 +0000 UTCI know it must've been difficult to keep a straight face through some of this. I was confused as fuck by so many of his answers. But great work, Colin.
PuppiesOnParade
2022-04-03 00:53:45 +0000 UTCOk. I'm lost.
MJ SKA BOI
2022-04-03 00:36:53 +0000 UTCThis was fucking incredible. So glad you were able to get him to come on. My only regret is that you didnāt ask him about The Haunting: Blood Water Curse on PS5.
MarkGrouch
2022-04-03 00:15:52 +0000 UTCThank you for circling back on questions. It sounded like you were dialed in & loving itā¦ what a fantastic episode. Curious to watch the Patreon numbers jump this month.
Kenneth Koepnick
2022-04-03 00:13:33 +0000 UTCAwesome interview Colin. Thanks for persisting with the hard hitting questions. Itās seems like an indie studio (I question whether the studio exists lol) in way over their heads, and kicked the internet beehive on purpose.
Noah Trujillo
2022-04-03 00:06:40 +0000 UTCOh my.
Raymond Aludino
2022-04-03 00:05:41 +0000 UTCI am now convinced this was a long con to bilk investor money. This guy comes off as a con man
Wayde
2022-04-03 00:05:39 +0000 UTCWow. I am blown away!!!
Guns vs Kittens
2022-04-02 23:44:44 +0000 UTCColin I'm so proud to be a Last Stand Patron. You are such a pioneer in the industry.
Zachary Perry
2022-04-02 23:42:17 +0000 UTCHoly shit colin you sly dog u actually managed to get an interview š³ with Hasan!!!!!??????? Big dick energy eight here
shouty33
2022-04-02 23:31:45 +0000 UTCBravo to everyone on the team involved in making this happen. What a great "get" for this crew. As far as the interview , Hassan strikes me as someone in way over his head , especially with the internet spotlight on him. He was evasive on some basic development questions and always seemed to fumble around for his answer.
Jason Luskie
2022-04-02 23:30:41 +0000 UTCGreat interview, he seems especially cagey on things Colin seems to think should be easy to say. Definitely still hiding thingsā¦ hopefully the game comes out and we can see what all this hubbub was about
Joshua Jones
2022-04-02 23:25:03 +0000 UTCIt actually happened. Woah
Robbie Agnew
2022-04-02 23:20:54 +0000 UTCColin, you would.
Andrew Morgan
2022-04-02 23:11:03 +0000 UTCJust incredible. Congrats on landing this interview, Colin!!!
Joe Perez
2022-04-02 23:08:59 +0000 UTCHoly shit
Riley Brewer
2022-04-02 22:55:01 +0000 UTCI noticed that he referred to soda as "pop." As an Ohioan this is a distinctly Midwest thing. Does this add to the actor theory?
Michael (ObjoGaming)
2022-04-02 22:54:50 +0000 UTCThis guys sketchy as fuck
Bob Spiers
2022-04-02 22:45:52 +0000 UTCAfter listening to this- I still have questions. Heās obviously being evasive, itās just strange
Andy T
2022-04-02 22:45:15 +0000 UTCSo he's helping fund the game off the prologue? Seems too much like MGS V... Lol I feel more confused than before the interview. Great job trying to weave through this very clearly confused man's mind.
Harley K
2022-04-02 22:44:54 +0000 UTCTFW you out journalist an entire fucking industry.
Tick Dickler
2022-04-02 22:43:25 +0000 UTCDaddy has provided !
Gavin Newland
2022-04-02 22:40:43 +0000 UTCCongrats on the interview Colin! This is a huge deal since they were so cagey about details.
RK128
2022-04-02 22:36:38 +0000 UTCCan't wait to listen! Holy moly lol
MayorGarbageMan
2022-04-02 22:36:08 +0000 UTCHot damn!
DMC
2022-04-02 22:35:02 +0000 UTCI had to double check this wasnāt still April Fools. Wow wow wow! Well done to all at LSM who made this happen.
Conor
2022-04-02 22:25:07 +0000 UTCIf youāre a fan of gaming, youāre making a Patreon sub to CLS almost mandatory. Bravo, Colin. /salute Weird but good timing right after April fools day though. LOL
Gary Huss
2022-04-02 22:25:05 +0000 UTCWow. Try fingers, but hole.
Sween flossing with his own entire body
2022-04-02 22:23:05 +0000 UTCMy jaw dropped when I read the title!
Daemon
2022-04-02 22:18:06 +0000 UTCCalm down everyone, itās happening!
Rich Price
2022-04-02 22:15:37 +0000 UTCThis is wild
Andre Ordonez
2022-04-02 22:14:23 +0000 UTCInterview of the year let's do this!
Boomboom Washington
2022-04-02 22:10:03 +0000 UTCHoly shit, dude. Colin, well done
Lord Gerontus
2022-04-02 22:09:38 +0000 UTCHoly!
Jenna
2022-04-02 22:09:38 +0000 UTCMan, this dude seriously comes off as a con man in over his head. This is nuts! He can't hide behind "that's NDA'd" with BASIC questions about game development. That doesn't signal to me a studio head or lead developer at all. š¤
KendrickLuck
2022-04-02 22:09:04 +0000 UTCHoly FUCK
Geoff
2022-04-02 22:07:46 +0000 UTCTHE BOYS!! YA'LL DID IT! Shout-out to Dustin who I'm sure busted his ass to make this happen. The Gamer Battalion saltues you
Daniel Murray
2022-04-02 22:06:43 +0000 UTCHoly shit.
Tacoyaki
2022-04-02 22:06:29 +0000 UTCKnew you had something exciting coming when the post wasn't up at the normal time (not complaining!). Definitely was not expecting this though. You're too good to us!
badlybrave
2022-04-02 22:05:31 +0000 UTCUnbelievable Colin your truly amazing thank you!!
Matthew Major
2022-04-02 22:04:31 +0000 UTCLadies and gentlemen, we got him.
spaceghostbert
2022-04-02 22:01:47 +0000 UTCWOW. can't listen rn but will get to it. Crazy
ADavidToRemember
2022-04-02 22:01:14 +0000 UTCCan't wait to see some of the reactions to this, on here and elsewhere
James Schubert
2022-04-02 22:00:54 +0000 UTCHEY YO
Peter Long
2022-04-02 22:00:53 +0000 UTCApril fools
Dwindle
2022-04-02 22:00:24 +0000 UTCOh damn! What a bossed up maneuver
Dimitreus Newell
2022-04-02 21:58:17 +0000 UTCYou are the GOAT for this man. Straight up
Gregory Novell Allen
2022-04-02 21:58:12 +0000 UTCWelp
Remington Wilson
2022-04-02 21:58:06 +0000 UTCLETS HECKING GOOO
Bananahamecake
2022-04-02 21:58:03 +0000 UTCHoly shiiiiit!
Dylan Manuszak
2022-04-02 21:57:05 +0000 UTCWow man! Can't wait to listen! I'd like to hear how this interview even was agreed to!
Clay Layne
2022-04-02 21:57:04 +0000 UTCWhat!?!?
Heretic The Intergalactic Prophet
2022-04-02 21:56:40 +0000 UTCI concur with the following comments. HOLYā¦ā¦FUCKINGā¦ā¦..SHIT!
Jamie Milligan
2022-04-02 21:56:31 +0000 UTCNo way. I haven't hit play yet and part of me thinks this is an April Fools joke, but I know it isn't solely because if a Last Stand episode is out late, it's for a reason. *hitting play now*
Dave Ramos
2022-04-02 21:56:23 +0000 UTCWowwwwwwwwww you fucking did it Colin. Thatās it idc what anybody says you are the goat
Kris Guzman
2022-04-02 21:56:08 +0000 UTCNo fucking way
Joe McPartlin
2022-04-02 21:56:04 +0000 UTCThe hell! š± I'm actually in awe!
NotYurRealDad
2022-04-02 21:56:02 +0000 UTCA while back after the Vince Ingenito interview I posted "first Filip then Vince, what other gaming shitheads can Colin help rehabilitate their image" and I'll be damned CM comes through again. Cant wait to listen.
Grimm Carousel
2022-04-02 21:55:54 +0000 UTCColin you might just break the internet.
Dr. Beats (Joe Lockwood)
2022-04-02 21:55:38 +0000 UTCAwesome
Just Josh
2022-04-02 21:55:36 +0000 UTCHoly shiiiiittttt
Will Hahn
2022-04-02 21:55:21 +0000 UTCHoly shit.
Kenneth Koepnick
2022-04-02 21:55:17 +0000 UTCColin you Son of a Bitch, you did it!
Eric Bushell
2022-04-02 21:55:16 +0000 UTCYOOOO
Peter Medema
2022-04-02 21:54:53 +0000 UTCoh Colin you sly son of a gun!
Jacob
2022-04-02 21:54:53 +0000 UTCWow can't wait to listen
Wayde
2022-04-02 21:54:46 +0000 UTCwait no way, HOLY SHIT
Llogan from mmry.crd
2022-04-02 21:54:35 +0000 UTCWHAT!?
Eric Bushell
2022-04-02 21:54:33 +0000 UTCImpressive very nice
Jack Doheny
2022-04-02 21:54:30 +0000 UTCWhatā¦?
Mr. MacDeadly
2022-04-02 21:54:30 +0000 UTCOh shit! It happened!
Metalkirby27
2022-04-02 21:54:28 +0000 UTCHoly shit!!!! Bro you did it!! I thought this would never happen!
MonstaPontes93 (Ricky Pontes)
2022-04-02 21:54:24 +0000 UTCHOLY FUCKING SHIT
Jambi
2022-04-02 21:54:23 +0000 UTCHoly. Shit.
Zackery Parkerson
2022-04-02 21:54:20 +0000 UTCWow itās real
Jake Whitaker
2022-04-02 21:54:18 +0000 UTCBullshit Omg
Kevin White
2022-04-02 21:54:18 +0000 UTCCOLIN M IS THE MAN
Joe B
2022-04-02 21:54:09 +0000 UTCThis is it bois.
Eric
2022-04-02 21:54:06 +0000 UTCoh shit!!
jettxjordan
2022-04-02 21:54:02 +0000 UTCHoly shit here we go
Ryan Daly
2022-04-02 21:53:56 +0000 UTCHOLY SHIT YOU DID IT!!
Andrew Duda
2022-04-02 21:53:52 +0000 UTCNo fucking way.
Jacob R.
2022-04-02 21:53:47 +0000 UTC
