"What bothers me about it most is that when people attribute the 'F#ck Konami' hashtag, they're thinking of me. I know that some people are typing it like, yeah, Tomm Hulett sucks!"
I didn't expect Hulett to be this brutally honest. I can't decide if it's due to the years of being dogged by the same old shit or simply the realisation that that shit is going to stick no matter what, but he's reflective and honest without any semblance of polish or sugar-coating. There's no spin, but there's also no self-pity, either, as he recounts how his development career has fared under not just the weight of an angry fandom, but also the scrutiny of his peers, too.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I was - and still am - part of that fandom. I was eleventy gazillion months pregnant and bored stiff on forced bedrest when my pal, Dave, asked if I fancied running a Silent Hill site with him. I'd already spent a lot of time thinking, and writing, about Silent Hill; its stories, its mythos, its desperate melancholy. Writing about Silent Hill led me to this very website. And some of the grossly unkind things written about Hulett are probably still buried on the very servers I still run today.
from Eurogamer.net
by February 24, 2019
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