Opie & Anthony: Curt Schilling Is Selling Everything (10/08/13)

[@terraLiquidus]

Curt should move back to his hometown, become a phys-ed teacher, and make his way back to the Major Leagues. That would make a pretty good tv show. Maybe hbo would pick it up.

[@G-I-JEZUS]

unfortunately he was rumored to have been going through cancer treatment at the time aswell. some people expect thats why the debt built up.

[@markwilliams7054]

that don't make no sense - what is he fawkin Kenny Log ins or sumfin

[@MrEvanNoyes]

Isn’t he like 60 now?

[@jimmythegent45]

@@G-I-JEZUS po

[@sdot5389]

This aged well. 9 years after your comment he is a Level 9 Nutcase and public pariah.

[@FangXL]

If I had 3 million I'd pay curt to legally change the r to an n

[@durowow]

"Why does he need a microscope?" "To look at his bank statement."

[@aliamjon2550]

It's so ridiculous that Sam would even ask that

[@ChipsASensation]

It's fun to laugh at the misfortune of others, but having to sell your 11 year old kid's dinosaur toy... Jesus.

[@spacegerrit9499]

This game should've done better. It's one of the best arpg's out there.

[@G-I-JEZUS]

very underappreciated

[@liquidmang]

Sadly I only played the demo to get the ME3 bonus content

[@OhHesCracked]

It’s a shame because his game was actually pretty decent! It was low key ahead of its time.bet it ran better than Cyberpunk lol

[@BishopAP]

I'm guessing we can look forward to VideOnA taking this audio and putting in the pictures for everybody. I'm playing along with the website, but I'd rather kick my feet up and just enjoy it, you know?

[@alexcavannainc]

To be fair, Kingdom of Amalur got very positive reviews. I played some of it, not my type of game, but I could see fans of that kinda genre liking it. I really think the fact he was trying to do such a robust rpg on the consoles hurt it badly.

[@Buckets50]

It’s generic but not horrendous.

[@BubbaMcCheese]

I'm 13 mins in, & Opie's mentioned he used to be "friends" with Schilling 3 times. Must be more of that comedy nobody got...

[@FangXL]

I don't believe for a second that opie "goes way back" with Curt Schilling.

[@claymationwaves]

we all go way back - chip chipperson

[@liquidmang]

He’s been doing radio since he was 18, so leave it alone.

[@aliamjon2550]

@@liquidmang He could "do something else" you know ?

[@Tomdawg89]

Tssss wakkawakka, what are you Pac-Man or sometin?

[@DJIFridays]

naw the game was fine. the problem was he was pouring way too much money into productions values, for an intellectual property that didnt have any buzzworthy momentum. the portal series is a good example of how to do it right. he paid to have Todd McFarlane write the story for him, and the man certainly doesnt lend his service cheap. I'm sure he could have hired a writer who was just as good, but not as well-known, to do it for a fraction of the cost.

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

McFarlane did the art for the game, R.A. Salvatore wrote the story. The problem is he paid BOTH of those guy, whose services don't come cheap. The real issue here is not Reckoning though, it was the money he dumped into a MMO.

[@9Skiddlerip9]

Ironically, it is a great game.

[@FangXL]

A result of an over saturated market

[@RmnGnzlz]

The game is actually amazing and it go recently remastered because people loved it. I think he probably made a profit after all.

[@sdot5389]

He owed the state of Rhode Island like 75 million. There’s no way he got out of that hole. He sold everything (including rights to the game) to settle his bankruptcy…he made nothing.

[@Tyler-fg5jr]

The game is called kingdoms of amalur and they considered it a failure in a week. If they just waited a bit it would have been successful just by word of mouth. VERY underated game. A remastered version called rereckoning was released in 2019. Well worth the money.

[@Buckets50]

Considering it came out a year after Skyrim and was relatively generic I think it was doomed to fail from the start

[@RmnGnzlz]

​@@Buckets50Did you even play it? It's nothing like TES.

[@Buckets50]

@@RmnGnzlz yes i did play it and I know its not a skyrim clone but it is of the same genre. The point i was making is that kingdoms of amalur is a much more linear, 'faux' open world rpg than a game that ppl who are a fan of the genre already got to play months before. Thats not to say that it doesn't have a niche audience but there is nothing that koa does better than skyrim or even fable for that matter. I feel like koa gets judged from the perspective of "this game wasn't bad enough to close a studio" instead of this game was fine but forgettable.

[@Danielpaisanopeck]

Game came out wrong time Awsome game been playing still randomly

[@OhHesCracked]

Yo I was just saying this! His game was ahead of it’s time it’s a fucking Shane bro

[@liquidmang]

It was EA trying to compete with Skyrim. Wasn’t a bad game. I found myself enjoying it.

[@Buckets50]

Wasn’t nearly as good as Skyrim. Came out 3 months after it so it was pretty inevitable it would bomb

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

The funny thing, Reckoning wasn't an absolutely terrible game, it wasn't very inspired either..

[@freshmaker0088]

Schinkel bout it

[@jayogden82]

Not for nothing but the game was fun🤷‍♂️

[@souldry]

The game actually sold pretty well. Especially considering that it was a first effort from a brand new studio. It was successful. That success made Curt think he can’t fail. So he took all the income from the game and all the financial help he had to start the studio and invested it all into their next project(which was massive in scope and way beyond what the studio was capable of). And the rest is history.

[@liquidmang]

@@souldry is that what happened?!? Oh man I’m sorry but what an ass. And he had EA backing him as well!🤭

[@souldry]

@@liquidmang Yeah he was a big time douche

[@lithium23]

@@souldry I dont think that timeline is correct, he spent money on developing an MMO from 2006-2012 while also creating this game. It became clear though that this game was their only sellable product and all hopes rested on it.

[@Jay-fx4tx]

They made a good game. I think being new, they spent too much making it and the market was probably already flooded. Timing is HUGE in video game releases also

[@andrewholland853]

So Opie is saying he and Curt were close when Curt was playing for the Red Wings and Opie was on radio in rochester, wow and everyone went right over another one of his bullshit

[@RickDrift]

How do you buy not one thing that holds value?

[@alfredo8092]

The stuffed Obama joke went over my head. Can anyone help me out?

[@Danielpaisanopeck]

The add-ons for it never got downloaded from live ....he toke money....didnt give add-on items

[@ammagnolia]

Who said, Na you never outgrow these,? Lol 19:27

[@xg4bx]

I don't know if it's funny or sad that I have better stuff in my one bedroom apartment than a millionaire had in their whole house.

[@jakelamarca895]

Because you're probably not a boring asshole. Athletes have a lot of money, but usually no personality. Btw I hope you read this and didn't die in the 9 years since you made this comment. Thoughts and prayers.

[@markwilliams7054]

what the fuck was he thinking - he made over $115 million - you never need to do anything again

[@dubbry]

Knowing CS those DVD's and games are rentals..Prolly owes as much on them as on 38..

[@MrAnarchojoe]

I love Travis cracking up

[@danzigmcnaniel5226]

MrAnarchojoe his mom didn’t, tho...

[@liquidmang]

Danny’s laugh always topped Dr Gay

[@mileslong3904]

Ruined by sam talking (existing).

[@Brentrades]

Jimmy killed it in this one

[@Ironclad6661]

Here is what I think. He's my age and like me he's been a old school gamer since day one. I think he had a dream to make a game and he got about 95% complete with what would of been the greatest MMO out there and perhaps made billions of dollars in subscription fees. He took a big gamble on $100-200 million opportunity and it fell flat. I've seen Project Copernicus and folks it's freaking incredible. His game Kingdoms of Amalur, which was a single player Fantasy game upon which Copernicus world was created was fantastic. Todd McFarlane did the art direction, RA Salvatore one of the greatest fantasy authors of our time and Ken Rolston the man behind Elder Scrolls success were part of this project. Amalur is a great game and the combat and had they not run out of funding the following MMO would of been right up there with Blizzards World of Warcraft. Someone should pick up the work he started and finish the work.

[@bongmajor]

My friend Edwin Rosell was a concept artist for that game. It was looking awesome. Too bad.

[@Ironclad6661]

jason johnson I would of loved to seen your friends work on it. I think it could of been amazing.

[@badreligionbomb]

the Reckoning was amazing....

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

Reckoning was decent, but it was uninspired and monotonous.

[@TheJayofthejungle]

The game is actually pretty sick.

[@whenthehammerwastthomas1585]

It's very amazing that his wife stayed with him.

[@justingentry3747]

23:45 one of my favorite jimmy comments of all time

[@bubbaolive883]

Sam ruining another show.

[@FlanzShirt]

can't wait to listen to this once ant loses all his cash

[@ednakrabapoly]

Flanz Shirt dibs on the nazi flags.

[@so-what5991]

Hes a conservative... They tend to understand money

[@so-what5991]

I would say throwing all your money in a video game is not conservative. Curt may claim that but actions speak louder than repo truck beeps...... Nice to meet an O and A fan though...

[@so-what5991]

Bill Carrig exactly he didnt even want to pay his last alimony check early so he can accrue more interest

[@dorpth]

"Fiscal conservative" is a word thrown out when someone wants to push typical republican crap but are too ashamed to openly be in bed with evangelists (they will still vote for a crazy evangelist as long as he's got an 'R' next to his name). And it means absolutely nothing but "austerity for the working class, more tax cuts for my bracket". The idea that someone who every month blows $5000 on guns and loses $50,0000 spitting at blackjack dealers is a "fiscal conservative" just proves what an utter crock of shit it all is.

[@lithium23]

I actually bought that game when it first came out because it was advertised as being co-written by the guy who co-wrote Fallout and elders scrolls, it wasn't bad but wasn't very memorable either.

[@Buckets50]

Coming out 3 months after Skyrim didn’t help it much either

[@andrewptob]

Gee, you think?

[@ThePhudD]

That joke gave me shingles

[@jibberjabber098]

I actually enjoyed it, yeah.

[@PixelPariah]

I feel your pain, sir.

[@baractusobamiuscaesar5540]

HAHAHAHA LOL CURT SCHILLING IS MY DAD'S SECOND COUSIN

[@krayzeejojo]

If this is true, then he’s also your second cousin once-removed. So what’d you buy from him?

[@baractusobamiuscaesar5540]

@@krayzeejojo Nothing, we're pretty divided, sadly. It's dissappointing

[@PixelPariah]

As much as I totally agree with you, this kind of rationality has no place in the youtube comments of an O&A video.

[@JacksInn]

They compare it to GTA because they're not really into the games industry, so they know the big boys, that's it.

[@crapconnoisseur6691]

I don’t know if he paid for the good reviews but on google all the reviews said it was good

[@andrewptob]

Is there a link to this website where Schilling is selling this crap?

[@spkynk]

May 2020 Curt just listened and is not happy.

[@deathbunny32]

It never goes on sale on steam, only on origins and whatnot.

[@TheTrueRman]

The game was bought and rereleased by THQ Nordic so it was a decent title. Curt just was way too reckless and dug himself too deep. His title would have to become as big as Minecraft if he hoped to ever break even with is bad financial decisions, and with so many other games in the market under the same Genre like WOW and EverQuest, he had no chance.

[@Buckets50]

It’s a single player game so it’s more comparable to Skyrim(which came out three months before Reckoning) or the Fable series. The game suffered from the fact that it was extremely generic, not a bad game just not able to compete with Skyrim and others in the same genre

[@geecoulson4908]

Dam that microscope joke slayed me 😂

[@WizardPlayMC]

Like Jim and Sam said, it was a great game, but completely unnecessary and appeared unoriginal. I just started playing it free on PSN, It's not something I'd buy.

[@JukeHighwalker]

WizardPlayMC That doesn't make it a great game fuckface.

[@devilscry01]

His game actually was looking to be really good. They just didn't have enough funding.

[@jockoadams3377]

Its like a movie that goes way over budget and takes too long to complete. Maybe the script is pretty good, and the cinematography is great. But if there's no market for it... it will be a failure. Should've not invested in only one or two games. Not if the point is to have a viable game company.

[@hezepe]

The game Reckoning was not bad at all

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

It wasn't bad, but it wasn't anything special.

[@extereo]

Opie: "It's trying to come out with a game to compete with GTA. Just dumb." Lol dummy doesn't realize that half the games that came out since 2001 have been GTA clones. He doesn't have a good take on any topic.

[@Buckets50]

There are like 3 gta clones…

[@jockoadams3377]

Sorry.. it looked like a shitty business model. They sunk all their money (and Rhode Island's) into developing two very expensive games that took way too long to bring to market. They should've operated more like a movie studio.. make the guaranteed hit (maybe a simple, but well designed sports game?) for a quick and easy return and then you can invest in the long-term labor of love of the big fantasy game.

[@PixelPariah]

No one is forcing you to listen, but you do because the show is awesome and you love it. Now go make me a sandwich you watery little woman. If you don't know by now that nothing is sacred on this show then you're not a real fan anyway.

[@durowow]

I was looking at the photos as they were. Died at "stuffed obama"

[@HubbaBubba768]

I wish I believed in the Jeez-oss

[@infamoushiphop7943]

24:59, what did jim say? Opie step on his line

[@xg4bx]

He should have started with Xbox Live Arcade games or something, not go in whole hog with multi-console development.

[@vasectomyfail442]

reminds me of my brother, it's cool you have millions of dollars but your house is filled with useless fancy garbage. good luck if your wife's money divorces you