Death Metalist
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I wish Amy Hennig would just dump all this and go back to Crystal Dynamics and remake or make a new Legacy of Kain game. That world is just filled with potential.
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Giant Bomb |OT33| LOOK AT THAT CORN!
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Report says EA is discussing her next move with her.
Yeah, I just saw that. She's probably out since it seems like EA doesn't have a need for SP-focused writers.
this is the purest Jeff laugh I've ever seen
this is like the complete inverse of creeper Jeff
Mister_Bubbles
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Talos Principle VR is out! I've been looking forward to this so much. I remember those worlds being oddly serene even on a monitor, should be cool to figure out those puzzles using actual physical judgement.
are you saying people are sick of paying full price for half-assed trash when there's a billion GREAT indies at $20 on the market?
CD Projekt RED is our lord and savior
KillerDark
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After the disappointment that was FO4 I am not sure we can classify all Bethesda games as gems. They really need to switch up/innovate on their open world formula. I went from enjoying that game initially (first and only fallout I have played) to actively disliking it. By the time I finished the game I actually regretted buying and playing it.
Doom was great though and Wolf 2 looks like it should be as well!
Sucks that most AAA games are going to become games as service though.
OdysseusVA
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Please Stop: Killing studios
MassiveNights
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That Visceral news sucks as does the change in direction/philosophy of that game. I am finally feeling old because people eat these games up and most of them just turn me off so much. Even my 40 hours with Destiny was mostly spent on my own.
This should be the runaway winner
AAA has been a mound of shit for a long time. It's only now getting worse thanks to loot boxes and Games as a Service and other nonsense bullshit to squeeze blood from the stone that are consumers. AAA is going to die and it'll be at the hands of its developers and publishers.
There are some Japanese devs who put out great single player games this year (Nioh, Nier, P5) but how often are they going to be able to produce games of that quality that also sell well?
The Technomancer
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Flip the problem on its head, are there genuine ways to improve the efficiency of game development and get budgets under control?
Piston Hyundai
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get in the ring
BreezyLimbo
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Nope.
The only options tend to be underpaying workers to get the budget under control, or employ less workers and have a much slower turnout rate of games coming out.
Theres no win win for studios. Unless they focus on making non AAA games.
Not on this scale, no. This is where AAA has been heading for quite some time.
Human Trashcan
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More stories in that universe would be rad, but I think Raziel & Kain's story ended perfectly in Defiance. What a terrific final line that game has.
AAA games are basically the summer blockbusters of video games. Regardless of GaaS, they share a similar fate in that chasing high production values and offering little substance will eventually mean their demise. Costs will continue to balloon out of control as developers try and chase the graphical dragon. GaaS just means AAA will get their faster as they alienate more and more casual fans.
Wasnt games as a service and to a greater extent DLC, originally used to combat games being traded in? Wouldnt cutting out gamestop increase the revenues of those studios where single player games could survive then? Or am I being naive?
ThanksVision
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I just don't know how studios/pubs can get more money out of consumers in order to justify the extreme cost of development without resorting to unsavory means (lootboxes) or outright upping the MSRP of games
No one is calling Nier: Automata, Nioh, and Persona 5 "AAA" games.
at least I hope not
Death Metalist
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I mostly want a remake of the first game just to see how it would look using today's tech. On the other hand though I'm not sure anyone could fill Tony Jay's shoes as the Elder God. Man, I adore that universe. The game had exquisite writing and fascinating characters.
MassiveNights
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How do Sony manage it?
At some point it feels like companies are straight taking the piss.
ThanksVision
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I feel like Sony has enough money in the bank to bankroll any studio, which includes marketing. It seems like everything they fund is a guaranteed success at this point. When your game sells millions of copies by itself, it's not really an issue anymore.
MassiveNights
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I doubt they're running all that development at a loss though, even if they're using to drive console sales.
*looks at Dreams*
Something incredible about Fortnite PR talking AAA and investment risk. I guess they're the ones who know all about finding fast ways to reduce risk... https://twitter.com/austin_walker/status/920370084748709889
mullet2000
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More and more I'm finding myself thinking I wouldn't even care if the AAA industry imploded.
I feel like between two or three super high quality indie games always coming out every month nowadays and mid-budget Japanese games and low to mid-budget PC games I'd barely notice. I'm already getting to the point where microtransactions are making me not buy them anymore anyway.
I feel like between two or three super high quality indie games always coming out every month nowadays and mid-budget Japanese games and low to mid-budget PC games I'd barely notice. I'm already getting to the point where microtransactions are making me not buy them anymore anyway.
CypherSignal
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Visceral was always EA internal, it was never an external purchase. It was just a subset of the HQ at EA Redwood Shores before, and has some form of continuity going all the way from before the Lord of the Rings PS2 beat 'em ups, through the Godfather and Simpsons games, and then some.
Teams that make compelling games and have series that people are interested in. Sony also takes a relatively hands-off approach on development when it comes to different in-house studios. Sony also has several studios that have brand recognition among core and casual gamers, while studios like Ubi and EA are only known as the actual publisher, not the studio per se.
bodyofanamerican
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Looks like it's that WWE game Alex and Dan have been sharing terrible/awesome gifs of on Twitter the last few days?
Death Metalist
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god bless Nintendo
CypherSignal
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A part of is that the single PnL isn't just "Do our own games sell". It's also, "How many consoles do our games end up selling" which leads to "How many games do those consoles sell afterwards" which leads to "How much ongoing digital revenue are we getting from long-term engagement in those games".
I'd bet you good money they're looking into the exact same monetisation model as we speak. Nintendo is slow to adapt but eventually they will adapt as well.
Death Metalist
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OdysseusVA
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Piston Hyundai
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oh come on, when was the last time Nintendo half-assed anything
JustSurvive
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I wonder if this the Dan and Alex wrestling feature they talked about ages ago, either way, very excited.
EDIT: Didn't realize I was already LTTP on this, oops.
Human Trashcan
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probably this morning when John Nintendo put a poptart in the microwave like a fucking animal
Sure. All I'm saying is people shouldn't put Nintendo on some weird pedestal. Nintendo has their own way of making additional money like Amiibo and Fire Emblem Mobile is pure gacha. They're a company like everybody else.
FlammableD
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I wonder if this the Dan and Alex wrestling feature they talked about ages ago, either way, very excited.
Human Trashcan
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Nintendo's just gonna put Amiibos in gachapon machines.
Shit this doesn't even sound too far-fetched
Shit this doesn't even sound too far-fetched
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