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Amy Hennig: God Bless Sony for Supporting AAA Single Player; I Don’t Fault EA for Project Ragtag
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GreyHorace
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I don't get how single player and open world can't be the same thing. The Witcher 3 and Ghost of Tsushima proved you can have an open world that can be single player focused and not have multiplayer as a crutch like with Grand Theft Auto 5 or Red Dead Redemption 2.
Azurro
Banned
It would be amazing if Sony hires her back for Naughty Dog and Neil got kicked to the curb. The only problem is that he filled the studio with ideologues, so, maybe it wouldn't be enough.
Woo-Fu
Banned
Yes, all the money Sony spent making AAA singleplayer titles that Microsoft didn't.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Not particularly impressed with Hennig or Sonys style of games. They ape books/movies, and objectively do a worse job. The magic of gaming comes from this thing...
Sony and Hennig tell you to put that thing down and watch an inferior impression of Hollywood far too often.
Sony and Hennig tell you to put that thing down and watch an inferior impression of Hollywood far too often.
FunkMiller
Member
Waiting on Hennig being announced as studio head at the secret San Diego studio...
There's a place for both. Also Hennig does an amazing job in general. The Legacy of Kain series is legendary for a reason and Uncharted captured a lot of the Indiana Jones spirit in video game form. I generally agree that the direction its heading is too much focused on streamlining gameplay elements, but let's see what the future holds.
marcincz
Member
I am afraid it is currently impossible. Drunkman is vice president of NG.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Aren't most of Sony's SP games "massive open worlds" with "hours and hours of gameplay"?
Or does she just mean TLOU?
Personally love Sony's support of open world games... they are by far one of the biggest producers of these games... I think they could be improved if they spent less on narrative and more on some aspects of gameplay/engines, but they are still pretty great.
Or does she just mean TLOU?
Personally love Sony's support of open world games... they are by far one of the biggest producers of these games... I think they could be improved if they spent less on narrative and more on some aspects of gameplay/engines, but they are still pretty great.
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DeepEnigma
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Not particularly impressed with Hennig or Sonys style of games. They ape books/movies, and objectively do a worse job. The magic of gaming comes from this thing...
Sony and Hennig tell you to put that thing down and watch an inferior impression of Hollywood far too often.
She is one of the framers/designers for Legacy of Kain series of games.
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Omnipunctual Godot
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Didn't she leave for butting heads with Druckmann?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
She seems very much not a 3rd wave feminist psycho trigglypuff, and has a 80s/90s dark sense of humor.
Would not shock me if those rumors are true.
Dargor
Member
No, they aren't.
She is one of the framers/designers for Legacy of Kain series of games.
She is the director of every single one she was involved in. (Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance.) (Well she technically was involved in Blood Omen too, though her role there is a bit nebolous)
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I believe she was a designer on the first game.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
She is one of the framers/designers for Legacy of Kain series of games.
And Babe Ruth used to play baseball relatively well. Too bad it's 2020.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
And Babe Ruth used to play baseball relatively well. Too bad it's 2020.
And the King stays on his feet.
Lmao this is so great because it is so true. I made a comment about Neogaf parrots the other day and it was not received super well, glad to see others can make the same observation.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Perpetually feeble though.
PSNplanetcolony
Member
Amy please, pretty please be working on a new Legacy of Kain for PS5!!!!
SentientStone
Member
Sony's strategy works great for them due to the synergy that it creates with their film and television business.
All their most popular properties can easily work in those formats as well.
All their most popular properties can easily work in those formats as well.
cryogenic7
Member
Yep
Batiman
Banned
I love single player games but hate how the industry is taking this naughty dog cinematic approach for everything. It feels like it takes the gaming out of the games. Something like GOW is perfect balance. Don’t care much about the rest of highly praised sp PS4 games this gen. Spider-Man was decent but give me more old school Sony. I enjoyed ratchet more than all of them besides GOW.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
I guess I shouldn't say "most"...Infamous, Spiderman, Days Gone, Ghosts of Tsushima, Horizon Zero Dawn.. God of War partially moved that direction... Bloodborne sort of is.
At the very least it's a high percentage of their games; certainly a high percentage of their most popular games are large open worlds that offer a ton of hours of playtime.
Bergoglio
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anothertech
Member
They have a winning formula that is for dam sure. One that no one is likely to surpass in any foreseeable future.
PresetError
Neophyte
AAA single player games not monetized to death exist only to sell hardware. In the "Netflix of gaming" and "play on any device" future they have no reason to exist.
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CitizenX
Banned
It is really true what they say about the left, they will eat their own they have no honor or code whatsoever. If you dont knnow what i mean, AH is in the same mind hive as ND
Knitted Knight
Banned
God bless.
MrS
Banned
It would be a waste of talent because Amy makes garbage games and Neil makes masterpieces.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Except for Nintendo with Breath of the Wild, Animal Crossing, and Mario Kart.
anothertech
Member
I mean, we were talking about single player AAA experiences...
JonnyMP3
Member
Everyone complaining about "Cinematic" games like they're a bad thing and that somehow Naughty Dog and Drunkmann are the big bastion of Cinematic games.....
Do none of you realise that this is all Hideo Kojima's fault? That when it comes to games as films, he's literally the Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock all rolled into one.
Metal Gear Solid 4 was hours and hours of in game cutscenes!
Do none of you realise that this is all Hideo Kojima's fault? That when it comes to games as films, he's literally the Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock all rolled into one.
Metal Gear Solid 4 was hours and hours of in game cutscenes!
Dick Jones
Gold Member
That's not true. It turned out that IGN knowingly fabricated the story and recently it came out.
DeaDPo0L84
Member
Not particularly impressed with Hennig or Sonys style of games. They ape books/movies, and objectively do a worse job. The magic of gaming comes from this thing...
Sony and Hennig tell you to put that thing down and watch an inferior impression of Hollywood far too often.
Pretty sure this is the dumbest thing I've read all day.
sainraja
Member
Not particularly impressed with Hennig or Sonys style of games. They ape books/movies, and objectively do a worse job. The magic of gaming comes from this thing...
Sony and Hennig tell you to put that thing down and watch an inferior impression of Hollywood far too often.
You know that is not quite how it is. Single player games have always used cutscenes to move the player forward in a game and with the improvement of technology developers have been able to blend that aspect together a little better than before. Most of Sony's games have the right balance between gameplay and story-telling. I don't think this is a fair criticism at all.
I am going to name a series from the PS1 era that had a story and also had cutscenes to show the story aspects (Tenchu 1/2). Those are "inferior" impression of Hollywood using your logic. What aspect would change that for you? Making it level based (like Tenchu 1/2)? Well, The Last of Us: Part 2 did that, it broke the story into chapters and categorized them into 'Days'. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was also a linear game with an interesting story that had some of it happen during the gameplay sections and cutscenes, is that also a movie?
What is the distinction for you, from a movie game and a 'normal' game? What do you define as a 'normal' game?
Why are you being a little reasonable by saying they are movies, why not go to the very extreme and simply say button press simulators? Oh wait, that's pretty much all of gaming!
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What? Where do you get that from?
Edit: Nevermind, seems to have caught the mindvirus.
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I still doubt it was fully amicable, but I have read her twitter now. Yep, went full mindvirus and seems to have gotten fully converted. Shame, as she absolutly was one of the reasonable voices during GG.
CitizenX
Banned
Little thing called Twitter, just go read her posts.
Actually I think they're going to increase because of the changes the SSD brings to work flow. Now even the smaller indies can build their worlds faster and therefore focus more on the things they really want to build and if the indies can scale this fast can you imagine what 1st party will get up to.
Azurro
Banned
Nah, I just went and looked. She has some blm stuff, but nothing crazy. She's a regular leftie, or at least it seems that way. Druckmann is straight up insane. I'd much rather have her heading Naughty Dog than Sliding Gendered Neil.
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