is your avatar a dildo mate, cause you act like one
The original Deus Ex was a blast. A very silly game where you got to do all sorts of fun things on an adventure which was a grand tour of conspiracy theories. Human Revolution was as dull as ditch water and not especially well-made.
What story?
Yea they really are, I mean the shit that gets released when you have IPs like deus ex just sitting there it's sickening
I don't disagree, but a lot of the side content put together a pretty interesting story of its own. It would've been good to get a follow up to actually flesh out what wasn't finished.What story?
There was barely any story there to begin with in comparison to HR. MD was all about side content which is like 90% of the whole game.
As for the news... Uh, well, I think what SQE did with the IP and MD will forever hunt it, the devs as well and we'll never see another DE cuz of all this. If DE was as niche as these idiots are saying, KCDII (and a lot of other games) wouldn't be a thing at all cuz this is how a true niche game looks like and which not a lot of people will like. It's just a brainless coward's excuse to not fund the project which needs a lot of money and time in the oven.
Where is Phil when we need it him, MS could buy IP and outsource it or give it to one of their studios.
It's like goldilocks. A lot of people found the level of painfully bland, dumbed down and standardised AAA games to be just right for them in the 360/PS3 era.
marketable imagery and setting, impactful trailers, all of this is important of course, but at the end of the day what will make the difference for the public is the actual formula, what the game is about
This probably happens more often than you think. At least for the past decade and some. I reckon an abundance of these kinds of projects have been shut down behind the scenes. You just don't hear about it publically, untill some years later a dev spills the beans about it. The only ones who manage to avoid this are the solo or small team devs that passionately work with the limited resources they have at their disposal.
Eh, I think we'll start seeing a resurgence in the niche scene. They won't have the high production values you're accustomed to though.
Try Gloomwood if you want to see what it looks like. Amazing mechanics, but the visuals might turn down some people.
Lol. Lmao even.
Actually, it sounds like they tried to do exactly that with this pitch:
If they did, the games would not be what they are. Whether you like it or not, it costs money for these games too look, play and sound like they do.Really wish they could scale back the production of some of these AAA games such that ~1.5-2M sales would be enough for the entire production to be in the green. Really sad that Western studios have narrowed their greenlights to games with 8M+ sales potential. Fuckin' shareholders man.
I don't think this is the way things work. What is even a reasonable budget today? I don't think it is low enough that the sales of these games would be justified. Eidos learned this the hard way, they sunk major resources into MD and it just blew up in their face.
I don't think it is even possible for a western studio to make a game where 2M sales produces a good outcome in terms of return.
Dunno, hire fewer voice actors and writers, make fewer cinematics, don't hire DEI consultants, don't hire Denuvo, etc.
A massive screw up that enriched a few select names at Marvel and no one else. When you allow Crystal Dynamics to make it a live service and a Ms. Marvel game in all but name, you're cooked.
I reckon by limiting and freezing their feature scope. Thus keeping their development cycle to a reasonable timeframe and the budget to a wisely manageable degree. See Spacemarine 2 for reference to what entails in a modern AA game gameplay-wise.
Wouldn't you prefer if they came to their senses instead?
Yes, of course. But they won't.
You're not talking about Deus Ex.
