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dohboy

Anyone planning on reading Jason Schreier's new book Press Reset? I'm tempted, but he's a bit of a knob.

Potential-Monke

The only things I read are in game...

wes

dohboy wrote: »

Anyone planning on reading Jason Schreier's new book Press Reset? I'm tempted, but he's a bit of a knob.

Forgot that was out. I read the first one, and it was pretty good. Will eventually read this one.

johnny_ultimate

Have started listening to the audiobook of Press Reset, having just finished his first. It’s very much a natural continuation: more focused on the people’s stories this time around, and the theme is obviously coming at the subject from a different angle. But I really like the way he writes these books: clear, concise and focused. Stories well worth hearing if you’re interested in the industry and its many quirks.

Mr Crispy

So, you say you want a Souls-like game inspired by Pinocchio? Well alright so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jeBvEyMmzc

More info on the Steam page, but it's also coming to PS5 and XBS/X.

gizmo

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Have started listening to the audiobook of Press Reset, having just finished his first. It’s very much a natural continuation: more focused on the people’s stories this time around, and the theme is obviously coming at the subject from a different angle. But I really like the way he writes these books: clear, concise and focused. Stories well worth hearing if you’re interested in the industry and its many quirks.

Ah, didn't realise the Audible version was out before the paperback.

Will definitely be picking it up anyway. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels was a great read and highly recommended for folk wanting a look behind the curtain into how the games covered came to be. The shift in attention to the people rather than the project this time should be interesting too, although I do hope he can continue that same level of focus when doing so.

Finally getting around to reading Console Wars in the meantime. Curious to see how it made the transition into a documentary too, assuming it ever comes to anything other than Sky over here.

J Mysterio

The aborted Days Gone 2

https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/04/12/days-gone-2-details-revealed-by-games-director-including-a-shared-universe-with-co-op

gimli2112

It's up there with the cancellation of Firefly imo. Man I'm part of some fringe sub sets.

The Raging Bile Duct

J Mysterio wrote: »

The aborted Days Gone 2

https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/04/12/days-gone-2-details-revealed-by-games-director-including-a-shared-universe-with-co-op

Some heralded the open-world zombie game as a masterpiece, while others lauded it as a drawn-out adventure that offered a mediocre experience rooted in a genre we've seen a thousand times before.

Whoever wrote that article needs a better thesaurus.

Varik

If days gone outsold everything bend has done previously combined then it's unlikely that a new project will out do that.

Probably get go aheadm sooner or later.

quokula

Varik wrote: »

If days gone outsold everything bend has done previously combined then it's unlikely that a new project will out do that.

Probably get go aheadm sooner or later.

They hadn't released anything for nearly a decade before Days Gone, having previously been a studio that was portable focussed and churning out PSP and Vita games regularly, so I'd imagine the cost of development was higher than everything they'd previously done combined too.

I found this quote amusing though:

Ross confirmed that the Days Gone 2 pitch included a "shared universe with co-op play." He then stated that co-op was always the plan for Days Gone, but that plan didn't see fruition with the first game because the team had to "make concessions for what you're not going to be able to do."

Given that the sequel isn't going ahead, it's pretty easy for him to say it would have done X and Y even while admitting he wanted the first game to have those features but had to make concessions to what the team was capable of creating.

I still don't get the fuss over it not getting a sequel. Days Gone was fairly critically panned on release, we all complain that there are too many sequels and not enough new IPs, so why decry the lack of a sequel to a game that wasn't particularly loved? I'm not sure anyone even expected there to be a sequel until the "news" that it wasn't happening.

J Mysterio

Critics seemed to jump on a bandwagon against Days Gone, even though it was a good game which regular people enjoyed (Metacritic user score of 8.3 vs critic score of 71). Some of the criticism was totally ridiculous. It did some innovative things too, with the hordes and what not. It was quite a unique experience from my perspective, even though it's criticised as being unoriginal, and flat. The setting and characters were interesting.

I for one would love to have seen a sequel, and for them to have worked on multiplayer. Not sure it's fair to criticise them for not having included that and for focusing on the SP, particularly as it was their first game of this scale, and when we see clusterfuçks like CyberPunk. They prioritised and delivered a good story focused game.

quokula

J Mysterio wrote: »

Critics seemed to jump on a bandwagon against Days Gone, even though it was a good game which regular people enjoyed (Metacritic user score of 8.3 vs critic score of 71). Some of the criticism was totally ridiculous. It did some innovative things too, with the hordes and what not. It was quite a unique experience from my perspective, even though it's criticised as being unoriginal, and flat. The setting and characters were interesting.

I for one would love to have seen a sequel, and for them to have worked on multiplayer. Not sure it's fair to criticise them for not having included that and for focusing on the SP, particularly as it was their first game of this scale, and when we see clusterfuçks like CyberPunk. They prioritised and delivered a good story focused game.

I'm not criticising the first game for being SP at all, I prefer SP games anyway. I was just amused about how the headline was how the sequel would have had all those extra features, when it's nothing but empty words given that they're not actually making them, and he even basically admitted he wanted to put those features in the first game but didn't because they turned out to be too difficult to implement.

Shapey Fiend

Zombie survival games feel a bit 2015 at this stage anyway don't they? If they spent 3 years developing a sequel it'd be even more old hat.

J Mysterio

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Zombie survival games feel a bit 2015 at this stage anyway don't they? If they spent 3 years developing a sequel it'd be even more old hat.

There is very much a market for this. Army of the Dead is releasing on Netflix in the next few days (Zack Snyder). Biker gangs are also a relatively untapped area in games.

https://www.ft.com/content/b05c9441-9181-43e0-a7c7-e6400cebe9f5

Shapey Fiend

Army of the dead has been in development since 2007. Its a zombie survival casino heist movie. Two concepts entirely run into the ground, combined! Netflix will pay for anything at the moment so long as it expands their catalog. The dumbest stuff they produce gets critically panned tends to get the most streams anyway.

Mr Crispy

It's looking like Crysis 2 is going to get the remaster treatment next. Bleh.

sniper_samurai

Mr Crispy wrote: »

It's looking like Crysis 2 is going to get the remaster treatment next. Bleh.

Shouldn't be as much an issue with that as the original is already on CryEngine 3. A lot of the issues with the Crysis remaster stemmed from being based on the CryEngine 3 based console version instead of the original CryEngine 2 PC version.

Mr Crispy

sniper_samurai wrote: »

Shouldn't be as much an issue with that as the original is already on CryEngine 3. A lot of the issues with the Crysis remaster stemmed from being based on the CryEngine 3 based console version instead of the original CryEngine 2 PC version.

Sure, but it's the worst game of the trilogy to begin with. Just hard to get excited about it.

Retr0gamer

I'd prefer Warhead.

Scarlet Nexus demo available now on Xbox, 28th for PlayStation.

J. Marston

I'm also a "regular" person and I dropped it halfway through. And I love all the big Sony titles. Bloodborne, Horizon, Spiderman, God of War, platinum'ed them all.

But Days Gone was just so uninspired. Also, that "Find the drunk guy" mission is one of the worst open world quests I've ever done. That's the point where I dropped it.

gimli2112

I love Days Gone but without a doubt that drunk guy mission was god damn awful, it actually ends very well but the lead up to it was dreadful.

J Mysterio

J Mysterio wrote: »

There is very much a market for this. Army of the Dead is releasing on Netflix in the next few days (Zack Snyder). Biker gangs are also a relatively untapped area in games.

https://www.ft.com/content/b05c9441-9181-43e0-a7c7-e6400cebe9f5

This film was absolutely brutal

Retr0gamer

J Mysterio wrote: »

This film was absolutely brutal

It's Zack Snyder, what did you expect?

CatInABox

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's Zack Snyder, what did you expect?

I still can't believe that he was put in charge of the DC universe.

Markitron

I didn't think it was that bad. The action scenes were decent, also it was probably closer to a Resident Evil movie than the actual Resident Evil movies.

It really needed to be about 45 mins shorter though.

Zero-Cool

I enjoyed it, low expectation, switched the brain off and watched it over 2 nights. Some great action scenes but yeah, there's no need for a 2 and a half hour zombie film.

The most impressive part is reading afterward that Chris D'elia was actually the chopper pilot and when his allegations came out, they digitally removed him from the film and the replacement actress shots all her scenes solo because of covid and was digitally added to scenes with other cast members :eek:

CastorTroy

Never knew that. I know her from Star Trek Discovery.