It looks good in the marketing (it always does) but we should all remember that it’s Bethesda making this. Then again, I can’t even name a developer that I would say “hell yeah, this is gonna be awesome!” at this point.
The very sad state of the industry.
Cdpr used to be the one for me even with Witcher 3 release, but with 2077 it was another whole level, specially the way they robbed the devs of the bonuses.
CDPR was probably everyone’s go to of a AAA dev that hadn’t yet been corrupted by money. Unfortunately with Cyberpunk 2077 we found out the hard way that yes, they had indeed been corrupted by said money.
They single-handily managed to annihilate any sort of reputation they had gained over the many years of their studio, then managed to squander all of that in less than a few days.
As the saying goes, slow to rise, quick to fall.
I’m curious what happens with Phantom Liberty. They’re saying they’ve overhauled the entire game and fixed all the issues…but does that mean only for people who buy Phantom Liberty?
I hope they actually fixed all the bugs, and
I sure hope they give all the properly fixed content to the people who already bought their broken game.
Remember No Man’s Sky? They’re STILL releasing free updates to that game. It looks to be way more than what they initially promised at this point. Totally redeemed themselves imo.
Video Game Chronicles appeared to talk to the games creative director Pawel Sasko, who said this.
The developer says it’s still discussing the exact details of when and how base game owners will receive the new systems, but that its intention is to deploy them for free. So as well as adding a sizable chunk of new story to Night City, Phantom Liberty looks like it could finally do good on many of the promises the base game failed to live up to for many, before the game’s leaders move Stateside to establish the sequel dev team.
So really, who fucking knows. Apparently the entire game is being massively overhauled to the point of where it’s practically a new game, the fact it took three years to get to this point shows truly how underbaked the initial release was.
No Man’s Sky is a bit different since it was a tiny studio that was promising the mood. Sony also threw the studio director straight into the limelight even though he had effectively zero public relations experience. Then again, he doesn’t really seemed to have learnt his lesson, as he has big promises for his next game, maybe it’ll be a surprise, who knows. Cyberpunk 2077 on the other hand has no such excuse, they had a very well capable and trained marketing and PR team.
I mean to be fair, with CDPR, their games were always buggy messes on initial release… and I say this as a huge fan of their games. Go back and look at Witchers 1-3… all of those had huge issues when they came out. But, the reason CDPR is held in such high regard is because unlike Bethesda and others, they worked their butts off on all of those post-release to improve and expand them. The final products of the Witcher franchise games are so good its easy to forget how many problems they had on release.
They seem to have a good track record with releasing good games, but they’re a still like any other publisher at heart. The rights and mental health of devs seem to be a second thought, but that’s pretty much any publisher these days.
However if you’re looking for quality, they seem to be of positive indication.
Valve and any Miyazaki game for me. Only time I’ve ever been “let down” is Dark Souls 2 and even then I still enjoy a playthrough of it every couple years so it’s not a real low point to me.
That’s not much of a defense. They outsourced the project and either: did not even peek at the product at any point of development (or when ready to ship) or they did review it, and found it acceptable enough to launch.
The team behind the Yakuza / Like a Dragon-games never disappointed me before. That’s one of the few developers / game series that I’m happy to support in advance.
FromSoftware and Nintendo? As far as I know, their games are both successful and polished. You might not like their games, of course, but if you do it seems like a safe bet.
It looks good in the marketing (it always does) but we should all remember that it’s Bethesda making this. Then again, I can’t even name a developer that I would say “hell yeah, this is gonna be awesome!” at this point. The very sad state of the industry.
Cdpr used to be the one for me even with Witcher 3 release, but with 2077 it was another whole level, specially the way they robbed the devs of the bonuses.
CDPR was probably everyone’s go to of a AAA dev that hadn’t yet been corrupted by money. Unfortunately with Cyberpunk 2077 we found out the hard way that yes, they had indeed been corrupted by said money. They single-handily managed to annihilate any sort of reputation they had gained over the many years of their studio, then managed to squander all of that in less than a few days. As the saying goes, slow to rise, quick to fall.
I’m curious what happens with Phantom Liberty. They’re saying they’ve overhauled the entire game and fixed all the issues…but does that mean only for people who buy Phantom Liberty?
Remember No Man’s Sky? They’re STILL releasing free updates to that game. It looks to be way more than what they initially promised at this point. Totally redeemed themselves imo.
Video Game Chronicles appeared to talk to the games creative director Pawel Sasko, who said this.
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So really, who fucking knows. Apparently the entire game is being massively overhauled to the point of where it’s practically a new game, the fact it took three years to get to this point shows truly how underbaked the initial release was.
No Man’s Sky is a bit different since it was a tiny studio that was promising the mood. Sony also threw the studio director straight into the limelight even though he had effectively zero public relations experience. Then again, he doesn’t really seemed to have learnt his lesson, as he has big promises for his next game, maybe it’ll be a surprise, who knows. Cyberpunk 2077 on the other hand has no such excuse, they had a very well capable and trained marketing and PR team.
Ooo I hadn’t seen anything new from Sean Murray, guess I should look that up.
I mean to be fair, with CDPR, their games were always buggy messes on initial release… and I say this as a huge fan of their games. Go back and look at Witchers 1-3… all of those had huge issues when they came out. But, the reason CDPR is held in such high regard is because unlike Bethesda and others, they worked their butts off on all of those post-release to improve and expand them. The final products of the Witcher franchise games are so good its easy to forget how many problems they had on release.
On the producer side, Annapurna is a strong quality guarantee for me.
They seem to have a good track record with releasing good games, but they’re a still like any other publisher at heart. The rights and mental health of devs seem to be a second thought, but that’s pretty much any publisher these days.
However if you’re looking for quality, they seem to be of positive indication.
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Valve hasn’t let me down yet. Neither with Software nor with Hardware. Aside from the Index I preordered everything they did since HL2.
Valve and any Miyazaki game for me. Only time I’ve ever been “let down” is Dark Souls 2 and even then I still enjoy a playthrough of it every couple years so it’s not a real low point to me.
I would say Rockstar Games ist one of the few thats left here. I was never disappointed by new Games they produced.
By saying “new” and “produced”, you are deliberately excluding the GTA Trilogy remaster I assume, because that is definitely a Rockstar Games mess.
Wasn’t that outsourced technically?
That’s not much of a defense. They outsourced the project and either: did not even peek at the product at any point of development (or when ready to ship) or they did review it, and found it acceptable enough to launch.
No matter how you cut it, R* severely fucked up.
The team behind the Yakuza / Like a Dragon-games never disappointed me before. That’s one of the few developers / game series that I’m happy to support in advance.
Naughty Dog
FromSoftware and Nintendo? As far as I know, their games are both successful and polished. You might not like their games, of course, but if you do it seems like a safe bet.