As all the post-Electronic Entertainment Expo content comes pouring in across the internet this week, we’ve noticed that one particular game is being overlooked by many. Hellraid, publisher/developer Techland’s new first-person hack-and-slash, isn’t exactly making major headlines, which is a shame because it looks truly promising.
Dying Light 2 developer Techland talks about the "secret formula" to their games' success, and comments on how they see live service games.
Rainbow 6 Siege from December 2015 is not even comparable to whatever that thing is today they call Siege.
Dying Light 2 was horrible. I played it at launch and it was a buggy and broken piece of shit. I didn't enjoy the game's locale either. They've released a ton of patches and updates for it though, and I'm somewhat keen to give it another chance. But the game left a horrible impression on me, especially seeing as how the first one was my favourite game last gen.
Pawel writes: "Today I am happy to announce the partnership with Tencent who are in the process of becoming Techland's majority shareholder."
"We will retain full ownership of our IPs, maintain creative freedom, and continue to operate the way we believe is right. I'm also going to continue serving as the studio’s CEO."
Unless it angers China and Winnie the Poop. Then I'm out of a job and we'll be fu...Ahem. Anyways. Please clap and be excited!
Thank you!
o( _ _ )o All Hail our Megacorp Overlord! Hail Hydra!!
I question this stuff sometimes because it seems too good to be true. Same thing with Bungie. Is it really that they can make those decisions or can the owner, much like a Starbucks that just closes down a branch that attempts to unionize, truly in power and can just replace those with people that will just agree with them?
It's all PR talks. They're trying not to spook the fan base and partners for now. At the end of the day, owning the majority means Tencent has the final say. And they WILL crack down on Techland if they do anger the Overlords.
On the plus side, I'm sure Tencent will pass sweeping internal changes making sure this never happens. So no worries there...
New open world fantasy action rpg is going well apparently. Been watching some Dying Light 2 endgame as well. We’ll see how it all turns out.
Dead island 2 is a better game than dying light 2. So whatever you do please make more fun games
I seem to be in a minority here... but... I really like dying light 2. Yeah, they neutered the night time scares but the overall gameplay was way better. And you can block without that shitty riot shield.
Same as you, I enjoyed my time with Dying Light 2, I don't think it was as good as the first one but it was a pretty good game overall.
There's a new update that is either out now or coming very soon that is supposed to reinvigorate the night-time sections of the game among other things. Might be worth playing again with that update as they've also added a lot of other QoL changes as well.
More consolidation... Not good.
I really hope that the main "asset" with a company like tech land is it's people, and if you jerk around the people, they'll leave and make great games for someone else, maybe start something new.
Maybe tools like unreal will lower the barriers to entry to make this easier?
Dunno, trying to be optimistic that this, too, will pass.
Ultimately if they can't make good games, the investment will fail and the good people will move on.. I hope
Techland has finally revealed a preview of its unannounced AAA fantasy open world action-RPG.
Keep using the C-Engine.
Just update it with more higher-quality assets and effects.
What is it with companies making fantasy RPGs? There’s 3 or 4 new ones announced every day at this point. It’s the same stuff over and over again.
@jBlakeeper
Well seeing as how we really haven't seen just how the gameplay loop and character building works, i'd say that's too early to call atm
I buy pretty much every fantasy rpg if it's passable score wise like 6 or 7 on up. Blame me lol I don't care because I like them and I'm not alone
I’ve heard that about dragons dogma but it just felt to clunky. Couldn’t get into it but people love it
The year is 2006. There are space marines everywhere. I mind my own business and play my fantasy rpgs.
I definitely think it’s an issue of what era we are in. The post-9/11 era of gaming was grey and brown war shooters, but I grew up with those games and really don’t like the fact that, instead of making less of them, linear became a failure of games design, instead of a kind of games design.
Sifu has actually scratched a bit of that itch for me, and hopefully Max Payne’s remakes come through swiftly.
Fantasy games I can live without. I’ve put 9 hours in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla (a kind of fantasy game) and I’m only at the beginning. It’s tedious to do anything and the dialogue is forever cringey 😅😅
“Come brother, let’s storm the field of battle and get our swords wet once more!”
I really hope they literally mean their swords and not “their swords.” Lol
It's just the nature of genre cycles. A couple of strong ignitors like The Elder Scrolls and Witcher series can inspire dozens of other studios to try their hand at it too.
When was the last really good one? Most company make half baked RPGs that almost fill a void.
Fantasy RPG is a pretty wide scope with a fair amount of variation, so even if there were as many announcements as you're claiming, I don't see why it would be a bad thing.
They can make what ever they want lol. Plus it's not the same thing, theme yes but they all vary immensely in terms of art direction, gameplay, story etc etc. If you don't like don't buy it eh
Ok this is really interesting.
It looks like there might be 3 studios working on AAA fantasy open world action RPG's.
Bethesda (ESVI)
Obsidian (Avowed)
and now Techland.
As a fan of the genre generally, this is really cool.
Hellraid became a meh "expansion".
https://store.steampowered....
In open world their mechanics might be really interesting. Really loved Dead Island.
Playground Games (Fable), Game Science (Wukong, souls-esque though but still counts), BioWare (DA4, last concept vid looked a bit action oriented, might be wrong), CDPR (new Witcher), Capcom (Dragon's Dogma 2, much rumored), SE (FFXVI, seems abit Witcher-esque) ....
I probably should have mentioned classical fantasy, first person, action RPG. I was too vague.
But yes you are right, lots of RPG's to look forward to.
Maybe it's what they originally had planned for Hellraid before it became what it did in Dying Light.
Looking at Techland's previous work, I hope its a mix of Dying Light and Pure Farming Simulator 2018!
Hellraid does actually look good. Techland seems to be on a role. I hope they keep those nasty bugs away from their new releases.
Looks great Iooking forward to playing this with my friends.
How are people just accepting this stuff?? It's Skyrim with the interesting (not commercially viable) bits removed and Borderlands style co-op tacked on because the consumer reports say that'll be the big money maker this upcoming year. This author even complains that Skyrim restricted the player to a single player experience? Ugh. It's not the people selling the snake oil that are killing gaming, it's the millions guzzling it down.
Just wait for next year's 'BloodFire' (or some other equally douchey name) which will literally be this exact game with poorly rendered hats placed on the enemies heads. The media will preview it like 'we noticed some similarities to last year's Hellraid but the addition of new hats makes this one to watch in the upcoming months'. The fans will comment 'omgzzz SO exited to play it' and 'Carnt wate' and then a few weeks after release everyone will be ready to admit it was absolute crap.
I'm excited about this and I'm not even an Elder Scrolls fan (obsessed with Fallout though).
Have they confirmed that this will be a retail release or a PSN title?