Nightmare Mode reports on David Cage's thoughts on games being fun, as well as his thoughts on the industry not actually being mainstream.
Ruliweb interviewed Quantic Dream CEO David Cage at G-Star 2022.
From Eurogamer: "David Cage has responded to allegations of unhealthy studio culture and inappropriate behaviour at Quantic Dream, which he previously described as a "smear campaign".
Published in this month's Edge Magazine, Cage discusses in depth the company culture of the studio and denies a lack of humility in its response to allegations.
"I don't think we had an aggressive attitude," he said. "When you're accused of things that go against everything you believe in, everything you've done in your life, it hurts. It went beyond just attacking the studio culture."
Hasn’t this been a story for years now ? Doesn’t seem like anything changed or they have some very upset workers who lie for a long time ? Seems like it isn’t the latter .
The people who use words like “unhealthy culture” are usually mentally ill themselves. Not saying it’s not true, just sayin.
Lol just saying. The last person I want to hear about “healthy culture” from is the people who use those words. Ususlly some kind of identity theory-ism. Commie talk.
I’m getting some disagrees so let me elaborate and try to change your mind.
Do you want to hear about healthy culture from people who celebrate fatness or put kids on puberty blockers as a few examples? That’s the kind of people who say shit like that and they are the most destructive force I’ve ever seen in my life when it comes to culture. Easily.
When you say culture what do you mean? The very core, right? The soul. QD is rotten to the very core and it needs to be replaced. With what? Ask whoever is using that term. I’m sure they have an idea. And I’d bet money their idea of healthy culture is ass backwards and not profitable lol.
Another example. I just saw a Kellogg ad that said “Food Justice for black communities”. They think they can trigger black folks into buying cereal with words like justice lol. They might be right, who knows. I laugh at shit like that though because I see right through these idiots.
TLDR:
Some people use words to communicate. “Shitty work environment”
Some people use words to manipulate. “Unhealthy culture” “Food justice”
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Sites like Kotaku have been crapping on Cage for a long time now, to the point where I'm suspicious of if he has earned the bad rep he has. Go read Kotaku's review of Detroit, I recall it being borderline unprofessional.
Cage has confessed he has no plans for Heavy Rain 2, but fans have been quite vocal about their love for the game. Perhaps now that the PlayStation 5 is revolutionising the gaming landscape, we might get a proper sequel to one of the best games David Cage has ever made.
No need. Heavy Rain was incredible as it was. Detroit Become Human was the next evolution. I do think they should continue with a new story but perhaps something less dark drama. I think it would be really cool to do something lighter with humor. The fantasy demo they showed off was pretty cool. If Kara became a full game, that would be great too!
Yes. Kara became Detroit. Also the job interview trailer demo back in 2007/8 became Heavy Rain. There was also a video about an actor who was portraying a dark sorcerer. I think that could be something too. I was saying since Kara did become a game, then their newer demo trailer could have too.
https://youtu.be/BqeuHGESZB...
just give me your next game already!!
David Cage you are absolutly 100% right. I am so glad that there are developers such as yourself who are so willing to go on record making unpopular but incredibly accurate assesments of state of what we call " games ". You sir have thrown the parchment of convention out the window, slapped the old guard in the face and rewrote the tome for an entire industry. What a vision Heavy Rain was. Where to start. So much of it haunts my waking hours to this very day. If I had to choose only three moments to define your opus they would be as follows. The moment when Ethan Mars "jumps" from the roof of the motel. The thrilling scene where the afore mentioned Ethan "races" down the road trying to aviod an accident. The third would be when Scott Shelby heroicly "shoots" 25 guards.
There are a few games that i can only describe as "fun". The game that stands out to me the most in this regard is Red Faction: Armagedon. As soon as i finihsed it, a few freinds asked how it was, my answer was "it was fun" thats about the best way to describe it. It wasnt great or bad at anything really it was just a lot of fun to play!
Okay, I read the article, but it's the title that I want to comment on...
"Games should be more than fun"
While I think that games are primarily there to be fun and enjoyable to the person playing it, I think that it'd also be nice if more games were thought provoking. I can't think of many, mind you. There's final fantasy... They've always tried to tie the story in with some themes that can relate to real feelings people have (maybe not on a day to day basis)when you really ponder life's questions, these games are good at engaging with the player in the way books do to drop messages around for keen people to pick up on.
I also like how in call of duty games they give you an inspirational quote from a famous person every time you die. I liked that because I often found myself not even paying attention to what was happening in the game's story because I read a quote that just hit the nail right on the head.
I suppose if you took a step back, any game that gives you good/bad choices makes you think about what makes a person good or bad. There's infamous, elder scrolls games, dragon age, mass effect (less so in ME).
I'm sure there's loads of other games like that that have given gamers something to mull over in their head. If you can think of any more, let me know.
"My thoughts are, what about adults, what about all the people who don’t play because they have no interest in shooting other people? We’re pushing the whole market into a niche."
To the stereotypical gamer, anyone who plays a game devoid of gore/nudity/vulgarity/complica ted button configurations = casual and worthy of his scorn.