CFD!'s Sage Knox takes a look at Hello Games' racing/platforming PSN title, Joe Danger:
"The days of Evel Knievel may be long gone but the daredevil stuntman’s spirit rides on in Hello Games’ PSN-exclusive Joe Danger. One difference between Joe and Evel? Besides the whole “reality” thing, Evel never saw the absurd Trials HD-style obstacle courses Joe needs to navigate.
"Most comparisons to Joe Danger do often bring up Trials, and for good reason. Those familiar with the spirit-crushing difficulty of the latter will find refuge in Joe Danger, as the same basic premise (and controls, to an extent) are present in Trials without the obscene and frustrating ramp-up in difficulty. There’s always the same goal in a Joe Danger track: finish by any means possible. Moving from left-to-right often accomplishes that quite nicely, though a number of ramps, traps, springs, walls, buildings, and explosives may stand in your way."
Hello Games' new project would feel impossible to create even with 1,000 people behind it, the developer has said.
Speaking to IGN, studio co-founder and managing director Sean Murray said that, while it's not a sequel to No Man's Sky, the new game is just as ambitious.
Sean really? Haven't you learned a thing since your first game about over promising?
Here we go again…. Yes he did. That’s why there was a class action lawsuit against him. With an ultimatum. That’s why we’ve received a free overhaul of the entire game.
@ 1nsomniac
What exactly has he promised about the new game? All I can see is him saying it's ambitious.
Edit: Hold on, maybe you're talking about No Man's Sky?
Oh, but if we want to hate something, we need to read into everything and create our own narrative./sarcasm.
If he hadn't learned anything, he would have offered a long list of specific features, released an E3-style pre-rendered cinematic trailer labeled "in-game footage", and made the round of talk shows gushing his enthusiasm for the project.
All we have here is: "We're working on something. It's a challenge for us."
If anything, he has demonstrated again and again that he has learned to be very disciplined in how he communicates with the public. He doesn't even make promises regarding updates to NMS until after they have released. All we get ahead of time is a single, cryptic emoji on his Twitter feed.
It seems to have been mostly just a matter of him underestimating the time it would take to do what they wanted with it. They have yet to announce a release date for the new game, so they have as much time as they need for a proper launch this time around.
NMS is also currently far beyond what was ever promised.
It’s like he’s trying to throw all the good will away that he’s earned with these free updates. Under promise-Over deliver. The hype train that leaves too early will likely run out of steam before it’s destination.
Well that's just poor planning of your resources. I don't see what time you leave having any bearing on fuel
C'mon now haters. How many teams this small even have the guts to try to make games this ambitious? Most of them are happy to make the billionth pixel art rogue like.
By far. Particularly since about 40% of the promises they supposedly made were just things the community made up from watching trailers.
So go the Star Citizen route and get paid for your idea. Then you can create infinite ideas inside a game while never releasing the game.
‘You can experience parts of Star Citizen now’ would be a more accurate statement.
Hello Games founder Sean Murray said the letter "broke our hearts and made us want to set things right". It has now been relaunched on iOS.
What an amazing story, Joe Danger was a fantastic game and hearing about these kinds of stories makes me much happier than hearing adults bicker back and forth about which animations a game is re-using and the amount of pixels on the screen.
This is what gaming is really about and I feel like some people just tend to forget that
Sean Murray shares Hello Games' plans for their next big hit with the same size as No Man's Sky.
Sean's main to-do list points for their next big game:
1.- Dont tell lies about your new game
2.- Display the actual game
3.- Dont add bs endings
I don't think they actually lied, they just made a bit of a crappy game with no real goal. It was pretty obvious from when they were promoting it, it just felt completely aimless and it was it seems.
Regardless of this, the man got death threats after it was released. So to start with, how about gamers act like civilised human beings for the next one?
Try not lying about this one, having the early buyers waiting years for something that sort of looked like what you promised.
I think he wasnt very good at addressing the marketing, and maybe got ahead of himself with what he said. I never thought he maliciously lied with intent to deceive. Just always felt he was really excited about his game. I also think people took a lot of things he said and exaggerated them to be worse than the context made them.
Not that I really care to get into a back or forth on what was what back then.
The point I wanted to get at though was that he'd do well to maybe hire a professional marketing person or firm to do the marketing, because he seems like hes not adept at setting the proper expectations with his marketing.
Comments on this dev teams articles are so predictable. Never mind the fact that an independent investigation found them not guilty of intentionally misleading consumers and that they've grafted for four years on free updates to make it right.
I guess people enjoy holding grudges for some reason.
They weren't taken to court. That doesn't equate to not being deceiving lol. They straight up were dishonest about mechanics, depth, and scenarios to be had within the game.
I'm not exactly going to thank them for working on a shell of a game they sold at retail to millions either.
"Oh thank you, Hello Games, for secretly selling me a secret early access title for full retail! Maybe years down the road you'll finally give me something similar to what you told me I was buying at launch, as other people get it for half the cost, or cheaper!".
best game studio right now. they had lofty goals and missed them initially. but they added more for FREE than most studios offer paid. theyve been working hard for their players, and not for their publishers. I appreciate that dedication.
It really showed to their strengths to continue. They didnt make additional revenue with that besides attracting new fans. Didnt sell any of that as aditional content. Very strong devrloper
So fixing a mistake, makes them a better studio than the 10's of hundreds that don't make the mistake in the first place?
When the game was made by 3 people, then finished off by a team of only 23, after losing tons of work after a studio flood. Yes, imo it makes them better than many.
You build a crap hotel, no one wants to stay. You spend three years remodeling to make it unique and above standard, people will support your hotel by staying in it.
they didnt just fix the shortcomings, they exceeded them. on top of that, the game is still selling how many years later? and they're not charging anyone for all of this extra work. its dedication that just exceeds what ive come to expect from game creators. yes, other bigger studios launch more complete experiences. but then they charge for every little thing. yes, i know thats driven by "the board" and revenue-driven development. but seriously, these guys are my favorite devs right now because they're targeting their players, not the board of directors. and thats my point.
Going to wait until it drops to $10, but it looks like a really good game.
@That: Well, it's still worth a look, if nothing else. We're not just giving away that - there's a couple other things in there too. And I was a bit hasty saying "today" - we're going to be STARTING the contest today, but it'll probably be running through the week. We usually give stuff away on Sat or Sun.
I want this game, it's kind of being overlooked by a lot of people, a lot, I played a bit of it and cool.