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Quantic Dream Doesn’t Deserve Star Wars

The game industry needs to shift and change and you cannot do this by constantly rewarding alleged harassment and misconduct with Star Wars. Quantic Dream needs to go.

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ikarodemon843d ago

The true is we Star Wars fans dont deserve this High República trash. At last someone by the wrong motivation are against this Disney Garbage.

darthv72843d ago

As a true SW fan (since 77), I am intrigued as to the direction this can go in the expanded universe. So much lore and stories to be told. QD knows how to tell a story.

DoctorOswin843d ago

Yeah I'm not sure I get this hate either. How fans not tired of the Empire/Skywalker era stuff?

fr0sty842d ago

Star Wars' story isn't exactly immaculate to begin with. It was always a bit cheesy, especially the newer films. It has its moments, but lets not treat it like it's the best story ever told. It gave us Jar Jar Binks, FFS.

Father__Merrin843d ago

a story based starwars game will be excllent with quantic dream. im predicting a hit on thier hands

pietro1212843d ago

Filled with plot holes, sloppy writing knowing David Cage's track record. Hand it to another adventure game developer

JEECE843d ago

Lol I remember when the industry had a collective freakout over the 1st Season of the Walking Dead, which beyond being a trainwreck technically, was miles behind Heavy Rain in terms of storytelling. At that point I once again had to remind myself that all the "games journalists" routinely ignored any PlayStation exclusive not made by Naughty Dog (how things have changed lol).

Michiel1989843d ago

@jeece what are you talking about? Heavy Rain got great reception when it launched.

Michiel1989843d ago

@Jeece ps3 has 18 exclusives rated 85+. and a couple of them really close to that, so what were you saying again? oh you were saying you didnt agree walking dead getting a higher score than heavy rain and you tried to shit on all gaming journalism to validate your opinion? They're all out for poor ol' Sony :(

and the only counterargument that ever gets said is: Breath of the Wild got 10/10 from some journalists.....this shit is getting old, just cut it out. either accept that the "general opinion" (or whatever it is that people get out of metacritic/reviews,) will be different than yours or stop giving a fuck about what ratings games get, like I do.

JEECE843d ago

@Michiel1989

Yes, major websites had a reviewer who gave scores to PS3 games. My point was that when the Walking Dead Season 1 came out, people treated it as if it was groundbreaking and it was in the Game of the Year conversation at a lot of sites. People would not have thought that if they'd played Heavy Rain.

Since you have trouble with this concept, think about music. I'm sure there's some artist you like that isn't super popular, and you've said something like "if people would actually listen to good music like this, they'd stop freaking out about mediocre pop music." When you say that, you don't actually mean that zero other people listen to the artist you like or that no reviewers liked it. You mean that people generally are uninformed about it.

Michiel1989842d ago

@Jeece I played both and liked walking dead more than Heavy Rain. both really good games though, but i got more emotionally invested in TWD.

I mean I get what you mean with the example, i listen to quite a bit of indie music and im totally fine with them staying that way. The moment they get the big spotlight put on them, they will start to cater to the masses in so many cases. I rather have them stay more niche and keep their original identity,

I think you can compare Heavy Rain somewhat to path of exile, its a pretty niche experience. There are dedicated fans for both games and im sure if both HR and PoE went more of a mainstream route they would have gotten, more sales, better reviews and more revenue, but at the same time compromise their artistic view. Im fine with games I really like not being rated high, or appreciated by a lot of other people.

"At that point I once again had to remind myself that all the "games journalists" routinely ignored any PlayStation exclusive not made by Naughty Dog (how things have changed lol)." this is something completely different than saying people are generally uninformed about it. Heavy Rain is NOT a game for everyone, and it shouldnt be, thats what made it unique (for its time). Also when someone didnt play HR and did play TWD and give it a high score, doesnt mean they are uninformed. It literally just means they didnt play HR and its not required for someone to do in order to give TWD a review. Since HR is basically the evolution of point and click adventures, would they be required to play Monkey Island before reviewing HR as well?

im just sick of this false narrative being spread, that reviewers were out for Sony, while the only evidence thats available tells the exact opposite. Most of their exclusives are rated 80+, got enough reviews to say they werent ignored by reviewers, so i really dont get how you got to that opinion.

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gamer7804843d ago (Edited 843d ago )

I really like QD games. A bit disappointed they aren’t creating an original characters and world and doing Star Wars instead though. My favorites of theirs are heavy rain and detroit.

Magog843d ago

Oh, please. The trailer looked better than anything Star Wars related in decades. The quality of the end product is all that matters.

DoctorOswin843d ago

CG trailers don't mean anything if the game can't deliver.

Magog842d ago

They set an example for the asthetic and world they are going for. It looked right but it didn't look like a bland ripoff of the old movies.

spicelicka843d ago

Why do people act like Star wars is some immaculate franchise, it's popular and generic. If the issue is with the studio's controversy it should have nothing to do the type of game they're masking.

TheDoomedGuy843d ago

It may be popular...but you say...generic.

Spoken like someone who didn't grow up while these movies were released...nothing generic about them

spicelicka843d ago (Edited 843d ago )

The originals absolutely, but I'm talking about its state now. It's just cookie cutter stuff, with some exceptions obviously. Maybe generic isn't the technical term but you get the point.

JEECE843d ago

Lol he's like the kind of person who reads Shakespeare and ignorantly bashes it for having too many cliches.

TheDoomedGuy843d ago

@jeece

Granted Shakespeare copied other people but sure. Yeah

CrimsonWing69842d ago

Generic!? What other Sci-fi/Fantasy movie, shows, and games are like it? What in the hell came before it that it was a generic rip-off of?

spicelicka842d ago (Edited 842d ago )

It's a generic version of its past self. I'm not talking about the originals as being generic, I'm talking about the state of the franchise now. It's the same cookiecutter stuff aimed at the mainstream with the usual tropes. My point is that making Star wars game doesn't automatically grant you some power that needs to be "deserved", specially in the video game industry it doesn't hold some special gameplay mechanics unique to itself.

mastershredder843d ago

Let's be honest, it would just be an interactive movie (rather than a game). I can imagine quicktime based events taking up the screen rather than me actually enjoying the cinematics or gameplay ... nopes very, VERY hard pass. Quantic Dreams is the absolute worst in story telling unless you need a Television soap opera style game mixed with Dance Dance revolution.

pietro1212843d ago

I don't care for QD or David Cage, but I will defend the type of games they make. Interactive movies are a sub genre of the adventure game genre and deserve respect. Interactive movies are a form of video games rather you like it or not.

CS7843d ago

I could never understand the sentiments on here. So a movie can be good… a game can be good… but make an interactive movie with choices? It automatically becomes terrible “QTE” trash.

So immature.

If you don’t like it fine but a developer should be able to choose the level of interactivity they want in their story. Whether open world, Linear, interactive movie or a pure film.

pietro1212842d ago

imalwaysright

I was trying to be nice.

porkChop843d ago

While I do have issues with David Cage, there isn't anything wrong with the style of games that Quantic Dreams make. They bridge the gap between modern adventure games and classic FMV games.

pietro1212842d ago

Aside from some issues with Cage's writing, I did enjoy playing them.

Imalwaysright842d ago

pietro1212

Some? The guy is a terrible writer and it boggles my mind when I see people praising his storytelling skills.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein14h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii10h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo9h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows909h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel198939m ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

qalpha9h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno9h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan9h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno8h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19819h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn66950m ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno1d 5h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno9h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga1d 5h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator23h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac22h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto2d ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger882d ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19811d 13h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein1d 12h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.