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THQ Nordic has publishes its extended Financial Year Report 2018-2019, revealing it has a total of 80 titles in development spread among THQ Nordic, Deep Silver and Coffee Stain Studios.
And only a select few will probably be worth playing. They should focus more on quality than quantity.
How is that even possible? Are they counting ideas as games in development? Even EA, Sony, Activision and MS don't have that many games in development combined!
So you played those games?
No? So you don't Know if they are Worth playing or not
Games don't need to be AAA to be worth play. Those games could be easily smaller titles
Or even remastered games from the IPs they bought. Definitely worth playing
THQ Nordic has been buying a lot of developers, and they have several subsidiaries, one of them being Handy Games which is their budget label. Combined with Coffee Stain, probably half of those are indie/smaller titles.
Well i hope one of them is a Darksiders 4. They can't quit now, they have to finish the 4 horsemen story.
Probably five good games.
"Ninety percent of everything is crap"
~Sturgeon's law
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THQ Nordic has announced the purchase of Coffee Stain Studios (Deep Rock Galactic) and Bugbear (Wreckfest). They have 35 unannounced projects at the moment.
Quality > Quanity
Having this many games in development is just asking for trouble.
A lot of their games (Metro Exodus, Wreckfest, Darksiders 3, Biomutant, etc) are looking pretty good though.
You're thinking in terms of AAA, but THQ Nordic has said themselves they are aiming to fill the void of the mid tier games market. Not to mention they already have quite a few GOOD dev studios under their belt. with lower budget and AAA experienced teams now put on lower pressure mid tier titles this could easily allow for all these studios to work on more than one project at once (hell the Darksiders devs have already said they have been working on a another title since Darksiders III hit alpha)
The mid-tier has kinda fizzled out since THQ originally went under. Warner Bros. grew too big for its own good, Deep Silver was overly-ambitious with their dependency on Saints Row & Dead Island. THQ Nordic NEEDS to be that middle-ground between indie and the big AAA publishers.
There is room in the market for 2nd tier type games. Not every game needs to be a AAA masterpiece with gripping stories and battle royales.
As long as they have enough studios to support releasing a decent game why would gamers not buy games they like.
"2nd tier type games"
"AAA masterpiece"
Not of fan of people assuming AAA means the best games. AAA means how much funding the project gets, that's it...not quality of game. You can assume the game will be great because it costs a lot, but that is not reality.
You can make a movie for a billion dollars, doesn't mean it will be a masterpiece. This is why most people judge the "best looking games" as the "best games" because the huge part of the funding goes into art, which is the easiest, but most time consuming part of the game development.
I wish THQ Nordic the best of luck. Personally I love their games as they got a bit of quirkiness and doesn't follow most other trends in the gaming industry. Sure, they're not perfect by any means and their games don't scream AAA GOTY, but if anything their games has always been one thing for me personally, and that is fun. I'm excited for Darksiders 3 in the next few weeks as I have it pre-ordered to support them.
