On Wednesday 24th Sept, Tameem Antoniades gave a talk at DICE Europe in London entitled Opening the Doors of Development. You can watch a live stream of the talk below:
Former Hellblade director and Ninja Theory co-founder has offered an explanation regarding his departure from the now Microsoft-owned studio.
It is a good studio.. i really enjoyed their dmc game that i platinumed it.
I did not try hellblade, because it doesnt tell me much.. Enslaved was very mehhh
Heavenly Sword was good not great. Amazing graphics back in the day but so repetitive and not so engaging in the long run.
I really enjoyed Enslaved and Heavenly Sword back in the day. Wish they'd return to that sort of game. Hellblade isn't really for me to be honest. Not saying it's not a good game, I just couldn't get into it.
That is fair. I enjoyed Hellblade but can definitely see how it isn’t for everyone.
Would like to see how Heavenly Sword would have turned out if developed today. It’s easy to forget that games like Heavenly Sword were unprecedented and in their infancy.
Enslaved has been their favorite game for me. Loved the atmosphere.
Heavenly sword was a staggeringly good game!! One of the most memorable of the PS3 generation in my opinion.
Heavenly sword was good. It had ambitious graphics and as a result the frame rate suffered and as a result the gameplay suffered. But the story was phenomenal. Great acting, especially Andy Serkis as the king.
"Microsoft" we all read between the lines. We have seen the exact same thing happen with many of their other acquisitions
One thing that pleasantly surprised me, was the Switch port, as back then it was my only console. The graphics were amazing and the artistic design helped a lot to enhance the visuals.I took some really impressive screen shots while playing which I still revisit them from time to time to remind me what a capable developer (QLOC) can achieve with weaker hardware.
The Ninja Theory co-founder says the game is focusing on "capturing reality"
From the last big trailer it definitely seems that Ninja Theory was announcing its big ambitions - this could be Xbox's own God of War.
Are we talking about the same trailer? The completely scripted trailer with near zero gameplay?
@rippermcrip The above comment is not a prediction on quality of the final game, it is a statement that Microsoft will be viewing Hellblade II as a game that can fill a gap in its lineup for a narrative-led action adventure.
You have expressed that for you it will not compare favourably to God of War and its okay to share your feelings. But there are many people who only game on Xbox and the prospect of taking Senua the lead from the first game and then being able to play her in a game that possibly has the action and scale of God of War is very exciting.
Too soon to say.... GoW is not just about visual, it's a gameplay heavy game... so far we have near "zero" Gameplay from HBII, so it's a bit too soon to call this game "Xbox's GoW"... it can end up as "Ryse: son of some" with vikings.
This game is not even close to GoW from a gameplay standpoint if the first one is anything to go by. A beautiful game with cinematic cutscenes and walking with pretty generic combat. They have alot to do to match what God of War does.
lol at all the above who are taking venom comment literally instead of figuratively. @venom, i knew what you meant. This could be the XB game with the amount of scale and attention to detail that GoW is to PS. Not a direct (aka literal) comparison.
I am reminded of another MS game called bloodforge. It too was compared to GoW but it wasnt very polished. If given another chance it too could really shine in terms of the brutality and similar approach that GoW has. It isnt uncommon to zero in on some sort of comparative, like how Killzone was compared to halo and then Haze was compared to Halo... it happens. But people need to know the difference between direct and indirect comparisons.
@ripper that trailer was gameplay .. it even says it in the trailers description lol , are you that salty or what ?? If you played the first you can tell when it switched from gameplay to a cutscene .. Some of you Sonys fans are very delusional ctfu when ever Microsoft comes out with something good y’all can’t help but try to downplay everything .. “zero gameplay” ctfu it’s says gameplay reveal
https://youtu.be/fukYzbthEV...
Lmao y’all really must be mad disliking facts .. It’s gameplay get over it and stop trying to downplay that visual masterpiece ..
Wasn't it an indie game though?
Like a massive, well-put high end indie, mind you.
Think of films or music where indie still have big names or support etc.
https://www.eurogamer.net/a...
That article can help to clarify if it is or not a AAA game.
"it helped Ninja Theory create a triple-A game at half the price and half the size, without compromising on quality, or giving the rights away to a publisher."
Ninja Theory themselves were the ones to call it an Indie game, they said "AAA Indie" if I remember correctly and that's where the term came from.
Abizzel1, read the article, it won't bite you hahaha!
In the article they them self describe everything about the make of the game.
But the first one WAS a indie game... Sure Sony assisted where it was needed, but it was a indie game lol
Where are you getting that Sony had something to do with its development? This game came to Windows at launch too.
Yeh ninja theory made an exclusive ps3 launch game with 'heavenly sword'.
Paid for seunas sacrifice to be exclusive so even if it flopped the studio wouldn't go bankrupt.
Gave them marketing as part of their e3 show and playstation blog posts etc.
They have a longer history with playstation than they do with Xbox many times over.
Microsoft probably offered them a deal they could not refuse.
@purple101
"They have a longer history with playstation than they do with Xbox many times over."
I believe their first game at least for consoles was an Xbox exclusive, not really sure where this longer history with PS comes from exactly.
Seunas Sacrifice was exclusive because they barely had the money to make it, they had to take separate jobs just to fund this project and bring it to one console.
"Microsoft probably offered them a deal they could not refuse."
Yeah, the deal was to keep Ninja Theory from shutting their doors forever.
https://www.polygon.com/e3/...
Hmmm, I seem to remember Kung Fu Kaos on my OG Xbox. I also seem to remember Sony taking all of Ninja Theory's tech in exchange for helping with Heavenly Swords.
I think it did. It certainly didn't look or feel like a high budget AAA game. It was decent quality, but still felt indie to me.
It started as an indie game but finish as a AAA game.
https://www.eurogamer.net/a...
Ninja Theory published a new developer diary of Project Mara, revealing the game's location and a shift towards procedurally generated art for all its future projects.
Project Mara sounds more like a experimental game to test engines and procedural generated techniques. Techniques that'll be used in future Ninja Theory titles.
It all sounds great but the only thing I question is the gameplay in its future titles. Usually achieving this high lvl of detail. Gameplay mechanics are usually limited in scope and range and become more beautiful simulations.
"Usually achieving this high lvl of detail. Gameplay mechanics are usually limited in scope and range and become more beautiful simulation"
Don't forget that these are new systems we are talking about with fast SSD's that will be getting used to their fullest ability with games like these. Looks like to me that they might be using UE5 for this game in secret. Epic Games worked very closely with Ninja Theory with some technology they both created together for UE4 so I can see Epic Games giving these guys very early access to the preview builds.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
It looks like the opposite side to the coin of hellblade, i.e. real life and fighting demons outside of the head. It's the same actress.
Nope. Peter always promised but never fully delivered.
Ninja Theory is going to deliver.
