GamingLives sits down with the charismatic and quirky creator of Deponia, Poki.
"It makes your brain somewhat strange when you write puzzles, because you want to surprise yourself, otherwise you don’t know if you’re really surprising the player, so you have to find a way to write things that surprise yourself all the time."
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The development team behind the panned The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, Daedalic Entertainment, is shutting down.
That's a shame, but they should have at least done more to release the game in a better state.
They really should have stuck to point and click adventures... they made quite a few decent ones over the years.
They should have done market research — the public reaction to even the idea of the game was quite negative right from the start. This was a game nobody asked for or wanted, even aside from the bugs.
I hate to see studios close but they made a really bad game. The studio has actually never made a decent game from what I’ve seen.
I liked their older games (Edna breaks out, Deponia series, Silence) which were 90s style adventure games. But this is such a niche and maybe to most nowadays outdated form of games, you rarely win over the majority of reviewers if it isn't a extraordinary life changing experience or build on nostalgia.
Pity. But whoever greenlit a gollum game? It's the laast character that anyone will play anyway. There's literally an array of other characters in lotr world. Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, gimli etc..
The LotR IP has been in terrible hands ever since Christopher Tolkien died. EVERYTHING gets geenlit regardless of quality...this game, that terrible Amazon series, and likely endless other bad ideas to come.
not really sure what to say about this, or how to word it. I'm sympathetic to those who lost a job, but also the studio was just very dumb. Too ambitious when they lacked the talent, and a clear direction. The price and the fact it was broken really didn't help either. A real shame
From GameWatcher: "Daedalic Entertainment has a second The Lord of the Rings game in development, set to release prior to the end of August 2024.
The German publisher and developer recently released its first effort based on Tolkien's popular universe, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, which so far counts among the year's worst-reviewed games."
''has attracted government funding via the German Games Fund amounting to''
Suddenly it all makes sense.
I wonder if their apology statement is also in the works yet, or if that comes later in development?
May want to work on this one longer. But if it has dated gameplay than it is screwed either way
