Marcus Estrada writes: "Recently, long-time developer Tale of Tales revealed that they were no longer pursuing commercial video game production. Although they ran a successful Kickstarter for Sunset, it failed to attract much attention from the gaming populace after launch. This huge misstep caused the development team to reevaluate their work and decide that they were not going to make games for the "mainstream" any longer."
Josh Griffiths writes: "You may remember the first person exploration game Sunset from Kickstarter a few years ago. You may also remember its developer, Tale of Tales. They announced that Sunset was a financial failure, and that they felt they had no choice but to walk away from the comercial gaming industry for good. Fast forward to Halloween 2016 of all days, and the company seems to have reversed their decision somewhat."
In episode 78 of the Game Under podcast, Phil Fogg updates his impressions of Fallout 4, cheesing the game like a traumatised Bethesda vet. Tom Towers offers his final thoughts on The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone, and retracts some of his previous statements about Wild Hunt. They both go over The Graveyard (limerick or interactive critique of Cormac McCarthy's The Road) and Sunset (is Leigh Alexander a CIA plant?).
VRFocus reports on the reveal of Sunset developer Tale of Tales' new project in the virtual reality (VR) compatible Cathedral-in-the-Clouds.
Hard to imagine them doing anything that's directly game related given the tantrum they threw. The utter lack of faith and disrespect they showed the gaming community.
They're stopping producing commercial games and focusing on the kinds of art games they've made in the past. Which seems like a good idea, because as they learned, making these kinds of games takes a lot more money than you think for far less sales than you'd expect.
But hey, Luxuria Superbia was cool, alright?
I'm hoping that people don't flock blindly to these fellows after the atrocious public meltdown they had. I don't care what product you offer, you never publicly spew hate speech to your audience. Never, ever, ever.
Some choice quotes:
"Hahaha. I'm so free. Look at me. I can say FUCK GAMES! FUCK GAMERS! FUCK THE GAME INDUSTRY! DIE! DIE!DIE! And rot in hell!"
"Perfect. Goodbye, gamers! May you die in the same agony that you caused to thousands of defenceless virtual creatures."
Source:
http://www.breitbart.com/bi...
Oh god, they thought their SJW, "oh look at our non-white, non-male main character and ignore our crappy gameplay and boring, full of itself story" games were mainstream? Lol. I almost can't wait to see what kind of crap they think is "niche".