Today Quantum Break Creative Director Sam Lake talked at a masterclass event at he Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, which DualShockers attended, and reasoned about the future of the studio after the upcoming Xbox One exclusive game.
Alan Wake 2 studio Remedy Entertainment has reclaimed the rights to Control, and now sci-fi hit Quantum Break deserves the same treatment.
Totally agree with that especially when Quantum Break has several references to Alan Wake and Alan Wake make allusions to QB.
I do believe that MS and Remedy can work things out and MS has usually been nice to devs and publishers regarding IP.
Reclaim? That would mean that they actually owned the ip at one point, which they never did (MS always has). Apples & oranges. Remedy always owned the Control ip (just not the publishing), as they have with Alan Wake.
About as likely as them getting the Max Payne rights from Rockstar.
Sending you game to a publisher does not mean they get "rights to own it " unless that was part of the contract (monetary/ strategic reasons). 505 was the publisher they worked with to publish and distribute it, it dos not mean that 505 flat out "owned" anything, clearly they did have a special arrangement that made them open to limit their publishing rights. and so here we are and big whoop
Yeah get Quantum Break PS5, only if you put it on disc with all the associated movie material.
I mean they got the Alan Wake IP back from MS, so I feel like they could get QB back as well
Remedy Entertainment has announced that they've purchased the full rights to the Control franchise from 505 Games.
Alan Wake 2 was released in October 2023 to worldwide critical acclaim, earning a Metacritic score of 89 at launch. Today, Remedy Entertainment Plc (“Remedy”) announces that Alan Wake 2 has sold 1 million units by the end of December 2023, and 1.3 million units as of the beginning of February 2024. Alan Wake 2 is Remedy’s fastest selling game so far.
"By comparison, Alan Wake 2 sold over 50% more copies and over three times more digital copies in its first two months than Control did in its first four months."
Yes, because it's digital only...
Gonna take awhile to make the money back at that pace, Remedy! Why not admit that you were wrong and release it on BD, like...right now?!
this game deserves so much more. One of my favorite games of 2023. While I would have loved a physical release, I'm not going to willingly not play an amazing game because of some weird pride.
Shame that their fastest seller is just reaching 1 million. They're such a creative studio, and they have really matured since Max Payne. Alan Wake II was the best game last year and more people need to play it.
Want my money? release a physical copy already. I’m can be stubborn and this is one of those things I’m stubborn about. No physical copy no buy for me at least until it’s in the bargain bin. I’d pay full price right now for it on disc.
"Could you imagine a fantasy RPG by Remedy Games? I don’t know, but I’d buy it. Of course, Lake did not say that this is the direction in which they’re going to go, but it would be intriguing to say the least."
I believe what he meant by some RPG elements is that its like Bioshock for instance.
In Bioshock, you choose to upgrade certain elements like Fire from being small to being big and affect many people.
For instance here, i think the ability where Jack stops time can be prolonged with higher levels. Or maybe some powers will effect your psychical strength or heighten the effect of your bullets.
This is making me more excited. Bring on this beauty.
Also it would be amazing for Sam Lake to make an RPG game but hopefully he makes Alan Wake 2 next.
I think sticking to the "tiny steps" like upgradeable time powers as he said is probably the best plan since Remedy does an amazing job with action and intense story telling.
They do an amazing job at molding linear games. And should stick to that rather than messing with the formula that they've nailed.
It takes them like 6 years to make a linear action game. I fear if they ever set out to make a big rpg we would never hear from them again lol.