Sam Lake of Remedy was recently interviewed by Eurogamer.net and on this occasion he spoke, among other things, the concept of Alan Wake 2 and the birth of Quantum Break, a title released last year on Xbox One and PC.
I don't care about exclusivity but what does worry me is it seems they are shifting away from single player narrative and gameplay driven experiences. If its just another multiplayer shooter or a game thats not narrative driven i'm not very interested.
Bitter Microsoft fans because they lost ANOTHER one of their exclusive studios to Sony. Is there really any reason to own an Xbox at this point? Don't be a fanboy, this is a valid question. You're going to be holding out for an expensive new console just for extra teraflops, but no exclusives? Come on.
@Unreal01 depends what games you are into. For me I want Forza 7, Crackdown & sea of thieves so that's my reason for having an xbox, I was not aware of Remedy being picked up by Sony?
Stay on topic and quit trolling. How did it make you feel when Insomniac made the Xbox exclusive Sunset Overdrive? Hell, I bet you even dogged Remedy for making "crap games" like Alan Wake and Quantum Break... now that they are making multiplatform games you care? How thoughtful of you! /s
Remedy was making multiplat games before they signed on to make alan wake on 360. So them making multiplat games now after QB is nothing surprising. MS had them make two releases (and a spin off for alan wake) and their contract was up.
That's business just like Insomniac was tasked with making a game for MS and they did. No harm no foul that after that they made a game for gamestop (song of the deep) and now they are making a game for sony. Insomniac is doing jobs that they get signed on for just like any 3rd party developer.
Isn't that statement a bit contradicting then because if you didn't care about exclusives then why does Dom going from making just Microsoft Idols to make a multi Platte matter and makes it a priority for you to not buy their games?
You state that you buy games you're interested in yet you haven't seen their next title but already your deciding whether to buy it or not because of this
Are you sure xander? be cause it seems more like you buy what MS tells you to buy. You claim most multiplats are rubbish, you say that you won't buy remedy games anymore because they went multiplat, all this would suggest that you like exclusives but xbox is very limited in that regard compared to playstation, nintendo or PC. Now you're grasping on to that years old hope that the exclusives "will come". putting all that together, it doesn't sound like you buy what you like, it sounds more like you buy whatever benefits Xbox. Either that or its a HUGE coincidence that you just happen to only like xbox exclusives and don't care for hardly anything else.
I have over 180 games on my XBox One. Some of them are exclusives (Halo 5, Sunset Overdrive, Forza 6, FH2, Rare Replay, Dance Central 4, D4, Crimson Dragon, etc...) . Maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but more XB1/Scorpio exclusives are coming. Games the won't be on the PC.
"We’re gonna have games only released on the PC. We’re gonna have games only released on console. And PC gaming is critically important to the company.”
So keep believing that there won't be more exclusives.
Uncharted is done after Lost Legacy, you haven't seen TLoU2 gameplay and it only the second game in the franchise, the new GoW is vastly different from past installments. The same things can't be said about Halo, Forza, Gears.
@unreal01 not bitter just priority changed like status states 1st & 2nd buys 3rd party software are rentals . As to why buy Xbox cause am a fan of the brand and lime what they offer me as a consumer.
As to why hold out for a Scorpio cause it will look awesome next to my Xbox one S and switch and like the product.
That may be the single most fanboy statement I've ever read on this site. You're way more interested in a game based solely on Playstation and Nintendo gamers not being able to play it?
That's a completely idiotic view of how to support the games you like. I mean, if you want to rent, then fine, but to say that all 3rd party games are rentals, while only 1st party is worthy of purchase makes absolutely no sense.
What exactly is so great about 1st party that it warrants this kind of admiration over 3rd party? There are plenty of great 3rd party games which give even the best 1st party games a run for their money.
Even the most rampant fan boys from any console don't sit around acting like they buy every exclusive on the system. They may include it in lists, but if you pay attention, they aren't hyped for every game, and I know when it comes to actually buying games, they do not just purchase every exclusive. I don't know a single Sony fan or fan boy that will say they buy every Sony exclusive(even if only 1st party exclusive) because there is no way that every one, or even a majority of those games would appeal to all of them.
Recognizing quality even if it doesn't appeal to you is one thing, but buying only 1st party in the way you say is not supporting the console, it's blind consumerism, and if what you say is true, you've just given people around here...even the Xbox fans....even more reasons to not pay attention to you.
I can't even believe you try to act like a gamer with your attitudes, and I can't see why any rational Xbox fan would even think what you're saying is worthy of any respect.
What you're basically admitting to is being a consumer akin to those Apple hipsters who have to get every new thing that Apple puts in front of them.
How, Xbox has 3 games coming out that everyone keeps repeating for years. Sea of thieves , cuphead and crackdown. Xbox needs all the games it can get even if you diehards are happy with few games
If Remedy tries to make a sequel to Alan Wake and the game ends up being good people should buy the game whether multiplat or exclusive.
I don't believe it's a bad thing that Remedy isn't making exclusives for Microsoft anymore. They are an independent 3rd party studio so they can go multiplatform if they want. The same goes for other developers like Insomniac and Quantum Dreams.
I'd buy their games if they're something akin to AW or QB. While QB wasn't as good as I had hoped, I do think they make games that I like. So long as they continue with that, and don't decide to do some small indie project which doesn't interest me then I'll play it if I have the means. Console preference really has no part if I want to play a game, and I won't neglect playing a game just because it's on a single console, or multiple ones.
I actually kind of understand what you mean... I mean I do buy more PlayStation exclusives then 3rd party games and I get more excited for most exclusives but I wouldn't go so far as to say I wouldn't buy a 3rd party game tho.
Their games would likely sell better on PS to be honest. There is a pretty big fan base of the kinds of games they're known for on the system. If Quantic Dream can sell millions of copies of their games on the system, then i'm sure remedy can too.
I don't know why they don't do better on PC though. There is a pretty big base for their kind of games too. While they do decent, it seems they never spark a fire the way they should given the hype that surrounds them. QB I can understand due to the idiocy of the way they handled the cut scenes, but Alan Wake shouldn't have been a game that sold well over the long term, and given the marketing and hype around it, it should have been much more popular.
But to respond more directly to your comment, if their games are less of a priority because they're now multi-plat, aren't you just saying their games were not much of a priority before, and that they only reason they were hyped was because they were exclusive to Xbox? Isn't that kind of saying that you just hype of exclusives because they're exclusives, and not because they're quality titles?
I think it does.....which means whenever you talk about the awesomeness of some Xbox exclusive in the future, I can link to this comment to show that you only think that because it's exclusive, and that is the predominate way you rate games....thus making your opinion on the quality of a game useless.
Suits them fine,.. Never understood Remedy making exclusives for xbox,.. Even exclusivity for PlayStation is sometimes questionable, even though they control 70% of marketshare,.. but giving your games to xbox as a third party is pretty dumb.
You still living in the 90's? The WiiU, Switch and PC exist. Not to mention your stats have Xbox One under 20 million for the 4th year in a row. The last number we seen was 15 million in October 2015. I think it's safe to assume they sold a couple more since then.
The whole TV thing with Quantum Break just seemed really off in a Remedy game. Anyways I'm glad that they still own Alan Wake so hopefully we can see a sequel in the future.
I don't get why most disliked the TV portion. I personally really enjoyed, wasn't the greatest show obviously. But I didn't think it took away from the game personally
I'm all for cutscenes to tell a story. I grew up with it. But taking a person out of the game for 22 odd minutes is just too long. A supplemental TV show would have been alright, but not one integrated into the game itself.
Games are meant to be interactive. There is room for those cutscene breaks, and the occasional long one can be OK if it's engaging, but as a primary way to tell a story within a game, it just doesn't work. I also felt the TV show in the game wasn't really all that interesting, nor did it have a story that couldn't be told better through shorter cut scenes that were scattered at appropriate times throughout the game.
It just seems to me that due to MS abandoning narrative driven SP in favour of MP microtransaction games Remedy wanted out as SP games are their forte.
Seems like it's the opposite. Their next two projects are the story mode in a F2P MP FPS and, as very clearly implied, a game with a continued MP community.
Just a few months ago they were talking about missing out on MP games and how their new games will have it.
Now why wouldn't ms just buy them for first party games?! Just stupid, now watch remedy hit the next game out of the park and ms will regret it.. I really want Scorpio and will be buying it but they have to start taking the games serious, if not next gen will be a very hard sale pitch to me...
Ms needs to step up with games.. and I'm not like most ppl that scream and cry when a 3rd party game goes exclusive I don't care how ms gets the games, just get the!
Could you imaging how huge destiny would be for ms if they didn't let bungie go, I mean how do you let the company that made your biggest franchise go!?... and now they are letting remedy go... I just don't know.....
"Now why wouldn't ms just buy them for first party games?!"
Simply because Microsoft doesn't seem them as a good investment.
If you buy a studio you have to constantly help them grow to become a great one. That's something that costs alot of money and time to do. Just look at how long it took Sony to help make Naughty Dog into a great gaming studio.
Depends if the employees really want to have their company bought by Microsoft. Some studios just collapse when they lose their Independence. You would have to ask Remedy about that.
If I was to ask anyone else it'd be ms not remedy.. remedy was exclusive for 10 yrs to ms, to me seems like remedy was willing to do it but ms didn't commit.
I don't understand the Alan wake 2 part.... if youre independent then what's the problem? It seems as if they are holding it in hopes of being bought as first party? The only thing you need to click with is the gamers that keep asking for it..
Good for them , all this does is makes their games less of a priority to own or buy ....
Suits them fine,.. Never understood Remedy making exclusives for xbox,.. Even exclusivity for PlayStation is sometimes questionable, even though they control 70% of marketshare,.. but giving your games to xbox as a third party is pretty dumb.
The whole TV thing with Quantum Break just seemed really off in a Remedy game. Anyways I'm glad that they still own Alan Wake so hopefully we can see a sequel in the future.
They will be begging somebody for money as its not a big developer