How Dreams Avoided Becoming A Nightmare

Weathering game play confusion and an early marketing nightmare with Dreams, Media Molecule stuck to their original, well, dream and it has paid off.

[MLGecko]

Sony's silent "fifth" game at E3

[NewMonday]

this game is more suited for the PC market, it's where millions of sophisticated moderns are.

[PressXtoBacon]

I agree. But I'm downvoting because that sounded pretentious.

[PressXtoBacon]

Those things look like Eve from Walle

[Jinger]

I really like the potential for this, hopefully its supported well. I actually started creating a game on Project Spark, but it just wasn't as feature heavy, so I'm hoping to create my idea again in Dreams since this seems way more involved.

[MLGecko]

What I see as an immediate difference is being able to instantly interact with the creation. Nothing seems to take so long that you lose any interest. Plus being able to borrow and manipulate other peoples work. Designing a car might be a lot, but borrowing one and editing it may not.

[Jinger]

Tbf you could easily transition into playing the game in Project Spark to test whatever you just built. That was never my issue, my issue was that the tools were limited and you could only use so many assets.

[zeuanimals]

It doesn't really need support from Media Molecule since you can make all of the assets yourself or borrow others assets. With that said, it is definitely gonna get a lot of support. Sony knows what they have with this tech, I just think they don't know how to market it, but Media Molecule has a 10 year plan and Sony seems to be on board with it all the way.

[Jinger]

I didn't know that about the assets! That makes it even more intriguing

[Eiyuuou]

Care to share what your idea is? I’m quite curious!

[crazyCoconuts]

It's not out of the woods yet. Hope it's not one of those wonderfully amazing creations that doesn't hold people's interest long enough to take hold. Honestly it being on one platform concerns me. It'll need a big community of active users to thrive and that's a really hard thing to maintain.

[THC CELL]

It's deffo out the woods u gotta understand this game u can even create ya own game universe, or like halo, half life the lot.
If u can't create u can play other games
Ya gunna see this game spawn mini developers.

Also this game is
Vr enable day one and I seen vr levels

Can be exported to unity engine I've not seen yet

And 3d print service, app to create ya own toys or whatever u can. I've also not seen this yet http://m.uk.ign.com/article...

[zeuanimals]

LBP 1 & 2 both had large userbases and they created some amazing stuff and they were exclusive to the PS3 before the PS3 reached 80 million sales. Dreams is exclusive to the PS4 and the PS4 has already 80 million. No doubt this is gonna be even bigger.

[crazyCoconuts]

That's a good point, but more recently LBP3 didn't seem successful in garnishing the same popularity, right? It's been a while since I checked it out but my kid wasn't seeing a great deal of community created content our there. My point is that sometimes great developers make great games / software and they don't do well because they're missing something or bad timing. And then you get those few like Minecraft and RoBlocks that just take the world by storm. LBP and MarioMaker kinda start with the kid angle and draw in content consumers with the loveable characters with the hope they become content producers. Dreams hasn't shown us their mascots yet. It's possible they won't have the public appeal yet because they won't develop that mainstream appeal before launch. I'm just saying there are still lots of things that could go wrong. This isn't a no brainier victory imo

[dennigo]

90% of gamers aren't even aware that dreams was at e3, 90% of gamers don't even know what dreams is and who can blame em?? this game has been announced over 4 years ago.
i'm very eagerly anticipating this game, but it is a marketing nightmare, last year they said they'd have a beta we are 1.5 years further and still no news whatsoever on the beta only "it's coming"

i fear this game is dead on arrival cuz no one really cares anymore only those hardcore few, i really hope i'm wrong but this game is taking forever to come out.
final fantasy 7 remake might come out before it......

[Mr Lahey]

Did you just make up those 90%?

[TheColbertinator]

Still have no idea what it is,who its catered to,what is the point of the endgame,whether it has any story or quests,its release date and whether its deep fried.

Dreams is baffling.

[THC CELL]

Think u need to quit gaming then if u don't know how to Google or preview this game also while ur brain hurts over this game. Ur quick to make comments about it for sake of it take some paracetamol and come back and read and watch many what is dreams for ps4 videos u can because ur missing out