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Replies(1)It’s hard to deny ND’s excellence. Good to aspire to be the best, Remedy is doing a pretty good job. Just make a good game tell a good story, leave politics alone
The problem is, politics leaves no area of life untouched anymore. So it's pretty damn hard to leave politics alone. Everything is a party political issue in the States where if one side takes a stance on anything, the other takes the polar opposite stance just for the sake of it.
Why? Remedy were already making mature games while ND were still making platformers and they wouldn't get around making mature games til the end of the PS3 gen with TLoU. Remedy was already ahead, y'all just went a different direction during that gen.
Not to mention Naughty Dog hasn't made a new IP in over a decade. I thought TLOU2 was good but not great like the first game. I actually think Insomniac games and Sony Santa Monica have passed them up as the best Sony first party developer. I even liked Ghost of Tuishima better than the last of us 2
The first TLOU game was in my top 5 games of all time. Like "The Joker", it didn't need a sequel.
It was brilliant.
Agreed. The first one didn't get anywhere near as political as the second one that dipped heavily into woke territory. Gamers don't want to be preached to, they want to live in an alternate reality where they don't have to live in life, they want to experience something else, have fun
That used to be their thing, like their trademark. With Crash Bandicoot, Mark Cerny interestingly, then the head of Universal Interactive, advised them to sell the IP as they did Insomniac with Spyro so when Sony bought them, they didn't really own the IP and funny enough, Microsoft now owns the IP. Jal and Dexter was next but the technology has changed so much that with Uncharted, it didn't make sense to keep doing Jak and Daxter, Naughty Dog had already been built up and compromised of so much of the team of the original Crystal Dynamics, that's where a lot of them went was to Naughty Dog, which is part of why it bears so much a resemblance to Uncharted. Amy Hennig had just come off of Legacy of Kain.
So, yeah, The Last of Us, really, is about the only one they haven't moved on from. Druckmann's ego won't let it move on, and he'll milk the cow dry rather than leaving it a legacy. "Always leave them wanting more" is the key in entertainment, but yes, traditionally that's how they've done things. Fans beg for more Jak & Daxter and Evan Wells and Christoph Balestra knew to keep telling them NO
Can't wait for Remedy's Max Payne 1&2 Remake ... my most anticipated remake project
Dont know what's gonna happen with Max Payne 3 (hope R* atleast Remasters it) but I'd prefer if Remedy continues the Max Payne series. I'd even play a Mona Sax spin-off (MP2 fans will know) ....
Heck I'd even say, WB let Remedy make a gritty Batman game. They'll nail it, I am sure. But alas the idiotic WB management will not let it happen.
They nailed the graphics at least. At this point, ND wants to be the ND Remedy was trying to emulate.
I mean, as far as talent, they're really close, but I think the thing that's working against them is the overconvoluted paranormal storytelling they've created. While it's super interesting, it's not the easiest thing to digest for your average normie. It's kind of that issue music has where you have to dumb down your stuff to appeal to more people.
NICE! I had no idea he worked on that movie, there were some great visuals in Gravity.... i guess now we know one of the reasons why QB looks as good as it does.
Congrats on the Oscar, that is quite an achievement.
.....Man, gaming has come a long way. Oscar winners designing our videogames......
Well technically he was part of a team who won the Oscar for best visuals
"he was a part of the visual effects team that worked on"
The title makes it seem it was him and him alone.
Good news I suppose but things like that are always a team effort not just one guy.
Nice..just saw Gravity awesome movie and no wonder QB looks so good. Im glad he is part of the team at Remedy.Hope they get to develop an Alan wake sequel down the line.
This certainly didn't lower my expectations for Quantum Break!
I loved Alan Wake and expect great things from Remedy. I've been a fan of them since the early 90's before they (some guys from a PC demo group called Future Crew) founded Remedy Entertainment. Here's a link to one of their early works: http://youtu.be/rFv7mHTf0nA
Good on Greg for the Oscar win on Gravity, what a stellar film. Seen it on the big screen and now ordered a 3D blu ray copy.
Putting XBox ONE on the headline though is just wrong and such a load of stinking biased advertising rubbish.
Would be more respectful if the headline contained Greg Louden's name then Remedy and Quantum Break.