Dennaton Games developer Nigel Lowrie previews Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number in this exclusive interview from GDC 2014.
Both GTA 6 and Hollow Knight: Silksong have prompted plenty of discussion this year about what developers can and should do when their game suddenly shares a release date with a juggernaut. So IGN asked the experts about the thought process behind setting and moving release dates, and what they think the right choice is when GTA 6, Silksong, or another marketing monster drops into your launch window unexpectedly.
“I mean, there are AAA games and then there's AAAA games and I'd argue that Grand Theft Auto is potentially the AAAAA game, it's just bigger than anything else both in the scope and scale of the game and the kind of cultural impact that it has and the attention it demands,” Lowrie says.
IMHO, the A-rating should be purely about cost and anything above AAA is just AAA for the new age of Live Service gaming. It shouldn't be about culture or attention. Just the cost and size of development.
Isn’t that what AAA is? It’s only about the dev cost and dev size, I thought. Clair, WuChang, and Hell is Us being examples of AA.
If Indie devs waited to release their games to not get in the way of other games, they may never get released. The indie space is strong and there are constantly good games coming out. Cherry did nothing wrong. Good for them and congratulations on the strong release.
i feel like if your fambase is strong enough, it doesnt rly matter.
it might matter if the game is similar in some things, but yeh.
completely ignoring whatsout there and whats coming up is also abit dangerous
Darksiders Genesis, Little Nightmares and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number are also playable from today.
Terrible month. Detroit and Black Ops 3 (available for a limited time) are already in the PS Plus Collection, and Detroit was also a free game on PS Plus years ago. WWE 2K Battlegrounds is terrible. Only the smaller games that were added are good additions.
PS Plus is way better than PS Now right now (quality > quantity) and has been good for a long time, and great since the PS5 released. I was tempted to subscribe to PS Now over the holidays but I just didn't trust in the quality of the service. They need to up their game because the quality of the service is deteriorating. I'm starting to wonder if they're going to ditch PS Now as we know it and basically add it as an extra tier to PS Plus because that's what they've been prioritizing.
Not sure why WWE 2K Battlegrounds was a highlight for this month. I browsed the games in December and it was there/played it.
The game was a massive disappointment, even playing with a friend it was terrible. But we finished it til the end. The game is so buggy and just not much fun a lot of times.
Great for me.
I was looking to play darksiders genesis...it's the last one I need to play. And little nightmares is another one I wanted to try.
The rest I've already played or am not interested. Overall I think they're great additions.
I was disappointed with Darksiders 3. I played for a couple of hours, and deleted it. That is just me though, a lot of people liked it. Also the price is right. Hope you do like it!😁
Yea I'm with you there. The beginning and gameplay feels so different but after a certain point I feel like it got much better.
I played it in classic mode so it would be more similar to other darksiders but man did I die a lot in the beginning due to learning how to play. Came into it fresh from darksiders 2.
Yeah, I am still playing frostpunk from last month...
Heard good things about little nightmares
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Hotline Miami will probably always be their best series, tbh. For me, they are definitely the best indie game publisher though.
Wrong Number indeed.
THIS SUMMER! Hell yes!