I don't understand, if you don't like his games simply don't buy them. Lot's of people do enjoy them. I enjoy them and I can already tell the game is selling really well.

Name one developer/game maker on Xbox that even has half the recognition that this man does. I'd love if David Cage would bring his games to Xbox. The man may not be a transcendant story teller but he makes top notch gaming experiences that are unrivaled in terms of production quality

People literally go out of their way to hate on this guy LMAO. BTW What a professional piece of article /s. Though I wasn't huge with beyond two souls I deeply loved the experience Heavy rain provided. I enjoy Cage's games so Im happy Sony have invested a lot in his studio. I would go as far as saying that they should add Quantic Dream to their stellar group of first party devs.

David Cage and Quantic Dream are rated, not overrated. Heavy Rain was phenomenal and Detroit is getting good reviews.

No he's not and I think the kinds of games he offers is a nice change of pace!

Also what I think of him and his games comes from Indigo Prophecy, Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls and just today Detroit!

Quantic Dream should just do the graphics tech for Sony,leave the story and gameplay to professionals.

Maybe, some might also say the same about Stephen Spielberg . But end of the day they both make produce entertainment people enjoy, and that is all what matters end of the day .

N4G won't like this.

"Despite what Sony may want you to think"

Hahahahahaha shut up.

How's that chip on your shoulder? Get over yourself and accept that interactive games like detroit have an audience and a place in the industry. I really don't understand it, but there is a transparent Agenda by (a few) gaming journo's against David cage, probably "just because". David cage is NOT overrated. If anything, him and his games cop a lot of flak and hate in this industry (look at this article for example) which is understandable because his games explore different and more controversial themes. I'm not defending him as a person or saying he is the best director of all time. However, Heavy Rain was brilliant and beyond two souls was pretty decent as well. I haven't played detroit but that is definitely not overrated and has taken a beating by some outlets. There is nothing overrated about David cage from what I see. All I see is complaining journos.

What utter garbage.

What he needs is a co-director that has a good understanding of gameplay and they might be able to come to something.

Overrated = "A bunch of people like something that I don't. Rather than just accept that I'm not part of popular opinion, I'm going to say that everyone else is wrong."

I really hope the Quantic Dream will do a remake of Omikron: The Nomad Soul that game was great but was limited by the hardware back then.

SHAAAAUN, SHAAAAAAAAAAUNNNN? SHAAAAAAAUN! David Cage is aight.

Seems like somenone did not play the game. You cant something about a game if you dod not play it. You cant compare game like Detroit to Death Stranding. COMPLETELY different genre and aproach to gameplay. There are really some stupid People.

QD always get a tough time especially David Cage, personally I love there games at least your getting a different experience from the norm. That's why we play games for and should embrace that, obviously the trolls who like to downplay something they don't like or understand. Go play your battle royale or some other FPS with your 14 year old buddies.

There are so many games on ps4 play something else. He has an audience and we who like his games don't think he is over or underrated. He makes good games and unlike TT games his games actually run well and aren't clunky

So just because you didn't like his games make him overrated. In the bigger scheme of things Sony doesn't care what you think they are trying to appeal to an wide audience

Who said he was a master story teller? He's a game maker. He makes a specific type of games with a strong narrative, something different to the yearly shooters and sports games. And guess what? Theres a market for it. It has fans who appreciate it.

Sounds like someone is upset Detroit is getting better than expected scores. Get off your high horse. High sodium levels can lead to hypertension.

I would love to be overrated...

His writing style is so poor and predictable, people even made bingo cards ahead of release. Can't wait for the best friends LP, it's going to be one hell of a ride!

Be thankful that there's still someone in the industry whos not making a generic fps, battle royale games or ubisoft open world type.

If you think so...... Compared to other games that have similar mechanics, David Cage by far the best at it. Telltale tries but their games tend to miss more than they hit. The only thing that I don't like about DC games is QTE at times can be overdone with certain things like mopping, or just going through something broken. Overall his games are amazing and will always be a love and hate with ppl.

*rolls eyes*

"David Cage is so much overrated it hurts" anyone can be a "gaming journalist" it seems

Gamepressure is so overrated it hurts.

I dont understand this game LIT the same as UNTIL DAWN but get hate cuz its a CAGE GAME. Wont stop it from selling MILLIONS

And gamepressure is so irrelevant they have to write articles like this for clicks.

Is his success bothering you? Was this the best you could do to make Sony a villain?

That’s you opinion.

Cool story author and you’re just a failed journalist who couldn’t hack it in the big leagues so you write for a crappy little videogame site which is why you’re probably so miserable. David Cage is doing what he wanted to do and is successful at it which probably eats away at you hence the article.

In the end it's just a video game, If you can't enjoy it for what it is then probably it isn't your thing and you could look elsewhere. problem solved.

And this Kojima sucking up all the time is sickening by the way.

from what i see he is heavily underrated
games like farenheit and heavy rain, even with their flaws, are not bad games and the stories are good

Whilst I agree he isn't a great story teller, I still enjoy some of his games. I never completed Fahrenheit, but what I did play I liked. I really enjoyed Heavy Rain, but thought Beyond was awful.

Detroit interests me but not enough, I will play it but not until its £20 or lower on the PSN store.

He was never overrated to begin with .. he’s just okay IMO.

Loved Heavy Rain. Only played a little of Two Souls and couldn't get into it (will have to go back and try it again). I was interested in Detroit but not overly hyped for it compared to God of War. I did get it yesterday though and all I can say is WOW! I completely love it! The story is awesome, the pacing is great, voice acting is great and the graphics are mind blowing (PS4 Pro 4K HDR)!
It's like a good book you just can't put down. Started playing last night around 6pm. I figured I would play a few chapters and call it a night. Then it was "ah, one more chapter, just one more". Next thing I know it's 1:30 am!

Ummm... no he's not. That's my opinion.

I'm going to get disagrees for this, but for me his games are far better than any of the god of wars, including the newest one. He creates worlds that feel real, and creates stories, albeit flawed at time that are more meaningful.

What’s the point in this? Pick any game or genre you don’t like, grab a name from the credits, cry on the internet.

“Steve from Fortnite is overrated.” “Boris from Starcraft is overrated”. “Catherine from Catherine is overrated.”

Alrighty then. *goes back to Detroit*

Actually, he's not half bad. The stories are pretty good imo. Especially in a world filled with fps anf Battle royale games. I really feel that due to the length of time it took to come out, affected its reception. During it's development time, The series Humans, and Black mirror and West world kind of blunted the "Surprise" and relevance of the story a bit. But I'm enjoying it very much.

Dude's a wannabe filmmaker, and a bad one at that. Quantic is better off without him.

These days there's too many gaming sites who think their opinion is wanted. 🤔

David Cage sure does seem to bring out a lot of haters. These people are seriously reaching. Bet you give TellTale a pass though right smh.

If anything, Cage is criticised a little too unfairly. I've never heard anyone overrate him.

I didn't know he get a lot of hype. His games usually only get slightly above average praise.

No, you’re overrated. I love his interactive stories and each one of them is a masterpiece. Thanks Sony for their unlimited support. We would be playing PUBG as exclusives if it isn’t for Sony. I’m grateful.

I'm a fan of his games and I understand this article completely. Yes, it's possible to play/enjoy something and still recognize that it isn't for most people.

Overrated? LOL he gets bashed constantly, these articles lately are grossly incompetent.

Your opinion about QTE game which is almost very rare, while its a fact that from last gen til' this moment shooters are most overrated genre ever, its for pure casuals and easy to play for streaming.

If he had made his "games" in the early 90's they would have been forgettable FMV garbage. Everyone is fooled by it's pretty package.

I never see praise for Cage so I really dont think he's overrated.

I don't get it when david cage makes a game these article's pop up but when telltale makes a game(which are literally all the same) or life is strange or until Dawn nobody bat's an eye 😂😂😂
28514; like seriously did David cage hurt you guys anyway I'm loving this game definitely allot of replay value compared to other games in the same genre.

Yeah, I was hoping Detroit would be like until dawn (which is a 10 in my book). It’s not even close so far, the first 3 segments were pretty dull honestly.

nah i think fortnight, overwatch etc are overrated

People saying David Cage is overrated is overrated. Plus it doesn't help that the idea of cinematic experiences are extraordinarily divisive at face value alone. I wanna play this I've enjoyed his past games, but I always wait for price drops on em. Nothing wrong with a little movie-action-sweaty-hand-decis ion-making lol.

He and his studio are the best at the point and click choice-based movie games. Even though those are usually referred to as Telltale games, QD is much better at it than they are. I don’t understand why people feel the need to crap all over QD’s work, knowing what style of game they make, and being unable to genuinely point out someone that does it better.

Here's the thing. I dont care what you think about David Cage. Why do we have to have these silly season articles? They are pointless blog nonsense.

Opinions are overrated

Kojima is overrated

Are they just letting any idiot 'journalist' get their garbage posted now?

It would be nice if game journalists wouldn't do articles like this. Like seriously? *this guy isn't that good at making video games*

N4G has absolutely no standards anymore. We used to ban sites that add nothing of value. What happened?

Who approved this? They should be banned, too.

He's a narcissist. A terrible writer. Wannabe film director and rendering himself in a game in front of directors chair won't change that. His scripts would be laughed at and thrown out if presented to an actual Hollywood film director. The dialogue in these games are often terrible and sorry adding Dafoe doesn;t make it any more legit. David Cage is the Tommy Wiseau of games. Here comes super obvious message beating on your head and awkward sex scene. More polygons are emotions! Sony fans present him as some sort of visionary. I played it to completion but Until Dawn does a better job at doing what QD attempts to do. Don't care about the Sony defenders nor the downvotes. My words are the truth that Sony fans refuse to accept. I do like quite a few Sony IPs and enjoy their systems. Why I own all of them but pushing QD games...ugh. No thanks. If you want to know what I have played. Omikron, Indigo Prophecy, and Beyond Souls. I watch and LP of Heavy Rain for lulz. I'm in agreement with Super Best Friends and Jim Sterling (I don't care for Jim Sterling typically) Oh and if you want to comment to defend the game or David. Don't bother. Won't be read because I heard it all before. Just give your downvotes and move on.

Dispite what Sony want you to think..and than i tought wat a load of B*S....your agenda is clear and it showes in the rest of your post, like thrasing David Gage and saying what a bad storyteller he is... O the irony, stop reviewing games. A review is not there to push your on agenda.but its there to teel the good things and the bad things ( when they are giving facts about the game). All in balance. You hate the guy, dont review games of him...simple cous when other people calling you out about this B*S agenda review. You are doing yourself no favor with this.

David Cage is adequately rated, he has just as many detractors as fans lol

Look, it's not like Story games are big here in the Americas ( I"m including all countries North, Central, and South) we have Comic books but by 2010 Telltale games had what? CSI series that really did not make it big by any means.... In 2010 Back to the future put Telltales Games on the map but it paled ( and was overshadowed) in comparison to Quantic Dream's " Heavy Rain" which came out the same year as Telltale Games "Back to the future".

If you look it was till after the Success of "Heavy Rain" that Telltale Games upped their game. Finally Telltale's released a story based game based on the successful AMC TV series "The Walking dead" The game engine looked like a much improved version of "Back to the Future's" graphic engine but still looked like a TellTale's game.......

Everything Telltales has done has that ' was noticed ' rode on the success of famous stories written by other proven successful TV or Comic Book Series. I never heard or read the comic book series by Bill Willingham's "Fable" which Telltale Game's The Wolf Among Us is based on and supposed it was cannon with the series. I'm not sure if Telltale games wrote the entire script or had help with the story part from the Comic book publication. I believe it is a Prequel to the Fable series..... Again not entirely original but was quite a Jump up from "Telltale Games" previous attempt's.... Telltale Games still had a whole story series to base the game " The Wolf Among Us" so not a complete ' from the ground up ' story and the game engine is still using the same graphic engine "The Walking Dead" was built on.

Still both Telltale Games and Qauntic Dreams pale in comparison to comic book/TV series games and Graphic Novel games made in Japan where Graphic Novels and Anime (Japanese version of cartoons for TV in America but I would say is much more mature or perhaps more depth (not sure how to word that not trying to rag on American Comic writing I enjoy Americ Comic Book on occasion but I'm not a Fanatic) than Most cartooning here in America) and Anime has some stories based on Manga which is a Japanese type comic book and Graphic novel form of writing ( again not exactly like American Comic Book writing but really popular in Japan ) but is not a requirement there are original Anime stories and is its own genre.

Still here in America Graphic Novel/Manga based gaming and Comic Book/Anime based Gaming is still a 'Niche Market' whether it is popular or not So give David Cage a break....

Quantic dreams has won several awards for their games and they have contributed to the Awareness and growing genre of Graphic novel and Comic book story games here in the U.S. It may not be a big deal to more popular story gaming in Japan where this genre is more accepted and popular but it is a big deal to America and other World countries where this type of Game genre is not as popular....

So give David Cage a break as well as Quantic Dream the developer company make his game........ In the area of computer graphics, they have pushed the boundries of what Graphic Novel and story based games ( the genre in Gaming using stories) to improving itself in the graphics area (what is capable graphically in gaming on a console) as well as how that game genre ( Graphic Novel) is delivered/Interacts with the gamer who likes this type of genre.....

Peace.....

I just want to say I am having a blast with detroit.

why does he get treated differently then all other devs? he makes the games he wants to make and is consistent in that style of games he wants to create.

Yet ya'll overrate Hideo Kojima, overrated bullshit like evolve, overrated cliff blizenski and so much more dumb crap. please i don't want to hear from gaming journalists that have a history of doing the same exact crap.

Another weekend another pointless article on N4g.

Despite what you think of Cage's style, he is a doer. Games are produced and released. I'll take a doer over a talker any day of the week.

I am still playing through the game but i feel those articles about how pretentious and deja vus the story is are just ... pretentious
Acting, storytelling and choices are engaging....

David Cage and his company make good games regardless of what some people opinions are they sell fairly well for the genre. There are a lot of things overrated I don’t agree David Cage is also Sony hasn’t tried to convince anyone of anything about David Cage? Personally I think Xbox is waaaaay overrated, everyone knows about it but they put out a bad product, to me that is the definition of overrated , not that you don’t like a particular genre but in the Xbox example you don’t do a very good job at what you do and are praised more than you should be . David Cage does what he does well even if you don’t like it. Xbox is getting worse at what it does and it’s been that way for years . I wasn’t a fan of Beyond 2 Souls but Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain and Indigo Prophecy we’re very good games and so far Detroit is really good .

He's right, the guy is a hack. He has some original ideas and I applaud him for trying to bridge the gap between film and games but when it comes down to it he's cliched as hell and if he were to make a film it'd be nothing more than a pretentious version of an Uwe Boll effort.

Who the heck is david cage?

Not sure how he can be overrated when there is often equal amounts praise and hatred. People are always having a go at him, it's on any forum discussing his games. This article is based on a non-existent 'fact', so what's the point of it?

Actually i don't know if thats true.

i know a lot of people and comments who dislike his work

He is a hit and miss for me. i enjoyed heavy rain first playthrough and im liking Detroit but disliked beyond

In his own head he is. Who really takes that hack seriously?

Oh....it's the inevitable [insert game/name/etc here] is "overrated" article. Geez...should I click? Maybe just a glance....oh hey LOOK!

Killer7 is coming to PC!
http://n4g.com/news/2173493...

David Cage is not overrated as he’s not rated highly anyway.

About 9ish hours in the game now and I must say it’s another Sony gem , I don’t know if I want to be good or bad on the game and that is my only prob , damn you Detroit for making me feel for AI beings

Not as over rated as superhero movies ie pansy marvel nerd porn crap.

Overrated? The man is a laughingstock. Who the hell is overrating him?

Detroit is simply best type game it is ever period makes cage a master class

the author of this article is jealous

no matter how great a game or developer is, you're gunna get an article like this...

Cliffy B is extremely over rated. Oh look we can all have opinions

I can't stand RTS games but I don't write articles about that. Some people love RTS I enjoy freedom of choice and the chance to select from a wide range of game and entertainment styles. It's likeep anything in life it's just preference and what engages you.
Telltale is loved yet QD do it much better but that's just my view.

No one rates him or his games. There's no 'over' about it.

yup that's how the world works everything is subjective, everything yoi don't like is overrated.

It is absolutly hard, maybe impossible to write a perfect Story that makes sense with so many choices. Sure there are Plot Holes, sure their are downsides, but in every of his Games the Characters are so well written, the Scenes are scuplted perfectly and die Dialoges are so good. So live with the flaws and have some cool interactive Movie while no other Company will make so complex Games, because this Genre have a strong divided reviews.

Being successful is the new whack. LOL