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Rumor: Not everything is great with Atomic Heart development.
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I knew that demo was somewhat canned. The sequence where the first android appears, and is melee'd in a scripted scene, is contingent on the player having no ammo. The player shot at enemies in the preceding area seemingly by choice and depleted their ammo before the encounter.
I don't wanna be overwhelmingly negative, but what do people see in this title?
The gameplay snippet didn't look all too fantastic, and the motion blur was kinda nauseating.
The gameplay snippet didn't look all too fantastic, and the motion blur was kinda nauseating.
Edited the title to reflect the nature of this story. It's a rumor and should be treated as such before jumping to conclusions. And half of these points aren't even 'bad'...
Sure, that's the case with practically every gameplay demo.
Not necessarily a bad thing? Could be an interesting approach.
Is this implying the CEO doesn't know the game's in development? (which would be hard to believe) or doesn't know about game development in general? (which wouldn't really be all that bad, as long as leads below him/her are knowledgeable).
What's wrong with that?
I mean, yes, the game's in development. Part of the development process is figuring out what game you want to make lol.
Rebooting isn't a bad thing in itself. Could be best for the project. And does this mean the recent gameplay was fake too? Because that looked pretty good. What's 'gameplay downgrade' mean exactly when just above they're saying there's no actual game design? I'm confused.
I honestly thought this was just a raytracing demo for RTX card owners. Like with anything RTX related, it's going the way of the doo doo.
Haha. Never thought I'd live to see the day where gamers of this generation think Ray Tracing is a fad.
It's quite literally the Holy Grail of rendering.
I'm not talking about Raytracing as in the tech, I'm talking about Nvidia's RTX line of cards. And if it's the holy grail of rendering they sure do a piss poor job at showing it.
Yeah, this doesnt surprise me, ive met CEOs like that (in fact, the director of our master academy that im coursing right now is exactly like that), so hearing about a similar enviroment in other places... videogame/animation industry is full of this type of shit.
YMMV.
Me, for example, never liked "CG" look in games. I liked "gamey" look.
Example: Alien: Isolation's renderer looks too CG-like for me. Just something not allright for me when i look. Too polished, too smooth. Not sure what are technical reasons.
Nothing about the devs inspired confidence, it seemed like an extremely ambitious project from the get go especially considering that there was basically zero public knowledge of the development team or their experience. To me, this seems like one of those conceptual pieces that developers and artists use to boost their publicity and open up career paths.
Great art direction. Hence why people are saying the artist mentioned should get poached
How many of these "unknown developer dream games" have actually ended up being success stories?
No Man's Sky and We Happy Few are obvious examples of ones that crashed and burned, but I can't think of any off the top of my head that really delivered.
No Man's Sky and We Happy Few are obvious examples of ones that crashed and burned, but I can't think of any off the top of my head that really delivered.
That's not an accurate description at all. The devs knew exactly what they were doing when they put We Happy Few on Kickstarter. They were making a survival sandbox rogue-like with narrative elements. When people saw the E3 trailer and expected a more traditional story-driven experience, the devs decided to focus more on the narrative and scripted parts and less on the survival sandbox rogue-like parts. They made changes in direct response to consumer feedback but the game as a whole was still faithful to its original idea.
The problem is that many people saw the E3 trailer with no previous knowledge of the game and immediately assumed it would be Bioshock set in 60's England. When the actual game ended up not being that, they were disappointed, even though the game was true to its initial vision. This wasn't a case of the developers not knowing what they were doing. It was a case of customers being completely ignorant about a game and making assumptions about what it would be.
I'm not even sure what this means. "Unknown developer dream games." Are you referring to any indie developer's games? Because there are a lot that have been successful. Subnautica, FTL, Shovel Knight, Hollow Knight, Ori, Divinity: Original Sin, Gunpoint, Return of the Obra Dinn, Sunless Sea, Into the Breach, The Forest, The Long Dark, Banner Saga, Grim Dawn, Dead Cells, Kenshi, RimWorld, Planet Coaster, Frostpunk, Starbound, Minecraft, Cuphead, Darkest Dungeon, Kingdom Come, Undertale... the list of successful indie games is a long one.
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there was official "interview" from developers after that, in which they denied some things
didn't it resurface with a new trailer...or interview or something?
edit: seems like i'm thinking of stuff from Jan.
the rumors i saw was this mostly riding on the work of one 3d modeler, and its unfair to think they can complete this on their own. immersive sim style games need teams of developers, not just a skeleton crew.
This reminds me of the dark time in 2012 when Bioshock Infinite was revealed to have troubled development, and Prey 2 and STALKER 2 were both cancelled. The game looks great... I hope it pulls through...
After the latest trailers, a whole section on the Wikipedia of Atomic Hearts carved out just for this post seems a little bombastic, no?
Was very curious why this was getting necroed. Ehh. It's 2 lines. It's dumb. But it is what it is. Weird that they would primarily credit the Era thread and not.. you know.. the actual source (at least it's cited).
this thread is a really unneccessary necrobump from 3 years ago and is presenting information that frankly no longer holds water
I got very sad reading this title and thread until I saw the date.
Hope they end up pulling it off.
Hope they end up pulling it off.
An unnecessary bump but hey I'm adding to it now I guess. Honestly I find games like Atomic Heart very interesting, not least because of its bumpy road of development, but also because the game looks pretty insane. It might turn out to be a disaster, who knows, but if it does turn it'll still be an interesting disaster that I'll want to play either way. Better than boring. And it's on GP either way.
The blurb you're referring to was added in Oct 2019 to the wikipedia page. Please don't necro threads without good reason.
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