Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'

newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  But they okayed American Nightmare.

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  • newthrowaway20@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    True. Props for that at least.

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I didn’t mean that in a very positive way.

      I know there’s a post-hoc artistique justification where Alan is a hack writer and everything in the dark place is only as good as his imagination… but a poorly made game is still a poorly made game, and trying to shove half of a Max Payne action shooter into an Alan Wake game is just asking for disappointment (just ask Amnesia fans about pigs).

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      • MetaStatistical@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m still puzzled that they made their masterpiece in SOMA and then wasted years of their life on Amnesia sequels. At least ONTOS is on the horizon.

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• raze2012@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They bought out Rare and did nothing with them for 15 years. Now they are just “The Sea of Thieves” devs.

  Imagine a timeline where they became a 2nd party Nintendo studio instead.

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  • cheat700000007@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They didn’t do nothing, they did viva pinata and Kinect 🙃

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