I hope it’s not another Sony attempt at a live service game.
Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience"
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to games@lemmy.world
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warmaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s absolutely another Sony attempt at a live service game
caut_R@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They‘ve been so successful with singleplayer stuff but would somehow rather burn billions failing live services than sticking with them. They could‘ve put that money into several offline experiences and made at least SOME money but yeah, rather lose MOUNTAINS of money, I guess.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It is.
KiwiTB@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Outlook not so good.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
You can’t be out of the game this long and think you’re going to make another left 4 dead. We saw that with back 4 blood and we will see it with this one.
muhyb@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Came 4 Money
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
As a hardcore fan of L4D, I just found it hilarious that I had to google for the name of their spiritual successor to L4D and that game before Back 4 Blood where you have 4 teammates hunt or be hunted by 1 big monster. Both are unmemorable abandonware games while L4D2 (also is kind of an abandonware) somehow is still played and is almost old enough to drink. Fucking timeless classic, I may say.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
I love l4d2 and when i saw b4b on sale for $5 I was so excited. Surely I can get $5 of value of out this game. Nope after playing the first level everything was off with the game and I refunded it.
I instantly disliked the shooting and quickly grew to hate all the colourful effects they added. None of the effects fit the style of the game.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Another live service bullshit endeavour for Sony
FluidBeef@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Looks inside: Season passes and micro-transaction skins.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Last time I have heard about a L4D
co-creator making another co-op game, we got Back 4 Blood which I got beta for and which sucked some major ass and eventually died in less than 2 years after release. So, no. I am not hyped and nobody should until they actually show a good game. Glad my beta was free. Didn’t had to pay for this crap to figure out it is crap._ed@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Will it be called Bound2Suck?
Xenny@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Back 4 blood missed everything that made left 4 dead great
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
The title kind gave it away
garretble@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
JJ Abrams?
The Star Wars JJ Abrams?
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, Spielburg brought us Medal of Honor and that slapped hard. I bet JJ could make something cool.
Ashiette@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We hope that it’s LOST JJ Abrams
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
LOST JJ Abrams didn’t do anything other than the pilot and had no solutions to the mysteries said pilot introduced.
GreyCat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yet another one ! Let’s go…
slimerancher@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not a huge fan of multiplayer games, but can be fun with friends.
As for people who don’t like live service games, Sony has mentioned multiple times that the budget for live service games is completely separate from single player games. The issue was that they previously put their good single player studios to making these games, as long as they get proper third party or specialised studios for these and leave their first party studios for first party, I am happy.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
fuck JJ Abrams.
count_dongulus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I did some work with the JJ Abrams production company. It was…mediocre.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It feels like so many devs and studios have been trying to bring back the magic of that era but L4D was such a product of the times. Hard to imagine any similar games in that vein succeeding today.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know about that. If Valve made Left 4 Dead 3 with some minor iterative improvements (better graphics, same gameplay, maybe a new mode) and no trash monetisation (B2P like the first two games), I think it would be very successful.
epicsninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Looks like Sony is after their own Back 4 Blood.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Back 4 Live Service Game Failure
caut_R@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How did that game pan out? Last I heard the hype died down pretty fast, I didn‘t follow it further.
Alaik@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Dead within 2 years. They also had the balance pretty fucked until about 6 months in. All in all, no one should expect much from the company who makes games “built from the ground up with paid DLC in mind.”