Holy shit
Annapurna Interactive's Entire Staff Resigns From The Company - Report
Following a breakdown in negotiations, every member of Annapurna Interactive has resigned.www.gamespot.com
@God's Strongest Dragoon I guess we were wrong
can i get some massive context for this i feel like i'm missing so much.Holy shit
Annapurna Interactive's Entire Staff Resigns From The Company - Report
Following a breakdown in negotiations, every member of Annapurna Interactive has resigned.
@God's Strongest Dragoon I guess we were wrong
yeah but the self indulgent trash (like neon white sayonara wild hearts and outer wilds) is still actually fun to play and honestly no one else would even give those types of games the time of day and games like OuterWilds don't happen without a place for it.
I was referring more to Gone Home, Thirsty Suiters, and 12 Minutes but I can't exactly disagree with the point you're making here. And I personally consider Outer Wilds one of the best video games ever created. It's easily in my top 3.
DLCs either do Bigger, Louder or More. Outer Wilds works because of its minimalism. It's the new era Myst, and Cyan Worlds could never really make a solid follow up. It's actually to be expected they'd have real problems expanding it. But they clearly didn't know enough to move on to another project.
Was Echoes that unpopular? I never felt that it was particularly necessary or added that much to the game(that was an exceptional complete package without it), but it was fun enough to play.
This game is in "so bad, it's good territory" for me. That is mostly because it is fun to watch streamers have to play the shit and slowly realize how fucking stupid it is.
The Outer Wilds dicksucking has always annoyed me. I was getting annoyed with the game and accidentally stumbled upon the Dark Bramble bullshit and immediately dropped it when a friend told me how retarded that entire ending section is. Normally I'd stick through games despite shit endings but I felt zero attachment with that game or the characters. I had no interest in dealing with the rest of the time-wasting game design if that dogshit is just waiting for me at the end.
Once you know what you're doing, Dark Bramble isn't hard or time-consuming. You just need a target point to aim at and some momentum.
If you are playing with controller you can move around without alerting the anglerfish by applying the smallest amount of thrust. I don't recall the game telling you this at all. Add on the fact you can't do differing levels of thrust on kb/m and you end up with people having to do the more frustrating strat of hitting the entrance at high speed and hoping you have enough momentum to reach the next portal.
At launch yeah they revised the segment rather heavily. and now its "tolerable" but also no fun at all because they dont move anymore even more so that some of them are now directly Infront of other pathways you used to able to take.
There are worse cases of pseudo-intellectualism on indie games, I wouldn't make a big deal out of it.
They made a Sci-fi, 3D Myst with most of the same story lines. It was actually bound to go over really well for a large audience. The problem is that it was a bit to "revelatory" for a few too many reviewers. Probably because they aren't good at puzzle games or haven't done enough puzzles in life. It also set a really good atmosphere and the use of the Groundhog's Day mechanic created a time risk that wasn't punishing. The weird part about the game is how much of an actual decades-old throwback the design actually is.
I really wanted to like Obduction but there was some point in the game that I completely lost interest, Outer Wilds just did a way better job at translating that kind of old school adventure game into modern language. (that being said I'd still like to try the Myst and Riven remakes)
It's pretty impressive for a puzzle to be so tedious that even solving it with a walkthrough seems extremely unappealing.
The real power of Myst was being pre-rendered graphics in an era before anything looked that good and the Internet not really existing yet. The approachable puzzle solving really helped.
