This.
Because they need to make the $$$ back on those zillion dollar games, so they dumb them down to high heavens making sure they appeal to everyone from pre teens to grandmas.
That's nice but all you seem to be doing is suggesting that the low budget game would not have sold at profit if people needed to buy it. I've seen higher budget indie games be made and sold enough to be profitable.
Your opinion. Pentiment is a game that would have little attention if it weren't for MS marketing and occasional PR statements like this. Imagine it wasn't on GP and being sold for £20 only, made by some indie dev who wasn't MS. Its exposure would be absolutely terrible. I suspect most people would not bat an eye.
That is exactly what he has been implying -- downplaying big AAA narrative-driven games to prop up his own game.
Not always the case. Ubisoft has a formula that they stick to; and it has gone stale. But there's nothing dumbing down or playing it safe when it comes to a game like TLOU 2, GOW, Returnal, RDR 2, Zelda BOTW, Elden Ring, Death Stranding, etc.
Saying what exactly? What is the purpose of saying you dont like how one of the biggest games of the year tells its story, other than to discard great story telling and mocap acting? Bruh, we're all not easily fooled by this salty pr talk. Did he have anything to say about the shitty performance and glitches of Cyberpunk when it released? Did he say anything about Gothan Nights? How about the shitty remake ports from GTA? Things that really impact the industry in a negative way. Or does he only have something negative to say about one of the critically acclaimed games to release this generation?
This tweet has come up here more than once and it obviously triggered some insecurities amongst some people here. It reminds me of all the ding-dongs latching onto Scorsese when he didn't exactly praise MCU. What he said is not wrong, personally, and has every right to say it, but, holy shit, you don't have to agree with it and continue enjoying your Avengers and Thors.
Why not?
Look at the date of that tweet, and seeing how you’re reacting to his tweet I guess his opinion really does trigger people
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No one's triggered bro. It's just a discussion. However, the only one insecure here seems to be Josh Sawyer who feels the need for downplaying other games and other creators' work, just to prop up his own (referring to the tweet).
Because like he said he doesn’t find it interesting
, not all game directors are trying to be Hollywood directors.Lets not act like josh is some scrub game dev either.These are the games he directed 
Bruh the tweet is from 2020…
Because heavy story driven games are good and all, but limited in scope. Videogame is a medium capable of much much more.
Games are a different medium, that has the ability to tell stories in their own unique ways due to the interactive element, so the best game stories should be different then the best movies/games. Each medium has it's strengths, and it's doing games a disservice to say they're lesser stories if they don't have a certain element of film/tv storytelling, just like it's doing film a disservice to ding it for not replicating things largely unique to book storytelling.
All this shade at Ragnarok and GOT and then look how fast they will switch when Hellblade 2 comes out. It will make your head spin.
No, my name is not ”Hellbla”All this shade at Ragnarok and GOT and then look how fast they will switch when Hellblade 2 comes out. It will make your head spin.
Now VNs and text adventures are all the rage
Its gonna turn from Walking sim genre to Epic for the fanboys.All this shade at Ragnarok and GOT and then look how fast they will switch when Hellblade 2 comes out. It will make your head spin.
Now VNs and text adventures are all the rage
Hellblade / TLOU / Ragnarok / etc: linear story that you cannot influence in any way.
*one true God
Starfield was already being made well before Microsoft's involvement and their canceling the PS5 version that was also being made.
It’s likely it would have sold at profit, but that’s not guaranteed. It’s less about the budget and more about the fact that it’s super niche.
It’s also extremely hypocritical for you to pontificate like this when this was your thought about the game mere months ago
Going from ‘it looks terrible’, ‘it’s a ripoff’ and ‘it looks like a flash game’ to ‘there’s no risk, it would have sold at a profit’ is really really weird.
I agree with you. In my opinion, there is a place for every type of interactive media.
They do, and some games like GOWR, Death Stranding, TLOU 2 even add to it, instead of only emulating that. There's a place for it in the industry, as that has been a big goal over the years. To call it "not interesting" is a disservice.
Microsoft bought Bethesda in 2020 and they were in talks to acquire them since 2018. Why do you think there was anything other a PC version in 2020 when the next gen consoles had not even been released? Also Bethesda usually develops for PC first and then optimizes for consoles.
Weird that people didn't like the movie games remark(not that I ever used it), but are you proposing that those games you mentioned are "emulating the storytelling and mechanics of cinema"?
