Lunatic_Gamer
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Sony Wanted to Buy Black Myth Wukong’s Studio + New Trailer Before February 1st
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RoadHazard
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The Chinese government put a stop to those thoughts I'd guess.
ozz ex machina
Member
What the fuck is the 3 million an hour shit? I've never seen any kind of game described like that. Do they mean an hour of playtime? That makes zero fucking sense.
Mibu no ookami
Member
I'm not surprised. Game looks next gen.
splattered
Member
yeah this all sounds like a load of crap
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Eh?
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
$3 million per hour lmao.
The First Trillion Dollar Game Everyone.
The First Trillion Dollar Game Everyone.
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SLB1904
Banned
i still think is a vapourware
RoadHazard
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They mean per hour of play time. Which may or may not be true, no idea.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
this is the biggest horseshit of all time, development costs what you are paying your employees, the engine doesn't magically add some hourly cost lol.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
I'm guessing they mean per hour of game length, but that's still a weird-ass metric that can fluctuate wildly depending on the type of game and how much you re-use...Eh?
yurinka
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His uncle works at Epic GamesEh?
bender
What time is it?
Belthazar
Member
They probably mean and hour of playtime. But still, I thought Unreal 5 was supposed to have tools that make development easier and faster... which would result in it being cheaper I'd imagine.
Cert.in.Death
Member
On its face that all seems like complete BS.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
So that means The Order cost just $6 million??
bender
What time is it?
Converted into Yuan, that's a little under a million.
Mibu no ookami
Member
OP on reddit said that was how much it cost per hour of gameplay based on the time to complete the game.
Heimdall_Xtreme
Jim Ryan Fanclub's #1 Member
facepalm to Sony
rickybooby87
Member
3 million an hour?
Management: "We have only 30 minutes of budget to make this game, make it happen!"
Enslaved developer who isn't paid "Yes."
Management: "We have only 30 minutes of budget to make this game, make it happen!"
Enslaved developer who isn't paid "Yes."
Dick Jones
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GHG
Member
No, Mario gets to smash.
Just Wii U, we think it will be a fitting title for a console that was abandoned.
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Lunarorbit
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SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Dollars per hour is how my hooker charges me for pleasure.
Kdad
Member
I'm assuming they have to make change for you...
TrueLegend
Member
Good thing because American homogenisation is awful for games. If Sony brought it we will see the games protogonist in chains serving as a pet to a black girl with pink hair or blue streak. I wanna see stuff from more cultures free from American or European dilution for example cultural misappropriation of Assassin's Creed Odyssey and God of War. I would like to experience elements of Chinese culture in a respectful way the way Ghost of Tsushima respected Japanese Culture but now I am hearing all the talk of studio of how Sony's European overlord wanted a black lead. White, Black, Women fuck all that forced American perspective in non American stories. I want sensible protogonist not political puppets.
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Danteyke223
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This game is going to get squashed by the Chinese government sooner or later. I thought they pretty much tried to Sanatize anything historical / mythical?
Silver Wattle
Gold Member
Complete fabrication, Sony doesn't just buy random studios.
TonyK
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Problem is not the type of game, it's the quality of games. Guardians of the Galaxy is a 6, at best, but it's receiving praise because it's pretty and characters don't stop talking.
After beating Guardians of the Galaxy I started Kena and what a difference! Game is amazing, a 3rd person action adventure game like they were before crafting, intrusive UI, monetization and whatever. A game with cinematics, not a movie with gameplay.
The story is almost certainly fabricated.Sony took years to buy Insominiac, a studio that they have been working closely for years and years releasing hits.
Suddenly a unknown studio shows a few minutes of a game and Sony tries to buy them?
Unfortunately these days everyone can make up stuff on Twitter or Reddit and everyone share it just to get a round of hits/likes.
But the project is interesting and it's worth of attention if the trailers are genuine real time gameplay stuff.
CamHostage
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A linear action game where you're charting X miles of player progress along a God of War-type directional map, I could see charting it that way by budget (though I agree, it's a corny metric.)
I could see looking at a project layout as, We have # bosses planned, each boss will need X miles of lead-up combat/puzzle scenarios based on our movement/traversal system, each of those miles will need Y number of original assets to fill the course (including YY number of landmark assets rendered at an extra-high level of detail,) average is W number of different enemies to populate map (including WW number of unique enemies added to that area,) and so the X/Y/Z math for a certain size of staff might feel like it matches up to how the budget is being eaten into.
(Movies and television do a similar thing; they go by pagecount, so a 120-page script is probably about 2 hours on screen... which seems insane to think it works would work out that way given how different scripts can be and sometimes 12 minutes of screentime is just written as "They fight.", but the page-per-minute adage does hold up more often than it should.)
...Any other type of game design, though, and it doesn't work at all.
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CamHostage
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Not sure why that would make a difference, given that this is an active production working in UE4 and evaluating/transitioning to UE5?
If it was taped out from day one as a next-gen-caliber UE5 project and asset production was all at a high level on a "experimental" development kit (UE5 launched surprisingly stable but it's still only so much ready for real work while Epic is still getting it fully production-ready, and particularly Lumen has quirks that everybody is still trying to get a handle on even though it's great at heart,) then sure, it could get costly. But right now I don't see that they would be using UE5 more than as an enhancement of their UE4 work? (I'm not a developer, but I haven't heard stories yet of developers completely altering their development approach and pipeline to account for UE5, it's still been a lot of "We're using this on that and using that on some of this and we're falling back to the old way where needed and that works out fine.") And the Nanite-enabled assets are full-scale out of the modeling tool (depending on what you have room for) so you're already building for that rich level of detail on say a complex statue or palace, it's just that in UE4, you would have to hack it down and optimize it to fit, whereas UE5 conceivably is a lot less of that work. (I assume there's a lot more talk of "it just works" than it actually working out that easy, of course.)
I just don't see how you could make a game yet that's "much more expensive" than what you'd budget for already on a high-end UE4 project. UE4 is no horse-and-buggy engine, and AAA is AAA as far as production methods go. I've yet to hear from anybody who would say, "UE4, that was easy compared to this...", but maybe the increase of micro-detail scale is really starting to add up already?
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iamvin22
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The first trailer yes. Then we saw the real game with the second
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
The first trailer yes. Then we saw the real game with the second
I thought the 1st and 2nd trailers looked equally as good. Did you see a different trailer?
iamvin22
Industry Verified
I must have. It looked far worst. I'll look for it and post.