Ultimadrago
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Psychonauts 2 news, you say? Mmm
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Starbreeze conference May 10: Walking Dead, System Shock 3, Psychonauts 2... [Over]
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You joke but if it happens.... while we at it, psychonauts is payday but inception.
Jawmuncher
Member
Did the H3H3 thing show up yet? I'm curious as to what exactly they would be used for.
arts&crafts
Member
I dont know how gameplay would work but an Inception-like game would be really cool. The story at least. Each level is someones dream, or dream within a dream.
Ya he was apparently in Raid: world war 2 section.
Not that I know of no. Well, let's hope for somethign exciting then...
I'd buy that!
Also. I know I know, port begging yadda yadda but Psychonauts 2 on Switch would be really cool. Guess if that happens it's an E3 thing though.
Apoleptica
Banned
I still can't believe Vin Diesel started up Starbreeze to create a Chronicles of Riddick game, and look where it is now absolutely amazing.
Edit: sorry mixed up starbreeze with Tigon studio.
Edit: sorry mixed up starbreeze with Tigon studio.
Not yet.
nope
Adam_Roman
Member
Just found out about this. Did I miss anything interesting?
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
They're wasting too much time on these discussions. Booorrrinnnggg.
Depends on what you find interesting. No SS3 or Psychonauts so far.
Finally that Deliver me the Moon bit is over. Took way too long...
SoundofSilence
Member
ashecitism
Member
He founded Tigon Studios, not Starbreeze.
They probably have a bet running or something.
Too early for footage mate, only started last year and they are busy with their other project.Ehhhh too short for Psychonauts 2
Warren Spector in the building. Hoping for some footage!
Ehhhh too short for Psychonauts 2
Warren Spector in the building. Hoping for some footage!
Yeah, they've already shown more of Psychonauts 2 before. (although that might have been backer videos? Can't remember)
Plumpbiscuit
Member
Any new gameplay shown for SS3?
Just a few concept arts and small discussion, nothing really big. Warren said that they are still in concept stage.
Plumpbiscuit
Member
Thanks.
Ah okay, so it will be a while then. Hope this will turn out well.
Triggerhappytel
Member
Where did they get the money for all this expansion - were they bought by a larger company or something? Outside of Payday 2 I don't even think they've had a hit game, have they?!
Visualante2
Member
Say what you want about pre-order culture but I'd probably have put money down on Psychonauts 2 if they hadn't taken so long delivering Broken Age.
PayDay 1 sold over 4 million copies and then PayDay 2 sold over 8 million copies and gazillions of copies of DLC.
Dead By Daylight is also around ~2 million, which is a project they published.
They had investments from 505 Games, but the games ultimately funded them way past that and they even bought the rights back from 505.
Slackerchan
Member
So, they announce that Storm is in development but it's some kind of esports co-op FPS VR... thing? I'm completely confused.
Wasn't it always supposed to be Payday in space?
Wasn't it always supposed to be Payday in space?
Was it as good as Atlus' stream a while back?
PD3 isn't in the cards yet, since Raid is basically Payday WW2 that may be the next focus. After all it's much easier to tell people why they should move on from their DLCed up platform of a game if the new game completely changes the setting...
They're really chasing the service model and gameplay formula of Payday 2. Not necessarily a bad idea, but based on this conference what they said throughout there may not be enough variety in their line-up. Raid? Payday in WWII! Walking Dead? Payday with zombies!
Nothing wrong with pursuing a service-based business model but what's the point if their games are super similar? Dead by Daylight is a good example of mixing things up. Not to mention releasing a successful service game is tough and unpredictable. Payday has been super successful but you can't expect to be able to recreate that again and again.
At least System Shock, Psychonauts and maybe something from the Brothers team are on the way. So they aren't putting all of their eggs in one basket. Starbreeze playing it smart!
Nothing wrong with pursuing a service-based business model but what's the point if their games are super similar? Dead by Daylight is a good example of mixing things up. Not to mention releasing a successful service game is tough and unpredictable. Payday has been super successful but you can't expect to be able to recreate that again and again.
At least System Shock, Psychonauts and maybe something from the Brothers team are on the way. So they aren't putting all of their eggs in one basket. Starbreeze playing it smart!
ashecitism
Member
They're with EA now.
Ah, didn't know that. Keeping track of the teams, licenses, devs and publishers and how they are related to Starbreeze has been tricky.
To be fair, the way the sequel has been unveiled and promoted makes it hard to get too excited about it being a true successor to System Shock. Sure, they got the brand and no doubt mean well but it's clear a lot of the talent that made System Shock special has scattered to the winds and there aren't exactly deep pockets behind the project. I'll gladly check out anything they release about the game but I'm not getting my hopes up.
Messofanego
Banned
No. Just some concept arts shown.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/141540011?t=1h38m20s
This is Warren Spector and the OtherSide team at concept phase. They're going into pre-production phase soon ("that's when reality smacks you in the face and you know what game you can really make"). He came into this interview to talk about the game early on. This is still years away.
I'm into Warren Spector and Tim Schafer just chatting it up, so I don't mind.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/141540011?t=2h15m20s
He does describe the oft-heard One City Block RPG that is his dream game that no publisher is crazy enough to give him enough money to make that is simulated with focus on non-combat AI (which actually now reminds me of how The Occupation by White Paper Games is going to be but that's just a few buildings).
Muskieratboi
Member
So... Storm is basically the new name for Cold Mercury, Stormbreeze's own Duke Nukem Forever FeatureCreepapalooza?
Aaand they've decided "Let's make it VR Laser Tag instead"?
...They know that That's been done, right? And it costs About $50US for a 45 minute session?
Well, good luck to them, I guess.
Really was hoping to see some of Shock3 and Psychonauts 2, but eeeh.
Aaand they've decided "Let's make it VR Laser Tag instead"?
...They know that That's been done, right? And it costs About $50US for a 45 minute session?
Well, good luck to them, I guess.
Really was hoping to see some of Shock3 and Psychonauts 2, but eeeh.
Messofanego
Banned
Why do some people hype themselves to expect new gameplay or footage of games just because the developers are doing an interview live? Nowhere do they promise such things (read the OP, it's a discussion panel), but just because we're so used to shows like E3 or conventions showing off new gameplay on this long path of the marketing campaign (E3 trailer->gameplay demo->playable at conventions->trailers->second gameplay demo->launch trailer), that now we expect footage all the time. It's like people don't care about the actual people making the games, just show your game off, stop talking! Who cares about your design goals or history or views on publishers.
We all know System Shock 3 and Psychonauts 2 are not on that stage of the marketing campaign. The only thing of System Shock 3 we know is it's been announced that it's a thing, it's in concept phase, and there is an art prototype of Psychonauts 2. These are still not AAA games where they have a dedicated marketing team to show off the game while the developers work. Just chill lol.
Mister Wolf
Gold Member
I wonder if System Shock 3 will be better than Prey. I'd imagine it will be scarier and have a better villain.