Perhaps a better phrasing would have been for me to say that King Kong game doesn't look like something made this year outside of shoestring budget indie game creators.
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I understood you loud and clear, and you are correct with your phrasing. The King Kong game does look like some mid-2000s kusoge game. And there are low budget games from that timeline whom all look better than it. The game I was referring to was Gollum itself. It passes more for a bad looking 7th gen title than anything current.
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I didn't think it was gonna get worse after Drake and the 99 dragons; Then Ride to hell Retribution came out.
Then it was The Life Of Black Tiger, then it was Gollum, and now this.
It seems we're forever cursed to have these ugly, unplayable, shitstain of a game on every generation of games
FakeSympathy, the gaming world won't change. All it does is turn.
Like, I don't mind bad indie games, because they usually are first-time projects for many individuals.
But when AAA or even AA games promote their games to be amazing but everyone can tell it's gonna suck, maybe just delay the launch to further polish the game, or even cancel it?
Why go through the trouble of being mocked to death by the internet, and mocked forever after the game's release?
You would think someone would stop and think "Hmm, would this ugly-ass, barely-functional game really bring us the money?"
YouTubers will practically line up for something like this. "Holy crap, guys, this game is terrible! Watch me play it!"
Releasing the game in question would bring some money; not releasing the game would bring no money.
Surely you meant the annals of history?
Yeah, but people will go out and buy a good game a YouTuber plays. If it's a bad game, no one wants to buy it, watching the YouTuber is the start and end of their interest.
It’s most surprising we’ve even heard of this game seeing as how I’ve never heard of any of this developer’s previous.
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There are a couple of reasons to do it anyway :
- You have made contracts that would be costly to step back from and rely on the game coming out. More relevant if there is a physical release as well., but if you sold the game to be part of bundles or passes/abbonements, that hits as well.
- You invested heavily in promotion hyping it up to a certain date. Missing this date will mean you blew a lot of your marketing budget.
- You relied on preorders/kickstarter money to develop it. And you can't afford the refunds.
- You know you can't salvage it with more time. Cut the losses and sell what is there.
Broadly speaking, the publishers already paid the devs who made the game, so even if its abysmal, they may as well eat whatever minimal costs are involved in distributing the game to try and get something back. (I'm prettysure its illegal to retroactively yank back wages, since that'd be an obvious slippery slope of doom)
As far as pushing it back, if they've already turned out absolute junk, it'd be illogical to keep paying them even more to presumably make even more junk (whether you be the publisher, shareholders, kickstarters or whatever else footing the bills)
As far as pushing it back, if they've already turned out absolute junk, it'd be illogical to keep paying them even more to presumably make even more junk (whether you be the publisher, shareholders, kickstarters or whatever else footing the bills)
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I bet they’re thinking it now. This is such a reactionary industry when you think of it. It almost *almost* makes it easy to see where all the suits’ apprehension comes from in terms of costly development cycles. But really, for something like this I’d think even a good chunk of Indie games would’ve had a bigger budget.
This reeks of a very small, inexperienced dev with limited everything stepping a bit too far out of their comfort zone and getting slapped in the face with consequence. If they stuck to a level of ambition that reflected their resources more succinctly then they wouldn’t have wound up with nearly as PoS results. Hell it might’ve even been decent, on relative terms.
Click on "Experience" at the top of their page and you'll see the games from Wiki cycle by.It’s most surprising we’ve even heard of this game seeing as how I’ve never heard of any of this developer’s previous.
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I actually never heard of this happening in a gaming industry before. They I mean kudos for devs to make the game more player-friendly, but how are you gonna keep up with all the costs? Base game sales couldn't be enough.... could it?
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