Mired in a heap of illusory superiority, Gears of War: Judgment overvalues its fan's dedication and their ignoring of it's weaknesses relying too heavily series' foundations. Gears of War has been around for seven years now and has given birth to four titles, so forgive me when I say, a machine gun with a chainsaw attached to it just doesn't do it anymore.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
Gears of War: Judgment launched 10 years ago today, and quickly became one of the most misunderstood titles in the series.
Easily the best control-wise of the series. Judgment introduced melee-ing with the lancer and is still the only installment of the series (to date) which enables you to change weapons while roadie running simultaneously.
Gears 2&5 are the worst controlling in the series.
The Arcady aspects of the campaign should have been unlocked after completing a campaign play through. Seeing score screen after battles caused awkward pacing. The multiplayer was too different from other Gears games.
Judgment felt more like an expansion than an actually game. To me, I was fatigued from the series at that point. The story was ok, over all it wasn’t bad.
"PCF Group S.A. (People Can Fly) has informed via the current report released on September 23, 2022, that it has received from Take-Two Interactive a letter of intent to terminate the development and publishing agreement by means of mutual understanding between the parties. This agreement pertains to Project Dagger, new action-adventure IP, that has been in development for the last 2 years – under the direction of People Can Fly’s team based in New York.
In addition to the standard provisions parties are to set out detailed terms of settlements differentiating the terms of settlements and the amount of advances received from the publisher for the game’s development to be repaid depending on the model in which the game will be commercialized, i.e., depending whether the game will be self-published or released with another publisher.
The Publisher has also not declared the intention to exercise its option to buy-out the intellectual property rights to the products produced under the agreement."
'and the amount of advances received from the publisher for the game’s development to be repaid depending on the model in which the game will be commercialized, i.e., depending whether the game will be self-published or released with another publisher.'
Yikes, so how do they work around that?
“We strongly believe in the Project Dagger’s potential and are now committed to continue its development within our self-publishing pipeline. The game is still in pre-production – our team is now focusing on closing combat and game loops and migration from UE4 to UE5. ... Of course, we are not ruling out working with a new publisher if this creates a compelling business opportunity.”
They've been hopping around so much the past decade. Epic, Gearbox and then Take Two. I'm looking forward to an eventual Bulletstorm 2.
This is the kind of studio that needs resources and should be acquired instead of spendings billions on publishers who already have all the resources in the world
People can fly was acquired by Epic Games in 2013 and was rebranded as Epic Games Poland.
2015, the studio split from Epic Games to become People Can Fly again.
This Polish studio has a nice little back story behind its studioname revolving around the studio's struggles, successes and hope.
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Epic games just don't want to fund AAA development. If they were to partner with someone who gives them the creative freedom and resources I think they could make some amazing FPS games
People don't play that game, so I assume people don't want that 10-year plan. It's up to the players, not the developer :D
All jankiness aside I actually enjoyed the game. I can't see how this game has a 10 year plan though. The potential to expand on it seems limited because the mechanics are very simple.
The demo was so janky I hated the game. Some Xboxers enjoyed it because it’s all they had to play at the time and mediocre is acceptable when it’s on a subscription plan
Outriders had improved its performance between the demo & the final release. It was the best sellers at launch on all platforms, including PC, Xbox & (you guess it) PS5.
Best review i have ever read.