Antoine Villette, founder of I Am Alive developer Darkworks, has told VG247 he believes Alone in the Dark can still be great, but only if Atari is prepared to make radical changes to its format.
Alone in the Dark developer Pieces Interactive has been hit with layoffs a month after its release, as per the latest information.
That genuinely, genuinely sucks. The reboot has clear flaws, but it really felt like a solid first step for this team to receive *greater* investment.
That's standard. Teams are together for a Project, after its done some..and sometimes most devs are fired until the next Project is in the works and people are needed again. Only the core members stay in the time between the hot phase of the game development.
What’s annoying is people don’t understand how contractors work, either. All of this is uninformed knee-jerk reactions without any understanding of how employment works in this industry. There are key developers and staff that stay with a studio/publisher, but often times it’s a hire per project and then seeking new employment for a project. That’s how it’s always been…
That's a fair point too. I would say that in light of its tepid critical/commercial response and ongoing mass layoffs across the industry I think it's understandable for fans to worry about the longer-term implications. We'll see how it plays out in the future.
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "In one sense, it feels strange to even think Pieces Interactive had big shoes to fill with this series' legacy. Given what's come before, did it really? And yet, even when considering the last two flops over a two-decade span, there's still something about Alone in the Dark emblazoned on a title screen that carries a sense of revered history. In that respect, perhaps this reboot's best accomplishment is in honoring that spirit through its inventive world. It's also fair to emphasize knocks against its survival-horror design, some puzzle-solving, and so on; it certainly won't be considered a trendsetter like the 1992 classic. Still, the amount of goodwill wedded to its brighter qualities makes for something that dawdles the line between unfortunately-flawed and impressively-enticing."
The new Alone in the Dark remake doesn't do anything especially noteworthy, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's just... cromulent.
Everygame can be great, its what the devs & publishers do to make the game great.
A "major step" would be to put a bullet through its head and leave it alone.
They need to redo the animation system, fix the controls, redo the combat system. I think they need to scrap the existing engine and make a new game, keep the fire techs with them but shoot the voice actor main character:@
lol half the people on this site should start developing games
starting with jkhan
Man its clear they said they could do a lot more with the ps3 version by taking advantage of the Blu ray
i cant wait to see this game next week
By the way if u judge from a xbox version that it will be the same
so be it i will get this for the ps3 if proven better
i bet the xbox will be patched later
PP
This game will run and play alot better on ps3
with exclusive features
I love delays in a small way lol
Call it what you want
Limit x 360 could not get this game where it wanted
Ps3 will hit there mark
will see at the games convention this week
Blu ray for the win
Ps3 for the win