SEGA is back with a brand new IP with some amazing easter eggs from their other IP like Sonic. Here is our HYENAS First Impressions.
2023 has been perhaps the biggest year in gaming in a long time, but the constant lay-offs and greed prove no success is ever enough.
“constant lay-offs and greed”
It’s almost like gaming is controlled by a few giant corporations and not a bunch of great folks who are your friends.
I think that for consumers this was a pretty solid year. We have some bad releases (UE5, in particular, has been rather shit), but we also have some amazing titles and there are still a lot of good things scheduled for the end of the year.
For developers and aspirant developers. It was a very shit year, the gaming industry has never been seen as a good environment. But the huge number of layoffs, closers, budget cuts, etc. Sort of cemented it as a terrible industry to invest your career in.
I read a comment of someone saying that the video game industry needs to do a reset and have another crash like it did 40 years ago.
100% never gonna happen. This industry is so massive it recycles itself now. Meaning ppl move around whenever a game fails or a studio shuts down. A reset isn't bad release anymore. If ppl want a reset it's stop buying MTX expansions, season passes, early access and even the games themselves. Again that'll never happen. The industry is like 50x the size it was in the 80's not including mobile.
What do you think though.
For the industry as a whole, I think it's impossible. Mobile alone would guarantee that a crash would be unthinkable.
As for specific segments of the industry like consoles. I also don't see a crash happening, but I do see a future where there are much less AAA titles and much less studios/publishers. Not only because of the recent acquisitions but also because the model is very scary from the point of view of risk especially for publicly traded companies and unfortunately almost all of the giants are in that category.
And from the point of view of developers, it is basically what I already said. The game industry has always been a bad place to invest your career and is probably getting worse.
the "crash" was really only in NA. JP and EU were not phased. If one did happen again, it would likely be much wider in scope due to gaming being much more prevalent now than 40 years ago.
Lightning77,
I think your absolutely right. It's to big to fail, I don't think it will ever fail again. It would be nice to see people stop buying all the extra stuff so we could get back to regular releases like the old days before internet on consoles imo
Blaming the tool developers chose to make their game and not the game itself is crazy, your a wild boy lol
I'm specifically talking about the performance characteristics of those games that are the common ground between all three. And if you honestly believe that an engine has no say in how a game behaves and what it can do, I don't see how to even have a discussion.
The devs chose the tool and created the game, this rendering you’re entire argument bill and void lmao. Like I said you’re a wild boy! 🤣
So your "argument" is that the dev chose the tool. But you fail to realize that I'm criticizing the tool and not the game or the devs. That is really sad, but unfortunately, I have neither the time nor the crayons to explain this to you.
@Minute Man 721
That only holds true for consoles. Even the most powerful hardware available for PCs with dozens of GBs for video memory suffered from the same issues.
Game development is a hight stakes high reward industry (always has been) where you front load millions even hundreds of millions in the hopes or confidence that you'll see it returned with profits and just like any industry that fit the category I mentioned, we'll you have winners and losers and those who lose lose big.
As soon as microtransactions and "online passes" became a thing it's been downhill ever since. And honestly at this point I've only been excited for like 2 games this whole generation. Ratchet and clank, and Dragons Dogma 2. There's been some other good stuff, but those are the only two where I felt genuine glee and real anticipation for.
I'm hoping Spider-Man 2 makes me feel that again, but all this talk of special exclusive pre-order bonus suits and powers is already putting a bitter taste in my mouth.
I remember the first time I got an online pass I was stunned. It was the PS3 version of the Sims 3. I opened the case and there it was: a serial number that I had to enter to download an online pass just to access the games online mode. 🤦♂️
Layoffs and studios getting shut down were always a thing. They just happen to be talked about alot these days.
When you have a cash cow like Fornite have 800+ employees gone Hyenas cancelled and jobs most likely being cut there. The slew of live service shut downs and lay offs that happened earlier this year also.
It's a mixture of greed and a saturated LS push games. Why not bunker down and create compelling single player games or SP with multiplayer like the old times.
Though that's easier said than done because Immortals Of Aveum has decent scores but also suffered lay offs because the game didn't sell that well. Then again Aveum struggled to get into the conversation of anticipated games. It released at a bad time and overall interest and coverage for the game wasn't there and if course being a new IP and that's always a uphill battle.
This industry is interesting. Go off on your own and gamble with your livelihood and possibly get eatin alive and struggle to get your game in the limelight or go with a mega publisher and sell out your creative freedom to investors share holders, bosses who only care about money all while still knowing you have no job security.
Creative Assembly's extraction shooter Hyenas is filled with anarchist sentiments and Sega merch, but it's also a pretty tight online FPS.
good info