Destructoid had a chance to speak with Chris Rippy, Lead Producer on OMD, to give them the lowdown on the heart of the game.
Genevieve at Skewed and Reviewed recently spoke with composer Chris Rickwood about his busy career and about some of his recent game compositions such as the soundtrack for Orcs Must Die and many other amazing games. They talk about his work and what it takes to be a success scoring games.
Ensemble Studios used to be at the top of the world, back when they were making Age of Empires games- they were the standard bearers of the real time strategy genre, and each of their new releases induced a paradigm shift for strategy games.
Im quite sure that selling more than twice the overall sales of their closest competitor helped a lot in that decision
I think Sony's open ended policy towards indies since 2013 is still working for them. Although Microsoft have relaxed a lot of requirements on the indie front but what do they say..."first impression is the last impression." Having said that MS still has a good indie line up compared to the launch year.
I feel like MS has slight guidelines they like indie studios to follow while Sony just says screw it and has no guidelines and welcomes everyone.
This isn't how it actually is but it's what it feels like imo
The first two Orcs Must Die games are on the XBox 360. Pretty sure they will be B/C for on the XB1 if they aren't already. Don't think XBox fans are going to miss this games at all. When they are ready, Robot Ent. will port it to the XB1. Not a big deal.
Cant be that salty Hes a Playstation fan. So it might not be good.
Its not salt , what was their last great game and how long has it been since it release . To be honest they haven't been that good in a long time .
No, there's hundreds of games to play on X1 including such lengthy BC games like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, Oblivion, etc. You don't have time to play every indie crap
Nah I just realized I read the title wrong. For some reason I thought it the PS4 exclusive Let it Die
A common reason for exclusivity could be that small studios do not have the resources to develop for multiple platforms simultaneously, so they choose PS4 and/or PC, or Xbox One and/or PC.
So why not make a game with UWP in mind? Make the game once and release it on Windows 10 and Xbox One. If we go by your logic.
Most of the time Sony pays even smaller devs for exclusivity. I had a nice talk with one of the devs from Tricky Towers at games com and he said Sony has a half year exclusive deal with them and its a really small game.
If Sony is supporting them financially then it makes sense, but then I'm sure MS is just as likely to make similar offers to developers in order to have them sign up.
@IvanSF
Is it? On PS4 you have 50 million potential buyers, while with UWP you have 500 million. Especially for those smaller games that can run on almost every PC, it would make much more sense. But if they signed up a deal, they should just say it.
My thoughts exactly...
If the dev is small then the price for exclusivity is small too... Especially since most of these indies have only been temporary exclusives.
@yomfweeee
What does UWP have to do with steam? You make an app for Windows and can easily port it over to the Xbox One or Windows Phone = 3 Apps with one Code.
I think you mean the Shop built in Win 10. So MS is not allowed to have their own shop just because you think steam is better? I still remember the early days of steam when everybody hated them. Still today its not a good experience. You can't trade your games and the customer service is beyond horrible. The win 10 store is still new and gets better with time. You buy a game once and get the console version for free plus cross play and cross save. Isn't this something good?
Videogamelab
Because even with those extra potentials, the ps4 version outsells both combined.
I was reading an article on gaming revenue for november and is disclosed a shocking number for pc software. It was around 40 million dollars. Console software? Over 900 million (last year over a billion). Pc software doesn't move as fast as console software.
@mkis007
This was based on physical sales, which no-one does at the PC side. You can't track down Digital anyway. PC digital sales are probably at 95-98%
More and more video games are entering the board game market these days. With the likes of the X-COM, Bloodborne, Dark Souls, Gears of War and Civilisation being converted into board game format I imagine more video games series aren’t far behind. Here is a list of some that I would like to see.
