This is a update from my last blog post, announcing my IndieGoGo project IGI.
Our Kickstarter project ended the other day, but that doesn't mean we've given up! We've re-launched our campaign over on IndieGoGo! https://www.indiegogo.com/p...
For those of you aren't aware, IGI is intended to be a one-stop destination website for indie gaming news, reviews and information. The goal with this project is to create a website that provides gamers with the best source to discover indie titles, and to help indie developers by providing them with an unparalleled platform from which to get their games noticed.
How Our Site Will Function: The Indie Game Informer website will offer a simple and intuitive layout. Users will of course be able to access articles, reviews, features, editorials and developer interviews all from the front page, and have discussions with other users in a on-site comment section.
Our on site Indie Game Database will allow for gamers to discover old and new indie titles, that many users may otherwise not have known about, and if all goes according to plan we want to allow you to access and play those indie games directly from our site.
With our planned purchase of improved video and audio equipment, we intend to start uploading a weekly indie gaming segment where we will discuss current/popular events that have transpired during the past week.
We also plan to head over to various indie gaming focussed expo's and events, where we will conduct interviews with developers and bring viewers the latest on the indie gaming scene.
However, making all intended content and features available at the sites launch, will simply be too much of a task for our limited team. We do however plan to have all basic features available within the first 3 months of our site going live. Features such as news, reviews, interviews with indie devs and our steadily growing Indie Game Database.
Planned Features For Our Website: Thanks to numerous indie developers and the kind people we've spoken with on various social media sites, we would like to announce a few new features we have planned for the Indie Game Informer website.
At first, Indie Game Informer was intended to be a Indie gaming news, reviews and information website. A place where people could visit to read reviews on indie titles, discover new and old games and have discussions with like minded people.
But as we got to talking with various indie devs over twitter and Facebook, we learned that there are many other features we could offer that other sites simply don't have. Such as, a dedicated forum for indie devs to share and discuss their projects, and receive development support from experienced developers and professionals.
Further more. As well as our planned Database for all current and up-and coming indie titles, if we were fortunate to receive enough funding we would like very much to host indie games directly from our site (DRM Free of course) similar to how Desura functions.
The aim of Indie Game Informer has always been to build a one-stop destination website, which means you can expect our website be constantly growing. Any and all features or services, that we are unable to make available at the time of our sites launch will be integrated at a later date.
If we can reach our funding goal, we will immediately set about developing the Indie Game Informer website, and once complete we plan to offer the NO.1 source for all things indie gaming. The funding will allow us to create a fully functional, professionally designed gaming website, which will include Interviews with indie developers, indie gaming news, reviews and information, as well as a weekly round up of current events in the indie gaming scene.
Further web content will include:
Features on upcoming games
Indie news, reviews and contests
User generated blogs and reviews
Database of current and upcoming Indie games
On-site interactive discussions
News & updates regarding all things indie gaming
This is a collaborative effort between myself a video game journalist, and my brother a game programmer/English teacher. Both of us have worked together as indie game developers ourselves in the past and have come together once again to realise this dream project.
For a better explenation on our project please check out our IndieGoGo page https://www.indiegogo.com/p...
Thank you so much to those of you who believed in our project! I hope you will continue to support us over on IndieGoGo
And thank you for checking out my blog, if you have any questions about the project please feel free to leave a comment bellow.
The Final Fantasy VII Rebirth combat director has expressed that he wants the final part in the trilogy to offer players "even more freedom".
I love the game so far but please don’t make the final part a mini game fest
Everytime I get to a new part in Rebirth it’s “mini game time”
Hope ya don't mind me asking since it seems like you've played it, did it feel like a decent step up from the last game or was it more like the best from the last but more polished?
It makes Remake feel like a demo.
9.5/10 imo. And I think the “mini games” did a great job of adding variety to the gameplay. Purely optional as well.
Here's my thoughts
I think it's a big step up from the first instalment, I'm enjoying it way more.
I thought keeping it just in Midgar was silly, it felt dragged out and it didn't have much variation in terms of the scenery.
However with Rebirth, as soon as you get out of Kalm you have a big world to explore and it's great to just wander round and explore.
Now that I'm half way in though, despite still liking what I'm playing, the gameplay loop is now starting to slow down on me. I've got to a new region and I'm like "Yaaay...need to go and find those towers again, oh look another special beast marker, is that a bird I see in the distance? Better follow it to another Mako Crystal"
It's like....you know how Peter Jackson was only supposed to have two Hobbit films then Warner Bros wanted a third film so he stretched the second film out as much as he could so he could keep stuff for the third film making a trilogy? Yeah it feels like that, so these mini games are a part of that overall gameplay loop to keep us going and stretch the game out overall so they have something for the third and final game.
I personally think you could have had the first instalment get you out of Midgar and through to Grasslands / Junon and the second game finishes things off.
I had a weird cycle of love/hate for all the mini games as I played through. At first I really hated the seeming need to check all these boxes while exploring the grasslands. I didn't enjoy the Gilgamesh quest initially, and thought Queen's blood was fine but didn't want to commit to it. The side quests didn't really grab me either.
Then for some reason everything in Junon region changed my mind and I did pretty much everything. I liked most of the side quests, I actually liked playing fort condor (didn't care for it in the intergrade dlc). And my interest for completing these quests stayed pretty much through to Cosmo Canyon.
Then they added that horrible Lifestream memory/battle mini game and I started getting so burnt out of it all. I just wanted to do the story. I didn't do any side quests in neibleheim and beyond except for the summon. I abandoned Gilgamesh.
So what I'm saying is I would like the third part to go back to the focused progression from remake. Keep the mini games to the gold saucer. Start the game snowboarding if you want, but from there keep the story rolling.
That's funny you say that because I did everything in the Grasslands but once in Junon I started to slow down a little until Corel where by the end I was burnt out. I'm still currently going but I'm just doing what I can while things keep getting thrown at me.
I would have preferred half of these mini game side fillers / collectibles for some really beefy side quests that really adds onto the world of FFVII.
Sounds like they hadn't really figured out what they wanted to do with Remake and this one is more of what they thought of doing which is probably why they're dragging it out to make a trilogy. Disappointed to hear it has towers cause man do i hate towers lol. It's been a while since I've played the first and it'll be a while longer to play the sequel, but it sounds like I'll enjoy it. 7 really impressed me especially after being disappointed with 15, felt like Square finally realized that FF was THEIR big franchise again.
As long as it comes out on PS5 to have the entire series on one platform, do whatever you want
The combat is my favorite thing about Rebirth. Would be really cool if they can improve it even more.
I hope after FF7 Square will either give a new FF game the remake treatment. Or give some of their older titles a remake treatment like Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, even Xenogears.
Wccf tech writes: "Kingdom Come Deliverance 2's scope was impacted by the Xbox Series S hardware limitations, as developers could only make a game that was 25% bigger than its predecessor."
This is the issue with things like this
Xbox Series X is apparently to MS the worlds most powerful console
However the Series S is obviously a limitation because it’s underpowered and developers have to go for parity.
So what’s the point of the world’s most powerful console if you are holding third party developers back? They aren’t going to push themselves if they have to think about the weakest console.
The issue wouldn’t be as bad if it was just Xbox but you are also affecting the PS version aswell
I think developers need to start just taking advantage of a console and if one of them can’t do X Y and Z then f*** them…why should the others suffer. What’s MS going to do? The bigger the franchise the least chance MS are going to tell them to f*** off. Baulders Gate 3 seemed to have stood their ground and suddenly their “strict” parity rule didn’t really matter. We suddenly got super optimisation efforts for the Series S that got things sorted.
I agree, and the sad part is use normal folk saw it the second they announced their plans.
Agree 100% this is why I didn’t want the M$ Monopoly, now PS5 version will be held back too.
If PS5 Pro comes out and Series S is still a thing it’ll be interesting what differences and what devs choose to do. Really hoping Rockstar pushes the PS5 pro with GTA6 and we get the best version possible.
More info from the author of the article, I think: https://www.reddit.com/r/ki...
Quote:
"1) I was told this info from the producer of the game Martin Klíma.
2) He specifically said the game will have only one mode.
3) And this mode is 4K 30 on PS5/XSX and 1440p 30 on XSS.
4) He said that the game is already running north of the 30 FPS cap so the performance should be stable on launch, much better than KCD1.
5) The limitation was XSS because of the 10GB memory. He said that's why they wanted to make the game 25% larger.
6) Speculation on my part: the output resolution is probably upscaled and the reason why there won't be a 60 FPS mode is because it'll most likely be very CPU heavy, like Dragon's Dogma 2 for example."
Doesn't seem like they're adding a 40fps mode on PS5/Series X for launch even if they can handle it.
I'd much rather have 1440p/60fps or even 45fps. Having just one, even with the Series S in mind, is disappointing.
Remember when xbots were adamant that the series s won’t hold back the gen?
Microsoft just needs to let go of the mandatory parity. Who cares if your grandma doesn’t understand that a game cannot be played on the S. It’s not like it she can buy you a physical game for it anyway. Before buying the game put up a notice that it only works on series X. If you’re buying for a friend-allow for a refund.
Bam. Everyone is happy. Most series s owners are for casuals that want Game Pass anyway and most likely don’t purchase most games.
If the developers want it to run on S, let them figure it out.
“During the event, the Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 producer also revealed that on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, the game will run at 4K resolution and 30 frames per second“
Another “creative decision” right? 🤦♂️
Since you're not an amateur and clearly know more than them, can you over there and help get the game running on the S without having to sacrifice their true vision. Us gamers would really appreciate you using your wisdom for good 🙏
Thousands of games run just fine on S.
But Kingdom Come is the game that can’t. Must be one hell of a game!
Thousands of games run on PS4 and on Switch. If developers want them to run on those systems. Fine. Those two platforms still get new games. Sony isn’t making studios also make a ps4 pro version, or Nintendo a wiiu version. Microsoft technically is.
If games like Alan Wake 2, GTA6, COD, hellblade all run on S, no excuse for this 100x smaller and 100x worse looking game to be held back.
Custom Controller Company HexGaming launched a Kickstarter campaign for their latest pro controller, Hex Phantom. - IS
Indie gaming development and news definitely needs a bigger voice. I hope this will succeed so that indie development will indeed have that voice.
I'd visit an indie games site with zerocrossing involved.
btw, update your "about" section :)
The intro and the ending of the youtube video discourages me immediately from funding the campaign. It's unprofessional. Good luck with the campaign though.