Bend Studio has been a first-party developer for Sony since 2000 and is known for its work on the Days Gone franchise.
Bluepoint Games was acquired by Sony in 2021 as a first-party studio focused on developing remasters and remakes including Uncharted, God of War, and Demon Souls.
So remasters are one thing, but Days Gone, wasn't that the game that people kinda forgot about but turned out to be good?
This might be more the after effects of Concord and are now scared of doing live service. I wouldn't be surprised if there are moves in the background as both Concord and the actions that kneecapped Helldivers 2 probably got some knives out behind the scenes.
Days Gone wasn't great but it was alright for what it was. If you didn't find the premise offputting (Biker culture) it was a pretty passable as an open worldish zombie game. It was a great rental type game that unfortunately came out after rental culture died.
It unfortunately suffered heavily for coming out at the end of "cringe culture" too, so people pulled the scene of the wedding which is intentionally filled with bad jokes between a couple who love each other, and then meme'd on it endlessly as "peak cringe."
I didn't get super far into it because the upgrading/customizing your bike thing didn't hook me much (same with the Mad Max game), but yeah it was obvious they were scared to portray actual bikers with all their wrongthink and instead went with some really progressive facsimile.
The same thing happened in GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned. The Lost are a super-progressive, inclusive group with Latinxs, Blacks, gays, and even run by a Jewish guy! Meanwhile the bad bikers are all huwytemans.
Writers these days cannot deny that many of these groups are really fuckin' cool, but refuse to actually portray these ideas with anything approaching reality. So they put on the trappings of them and create an alternate reality about them.
So you end up with Progressive Biker Gangs, serial killers like Dexter, and slasher villains like Chuckie who are super pro-gay.
But everyone says that it didn't sell enough at the outset to make whatever hidden profit margin Sony had allegedly set for it. But we have no breakdown in actual revenue, and Sony was intent on making sure the game was never going to be a headliner since it starred a straight-white, badass male.
I liked the game mechanics and the world, but it was still way too "diverse" and Lefty-oriented for my tastes when it came to the story and the side-quests. Still too much woman-power and faggots about in such a hostile post-apocalyptic setting. It was like Mad Max-lite, and the bad guys were bad, but not too bad, so as not to offend anyone.
Demon's Souls remake is very good. It might be the best looking/feeling game I've played on the PS5. I had high hopes that Bluepoint was working on another FromSoft remaster. DS1 or BB would have been amazing.
Instead, the absolute retards at Sony had them working on a God of War live service game? These incompetent executives should be hanged.
It’s kind of fitting seeing how Sony first handled Demon’s Souls back in 2009, not surprised these retards haven’t learned anything in 15 years.
Unfortunately I kind of hate the art direction in the DeS remake, it feels like Demon’s Souls remade with Skyrim assetd or something.
It’s pretty clear bluepoint are cuck faggots that don’t really get why the original was so great: the new music sucks, all the npcs look like Pixar characters, several armor sets are re-designed to look worse than in the original, I could go on. Keep them away from all Fromsoft related media in the future.
In any case it’s kind of funny how Sony and Microsoft continue to see who can out-retard the other. If Sony actually does acquire From Software I will firebomb their corporate headquarters.
I'm on the way to platinum the Shadow of Colossus remake, and while the landscape, lighting, and effects graphics are all extremely pretty, BluePoint couldn't help but alter the entire art style of the original, as well as make lots of other unnecessary changes (and their changes to SoTC were, comparatively, very restrained, and sometimes improvements).
That seems to be their modus operandi, as the DeS remake showed what they do when they've got no one to restrain them. The Body Type A/B thing was just the crap cherry on top of a crap-frosted cake (even though, mechanically, the remake felt fine).
It would be an absolute travesty if Soyny got their tranny mits on FromSoft.
YES I haven't been into consoles for decades but my image of peak Sony was Japanese technology, Final Fantasy, quirky JRPGs, rare imports that might be banned for sale in the US, Hideo Kojima, and whatever the fuck this is. Who ever thought it was a good idea to become Hollywood? If Sony doesn't become a Japanese company again, they deserve to fail.
Companies are finally learning that dumping hundreds of millions into terrible live service games that have a lower chance of ROI and will bankrupt the company if they fail isn’t a good idea!
Someone said it best.. why would i want to play as a character that is lame? I would prefer the character be dead or not succeed in the game. 98% of western games now always have negresses, lgbt and uglies. Most people here or anywhere would prefer not to interact or even dislike negresses, lgbt and uglies in the real world.. let alone in a video game.
Back to the chars being lame.. chars are just self inserts. And we all know game devs are interesting and cool people s/. Its why they take it so personally when you say the character sucks and is lame. You, by extension, say the devs suck and is lame. That is all there is to it tbh. Crazy dei fucks and lib whites with no self reflection and full of themselves.
Anyways. Why would i spend money on skins and what not in a live service game full of lame ugly people?
Sony is customer first. That's why you can't get their phones through cell phone carriers, they refused to carrier lock devices. I have to get phones from far away moat times, but it's worth it. If only they hadn't canceled the Vita.
So remasters are one thing, but Days Gone, wasn't that the game that people kinda forgot about but turned out to be good?
This might be more the after effects of Concord and are now scared of doing live service. I wouldn't be surprised if there are moves in the background as both Concord and the actions that kneecapped Helldivers 2 probably got some knives out behind the scenes.
Days Gone wasn't great but it was alright for what it was. If you didn't find the premise offputting (Biker culture) it was a pretty passable as an open worldish zombie game. It was a great rental type game that unfortunately came out after rental culture died.
It unfortunately suffered heavily for coming out at the end of "cringe culture" too, so people pulled the scene of the wedding which is intentionally filled with bad jokes between a couple who love each other, and then meme'd on it endlessly as "peak cringe."
I enjoyed the gameplay of days gone but couldn't help but laugh that the biker gang was super progressive.
I didn't get super far into it because the upgrading/customizing your bike thing didn't hook me much (same with the Mad Max game), but yeah it was obvious they were scared to portray actual bikers with all their wrongthink and instead went with some really progressive facsimile.
The same thing happened in GTA IV: The Lost and the Damned. The Lost are a super-progressive, inclusive group with Latinxs, Blacks, gays, and even run by a Jewish guy! Meanwhile the bad bikers are all huwytemans.
Writers these days cannot deny that many of these groups are really fuckin' cool, but refuse to actually portray these ideas with anything approaching reality. So they put on the trappings of them and create an alternate reality about them.
So you end up with Progressive Biker Gangs, serial killers like Dexter, and slasher villains like Chuckie who are super pro-gay.
Days Gone is generally considered to be very underrated and unfortunately under performed in sales.
It actually didn't underperform in sales, sold quite a bit: https://80.lv/articles/days-gone-2-not-happening-as-sony-higher-ups-were-never-fans/
But everyone says that it didn't sell enough at the outset to make whatever hidden profit margin Sony had allegedly set for it. But we have no breakdown in actual revenue, and Sony was intent on making sure the game was never going to be a headliner since it starred a straight-white, badass male.
I liked the game mechanics and the world, but it was still way too "diverse" and Lefty-oriented for my tastes when it came to the story and the side-quests. Still too much woman-power and faggots about in such a hostile post-apocalyptic setting. It was like Mad Max-lite, and the bad guys were bad, but not too bad, so as not to offend anyone.
Thought it was, yeah people just forgot about it when it launched for some reason.
The links show the mess you bring up is the right timeframe for the failed gamergate 2.0.
Demon's Souls remake is very good. It might be the best looking/feeling game I've played on the PS5. I had high hopes that Bluepoint was working on another FromSoft remaster. DS1 or BB would have been amazing.
Instead, the absolute retards at Sony had them working on a God of War live service game? These incompetent executives should be hanged.
It’s kind of fitting seeing how Sony first handled Demon’s Souls back in 2009, not surprised these retards haven’t learned anything in 15 years.
Unfortunately I kind of hate the art direction in the DeS remake, it feels like Demon’s Souls remade with Skyrim assetd or something.
It’s pretty clear bluepoint are cuck faggots that don’t really get why the original was so great: the new music sucks, all the npcs look like Pixar characters, several armor sets are re-designed to look worse than in the original, I could go on. Keep them away from all Fromsoft related media in the future.
In any case it’s kind of funny how Sony and Microsoft continue to see who can out-retard the other. If Sony actually does acquire From Software I will firebomb their corporate headquarters.
I'm on the way to platinum the Shadow of Colossus remake, and while the landscape, lighting, and effects graphics are all extremely pretty, BluePoint couldn't help but alter the entire art style of the original, as well as make lots of other unnecessary changes (and their changes to SoTC were, comparatively, very restrained, and sometimes improvements).
That seems to be their modus operandi, as the DeS remake showed what they do when they've got no one to restrain them. The Body Type A/B thing was just the crap cherry on top of a crap-frosted cake (even though, mechanically, the remake felt fine).
It would be an absolute travesty if Soyny got their tranny mits on FromSoft.
Jezus fucking christ sony. Just make god damn weeb games. Ffs.
YES I haven't been into consoles for decades but my image of peak Sony was Japanese technology, Final Fantasy, quirky JRPGs, rare imports that might be banned for sale in the US, Hideo Kojima, and whatever the fuck this is. Who ever thought it was a good idea to become Hollywood? If Sony doesn't become a Japanese company again, they deserve to fail.
Companies are finally learning that dumping hundreds of millions into terrible live service games that have a lower chance of ROI and will bankrupt the company if they fail isn’t a good idea!
It's like 11 or 12 of the 15 upcoming things have been nuked.
I think the spectacularly costly death of Concord moved the needle a bit over there.
Someone said it best.. why would i want to play as a character that is lame? I would prefer the character be dead or not succeed in the game. 98% of western games now always have negresses, lgbt and uglies. Most people here or anywhere would prefer not to interact or even dislike negresses, lgbt and uglies in the real world.. let alone in a video game.
Back to the chars being lame.. chars are just self inserts. And we all know game devs are interesting and cool people s/. Its why they take it so personally when you say the character sucks and is lame. You, by extension, say the devs suck and is lame. That is all there is to it tbh. Crazy dei fucks and lib whites with no self reflection and full of themselves.
Anyways. Why would i spend money on skins and what not in a live service game full of lame ugly people?
Sony is customer first. That's why you can't get their phones through cell phone carriers, they refused to carrier lock devices. I have to get phones from far away moat times, but it's worth it. If only they hadn't canceled the Vita.