Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 The layoffs have just been confirmed by the studio's CEO: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 4 minutes ago, Firewithin said: 800 peak? Oof While not a great sign at least it was released on Epig and whatever EA is calling their launcher so PC numbers could be slightly higher than just going by steam numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 I think they aimed too high for the type of game it is. I probably wouldn’t have cared as much if they didn’t sink so much money into the production, but maybe a more Hexen spiritual successor with AA production values would have been a better first endeavor. It’s a pretty interesting world and they put a lot of effort into it though, so it’s a shame it’s all going to die with this one game nobody besides me will play. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 15, 2023 Author Share Posted September 15, 2023 On one of the Discord servers that I belong to, a user mentioned that they're in another Discord with someone who works at the studio who mentioned that they've been looking for work elsewhere for a few months now as the writing was on the wall long before the game even released. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperSpreader Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 It's really too bad. I feel like this had the most potential of all the "I made Dead Space" studios. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 Just now, SuperSpreader said: It's really too bad. I feel like this had the most potential of all the "I'm the real Dead Space creator" studios. It’s a difficult game for me to think of critically. I’m not sure what could have been done to make it less of a failure besides just never starting the project as scoped. It’s somehow too much and not enough at the same time. Im enjoying it more as it goes down, particularly the plot I find to be well done for this sort of thing. Any reviewer who played the angle of “Magic of Duty” for whatever reason, did not play the entire game. Especially as the game goes on, there’s a lot more general action adventure game elements here. Platforming, puzzles, etc. Maybe getting itself marketed too much as Magic of Duty is one of major problems, because it’s really not that kind of game at all. The combat and leveling up grew on me a bit as well. I think it’s a fun game and it’ll be a good pick up when you can find it for like $5 in a month. It really is a great first effort maybe it just needed to actually have less hype, less expectations, and to exist more on its own merits as a new IP and a new studio. Maybe if they didn’t get picked up by EA and didn’t get the Hollywood stars. Idk, but it’s a shame it turned out the way it did because there is a lot of talent and a lot of love on display here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 I’m honestly pretty sure that the story, lore, and world they created here is a better and more interesting Star Wars rip off than whatever Zack Snyder has cooked up for Rebel Moon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted September 21, 2023 Share Posted September 21, 2023 1 minute ago, stepee said: I’m honestly pretty sure that the story, lore, and world they created here is a better and more interesting Star Wars rip off than whatever Zack Snyder has cooked up for Rebel Moon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 Well, the good news is the game does wrap up nicely and resolves all major plot points so you don’t need to wait for a sequel that will never come. Beat this today and it was a solid 7.5/10. Great first effort for the studio and I hope they get a chance to make another game as a group, maybe some publisher will notice the obvious talent and give them some franchise to do. I honestly think they probably made the exact game they wanted to but it’s just not something a lot of people wanted to play. Though I didn’t even know it was sci fi, which raised my interest, until after I started playing. So maybe some marketing issues there. They get special props for the story which was pretty interesting and went some good places. The game does a good job of handling moral ambiguity and obviously a lot of care went into the lore. Visually it’s quite phenomenal though no native hdr on any platform is a read scratcher. Some really cool set pieces and the real time cinemas look so good sometimes I would check afterburner to confirm it was really real time. The performance is great on pc for me now, I think a lot of the cpu bottleneck was cleared up and dlss3 is all fixed up. It’s a good impression for UE5 overall at this point. The game is kind of paced where it’s more of a linear action game at first, then opens up with more optional stuff, back tracking, puzzle solving, exploration area type stuff and becomes a bit more slower paced and like your standard action adventure game. Then it kind of dives back into the action first focus. I think this actually works pretty well for pacing, I don’t have an issue with it, but I feel it threw off some reviewers. I also think they still should have paced out the different magical types better to keep that opening part more fresh, I could see it starting to become stale just when the transition started. Overall a good time though especially if you are a fan of some good early gen set piece show off stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted September 22, 2023 Share Posted September 22, 2023 Oh and even on easy stuff got too bullet spongy towards the end. And I was paying some attention to leveling up so that is always disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 On 9/20/2023 at 8:48 PM, stepee said: I think it’s a fun game and it’ll be a good pick up when you can find it for like $5 in a month. What about $8? You can buy this on Xbox for $8 if you have Game Pass Ultimate Buy Immortals of Aveum™ Deluxe Edition | Xbox WWW.XBOX.COM Summon your power, stop the Everwar, save the realms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 53 minutes ago, Brian said: What about $8? You can buy this on Xbox for $8 if you have Game Pass Ultimate Buy Immortals of Aveum™ Deluxe Edition | Xbox WWW.XBOX.COM Summon your power, stop the Everwar, save the realms. I think the story is cool and well done and probably worth $8 just for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dre801 Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 A studio is often one big budget flop away from a layoff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 8, 2023 Author Share Posted December 8, 2023 Just now, Dre801 said: A studio is often one big budget flop away from a layoff. Or outright closure. Especially when the project is the studio's first game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Nowhere near $8 on PC ATM. I'll certainly add it to my backlog when it comes down in price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Maybe it’s more expensive on pc because on console it runs at like 120p 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 It’s probably $8 on Xbox because it will hit Game Pass soon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 3 hours ago, Brian said: It’s probably $8 on Xbox because it will hit Game Pass soon Well, I bought it, so Game Pass confirmed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 6 hours ago, Brian said: It’s probably $8 on Xbox because it will hit Game Pass soon IGN ran an article the other day that said Dead Space remake was $8 with a game pass discount. I thought, what an odd article because it's just ON game pass, why throw in the extra $8? But yeah this game should be hitting the vault at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 The Gamepass commercial at TGA showed Immortals so yeah it’s coming soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 11 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: IGN ran an article the other day that said Dead Space remake was $8 with a game pass discount. I thought, what an odd article because it's just ON game pass, why throw in the extra $8? But yeah this game should be hitting the vault at some point. For a bit yesterday on Xbox, they had the Deluxe edition on for like $10. I just missed out on it, and then it was only to upgrade to the deluxe version. I would of purchased for that price Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 20, 2023 Share Posted December 20, 2023 On 9/20/2023 at 7:08 PM, stepee said: I’m honestly pretty sure that the story, lore, and world they created here is a better and more interesting Star Wars rip off than whatever Zack Snyder has cooked up for Rebel Moon nailed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 I've played a few hours of this, and I'm surprised by how much I dig it. The combat is a lot of fun once you get loaded up with abilities and different magic gun thingies. And I'm starting to get to the points where it opens up a bit more and lets you explore, which is fun too. It definitely benefits from lowered expectations and a single digit price tag, but it's feeling like a solid little game at the moment. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 23 minutes ago, TheLeon said: I've played a few hours of this, and I'm surprised by how much I dig it. The combat is a lot of fun once you get loaded up with abilities and different magic gun thingies. And I'm starting to get to the points where it opens up a bit more and lets you explore, which is fun too. It definitely benefits from lowered expectations and a single digit price tag, but it's feeling like a solid little game at the moment. Funny timing as I am torturing myself watching Rebel Moon right now while doing some It work for a non profit and Immortals really is a much much much better Star Wars universe clone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Deluxe Edition $10 Microsoft Game Store Must have Ultimate Gamepass for the deal, which I did and bought this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 Oh yeah, I should get back to this game. Got distracted by AC6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 9 hours ago, silentbob said: Deluxe Edition $10 Microsoft Game Store Must have Ultimate Gamepass for the deal, which I did and bought this time. Might as well keep waiting. It will come to game pass and EA Play soon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 @stepee This is part of the Steam Sale -- is it worth US$25? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 4 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said: @stepee This is part of the Steam Sale -- is it worth US$25? I think so. Maybe at this point $20 makes more sense for it but it has an interesting story, fantastic graphics (especially the real time cinemas which are quite insane at points) and it’s a solid ~20 hours. The game is not at all “Magic of Duty” like people tried to pin on the game at launch. Not that I would have even been against that, but it just doesn’t play like that game at all and for much of it is far more open. It kind of starts as a more linear action game, then things open up and you even have some exploring/back tracking and side quest type elements and levels in general become more complex. Then it goes back to being more linear towards the end. That element of it, I think hurt its reception as it was often critiqued as if it was a game it wasn’t, but also on its own merit in that it can feel a bit like the game couldn’t fully commit to what it wanted to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted March 27 Share Posted March 27 Coming to PS+ only a matter of time before game pass PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for April: Immortals of Aveum, Minecraft Legends, Skul: The Hero Slayer BLOG.PLAYSTATION.COM All playable April 2. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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