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Thats what I've heard as well, also that the game had no reason to be open world. I guess there were no side activities or anything to do outside of missions, many of which consisted of driving NPCs from points A to B.
Tells me all I need to know about the game play which is that this game is NOT "Mafia". How did we go from car accidents being able to kill you to being able to jump out of a speeding car going 60MPH, doing a roll, popping up and walking around like no f*cks were given? lol
Tells me all I need to know about the game play which is that this game is NOT "Mafia". How did we go from car accidents being able to kill you to being able to jump out of a speeding car going 60MPH, doing a roll, popping up and walking around like no f*cks were given? lol
Reminds me of "Just Cause" kinda.
It's the opposite of this :
You couldn't buy a PS4 without Drive Club in Europe for a pretty long time.
Now I'm not saying bundles are bad, but with how well Sony does in Europe every month you can pretty much figure out why these numbers are so high for this game.
I can only imagine if DriveClub came out on the X1. You wouldn't be able to walk into a GameStop without copies of Forza Horizon 2 falling off the shelves at your feet. Everybody be trading that s*** in for da pinnacle.
Never said that. I actually said bundles are not a bad thing. However there is a difference between selling because your game is good and selling because you had to get bundled.
I'm not a racing game fan, but I think the game is bloody beautiful in action. Especially during storms.
One of the good things about games like Drive Club, whether you like the game or not, is that it forces the competition to lift their game also.
One of the good things about games like Drive Club, whether you like the game or not, is that it forces the competition to lift their game also.
Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries has not been the triumphant indie success story its creators had hoped for.
Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries developer Grin has called it quits, shutting up shop and revealing it is incapable of delivering on promised Kickstarter backer rewards.
Kickstarted in 2014 to the tune of $72,000, and further funded by a Steam Early Access release in January, Woolfe has not sold well enough to keep its developer solvent.
“The team is now dismantled and we have requested bankruptcy unable to pay outstanding bills,” founder Wim Wouters said in a blog post.
Wouters said negative response has scared off possible publisher support, and Grin will not be able to develop the promised second volume. It is offering the project’s source code, all assets created to date and the Woolfe IP for sale in the hopes that someone else will continue its dream.
Grin cannot even afford to post those crowdfunding rewards it has already produced such as stickers and posters; to manufacture the artbook and and DVD case; or to distribute the soundtrack.
“We have literally no money whatsoever to pay for stamps, let alone print the artbooks and DVD cases,” Wouters said.
As for what wrong, Wouters didn’t spin a sob story: Woolfe didn’t sell because it wasn’t good enough.
“At first we could not believe that our baby was not more successful, in our emotions we started looking for explanations not related to the game,” he said.
“Maybe gamers are just spoilt brats, bashing on everything, maybe there is an oversaturation of indie market, maybe all the free-to-play games by big studios are giving players a false sense of value. How could less than $10 be to expensive for a beautiful game like Woolfe? How could this be our fault?
“Of course none of the emotional excuses above are the reason of our mixed Steam rating. We can only blame ourselves.”
The full post is a really interesting – and painful – read, as it paints a picture of a studio which bit off far more than it could chew, and a team that is heartbroken over an ignoble end to its aspirations. There’s also discussion of some of the primary criticisms aimed at Woolfe and how they relate to design and development difficulties, although Wouters humbly accepts their legitimacy.
Grin Studios was a Belgium team established in 2002, and should not be confused with the similarly named Swedish team responsible for Bionic Commando, which shuttered in 2009.
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Woolfe: The Red Hood Diaries developer Grin has called it quits, shutting up shop and revealing it is incapable of delivering on promised Kickstarter backer rewards.
Kickstarted in 2014 to the tune of $72,000, and further funded by a Steam Early Access release in January, Woolfe has not sold well enough to keep its developer solvent.
“The team is now dismantled and we have requested bankruptcy unable to pay outstanding bills,” founder Wim Wouters said in a blog post.
Wouters said negative response has scared off possible publisher support, and Grin will not be able to develop the promised second volume. It is offering the project’s source code, all assets created to date and the Woolfe IP for sale in the hopes that someone else will continue its dream.
Grin cannot even afford to post those crowdfunding rewards it has already produced such as stickers and posters; to manufacture the artbook and and DVD case; or to distribute the soundtrack.
“We have literally no money whatsoever to pay for stamps, let alone print the artbooks and DVD cases,” Wouters said.
As for what wrong, Wouters didn’t spin a sob story: Woolfe didn’t sell because it wasn’t good enough.
“At first we could not believe that our baby was not more successful, in our emotions we started looking for explanations not related to the game,” he said.
“Maybe gamers are just spoilt brats, bashing on everything, maybe there is an oversaturation of indie market, maybe all the free-to-play games by big studios are giving players a false sense of value. How could less than $10 be to expensive for a beautiful game like Woolfe? How could this be our fault?
“Of course none of the emotional excuses above are the reason of our mixed Steam rating. We can only blame ourselves.”
The full post is a really interesting – and painful – read, as it paints a picture of a studio which bit off far more than it could chew, and a team that is heartbroken over an ignoble end to its aspirations. There’s also discussion of some of the primary criticisms aimed at Woolfe and how they relate to design and development difficulties, although Wouters humbly accepts their legitimacy.
Grin Studios was a Belgium team established in 2002, and should not be confused with the similarly named Swedish team responsible for Bionic Commando, which shuttered in 2009.
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Never heard of it until now. Maybe that's why it didn't do that well. It takes money to make money.
That's really sad. There's risk with every kickstarter you invest in, and we pretty much only he's about the success stories.
I hope that everyone involved in the project can afford to look after their families, their homes, and themselves.
I hope that everyone involved in the project can afford to look after their families, their homes, and themselves.
It was one year ago today that PlayStation 4 owners were first treated to something meant to be a teaser for an upcoming game, but instead became an award-winning bit of frightening distraction.
It was soon discovered that P.T. (Playable Teaser) was designed to announce Silent Hills, an ambitious new offing in the Silent Hill franchise by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro.
The haunting teaser, which has players endlessly journeying down the same hallway in the same creepy house trying to discover what happened there, was downloaded more than a million times in a month.
But then in April, Konami announced it was canceling the game, a victim of the fallout between Kojima and publisher Konami. P.T. was pulled from the PlayStation store...
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Kojima can do it all. Amazing to see him outclass the horror staples in this industry who've been doing this for the past 20 years.
The YouTube videos I saw of this game, were terrifying. Its sad that this game didn't get a chance to shine.
I hope this goes down in history as "best demo ever"
I hope this goes down in history as "best demo ever"
Two different game studios with similar names :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grin_(company)
This was their first and last game for pc.
I was on craigslist one day looking for a used ps4 and a local seller wanted $800 for one with P.T. demo and couple other games. I was like this seller is crazy so I texted this seller "Is that a price mistake because I can get a new PS4 for half of that" and the seller texted back "Do complete listings on eBay to see why" lol.
I just want a great Silent Hill game this gen. I don't care if it's Silent Hills or Silent Hill 7. Call it whatever you want and just give it to me.
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