Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience"
https://www.gamesradar.com/games/left-4-dead-co-creator-is-directing-a-mysterious-co-op-shooter-for-jj-abrams-production-company-and-sonys-going-to-publish-it-we-hope-to-deliver-a-bold-innovative-experience/
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epicsninja@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 263d
Looks like Sony is after their own Back 4 Blood.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 263d
Back 4 Live Service Game Failure
caut_R@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 263d
How did that game pan out? Last I heard the hype died down pretty fast, I didn‘t follow it further.
Alaik@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 263d
Dead within 2 years. They also had the balance pretty fucked until about 6 months in. All in all, no one should expect much from the company who makes games "built from the ground up with paid DLC in mind."
warmaster@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 263d
I hope it's not another Sony attempt at a live service game.
Edit: lol, wtf Sony?
Thatuserguy@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 263d
It's absolutely another Sony attempt at a live service game
caut_R@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 263d
They‘ve been so successful with singleplayer stuff but would somehow rather burn billions failing live services than sticking with them. They could‘ve put that money into several offline experiences and made at least SOME money but yeah, rather lose MOUNTAINS of money, I guess.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 263d
It is.
KiwiTB@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 263d
Outlook not so good.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 12 pts · 263d
You can't be out of the game this long and think you're going to make another left 4 dead. We saw that with back 4 blood and we will see it with this one.
muhyb@programming.dev · 9 pts · 263d
Came 4 Money
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 263d
As a hardcore fan of L4D, I just found it hilarious that I had to google for the name of their spiritual successor to L4D and that game before Back 4 Blood where you have 4 teammates hunt or be hunted by 1 big monster. Both are unmemorable abandonware games while L4D2 (also is kind of an abandonware) somehow is still played and is almost old enough to drink. Fucking timeless classic, I may say.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 263d
I love l4d2 and when i saw b4b on sale for $5 I was so excited. Surely I can get $5 of value of out this game. Nope after playing the first level everything was off with the game and I refunded it.
I instantly disliked the shooting and quickly grew to hate all the colourful effects they added. None of the effects fit the style of the game.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 263d
Another live service bullshit endeavour for Sony
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 9 pts · 263d
Looks inside: Season passes and micro-transaction skins.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 263d
Last time I have heard about a L4D
co-creator making another co-op game, we got Back 4 Blood which I got beta for and which sucked some major ass and eventually died in less than 2 years after release. So, no. I am not hyped and nobody should until they actually show a good game. Glad my beta was free. Didn't had to pay for this crap to figure out it is crap.Xenny@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 263d
Back 4 blood missed everything that made left 4 dead great
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 263d
The title kind gave it away
_ed@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 263d
Will it be called Bound2Suck?
garretble@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 263d
JJ Abrams?
The Star Wars JJ Abrams?
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 263d
I mean, Spielburg brought us Medal of Honor and that slapped hard. I bet JJ could make something cool.
Ashiette@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 263d
We hope that it's LOST JJ Abrams
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
LOST JJ Abrams didn't do anything other than the pilot and had no solutions to the mysteries said pilot introduced.
slimerancher@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 263d
Not a huge fan of multiplayer games, but can be fun with friends.
As for people who don't like live service games, Sony has mentioned multiple times that the budget for live service games is completely separate from single player games. The issue was that they previously put their good single player studios to making these games, as long as they get proper third party or specialised studios for these and leave their first party studios for first party, I am happy.
GreyCat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 263d
Yet another one ! Let's go..
nfreak@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 263d
It feels like so many devs and studios have been trying to bring back the magic of that era but L4D was such a product of the times. Hard to imagine any similar games in that vein succeeding today.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 263d
I don't know about that. If Valve made Left 4 Dead 3 with some minor iterative improvements (better graphics, same gameplay, maybe a new mode) and no trash monetisation (B2P like the first two games), I think it would be very successful.
epicsninja@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 262d
I'd say Deep Rock Galactic has a lot of the same appeal, and thas doing pretty well. Though it also made the bold and controversial decision of actually innovating and creating something new, rather than sticking as close to the original as possible.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 263d
fuck JJ Abrams.
count_dongulus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
I did some work with the JJ Abrams production company. It was...mediocre.