watched a lot of Cory Barlog / Gabe Newell interviews
subsequently, lot of interviews or doco-series of ‘GOTY’ winning game development
The Last of Us
God of War
Zelda:BotW
cs/dota legacy/market
l4d2 and tf2 are literally nostalgia populations
Baldur’s Gate
A big thing is goodwill, your marketing doesn’t push because it’s afraid of under-delivering what they know of the state of the game.
The company is far too concerned with how it comes off.
the little schizophrenic/coded messages or implications about whatever they may be (see the world for what it is, or just be a drone or npc), don’t placate enough people, enough.
I can see Games Workshop is doing cashgrabs with it’s stock options and Tencent 40k mmo investment.
The games are visually and atmospherically stunning. The work with the horde AI has been spot on, magic in a sense of realism, even if it’s not Real. Reality is magic? (god help me with my crap)
The point of my message was to avoid an encyclopedia of gameplay or story or design change elements, it was about
The facets of reality that shaped and moulded your people into what they were.
An essence of adapting to survive, and through the cerebration and preparation in the act of surviving, you thrive.
Watching out for what is most important for the coming Winter, Winters.
To have the enemy know you are perfect.
They’ll literally only be able to tell, because they can feel it.
I’m gonna be doing that in my spare bedroom and then I’ll probably just get some stuff from my friends house to put on my bed so I’ll probably have some stuff for you guys when you come home from school tomorrow night or something like that and I’ll probably just take it out of your bedroom so you don’t have any of those things in there
OP said they spent the last month researching how companies make award-winning game with lasting populations and comparing them to farshark. they think fatshark acts too concerned about their image, because Games Worshop just sees it as a quick IP lisance cashgrab and tencent just sees it as investing off the 40k property. They applauded the game for the visuals, art design, and enemy AI.
they end it with some stuff about how a good company survives by knowing when bad times will come and not showing weakness, then there’s an unrelated video they like.
Haven’t had to work those brain muscles in a while…
I get what you’re saying (mostly), but you need to add context before you start throwing out what would otherwise be random statements with no real connective tissue either.
“I compared Fatshark’s Darktide to other games that were able to win GoTY, and here’s what they did.”
That title alone would have helped you immeasurably so that at least people can connect your one off statements, and apply them in their mind to an actual point.
Pointing out negative spaces by the lack of actions Fatshark did is also generally not enough for people to get your drift, and you have to state things a lot more explicitly (as a whole really) rather than just implicitly.
Try to think from someone else’s PoV when reading your own writing. Not easy by any means, but even the attempt helps.
This thread came up on my Google news feed. What is going on…
OP, please work on your English communication skills. If you’re trying to offer constructive criticism to Fatshark, good on you.
I hope they continue working on Darktide, but I do have faith in them because they’ve really done right by Vermintide 2. Except no barfight anymore.
