Looks fantastic :( Weta, and Del Toro were involved, and it costed over a million dollars to make.
I thought Death Stranding was a success?
Yeah, but PT though...
Consider the amount of games that follow the Tolkien school of fantasy.
Did we ever get sales number for that? And he's just a NPC there.
Consider the amount of games that follow the Tolkien school of fantasy.
Any developer with a budget could've done this if they thought a LotR game was viable at the time as the ideas in this are the definition of standard game design at the time.
Considering we never got his Hobbit or At the Mountains of Madness films, I think he's just plain cursed.
An Oscar does so much when alot of your favorite projects fall through.
I mean it definitely faded as a reaction to just how many games defaulted to that school of fantasy.I felt like the boom was in the GC/PS2/XBOX/gba era, then kinda faded.
This looks super impressive for being made as a demo / on a small budget / for the year it was made in.
Game development is ez!!
A one million dollar pitch damn. This makes me wonder how much some companies spent on just pitching/brainstorming ideas.
It really isn't, I'm not talking about the demo itself, but the ideas in it not being unique to make a publisher go with that instead of doing their own thing that would end up pretty similar to that or anything else that was in the market at the time.
One and done lol