That video is pretty terrible. This video is also beta gameplay and makes whatever that video was look like a different game haha
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Housemarque thinks Stormdivers won´t be a success
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That video is pretty terrible. This video is also beta gameplay and makes whatever that video was look like a different game haha
Oh just watched the clip. Looks like..... some F2P eurogank B budget piece of shit. Their initial trailer =/= nothing like this. lol.
Damn, now I wish someone would make Smash TV Battle Royale or similar
Nex Machina was self-published, there's a PC version and there's nothing stopping it coming to Switch
That still doesn't mean that there's no exclusivity contract in place. Cuphead was also self-published, but it only came to Switch because Microsoft allowed it. PC is different, Sony occasionally allows games to come to PC.
I'd love to see Nex Machina on Xbox, I miss Housemarque. I remember playing Super Stardust 96 for the first time, and my mind being blown by those insanely smooth tunnel sections. Or people jumping out of buildings and vehicles in The Reap, such an eye for detail.
Damn, now I wish someone would make Smash TV Battle Royale or similar
Here:
Oh, that's kind of what I meant. Like, I know that it could actually be done, but they've said already that it won't happen.
I think ppl on here give too much credit to this apex effect...
None of the other br games suffered alot after apex, and apex's momentum has died down considerably
And yet, those games did not sell well.
Stormdivers may be a misstep, yet they would have failed continuining on their old road.
Well, maybe not if they self published their future games and released them on all possible platforms, being stuck only with Sony for such a long time was not so good for them, it seems. They stopped doing games that were amazing on their own genre to make something that looks absolutely a generic carbon copy of BR games on the market. For me it seems impossible for them not to fail.
If the games have not sold well it means that the Sony exclusivity deal is what most probably kept them alive till now.
Yeah between the PSN hack apology getting them tons of exposure and Resogun as a free launch title for PS4, it does seem like they have been lucky enough to keep going on games that people just generally dont buy very often anymore. Their other titles haven't really stuck around as much, as great as they've been.
I wasn't sure what Stormdivers was and I went ahead and looked at the Steam store page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/883120/STORMDIVERS/
The summary on the side is this:
Really doesn't explain what the game is. Also the very first sentence of the entire page entry is extremely vague. I love Housemarque but why are you leading off this game with "the new uh, thing, from Housemarque!"
The first paragraph of the About section is this:
Which still doesn't really explain what the game is.
The second paragraph is this:
I guess this sorta explains what this is? It's a BR game where the map is also hostile? Also what in the name of hell is a "volatile explosion"? Like, is this an actual explosion mechanic that behaves erratically and can trigger other environmental hazards and stuff? Or is it just marketing goobledygook? I can't tell.
I'm sure there's more to it than that but not knowing much about the game and looking at the store page, it's a struggle to know what this game is beyond "another one of those Battle Royale games" and sprinkling in some PR terms here and there. There's so many "team-based multiplayer" games that saying that alone still isn't descriptive enough. I'm not even saying the game will be bad, but just on the store page alone it definitely looks like they're have a hell of time trying to market this at all. I'm sure the game itself is pretty good and the team is working really hard on it but I don't know the marketing is doing it any favors, and sadly the BR genre exploded way too fast.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/883120/STORMDIVERS/
The summary on the side is this:
Really doesn't explain what the game is. Also the very first sentence of the entire page entry is extremely vague. I love Housemarque but why are you leading off this game with "the new uh, thing, from Housemarque!"
The first paragraph of the About section is this:
Which still doesn't really explain what the game is.
The second paragraph is this:
I guess this sorta explains what this is? It's a BR game where the map is also hostile? Also what in the name of hell is a "volatile explosion"? Like, is this an actual explosion mechanic that behaves erratically and can trigger other environmental hazards and stuff? Or is it just marketing goobledygook? I can't tell.
I'm sure there's more to it than that but not knowing much about the game and looking at the store page, it's a struggle to know what this game is beyond "another one of those Battle Royale games" and sprinkling in some PR terms here and there. There's so many "team-based multiplayer" games that saying that alone still isn't descriptive enough. I'm not even saying the game will be bad, but just on the store page alone it definitely looks like they're have a hell of time trying to market this at all. I'm sure the game itself is pretty good and the team is working really hard on it but I don't know the marketing is doing it any favors, and sadly the BR genre exploded way too fast.