Bodhesatva said:
Heh. To be honest, I'm a bit skeptical. Coming from a Blizzard-fanboy perspective, it's amazing how many games have been produced "by a couple of guys who left Blizzard," and most of those have been... okay to pretty good games, with a few exceptions. Nothing exceptional. Or put more generally, I've noticed that games made by "a couple of guys who used to work for this company that made a great game once," often end producing average games. Not that this is necessarily the case here! Obviously, this is a small pattern observed only by me, and there certainly could be exceptions even if my observations are fair. I'm just saying... I'm witholding judgement for now. |
True. Look at Sakaguchi. He was a brilliant developer with Square, but now that he has left he has made Blue Dragon and ASH, both of which are decent but far below the standards set by current RPGs. A lot of great developers and development companies are co-depandant on each other.
The most interesting of these situations I think is turning out to be Clover (creators of awesome games like Okami and Viewtiful Joe) and Shinji Mikami (the genius behind the RE series and RE4) to form a new studio called PlatinumGames (formerly Seeds Inc.). This is such an amazing group of developers, and since it was an entire studio that formed this new one rather than just a few developers trying to make it on their own, they should be capable of the same great things they were when they were in Capcom. Anyway, they reportedly have 2 Wii projects in the works which I hope turn out to be great. One of those titles is being made together with Suda 51.
