| Conina said: Theoretically yes. But without Epic, maybe there wouldn't be any Alan Wake 2 to sell. Remedy didn't have enough money to finance the development costs themselves. So they needed a publisher for it and obviously the best offer was from Epic. Could have gone worse, f.e. Sony as publisher. Timed exclusive the first years on PS5 and after that a gimped PC version without path tracing. Or Ubisoft as publisher demanding more open world and collectibles in the game. |
I'm not really of the belief that it's impossible something wouldn't get made in this day and age, especially after having looked back on general world history of innovations and seeing similar people coming up with same conclusions or idea, even in cases where people cling to an idea for something and have it realised at a later date. Gaming I see as no exception.
Remedy since I can remember has been living exclusivity cheque to cheque, whilst others have had a few and managed to strive out on their own, but Remedy is still doing it, and settling for even less than their peers, which is why I find their business model illogical.
Ubisoft as they currently stand aren't worth anything. Their games are rehashes of their same old IP's, they constantly gimp them, so I don't really see them as any sort of sound player in the market to even make an indie deal with. Sony managed quite well with Helldivers 2 so far. Their PC ports are half n' half atm, especially with some of their first party titles, but they are slowly getting there (they even have some menu options and ways of going about changing settings that I wish MS would emulate, but alas, MS does not seem as interested at the moment, so we'll have to make do with Gears 5 as a shining last example).
I'm also not overly fond of RT in general, mostly because I'm seeing far too many examples where it is still not being executed from an artists perspective. I have talked to some art friends and they too find the lighting in some games to being a bit off (especially some taking issue with frame gen, and I agree, fake framing isn't how you should go about it long-term).
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