Look, he’s not really wrong per se. The internet does run disproportionately on outrage, and plenty of people judge shit that they’ve got no right to be judging because they don’t actually spend time thinking about what makes good art. And not listening to people who’re determined to hate you is always healthy.
But another open-world multiplayer survival game? Really? At some point, this becomes like complaining you’ve got a coyote problem after you left a bunch of roadkill out in your yard. You can’t just make yet another entry into an incredibly overdone genre (seemingly without a USP, no less!) and not expect people to get tired of it.
Were it that Kaplan’s comments had not happened, this is likely exactly what I would have done. Not really a concept deserving of a lot of attention, if you ask me.
I wouldn’t know. But I know there’s already a lot of open world multiplayer survival games competing for this space, and so it being in a different setting isn’t going to do it a lot of good. For that matter, neither will it being pretty, since that describes loads of games these days, and gameplay is almost always more important.
But personally, I only care about this sort of thing when it starts getting treated as the metaphorical golden goose egg, which this isn’t. It’s fine. I’m not so concerned with the game so much as the disconnected appearance of someone being surprised at lukewarm reactions to oversaturated concepts.
Oh Lord, no.
Look, he’s not really wrong per se. The internet does run disproportionately on outrage, and plenty of people judge shit that they’ve got no right to be judging because they don’t actually spend time thinking about what makes good art. And not listening to people who’re determined to hate you is always healthy.
But another open-world multiplayer survival game? Really? At some point, this becomes like complaining you’ve got a coyote problem after you left a bunch of roadkill out in your yard. You can’t just make yet another entry into an incredibly overdone genre (seemingly without a USP, no less!) and not expect people to get tired of it.
If Red Dead Redemption is anything to go by, there’s a sizeable and very dedicated audience for immersive multiplayer western games.
Some subset of people will be into this game. The rest of us can just ignore it. No skin off our backs.
Were it that Kaplan’s comments had not happened, this is likely exactly what I would have done. Not really a concept deserving of a lot of attention, if you ask me.
Looks very pretty though. And is there currently a Western open world survival game?
Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2.
I wouldn’t know. But I know there’s already a lot of open world multiplayer survival games competing for this space, and so it being in a different setting isn’t going to do it a lot of good. For that matter, neither will it being pretty, since that describes loads of games these days, and gameplay is almost always more important.
But personally, I only care about this sort of thing when it starts getting treated as the metaphorical golden goose egg, which this isn’t. It’s fine. I’m not so concerned with the game so much as the disconnected appearance of someone being surprised at lukewarm reactions to oversaturated concepts.