Also cutting developers my ass, more like nobody wants to work in this cuck's cuck stories
Rip ND, keep losing developers when all you needed to do was fire this disgusting piece of shit, but of course he has his MUH GORRILLIONS shield
Dead company. Naughty Dog was once considered the peak of gaming development. Now it's just a woke shit show and worse than any other company I have ever seen.
It's insane how Naughty Dog games went from deep and artistic creativity to just boring soulless slop that feel like tech demos, because the writing makes no sense and feels like some woke phrases are put together randomly.
The moment I saw how the most loved character in tlou was just killed with a baseball bat in a situation he would have never been into in the first place, just showed that the writing is just shit. I wouldn't be surprised if the incompetent person in charge didn't even know the character and just wanted him dead.
But now we have Baldur's Gate 3 raping the AAA industry and I just love how Naughty Dog now looks like an incompetent small indi studio and Larian like a AAA ultra famous publisher, while in reality those roles are actually the exact opposite.
Shut the frick up moron, Naughty Dog was always shit and is the perfect example of AAA gaming - 3rd person walking game with QTEs and press X to do something cool.
have a nice day and go back to r-eddit btw.
This, Naughty Dog started turning to shit after Jak 2 or 3. People and game journalists only liked them due to muh cinematic experience. Overrated to hell.
This. It is absurd to declare that a company's products are a resounding success while that same organization lays off workers and has a project frozen.
>be israelite >fire everybody who's competent because they disagree with you >push disgusting israeli shit everywhere >be so disgusting that even your own employees hate you and leak you game >game fails >get promoted anyway to vice
israeli moment.
I don’t understand why sony fans and normies like uncharted and tlou so much. Uncharted 1 is legitimately a bad game, bad combat, platforming is non existent, the game magnetically sticks you to the platform you’re jumping to, the worst melee combat ever conceived, no exaggeration on that, the worst final boss fight ever, basic puzzling and very cornily written. The series has very linear climbing sections, artificial gameplay, treasure collectibles that scatter throughout the game for no rhyme or reason and even that, they don’t offer anything much, there’s no additional gameplay element to finding collectibles, each game has no good boss fight, each game has bad final boss fights, which is different from just boss fights, filler gameplay sections, just all in all, they’re just overrated, all of them. But they act like the series is the pinnacle of gaming. The villains are also very one note, nothing special about them. And I’m not being a hater, this objective truth.
Wait, this can't be coincidence right?
Studios that produce pozzed games firing staffs off and even cancelling projects as soon as the black rock funding dried up.
Jim Ryan was a fricking idiot. No, having your entire game portfolio for the next few years be live service (a genre that has an abysmal success rate) is not a good idea. No, having your studios who have been making single player games for over a decade suddenly make multiplayer service games is not a good idea. No, buying Bungie and then stretching them thin to change the diapers of the studios making the live service games is not a good idea. No, focusing on "blockbuster" games instead of making smaller budget and lower scope games is not a good idea. How was every idea this guy had so shit?
What's insane is that him being asked to step down probably isn't even primarily motivated by the horrible decisions made within Playstation under his watch, but just for the external Microsoft-ABK merger that he would've never had realistic way of throwing any wrenches into. granted, he seemed to only make it worse with his laughable arrogant counteroffer to Microsoft and letting Sony put forth juvenile arguments in court that bit them in the ass, but there was no way he was ever going to turn or even delay the tide.
>and Nintendo took in all the smaller devs.
And they will take more thanks to the new tax invoice law so every small dev in Japan will be fricked unless they can compete with better wages
He doesn't take over until April 1st, dumbass. Ryan is being kept on until the end of the fiscal year, presumably just as a means to make the accounting surrounding his departure simple.
One thing I learned working with contractors that they like to leech and never finish work and extend it as much as they can so they can keep getting paid wew.
>TLOU multiplayer game, while not completely canceled
Hahahahahaha what kind of cope is this? That shit is never happening. If its not "mature" enough, its not happening
>What the frick is this game's problem? Did everyone just bounce after TLOU2 went gold?
The game was worked on for 5+ years and it had 100s of underpaid contractors. No way are they gonna work on a game like this ever again.
just a reminder sony has 10 GaaS in development and they will all flop besides bungies marathon
>sony has 10 GaaS in development
They actually have TWELVE GaaS in development, which is fricking insane
Don't forget they also want "bigger games!!" when modern video games, post generation 6 video game consoles, have been dwindling in content, replayability, and quality in exchange for asinine cinematic graphics. On top of them also turning them into GaaS, youre right on the money. They are absolutely fricking insane. The absurdity is reaching peak levels.
Their games have became little more than a vanity project for Sony and Neil Druckmann to be handed 6-7 awards from a single show, while the games Naughty Dog "beats" for GOTY (GTA5, Animal Crossing) see longer popularity and don't need to be bundled to sell.
I miss when Naughty Dog was legitimately competing to make the best game. Not just paying until people say that they are.
ND firing a ton of people and telling them not to talk about it is going to be swept under the rug because they're ultimately a first party media darling for some reason, all the shithead journos taking them to task now will be the first to praise their next mediocre covershooter with more cutscenes than gameplay, just like they did when TLOU2's development became abusive to the people working on it that aren't Neil.
Remember how dev crunch was the hot button vidya outrage topic in 2020, until it came out that Naughty Dog was doing it too for TLOU2 and then the issue almost entirely disappeared from gaming journalism overnight?
Another thing that media really didn’t talk about is about when they stole concept art from assassin’s creed black flag for uncharted 4 and everyone just moved on… fishy
>bungies marathon
Why wouldn’t that flop as well? I doubt destinycucks would switch to that as they don’t need another job game. And casuals will just keep playing fifa/fortnite/CoD.
it has a gazillion views on youtube and people are extremely thirsty for an AAA extraction shooter (tarkov completely collapsed under bad design snd cheaters)
imagine a wide open map, you load into a soawn point, map is filled with lootabables, AI enemies and player enemies
on death you drop everything you had on you, also the gear you entered with.
Goal is getting as much loot as possible and then extract out of the map.
You sell the loot for better gear and repeat
You get some shit from a warzone and then...you go to the extraction point and hold your ground until some airborne asset pick you up.
sounds like fricking shit, how do people like this trash?
8 months ago
Anonymous
because its a massive dopamine hit when you find the equivelent of treasure and have to shoot your way out of a warzone to extract with it
8 months ago
Anonymous
The same way people like roguelikes, though I'd argue extraction shooters are better optimized for skill as opposed to RNG - usually, sometimes, that is.
extraction shooters are the exact opposite appeal of destiny and I doubt they are winning over many new fans with a reboot of a 30 year old ip that people only know about due to ecelebs
>it has a gazillion views on youtube
And as we all know, Sony's viewcounts have always been a reliable metric for sales figures. Christ, the idiots inflated it to have a higher viewcount than fricking Spider-Man 2.
it has a gazillion views on youtube of people laughing at it, not because they want to play a live services shooter in the now-thirty-year-dormant Marathon universe
People who were kids when Infinity came out are in their 40s now. They're not going to play a live services shooter for 8 hours a day.
I have a good feeling the new PlayStation Big Man will cut this down to a couple when they come in. Anyone with a fricking brain can see this is a sure fire way to just burn money.
>naughty dog is going to release 1 new game this gen (remakes don't count) >meanwhile insomniac is comfortably shipping three games maybe even four this gen
naughty dog really should get completely new management
Factions is just a bonus mode that was just a fun shooter using the gameplay mechanics TLOU had. The fact that they're struggling because Bungie pretty told them the game was fun but couldnt monetize well was pretty much a deathkneel to it.
Also cutting developers my ass, more like nobody wants to work in this cuck's cuck stories
Rip ND, keep losing developers when all you needed to do was fire this disgusting piece of shit, but of course he has his MUH GORRILLIONS shield
>25 contractors
Oh no
It's Druckver
Anyway
You only bring in contractors because you fricked up hard and your internal devs can’t finish the job.
t. Contractor
must suck for microsoft which is more contractors than actual employees
now your getting it, the only difference between microwiener and snoy is...actually I can't think of a difference
15 contractors isn't the majority of naughty dog
Dead company. Naughty Dog was once considered the peak of gaming development. Now it's just a woke shit show and worse than any other company I have ever seen.
It's insane how Naughty Dog games went from deep and artistic creativity to just boring soulless slop that feel like tech demos, because the writing makes no sense and feels like some woke phrases are put together randomly.
The moment I saw how the most loved character in tlou was just killed with a baseball bat in a situation he would have never been into in the first place, just showed that the writing is just shit. I wouldn't be surprised if the incompetent person in charge didn't even know the character and just wanted him dead.
But now we have Baldur's Gate 3 raping the AAA industry and I just love how Naughty Dog now looks like an incompetent small indi studio and Larian like a AAA ultra famous publisher, while in reality those roles are actually the exact opposite.
Shut the frick up moron, Naughty Dog was always shit and is the perfect example of AAA gaming - 3rd person walking game with QTEs and press X to do something cool.
have a nice day and go back to r-eddit btw.
This, Naughty Dog started turning to shit after Jak 2 or 3. People and game journalists only liked them due to muh cinematic experience. Overrated to hell.
Why would they treat such a massive success like this?
Naughty Dog and their release of The Last of Us basically destroyed this entire industry single handedly.
no thats the shitch and nintendo
>"B-BUT NINTENDO."
Take your fricking meds
>laying off workers
>huge success btw
This. It is absurd to declare that a company's products are a resounding success while that same organization lays off workers and has a project frozen.
EVERY gaming company is laying off workers right now, dumbass. Hell, this is one of the most minor cases of it from just this week alone.
didnt ask, dont care. last of us should have ended with 1, the sequel was a complete and total failure
@652917838
Obsessed.
post yfw
>be israelite
>fire everybody who's competent because they disagree with you
>push disgusting israeli shit everywhere
>be so disgusting that even your own employees hate you and leak you game
>game fails
>get promoted anyway to vice
israeli moment.
was the first titles success just based on many peoples subliminal pedophile tendencies?
Cool, frick gaas
I don’t understand why sony fans and normies like uncharted and tlou so much. Uncharted 1 is legitimately a bad game, bad combat, platforming is non existent, the game magnetically sticks you to the platform you’re jumping to, the worst melee combat ever conceived, no exaggeration on that, the worst final boss fight ever, basic puzzling and very cornily written. The series has very linear climbing sections, artificial gameplay, treasure collectibles that scatter throughout the game for no rhyme or reason and even that, they don’t offer anything much, there’s no additional gameplay element to finding collectibles, each game has no good boss fight, each game has bad final boss fights, which is different from just boss fights, filler gameplay sections, just all in all, they’re just overrated, all of them. But they act like the series is the pinnacle of gaming. The villains are also very one note, nothing special about them. And I’m not being a hater, this objective truth.
Good.
great news
Why is Cuckmann not on thin ice himself? No one likes him. He's a cuck who needs to frick off to Hollywood. Dude has no business making games.
All this money invested for nothing. No wonder Jim Ryan's head is rolling.
Not an americuck but, isn't it a tradition in there to lay off contractors, so they don't get benefits after a specific period or something?
>egs funds close down
>this keeps happening
I couldnt be more happy
Wait, this can't be coincidence right?
Studios that produce pozzed games firing staffs off and even cancelling projects as soon as the black rock funding dried up.
It's not. We should make a list, so far it's:
Team17
Creative Assembly (Sega)
Epic Games
Naughty Dog
>Epic Games
Is Epic Games even pozzed?
Jim Ryan was a fricking idiot. No, having your entire game portfolio for the next few years be live service (a genre that has an abysmal success rate) is not a good idea. No, having your studios who have been making single player games for over a decade suddenly make multiplayer service games is not a good idea. No, buying Bungie and then stretching them thin to change the diapers of the studios making the live service games is not a good idea. No, focusing on "blockbuster" games instead of making smaller budget and lower scope games is not a good idea. How was every idea this guy had so shit?
What's insane is that him being asked to step down probably isn't even primarily motivated by the horrible decisions made within Playstation under his watch, but just for the external Microsoft-ABK merger that he would've never had realistic way of throwing any wrenches into. granted, he seemed to only make it worse with his laughable arrogant counteroffer to Microsoft and letting Sony put forth juvenile arguments in court that bit them in the ass, but there was no way he was ever going to turn or even delay the tide.
His policies led to Microsoft's mergers.
Don't forget abandoining Japan, a market that MS was more than happy to move into, and Nintendo took in all the smaller devs.
>and Nintendo took in all the smaller devs.
And they will take more thanks to the new tax invoice law so every small dev in Japan will be fricked unless they can compete with better wages
neil sodomitemann
Is this the first move the new interim CEO make first day in his office? Based bugmen.
He doesn't take over until April 1st, dumbass. Ryan is being kept on until the end of the fiscal year, presumably just as a means to make the accounting surrounding his departure simple.
>laying off
>contractors
most life experienced journoid
One thing I learned working with contractors that they like to leech and never finish work and extend it as much as they can so they can keep getting paid wew.
yup, which is why you end up with shitshows like halo: infinite
what if the game was actually good but Bungie said "not gaas enough" and that ruined everything?
ND are filled with hacks and Bungie is filled with hacks, so the best case would have been a mediocre game compounded by more GaaS shit
>he REALLY thinks tlou2 factions is "being worked on"
>TLOU multiplayer game, while not completely canceled
Hahahahahaha what kind of cope is this? That shit is never happening. If its not "mature" enough, its not happening
But I thought the sony onion s*sters said sony was having the best year ever, what the h*ck?
>b-but they're contractors!
Not an excuse.
CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES
That's a shame, Last of Us multi was legitimately great
What the frick is going on at ND? I hated TLOU2 but you can't argue it wasn't a competently made game in the time they had to make it
What the frick is this game's problem? Did everyone just bounce after TLOU2 went gold?
>What the frick is this game's problem? Did everyone just bounce after TLOU2 went gold?
The game was worked on for 5+ years and it had 100s of underpaid contractors. No way are they gonna work on a game like this ever again.
>sony has 10 GaaS in development
They actually have TWELVE GaaS in development, which is fricking insane
nah its 10, one got cancelled and studio killed (deviation games) other one is gran turismo 7 which they count as GaaS
Don't forget they also want "bigger games!!" when modern video games, post generation 6 video game consoles, have been dwindling in content, replayability, and quality in exchange for asinine cinematic graphics. On top of them also turning them into GaaS, youre right on the money. They are absolutely fricking insane. The absurdity is reaching peak levels.
Their games have became little more than a vanity project for Sony and Neil Druckmann to be handed 6-7 awards from a single show, while the games Naughty Dog "beats" for GOTY (GTA5, Animal Crossing) see longer popularity and don't need to be bundled to sell.
I miss when Naughty Dog was legitimately competing to make the best game. Not just paying until people say that they are.
ND firing a ton of people and telling them not to talk about it is going to be swept under the rug because they're ultimately a first party media darling for some reason, all the shithead journos taking them to task now will be the first to praise their next mediocre covershooter with more cutscenes than gameplay, just like they did when TLOU2's development became abusive to the people working on it that aren't Neil.
Remember how dev crunch was the hot button vidya outrage topic in 2020, until it came out that Naughty Dog was doing it too for TLOU2 and then the issue almost entirely disappeared from gaming journalism overnight?
Another thing that media really didn’t talk about is about when they stole concept art from assassin’s creed black flag for uncharted 4 and everyone just moved on… fishy
just a reminder sony has 10 GaaS in development and they will all flop besides bungies marathon
good
>bungies marathon
Why wouldn’t that flop as well? I doubt destinycucks would switch to that as they don’t need another job game. And casuals will just keep playing fifa/fortnite/CoD.
it has a gazillion views on youtube and people are extremely thirsty for an AAA extraction shooter (tarkov completely collapsed under bad design snd cheaters)
what the frick is an extraction shooter
imagine a wide open map, you load into a soawn point, map is filled with lootabables, AI enemies and player enemies
on death you drop everything you had on you, also the gear you entered with.
Goal is getting as much loot as possible and then extract out of the map.
You sell the loot for better gear and repeat
sounds like fricking shit, how do people like this trash?
because its a massive dopamine hit when you find the equivelent of treasure and have to shoot your way out of a warzone to extract with it
The same way people like roguelikes, though I'd argue extraction shooters are better optimized for skill as opposed to RNG - usually, sometimes, that is.
You get some shit from a warzone and then...you go to the extraction point and hold your ground until some airborne asset pick you up.
extraction shooters are the exact opposite appeal of destiny and I doubt they are winning over many new fans with a reboot of a 30 year old ip that people only know about due to ecelebs
>it has a gazillion views on youtube
And as we all know, Sony's viewcounts have always been a reliable metric for sales figures. Christ, the idiots inflated it to have a higher viewcount than fricking Spider-Man 2.
it has a gazillion views on youtube of people laughing at it, not because they want to play a live services shooter in the now-thirty-year-dormant Marathon universe
People who were kids when Infinity came out are in their 40s now. They're not going to play a live services shooter for 8 hours a day.
I have a good feeling the new PlayStation Big Man will cut this down to a couple when they come in. Anyone with a fricking brain can see this is a sure fire way to just burn money.
They all thought they could get their own fortnite but even fortnite is starting to lose money.
>naughty dog is going to release 1 new game this gen (remakes don't count)
>meanwhile insomniac is comfortably shipping three games maybe even four this gen
naughty dog really should get completely new management
>contractors
So basically they are just firing the pajeets, Chinese and Korean outsourcers? How is this a bad thing?
For me it's Cajun Bobby.
because its obvious their mp game has been cancelled but they dont want to admit it
well they sure as hell aren't hiring americans to make modern vidya
I really hope Sony has realized they aren't the golden goose they used to be, and are giving their main attention to Insomniac like they deserve.
WHY WOULD ANYONE PLAY THIS
Why indeed Jim, why indeed
Factions is just a bonus mode that was just a fun shooter using the gameplay mechanics TLOU had. The fact that they're struggling because Bungie pretty told them the game was fun but couldnt monetize well was pretty much a deathkneel to it.