A couple of days ago, we informed you about EIDOS Montreal focusing on online gaming experiences. However, this does not mean that the team responsible for the latest Deus Ex and Tomb Raider games, will not develop any other single-player titles. As EIDOS Montreal’s head of studio, David Anfossi, unveiled, the team will keep creating such games.
https://twitter.com/DavidAnfossi/status/941811905382973441
In order to explain why EIDOS Montreal will now emphasize on online experiences, David Anfossi claimed that the team has to try new things to stimulate it.
https://twitter.com/DavidAnfossi/status/941813476401430528
David Anfossi concluded that he will have more news soon for those seeking action adventure games.
https://twitter.com/DavidAnfossi/status/941813954233360384
It will be interesting to see whether EIDOS Montreal’s Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy games will embrace the studio’s new online direction. Moreover, it will be interesting to see what will happen with the new Tomb Raider game (that will be revealed next year), whether it will have a multiplayer mode and whether it will be plagued by microtransactions.
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Well I dont think anyone cares if you give up on single player games, even if they do people will move on indie story driven games or other developers
Did you read the article? Can you see the tweet? Quite clearly people DO care. There are more replies to him saying exactly that. We want story driven games. Games have become interactive movies now, they draw you in far better than any film can, it’s what sets them apart from other media. If they take that away, they’re nothing more than mobile phone time-sinks.
to bad piracy and microtransaction took over
Piracy has not been a problem in years.
It’s really never been a problem, in fact I’ve purchased most of the games I’ve pirated at some point or another once Demo’s stopped being released.
Piracy has been going on for as long as I can remember. Even back in the 80’s people were downloading cracked games from BBS’s.
It’s not stopped Publishers/Developers from making games available on PC because they make a lot of money from PC gamers.
Piracy is just not the big deal that you make it out to be.
No thanks to the indie story driven games I do not want to play walking simulators.
I’m currently playing through The Evil Within 2 and it’s a masterpiece of story telling and gameplay.
Thinking that all “indie story driven games” are walking simulators is stupid.
Most of the ones that I have seen have been. If you know of any that aren’t please let me know.
SOMA, Hyper Light Drifter, Transistor, Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice are the first ones that come to mind.
Soma is another walking sim if were honest. HLD not my kind of thing at all, Transistor like Bastion is an action rpg. Senua’s sacrifice is probably the only one on that list I would agree with you on.
SOMA is not a walking sim -.-
Torchlight 1 and 2, Grim Dawn, Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2 are all indies that look and feel AAA, without the BS.
All of those are also isometric. A lot of people that typically play AAA only aren’t into that. I personally loved Divinity: Original Sin 1 & 2, but I cant stand Torchlioght or Grim Dawn. Not sure why..
I’ll agree that Divinity has a good story but the others are just action games.
Well I did say or other developers 😀
People do care. That is why Bethesda is catering toward singleplayer games. CD Project Red too.
I want to believe him, but at the end of the day he is just a mouth piece for Squeenix.
Except that’s not Eidos Montreal, it’s Crystal Dynamics.
Are those your shoes in the lower left corner? 😛
Make your damn minds up.
I want to believe him and I will even wait and see, but Square makes the decisions, not him. I will only buy full singleplayer games (co-op like Borderlands is okay as long as it can be played solo too).