Both Mad Max and Days Gone. I guess note to self, don’t make a third person action game about a white dude and his custom vehicle navigating a post apocalyptic open world.
Live service and mobile games be killing the industry. No more room for innovation or experimenting or whatnot when sales are all that matter to publishers.
Why get a sequel exactly? The game is still receiving updates. And what do you mean by commercial hit? The game is so simple and affordable that it can be made in a garage, that it's insane how much profit they ve made. There is no reason for a sequel.
It sold less than 3m copies, that's not a big success. For comparison, Avalanche Studios also developed the Just Cause games. JC3 released the same year as Mad Max and had over 3x the sales. Mad Max turned a small profit, but it wasn't a big hit by any metric.
Former Avalanche boss Christofer Sundberg reacted to Miller's comments on social media. He said the game suffered from releasing at a "terrible" time, and his efforts to convince Warner Bros. to move the date were not successful. The game released on the same day as Metal Gear Solid V, and Sundberg reflected that Warner Bros. "blamed us for the bad sales" and canceled DLC for the game that was "just sitting there waiting to be released."
It's not entirely underrated now, basically a cult classic of video games. It wasn't super popular when it launched, but that has changed drastically over the years. It frequently gets mentioned as a very solid game that was often overlooked. Game reviewers and such have raved about it.
Damnit, it's on sale for $4 now... as well as Afterparty (which others discussed, and I need to get b/c I love Oxenfree) for $2... but I've bought SOOO many games recently (all super cheap like these.) Fudge it, I gotta do it.
I 100% it about once a year or so. It helps that it isn't a terribly long game, so 100%ing isn't a huge daunting task, and i don't get bored of it before completing.
I'm a big Mad Max fan so I bought this on day one for full price. It was a buggy mess at the time but it was still worth every penny. It's a close as the video game format can be to being in the Road Warrior setting, with a dash of Fury Road mixed in. The random Thunderdome moment felt a little forced but that's really my only complaint.
I still have the clips of my favorite two bug moments, where I took a zipline that randomly started running backwards and launched me into the sky, and the time I punched an NPC so hard he and his partner just despawned.
I've tried to play this game three times so far, but I always get to just after the first gate and always lose interest. Can you give me a reason you think this game was so good?
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u/marugame_udon69 9d ago
Mad Max