Another one bites the dust...

Oh yeah, source on sales numbers:
>http://steamspy.com/app/493200

This can feed a team of about 4-5 people.

Currently Tequilla Works has roughly 50 (!) employees.

Why does a game being praised as similar too or drawing inspiration from, an old classic game mean that somehow everyone who has ever considered themselves a fan of that old game must then go out and buy it?

How exactly does that make any sense?

It MIGHT make sense if the fans of Ico were the ones praising Rime as a spiritual successor or something, but that's not where the comparison came from. It was the reviewers.

>>379075754
Aside from the idiotic racism this is accurate.

Just because it flopped on PeeC doesn't mean it flopped. Consoles will save it as they do every game.

MC is a negro
I dont buy negro games

This is literally the first time I've ever heard of this game and I have nothing better to do with my life than video games so somebody shit the bed with marketing

>>379075859
Racism is never idiotic.

>>379075393
What nostalgia meme?
This game plays nothing like old games, its the opposite it fell for the immersive walking sim meme

>>379075849
>It MIGHT make sense if the fans of Ico were the ones praising Rime as a spiritual successor or something, but that's not where the comparison came from. It was the reviewers.

This is inaccurate.
You answered your own question though.

I want people without relevant higher education to leave this thread immediately.

>>379075393
It's not out in Europe yet. I'll buy it.

>>379075769
>steam
PC gamers are a bunch of filthy pirates.

>pcfucks don't buy games
HOLD THE FUCKING PRESSES
even less now because its denuvo got cracked.

Just let them rot with no games, so they can finally slide into obscurity and die

>>379075393
People stopped caring when this stopped being a Ps4 exclusive.

>>379076324
bingo

>>379076221
>>379076119
we just don't want to play shitty walking sim
go back to your last guardian, faggots

Haven't heard about, maybe if it was backed by ubisoft and its advertising power it could have done better I think

>walking simulator
>nigger character
>5hour long
>denuvo


Oh jeez I wonder why it failed, how out of touch are these stupid devs

>>379076402
But you love Minecraft...

>>379075393
>hype hype hype
What! No? Yeah it was feature pn a lot of lists to look out for but it wasn't individually hyped.

It's not a very good game and didn't have much marketing or fanfare

Also this looks like a copycat of abzu I got in the humblebundle, dont need a second boring walkfest in my life

>>379076467
Minecraft literally lets you build an ingame emulator to play console games on. So there's that.

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>>379075393
Never heard of this trash why should I care? Also what the fuck is Ico supposed to be?

>>379076586
As a project or curiosity, no one is really using minecraft emulators.

>>379076324
>>379076387
Yuropeon Sonyslaves aren't welcome here.

Man I love when people start threads pretending to ask a legitimate question but then procede to shitpost.

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>>379075932
it is when you hate your own race

>>379076586
That's only if you're extremely autistic and invest hundreds of hours into it, though.

>>379075859
What was racist about his statement?

>hype hype hype
What? No one heard of it until another DENUVO BTFO threads

>$30 for 6 hours of boring gameplay
no thanks, I'll stick with anything else, especially when it's coming out during a year that's been great for games.

>>379075393
i only play games with straight white males as the playable character

>>379075393
No one actually likes shit like this except for videogame "critics".
Why the fuck would I play this when I could play an FPS or RPG?

>>379075393
Shadow of the Colossus and Ico were never mainstream system sellers.

They have a cult following, most normies are still unaware of them. I haven't played Rime yet but I plan to, it looks cool.

>>379075393
>the Ico/SotC crowd
They dont exist any more. They slowly died off during the Last Guardian hiatus, and the actuall release of the game killed off the straglers.
Thats probably why the game failed, they targets an audience that used to be huge, but had died down in the past couple of years.

>>379076927
To play something different for a change.

>>379076768
kek

>>379076402
>we
Fucking nerd. Also if it wasn't for Steam PC gaming would have died due to piracy. By the early-mid 2000s PC games were barely sold in stores. Consoles were gonna kill PC gaming if it wasn't for Steam giving publishers confidence back.

Wasn't the game cracked right away?

I would normally disagree that piracy actually hurts sales, but in the case of PC gaming, piracy is definitely a rampant practice. Ironically though, I do think it's DRM and copy-protection that keep people from buying games. These protection schemes involve so much bullshit like expiring keys, backend clients or always-online validation that no one wants to bother. I mean, you're practically just renting the game even though you purchased a physical copy.

>>379075393
cheap knockoff of an already shit game

>>379076750
Yeah, but nobody uses LEGO for serious RC cars either, yet you can build one and have great fun during and after the build regardless.

Zero advertising. I played this at PAX and enjoyed it, and I didn't even realize it was out till I saw this.

Also according to steam reviews it's a shit port

>>379076985
Only people playing vidya as their job could consider walking simulators an actual alternative to an action or roleplaying game.

>>379076989

And situations like this once show once more that the PC market is not viable.

>>379076768
did this really happen

>>379076989
>>379077147
The two most retarded posts on /v/

>>379077135
I found some walking sims better than the garbage you retards recommend sometimes. Dear Esther was sure more interesting than that bland shit called Serious Sam.

>>379075393
it'll sell more once you guys get done beta testing it and it comes to the switch

Thanks for all your hard work! Squash those bugs good for us! :^)

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>>379076927
>Why the fuck would I play this when I could play an FPS or RPG?

They have removed Denuvo on the PC version.

Literally have never heard of this game before. Could it be people simply didn't know?
You gotta shill hard if you want to make it.

>>379077098
The last PC game I bought was Civ VI last year. Even though I bought it physical I had to install that Steam bullshit and now the game is locked into my account forever, so fuck PC gaming. No, seriously.

ico was a boring piece of shit, why would I want to play a watered down indie version of it?

>>379076768
Skelebros saved yet another man from getting cucked even further. Is there no end to the charity we get from the undead? Is there any reason to not be a Necromancer?

>>379076929
>Shadow of the Colossus and Ico were never mainstream system sellers.

Shadow of the Colossus was. It was even re-released under the Greatest Hits line.

>>379077206
Yeah how surprising that companies were abandoning a piracy ridden shithole like the PC market until Valve saved it. Its crazy that this companies don't wanna give away their product for free, how weird.

>>379076402
Gone Home was fucking popularised on PCs ya dummy
I wish "you" pc-only guys would play less shitty walking sims

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>>379075393
Wait I thought this was gonna be like Zelda

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The game isn't a walking sim, but I did find it pretty boring. Puzzles weren't consistently clever, and overall I can tell why Sony dropped this as an exclusive; way too similar to what Team Ico and thatgamecompany have made. I think the only significant difference is that this story is a lot less ambiguous (it's specifically about loss).

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>>379077392
Nice try sandro

>>379077498
>Gone Home was fucking popularised on PCs ya dummy
it was popularised by retarded journalism

>>379077435
Or because there was now a singular place to get PC games from the comfort of your overstressed "gaming" chair

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>>379075754
I think this is characteristic for mediterranean people. But MC should be a little bit wither like this.

>>379077401
Ehhh I guess, but I'd still call it an obscure game to the general public.

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>>379075393
>/v/ now trashing ICO while praising whatever crappy generic fps that gets shitted out on PC

Fuck this board.

>>379077435
>Valve saved it.
And then it proceeded to fuck it all over again by turning its platform into Shovelware and Early Access Scams Central.

>>379075393
It has a shit artstyle

>>379076802
It was a racists analysis. The race had nothing to do with the game not doing well. Its was all marketing, its release was barely announced, it just kind of dropped into the market.

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>>379075393
Is there a pleb board than this one?
Can you imagine if /tv/ got angry about every independent movie hoping it would fail while rushing to see every shitty blockbuster because that's exactly what this board does.

>>379076929
More like I've never heard of Rime or if its a project that pushed a system to its fullest.

Case in point, Ico was a PS1 game that was so ambitious they just put it to PS2. Sounds familiar? Last Guardian went through the same thing on PS3 and move to PS4.
Only the PS2 was the oddball in that it had enough juice to have SotC work without a generation leap.

>>379077498
I got that game for free and I still felt ripped off when I played it. I just don't get popular games these days.

>>379075393
I didn't even realize Injustice 2 or Tekken 7 were out already, what makes you think I've heard about, or give a shit, about an indie.

>>379077286
>Dear Esther was sure more interesting than that bland shit called Serious Sam.

Sure you can argue that while Dear Esther is a long pretentious hallway of boring monologue, Serious Sam is a long bloody hallway of same-ish combat.

You still might have a brain damage for giving DE any kind of credit though.

>>379077286
You don't like videogames then. These no gameplay titles are interactive movies. Even as an atmospherefag it's rare to have a convincing ambiance from these.
Pathologic is up to now the only walking sim I enjoyed.

>>379077538
Oh fuck off. You were jerking off while that guys girlfriend was getting railed by some asshole, probably a Stronghold cuck. Skeletons will never let you down.

>>379075393
Ico sold like shit too, so it is indeed Ico for PC

>>379076768
I dont know if this is real or not but it really fucking hurt

Why are women so evil?

There's probably a good reason why this game came and went, it took forever to even come out.

>>379077767
But /v/ wants to see shitty blockbusters fail

>>379077773
SOTC barely worked on the PS2 and had a truckload of content cut

>>379077508
>loss
The comic?

>>379077892
I likely know more about about videogames than you. You are just retarded and can't enjoy things that dont appeal to your stupidity.

I was hoping that it would be a fun little action adventure game but it turns out its just a walking simulator

>>379075393
>>a regular programmer costs 30k a year
Really? 3 years of programming education gives you like 50k here in Norway, and that's with a historically weak Krone.

>>379077745
>The race had nothing to do with the game not doing well.
The Harvard IAT would like a word with you.

I bet if you showed /v/ screenshots of black/white characters and words like "fun", "good", "shit", "pandering", "kino", and "casual" it would consistently associate the black characters with casual pandering shit and the white characters with good fun kino.

>>379077745
Its proven games that star black characters sell less.

>>379075926
It was announced at gamescom anon 3 fucking years ago because sony is desperate to show ANYTHING but it DID get announced.

>>379077632
It's popular in 4chan to be double irony, which is the normal ironic of being a slave to corporate douchery like Todd and Horizon as long as it isn't popular for the hardcore demographic /v/ deprises.

When's the last time we've even played a niche indie game that wasn't destined to be popular to start with like Noitu Love 2 or Demonophobia?

>>379077767
/v/ is not the place to go talk about vidya anymore. Its full of contrarian ignorant idiots who because they played Quake or CS 1.6 back in the day, think they anything about videogame's medium as a whole.

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>>379077909
>playing Stronghold OR necropolis
>not maining dungeon or fortress

Everybody falling under the first category please leave.

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>>379075393
Reminder there is nothing wrong with story driven games or playing games for the story.

>HURR WHY NOT WATCH A MOVIE THEN!

Because dear anon the interactive element enhances the experience in a way conventional film cannot.

>>379075881
>I don't play negro games
>plays anime pedo bullcrap instead

>>379078443
no

>>379078443
Not video game, fuck off.

>>379078496
>wahhhhh fuck off
Cry more bitch

>>379078137
they are spanish developers
i'm too lazy to lookup average programmer salaries there though

>>379078613
you have mental problems

>>379078604
Still not a video game, fuck off.

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>>379078613
Yes

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Anyone calling Rime an Ico game is an idiot, it's a meh game with a very predictable story.
It's also extremely short.
>>379078613
Do you dumb niggers think a dev called Tequila Works is fucking black?
For fuck's sake, half the credits are in Spanish.

>>379078485
>>379078496
Story driven games are better.

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>>379075393
This guy isn't black he's clearly some sort of brown Spanish type like Casca

>>379078613
That's like asking, do American kids want to play as a Polish mutant? The answer is always yes.

>>379078098
>well I'm simply a little bit more intelligent than you anon... heh.. nice try kid

Sure anon.
Go and enjoy your "games".

>>379078908
Its a little thing called being ignorant anon.

>>379078443
There isnt, loads of games back then also had enjoyable stories without sacrificing gameplay either. But in some cases nowadays where the gameplay feels very minimal, you better make a good as shit story.

Can't say I'm too surprised. 30 bucks for a short ass walking sim? No thanks

>>379075393

I didn't even know it was out

>>379079327
i only vaguely knew about it from people talking about denuvo, which i don't care about, so i never looked into what it was

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>>379078443
Yeah but the thing is, these fucking games are never really interactive.

You know what's interactive?

Fucking Thief is.
Ultima Underworld is interactive.
Deus Ex is interactive.
Determining the ending of Silent Hill 2 is interactive
Those games are fucking interactive anon!

Walking sims aren't even adventure games on rails.
They just show you one thing after the other, giving you maybe a tiny item combination at one point and some pretentious or badly written story to wash it down.

They give you the possibility to walk through an environment and look at garbage models and call it a day.

Sorry "dear" anon but that shit just doesn't cut it,

That shit isn't interactive.
It's cutting costs on production. Nothing else.

These devs are fucking creatively bankrupt hacks that couldn't even come up (let alone program) an interactive system if their live depended on it.

So give me a fucking break anon.

>>379075393
>>hype hype hype
but that's a lie.

>>379079226
It's 20$ on ebay unless you're a PC cuck

>>379078578
nice citation, can't dispute it now

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>>379078987
>Spanish
He's Mediterranean. How is the toga not a dead giveaway?

>>379079657
I assume you're talking about ICO here. I own and have played through ICO, though my PS2 hasn't been hooked up to a TV for a while now.

>>379078443
Id rather play a VN.

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>>379075393
it runs so fucking badly i'm surprised it was made with UE and not Unity

>>379075393
>Ico for PC

Nobody wants a shallow copy.

test

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>>379079841
>mfw fps drops on a fucking 1070.

>>379079841
haven't look into the game enough but the post processing you need to do nonphotorealistic stuff in ue4 is kind of janky

>>379075393
>What went wrong?
$39.99

>>379078987
>Spaniard

Spaniards are celtic descended and white as fuck. Motherfuckers like Antonio Banderas are a rarity.

This is a little black kid from Africa on an adventure.

>>379079657
It's also shit, so...

>>379075393
I've not even heard about this or it being out.

>>379080305
>t. swarthy true & honest basque

>>379079775
The devs are Spanish, his dad is clearly some kind of Hispanic, chances are he's some kind of Hispanic.
>>379080305
see
>>379078908

>>379075393
Sony should've just released Persona5 on PC if they wanted to make mad dosh.

Fucking idiots.

>>379079807
I talking about Rime you fucking idiot, why would I randomly start talking about ICO?

>>379079057
he's objectively right though
I can tell you're an exclusive Pc gamer from miles away
How? by your shit taste of course
although yoo can also be a biased sony pony with normalfag tier taste wich would be worse

and before you call me a consolecuck nintentoddler, i will add that i'm an idort

>>379080620

No one cares about your weebshit. Go shill in another thread.

>>379080848
this isn't blogger

>$30 for an indie puzzle game/walking sim/ICO clone

>>379077632
Even the remastered version plays like shit. It's clunky as fuck, the camera is awful, and just overall isn't fun. It's boring and tedious. Yeah, it's good as an "art game" but that's pretty much it. I really wanted to like it, but it's just not a good game.

and you wonder why sotc2 was never made, walking simulators dont sell

still don't understand how firewatch sold, that shit is worse than this

>>379075393
>What went wrong?

It turns out that people don't want to play artsy fartsy, glorified walking simulators.

But how is the game?

>>379075393
>shitty game with shitty graphics
>game uses another game to sell itself
>indie developers which use hype to sell a game
It doesn't deserve even 12k

TWO
MILLION
CALLS

>>379081018
firewatch was made by people with friends
it also has very direct storytelling and is driven by pathos, which appeals to stupid people

>>379080848
>i will have you know I am very sophisticated, unlike you swine
>look at this objective scientific evidence that i didn't provide

weren't you going to play some of those intelligent games for intelligent gamers such as yourself?

>>379078578
but now I must know why they have a skelleton in the video

>>379081018
>and you wonder why sotc2 was never made, walking simulators dont sell

No it's because Fumito Ueda is an artist, not a businessman. Thats like saying "WOW WHERE'S TITANIC 2 YOU HACKS?".

>>379076927
I like it you tremendous turd gobbling mongoloid.

>>379076768
Thanks mr cucktal

>>379080884
>No one cares
I bet you hear this often.

>>379081018
>and you wonder why sotc2 was never made, walking simulators dont sell

Shadow of the Colossus isn't a walking simulator, it's an action-adventure game. You actually have weapons, and you have to go around stabbing things to win. You also have to hunt fruits and lizard tails to boost your health and stamina so the colossi don't make quick work of you.

>thinking team ICO games are comparable to shitty indie walking simulators

Team ICO games are first and foremost games unlike your average 1-2 hour interactive "art" bullshit you get today. The two shouldn't even be close to each other.

>>379081358
>james cameron works on three avatar sequels simultaneously
>not a hack
titanic 2 real soon now

WE

>>379075393
I pirated it, I hope its decent

>>379081018
>and you wonder why sotc2 was never made, walking simulators dont sell
shadow of the colossus is not a walking simulator.

>>379081018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMie9YGKjM
>"walking simulator"

>Mediocre gameplay
>Very surface-level mechanics
>On-the-nose symbolism
>Relatively uninspired level design
>Horrible optimization
>Short as hell (<5 hours)
>Simple puzzles and design
It's a 5/10, I'm not surprised it's not popular because it's not all that good.
Though I'm sure there are some spics that'll hype it up since the devs are from Spain.
That said, I was surprised, Deadlight was great, so seeing how mediocre this game was was somewhat disappointing.

>>379079182
Exactly.

When your game is threadbare in some (or all ways), what IS there needs to be executed very well and polished to a mirror sheen.

>>379075393
I guess sony made the right call to drop thier ass years back. If only they did the same with no man's sky.

>>379075393
I saw the developer compare the work to art and that made me vomit internally. So, I ignored the game.

>>379075393
You can't just copy an old idea for an artistic game, it's known as an advancement in the medium when it does something new well, therefore, copying old games won't work out as well

>>379079657
then its free

>>379076446
my sides

>>379081326
there's no relation between intelegence and being able to apreciate the finer things in life, also i wasn't aiming to argue over what constitutes good taste, i was pointing out the obvious which another anon also did before me

books and movies don't cut it for me anymore, i need a superior audio/visual interactive experience to actually have a good time, wich for the moment is video games which i love so much that i've dedicated the last 25 years to expand my tastes and view of this ever so special medium, if other people disqualify a game even before they have played it, because it doesn't cater to their limited taste, then so be it, i won't discuss anything vidya related with that person, but i will point out their flaws in their view.

/endblog

Ico is not a walking simulator. You explore in and around a castle with the ultimate goal of escorting the castle's princess safely away from shadow beasts that come out of the walls if you take too long to advance from one room to the next. Each room has some kind of puzzle obstructing your path, and you occasionally have to instruct the princess to assist you with overcoming these obstacles. So it's more along the lines of an adventure / puzzle game.

Shadow of the Colossus is also not a walking simulator. You're dropped in a massive and open region with the task of hunting down and destroying 16 colossi. And yes, you actually have to fight them with weapons this time, not merely solve puzzles. The puzzle elements lie in figuring out how to reach a particular colossus, how to ascend it, and what the only vulnerable part of the colossus' body is. From there, you have to use a bit of strategy to keep yourself on the colossus without draining your stamina and getting tossed off. The colossi can also directly attack you.

I have no idea what the deal is with RiME since I've never played it. It may very well be a "walking simulator," but let's get our facts straight here: Ico and SotC are not walking simulators in the least. If RiME is a walking simulator, that would certainly be unprecedented if you're considering it to be some kind of spiritual successor to Ico and SotC.

>>379083882
nigga you think im gonna read that pretentious shit.
lol get fugged.

>>379083882
This must be one of the gayest posts on /v/ right now.

>>379083882
lol
>>/vr/
is over that way
you have to make of buzzwords and meme arrows over here to fit in

>>379084294
Rime is just incredibly slow paced, and you do spend a lot of time doing nothing but walking, because you're on a relatively large island and the puzzles are spaced out

I never actually played Ico, but if you have to walk from one side of the castle to another side just to access another puzzle, then they're the same

Maybe its just not as good as Ico

Honestly I had interest in it but forgot about it and didn't even know it released. I'll buy it but only on sale.

I'm saving my money for the Valkyrie Drive and Ultra Despair Girls PC releases. Don't have cash to spare for something like this.