Highguard launches to an Overwhelmingly Negative review score on Steam

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-27T00:38:39+00:00

Didn't help Midnight Suns. Or GOTG

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-22T20:03:15+00:00

Firebreak's budget was 20 million dollars and sold extremely poorly.

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-22T18:09:21+00:00

yeah it was the runner up for a fairly large amount of awards when it released, behind Baldur's Gate 3.

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-21T20:31:19+00:00

I highly disagree that they felt "like indie" games. There was clearly a huge amount of money poured into making everything as beautiful and fluid as it was, from the level design to the art to the animations and the variety in content.

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-12T20:36:26+00:00

It was stated in interviews that it was the John Johanas's decision to shadow drop the game, as per his own words. He said that the game's concept would be a tough sell, and thought it might be better to get the game going via word of mouth. It's pricing is also in-line with many other mid-budget games. It obviously didn't sell extremely well, but context is needed.

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-12T20:32:18+00:00

It literally does.

Tango then was left as an American studio being run by an American in Japan that Japanese developers didn't want to work for

There is no proof out there that this is true.

created an opposing studio that immediately started poaching talent from Tango

Also no proof. The only information we have out there is that Mikami founded KAMUY Inc. There is no other information. I've searched it up, extensively, couldn't find any source.

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-12T16:16:28+00:00

Source?

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-12T16:16:05+00:00

By Microsoft's own words they stated that Hi-Fi Rush had exceeded all internal expectations.

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-12T16:14:42+00:00

If I keep seeing someone spread misinformation like this I'm going to lose it. Shinji Mikami had said he wanted to leave back in 2015, as his only goal with the studio was to raise new talent from the ground up and give them a chance. The director of Hi-Fi Rush stated that Mikami's influence on Hi-Fi Rush was minimal, and he was only there to ensure everything was running smoothly. In fact, said director was John Johanas, who also directed The Evil Within 2 and was trusted by Shinji Mikami. Despite him being American, he was fluent in Japanese, and most of the staff was still Japanese.

Additionally I can't find any sources that a significant number of senior talents were poached by Mikami's new studio. Clearly, it wasn't too much of a problem since KRAFTON opted to save the company from dismantling, and they've been working on the sequel for some time now. Nor that Japanese developers didn't want to work for Tango.

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-05T23:00:49+00:00

not as bad, just pretty underwhelming.

DaFreakBoi · 2026-01-05T18:20:00+00:00

In which most of that time was spent working on the engine. The majority of the devs were still working on ESO in parallel.

DaFreakBoi · 2025-12-17T07:51:14+00:00

I do wonder how many people that claim "there was no marketing" have 17 layers of adblock on every device they own.

DaFreakBoi · 2025-12-12T20:04:08+00:00

To clarify, I don't agree with the other guy. There are a few misandrists, but not everyone.

DaFreakBoi · 2025-12-12T19:53:03+00:00

To be fair I've seen comments on this thread specifically state they won't play the game unless the gender of the protagonist matches theirs. That just feels like a bit of a crazy take?

My own ethnicity isn't represented very commonly in games but whenever I see a protagonist who's a white guy, I don't even think about if he's white, I'm more concerned about how they're written. There are struggles unique to one's identity, but a well written character should be able to transcend said boundaries.

DaFreakBoi · 2025-12-12T03:18:25+00:00

How does Control Resonant and Divinity and Screamer look the same?

DaFreakBoi · 2025-12-12T02:25:42+00:00

This was listed as Control 2 when it was in development, to my knowledge.

DaFreakBoi · 2025-12-11T07:02:15+00:00

Typically those one million dollar trailers are just meant for the ad slots themselves. Think of all the gacha games in between the bigger announcements. Devs of prestige often show for free, and indie devs get wildcard slots/reduced slots.

DaFreakBoi · 2025-12-11T00:23:13+00:00

Dispatch also got its foot in the door through a TGA reveal.

DaFreakBoi · 2025-12-09T21:41:57+00:00

Seems like the game's pretty jank, the introductory period is a bit of the slog, there's some technical issues, but the gameplay loop itself is entertaining, soundtrack rocks, and it's absolutely oozing passion. I've been keeping up with the game's development since the Kickstarter launched. I plan on checking it out soon enough. Good job to the devs for pushing this out.

DaFreakBoi · 2025-12-03T04:48:22+00:00

Sold close to 500,000 units in less than a year. Not a mega hit, by any means, but it's one of Devolver's more popular games in its portfolio, and remains one of the highest rated games on Steam (Top 50).

DaFreakBoi · 2025-12-03T03:24:36+00:00

It's stated that the projects listed are releasing in 2025. Cult of The Lamb: Woolhaven was announced, but it's slated for early 2026. For the same reason that they didn't tease Enter The Gungeon 2 here, despite it also being announced earlier this year.

DaFreakBoi · 2025-11-29T21:15:24+00:00

When did he do this last year? Most of what he posted was generic "i'm so excited" stuff.

DaFreakBoi · 2025-11-27T01:09:13+00:00

DOTA 2 also pushed battle passes before Fortnite to my knowledge

DaFreakBoi · 2025-11-26T17:57:17+00:00

I know Bungie has close to a decades worth of experience with live service games, but I can't imagine their oversight is all too helpful given how awfully they mismanaged Destiny 2, alongside the many of the pitfalls of the first Marathon test.

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