What developers you currently trust?

[bjork]

Maybe I've just been around too long, but I take every project with the same level of "I hope this is good" but with zero expectations that it will be, regardless of developer. Even with friends I know in game dev, unless they're doing an indie project they're in full control of, they're gonna be at the mercy of a project lead or a focus test or something that can skew it into something I might not enjoy so much. So I just take things as they come, and I either like them or I don't. A company exists to make more money, not to make the exact thing I personally want.

But I also don't have any sense of developer loyalty, like I don't expect every [developer] title to be good, or maybe it's well made and just something I don't care for. There's also the aspect of people shuffling around or aging out/retiring/dying, and in those cases the studio isn't the same anyway, even if some folks stay on for 30+ years or whatever. So sure, I could usually see anything Sega in the arcade and know I'd think it was enjoyable, but I can't say the same about Sega in general since... whenever that wave of Genesis games came in like Chakan and Greendog. I'll still say "I like Sega" but I'm nowhere near as rabid about it as some. Everything is best in moderation, after all.

 

[ThatOneLum]

Maybe I've just been around too long, but I take every project with the same level of "I hope this is good" but with zero expectations that it will be, regardless of developer. Even with friends I know in game dev, unless they're doing an indie project they're in full control of, they're gonna be at the mercy of a project lead or a focus test or something that can skew it into something I might not enjoy so much. So I just take things as they come, and I either like them or I don't. A company exists to make more money, not to make the exact thing I personally want.

But I also don't have any sense of developer loyalty, like I don't expect every [developer] title to be good, or maybe it's well made and just something I don't care for. There's also the aspect of people shuffling around or aging out/retiring/dying, and in those cases the studio isn't the same anyway, even if some folks stay on for 30+ years or whatever. So sure, I could usually see anything Sega in the arcade and know I'd think it was enjoyable, but I can't say the same about Sega in general since... whenever that wave of Genesis games came in like Chakan and Greendog. I'll still say "I like Sega" but I'm nowhere near as rabid about it as some. Everything is best in moderation, after all.

I understand this sentiment tbh. I used to be a huuuuge fan of Naughty Dog in the PS1/2 era, and thought they'd never produce a game I didn't enjoy.

In the end, it was weirdly Uncharted 2/3 that made me realize they were heading in a direction that I didn't find all that enjoyable anymore. These days, when I say I 'trust' a developer, it's mostly because I believe they'll currently be making games that I'll at least have a decent change of enjoying.

The second I start to question that, they'll end up as another ND: relegated to developers that I 'used' to think only made games I liked.

 

[Ikagura]

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Sorry but after what they've done with Ys X by reselling the same game again and how they're clearly milking the Trails franchise I'm less fan of them.

Unless they go back to rails and make a good remake for Ys V and a faster Ys XI I wouldn't give them too much credits.

I haven't played Hades II nor Pyre yet but when I see an isometric 3D indie game by Supergiant games I know I can expect a quality product

 

[ThatOneLum]

Sorry but after what they've done with Ys X by reselling the same game again and how they're clearly milking the Trails franchise I'm less fan of them.

Unless they go back to rails and make a good remake for Ys V and a faster Ys XI I wouldn't give them too much credits.

I haven't played Hades II nor Pyre yet but when I see an isometric 3D indie game by Supergiant games I know I can expect a quality product
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I was a big fan of Hades 1 and Bastion (especially that OST) but I really need to sit down and dedicate some time to playing more of their games considering how much I loved the ones I did play. Didn't they also do some weird game about basketball?

 

[Ikagura]

I was a big fan of Hades 1 and Bastion (especially that OST) but I really need to sit down and dedicate some time to playing more of their games considering how much I loved the ones I did play.

Personally I'm more fan of Bastion than Transistor but I really loved the aesthetic and OST.

Hades I'll do it someday but since it's a Roguelite I'm less fan sadly.

Apparently Hades II isn't as good as the first but I need to check more videos.

Didn't they also do some weird game about basketball?

Pyre? I haven't tried it yet.

 

[Kovlak]

It depends on how much integrity do you have. Food tastes, clothes, cars or even electronics can "never change" if you keep your integrity 100% untouched, regardless of what happens in the world.

Everything changes. Nothing remains untouched by the passage of time. Even if imperceptibly.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

Tbh , no one .
Have some game-series that is good and thats it .

I have my personal favourite game directors and developers like John Romero , Cliffy B. and Tomunobu Itagaki( sadly past away last year ) but even those legendary developers lately doesnt deliver what once they brought back then .

 

[SherionVane]

 

[nobitakun]

Everything changes. Nothing remains untouched by the passage of time. Even if imperceptibly.

Yeah, like Confucious said, the only thing that remains is the change. But this suggest a different approach, not the personal one. Within your personal space, you have control to some extent, so it is up to you to keep everything you can control under the veil of the pleasure to defy the change :)

 

[Kovlak]

Yeah, like Confucious said, the only thing that remains is the change. But this suggest a different approach, not the personal one. Within your personal space, you have control to some extent, so it is up to you to keep everything you can control under the veil of the pleasure to defy the change :)

I'm more of the Taoist persuasion:

"The Master sees things as they are,
without trying to control them.
She lets them go their own way,
and resides at the center of the circle."

 

[blahbleh]

I still trust nintendo

 

[KenaiPhoenix]

All the big ones certainly don't seem very trustworthy. The small ones seem pretty alright though, until they get swallowed up and deleted by the big ones...

Well thats my issue, mostly all of them has been eating up for whatever reason (mainly money), so now very few are kind of trustworthy...

And the ones that are born from "old devs at [insert old trustworthy company]" usually get everything wrong or for some reason just do the exact mistakes as the big ones, for example the guys that made Highguard or Storm Gate

 

[Ikagura]