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Spend 1000s of hours and 100,000s of dollars developing a game engine for a start up company with little money and little staff... ooooor use the unreal engine 5 which is free up to a point and is all there ready to go... hmm

@@Chackravartin and will most likely still be better than what you managed to create if by a miracle you finish it

It's a very smooth brain take. Guy doesn't know how hard engine development is. Let alone to develop a game itself.

probably the same type of people who thinks "graphics gets finished first" lol

@@Beatofblues I couldn't find the video, but someone was discussing a director that wouldn't review anything unless it was almost fully through the VFX department. He'd just complain about textures and lighting before he'd actually look at the content of a quick render made to try and ask/show something.

+respect

BROOO that honestly makes me appreciate the game even more lmao

Not a game the engine behind the game

That was an amazing revelation. I love those games.

Two minute papers fan?

I think he's too busy with real world stuff to waste his time here, why waste his talent?

@@Divintyrious well he did flop his latest game so maybe

@@alilweeb7684 "he did flop" is an over-exaggeration, I enjoyed Callisto but wouldn't praise it as a herald of a new coming age OR "he failed everything and I wasted my money on a let down". and you act like it was HIS fault and not the 200+ people that worked on it? think man.

We need a Tod Howard show

@@Divintyriousfor money?

unreal and unity physics engines are amazing man, if i want to make something bouncy i can do that, if i want to make something sticky i can do that, if i want to make something a semi solid i.e. water i can do that. all of those features in a menu

yes but the physic engines have logarithms that are obtained mathematically behind them. people just make the calculations one time and they can be used in the program.

cmon now m1v1 initial+ m2v2 initial= m1v1 final+ m2v2 final collisions are a piece of cake😆😆Just kidding I can’t imagine creating an engine that is able to do all this. These guys are freaking genius

that's why we have stuff like "the Wrath of Clang" in Space Engineers

Best move is to make the physics buggy but in a consistent and fun way that better than realistic you want real go outside I play certain games for the iconic jankyness

Yes glad us gamers aren't the only ones who hold value in the franchise still.

Konami already ruin PES & MGS, so I'm a bit sceptical if they release new SH

@@normansyawal2163 They actually announced a remake of SH2 & a brand new SH game like a month ago. With Konami's track record.. yeah.. a lot of people are skeptical but maybe they will redeem themselves like Capcom has been.

They should‘ve never remake SH2. It‘s perfect how it is.

@@scofield321 mmm not really

One of them *

SCOTT STERLING!!

@@sam08g16 Huh?

Oh crap. At the part where he mentioned his favorite scary game I immediately thought Dead Space. Had no idea that was his own game, and I can understand why he wouldn’t pick his own masterpiece.

I Freakin' Love Dead Space (and 2 - but 1 is better). Played on PC in the dark with headphones.. Dead Space and Dead Space 2 are the only games I immediately replayed after first run through. I know Dead Space inside out and it still freaks me out!!!

Love how my phone asks to translate your comment into English… and somehow it translates Elden Ring to Fire Call 😂

@@arnes.7945same here man

@@arnes.7945 It's not your phone. It's Google, who own RU-vid and have applied Google Translate to it. I got the same thing on PC

This is the best way to play DnD 5e and other role playing games

Yeah I really appreciated that he said that. That shows you that someone wants the best for the game, not the best for themselves.

Joe Cecot should take notes.

"my ideas are the best, everyone else is dogshit"

*cough cough* Niel Druckmann

Highly recommend watching his Ars Technica interview, as well. Glen puts on an absolute masterclass on game directing and leadership in the industry.

This dude could sell me a glass of ice while we're in the North Pole

No

@@channingtaintum free dah

@@channingtaintum That interview is also a gem, as well as the shorter video focusing on his art Glen is a legend and truly passionate about his craft. Can't wait for December 2nd!

The issue is now they are making games $70 but have even more microtransactions than before. Even at $60, plenty of games continuously break revenue records. Wanting to raise the price is just pure greed at this point. Notice how it's only the massive publishers asking for more money, instead of the smaller ones that actually need to make as much as possible.

All of these things are true, however the real issue with AAA games is they are being made by companies owned by shareholders. They are constantly in need of more and more money or else the system collapses.

how many people where buying games 10 years ago and how many more are buying today?

Not really. Unless it's a kojima game 70 percent of that is gameplay. For example forbidden West has a 40 hour campaign and like 67 minutes of cut scenes. Barely a TV episode

A 10 hour game will have about 30 minutes of cut scenes roughly

@@iangray1980 are you stupid? writing isnt only in cutscenes

@@cysht are you? My bad writing "maybe if i jump over there" for aloy 5000 times is the same as writing Lawrence of Arabia

The Callisto Protocol is 14 hours! Or more if you take your time with it like I will

Too bad Sledgehmmer hasn't made anything good

@@carcrashjayson XXXXXXXXXDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Totally agree!!!

He’s coming back to be better than dead space👀

@@mohammedhaque7508I dunno about better than dead space, but maybe on par with it in some aspects. Nobody knows until it’s released, like I said though, I highly doubt it’ll top dead space 1 and 2.

I feel like he totally missed the point that games in that genre are just hard by design.

@@Goldy01 i kinda agree though that games are getting harder on purpose. Considering elden rings success I wouldn’t be surprised if he was right and other games started amping up the difficulty to replicate elden ring’s success.

@@teethpastaa when demon souls and dark souls took off, there's already a new genre called 'souls genre' . idk if that's what it's called in EN media but that's how the CN calls it. Quite a few china studios developed very good quality souls genre, gotta say i've never played those, not sure how true to the genre they are but difficulty and design wise, they sure feel very Souls.

Honestly most people that find it hard are just failing at some basic fundamentals of learning or doing the same things, that arent working, over and over (Or being drawn to false conclusions just because they were "close" to beating a boss, especially when it isnt consistent).

Trial-and-error gameplay makes one feel you stumbled into the solution by complete chance, instead of making you feel you planned it out and thus earned it.

What was it wired to?

You aren't "in the biz" because you bought a console champ.

Only cringe little losers copy/paste ready-made phrases and say that

@@dan3458 true and you can't also call yourself a gamer when you own a console

I assume Striking Distance Studios reached out to wired to get publicity leading up to the game's launch.

😂😂😂

what u talking about this guy doesnt look dangerous to me. Theres actually something called looking masculine

​@@spartakush_6614 I don't think they said he wasn't masculine my guy.

@@floofiestmuffin6945I think he’s saying that the guy is mistaking being perceived as dangerous with masculinity. Not that the guy didn’t think that the dude is masculine

He just looks like a normal dude to me

Ars technia has a great video with him in their war stories series

Such an amazing game. Spent dozens of hours on it back in the day

That's how it's supposed to be....Good story, in a game based around stories, wins customers.

@@warcat2469 are you war cat general on steam? Asking because I was reading replies on here while waiting on dead space 1 to download and saw war cat general on steam and you on RU-vid.

@@CalebM-kv9pi Nope. I have a different username on Steam. Sorry.

@@warcat2469 no problem, crazy coincidence though.

To me it says that he sees a difference between those two things. He builds a structure and the writers make it beautiful.

He did an hour interview about Dead Space on the Ars Technica RU-vid channel. I’ve watched it twice. Highly recommend

I appreciate how someone can really sense how challenging video games are to make. Engineers and video game studio staff have pretty harrowing stories about needing to pull 14-hour days 6 days a week in order to finish a game on a tight deadline. I can totally see Glenn telling a team of people to shut the f****** and finish the f****** game.

Except for the cost part, yeah, he's down to earth.

@@DimitriMoreira I mean he's right on the cost part. Costs have barely increased over the last 2 decades even with massive inflation. They have to make a profit and $60 isn't very expensive for 15 to 100 hours of entertainment.

What's down to earth? I wanna be up to earth.

Nah, we need to make sure that the ideas are as diverse as the employees. We need the black idea, the Latinx idea, the trans idea etc.

i wonder who thought that putting death animation behind paywall was best ideas

@@chrisg0001 why u say latinx my ancestors wouldn’t be fond of that. I and all my family here in La and TJ don’t like to be called Laninx, I’m Latino

@@chrisg0001 what if most people who want to play these games aren't a diverse crowd? Black people and by extension others ain't playing horror games to this extent. As a Black man, the only survival horror I liked was Resident Evil as a series.

@@murk4552 To be fair, Resident Evil is the GOAT of survival horror lol

To be fair Activision had this type of passion before they became a god. Companies that aren’t there yet will always be humble and do exactly what the fans want. If they become massive companies, then who knows how they will act.

@@Tundra0128 Glen and his team were already royally screwed over by a big company (EA) hence why we’re getting something even better with this project. Their hands aren’t as tied back now, but I see what you’re saying. All in all it seems to be turning out to be a good game in a sea of “meh” releases as of late. I’m thankful for that because games are getting dull

god i need to consOOOM

The game he made for real was Dead Space, it came out in 2008.

Tons of game devs have this much passion for the art form….

Except for dead space 3

@@FragmentsOfWill 💀

@@FragmentsOfWill💀

hes not really a software wizard, he literally said himself he is an artist not a coder.

@@ch715dallat I promise you game artists use software

@@excessoats tell us you don’t understand the difference between using software and coding software without telling us you don’t know the difference between using software without coding software 🤡🤣🤡🤣

@@jman0870 My brother he said he is a software wizard, mfs said nothing about coding vs usage. I doubt Glen is a "wizard" in either anyway, because hes a game director and probably isnt there producing game assets. Anyway, my point is that, I assume, the original comment is referring to how good he would be as an artist using the software.

@@excessoats Im with you bro he seems like he enjoys making a game

This comment aged like milk and its only been 7 days lol

he made advanced warfare ☠️

@@ThiccNicc what happened?

@@fitmotheyap same here

@@fitmotheyap Apparently the game he is advertising here (The Callisto Protocol) had a terrible release :( Glitches, performance issues, etc

It looks very promising

@@andu1854 for real the engine looks batshit crazy

Weren't they using unreal for that?

@@aureayamat4103 yes they are

He's been working on games since 1991. Deadspace was a masterpiece..Personally I'd say that even if Callisto Protocol is his last game, he's had an impact on the gaming World.

he is nowhere near as pretentious as Kojima. Actually he is quite the opposite with his grounded and straight talking nature.

I’d more associate him as the john Carpenter of the gaming industry due to how much this man loves his body horror lol

@@titanjakob1056 carpenter is a godfather of horror and popcorn flicks. Glen has one famous game.

Dead On

@Blastard well he's about to have 2 with The Callisto Protocol. Also isn't Dead Space not only considered one of the best horror games of all time, but one of THE best games ever made as well.

Watch his war story video about the development of Dead Space. Super awesome

the true mark of someone with comprehensive knowledge in a particular subject. if you can explain something in as short & sweet a way as possible, then your body of knowledge on said subject is prolly very large

play this video on repeat you can listen to him for hours

Agreed

like peter molyneux or todd howard lmao

@@Shad0wmoses Todd Howard? No.

@@Shad0wmosesdefinitely not Todd haha

@@Shad0wmoses Molyneux oversells great games creating unrealistic expectations. Howard oversold an underdeveloped disaster in Fallout 76. Howard is worse for that I think.

@@glenrichardson8266 Todd made one misstep. Peter has made only missteps. There's a big difference.

He has that Cory Barlog or Hugo Martin vibe where he seems like just a normal guy who is a fan of video games and pop culture like us but just happened to catch a break and is able to create.

Dude's incredible at explaining concepts in plain relatable language, without overloading you with jargon

Depends on the art I suppose. There’s also some happy accidents, but then there still has to be a conscious decision it looks better than the “non accident.”

I see you've never played an Elder Scrolls game

Lemme tell you about a company called riot games

Not really if you’ve looked up the development of other titles especially older games.

🤣

Hand over the Callisto money pal

@@Sm0k3turt 😂😂😂

S tier comment 👌

he kinda looks like doom guy

Loved this game back in the day and was genuinely surprised!

As someone who puts story and character development at first and most of the things second as well, I can't say I'd put myself through super unpolished game or movie. And zero to none developer will waste a great story to a buggy gameplay (Uhm...CDPR)

And the art world. And the entertainment industry.

Are you in love

Woah keep your pants on bud

@@Sneakyboson speak for yourself👖😂

I didn't know grey t-shirts were "heavy metal"

@@bretthake7713 I believe they are actually a lightweight polyester patchwork of fibers sewn together.

That's very true I never thought about either point. The fact that $60 games have been $60 for damnear 2 decades and also the fact that the money the gaming industry is getting has ballooned. Also the accessibility of it. In a year, cod mobile made 1 billion. 250 million ppl downloaded it. The highest selling call of duty game, black ops, only sold 30 million copies. Some game like fornite are all microtransaction and they did the cartoon industry has been doing for years, make a toy. They are double dipping in the gaming revenue and toy revenue.

Another huge reason why companies have decided with the $60 price tag is affordability. In the last decades wages haven't improved as much. If you just went and increased the price tag , then less people would be able to buy said games. This issue involves the whole gaming industry and those connected to it. By keeping a low cost of buying new games would ensure more people are interested in playing games. This benefits industries that sell the hardware you would need to play said games or even industries (like merch) would benefit after someone played said game. A good example of a company not following that norm is Paradox Interactive. The Grand Strategy genre isn't as big as the FPS one. Considering that they can't make up their loses through quantity , they went with a different route. They will sell the base game for a small price but add expansions that could result in quadruple or more total price tag. You could still have more than ten hours of gameplay with the base game , so you aren't outright scammed but this is how they are trying to continue existing.

Tbh I think It's all hit or miss like tbh I would buy more games if they were not $60, I would also probably buy more micro transactions (like Booster packs for xp or in game currency) if the game wasn't $40 short of being $100

They don’t care about money, they care about growth, results and constantly surpassing expectations.

@@4m4n40 it seems like u have forgotten EA 💰😍

😂😂😂

Yes because the media persona people adopt is an actual representation of them as a person.

@@Hsaelt are you saying it can’t be? What a dumb comment🙂

@@MilkCurd yes because not taking everything at face value is very very dumb all smart people are believing everything they see 🤓

His game isn't good at all though.

@@Hsaelt but that’s not what I said tho. I said “are you saying it CAN’T be?” You’re telling me you somehow misread 6 words? “🤓” 🥱

The best scare in this game is it's performance

Loads of interesting survival horror games for the PS1 and 2. The consoles have hidden gems. If you know Japanese, you'll have even more options. There are indie games for PC that are worth it, too. I recommend the ones by Harvester Games (The Cat Lady is the most popular one, it's part of a "trilogy" that is loosely connected if I recall correctly). World of Horror has an interesting design that harks back to 80s point and click adventures, but I was trying to play it the other day and got confused. I'll have to look up some guides 😅 The art was inspired by the manga of Junji Ito. If you want more Asian style horror, maybe check out White Day: A Labyrinth Called School and Detention.

Hello Kojima

@@MKULTRASPECIMEN yooo wasap. seen the DS2 trailer yet?

@@MrSandManGiveMeADream Hello Kojima

@@MKULTRASPECIMEN yooo wasap. seen the DS2 trailer yet?

@@Gesuspiece A rocky launch does not equal bad game always. Look at CP 2077 now and tell me whether the launch really mattered?

@@TheResidentevilfan99 exactly and they're quickly fixing the issues with CP too.

@@TheResidentevilfan99 but cyberpunk is still bad though so bad example