Chapter 856: Ideas for the next game
Compared with Yang Chen's belief that "Spider-Man" will not affect "Justice Police", Grayson in UEgame felt a dilemma when he looked at the popularity of the explosion of "Spider-Man" on the Internet, and panicked in his heart.
It's not that he doesn't understand that "Spider-Man" and their new work, although they are games of the same genre, do not have much direct competition, because they are not of the same magnitude, and may even drive the popularity of the game with the theme of superheroes.
But the key is that the popularity of "Spider-Man" is too high, and this is not just a simple game, but a series of games, which is what Grayson panics the most.
But the day the game was launched, Grayson's heart that had been hanging was finally put down.
Because the sales of "Justice Police" and follow-up evaluations have come out.
The sales are a little better than expected, and the game reviews are not bad, but there are not too many praises for the story, which is also expected by Grayson.
After all, most superhero-themed games are difficult to break through in the plot, and they are basically portrayed according to their own molds.
Or, like "Iron Man", create a superhero with personality and show his personal charm in front of players; Or, like Spider-Man, put the story of superhero growth in front of the player.
But no matter what, the whole mode is still the same mode, where the superhero encounters difficulties, slowly cheers up, defeats the enemy, and saves the world.
is like Joel in "The Last of Us" who doesn't care about the world for Ellie, or like Alex in "The Original Form", this kind of anti-hero character and plot can bring players a stronger shock.
But in the same way, neither Joel nor Alex can be counted as superheroes, they can only be heroes of some people.
Two words: Comfortable!
Looking at the sales and the good news reported by the major media, as well as the sales that have just been counted within the company, as well as some feedback from players.
Grayson suddenly had a feeling of raising his eyebrows.
said that their UEgame all relied on Nebula Games to raise a hand, they knew that they hugged their thighs, and even the news of the new work was released, and many people were not optimistic about this game that did not cooperate with Nebula Games.
But what about now?
And they will prove that they can do it!
Even though the sales of this game are not very high, there is nothing wrong with this fact that it is definitely a money-making game.
"It's just a pity that the sales on the first day were a lot worse than "Super Heroes"." Looking at the phone in his hand, Grayson had some regret on his face.
According to his original plan and idea, if their new UEgame game is a big success and surpasses Epex's "Super Hero", then he will be able to go to Ethan again to have a good exchange of feelings.
You can't know about this kind of happy thing by yourself, right?
Gotta share!
It's a pity that the preconditions for this sharing have not been completed, and their new work is still a lot worse than "Super Heroes" in terms of sales.
However, Grayson also knows that this is not a problem with the quality of the game itself, but that there is not only one Apex game standing behind the game "Super Heroes", including the three major NetDragons who also endorsed this game at that time.
The intensity of publicity is much higher, coupled with various channels, and even the first-day sales of Nebula Games' "The Last of Us" at that time were not comparable to the first-day sales of "Super Heroes", until the publicity of the second day itself and the follow-up influence of word-of-mouth from all parties, this reached the highest position.
After a brief moment of excitement, Grayson leaned back in his chair and quickly thought of something else.
That's the relationship between Nebula Games and Apex Games.
Previously, Grayson didn't have much to worry about their relationship with Nebula Games.
But now it's completely different.
First of all, Nebula Games developed "Civilization", with the foundry of Apex's X Society, and then the sequel game of "Super Heroes 2" no longer has the meaning of fighting with Nebula Games, and even the time point of launch has been announced in advance, and the most critical point is that after the success of "Civilization", Apex Games sold X Society to Nebula Games as if it had reciprocated.
Even though there's no official content, it feels a bit ambiguous.
And that's not the most critical point, the most critical point is that the relationship between Nebula Games and their UEgame seems to have undergone some subtle changes.
For example, why was "Spider-Man" also released at this time, and why did this game not set up a separate project to go through their channels, but was released as DLC?
Is this a shift in Nebula's gaming attitude?
Inside the UEgame office, Grayson couldn't sit still, stood up and paced back and forth in front of the window, pondering.
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Yang Chen didn't know at all that because of the launch of "Spider-Man", Grayson became suspicious, in Yang Chen's opinion, this was not at all, at most it was just a coincidence.
In fact, if UEgame had greeted Nebula Games in advance, even Yang Chen wouldn't mind advancing or postponing the launch of "Spider-Man".
This is not a thing at all for Nebula Games, and Yang Chen has no other ideas for UEgame.
Yang Chen's attitude towards this part has never changed, and he is still mainly focused on his own game content.
This has never changed.
As for Apex's fight with UEgame, it actually doesn't have much to do with Nebula Games.
And for the current Nebula Games, its own technology and its talents are already at the top level in the world.
In the office, Yang Chen looked at the VR development prototype, listened to the explanations of Grayson and the relevant technical staff of the optimization team next to him, and nodded gently.
"How hard it is to reach an open world like GTA and Red Dead Redemption?" Yang Chen asked.
Brandon nodded: "A box-court game like Spider-Man is perfectly fine, but if it's a large-scale open-world game like GTA and Red Dead Redemption, it has to be divided." ”
The open world of the huge map needs to read data, which is called game loading, and data loading is required for different scene transitions.
The line *** is not difficult to deal with, for example, The Last of Us puts this part into the cutscene, which can completely create a silky smooth gameplay experience.
But for open-world games, it's not impossible to do this, but the optimization aspect is a big problem, and players will definitely want to die of reading before each game.
Including the so-called open-world games on the current VR platform, the new UEgame and the previous Apex's "Super Hero", all have flaws in this regard.
That's the data reading of the scene transition.
Listening to Brandon's words, Yang Chen nodded slightly, it's not that their skills can't meet this requirement.
It's that the mainstream VR equipment of players can't meet the current needs, but this is also normal.
After all, the high-end configuration is always only a small part, and the most cost-effective dessert configuration is the most mainstream.
After a short conversation, Yang Chen returned to the office, leaning on the sofa chair and squinting his eyes.
The next game, Yang Chen, is still preparing a dual-platform version.
Although the main source of sales of games is still the PC platform, VR is definitely one of the mainstream platforms in the future.
According to third-party statistics, it's no secret that there are also sales of VR games within Nebula Games.