game development designer

Chapter 532 What's so fun?

I have to say that Tianhe Network's every move is enough to attract attention. The peak legend is the news release of APEX heroes. Although no related press conference was held, when the first announcement was released, it was immediately Known by all players and game media, and topped the hot topic.

Originally, Tianhe Network's game already had its own traffic, not to mention that the Respawn Entertainment studio that produced this game is still a very good existence in the word-of-mouth of players and media.

I have to say that Respawn Entertainment is a bit embarrassing. Generally, game manufacturers give high evaluation and praise in their game media, and after players give high evaluation and praise, the sales of the game will generally be very high.

But Respawn Entertainment is not like this, and has directly become a typical example of whether the game industry is applauded or not.

For Titanfall 2, the player's word of mouth and media ratings are very good, but the sales are not increasing.

Analyzing from an objective level, there may be certain factors that collided with masterpieces such as Call of Duty and Battlefield at the time.

But for Respawn Entertainment, this obviously cannot be used as an excuse for failure.

Especially the two founders, Zampes and West, who are also core members of Respawn Entertainment, most of them left the Activision Blizzard Modern Warfare project team.

They have put in enough effort and want to prove their strength to players and the industry. The success of Modern Warfare does not depend on the IP of Call of Duty.

Their own game production talents are also top-notch in the industry. Even without the Call of Duty IP, they can still achieve great success. This is a team full of ambitions.

However, although Respawn Entertainment itself is ambitious and full of confidence in APEX heroes, most people in the industry and players are not optimistic about this game.

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After seeing the game introduction of APEX Heroes, many people in the industry who followed Tianhe's network activities began to discuss in their own small circles.

"Respawn Entertainment heard that their new game is a battle royale type game?"

"This market should have been divided long ago. There are too many types of Call of Duty, Fortnite, and Judgment Earth. The realistic ones include PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, the casual and relaxing ones have Fortnite, and the exciting and fast-paced ones have Call of Duty. What else can Respawn Entertainment do?"

"But it's not necessarily true. After all, according to the news released by Tianhe Network, the operation method of this AEPX hero seems to be a free game, just like Fortnite."

"It should be because I want to compete with EPIC's Fortnite and V Agency's Counter-Strike, after all, their games are also free."

In the small group, everyone couldn't help talking about it.

The entire battle royale market gives people the feeling that it is divided into three parts of the world, although Respawn Entertainment is well-known, and it also has the background of Tianhe Network.

But it is too difficult to succeed. After all, he has to compete with three battle royale games at the same time. Although PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is also produced by Tianhe Network, it must be known that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is partly owned by EA.

And APEX heroes have nothing to do with EA.

In terms of market promotion, Ubisoft and EA have also invested in some resource channels because of the Tianhe Network, but compared with the previous mutual benefit cooperation between the two parties, it is completely different.

After all, how much meat APEX heroes have is completely eaten by Tianhe Network alone, and they can't even drink soup.

Most people in the game industry said they were not optimistic, at most it was because of Tianhe Network's production.

And this is the impression in the minds of most players.

Because there are so many games of this type!

Leaving aside Call of Duty, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and Fortnite, big and small manufacturers can see elements of battle royale in almost any FPS game you can find.

It is a bit too absolute to say that this type of game has been studied thoroughly, but the entire battle royale game market definitely has a very mature system.

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"Ah, it's so annoying, I was stolen to death by LYB again."

In a rental house in California, Tony, who had just returned home from get off work, looked at the death screen displayed on the game, and couldn't help but wailed.

Unlike his friends who like to play DOTA2 and League of Legends, Tony still prefers shooting games, among which PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is the game he plays the most.

But the difference from the beginning is that everyone can play, and the fun of picking up trash at the beginning is basically gone unless you play hacks with good friends.

Especially in the high score game, basically everyone is LYB. In the case of a solo queue, this is definitely not a shooting game, but a horror game.

It doesn't matter whether you are a third-level head or a third-level top, as long as your ass is stolen, unless the opponent is carbine, you will die instantly.

Tony thinks that his marksmanship is not bad, as long as he can give himself a second to breathe, not to mention turning around and killing the opponent, but if he wants to eat himself, he must at least lose a piece of meat.

But this is only a hypothesis.

"Forget it, let's play Fortnite." Tony sighed as he watched the death screen of the game.

Although Tony is also a member of the black EPIC on the Internet, all kinds of "spitting out Lanfang" and "smearing honey with a small mouth", but the reality is that if you want to play Fortnite, you still have to use EPIC.

Compared with the terrible experience of instant death after being attacked by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Fortnite can completely form a counterattack situation by relying on creating terrain and reacting faster unless you are killed in seconds at the head, or sprayed at close range. .

That's just to Tony's taste.

If there is anything I am not satisfied with, it is that Fortnite is on EPIC.

When he was about to enter Fortnite, win the first place once, and then go to sleep.

In the communication software in the lower right corner of the computer, a dialog box popped up, which was a message from my friend Leier.

"Tony, hurry up and download an APEX on the TEU platform, we are short of two here!" The other party said quickly.

"APEX? Is it that new battle royale game? Forget it, it has taken me a long time to adapt to Fortnite, and PUBG and Fortnite are also very fun, I don't want to spend more Time to get used to the new game." Tony declined.

Although this is a game produced by Tianhe Network, he thinks it is a battle royale game. What is the difference?
Isn't that how it's played?

Moreover, the ballistics of each game are different. He has been familiar with the ballistics of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite for a long time before he can play these two games well. He is too lazy to touch this new battle royale game. .

what can we play for fun?

(End of this chapter)