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Weird west video game
Weird west video game




For our next game, we’re probably going to involve the community at a very early stage.” It's also helping people in the making of the game, which gives you access to a huge diversity of opinions.

weird west video game

“We've never looked into things like early access because we thought it was just a way for developers to pre-sell their game and start funding it with the money that they make,” he tells me. In fact, he admits that he had certain prejudices about Early Access, and that looking back Weird West could have benefited from going down that route. With Arkane being Bethesda-owned since 2009, and ‘indie’ publishing looking far different back then to what it is today, Colantonio’s hadn’t worked independently in a weird new gaming world where concepts like ‘Early Access’ and ‘Game Pass’ are the norm. And yet Weird West’s journey has still been a learning experience for him. In close collaboration with the community, WolfEye have not only fixed the game, but meaningfully evolved it, adding new systems and mechanics, as well as dozens of little touches that really put the ‘immersive’ into the ‘sim.’Ĭolantonio is an industry veteran, having made his first game with Arkane Studios, Arx Fatalis, back in 2002.

weird west video game

But Weird West has come a long way in a short space of time. Bugs and other assorted quirkiness meant that the game’s early review scores - while still firmly in the ‘good’ bracket - reflected a game that some felt could’ve used a bit more time in the oven. It wasn’t an entirely smooth launch for Weird West seven months ago. The latter really shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering that Dishonored co-creator (and Arkane Studios co-founder) Raph Colantonio made Weird West with his new indie outfit WolfEye Studios. Weird West is, as you might imagine, a weird game - a uniquely systems-reliant isometric immersive sim that evokes the original Fallout games if their combat was real-time, as well the excellent Dishonored.






Weird west video game