Is This Why Supermassive Never Made Another Until Dawn?
Update: Writer/director Will Byles denies The Quarry & Until Dawn connection
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The Quarry started out as an Until Dawn sequel
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Apparently the studio Ballistic Moon that is working on the Until Dawn remake, as well as another game, is full of former Supermassive developers. My guess is that if those projects end up doing well, Sony may buy them if anyone thinks they need a studio dedicated to making interactive movie type games.
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Well if this is true then I guess I owe Sony maybe a measily apology for never trying to get a sequel. But also how can Sony be mad at Supermassive for going multiplatform? Seems like a very petty way to approach a partnership.
But Supermassive has always been kinda a mess as it took them years to get Until Dawn going to the point Sony had to send in Guerrilla Games to help retool the entire game
Either way The Quarry is a good game, so Shame about that partnership breakdown.
But Supermassive has always been kinda a mess as it took them years to get Until Dawn going to the point Sony had to send in Guerrilla Games to help retool the entire game
Either way The Quarry is a good game, so Shame about that partnership breakdown.
Sounds realistic. Since Ballistic Moon has former Until Dawn and Supermassive devs plus very capable devs from other studios, I assume that they made the remaster/remake to get uset to Until Dawn again and to have something fresh for the movie, and after it they'll make Until Dawn 2.Is This Why Supermassive Never Made Another Until Dawn?
Update: Writer/director Will Byles denies The Quarry & Until Dawn connection
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I'd bet it wasn't only because of that. Until Dawn was originally a PS Move game for PS3, but it had many changes they took forever to release it. Sony had a lot of patience with them, and also funding not only this game but many previous ones they did that weren't that popular or successful. Sony was patient and kept funding their failures.
Then, when the studio gets the first success, it makes sense that Sony would want to continue with them following that route. But Supermassive instead decided to go with someone else, maybe because they had some asshole taking decisions there and wanted more money that the one Sony was offering him. That, or maybe the Until Dawn 2 prototype sucked and they again were having issues.
Something happened there. In any case, now they're making a remaster/remake with a team who has ex-Supermassive devs and I assume after that will make a sequel after warming up the new team with the remaster/remake.
I played it with pretty low expectations and was very surprised. If you like slasher horror movies (you know, horny young people make a trip to a cabin in the woods and...) this is your game. Basically the game is the Quantic Dream gaming version of these movies (it's an adventure, not an action game like Resident Evil), with visuals that back then were stunning.
It was very fun and here the decisions really have consequences: as I remember you can complete the game with everybody dead, with everybody alive or somewhere in the middle.
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The only thing I know about horror games is don't, have sex with a hot chick and don't have a shower or a swim in a lake.
Anybody know if Ballistic Moon poached Supermassive people before or after The Quarry launched? Because The Quarry is really fucking good, so one of these teams got the good people and one might be hindered going forward. I know that's an oversimplification and maybe wrong, but I would keep an eye on it.
Never went sour with supermassive studios sony part ways with quantic dream not supermassive
Until Dawn is better.
I thought the cast in The Quarry was very stupid and act nonsense. I didn't care if any of them died. I played it on PS+ Extra it might still be there.
It's excellent. The characters are up there with the most realistic faces I've seen in a game, and they're all actual actors. The story isn't super original, but it is told very well. It's a great game to play with friends who don't typically game, passing the controller around. Takes about 10 hours to complete.
You have to be pretty dense to not see how it is identical to Until Dawn. Dumb people, country folk swerve and monster reveal are the exact same. BUT much better endings.
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They parted ways cause it went sour.
Pretty obvious from the opening post.
Same with Quantic Dream.
The fuck else can it be? The Anthology games were trash and Sony owns Until Dawn. Make a cheap copy of their best game.
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Yes it went sour because Supermassive went behind Sony's back with their prototype for the sequel.
Sony took their IP and left. Now it's Ballistic Moon handling it.
One employee, for instance, told us, "The Quarry team was originally Until Dawn 2 working with Sony. And Sony basically paid for them to be making this for them as a prototype. Then once the prototype was done, Supermassive turned around and said, ‘We’re going to shop this around and see if anyone else wants it”, which was kind of the final nail in the coffin of any relationship with Sony. They ended up getting picked up by Google who funded it for years."