Life Beyond Studio Darewise Entertainment Secures €3 Million In Seed Funding

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• XA20X Member UncommonPosts: 22

  July 2020 edited July 2020

  I'm not sure what these devs are trying to prove at this point. What do they think they are going to say for the survival genre that hasn't already been said and done.
  
  Does anyone honestly think this isn't gonna flop. We already know the fate of this game, we just watched it happen with Population Zero.
  
  Your efforts would be better spent coming up with something entirely new, moving away from the survival era. Be the first to do so, because let's be honest nobody working on this project can truly believe their going to be able to bring together a team capable of pumping out yet another survival game that can actually compete against industry giants like Bethesda- who are themselves struggling with their survival game still long after release. A game that even had the backing of a beloved IP behind it.
• olepi Member EpicPosts: 3,062

  July 2020

  Survival game is code for little or no content.

  

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• Wizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332

  July 2020

  "content"what exactly is the content you receive in a mmorpg?mindless dumb quests?Nobody even does those quests because they want to,they do them for the rewards.
  
  I also feel people way over exaggerate the punching of trees etc etc.First of all survival games TRY to create more immersion and realism than mmorpg's that are terrible at it or simply don't promote the idea you are actually a character in a living world.
  
  In Atlas for example,if you really want to whine about punching one tree maybe 5x,you can mod the game so you can just start the game with all 3 tools to harvest.You only need punch a tree 5x and that is all the punching you'll need to do ever.Rocks are on the ground and within 20-30 minutes you can craft your tools.
  Survival games trade off quests for realistic world features like building ships,sailing the seas.Our mounts are realistic living creatures that can act as mounts,combat and harvest,they are not simple cash shop ideas like in many mmorpg's.
  Combat in mmorpg's is typically lol ,looks fake as hell.In Atlas the mobs move around like you would expect them to and are never hidden away in some instance zone.
  I can build a structure,a house ANYWHERE i want in Atlas,can you do that in a mmorpg?
  
  Without going on and on about it,mmorpg's offer quests and nothing more,survival games offer few quests but a lot more and in a much more realistic looking world.
  
  We can say the same repeated things about mmorpg's,kill x mobs get xp,you know new ideas like that,we can do quest kill x bears receive xp and loot,you know new ideas like that.MMorpg's are good at instancing a mmo game,go figure,good at rinse repeat just as much as a survival game does it's rinse and repeat ideas.
  

  

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• Wizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332

  July 2020 edited July 2020

  Will Life Beyond break any new ground in the survival genre,likely not but how many mmopg's break new ground with realistic role playing ideas?
  Let' look at what life will be doing that is also typical survival game ideas.
  Building,you can't do that in mmorpg's
  You can climb all over with use of grappling apparatus type tools. the place without any need for pre rendered areas that allow you to climb in typical mmorpg's.
  
  Life beyond is aiming for the more futuristic feel,perhaps a tad different than what survival games usually aim for.
  The world does look devoid of life which imo is a or might be a major flaw.The graphics are a tad lower,the models a tad lower and some animations are a tad lower. I think we can properly judge this in a years time to see if it looks better overall.For now it will not compete or steer me away from Atlas others from Ark.

  Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
  
  
• saker Member RarePosts: 1,458

  July 2020

  attacking "survival games" in general here? come on people as-if the state of MMO's is anything to be putting forward as "good". I give the survival genre HUGE pluses for being far more immersive then any MMO's out. - when was the last time anything "new" was included in a MMO?

  
• lahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,054

  July 2020

  saker said:

  attacking "survival games" in general here? come on people as-if the state of MMO's is anything to be putting forward as "good". I give the survival genre HUGE pluses for being far more immersive then any MMO's out. - when was the last time anything "new" was included in a MMO?

  I am going to agree, to an extent. Many times MMORPG players complain about how they want more meaningful player interaction, a more interactive world, PVE combined with PVP, choices that mattered, customisable server rules etc. etc. Survival games tick many, if not all, of those boxes yet people can’t look beyond punching trees. Are survival games in a crude state? Yes, but they are still more exciting and unpredictable than your average MMORPG these days and have much, much more room to grow.
  
  /Cheers,
  Lahnmir

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