Bloober Team Says It's Done Making 'Shitty' Games and Has Found Its 'Niche' - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 November 2024 / 2,442 Views
Bloober Team earlier this month released the remake of Silent Hill 2 that ended up shipping over one million units in less than a week.
The studio's co-director and producer Jacek Zieba in an interview with GameSpot said they are done making "shitty" games and they have found their niche with horror games.
"We want to be a horror company," said Zieba. We want to find our niche, and we think we found our niche, so now we just--let's evolve with it. [...] And how that happens is more complex, but it also happens organically in a way, like with [2016's] Layers of Fear, people in the studio were like, 'Okay, we made some shitty games before, but we [can] evolve."
Bloober Team's Wojciech Piejko added, "We gathered a team that loves horror. So I think, for us, it would not be easy to switch [to other genres], and we don't want to."
The studio recently announced the third-person survival horror game, Cronos: The New Dawn, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam, which will launch in 2025.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Toxic positivity at its finest.
Their only real work in Silent Hill 2 Remake is purely technical. What made SH2 stand above back in the day was its creative work and none of it on them.
agreed, the story and setting already in place
Let's see if they can do something outside of connect the dots of an already est classic game.
I hope it will work out because a studio only releasing high quality horror games sounds great but not sure if they overestimate how good they are now. Silent Hill wasn't their idea after all. They took a game and almost perfectly made a new version out of it but that sounds very different to me to working on a complete own idea.
I've always associated them with just not having the budget to blow it out of the park. Hopefully with SH2’s success, it’ll no longer be the issue.
Lmao yeah I had previously mentioned that prior to SH2, Bloober had never made an objectively good game before. Which is why so many of us were so highly skeptical. Beyond relieved they blew it out of the park with SH2! I’ll have to see how Cronos turns out.
Observer was pretty good. I could argue better than the silent hill 2 remake which is an extremely overlong game that makes the combat stale as hell with enemy overaabundance and weakens the atmosphere. Hardly the disaster people expected but a lot of the praise is overblown.
I'm rooting for whatever effort gives us more good games.
Great! Love seeing some fire from developers. Starved for some positive outlooks on the future it is nice to see that there are people with drive and go get still.
Why you have a habit of linking to xblock channel instead of the originator?!?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ibQP4F8SyeA&pp=ygUTQ3Jvbm9zIFRoZSBOZXcgRGF3bg%3D%3D
That the link you should be linking, give credit where credit due.
Stop being a xbot kid and start doing it properly! I know you're trying too hard to change vgchartz.com to vgxblock.com and that need to stop!
At least they acknowledged their prior games were crap lol
SH2 Remake is a banger though!
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