games

did laquer

what an awful mission

There's obviously no publisher that's infallible, but are there any publishing labels that you generally associate with quality when you see them?

indie, AA, AAA, whatever

No, I don't think so really

that's weird to say, I feel like there should be something, but I judge every game fairly individually

We've had the discussion about Devolver a lot, where in the past them being attached to an indie game would say a lot about the quality to be expected (and TinyBuild would imply the opposite)

now neither carries almost any weight of expectations

I definitely feel like there are a lot of cases of a dev or publisher being attached to a product marking it as lower quality, but I can't really think of anything of the opposite

If Annapurna was more selective, I think they'd be an easy answer

but since their weird psuedo hostile takeover thing in 2023/2024, they publish a lot more stuff

3-4/year on average, to 10+

The only one I could think of currently, is Hooded Horse

though they have a certain niche of game they look to publish in the first place

Publisher is difficult

I'd say no

especially since devolver imploded itself

I think the age of indie publishers is dead, any good indie game is basically self done or the publisher is not the thing selling the game

Like, Balatro has apublisher, like hell I remember what they are

Raw Fury, TinyBuild, Team17, and Devolver are the 4 I associate negatively now

Speaking of indie publishers, if people want a shitter publisher direct to watch tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_X_E3HybJA

remember, actual E3 is on Wednesday

Is it

that's when the Tokyo Game Show stream is

the big thing going on

That makes sense

I only know about the top hat studio one because the frogun devs keep spamming my steam news feed telling me they are showing their new game off more there

also patch notes for rusp since I am looking at my news feed

new characters but they are alts of existing characters

Oh Arc raiders comes out Oct 30th apparently

Oh its 60 dollars, yeah I am gonna pass

it is?

Its 58 CAD

Open beta starts October 17th

I'll see if it's fun or not

If its a free beta, I am down to mess around with it for free during the beta

yeah, it's open for everyone

I'm surprised it's $40-$60 tbh

felt like they should have learned from Marathon... not to do that

esp since The Finals (their other game) is f2p

i assume you arent counting self-publishing

Specifically publishing companies

honestly i dont really know any publishers other than the obvious ones like EA/Sony/etc that are all obviously not that good

I did think of some others, but I stand with my original answer of Hooded Horse being the only publisher that seems to try to pick winners

Spooky you know what

some publishers will have really good stuff and really mid/bad stuff its probably really hard to find one that is consistently good a lot of the time

I think the answer is you can pick of some porn game publishers that are the good ones

in terms of porn games

lol

I sitll don't think so

A lot of those publishers publish mass amounts of garbage, along with a few winners

True, but if they publish one winner that I like, then they are good

that is how it works

fair

like, bandai namco has some really good IP's but also they pump out all those anime fighting games that are all the same thing and just money print off of those brands

I think on a pure "if this publisher's name is attached to it, there is a 90+% chance the game is good", I think no

Bandai has done a good job lately, outside of their licensed tie-in shitter games

its easier to find consistently good developers than consistently good publishers

There are indie devs I will try whatever they make

yeah, that's why it's more interesting, because I do think post-crash

we're going to get more publishers like Dunky's Big Mode springing up

who actually try to pick winners again

I still can't believe Dunkey personally made animal well while his wife was getting fucked by a black man

Coffee Stain (for all my issues with them) are another good publisher

Chucklefish and Critical Reflex both have a very set style they publish, even moreso than Hooded Horse publishing only autism games

The only game I know from chucklefish was starbound

wait

was that them

I do not like Wargroove

^

same

pretty sure Wargroove is chucklefish

it is

and yes Pika

Starbound is what i remember chucklefish for

i thought wargroove was ok

starbound got worse as it went

Wargroove was meh, and its sequel is garbage

I was moreso pointing out that they have a very defined style of game