My thoughts on Amy are covered by my last post on the subject, but this statement from the people at VectorCell confirms one of my suspicions.
Amy was intended to be hard with few checkpoints.
Here’s their statement from their Facebook page:
Hi all,
Today is the official release day of the PSN version in the US and we wanted to take this opportunity to come back to you. As many of you have already heard, AMY is a HARD game. Some people totally disliked that while other really enjoyed it. We believe this is part of the survival experience we tried to build as we wanted the game to be challenging. However, we actively listen to the community and comments and hence recommend the non-hard core gamers to launch the game in EASY mode (in the settings) for now. This will give them a much more pleasant and smoother experience, especially as the checkpoints are scarce.
In addition, we wanted to thank those of you who bought the game and rated it on the XBOX market and the PSN Store. Indeed, AMY has been #1 in the daily XBLA charts since its launch in all major territories and players have rated it between 3 and 4 out of 5 on XBLA and more than 4 on the PSN despite the controversy. For us, the players’ ratings (almost 9500 so far) are the most important ones.
As always, we will come back to you with updated information as soon as we can.
Thanks a lot.
I wonder if this is how Bioware felt when people reacted badly to their Mass Effect 2 inspired changes to Dragon Age 2. It’s funny, people complaining that they don’t want to repeat loads of portions of the game, when with some games they say they like it. The best one is the complaint about few checkpoints when I remember certain gamers getting really excited about Dead Space 2 having a difficulty mode that only lets you save thrice. They must be asking themselves, “… but it’s hard, isn’t that what people want?” The sad thing is, reading a lot of commentary about current gaming, they’re right, or at least that’s what people claim they want.
Corrosive Truths
Amy Developers to Gamers – “AMY is a HARD game”
My thoughts on Amy are covered by my last post on the subject, but this statement from the people at VectorCell confirms one of my suspicions.
Amy was intended to be hard with few checkpoints.
Here’s their statement from their Facebook page:
I wonder if this is how Bioware felt when people reacted badly to their Mass Effect 2 inspired changes to Dragon Age 2. It’s funny, people complaining that they don’t want to repeat loads of portions of the game, when with some games they say they like it. The best one is the complaint about few checkpoints when I remember certain gamers getting really excited about Dead Space 2 having a difficulty mode that only lets you save thrice. They must be asking themselves, “… but it’s hard, isn’t that what people want?” The sad thing is, reading a lot of commentary about current gaming, they’re right, or at least that’s what people claim they want.