Almighty Game Designer

It's already mid-October, and in the next month or so, I haven't heard of any more classic games developed by major manufacturers that will be released. If nothing else, The Last of Us won the game of the year award is a sure thing.

However, it is not only this that shocks the entire game circle, but also how many games Chen Mo will be shortlisted for the annual game competition?

Last year, Chen Mo won the title of Game of the Year with the excellent level design, world view, plot and difficulty of Dark Soul, and Leiting Interactive Entertainment was also named Dark God Factory. Many people in the game circle Thought he would continue this style and carry it forward, continuing to dig deeper into similar hardcore games.

However, Chen Mo took a completely different path.

Uncharted redefines the genre of adventure games, and The Last of Us redefines the apocalypse.

Obviously, even compared with the best works of major manufacturers this year, Uncharted has an advantage with a high score of 9 points, not to mention the full score evaluation of The Last of Us is that people stop killing people and Buddhas stop killing Buddhas .

The most terrifying thing is not only these two games, but also a game that is more popular than these two games, that is PUBG Mobile.

After the international server of Jedi Survival was launched, the popularity of this game has been rising, and the share of the VR game cabin is constantly refreshing people's cognition. On the VR platform, the momentum of PUBG is completely unstoppable. If there are no other more powerful dark horses to step in, PUBG is very likely to reach the popularity of League of Legends on the PC side in the VR field. .

Even the mobile game of PUBG Mobile has reached the top of the mobile game best-selling list in more than 130 countries and regions, and it is just around the corner to dominate the world.

It is said that in some foreign campuses, the students' addiction to the mobile game PUBG has affected the normal courses, and some schools' wifi has even blocked PUBG. The popularity of this game is evident.

Originally, the designers of traditional games did not pay much attention to PUBG, because this is a game that has nothing to do with Game of the Year no matter how you look at it, no matter how popular it is, it has nothing to do with them.

But after reaching this heat, no one can ignore it.

Popularity will also be an important consideration when major game media conduct game evaluations. For example, Jedi Survival has become so popular that even if it does not win the best game of the year, it is very likely to be nominated for a best game of the year.

Generally speaking, the selection rules of the major game media are different, and the number of their nominations for the best game of the year is uncertain, it may be five or six, or it may be ten, as long as it is a game released this year, as long as the score is good (8.5 points) above), have a chance to be nominated for Game of the Year.

After all, there is only one best game of the year, and the others are accompaniment. It is a bit too much to work hard to make a good game and not even let accompany.

But this year is a bit special, because The Last of Us, Uncharted and PUBG are almost certain to enter the nomination for Game of the Year. The former two are rated high enough, while PUBG is because of the explosion in popularity. .

That is to say, excluding small games such as Seaside Mansion, Chen Mo developed three masterpieces this year, and all of them were nominated for the annual game nomination...

This is the real horror...

In the game industry, there are many high-yield designers, and there are also many designers with stable quality, but high-yield and stable quality at the same time, this is very scary.

Many people in the industry are speculating that this year will be the year when Chen Mo and Lei Ting Mutual Entertainment truly rise. Perhaps in the future, Chen Mo will open up an era of gaming that is entirely his own, and even those traditional big companies have not been able to achieve it. the height of!

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As the popularity of The Last of Us continues to ferment, the connotation of this game has been excavated more and more.

Players seem to go back to the interesting experience of inferring the complete story through the description of each prop in Dark Soul a year ago.

Of course, the story of The Last of Us is very complete and smooth, but there are still many hidden puzzles waiting for players to discover. These puzzles may be about a character, the whole story, or a story that happened in a certain location.

And these little puzzles further enrich and improve the world view of The Last of Us, making it a unique apocalyptic world.

For example, in a certain room, Ellie saw a person who committed suicide in the bathtub, saying that he couldn't stand this kind of life, so he chose a more relaxed way to escape. But Joel said, believe me, it's not easy, it's much better to be bitten to death by a zombie or to kill yourself with a bullet. That is to say, in the past 20 years, Joel, who suffered the pain of losing his daughter, tried to commit suicide, but in the end he chose to live strong.

For example, the black brother wanted a toy, but his brother stopped him, and Ellie specially helped the black brother to bring the toy. After the death of her black brother, Ellie also deliberately carried the toy in her backpack. Other collectibles include a letter from her mother to her during her lifetime and a firefly dog ​​tag from her good friend Riley.

Another example, in the beginning of the plot, when Joel approached two passers-by, one of the passersby provoked him, and the other passerby hurriedly apologized to Joel. After Joel walked away, the apologetic passerby asked his companion: You are crazy. Do you? Do you know who that guy is? It can also be seen from the side that Joel was a guy that many people feared when he was a stowaways.

Including in the cannibal hunter towns, you can find the places where these people burned their bodies and discarded their clothes, as well as the harvest list of each batch, and there are detailed records of how many people were injured at regular intervals.

In the purchase record of Firefly Labs, there is even a joke about Halloween. The purchase list on Halloween is 50,000 werewolves, and it is also marked with Happy Halloween.

These seemingly inconspicuous puzzles and details fill the entire game. Players can always find a lot of interesting gadgets in the corners, or a note, or an identity card, or a A tape, and these small details also make the world of The Last of Us more complete and real. Players seem to be able to see the life experienced by each supporting actor through the experiences of Joel and Ellie.

Many players are sighing, this is the real zombie theme, this is the real apocalypse!

Those games that created the apocalypse just to allow players to slaughter and kill in the game were solidly educated by The Last of Us.