George Miller Criticizes 2015’s Mad Max Game, Developer Responds With Heated Messages
George Miller Criticizes 2015’s Mad Max Game, Developer Responds With Heated Messages
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Such an underappreciated game
He’s a good director, but I’d trust his opinion of gaming as much as George Lucas. He doesn’t really give too much substance about why it’s bad other than I wish Kojima directed it.
It’s a simple game, but it does what it tries well. Some Kojima style cutscenes would have been sweet though.
For what it was, I thought it was fine. Definitely suffered from being a tie-in, but that’s more on WB deciding not to trust the Just Cause guys to make a good game than anything they did wrong. I could easily see it being a lot better with a more open-ended structure than it had.
That said, no shit Hideo Kojima could probably make a great Mad Max game. The man’s attention to detail borders on the fucking absurd. He individually designed the desks in the cubicle office where you fight the Ninja in MGS because he didn’t want them to look generic, despite the fact they’re also destructible and very few players would have noticed or cared. Hell, he put in ice cubes that fall out of the tray and melt, and then used that for exactly one room on the Tanker in MGS2 instead of reusing it elsewhere.
Hell, he even hired a combat-focused mocap actor for the scenes between Eva and Snake in MGS3 because he wanted the guy’s discomfort of working outside his comfort zone with a woman to be reflected in Snake’s subtle movements during those scenes.
He’s more than a little nuts but absolutely would smash any game he makes out of the park.
Hideo Kojima has to be the singular worst possible person to develop a project based on the work of another highly opinionated creator. You have to be completely divorced from basically everything he’s done and his entire public persona to legitimately think this would be a good idea.
He’s not wrong. The game has some cool car gameplay, but it’s also guilty of a very repetitive open world and a not very engaging storyline.
It hurts to know there was DLC basically ready to release that will never see the light of day.
Naw, this game is fucking fire and I won’t hear no slander.
Mad Max 2015 was great. Exploration was fun. Combat was tight. Vehicle combat was incredible.
no
Which is weird because it was a fucking great game and one of a kind really. That car fighting mechanic was so much fun, not to mention the sandstorm mini games. Only issue I had with it was once I finished it I couldn’t go back and complete some of the trophies because once you clear out all the camps there’s no one else to fight. Wish they added a way to reset the camps after you beat the game.
Hrs crazy. This game rocks.
The game is great and at the end of the days that’s just his opinion which people who love the game gonna disagree with
Yeah that game is a cult classic so I’m not surprised.
It is absolutly 110% an ok and fun game that came and went and I dont blame anyone for wanting to aim higher with another Mad Max game.
The game was actually good. This is a situation where the reviewers straight up got it wrong
TLDR he’s just salty it didnt absolutely pop off and carry his waning franchise to higher popularity.
Ahh soo the devs still listen, they need to take away this stupid online only trophy so people can platinum the game
This game was awesome…. really wish they would update it for the new consoles
Good game with a bit too heavy grind and a rushed final chapter.
Man that article leaves out a lot of important details. Like how miller had nothing to do with the game and had been trying to get one made for years, and even bought some of the remnants of team bondi to try and get it made in Australia. That Miller had no input on the development of the game, and they were giving some of the material Miller and his team made while coming up with fury road. They made so much material that they actually had planned fury road, a furiosa spin off that’s about to come out and a movie set before fury road following Tom Hardy’s max. Supposedly the game contains spoilers for some of these future projects. Seeing how the bios strongly talk about Dr Dementous (Chris Hemsworth’s character in the furiosa movie) and the battle for gastown between immortan Joe’s gang and Dementous which is what the movie is supposed to portray, I’d believe it. Also in the game the whole point is that Max is trying to gear up to cross the planes of silence, which is a trip he is about to embark on before the intercepter gets wrecked like a minute and a half into fury road, this makes me wonder if that is what the other planned movie is supposed to cover. Not to mention they tried to make Max an American. The game is fine and I like it, but I see why miller and other members of the mad max team don’t look too fondly on the game.
The hand to hand combat was mediocre, which really bothered me becasue of the games setting, it seemed like a really important thing to get right. Overall though, solid game, great thematics.
This game was actually a lot of fun for me
I really enjoyed the 2015 game, my only qualm was the 30fps on console.
gotta love when mediocre games get so old that people retcon the game saying how good it is
is it great now for like 15 bucks on sale? yeah its wonderful
was it great when it released for 60 bucks a decade ago? no!! the car stuff was cool, yes, but everything else just existed to exist. shallow combat, shallow open world (the sand storms were cool though), and a campaign that just keeps going on and on and on and^on^and^on^and^on^and^on
Is Miller talking about the nes game? lol.
This is one of my top 5 games. I loved it. Dunno why he’s bashing it
My only issue with the game was the gameplay loops were so similar that I didn’t care to 100% the game. But I really enjoyed playing the game and have replayed it.
I had the same issue with the original assassin’s creed game.
Interesting that the game director stated that the game was supposed to be more open world and ended up more linear. Imo we need less monotonous open world games. The number of them that blow me away are few and far between. This isn’t the 360/ps3 days when open world was automatically interesting.
Huh for some reason I thought that game did better than it actually did
I want to see this more often, movie directors playing and reviewing the games based off their movies.
I absolutely loved that game.
Properly boring, derivative game. Not convinced the people fawning over it have revisited it recently.
Game was great! People were ready to hate it before it came out so I feel like a lot of folks never even tried it.
A real shame.
As a lifelong Mad Max fan, I don’t care if Miller is the creator of the franchise, art is still subjective and that game was dope as fuck
Also as a pragmatist, I find it incredibly convenient that this drama is getting the fandom buzzing right before the Furiosa movie drops