https://archive.ph/xETNf>The New York Times reported on Monday that Meta was planning to cut around 10% of the employees in its Reality Labs division, which works on products including the metaverse.>Reality Labs is also home to Oculus Studios, the division of Meta that runs its first-party game development studios.>These layoffs appear to have now started, and the game studios appear to be part of the cuts. >Andy Gentile, a designer at Twisted Pixel Games, posted on X that he had just lost his job as a part of the closures.>“I’ve just been laid off,” he wrote. “It appears the entire Twisted Pixel games studio has been shut down. Sanzaru Games too.”
Gentilebros... it's over...
>>730763349chuddha will keep doing nothing and winning until games are made for him again
>>730763349Vey sad news, Ms. Splosion Man is one of the best 2D platformers ever, and criminally underappreciated.
>>730763349They fucked up Sly Cooper so badly Sony dropped it forever. Fuck em.
Ms. Splosion Man is a very underrated gem.
Didn't Sanzaru games make the 2nd most-praised VR game ever after HL Alyx like two years ago?>>730763494>>730763608Honestly don't think I touched anything of theirs beyond 'Splosion Man. Always wanted to try Comic Jumper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zz30HFFNDI
>>730763786>Comic JumperThis game thinks it is way funnier than it actually is. Very much a relic of its time
>>730763349man, i miss this era of gaming
>>730763786>>730764885Agree. Comic Jumper has a few funny bits but it's also pretty dull and very repetitive gameplay wise. It drags on too much despite not being particularly long to begin with.The splosion man duology is super solid tho. 10/10 character design with really solid puzzles and super entertaining bosses.The Maw was neat, nothing special but still decent. Tho it looks kinda ugly.
>>730765220I dont. those games were just glorified flash games.
>>730763349>ms.>manfuck off with that tranny shit
YOUR MOVEUNREALBeard...
>>730763349Literally didn't know they made anything after LocoCycle, let alone were the devs behind Deadpool VR. Could have sworn people loved that Deadpool game
>>730763786Always wanted to play comic jumper, but i wasnt about to pay for a download.
>>730763349>>730763471>Works at Neversoft>It gets killed by Activision >Works at Vicarious Visions to bring back Tony Hawk>Studio gets sent to the Blizzard mines>Works at some other studio to make VR Shit>Studio gets killed by MetaThis guy just can't catch a break
>>730765778even though there isn't any wokeshit
Sanzaru made Sly 4 and was the studio that mostly made the remake of Spyro 3 in the trilogy. I've only experienced slop from them.
>>730766173>mostly made the remake of Spyro 3 in the trilogyThat game was originally such a mess that it would take top 1% of the talent of the industry now to ever make it good now
>>730765778this isn't a new phenomena
Splosion Man > Ms. Splosion ManA lesson in why an insufferable protagonist can ruin a game
>>730766218All they had to do was keep the mechanics and do the designs justice. I really like the remake of 1 and the 2 remake is ok.
>>730766331The mechanics of 3 are fucked and were always fucked
>>730763349Rest in peace.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1bGey2O77k
>>730765778retard
>>730763786I never finished Asgard's Wrath, but it was immediately one of the most polished VR games I played. Despite being a well-received launch title for the Quest 3, Meta killed the devs. Now considering that Batman was a launch title for the Quest 3S, Camouflaj is definitely next on the chopping block. There was accidental confirmation of a Batman sequel, so maybe they'll be lucky enough to release that before getting shut down and Meta pulling from VR entirely after the Quest 4
>>730766350What are you talking about? My biggest gripe is they didn't implement the adaptive difficulty system and instead you left it on the very easy mode. That was one thing I liked about 3 was that by the time I got to spike it was a little challenging, I'd actually be dying to stuff. I like 3, if you think the original 3 is shit then we are not the same, I do not think the things in 3 were inherently shit in concept.
>>730766267I also posted this on the ms. pac man thread
>>730766553Never played it myself since I don't have a Quest, but AW2 was making news when it came out. That shit was universally praised. Meta is killing their game studios as well makes no fucking sense. Time and time again, Meta is proving that they have no fucking direction for Virtual Reality, yet they're so eager to make everything exclusive.I pray that the Steam Frame gets enough traction for higher budget VR titles to start releasing on PC, but I highly doubt it. Vertigo Games seems to be the outlier. We always have indies.
>>730767197Just Meta things. They killed Ready at Dawn which was an awesome studio that made PSP GoW games and in VR they made them Lone Echo 1-2 which were also awesome. And as they killed them, they shut down Lone Echo 2 online that had thousands of active players, which for a VR game is a fuckload
>>730763349serves them right for never releasing the first game on pc
Probably the best thing Twisted Pixel made was Wavy Tube Man Chronicles, a parody of laserdisc games like Mad Dog McCree. It was DLC for their Kinect game Gunstringer and I believe later released stand-alone.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOpXVe2QiPQ
>>730763349damn i don't remember her normal non-cheating form being that caked up.
>>730766173 Sly 4 was a huge step down from the trilogy, like they completely missed the tone and pacing. And yeah, Spyro 3 in the Reignited Trilogy was easily the weakest. Felt like they rushed it out with minimal polish compared to how tight 1 and 2 were. Not surprised you only remember the slop, because that’s pretty much all they left behind.
I saw a girl, the other daaaayyyWith just one look, I knew right awayI had to know this angel’s name and when I asked herThis is what she had to say *BOOM* MARLON BRANDO JIMMY DEAN ON THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE
>>730763349Dang I loved their xbla games
