[The most surprising game of this generation! "Super Smash Bros."! Linmu Studio sends the best love letter to players! 】
The largest gaming forum in China.
Such a post has been on the homepage for half a month.
The highest number of replies was created by "Modern Scroll" some time ago.
As expected, the record was broken by "Super Smash Bros.", also owned by Linmu Studios.
In fact.
Even though it has been more than a month since the Forest Carnival announced "Super Smash Bros."
This post, until now, still receives countless responses from players every day.
The players expressed their joy with great excitement, and their enthusiasm was simply terrifying.
no way.
Because this game is really... beyond the expectations of players.
Although the development history of video games is not very long, countless game IPs have been born during this period.
Some of these game IPs have only produced one work and become world-famous, some have produced several sequels and are unknown, some have been gradually eliminated by the market, and some have become a blockbuster after being restarted.
And among so many game IPs... no matter what type of player they are, there are a few characters that are impressive to them.
Some of them come from Linmu Studio, some may come from ancient third-party games, some may be protagonists, and some may be supporting roles.
And now Linmu Studio tells these players that they will be able to operate their favorite characters in a dream-level showdown...
Not to mention that players can experience "Guan Gong fighting Qin Qiong" in this game, an element that almost everyone likes to see. Just... the popular fried chicken of Linmu Studio's game and the veteran star join the battle together, in the same game
They appear in the game and form an extremely luxurious lineup.
It's enough to make players excited beyond measure.
Because...there really has never been a game like this before.
Not a single one.
Before "Super Smash Bros.", there was no game that could provide such a special opportunity for people to understand and experience so many masterpieces.
The theme of this year’s Forest Carnival is ‘Love Letter’.
If the players still had some doubts about this before the Forest Carnival was held.
When "Ready Player One" was announced after the Easter Egg Adventure, "Super Smash Bros." was announced at the opening of the Forest Carnival, followed by "Minecraft", "Bloodline", "The Witcher 2"... and many other masterpieces were announced.
All players understand why the theme of this carnival is ‘Love Letter’.
Because of this entire forest carnival.
All published works.
It's all a love letter to video games, and a love letter to players.
This is already a consensus.
And it’s not just the consensus of the players, in fact most of the production teams in the industry also think so.
I don’t know how many producers looked up to the sky and sighed after reading the content announced at this year’s Forest Carnival...
This June.
Or rather this year.
All will belong to Linmu Studio.
When the Linmu Carnival ends...Linmu Studio has become the undisputed number one game company.
After the Forest Carnival and before the release of "Ready Player One", a game review media even created a ranking of game companies for the first time.
They are not afraid of offending anyone at all, and they analyze the current status of various game companies from multiple dimensions.
Then.
no doubt.
Linmu Studio took first place with a score of 97 points.
As for this result, no player expressed any objection, but many players felt that the three-point deduction was too much...
And the second place... only has over 70 points.
One can imagine.
What a surprise Linmu Studio has given to the entire gaming community.
As for why Linmu Studio scored 97 points instead of 100 points.
In fact, the game review media also gave reasons for this.
The only item where Linmu Studio lost points was actually the home game console.
Linmu Studio does have a home game console.
When their switch was first announced, I don’t know how many people were surprised.
But it has been a long time since the switch was released.
During this period, the level of hardware has advanced by leaps and bounds, driven by Linmu Studio and the trend of qualitative changes in the game industry.
The function of switch.
It is indeed a bit behind the times.
The other three console manufacturers had already announced their next-generation consoles at the end of the previous year.
The switch is still stuck in the previous generation.
Although the game is really good.
Under the bombardment of Linmu Studio's games, players have indeed enjoyed a level of fun that can completely ignore the capabilities of the console.
But in comparison, especially when the game graphics of Linmu Studio's own PC department are getting better and better.
Home game console hardware.
Linmu Studio is indeed lagging behind.
Home game consoles can be said to be an essential part of the gaming industry.
After all, before the emergence of the Vaporwave gaming platform, most of the console game sales were basically on the console.
A three-point deduction in this aspect is not too much for both emotion and reason.
This can be considered a regrettable part of Linmu Studio.
In fact.
Some players have already begun to look forward to Linmu Studio’s console replacement.
certainly.
There are not many people.
After all, the current situation.
The forest carnival has just ended.
Nothing can compare to the ‘love letter’ sent to players by Linmu Studio.
but.
Players are players.
The staff within Linmu Studio are not like the players.
After the forest carnival, various departments celebrated briefly and then all got back to work.
Because Lin Yao is already on vacation.
In the end, she left an extremely rich 'inheritance' to the entire Linmu Studio, and established a dazzling 'golden signboard'.
Next.
How to prevent this "gold-letter sign" from being stained is an issue that all staff members need to think about urgently.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Although the staff are reluctant to give up, everyone... actually doesn't want to bring their boss back from vacation.
Therefore, the success of the Linmu Carnival did not make the staff of Linmu Studio relax. Instead, it made them work harder and harder.
Then Lin Bing, Lin Yao's father, pinched his nose and reluctantly entered Lin Mu Studio.
Everything is back on track.
That is, when most of the staff passed by Lin Yao's office, they couldn't help but turn their heads and take a look.
After all, once something becomes a habit, it will be really difficult to adapt to sudden changes...
…
Lin Mu Studio, Kaishan Research Institute.
Platform Technology Development Department.
Zheng Xin was sitting in front of his seat, secretly reading the player forum.
Although Kaishan Research Institute is also under the Linmu Studio, they are the department least affected by Lin Yao's holiday.
Because Lin Yao is good at games and not really good at hardware, and Zheng Xin's department is relatively antagonistic, there are relatively few opportunities to "get emotional", so the impact is certainly minimal.
Of course, relatively speaking, because it is far away from the front line of development.
When they face the works of their own company, they are actually no different from the players...
"In the fighting game genre, arcade players' needs are to quickly recognize a character and start the game, but in the context of home consoles, the game needs more vivid characters and world views..."
Zheng Xin looked at the grand scene on the forum and saw that countless players were still replying to express their excitement until now. While sighing... he remembered what he happened to hear between Lin Yao and Zhu Nianqiao when he went to the console department.
chat.
At that time, he didn't feel much about Lin Yao's words.
But now, after seeing the players' reactions, he truly understood.
What exactly does Lin Yao mean by these words?
yes.
"Game Super Smash Bros." is a fighting game.
The situation of fighting games in recent years has not been good.
Many players will be put off when they hear about fighting games, because fighting games often mean long lists of moves and a lot of practice to get started...
To put it simply, it is difficult and niche.
But for "Game Super Smash Bros.", the pre-orders and sales of the game alone have now exceeded 10 million, and are even approaching 15 million... This is a fighting game type that can be considered a big seller when it has 2 million copies.
, it can be said to be an out-and-out miracle.
Zheng Xin believes that this can be regarded as a miracle for many established fighting game manufacturers...
Because it's too exaggerated.
Think of this.
Zheng Xin couldn't help but murmured: "We need more vivid characters and world view... so we added a fantastic cast of characters to broaden the audience of fighting games."
"Fighting games were too difficult, so we streamlined the operations, added interesting rules, joyful content, and adopted a design concept that was completely opposite to the complicated operation methods of fighting games at that time...so that anyone can easily get started, while retaining the possibility of hardcore, really
……so amazing!"
Although Zheng Xin is not a game producer.
But he is in Linmu Studio, how could he not like games.
And precisely because he is also a player and a staff member of Linmu Studio...he knows better than any other player how powerful Lin Yao is.
Zheng Xin looked at the forum with a lot of thoughts.
After a long time.
He just closed the "Game Super Smash Bros. Forum" that had broken the reply record and prepared to continue working.
But at the moment when he was on the web page, a post suddenly broke into his sight.
It’s that post about game company rankings…
Although I know the answer.
But Zheng Xin couldn't help but click in and take a look.
But when I saw Linmu Studio’s score of 97 points and the deduction items.
He was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, closed the web page, and opened OA.
Then I opened the internal email I guessed I had received not long ago.
As for what the internal email said...it's simple, a replacement for switch.
Within Linmu Studio, we have actually been paying attention to issues related to the hardware of the host department.
In fact.
The last thing Lin Yao paid attention to before her vacation was the hardware iteration issue of the host department.
but.
She didn't give an answer until the end.
But no matter whether Lin Yao is there or not.
There is already a consensus in the hosting department.
That is...hardware needs to be iterated.
Although it is not the first priority.
After all, the switch here has not reached the level of Lin Yao's previous life.
But we really need to start planning.
Currently the hosting department is unable to spare any time.
As for the senior executives... Lin Yao made it clear before the holiday that they have very little intervention in the product.
Lin Bingye has just taken over and is still in the stage of understanding the company's operations.
Therefore, only the platform technology development department led by Zheng Xin was in charge in the early stage.
And therein lies the problem.
Zheng Xin currently has no clue about the new console.
In other words, I don’t have a good idea.
first.
Switch iteration is certain, and he agrees with this.
But how to iterate specifically has become a problem.
Is it a form of switching between a handheld device and a console, an enhanced version of switch that supports backward compatibility?
Or should we start from scratch, give up backward compatibility, and go directly to traditional consoles?
Zheng Xin initially preferred the former.
But when Zheng Xin thought about the situation when Lin Yao held the switch conference, he started to back off.
Because if you just make an enhanced version of switch... there will be no surprises.
It’s hard to say what the new machine will look like at a commercial level, but without any surprises, it’s already a big problem.
What about traditional hosting?
Not to mention surprises... and there are more problems. Not to mention the compatibility issues of old games, how to solve the console exclusivity issue?
Traditional consoles are not like switch, and Linmu Studio also has a Vaporwave game platform.
Because of the existence of the Vaporwave game platform, mainstream players already have a PC... If Linmu Studio still monopolizes traditional consoles, it will undoubtedly force users of the Vaporwave game platform to buy consoles.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This is too funny.
Therefore, as a traditional console, Linmu Studio can only rely on the Vaporwave game platform as part of its expansion.
But what does that mean?
Zheng Xin feels...Linmu Studio should not release such a mediocre product.
"ah……"
Zheng Xin leaned back, looked at the screen, and sighed: "Perhaps the enhanced version of the console is the best choice for the iteration of the console. After all, it can solve the urgent need... But I still can't reconcile it."
"It would be great if, while the switch launches iterative products, there is also a product that truly amazes players."
Yes.
In fact, deep down in Zheng Xin's heart... he not only wants to iterate the switch, but also wants to make a product that will amaze players, a product as amazing as the switch proposed by Lin Yao.
Because this can not only retain the switch user base, but also give Linmu Studio more possibilities.
This can be regarded as his small ambition.
"But it's easier said than done..."
Thinking of this, Zheng Xin smiled helplessly: "The enhanced version of the switch has not been confirmed yet, and the other way, after thinking about it, seems to be the only traditional console, ah..."
He leaned back and lay down on the chair. The initial feeling of being jealous of Yourong because of the 'Love Letter' project disappeared instantly.
Although the current iteration of next-generation consoles is far from urgent.
But it's like an invisible boulder weighing on Zheng Xin's heart...it's quite uncomfortable.
If Lin Yao is still here...there must be a solution, right?
Uncontrollably, an idea popped up.
Zheng Xin looked at the ceiling and smiled.
"It seems that the hardware department is not without any impact...Forget it, let's do what we can first and consider the direction of the enhanced version of the switch."
He muttered to himself, then sat up, rubbed his face, and returned to work.