Deutsche Qualität: will the renewal of the quality gaming industry come from Germany?

[zool]

I couldn't help but notice recently that three of my favorite games from the last decade were made by German game studios.

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (2016) was developed by German studio Mimimi Games, based in Munich. Mimimi Games also made the more recent Desperados 3, which was great too, and will release in a month a DLC for Shadow Tactics called Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun - Aiko's Choice.

Suzerain (2020) was developed by German studio Torpor Games, based in Berlin. This game is simply the best political sim to come out since Hidden Agenda (1988). It only took 32 years to get another quality political sim, which coincidentally means we may see a proper Jagged Alliance 2 sequel by 2031.

Edit: also, Battle Brothers (2017) was made by Overhype Studios, a German studio based in Hamburg.

Is it also a coincidence that Shadowrun: Dragonfall, my third favorite game of the last decade and generally considered to be the best game of the new Shadowrun series by Harebrained Schemes, although not made by a German studio, is set in Berlin, Germany?

Ich don't think so.

Diskuss!!!!

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

 

[Fedora Master]

Germans have barely figured out the Internet, you can't expect anything from them.

 

[Atlantico]

Germans have barely figured out the Internet, you can't expect anything from them.

You are German, why do you like Dragon Age Inquisition? Is it because nothing can be expected from you and you still underachieve?

 

[Anthedon]

ELEX.

 

[Bester]

"Nooo these germans don't have the aryan certificate reeee."

Jesus Christ, cuckdex.

 

[d1r]

Not in one hundred years.

 

[Tavar]

Not in one hundred years.

This. If the German game industry gets its wish and gets access to tax money simliar to the German film industry we can look foward to more "educational" trash games like "Through the Darkest of Times". If not, we will keep the current state of boring mediocrity.

 

[Thac0]

Germany and France have both become respectable players when it comes to AA rpgs, and as AAA rpgs are almost always garbage they are just about the best thing you can get from the West currently.
If any European country enters a Golden Age however I would bet more for France than for Germany.

Not only has their industry grown spectacularily in size:
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-03-03-french-annual-report
https://www.vgchartz.com/article/447724/french-games-market-has-grown-40-since-2016/

There has been a made in France sale recently, and they have a LOT of stuff, some of it really high quality.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesMadeInFrance

Yeah German games and German rpgs aren't bad right now, but France steals our spotlight.

 

[lightbane]

Aren't Germans incapable of making games except more boring Gothic clones?

 

[Thac0]

Aren't Germans incapable of making games except more boring Gothic clones?

This one is the good shit

 

[1451]

Poland is more impressive. Several good games were made by Polish studios. Sure the funds arrived from the USA but still, the talent is there.
Germany has Piranha and that's it.
Europe in general is weak at game development.

 

[Infinitron]

Germany as a country is gaming's great underachiever. Demographically and economically, there should be a German equivalent of Ubisoft, but there just isn't. It'd be an interesting research topic to figure out why.

 

[pickmeister]

And then there’s CryTek. The tech demo company.

 

[Cunt Dickula!?]

Thanks for Suzerain, OP. Looks interesting. Will buy.

 

[HansDampf]

This one is the good shit

Bestest jRPG.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Spellforce 3 (Grimlore Games) was very good and Everspace (Rockfish Games) was also decent. Everspace 2 might turn out good too. But one swallow doesn't make a summer. Overall the output of good games is rather small and I doubt that this will change any time soon.

 

[Cunt Dickula!?]

This one is the good shit

Bestest jRPG.

Is it any good? It looks so gay and the premise (characters are in a MMO) sounds pretty retarded.

 

[Peachcurl]

Germany as a country is gaming's great underachiever. Demographically and economically, there should be a German equivalent of Ubisoft, but there just isn't. It'd be an interesting research topic to figure out why.

We Germans aren't allowed to have fun or develop fun things. It's work. Work hard. Earn lots of money. Pay lots of taxes. Be on time. Produce good things. That can be used to produce more good things.

 

[Cunt Dickula!?]

SAP S/4HANA is the most popular german game.

 

[FritzedProcess]

Germany as a country is gaming's great underachiever. Demographically and economically, there should be a German equivalent of Ubisoft, but there just isn't. It'd be an interesting research topic to figure out why.

They have Piranha Bytes, though, which more than makes up for it.

 

[HansDampf]

Is it any good? It looks so gay and the premise (characters are in a MMO) sounds pretty retarded.

It has a great combat system and puzzle mechanics. Story is subjective. I don't know what people consider gay but it doesn't contain any SJW crap.

 

[Thac0]

Germany as a country is gaming's great underachiever.

Italy.

Demographically and economically, there should be a German equivalent of Ubisoft, but there just isn't. It'd be an interesting research topic to figure out why.

Hazarding a guess:
Germany is eternally opposed to progress.
The first railways here were heavily opposed.
They were said to be bring diseases due to the high speed, and brain damage from too fast transportation. The railway itself was called a thing of hell.

Also there is the culture of seriousness that Peachcurl mentioned. Rat Tower studios has a similar problem in Austra, it is hard to get funding for something silly like a video game here.

Add on to that that Germany is generally in the digitial stone age.
"The internet is new grounds for all of us" - Merkel in 2013

And you got a bunch of reasons why it is hard to develop video games in Germany.

 

[zool]

I did say "German studios", not that all of their members were German

Anyway, only talent matters

 

[Cunt Dickula!?]

The first railways here were heavily opposed.
They were said to be bring diseases due to the high speed, and brain damage from too fast transportation. The railway itself was called a thing of hell.

What if they were right and we are all retarded now, because of trains?