Mad Max game lead hits back at Furiosa director's "complete arrogance" over the open-world game, blames Metal Gear Solid 5's release as a factor for "bad sales"
May. 24, 2024George Miller says he wants Hideo Kojima to make a new Mad Max game
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A large part of that pushback stems from Christofer Sundberg, founder of Mad Max developer Avalanche Studio, which is arguably best known for the Just Cause series. In a series of posts on Twitter, Sundberg hits back at the “complete arrogance” of Miller’s statement, lambasting it as “complete nonsense.”
Miller suggests that the success of the game “wasn’t in our hands,” but Sundberg’s responses suggest that wasn’t the case. “They did everything they could to make this a complete linear game after having signed up with a developer of open-world games,” he says in one tweet, going on to say that “after the first year of development they realized they had forced us to make a linear experience rather than the open world game we pitched.” That resulted in Avalanche throwing out “a year of work,” while being told that “‘players want autonomy’” - something relatively apparent to the team behind Just Cause.
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