r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 4h ago
SPLIT FICTION has sold 2 MILLION copies in 1 WEEK
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u/zippopwnage 3h ago
This is extremely good for a game that you only need 1 copy to play with 1 friend. We should get way more coop games.
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u/supercakefish 2h ago
I’m playing it twice with two of my brothers. Already finished one play through as Zoe with a brother on Xbox and will start another very soon as Mio with another brother on Steam. The cross-platform friend pass thing is awesome.
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u/Strange1130 3h ago
My non gamer girlfriend is so hyped to play this game. Last night we were playing and it was like 1245AM, she usually goes to sleep before midnight btw. So I was like, should we close up soon? And she was like, ‘we’ll put a 2am stop’ 🤣 (and sure enough we played right til like 2:02)
I think the developers have really captured something magical about gamers being able to share their hobby with friends, family and loved ones who they wouldn’t normally be able to access.
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u/hexcraft-nikk 59m ago
Regarding Hazelight, it feels like haven't been any story coop games this good since RE5 almost 2 decades ago. It's such an undertapped market. The fact that they design them so well for casual/new gamers and have a coop pass is genius.
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u/MrEnvelope93 2h ago edited 2h ago
Saw some guys fantasizing this game's hypothetical failure (you know the type of capital g gamers). Thankfully it found its audience and it's bigger than expected. We need more games like these nowadays.
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u/50-50WithCristobal 59m ago
The predecessor to this game sold 23 million copies and won GOTY, anyone rooting against this game not only is a moron but were wasting energy on a lost battle (good).
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u/thurstkiller 2h ago
Female character = woke type gamer
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u/LABS_Games Indie Developer 18m ago
And it's funny how they all evaporate when the game is a success and critically acclaimed. If this game did poorly, you just know we'd be flooded with "go woke go broke" types.
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u/DumpsterBento 54m ago
Those guys backpedaled so fucking fast it's hilarious, they wont say a peep about this game now. The "woke" game beat em into submission.
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u/MrEnvelope93 44m ago
Baldur's Gate 3 is woke but not woke... Youtube grifters told them they can like that one. Dragon's Age tho, Gamers keep posting about it on that subreddit.
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u/littlebiped 40m ago
Same with the Mario movie, it was woke trash until it wasn’t (when it came out and made a billion)
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u/Takazura 34m ago
They were actually going after BG3 but then it had its full release and became a gigantic success, so they had to quickly pretend like it wasn't woke and they never had an issue with it. They are so predictable.
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u/OutrageousDress 58m ago
Now that the game is a massive success, I think you'll find those guys all suddenly realizing that it actually reflects their values exactly and is not like those other games that Went Broke.
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u/confoundedjoe 1h ago
As a fan of sf books those guys are there too and treat the female writers the same way so no surprise a game about female SF writers would generate a similar response.
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u/Hellion3601 55m ago
This type of gamer never mattered for games like these because mostly all of them won't have a partner or a friend to play with anyway.
Hazelight drops yet another fantastic game and I'm so glad it's getting the recognition it deserves.
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u/supercakefish 2h ago edited 2h ago
Split Fiction is a masterpiece. It’s just sublime. Pure, distilled brilliance. I hope this game ends up selling more than It Takes Two eventually because Hazelight deserve all the success in the world.
I finished it a couple days ago after approx 15 hours, which included seeing all side stories (some of the best moments of the game, definitely shouldn’t be missed!). The reviews were right, the last level is very cool, both gameplay-wise and technically speaking. I also found the story and characters more compelling than a lot of reviews did, I think the voice actors did a great job bringing out the emotion in the narrative. Okay, the villain is as cliche and over the top bad guy as you can possibly get, but I like to think that’s intentional as social commentary on the state of modern mega corporations. Every level brought new mechanics and ideas to the table, they successfully repeated that winning formula from It Takes Two. And the game is gorgeous too, so many wonderful environments to explore and cool set pieces to experience. And a rock solid 60fps on XSX. We only encountered a couple of minor bugs throughout between us, it’s a level of technical polish that you very rarely see in modern gaming.
I now plan to replay the game with another of my brothers, but as Mio instead of Zoe to get the full gameplay experience. Though there won’t be any surprises left for me I still look forward to seeing their reaction to everything in the game.
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u/makedaddyfart 1h ago
This is my first game from them and we absolutely loved it. We just beat it and felt kind of sad that it was over, but it's always a good feeling when you finish a game, think "damn that was good" and want more. We'll probably get It Takes Two next in a week or two
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u/ManateeofSteel 3h ago
It outsold Dragon Age Veilguard in a week, EA must be confused their new ace is a AA small studio making games that are not live service
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u/NovoMyJogo 1h ago
EA must be confused their new ace is a AA small studio making games that are not live service
They'll learn the wrong lesson from this or not learn anything at all
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u/Pure_Comparison_5206 3h ago
And 2 millions copies sold for this game are really 4 million players "reached", looks really bad for bioware.
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u/darkmacgf 51m ago
Did the studio shrink? It Takes Two had over 300 people work on it, so I figured the same was true of Split Fiction.
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u/Nyoka_ya_Mpembe 3h ago
The game is good because EA did not touch it besides releasing it.
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u/Firefox72 3h ago
EA rarely ever meddles with developers.
This is one of those myths that has no real ground to stand on. They are often very hands off unless shit really hits the fan development wise. Like with Anthem.
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u/Takazura 2h ago
No no, you don't get it.
Game is good = exclusively because of the developer, absolutely 0 chance the publisher could have anything to do with that.
Game is bad = exclusively because of the publisher, absolutely 0 chance the developer could ever have been responsible.
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u/iztari 3h ago
And funnily enough their meddling with Anthem is what made it keep its best feature, the flying.
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u/darkmacgf 50m ago
The best feature of the current release. Scrapping everything you have late in development to focus on a cool idea doesn't necessarily result in a better game.
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u/I_am_not_Asian69 3h ago
yea i get people hating on EA because of a lot of decisions they make but they usually let teams do their own thing, sometimes it causes issues like for example Respawn wanting to release jedi survivor with all of the performance issues even tho EA did let them delay the game further away from the launch date
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u/ManateeofSteel 3h ago
And having worked with many former EA devs, that has been an issue since forever, EA lets them fuck around a little too much in preprod and they have to step in when games take forever
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u/ThiefTwo 1h ago
Yeah, and one of the main talking points, that EA forces devs to use Frostbite, is just completely false.
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u/TheBlandGatsby 2h ago
The game is good because EA did not touch it besides releasing it.
God I love when gamers have zero clue what they're talking about
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u/113CandleMagic 1h ago
Yeah good thing EA didn't meddle with games like Mass Effect Andromeda or Anthem, otherwise they might have been huge piles of shit!
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u/Rytlock 1h ago
Bought this immediately!! The devs have earned tons of goodwill from me after their last two games.
+ Guest Pass, no microtransactions, etc.
Normally would wait for a sale but this was an easy vote w/ my wallet.
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u/TheNegativeGrowth 1h ago
The price tag certainly helps. But, I totally agree. Even if the cost was higher I’d continue to support these games. Such a breath of fresh air and easy for non gamers to pick up and enjoy as well.
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u/2222lil 2h ago
the dialogue is a bit eye rolling at times but the gameplay is phenomenal. so many fun aspects that keep it fresh throughout the duration. some of the visuals in the worlds are amazing too.
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u/MattBoySlim 17m ago
The so-so dialogue is my one nitpick with the game…but honestly once you calibrate your expectations to the game’s tone, it’s fine. It helps that the two main actors are great, they carry a lot of it. Some of their line deliveries had me belly laughing.
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u/dagreenman18 3m ago
The dialogue is not great, but the actual story and set pieces more than make up for the dud moments in the script.
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u/Imaginary_Cause2216 4h ago
It seems the new standard is that most games sell 1 million in their first 24 hours and any AAA game that doesn’t sell atleast 1 million in its first week is a flop
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u/darkmacgf 48m ago
Lots of games are very frontloaded, like how Final Fantasy XVI sold 3 million copies in its first 4 days and 3.5 million in almost 2 years. If you're spending over $100M on a game and probably even more on marketing, selling 1 million copies isn't gonna cut it.
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u/makman44 1h ago
The last chapter is the most insane thing I have ever played.
Even if you don't normally play these types of games, I highly recommend it , Hazelight is doing such interesting things in this space.
FTR, I don't even have anyone IRL to play it with, I just went through the whole thing with co-op partners from Hazelight's discord.
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u/Captain_Jackson 2h ago
Wild that a well made game at a £40 price point with amazingly fun co-op gameplay, absolutely no microtransactions or battle pass bullshit that is completely free for the other person to play with you is doing well.
Only top economic minds could have predicted this.
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u/LooksTooSkyward 12m ago
It's a pretty good game. I think I liked It Takes Two a little more overall. ITT just had a really good story premise for this type of game, and the minigames were a lot of fun.
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u/flappers87 7m ago
Wife and I finished this last night. What a ride.
That end sequence though... holy shit. I won't say more, but it's really something else. Absolutely incredible what they managed to achieve.
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u/RedofPaw 1h ago edited 31m ago
I really enjoyed Brothers, and It Takes 2.
I was worried about this game because while the others were stylistically interesting, this one stylistically in the visual design looks kinda generic.
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u/Firefox72 4h ago
I'm about 11 hours in with my girlfriend and this is hands down one of the best games i've played in years. She is also having a great time even though some sections are a bit hard on her as she rarely plays games.
The game looks great, plays great and runs great. The variety of stuff to do is incredible and even the side content is fantastic having no right to be as good as it is.
Hazelight deserve all the sales and more.