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【The most surprising game of this generation! "Game of Thrones"! The best love letter from Forest Studio to players! 】

The largest game forum in China.

Such a post has been hanging on the front page for half a month.

And the highest number of replies created by "Modern Scroll" some time ago.

Unsurprisingly, the record was broken by Super Smash Bros., also owned by Linmu Studios.

In fact.

Even though it has been nearly a month since Forest Carnival announced "Game Stars Smash Bros."

This post, until now, still has countless players replying below it every day.

The players talked about their joy with great excitement, and their enthusiasm was frighteningly high.

no way.

Because this game is really... too much beyond the expectations of the players.

Although the development history of video games is not very long, countless game IPs were born during this period.

Some of these game IPs are famous all over the world after only one work is released, some are unknown after several sequels, some are gradually eliminated by the market, and some are blockbuster after restarting.

And among so many game IPs... no matter what type of player they are, there are a few characters that are impressive.

Some of them come from Linmu Studio, some may come from ancient third-party games, some may be the protagonist, and some may be supporting roles.

And now Linmu Studio tells the players that in the future, most players will be able to operate their favorite characters to engage in fantasy-level duels with other game characters...

Not to mention that players can experience the "Guan Gong Fighting Qin Qiong" gameplay that almost every player loves in this game. It's just... The popular fried chicken of the game under Linmu Studio and the veteran game star participated in the battle together, and appeared in the same game, forming an extremely luxurious lineup.

It's enough to make the players excited beyond their control.

Because... there really hasn't been a game that has done this before.

None.

Before Super Smash Bros., no game offered such a unique opportunity to pit characters from so many famous titles against each other.

The theme of this year's Forest Carnival is "Love Letter".

If it is said that before the Forest Carnival was held, the players still had some doubts about it.

Then "Ready Player One" was announced after the Easter Egg Adventure, "Game Star Smash Bros" was announced at the opening ceremony of the forest carnival, followed by "Minecraft", "Bloodline", "The Witch 2"...etc. announced.

All the players understood why the theme of this year's carnival was 'Love Letter'.

Because of this entire forest carnival.

All published works.

It's all a love letter to video games, a love letter to all gamers.

This is already a consensus.

And it's not only the consensus of the players, but most of the producers in the industry also think so.

I don't know how many producers, after watching the content announced at this year's Forest Carnival, looked up to the sky and sighed...

This June.

Or this year.

All will belong to Linmu Studio.

The moment the Forest Carnival ended... Forest Studio had become the undisputed number one game company.

After the Forest Carnival ended, and before the release of "Ready Player One", there was even a game review media that created a game company ranking for the first time.

They are not afraid of offending people at all, and analyze the current status of various game companies from multiple dimensions.

Then.

no doubt.

Linmu Studio took the first place with a score of 97.

And this result, no player expressed objection, but many players felt that the three-point reduction was too much...

And the second place... only had more than 70 points.

One can imagine.

How big of a surprise did Linmu Studio give the entire game circle.

As for why Linmu Studio scored 97 instead of 100.

In fact, the game review media also gave a reason for this.

The only item that Linmu Studio was deducted from was actually the home game console.

Linmu Studio does have home game consoles.

Their switch was announced at the beginning, and I don't know how many people were amazed.

But it has been a long time since the switch was released at this moment.

During this period of time, the level of hardware, fueled by Linmu Studio and the trend of qualitative changes in the game industry, can be said to have advanced by leaps and bounds.

The function of the switch.

It's really a bit behind the times.

The other three host manufacturers have announced their next-generation hosts at the end of the previous year.

The switch still stays in the previous generation.

Although the game is really good.

Under the bombardment of Linmu Studio's games, players really got the fun of completely ignoring the host's functions.

But in comparison, especially when the game screens of Linmu Studio's own PC department are getting better and better.

Home game console hardware.

Linmu Studio is indeed a little behind.

The home game console can be said to be an indispensable part of the game industry.

After all, before the emergence of the Vaporwave game platform, the majority of console game sales were basically on consoles.

It is not too much to lose three points in this regard.

This can be regarded as a regrettable part of Linmu Studio.

In fact.

Some players have already begun to look forward to the replacement of the mainframe of Linmu Studio.

certainly.

Not many people.

After all, the current situation.

The carnival has just ended.

Nothing can compare to the 'love letter' sent to the player by Linmu Studio.

but.

Players are players.

The staff in Linmu Workshop can't be like the players.

After the end of the forest carnival, all departments celebrated briefly, and then all returned to work.

Because Lin Yao is already on vacation.

In the end, she left an extremely rich 'inheritance' to the entire Linmu studio, and erected a radiant 'golden signboard'.

next.

How to prevent this 'golden signboard' from being stained is a problem that all staff need to think about urgently.

Although the staff were reluctant, everyone...in fact, they didn't want to pull their boss back from vacation.

Therefore, the success of the Forest Carnival did not make the staff of the Forest Studio relax, but instead made them work harder.

And with Lin Bing, that is, Lin Yao's father, pinching his nose, he reluctantly entered Lin Mu's studio.

Everything is back on track.

That is, when most of the staff passed by Lin Yao's office, they couldn't help turning their heads to take a look.

After all, once some things become a habit and change suddenly, it will be really difficult to adapt for a while...

...

Linmu Studio, Kaishan Research Institute.

Platform Technology Development Department.

Zheng Xin was sitting in his seat, sneaking around and looking at the player forum.

Although the 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 really not good at hardware, and Zheng Xin's department is relatively independent, so there are less chances of "touching the scene" and the impact is of course the least.

Of course, relatively speaking, because it is far away from the development line.

Facing the works of their own company, they are actually no different from players...

"For the type of fighting games, arcade players need to quickly recognize a character and start the game, but in the home console scenario, the game needs more vivid characters and world views..."

Zheng Xin looked at the grand occasion on the forum, and saw that countless players were still replying to the post about their excitement. After sighing... he remembered the conversation between Lin Yao and Zhu Nianqiao that he happened to hear when he went to the host department. chat.

At that time, he didn't feel much about Lin Yao's words.

But at this moment, seeing the reactions of the players, he really understood.

What did Lin Yao mean by these words?

yes.

Super Smash Bros. is a fighting game.

The situation of fighting games in recent years has not been good.

Many players will be discouraged when they hear fighting games, because fighting games often mean a long list of moves and a lot of practice to get started...

Simply put, it is difficult, the minority.

But "Game Star Super Smash Bros.", the number of pre-ordered and sold games alone has already exceeded 10 million, and it is even approaching 15 million... This can be regarded as a big-selling fighting game type with 2 million sets Among them, it can be said to be an out-and-out miracle.

Zheng Xin believes that this can be regarded as a miracle for many veteran fighting game manufacturers...

Because it is too exaggerated.

Think about it.

Zheng Xin couldn't help muttering: "If you need more vivid characters and world views... then join the fantastic lineup of characters and broaden the audience of fighting games."

"Fighting games are too difficult, so we simplify the operation, add interesting rules, joyful content, and adopt a design concept that is completely opposite to the complicated operation methods of existing fighting games... Make it easy for anyone to get started, while retaining the possibility of hardcore, It's really...too powerful!"

Although Zheng Xin is not a game producer.

But he is in Linmu Studio, how could he not like games.

And it is precisely because he is also a player, and at the same time a staff member of Linmu Studio... so he knows better than any player how powerful Lin Yao is.

Looking at the forum, Zheng Xin was really full of thoughts.

After a long time.

He just closed the "Game Stars Super Smash Bros." discussion post that broke the reply record, and prepared to continue working.

But the moment he closed the webpage, a post suddenly broke into his sight.

It was the post about the ranking of game companies...

Although know the answer.

But Zheng Xin couldn't help but click in and take a look.

When I saw Linmu Studio's score of 97 points, as well as the deduction items.

He froze for a moment, then smiled wryly, closed the web page, and opened OA.

Then he opened the internal mail that he had just received not long ago.

As for what the internal email said...it's simple, a replacement for switch.

Inside Linmu Studio, in fact, they also noticed problems related to the hardware of the host department.

In fact.

The last thing Lin Yao paid attention to before the holiday was the hardware iteration of the host department.

but.

She didn't give an answer until the end.

But it doesn't matter whether Lin Yao is there or not.

There is already a consensus in the host sector.

That is... the hardware does need to iterate.

Although not the first priority.

After all, the switch here has not reached the level of Lin Yao's previous life.

But do start planning.

At present, the host department is not free.

As for the executives... Lin Yao made it clear before the holiday that they have very little intervention in the product.

Lin Bingye has just joined the company and is still in the stage of understanding the operation of the company.

Therefore, the platform technology development department in charge of Zheng Xin was the only one who took the lead in the early stage.

And here lies the problem.

Zheng Xin currently has no clue about the new host....

In other words, there is no good clue.

first.

Switch iteration is certain, and he agrees with this.

But how to iterate specifically has become a problem.

Is it still in the form of switching between handheld and host, and supports an enhanced version of switch that is backward compatible?

Or start from scratch, give up backward compatibility, and go directly to traditional hosts?

Zheng Xin preferred the former at first.

But when Zheng Xin thought about what happened when Lin Yao held the switch press conference, he started to retreat.

Because if it's just an enhanced version of the switch... there won't be any surprises.

The new machine is hard to say on the commercial level, but without the slightest surprise, it is already a big problem.

What about a traditional host?

Not to mention surprises...and there are more problems, not to mention the compatibility of old games, how to solve the exclusive problem of the console?

Traditional hosts are not like switches, and Linmu Studio also has a Vaporwave game platform.

Because of the existence of the Vaporwave game platform, mainstream players already own a PC... If Linmu Studio still monopolizes the traditional console, it will undoubtedly force the users of the Vaporwave game platform to buy a console.

This is too much.

Therefore, as a traditional host, Linmu Studio can only rely on the Vaporwave game platform as a part of the vassal.

But what's the point?

Zheng Xin felt that... Linmu Studio shouldn't release such a mediocre product.

"ah……"

Zheng Xin leaned back, looked at the screen, and let out a long sigh: "Maybe it's the best choice for the mainframe iteration, and the enhanced version of Switch is the best choice, after all, it can solve the urgent need... But I'm still not reconciled."

"It would be great if Switch could have a product that truly amazes players while launching iterative products."

Yes.

In fact, deep down in Zheng Xin's heart...not only does he want to make an iterative switch, but he also wants to make a product that will amaze players, just like the switch proposed by Lin Yao.

Because this can not only retain the user base of Switch, but also allow Linmu Studio to have more possibilities.

This is 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, and the other way, after much deliberation, seems to be the only way of the traditional host, ah..."

He leaned back, spread out on the chair, and the feeling of being proud because of the "Love Letter" project at the beginning disappeared in an instant.

Although the current next-generation console iteration is far from urgent.

But it was like an invisible boulder pressing on Zheng Xin's heart... It was very uncomfortable.

If Lin Yao is still there... there must be a solution, right?

Uncontrollably, an idea popped up.

Zheng Xin looked at the ceiling and couldn't help but smile.

"It seems that the hardware department is not without any influence... Forget it, let's do what we can first, and consider the direction of the enhanced version of Switch first."

He talked to himself, then sat up, rubbed his face, and returned to work.