Hey, do you remember Dreams? The ambitious Media Molecule developed creation engine was everywhere, until it wasn’t. In fact, it’s been a while since we heard or saw anything about the game; the Guildford-based developer’s been posting updates to its website and social media accounts, but it’s not like the title’s been getting much attention on the PlayStation Blog.
PlayStation Europe honcho Jim Ryan says that all is well, though: “Everything is fine with Dreams,” he confirmed in an interview with Eurogamer.net. “We will have news of Dreams later in the year. You saw there was a fairly consistent tonality in the games last night […] it probably wouldn't have been the place for Dreams.”
We’re not entirely sure why Sony felt it only had to show dark and gritty games during its press conference – there’s nothing wrong with a bit of variety, and the PlayStation 4 has it in spades. But it sounds like Media Molecule just wants to keep this one underwraps a bit until it can have a better showing – it’s only recently started work on the single player campaign after all.
[source eurogamer.net]
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Imagine this game in VR! It would be really special. One can only dream. (see what I did there?)
@Jake3103 I thought it was going to vr?
@Jake3103 I have good news for you: it's fully compatible with PlayStation VR!
@B-I-G-DEVIL is that confirmed?
@get2sammyb oh wow, that's really cool. It's not a good sign that we didn't see it at E3, though. Development is really dragging on.
Twist ending: it was all a dream
I think they might have a point here. The Sony event largely just showed trailers and easy to grasp content (I mean, we all understand about fishing in VR right?).
This one needs some commentary and playthroughs on stage for people to try and get it.
Or this game is just a mess and not going to work...
@get2sammyb . Do u have any links confirming that?
@Chryssy75 I'm sure I watched a vr demo last year on their twitch channel. They archive the content
I'd love to know where Michel Ancel 's WilD is as well
@Chryssy75 Here we go: http://www.roadtovr.com/media-molecule-confirms-dreams-is-coming-to-playstation-vr/
Looking forward to seeing more of this. Would be tempted to purchase vr just for this.
Don't know about Ryan's PR spin, but I just think they don't want to show too much of the game in case it's still years away. You can't show the game at every conference, multiple times a year and expect people not to get bored of it before the game is even out.
Dreams looks like an incredibly tough sell.
A shame we didn't see it, but I trust that everything is going well. It's a very ambitious game.
Hopefully we'll get a nice big update at PSX in December, if not before
@get2sammyb Thanks for giving Dreams some coverage.
Back before it was Dreams, back before there was even a PS4, 4 1/2 years ago in Feb 2013, mM was talking about having been working on this game for years - they didn't do LBP3 - so I'm in all sincerity waiting for it to pull a "The Last Guardian" and release on PS5. At launch if we're lucky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6tgJRRZurk
Haha! I think the problem is they've built all the tools, right? And now they're building the game with the tools. So it's like... Making the engine then making the game.
In my opinion, PSX 2017 is a better platform to reintroduce Dreams.
Better that they take more time to explain it properly - it's a game that you really need to see in depth to fully understand.
Still, it's a shame that they seemingly decided E3 was only for one kind of game.
I hope we're getting news later this year. I can swear there was meant to be a beta last year?
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