Looking back at my more than 20 years of video game experience, there is always a game in this memory that is looming and difficult to grasp.
There was a period when the show "Game Storm" was the hottest, and many excellent works such as "Theme Hospital" and "Somatosensory Tennis" laid a deep impression on me;
But if the most memorable thing is, of course, it is the "Hundred Battles Heavenly Worm" that I have not yet paid for.
Chaotic status quo
Originally, Uncle Monster wanted to make a joke with everyone on April 1 with the "Mobile Version launched by Hundred Battles Heavenly Worm", but thinking back to my youth that could not be repeated, I finally planned to do a serious science popularization for everyone;
Because on January 31 of this year, Team17 announced that it will license the IP of "Worms" to a third party, and will launch a series of "environment-friendly" NFT products.
Needless to say, Worms is a great work, or it was once outstanding.
The excellent experience has made this IP a first-party work that can land on six platforms such as PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
However, the large volume also brought a lot of problems, the elders almost all left, the team is basically a shallow staff...
There are so many questions like this, and it's clear that Team17 has lost its way, and I think I can finally understand why the excellent IP of "Hundred Battles" is so tepid today that it can't attract the attention of players.
It is difficult to become an ivy
This year is the 27th year of the birth of the IP of "Hundred Battles and Heavenly Worms", and it is difficult to imagine that an IP that has been operating for nearly 30 years will be like this, not hot, nor completely cool.
Even in 2020, they abandoned decades of precipitation and turned to the development of "eating chicken mode", they could not reverse this situation.
(Hundred Battles Of Heavenly Worms: Great Scuffle)
Maybe it's hard for me to complain about anything, after all, this old friend who has been with me for a long time is no longer the "Hundred Battles Heavenly Worm" that I am familiar with, both inside and outside.
Instead of talking about the 1995 pixel version that I have never touched, and not complaining too much about the quality of the generation after 2010, let's talk about the "Worms 2: Doomsday" that I am most familiar with, for me, this is the most classic work.
In 2009, my cousin's computer had a total of three games, whether it was "CF" or "War3", we always had one person who could only stare at the side, so "Hundred Battles" was undoubtedly a choice that could satisfy everyone.
Super sheep, split bananas, and hallelujah after the explosion of the Divine Grenade, these classic elements always flash in my mind from time to time.
It is this game that makes me have a lot of "laughter and anger" with my cousins and friends, but the overall is very cheerful;
There is nothing that cannot be solved with "one more round", and if there is, then "another hundred million rounds".
The cause of the cooling
With the change of the times and the increase of age, more and more excellent new works have emerged, and it is difficult for us to continue to devote our enthusiasm to a game.
Later, games such as Bouncing Hall, which can be opened directly from 4399, make people even more reluctant to find resources through "special channels".
In 2010, Team17 underwent a large-scale restructuring, and its main business changed from production to distribution.
There is no doubt that this was a successful transformation from a business point of view, and the quality of the games they released was also very high, such as the "Hustle Kitchen" (Breakup Kitchen), which was very popular some time ago.
From 1995 to 2010, Team17 made 16 models of "Hundred Battles and Heavenly Worms", which is not an exaggeration to say that it is "New Year's goods"; but the singleness of the work led to fatigue in the R& D department, and finally the creativity dried up.
Even when Team17 was at its most difficult, they almost lost the IP of "Hundred Battles of Heavenly Worms".
In fact, from an objective point of view, perhaps it is not a bad thing to let "Hundred Battles Heavenly Worm" cool down;
Just like Blizzard, which was once put on the altar, the continuous consumption of "old capital" can make shareholders very decent, but in the end, in addition to word of mouth, it may also be the foundation under the MMORPG milestone.
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