MindsEye - A 3rd Person Shooter developed by Ex-GTA developers.

[A Series Of Tubes]

Past the broken physics, awful enemy AI, terrible dialogue/voice acting, and ugly DEI character designs, I always like this science fiction aesthetic, shame to see it wasted

The game, ironically enough, stars the same mystery meat mutt as Mafia 3, and it's a repeat of that game. Great map and vehicle models, everything else is dog vomit.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Even after the latest patch, MindsEye is still laden with tons of performance issues that cannot be fixed with just patches:

 

[Thiletonomics]

The Raking will commence at BARB after MindsEye's failure. / Archive

 

[p1138]

The Raking will commence at BARB after MindsEye's failure. / Archive

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Anyone at that studio who is surprised by this, is a moron. May as well have emptied your desk on launch day.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Watched some YouTuber do the whole plot rundown:

Holy shit it's bad. I don't know if it's even worth it to laugh at the diversity with how uninspired the plot is, and how broken the gameplay is.

Also who the fuck names a character Rigsby? I kept thinking on Regular Show.

 

[Jace on ice]

Studio will probably go under after literally one game.

 

[p1138]

Studio will probably go under after literally one game.

They had 2 C level executives leave before the launch of the game, and have already begun layoffs. Investors are going to be pissed that it managed to do better than Concord and basically nothing else for the >$150,000,000 thrown at this pile of slop.

https://steamdb.info/app/3265250/charts/

With even Sony issuing refunds https://gamerant.com/mindseye-playstation-store-refund/ , with the only previous time they've done that was Cyberpunk 2077 but at least that studio had The Witcher as a franchise and an entire marketplace(GOG) providing revenue to fund fixing shit. This Build A Rocket Boy studio doesn't have any of that. It's not a matter of probably going under, that's already in progress.

 

[The Last Stand]

They had 2 C level executives leave before the launch of the game, and have already begun layoffs. Investors are going to be pissed that it managed to do better than Concord and basically nothing else for the >$150,000,000 thrown at this pile of slop.
https://steamdb.info/app/3265250/charts/

I guess Rockstar's part of GTA VI's $1-2 billion budget was for paid actors to tank the Benz's MindsEye. Damn bastards.

This Build A Rocket Boy studio doesn't have any of that. It's not a matter of probably going under, that's already in progress.

So much for their EVERYWHERE title, which was what MindsEye was built on.

 

[p1138]

I guess Rockstar's part of GTA VI's $1-2 billion budget was for paid actors to tank the Benz's MindsEye. Damn bastards.

I think that's probably one of the most pathetic takes from someone at a game studio I've seen, and that was months before launch even.

 

[The Last Stand]

Even if they polish MindsEye to a playable state, it looks boring as hell. If it was a movie, it'd probably be bargain bin within a month.

 

[A Series Of Tubes]

It's so funny how all of these modern shitty mission based driving/third person shooting games like Mafia 3, SR2022 and Mindseye make the ones from 20 some odd years ago look like masterpieces (Driv3r and both True Crime games on the PS2 for example)
I'm of the opinion that the entirety of BARB (very unfortunate acronym, imagine having your studio's acronym be a boomer woman name lmao) - the EVERYWHERE NFT blockchain shit, Mindseye and god only knows what else was all just an elaborate money laundering scheme at this point.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Actor Alex Hernandez, who played as the main character in MindsEye, was recently interviewed about the game:

He seemed to be laying back on the criticism of the game, as if he was afraid of offending BARB.

 

[Halbschwanz]

Watched some YouTuber do the whole plot rundown:

I watched this video having randomly come across it in recommended and putting it on another monitor as background noise. I had heard literally nothing about this game and just assumed it was some mid-budget venture capital tax write off. I was surprised when I checked the comments and learned that there was apparently excitement for this game and that it cost $150 million. Given that almost every character looks like a 56% meme and the shooting looks worse than GTA IV's I was struggling to figure out what the point even was.

 

[The Last Stand]

Actor Alex Hernandez, who played as the main character in MindsEye, was recently interviewed about the game:

He seemed to be laying back on the criticism of the game, as if he was afraid of offending BARB.

I’d think if he’d start bashing the game to that extent, he’d be blacklisted from the industry and finding work.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I wonder if it'll be added to Wikipedia's worst games list

 

[Thiletonomics]

Leslie Benzies continues to double down on this game, as he still blames "internal and external saboteurs" for the game failing, and says that the game will get "relaunched". / Archive

At this rate, it's only a matter of time before Benzies blames Kiwi Farms, GamerGate, and/or Pmurt for Mindseye's failure. And good luck with getting the funding to rework this game with how badly it bombed the first time.

 

[StacticShock]

At this rate, it's only a matter of time before Benzies blames Kiwi Farms, GamerGate, and/or Pmurt for Mindseye's failure. And good luck with getting the funding to rework this game with how badly it bombed the first time.

another kiwi W by doing nothing, NULL CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS

 

[The Last Stand]

Leslie Benzies continues to double down on this game, as he still blames "internal and external saboteurs" for the game failing, and says that the game will get "relaunched". / Archive

At this rate, it's only a matter of time before Benzies blames Kiwi Farms, GamerGate, and/or Pmurt for Mindseye's failure. And good luck with getting the funding to rework this game with how badly it bombed the first time.

Story-driven action adventure game MindsEye was initially designed to be a part of Everywhere, the ‘Roblox for adults’ creation platform led by former Grand Theft Auto design chief Leslie Benzies. BARB eventually switched to focus on MindsEye, but it has so-far failed to do the business for the company.

If you have to compare your game to another one, that's a bad sign.

 

[thx1138]

Been watching a few videos of this thing and it looks like an asset-flip GTAV steam shovelware clone coded in UE5 with a 6th gen/RTX 2060 as baseline target, with zero to do implemented, just trying to sell it on shoot/drive and cinematics...except the ugly-as-shit Diversity Squad main characters all look like various species of gibbons. The mayoral or senatorial candidate lady has literally NO CHIN, and the Musk stand-in looks (and sounds a bit) like Jesse Pinkman - 2019 called and they want that attempt at relevance back.

The fact that they want $70USD for this thing is just fucking staggering.

 

[The Last Stand]

Angry Joe's review on MindsEye. It's an hour long. Padding, glitches, strict linear mission design, bad AI, poor writing. I bet Mafia III has more freedom than this.