Arkane co-founder Raphaël Colantonio shared that Bethesda didn’t seem interested in Dishonored 3, which eventually led to Deathloop getting the green light.
Talking to Rock-paper-scissors pistol, Colantonio explained that Deathloop started life as a “mini-game” that Arkane would use as an opportunity to learn more about multiplayer game development ahead of his next larger project. “Bethesda wanted us to do something,” Colantonio said. “They have absolutely no idea where we’re going after Dishonored. ‘Do we want Dishonored 3? I don’t know, let’s do something simple and short first, then let’s see.'”
“Và sau đó [Deathloop] has become a big thing, over the years. It’s funny: ‘No, we don’t want to do Dishonored 3, but if you could recommend us a little game, something that could be multiplayer so we could get to know a lot of people. play, something that can have microtransactions, maybe something that has multiplayer. recycle, like a roguelike.'”
Arkane Austin notably released Mooncrash, a roguelike expansion for Prey that was not commercially successful at the time. Although Colantonio has noted that “the roguelike thing is a bit common,” since “most people in the world enjoy some sort of roguelike. So it feels like, ‘Yeah, maybe that’s the way to go. , you recycle the game, you take some elements of the world and remix the content continuously.'”
In turn, Deathloop has grown, leaving the roguelike angle somewhat behind, but keeping those repeating elements. Colantonio noted that the cost of developing Dishonored 3 would likely cost as much as it would cost to create Deathloop, but “that wasn’t the case back then.”
Ironically, Deathloop can be seen as an alternative to Dishonored 3, as it was confirmed last year that the pair of titles are set in the same universe.
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