One of the lead developers of the upcoming MindsEye is former Rockstar developer Leslie Benzies, and that’s why there has been some comparisons between the game and GTA, which isn’t really fair. And recently, Benzies has spoke on this bizarre comparison, he stated:
“There’s always comparisons, and I think that’s how humans work,” Benzies told GI.biz. “As kids, we’re taught to put a triangle into a triangular hole, and a square into a square hole. I think we do that for the rest of our lives, and we like to describe something new as ‘it’s X plus Y, with a bit of Z in there’. It makes things easy for us. It’s maybe humans optimizing the way we communicate.”
The dev said that he hopes players see MindsEye for what it’s aiming to be, “The guys have built something very cool, and I just hope people can see it for what it’s trying to be.”
He also said that the developers had a lot of different directions to choose from when deciding what MindsEye needed to be, and the GTA blueprint was never one of those.
“I’m not sure it would’ve been smart as a company to say, ‘We are going to compete with the biggest game on the planet.’ I’m not sure that would be the best business decision to make,” he said. “We went through a bunch of different designs, and to tell our story, this is what we landed on.”
According to Benzies, MindsEye is “one story in an epic universe,” which focuses on protagonist Jacob Diaz while the game will also take players to other stories featuring different main characters in different periods of time.
The Unreal 5 powered title is also confirmed to cost $59.99 which, according to the studio, is “a refreshing departure from the standard $70~$80 AAA price tag.” Though we’ll have to wait and see the total available contents of this game and how they actually stack against the price tag.
