Quantic Dream

Quantic Dream SA is a French video game developer founded on May 2, 1997. The company also supplies motion capture services to film and video game companies. They are well known for their story-based interactive drama games such as Heavy Rain, Fahrenheit, and Beyond: Two Souls. David Cage is the primary writer, director, and programmer of their games.

Why They and Their Games Rock

 * 1) They're pioneers of the interactive drama style of games where the game takes priority over story than actual gameplay. Not that dissimilar to Point-and-Click games.
 * 2) They utilize impressive motion capturing to create some of the most graphically advanced games of their generations.
 * 3) They don't rush their games and instead take time to make them. In fact, each games takes them roughly three to five years to make, with the longest duration between games being six years, which is why they've only made five games so far despite existing since 1997.
 * 4) Almost all of your choices affect the game and the story, for example in Heavy Rain, there's a guy where you choose to arrest him, if you don't, you enter a boss fight.
 * 5) Their games tend to have multiple endings, giving them huge replayability.
 * 6) The concept for many of their games are thoroughly interesting. The Nomad Soul tells about a cyberpunk city being controlled by demons, Detroit: Become Human is about androids fighting for civil rights, and Heavy Rain has a murder mystery similar to Se7en.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The studio's first game, mh:crappygames:The Nomad Soul, wasn't very good.
 * 2) David Cage is a really controversial figure. Here are some examples:
 * 3) * Cage's response to the allegations against him (see trivia #3) was pretty bad with him replying, “You want to talk about homophobia? I work with Ellen Page, who fights for LGBT rights. You want to talk about racism? I work with Jesse Williams, who fights for civil rights in the USA... Judge me by my work". Basically saying, "I'm friends with these people who support this, so therefore, I'm not this".
 * 4) * In Beyond: Two Souls, it was discovered that there was a fully modeled nude version of Elliot (formerly Ellen before coming out as transgender) Page's character Jodie, which is really strange and David Cage came under fire for it.
 * 5) David Cage is also not a very good writer, but he has improved overtime as evident by his more recent games.
 * 6) * Subtlety: One of the biggest problems is that David Cage isn't good at being subtle. This can be seen in Detroit: Become Human as there are many painfully obvious allegories to things like the Civil Rights Movement and the Holocaust.
 * 7) *Dialogue: One of the major criticisms towards his writing is the dialogue with many considering the dialogue of most of his games "as if it was written by an alien".
 * 8) In January 2018, three French media firms – Le Monde,[18]  Canard PC[19]  and Mediapart[20]  – reported that Quantic Dream was characterized by a toxic studio culture, overworked, and sexist or racist behavior by employees. The studio's founders Guillaume de Fondaumière and David Cage, who themselves acted in such a manner according to the reports, denied these accusations.
 * 9) Despite having tons of fans, Quantic Dream has gotten heavy criticism over the years for prioritizing story rather than raw gameplay. Their games are typically really short and easy, with long bursts of story and very little actual playtime. While fans, and the company themselves, calls this style of video game an Interactive Drama in a positive light, detractors call it an Interactive Movie in a very negative light.
 * 10) Their game Detroit: Become Human created controversy by children's campaigners and a UK Member of Parliament for having a domestic abuse scene.