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David Cage is a video game designer who founded the studio Quantic Dream in 1997. He is known for being the writer of games like Beyond: Two Souls, Heavy Rain, and Detroit: Become Human. David is a polarizing figure in the gaming community due to what is perceived as his over-promising of delivering well written, emotional storytelling in his games.

History

David Cage was born in Mulhouse, France on June 9th, 1969.[1] Prior to becoming the founder of Quantic Dream, Cage was a film composer, and most notably wrote the score for the 1995 film Timecop. In 1997, Cage founded Quantic Dream, where he is the co-CEO, lead game designer and screenwriter. The studio became well known for its impressive facial tech and cinematic games which feature primarily quick-time-event-based gameplay. The first game Cage made with the company is Omikron: Nomad Soul (1999) (trailer shown below, left), followed by _Farenheit / Indigo Prophecy (2005) (trailer shown below, right).


Cage and Quantic Dream had their biggest success at the time with Heavy Rain (2010), an interactive game in which the player controls four separate characters in the hunt for a serial killer known as "The Origami Killer" (trailer shown below, left). The game was a critical and commercial success, winning three BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards and earning Cage praise as one of the most unique storytellers in the video game industry. Quantic Dream's next game was Beyond: Two Souls (2013), which starred Ellen Page as the lead character and built off the technical ideas in Heavy Rain (trailer shown below, right).

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Cage and Quantic Dream's latest game is Detroit: Become Human. The game was announced on October 27th 2015 at a Sony press conference during Paris Games Week (first trailer shown below). It appeared at both E3 2016 and E3 2017, showing trailers of additional playable characters and gameplay.


Detroit: Become Human was released to generally favorable reviews, opening to a score of 79/100 on Metacritic. Mainstream Critics praised the branching narrative where each choice made by the player can have a dramatic impact on the story. Dualshockers praised it as the "Quintessential Quantic Dream game". Popular outlets such as IGN and GamesRadar gave it positive reviews, though other critics such as The Verge were more critical of the game's lack of subtlety and gameplay.


Online Presence

Online, Cage's work has polarized critics, as some have found his work trope-y and tedious, while others did not. A lot of the YouTube content surrounding Cage's work ended up being negative, notably because of the same trope-y and tedious tone his works usually carried. One of the most notable critics on YouTube is the Super Best Friends Play channel, who have run Let's Plays of all of Cage's games and have been highly critical of each one. One of the channel's first-ever LPs was of Heavy Rain, which started September 7th, 2012. The first episode gained over 790,000 views (shown below, left). The channel's distaste for Cage's game became well-known among their fanbase. When the channel LP-ed Omikron, the title of each episode after episode 20 read "Best Friends Suffer Through Omikron" (shown below, right).


Upon the release of Detroit: Become Human, channel member Woolie Madden posted a "David Cage Bingo Card" which highlighted various tropes that are in all of David Cage's games.

SUPER BEST FRIENDS P L A Y BINGO B E C O M E H U MA N PITY THE Shower·Racial | Giant, Scene SterotypeLavish".BECOME HUMAN." SEXBOTSS Zone Apartment That's Robo nothow sexual DROWNING Mundane Innapropriate EverydaySlavery people abuse Analogy AT QTE's Black Person talk S----- Android Blade VR Chat RunnerEmotion Civil Rights/ Historic ONE GOOD CEN THE SUPERNATURALOppression Imagery but ROBOTS ReferenceWorld Building robots Zero ROBOone of secretly costs nceDRUGSTHEM human lives "You're Magic chemistry Sympatheticwhy villain motive Noble ROBIRTHỊl , no L homeless & failsafe the robots children LOVE gets steamrolled

Jim Sterling has also mocked Cage in a video following reports about a toxic work environment at Quantic Dream (shown below, left). Eurogamer posted a video giving a nuanced look into David Cage's works in February of 2015, gaining over 16,000 views (shown below, right).


On the other hand, some youtube critics, such as Cr1TiKal were mostly supportive of his work, deeply criticizing the glaringly negative aspects and outright stating that a lot of his work can be outright laughable and mockable, but overall recommending the less faulty works of Cage such as Detroit: Become Human.


Reputation

Lawsuit Against French Media Outlets

In early 2018 a joint investigation by French media outlets Canard PC[2], Mediapart[3], and Le Monde[4] came out alleging that reporting allegations of sexism, extensive time crunches, racism, and a toxic work environment overall at Quantic Dream. David Cage responded with "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.".[5] On April 23rd it was revealed that David Cage and Quantic Dream were suing the media outlets for their negative coverage. This lawsuit was covered by websites such as Ars Technica,[6] Kotaku[7] and PC Gamer.[8]

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David Cage is a video game designer who founded the studio Quantic Dream in 1997. He is known for being the writer of games like Beyond: Two Souls, Heavy Rain, and Detroit: Become Human. David is a polarizing figure in the gaming community due to what is perceived as his over-promising of delivering well written, emotional storytelling in his games.

History

David Cage was born in Mulhouse, France on June 9th, 1969.[1] Prior to becoming the founder of Quantic Dream, Cage was a film composer, and most notably wrote the score for the 1995 film Timecop. In 1997, Cage founded Quantic Dream, where he is the co-CEO, lead game designer and screenwriter. The studio became well known for its impressive facial tech and cinematic games which feature primarily quick-time-event-based gameplay. The first game Cage made with the company is Omikron: Nomad Soul (1999) (trailer shown below, left), followed by _Farenheit / Indigo Prophecy (2005) (trailer shown below, right).



Cage and Quantic Dream had their biggest success at the time with Heavy Rain (2010), an interactive game in which the player controls four separate characters in the hunt for a serial killer known as "The Origami Killer" (trailer shown below, left). The game was a critical and commercial success, winning three BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards and earning Cage praise as one of the most unique storytellers in the video game industry. Quantic Dream's next game was Beyond: Two Souls (2013), which starred Ellen Page as the lead character and built off the technical ideas in Heavy Rain (trailer shown below, right).


[This video has been removed]


Cage and Quantic Dream's latest game is Detroit: Become Human. The game was announced on October 27th 2015 at a Sony press conference during Paris Games Week (first trailer shown below). It appeared at both E3 2016 and E3 2017, showing trailers of additional playable characters and gameplay.



Detroit: Become Human was released to generally favorable reviews, opening to a score of 79/100 on Metacritic. Mainstream Critics praised the branching narrative where each choice made by the player can have a dramatic impact on the story. Dualshockers praised it as the "Quintessential Quantic Dream game". Popular outlets such as IGN and GamesRadar gave it positive reviews, though other critics such as The Verge were more critical of the game's lack of subtlety and gameplay.



Online Presence

Online, Cage's work has polarized critics, as some have found his work trope-y and tedious, while others did not. A lot of the YouTube content surrounding Cage's work ended up being negative, notably because of the same trope-y and tedious tone his works usually carried. One of the most notable critics on YouTube is the Super Best Friends Play channel, who have run Let's Plays of all of Cage's games and have been highly critical of each one. One of the channel's first-ever LPs was of Heavy Rain, which started September 7th, 2012. The first episode gained over 790,000 views (shown below, left). The channel's distaste for Cage's game became well-known among their fanbase. When the channel LP-ed Omikron, the title of each episode after episode 20 read "Best Friends Suffer Through Omikron" (shown below, right).



Upon the release of Detroit: Become Human, channel member Woolie Madden posted a "David Cage Bingo Card" which highlighted various tropes that are in all of David Cage's games.


SUPER BEST FRIENDS P L A Y BINGO B E C O M E H U MA N PITY THE Shower·Racial | Giant, Scene SterotypeLavish".BECOME HUMAN." SEXBOTSS Zone Apartment That's Robo nothow sexual DROWNING Mundane Innapropriate EverydaySlavery people abuse Analogy AT QTE's Black Person talk S----- Android Blade VR Chat RunnerEmotion Civil Rights/ Historic ONE GOOD CEN THE SUPERNATURALOppression Imagery but ROBOTS ReferenceWorld Building robots Zero ROBOone of secretly costs nceDRUGSTHEM human lives "You're Magic chemistry Sympatheticwhy villain motive Noble ROBIRTHỊl , no L homeless & failsafe the robots children LOVE gets steamrolled

Jim Sterling has also mocked Cage in a video following reports about a toxic work environment at Quantic Dream (shown below, left). Eurogamer posted a video giving a nuanced look into David Cage's works in February of 2015, gaining over 16,000 views (shown below, right).



On the other hand, some youtube critics, such as Cr1TiKal were mostly supportive of his work, deeply criticizing the glaringly negative aspects and outright stating that a lot of his work can be outright laughable and mockable, but overall recommending the less faulty works of Cage such as Detroit: Become Human.



Reputation

Lawsuit Against French Media Outlets

In early 2018 a joint investigation by French media outlets Canard PC[2], Mediapart[3], and Le Monde[4] came out alleging that reporting allegations of sexism, extensive time crunches, racism, and a toxic work environment overall at Quantic Dream. David Cage responded with "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.".[5] On April 23rd it was revealed that David Cage and Quantic Dream were suing the media outlets for their negative coverage. This lawsuit was covered by websites such as Ars Technica,[6] Kotaku[7] and PC Gamer.[8]

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