Microsoft spend like 300 million dollars to get Rare and their IPs, may as well start making more use of the latter, as they already did with KI and Battletoads.
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Presumably for expanded stealth gameplay. Third-person is far superior for situational awareness.
I've said this pretty recently in other threads but I really hope this Perfect Dark is like MGSV in medium-scale, closed-off maps, with a ton of verticality. Legit a dream game of mine.
Also, I hope it's still campy in its story tone. While I don't outright reject it, I just don't think PD works in a serious, grounded manner, but it'd be interesting to be proven wrong if that's the case.
Perfect Dark in third-person, with open-ended traversal with gameplay design that scale from being an outright shooter to a stealth game with ease (hence the MGSV evocation) with a campy story is one of my dream games right now.
I agree with you too that it's always nice to see new IP but you can clearly see none of the major console suppliers or even major third party are releasing a ton of new IP either. It's just the nature of this business.
They do need to do a new direction with it though, not like what Coalition was doing when they took over Gears.
One is about shooting aliens as a super soldier, the other is a spy shooter with some globe trotting and wacky gadget weapons.
That's without getting into how the games are so wildly different mechanically or how mission objectives are handled in each game.
except PD plays nothing like your typical fps.
Having another shallow, set piece driven game where the player spends more time going "oooh" and "ahhh" at what they are watching, and less about any sort of interesting mechanics isn't exactly my idea of fun.
I'd be more into this if they were actually going to tweak the IP into a stealth ip, but even that in the triple A space amounts to little more than basic line of sight stealth with binary phases from the AI, one button take downs, and rigid arenas that don't let one get creative with the systems barring Hitman.
The FPS space also could use a game like PD or No one Lives forever, the wacky gadget weapons play fantastic in a genre all about using fun weapons.
Mechanically the focus on stealth differentiates it. In terms of setting its only similar insofar as its scifi. It's not military SF like halo and gears are, it's more like corporate espionage and conspiracies.
Sony released many this gen tbh.
I'm fine with PD, but a new AAA IP by MS would be nice.
Map: Felicity
Weapons: proximity mines, proximity pinball grenades, N-grenades, Devastator
Map: Grid
7 DarkSims, Free-for-all
Welcom to hell.
Another rollercoaster after the Fable/PD twitter accounts thread.
User Banned (3 Days) - Platform Warring
Because for whatever reason critics love third person and the Sony fanbase they want loves third person so they are just following trends. Which I hate, Microsoft always seems to be catering to the people who will never buy into their eco system anyway.
I'm really anticipating the announcement to this. With this, Hellblade 2 and Avowed, Microsoft seems to finally be making games that appeal to me and will likely push me to buy my first Xbox.
Yeh, we want more sci-fi fps please.
This being TPS is pretty lame.
Who needs frames per second when you're having fun per second?
The N-grenades would obliterate the framerate if I remember correctly, couple of them in a room at once and you've seen faster holiday slides
I specifically hope they include the PD1 incarnation - the one shot one kill, perfect target locator, no range limit one. The one designed to stop campers, that one. Accept no substitutes!
Perfect Dark 3rd person sounds right up my alley.
Man, that's rough. I'm actually the opposite. First person view gives me headaches and motion sickness.
Man, that's rough. I'm actually the opposite. First person view gives me headaches and motion sickness.
Maybe they're making a 3rd person Perfect Dark because they're making a first person Banjo game based on the sections in the second Banjo game
They're always two steps ahead of us
'The only weapon to match it, is someone else with a FarSight, and a faster and better aim than you. The camper's dream weapon and also the camper's nightmare weapon.'
The best weapon ever.
... seconded by the Slayer and the Laptop Gun.
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The wide FOV makes 3rd person perfect for stealth. Gives the player a much higher sense of awareness than FPS.
Perfect Dark had great atmosphere I hope it is true and they do it justice as a AAA story driven game, not another Zero.
Having an out-of-body experience and being able to see around corners and over/through obstacles to eliminate the player ever having to take a risk is not "spatial awareness".
World design is completely different for third-person games because the camera can't handle tight spaces, and interaction is typically reduced to "press X near the glowing object", rather than actually being able to search a room for the thing you were sent in to find.
First-person games are not required to use a narrow FOV.
Internet: "Is it 3rd person Perfect Dark?"
Jeff: "It is, it's Perfect Dark."
Internet: "did you confirm Perfect Dark?"
Jeff: "confirm is a loaded word"
These leakers crack me up LOL. Immediately after getting the attention they crave, they always seem to backpedal lol. Like the guy in the Star Fox thread...
Internet: "Star Fox Grand Prix was a plant"
Leaker: "no it wasnt, this is not true"
Internet: "so it's real?"
Leaker: "no it might be fake but I just don't think it's a plant"
Jeff: "It is, it's Perfect Dark."
Internet: "did you confirm Perfect Dark?"
Jeff: "confirm is a loaded word"
These leakers crack me up LOL. Immediately after getting the attention they crave, they always seem to backpedal lol. Like the guy in the Star Fox thread...
Internet: "Star Fox Grand Prix was a plant"
Leaker: "no it wasnt, this is not true"
Internet: "so it's real?"
Leaker: "no it might be fake but I just don't think it's a plant"
I don't even know who Jeff Grubb is but he's been saying a lot of shit lately and I've seen none of it pan out. I guess we'll see if there's that Nintendo Direct Friday.
I hope this is true though - it would be cool to have another major stealth series again.
I hope this is true though - it would be cool to have another major stealth series again.
'The only weapon to match it, is someone else with a FarSight, and a faster and better aim than you. The camper's dream weapon and also the camper's nightmare weapon.'
The best weapon ever.
... seconded by the Slayer and the Laptop Gun.
First person lacks the peripheral view humans naturally have though. Thats why third person is better.
They arent, but your perspective is limited by the characters perspective. Having an outer body camera eliminates this limitation.
Also a good designer is going to make fov limitations so that people playing on tv aren't getting sick or struggling with depth perception
On one hand, I have never liked Perfect Dark, but on the other it's only had like 2 games and it's been years so I'm not gonna pre judge anything. Hope they make something good, especially with the talent they have acquired on that team.
Smh.
I mean we have so many PD games all ready right? Its been so long anything with the IP is a breath of fresh air specially being 3rd person.
I think this sounds great.
And regarding concerns over the IP-- the last Perfect Dark game was 15 years ago and the last well-received Perfect Dark game was 20 years ago. It's not like people have strict expectations. They can do whatever they want with the IP as long as it includes a female spy and aliens.
And regarding concerns over the IP-- the last Perfect Dark game was 15 years ago and the last well-received Perfect Dark game was 20 years ago. It's not like people have strict expectations. They can do whatever they want with the IP as long as it includes a female spy and aliens.
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