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Kotaku Splitscreen: Ubisoft has new projects for E3

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Cliff Notes from the tweet:

New IP 1: Pioneer
Was a peaceful sci-fi game, was cancelled and turned into a co-op shooter EDIT: Schreier says nah
On the Rainbow Six engine
Revealed at E3


New IP 2: Orpheus
Action-adventure game
Similar to BOTW

Highly recommend listening to the podcast, it's real good stuff and they go into a bit more detail

Highly do not recommend following Nibel on Twitter, he is a demon spawned from hell to torment me

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jschreier said:
Broken telephone up in here. I didn't say Pioneer was a new IP, I said it was on the Rainbow Six engine and probably was part of that series now. I wrote about this a few months ago: https://kotaku.com/the-real-story-behind-pioneer-the-troubled-sci-fi-game-1832137013
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Pioneer looked like one of the most unique triple-A games out there. It turning into a co-op shooter is a slight disappointment, as much as I love shooters. We'll see how it goes but that's such a weird repurposing.
 

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"Was a peaceful sci-fi game, was cancelled and turned into a co-op shooter"

Sums up game development tbh
 
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Interested about that Orpheus game. I didn't like BoTW so much but I do enjoy Ubisoft games so will be nice to see if I enjoy their version more.
 
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Jason on WDL/Rollerball "they almost made it without a leak"
Also Jason: "let me tell you about everything I know"
 
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Orpheus sounds interesting. Especially if they somehow err more towards the RPG side of things.
 
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BOTW like game will always have my attention at the outset at least.
 
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Pillock said:
Did we ever see anything of it?
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Not a whole lot, actually, but the concept of a completely peaceful space game with fairly abstract visuals is not something you see everyday from a major publisher. It could have been a turd, of course, but it was an intriguing project. It becoming co-op shooter #999999 is, on paper, a lot less interesting, though of course it's entirely possible they have the next hit phenomenon on their hands. Overwatch was also supposed to be an MMO, then quickly repurposed into an FPS, which then became a global phenomenon so... who knows?
 
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Jason is completely wrong about Pioneer.

It's not a new IP. It's not even based on what the old project was at all.
 
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Just listened to the podcast. I hear Orpheus and BotW. No matter how hard I try, my mind just says it's another Ubi open world game.
 
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Interested in Orpheus. Hope it offers the same kind of freedom like BotW.
 
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Ubisoft has been really elevating their open-world stuff since quite some time (Odyssey and FC5 was some of the most fun i had in years). They're really excelling as THE big one among the 3rds right now. I can't wait to see their take on some BotW-esque Action-Adventure, so i will look forward to whatever Orpheus is.
 

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Respect to Ubi for bringing new IPs.

Please . . . don't be a driving game (they can't do vehicle handling for shit) and don't be a shooter (fucking enough of those.)
 
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ZhugeEX said:
Jason is completely wrong about Pioneer.

It's not a new IP. It's not even based on what the old project was at all.
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Considering Ubisoft sent me a poll asking whether or not I would be interested in Rainbow Six co-op only (also asked if I liked the alien mode, wanted a post-apocalyptic setting, more aliens, or robots, or humans as enemies, etc etc etc), I'm not surprised.
 
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I don't always like Ubi games.

But I have a ton of respect for them for always bringing at least 1 new IP entertainment to every E3.

New action/adventure is always exciting. Hopefully there's loads of environmental puzzles and we finally bring back to wall-running from Prince of Persia.
 
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That would mean Yves was misleading us on purpose when he said there would be two new things. We know about Watch_Dogs Legion and the rollerblading game, the latter is a new IP, the former isn't

Interesting!
 

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DocSeuss said:
Considering Ubisoft sent me a poll asking whether or not I would be interested in Rainbow Six co-op only (also asked if I liked the alien mode, wanted a post-apocalyptic setting, more aliens, or robots, or humans as enemies, etc etc etc), I'm not surprised.
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It always seemed odd to just throw such a fairly polished zombie mode in the game only for it to last like what, 2 weeks? Makes way too much sense for it to be an appetizer, see if people are interested in this sort of thing. Left 4 Dead is left for dead (heh), Evolve imploded spectacularly, there's COD Zombies but those are relatively low on content as it's just 1/3rd of the whole package, the existing co-op shooters in that style are mainly relatively smaller productions (Zombie Army Trilogy, Strange Brigade, etc.), so there's definitely room for a polished triple-A rendition of the concept.
 

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jschreier said:
I recommend y'all listen to the pod to hear what I actually said, plus some insight on Ubisoft's development practices, Splinter Cell, and lots of other good E3 buzz/predictions/rumors. Kotaku Splitscreen, your home for weather updates and video game scoops: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kotaku-splitscreen/id1039413502?mt=2
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I'm listening on Google Podcasts so i don't have to deal with Apple's silly limitations

 
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I guess Orpheus is the natural spin off of AC Odyssey. It's clear that studio doesn't really want to make an AC. And that's for the better.
 
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