Crackdown will lose 5-10 for being an MS game and 5-10 for not being narrative driven. Will score 72-77.
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Microsoft Studios |OT3| I thought they were supposed to be sold off by now
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Anyone ever see this interview with Gavin Price who use to work at Rare before forming Playtonic? He talks about how MS always supported Rare and praises Phil Spencer
Yooka Laylee was a bust, but what are the odds that MS would acquire Playtonic and have them work on a Banjo remake/sequel?
Spiritual successor I'd assume
Anyone ever see this interview with Gavin Price who use to work at Rare before forming Playtonic? He talks about how MS always supported Rare and praises Phil Spencer
Yooka Laylee was a bust, but what are the odds that MS would acquire Playtonic and have them work on a Banjo remake/sequel?
Spiritual successor I'd assume
But hasn't Gears 4 gotten really good support after its release? Splash Damage has a large chunk of employees - around a hundred, maybe more - working full time on Gears. Collectively they have hundreds of years worth of experience working on the Gears MP. Seems like a waste to end such a relationship just because of it being a second party.
That .... looks.... pretty cool actually. A little strategy action mixed with tower defense.
^_^ Thanks for holding me down while I was away and the warm welcome!
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The price has increased but so has their catalogue. Still worth it for me
Welcome back
Probably multiplat though as in the bonus requirements section it talks about having experience with PS Network, Xbox Live and Valve Steamworks
Having experience with any online multiplayer environment is a plus for any multiplayer developer, as having experience with one can help transition you to another. That said who knows what it will release on.
The forbes thread is funny.
-no one said only power matters, but some people in that thread already keeping telling us power doesn't matter at all
-have a positive article for MS? must be MS paying them to PR(even though there were many articles bashing MS due to how badly they done), but nah not because MS start offering something good(like XGP) again and preparing up next-gen with acquiring studios
-no one said only power matters, but some people in that thread already keeping telling us power doesn't matter at all
-have a positive article for MS? must be MS paying them to PR(even though there were many articles bashing MS due to how badly they done), but nah not because MS start offering something good(like XGP) again and preparing up next-gen with acquiring studios
So this should be Bleeding edge or UPREZ? We know for sure that one of those is current gen/cross plattform because it started back in 2014Ninja Theory has a new Game Director, one of the designers on Hellblade and DmC is taking up a directorial role on presumably one of the new projects they kicked off after the acquisition was announced.
The style, the humor, music and the term "pioneer" confirms that theory
Depends on the pace and the variety. Gow2 is less than 10 hours and it's the fucking best campaign ever released for a shooter
it needs pack of carnages,not artificial lenght like the new god of war
He just said that he now has access to the game which is in soft release.
I need it now
Well from the xlive perspective they did: it's the most played 2016's game
What's ironic that I remember a recent positive thread for another console manufacturer where people suggesting it was a PR were either warned or banned. In MS threads it's just par for the course. I also remember people getting warnings for low effort ports like "lol" or "lmao", and yet that thread is full of that as well. Mods probably just gave up on moderating MS threads bar some extremely egregious cases, so best just leave your comment on the subject and ignore the dozens/hundreds of shitposts you have to scroll through to find a couple actually meaningful (positive or negative) message.
I expect a psychological terror or something lighter like Alan Wake. I hope they avoid the jumpscare I hate to take fright in games.
Game Pass needs all kinds of games to thrive. 5-6-7 years development triple (or quadruple) A projects, medium-sized 2-3 years double-A projects, ambitious indies by small teams, "quick" but interesting titles (something like OnRush was developed in a ridiculously short timeframe for example - of course the game flopped but it wasn't much due to the quality at all), etc. etc.. Of course, MS doesn't "need" to buy indies: there's ID@Xbox for publishing those games, and if they want them exclusive they can just offer some technical help and whatnot beyond what they normally do, see Cuphead.
Doesn't have to be an acquisition indeed. An ID@Xbox Gamepass deal could include enough funding.
What's up with obsessing with the length of a game? I would rather have 10 h of very good paced and diverse Gameplay than 20 h with mediocre and patted out gameplay.
Gears 4 wasn't 5-6 Hours like you are implying. It was 10 Hours. so i guess Gears 5 will also be a little bit longer if there are more open playspaces.
It dosn't Need to be "longer than 18 Hours" if it has semi-open world stuff.
Another game with semi-open world stuff is Uncharted: The Lost Legacy - which is around 8 Hours Long. So a Gears 5 campain with 12 Hours could be more than enough.
Indeed, while a lot of the "open world" games are quite good, too many of them are filled with timesinks.
14 is enough.
MS aren't only going after massive studios, nor should they.
12-14h sounds about right.
Wanting a slightly longer campaign = obsession? Ok
Someone is funding them. They didn't get the money for a new studio from Hitman sales.
Swedish hub is a bit interesting. It's where Minecraft is at...right? Talent rich area.
Yeah, they aren't gonna expand based on Hitman 2's numbers alone, that'd be suicide. Money has to be coming from somewhere, and I can't think they are risking it all with major loans or something to do a Hitman 3 and an unproven new IP with 50-100% extra workforce overall.
I'm currently reading through past pages to get back caught up on things...
Wouldn't it make more sense for us to label them "IRPG's" for Isometric Role Playing Games?
Wouldn't it make more sense for us to label them "IRPG's" for Isometric Role Playing Games?
That's why I refuse to purchase Hitman 2.
I know once I purchase it, it will be on Gamepass. I am going to wait.
Sense is not something you should look for in regards to genre names. "Immersive sim" as a way to describe games like System Shock is one of the worst offenders, but you also got roguelike/roguelite, or the very fact that RPG means just about anything from a shooter with stats to a hardcore pen and paper-like experience.
I wouldn't read too much into this.
Playground opening a second studio was initially for a new IP that supposed to go multiplatform.
IO probably got funding coming in for a new project.
I think they'd be great with MS, but I'm starting to feel as though that ship has sailed.
Still, it would be a great get. I'm certain a new IP would be a hit, man.
I'll see myself out.
There's no real evidence either way but I'm not ruling out Warner Bros funding them as well
But Uncharted TLL Is an expansion, besides, Gears 4 campaign is really short if you cut the horde levels inside the campaign (that thing was really silly)
Either it's a small studio or they're about to be acquired imo.
By MS or WB.
But we at least know MS was looking into them.
Unless it's 100% happening they would expand because of that. You don't make a commitment like that because something is probably in the cards. You would wait till the deal is finalized.
Playground and ninja where expanding with or without Microsoft.
Well, it does fit with the recent theme of acquiring financially struggling studios within spitting distance of existing studios. (Mojang in this case)
They could be getting funding from one of the Chinese giants. Or maybe Sony jumps in to the spree as has been rumored. Outside of those 3 options, can't think of who else would invest. They are talented for sure but not great business risks right now. Especially starting a new studio. Not someone an Activision or EA goes after. Not someone I see general investors doubling down on.
The Sweden thing didn't make sense until I looked up devs in the area and saw old news stories that Microsoft talked about the great talent pool in the area when they bought Mojang a few years ago.
My initial thought was that it was related to developing their Glacier engine as they're hiring for positions on it.
Whatever the case may be, I'm just happy there's some healthy signs for the studio.
Btw since I didn't already say it, welcome back Havok and Rumble! Good to have your posts to balance out my crazy talk. Lol
Welcome Back!!
Those other threads can become ridiculous. That ignore thread button works wonders for me. :-)
Isn't it actually a detriment if a company uses a proprietary engine, especially if the studio doesn't make a type of game that warrants having its own engine (so Forzatech is an exception)? Most Microsoft studios use UE4 and with Halo Infinite they will soon have a proprietary engine used by one of their biggest studios. Other studios using their own proprietary engine means that they need to spend more resources on maintenance and reduced employee mobility. If they wanted to have more game engine expertise in-house, it probably makes more sense to court talented engineers directly.
That would be better than cRPG, at least. At this point, I prefer to just call them either RPG or Action-RPGs but that's a game of semantics that has been argued time and time again with no agreement, and I don't want this thread to get side-tracked on it.
Surely by now they've passed 3m total. Hitman 1 has had a ton of deep discounts along the way. It would be a tragedy if one of the best games released this gen (my #3 GOTG right now) couldn't cross that threshold across three platforms by now.
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