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Rumour: The unannounced project at The Initiative runs on Unreal Engine 4 and features "various weapons, gadgets, and a camera surveillance system"
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Was there this mamy people wanting new IP from SSM when god of war 2018 was announced/rumoured?
I do remember some.
I do remember some.
I gotta say, I would be a tad bit disappointed if the game that they were working was perfect dark. I was expecting them to create a new AAA franchise :/
Blown away by people who think Perfect Dark coming back is not a new ip. Getting close to 20 years since perfect dark zero.
-Crimson skies
-Brute force
-Jade empire
-Perfect Dark
-Mech Assault
I'd prefer a reimagining of any of the above rather than a new ip. Not to mention we have new ips coming...doesn't always mean they are going to be good *see bleeding edge*.
-Crimson skies
-Brute force
-Jade empire
-Perfect Dark
-Mech Assault
I'd prefer a reimagining of any of the above rather than a new ip. Not to mention we have new ips coming...doesn't always mean they are going to be good *see bleeding edge*.
More MGS/Splinter Cell like in Cyberpunk vibe.
Concept art by Lead concept Artist at The initiative :
This image is exactly the feeling I want a new PD to bring. I imagine something evolved from that Black Tusk video 7 years ago.
I'm really hoping it is the new look Perfect Dark, but not another first person shooter. Lets actually see Joanna as we play.
The possibilities are endless for story and gameplay with that futuristic world.
The possibilities are endless for story and gameplay with that futuristic world.
Woah the first couple of pages in this thread were pretty embarrassing - some real mental gymnastics.
On topic - I think this is a win-win, it'll basically be a new ip with Joanna Dark as the protagonist and set in the futuristic vibe given by the old ones. I think all the alien stuff will be gone, although I wouldn't mind some horror-sequel levels with them in (if they go serious route)
On topic - I think this is a win-win, it'll basically be a new ip with Joanna Dark as the protagonist and set in the futuristic vibe given by the old ones. I think all the alien stuff will be gone, although I wouldn't mind some horror-sequel levels with them in (if they go serious route)
So, Deep State's Covfefe: Trump's Redemption, where we play as an oppressed and punished MAGA hatter who has become disillusioned with the Democrat's Surveillance State and goes to town to join a group that aims to expose the dangerous conspiracy? And all the while basking the glory of UE4's RT based GI and shadows.
Mhmm... could be Perfait Noir.
Mhmm... could be Perfait Noir.
With Full ray tracing and traversal similar to Spiderman / Sunset overdrive but in a cyberpunk way.
The gadgets will allow us to better move around the city etc ...
That's not common sense at all. Naughty Dog (as an example) can explore with new IP with equal hype because Crash>Uncharted>TLoU proves their pedigree. Despite the talent within The Initiative, a new studio with a new IP from a patent company that hasn't had a great track record as of late is actually more of a risk.
The IP has been untouched for so long. It can be reworked into whatever the studios strengths are.
Win both ways I was excited for that studio to create a new ip but if it's Perfect dark I'll be just as thrilled.
Zero was lit on Xbox live for the first year of the release of the 360. 32 player zombie games became a bloodbath towards the end of the matches. I'll have a nostalgiagasm if this is a launch title again.
Good Lord, the first couple pages of this thread are embarrassing. God forbid MS actually uses Rare's IPs for once after spending nearly half a billion dollars on the studio. How dare they bring Perfect Dark back!!!! Obviously nobody has been wanting any of Rare's old IPs to be brought back! It's not like there haven't been hundreds of threads on this very subject!
I mean, I wish Rare would've been making the new PD, but I'm not going to complain when other people at MS actually have a passion to bring something of Rare's back even without Rare's involvement.
I mean, I wish Rare would've been making the new PD, but I'm not going to complain when other people at MS actually have a passion to bring something of Rare's back even without Rare's involvement.
This isn't close to being launch, looking at a few years away still.
Yeah I'm assuming this is gonna be one of the first Series X exclusives which probably means the absolute earliest we would get it is Holiday 2021..even that might be optimistic.
It's a shame PDZ only gets remembered for the campaign. It was great MP in the early days of the 360. Zombie mode was amazing.
I think Fable is more likely for next year, I see this maybe the year after.
Hmm it's possible we could always see a Holiday/Spring launch for either game
I mean, it's not like Perfect Dark is a common house hold name. It'd practically be a brand new IP for a lot of gamers these days. And it'd be a big revival for older gamers who remember the IP.
It'd hit on a lot of things, it'd give us a new spy game that we don't have much of lately. It'd be a great IP to revive, and it's a better name to sell to new and old gamers than making a similar style game and making up some new title when there is the perfectly fine Perfect Dark name sitting dormant.
...hopefully Microsoft gets to the point where they can have more than one AAA exclusive a year.
I bet when the game is revealed next month (or whenever), there'll be people surprised and disappointed that it's Perfect Dark and will act like these rumors have never existed despite PD being heavily rumored since even before The Initiative was announced at E3 2018.
I just hope it's not open world, I'm out the door at the first mention of it. Come up with actual level design developers.
I'm pretty sure that's what their game plan is. I'd expect at least 2 AAA's per year. One in fall and one in spring. I think any more than that is too much. We know Halo, hellblade and fable are coming, there is still much left to be revealed. My predictions...
Fall 2020
Halo
Forza
Gears tactics (Xbox series x)
Spring 2021
Hellblade 2
Fall 2021
Fable
That looks incredibly uninteresting. Do you know when this game (whatever it is) could possibly come?
Once you could get past the shitty control, there was a damn good MP game tucked in there.
Perfect dark can totally get a fresh new take. I welcome new PD and Fable as long as they bring a completely fresh take.
IIRC Phil said they don't want to reveal stuff too early anymore, so if they're going to reveal it this year then I assume it's ~2 years out. I'd bet on 2022.
Fable and Perfect Dark aren't the only games in development... They've said their goal is to have 4 AAA games a year.
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TI's game will be 2022 at the earliest. I mean the studio is still hiring key roles and still forming
Seems to be that way. Gears, State of Decay, Sea of Thieves, Everwild, Grounded, Fable and now this. The only other engines in use by XGS are Slipspace and Forza Tech.
And I imagine that Hellblade 2 and The Outer Worlds 2 (which seems very likely to happen) also use UE4.
MS announced 3 new IPs in the past 5 months and yet this narrative about MS needing new IPs is still somehow alive.
Huh? Firstly, I never said Microsoft needed new IP, just that for me, personally, it'd probably be more exciting. More so given the AAA hires that The Initiative has been snapping up, and the liklihood of this being a tentpole, high production value, tech pushing exclusive.
Strange response.
These arguments are always so weird, especially when it comes to a practically abandoned/forgotten IP that hasn't seen a new game in almost 15 years (and only ever saw like two games at that).
You yourself admit that the franchise has little name recognition, how is reviving Perfect Dark any different than making a new IP using the same ideas/setting? This isn't a new game in a series on its 10th entry, the last game was a 360 launch title. Just going off of gaming trends alone, the franchise will no doubt look and play dramatically different. Literally the only thing this tells us is we're getting a futuristic spy game with a female protagonist. We don't know how it'll play, what the story will be, whether it'll have multiplayer or not, the tone of the game, the art style, etc..
With Metal Gear dead and Ubisoft refusing to make a new Splinter Cell, I definitely welcome a 3rd person Perfect Dark reboot. If The Initiative is working on this (pretty much everything suggest they are) they must be very confident they can bring the IP to its former success.