Not really, they were mostly clueless about what they even do.
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"Tomb Raider, Deus Ex's New Owners Are Going To Milk Them For All They're Worth" (Kotaku)
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If I had to choose between SE-owned DeusEx projects sitting in incubators and being way overly careful on if/when they'll work on or release titles, and the rumors of all the forced MP integration..... and a newly owned company being very gung-ho about funding and pushing projects out the door with an unknown level of quality or direction....
I'm gonna go with option B. DE as a property for me has very much been a "shit or get off the pot" franchise for a while now and a "go fast and break things" strategy at the very least could help shake out a bunch of the bad ideas sooner than later and help them figure out what works and what doesn't.
I'm gonna go with option B. DE as a property for me has very much been a "shit or get off the pot" franchise for a while now and a "go fast and break things" strategy at the very least could help shake out a bunch of the bad ideas sooner than later and help them figure out what works and what doesn't.
Game media seems to be more aware of what?
Everyone following Embracer is pretty aware of how they work; they buy an IP -> they remaster or remake older titles -> if successful they make a new one.
rise and repeat. This has been their m.o for over 5 years by now, Kotaku should do some basic research instead of writing shitty articles.
Good?
I mean, horror of horrors if we get a remaster of every Legacy of Kain game or something, wouldn't that just be tragic /s
Better than SE sitting on them with no intention to do anything with them.
I mean, horror of horrors if we get a remaster of every Legacy of Kain game or something, wouldn't that just be tragic /s
Better than SE sitting on them with no intention to do anything with them.
My thoughts exactly. SE seriously shit the bed with these franchises. I'd kill to play the classic Tomb Raider games on modern hardware (especially the Switch!).
Here's hoping fans of all these franchises get well served going forward!
"Milk"? As in... release remasters and new games in beloved franchises? Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Good? I mean, I'm no huge fan of modern DeusEx, but it clearly has a fan base that's not been catered to.
I think people put a negative connotation on the work milking but I think they are just saying that they are going to get every bit of usefulness out of these franchises.
Right? They didn't say at all that they're gonna operate a grimey Money-grab, but that is what Kotaku sure makes it sound like with the title. Strange though. I've never known Kotaku to misrepresent the words of someone to convey a more negative message.
I mean, all of these games (except Blood Omen 1 (which is on GOG) , and Soul Reaver, which was removed to 3rd party renderware issues) are already on Steam, so I fail to see your point?
Yes, they'll own the Jensen games. We can hope that EM is stoked to make a Jensen threequel
Depends which subsidiary these IPs go under.
THQ Nordic (Vienna) which holds most of the "retro" IPs, is very GOG-friendly.
Koch Media/Deep Silver/ Prime Matter- not so much.
From what I have seen they seem to publish everything they are involved in on PC. At least as far as I can remember.
If it's good games we are getting from it being milked then sign me up. Tired of publishers buying up so many properties and only releasing a few games because they wanna make way for other stuff they have lined up(i.e. the star wars license)
Tomb Raider 2 was linear though, as was Tomb Raider 1. Anniversary was a top tier remake.
Until now, they bought mostly small studios with not so known IPs, also most people just don't know that something is published by embracer, especially since most of their games appear under their subsidiaries published games, not embracer. So no, the fact that someone can't think of any games from them doesn't really show much.
The fact that they've only bought low profile studios and IPs also means they definitely weren't gonna make AAA games out of those IPs (and it's the thing I like the most about them, btw). They're definitely not gonna give Deus Ex, Tomb Raider the same treatment they gave to Spongebob and Destroy All Humans(which was good by the way, as those two IPs have been resurrected in the game space after almost 20 years of trash games). I have seen many people afraid of this scenario, but to me it's just crazy that someone could actually think this, while for the "Embracer only makes remakes and steam collections" people should just ask Outcast fans.
oh no the horror
anyway, modern renditions of classic TR, DX, Kain, and Thief games would be great
anyway, modern renditions of classic TR, DX, Kain, and Thief games would be great
Nice.
Not a die-hard fan of the series or anything, but the Jensen series as you call it definitely scratches that itch Alpha Protocol left all those years ago.
Absolutely, 100%. Give me a 4k, 60+ FPS DX collection right now. The two modern ones plus all dlc would be an instant purchase without question.
My predictions:
Deus Ex Re-Augmented
Deus Ex The Adam Jensen Collection
Tomb Raider Classic Collection
Tomb Raider Re-Anniversary
Legacy of Kain Collection
Deus Ex Re-Augmented
Deus Ex The Adam Jensen Collection
Tomb Raider Classic Collection
Tomb Raider Re-Anniversary
Legacy of Kain Collection
Yup give us that, announce a Mankind Divided sequel from Eidos Montreal and a Deus Ex remake from another studio. That would put Square Enix to shame
Why is the headline phrased in such a negative way lol. Getting rereleases of great games is good?
When we had those early trailers for Mankind Divided where you're supposed to be tapping informants to find out more about the Illuminati, I had hopes they were going to be cribbing more from Alpha Protocol.
Unfortunately, they didn't. But Prague was still an amazing place to explore.
Absolutely. Anything is better than just ignoring the franchise because you can't come up with a quick way of flipping it into some gaas garbage.
I think the ideal is the Mass Effect collection. It came out basically perfect and was a terrific way to play through the franchise again.
