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i wouldnt be surprised if they go the pokemon route and the animals are part of the action.
I think different animals will do different things for you, or have different abilities. Assuming you can probably command 1 at a time to perform tasks, obviously teaming up with a party will allow you to do more complex missions or tasks, or even take on tougher beasts.
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If Everwild has combat I hope they make it worthwhile. SoT despite its success has horrid on foot combat.
Undead Labs. State of Decay was already a pretty amazing game mechanically. It was just missing better animations and narrative. Those seem like things money can fix.
Absolutely nothing about Everwild hints at combat, I just don't think it will be that kind of game.
The first trailer hinted at some evil animals. I suppose there could be fighting against bad characters.
I don't think that's realistic, considering waiting 5-6 years mean just one game for a console and then working on next gen engines upgrades and repeat. Microsoft has many studios now and some of them can and deserve imo more time, but 5-6 year is to much imo. Those games aren't as successful as RDR2 or GTA and the budget needs to be realistic and based on the success of the franchises.
My bet is in Monday. Just a random thought.
I think Kait is the best Gears character yet and hope they conclude her story before moving on to something else, be it a new IP or soft rebooting Gears with a new story, cast, ... .Would love more Kait and wouldn't mind more horror.
He seems to be talented and I am so excited for the next Forza Motorsport. The car detail shown in the in-engine trailer was second to none and usually you use game assets for these trailers.
👀 (it's happening surely). Special guest and can't promise it yet? Yep, seems to be the deal, because I think all other guests would be 100% on this show at this point in time.
Great and let's hope Xbox only gamers get to experience one of the best JRPG of all time in Persona 5. Just getting future entries would be amazing, too.
I don't think those would make sense due to licensing. But what could work are sport games in either niche sports like Tennis or some fun sport versions of soccer and so on.
Conkers striker with Xbox casts anyone?
I think they shouldn't market the PS5 time exclusive games on their Xbox show and rather tell Sony to market them on theirs like they've done recently. Xbox should have enough to show to fill 2 hours with content coming to Xbox day1.
Those three you mentioned and Obsidian are basically coming from a crowdfunding budget and now have the ability to make games with a good budget, thus I think those studios will surely improve a lot.
Cool. Love documentaries. It was in 19 and it sounds like they're closing the books on We Happy Few, and that they're looking to something new. Doesn't sound like there will be a sequel.
What an amazing username and picture.Look at how dense next gen open world can be. Shadows and geometry everywhere.
I just want to know what this game is. Like what is the game? Are you just wandering and petting animals? is it even a game? Is there a story. Looks gorgeous though
Isn't this releasing on Xbox One as well?Look at how dense next gen open world can be. Shadows and geometry everywhere.
The latest trailer only had PC and the Series console names iirc
it was originally announced for xbox one and was dropped i believe
I partly agree, but I think the big reason why Microsoft has been so vague about the exclusivity issue is because there are games promised to other platforms. I strongly suspect the Indiana Jones game was promised to Disney to be released as a multiplatform game, then there are games like Deathloop and Tokyo, DOOM VR, as well as updates to the existing online games like TESO and FO76. Because of all those games, it's probably hard to come up with strong messaging. Hence the vague "case by case." That said, I fully expect Starfield to be exclusive to Xbox and PC, since its platforms weren't announced and it's a new IP no one can claim was "stolen" from other platforms. I think once people get used to the idea of Starfield and Wolf 3 being Xbox exclusive, breaking the news that TES VI will be, too, will be easier. I wish they just ripped off the bandaid, but at this point, I'll be very surprised if they announce the TES exclusivity next week.
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Not sure what to expect with Everwild. I've tried to get friends to get in a Sea of Thieves session with me, and it hasn't jived with them. Only that one time we where all under the influence of several substances (drunk/high discord call SoT is next level fun yall) did we have a legit great time XD
Mad respect for what the game has grown into though
Mad respect for what the game has grown into though
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My hope for Everwild is that it can be played offline, SP, with a normal campaign with a start and finish.
Otherwise I'm not interested.
Otherwise I'm not interested.
Same. I've tried to get into SoT multiple times, and it's just not for me. Hope Everwild is different.
I doubt they will make a official "exclusive" announcement because things change all the time, and this could be used against them in the future. Like, people sued Fortnite for calling a bundle "exclusive" when the skin appeared on the shop years later.
"Case by case" like they said is the most obvious approach.
They've shown exploration, some type of connection with the animals and world through powers and rituals. It's going to be interesting how Rare puts that together. I'm kind of hoping it's a world to get lost in over a period of time even if it has a main story. Sannin's know what's up : )
"Pacifist Monster Hunter" is a fun thing to think about. I don't know if Everwild would have any sort of combat, but if it DID have a combat state where you don't actually do any attacking, I think it'd be interesting to brainstorm how that would work, how to make it fun and engaging. I mean, "Dodge and whittle away at _____" is a tried and true formula, whether that's HP, or life force, or will, or whatever. That's just a matter of animation. But, are there entirely different paradigms of how to make "pacifist combat" engaging without it being tedious or just reskinned actual combat? Environmental puzzles? Creature specific tasks (bugsnax was kinda like this - though, this part apparently wasn't engaging forever in that game either)?
The funny thing is that the "announcement trailer' that most people think of wasn't even the actual announce of the game. We had known WHF was a procedural survival game UNTIL people seemed to connect to the story. But the bones were already there (in public testing!), so it's not like they could throw it all out. But, later sections of the game, and especially the DLC, were actually very well received. They were more story driven and linear, which seems to have resonated with players.
I have no hope for Everwild. I'd love to be proven wrong but Rare's recent design philosophy is not for me.
I like progression, leveling up, you know, typical video gamey thingies. I feel like Everwild is gonna be another Sea of Thives kind of game and it's not a bad thing just not my cup of tea.
I like progression, leveling up, you know, typical video gamey thingies. I feel like Everwild is gonna be another Sea of Thives kind of game and it's not a bad thing just not my cup of tea.
I kinda feel that way too but I do hope Everwild is more video gamey in the ways you state. Doesn't need them all but give me some more traditional structure please
Yeah I hope Everwild has some sort of story campaign and/or a progression system.
I love Sea of Thieves. But I also have very little hope for Everwild because last year it sounded like they were still working out what kind of game they wanted it to be.
Yeah, at this point it could be anything. From BOTW to Pokemon to Sea of Thieves.
Latest trend seems to be Roguelike? Maybe something like that?
i hope it's a world to LIVE in...kinda like Los Santos and the Sea of Thieves type thing.
bruh, we gotta nerd out on this anime sometime lol. im praying we get a AAA shippuden 1-175 game sometime soon
I really Hope there IS some solo gameplay on everwild, i want to play some game from rare but solo, and sometimes if i feel it, playing it with some Friends .
Animal crossing was my best multiplayer game , i did my Island, sometimes i went to somes Friend or stranger to see theirs ( or doing some trade) and then going back to mine and do m'y things.
I reallly would like a rare game like this where you Can really do what you want in solo .
Animal crossing was my best multiplayer game , i did my Island, sometimes i went to somes Friend or stranger to see theirs ( or doing some trade) and then going back to mine and do m'y things.
I reallly would like a rare game like this where you Can really do what you want in solo .
Hell, all I really want to know about Everwild is what on earth it is. It's incredibly gorgeous, so if they deliver on that, I'll probably pick it up.
Disagree. Game Pass success is driven by the number of games it includes that people can play "for free", regardless of them being exclusive. Many people already switched ecosystem thanks to this, and they aren't definitely doing it because they feel it's got better exclusives.
In fact, today zero games are exclusive to Game Pass, yet it's having huge success: every Xbox exclusive can be bought on Xbox and in many cases PC too, driving less subs.
Game Pass exclusives won't be needed until some other subscription service will start competing with a comparable offering of features and content.
I think Everwild is co-op focused but not an MMO. The trailer Rare showed us has four different looking Eternals as main characters with no character customization (just like Grounded).
A 10 to 20 hours of campaign where you learn of to play, learn about the World , getting some funny gears and going online when you want like the current games could have such a massive game for me.
Based upon the popularity of some recent games, I am hoping for some sandbox survival Sim but with magical elements and a strong storyline. Throw in some Viva Pinata/Animal Crossing elements as well.
That's part of it, but to really grow Gamepass then exclusives with be important, this is true of every subscription service.....that is why Microsoft has bought so many developers.
I feel like "sandbox survival sim" and "strong storyline" are kind of... maybe not mutually exclusive but at odds with each other, at the very least. If you want to give your players total freedom to wander around and get wrapped up in the systems, you can't really engage in the kinds of timing decisions strong conventional storytelling requires. Best you could do is a Dark Souls sorta environmental storytelling deal.
Honestly, thus far I have really no idea what the gameplay could even be like, going off the trailers. The very pointed lack of combat has me scratching my head a little.
Yea I believe it's been mentioned they are working on a brand new IP, and based on job listings people believe it'll be a third person title.
I don't think this is right, also the whole "rule" about console games being on PC = not exclusive has never really worked. It gets trotted out a lot by Sony fans, but the the idea that everyone who plays games on a console could just skip the hardware and play it on a pc is just incorrect. You can tell this because for decades games have cost more on console than on PC. Why don't console players just play those games on their PC for less? The answer is that Console owners generally don't own a PC. Simple as that. Most console owners don't have 2 consoles. Even fewer console owners own an Xbox and a PlayStation.
Microsoft absolutely want their platform to be the place to go. The right way of doing this, as absolutely anyone can see is to make that platform as attractive as possible. Putting all your games on their main competitor's platform is not the way to do that.
As for gamepass not needing exclusives because there are no other subscriptions out there to compare to it, there will be and they'll know it.
Microsoft leaving those discounted sneaky ways to get on gamepass available is no accident. They're still trying to grow their subscribers, and are still a long way off even half of Gold subscribers having gamepass.
I think you're kidding yourself if you think they care about short term gains, their whole model is to get as many people on gamepass, on Xbox, as possible. Anything that undermines that is unlikely to be what they're going to do.
I want Everwild with strong narrative. Halo and new BF will fill the multiplayer gap. Sea of Thieves would be much more successful if it wasn't GaaS game.
That's a hot take if I've ever heard one! No way SoT would be much more succesful without it being GaaS
You're gonna have to explain this take a little bit more lmao
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