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Xbox Game Studios |OT5| The Cult of Phil in the Age of Booty: A Case Study
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The little stuff from Wasteland 3 you can see there looks great already.
I'm so happy the team at inXile will get so many more eyes on this game. I hope the added resources will really result in a polished product. Could be one great key-title for Game Pass PC.
I'm so happy the team at inXile will get so many more eyes on this game. I hope the added resources will really result in a polished product. Could be one great key-title for Game Pass PC.
I think there's a distinct difference. Did God of War have a hardcore fan base for the mechanics and game design of God of War, or for the premise, characters, story, and style?
Being multiplayer, it's much harder for Gears or Halo to get really crazy without pissing a ton of people off. They have staple gameplay that isn't offered in the same way by anyone else.
Perhaps innovation should come in the way of structure and format, not radically changing the core game. Halo and Gears innovated so much in that department and set the standards for everyone else. 2 weapon limits, regenerating shields/health, cover systems, and even active reload all permeate in other franchises today.
Halo and Gears can continue to innovate and grow, but a radical reinvention is not so much needed. Baby steps. If both games go open world for campaign, that's a pretty good and kind of large leap already.
I personally have always been of the mindset that Halo/Gears should go design crazy for their campaigns and separate their MP components so that fans can have their core intact. But yes, change too much about any of them and they are no longer Halo/Gears that fans want.
Feeling a little dumb to have "preordered" (backed) a game that'll end up on game pass though... :(
It had a hardcore fan base for the mechanics and the game design. Did you somehow miss all the concern and dissatisfaction with the changes before the game released? Meanwhile, even many of the series' fans thought that Kratos was an annoying character, repulsive in his constant anger, and eventually almost a self-parody. In the reboot many of those elements were, well, rebooted.
That said, I don't think that Halo needs a reboot, and in terms of characters and narrative, Gears has already had one in Gears 4.
I would be so in tears if this happened. My most wanted Rare IP sequel/reboot. They could do so much parodying the last two decades of movies and games.
Funny you should say that, because that's where my hype for Wasteland of Empire 4 is
I dunno if anyone has mentioned this yet, but it does seem like Microsoft is courting some smaller to midsized publishers for game pass partnerships. Paradox just announced this, and said they'd be announcing the first slate of releases at the Xbox briefing next week.
The tweet made it seem like they were just gonna throw some old games on there, but the post above is a little more detailed and it does say "launching on day one". Hope we'll see a few more publishers make similar announcements over the next week or so.
Check out Banjo Kazooie, it holds up very well. Tooie less so, Conker is cool too. But 100% check out Banjo; it's so damn fun.I never played a Conker or Banjo game.
If you have Game Pass, it's on there.
I never played a Conker or Banjo game.
It's never too late to start :P
If Ninja Theory is really making a multiplayer focused game, then that is where my interest will be. Just not what I care for.
I would be interested if it was co-op probably not if PvP because they are never balanced properly and I'm shit.
Well I need a good story from their next game and single player content. I thought that was the whole point of Ninja Theory being bought
NT are going to make what they want, MS want to benefit from that. That's why they were bought.
This isn't the team that made Hellblade though and this game was started pre MS.
Never heard about any bushes
The crouched walking kind evolves the meta of the game more than any other changesStealth in Gears eh?
Escape is a sort of campaign, or at least TC considers it like something in the middle between a horde and a story mission.
Obviously, all the deebees are connected to the same network. Those showed in the trailer are infected by the smarm.
Look the final act of gears 4, while JD is talking with Jin via a deebee, a pouncer, infects it with a needle and it starts to behave differently.
Never heard of any bushes.
Separate.
No way it behaves like this, Jd and Marcus will partecipate for sure in sequences like the absedium of a human city showed in the e3 trailer.
They may have their own escape map.
Right now I'm more excited for escape than for the campaign
IDK anything about New Ephyra, it could be easily five square meters or daggerfall big AFAIK.
Escape may be a big deal.
Still TC is not little, they are 350+ last december and they outsource a ton of work( 5:30-6:00), outside of tactics and pop. Plus there's the unknown project in the making behind the scense.
Plus studio size doesnt' mean anything, re2remake and ac odissey claimed both to have used 800 developers and the sizes of the games are so different
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHHzSdqJbZs&feature=youtu.be almost 700.
This obviously includes tactics, pop, 4 post launch and maybe PD
Or Jd and Marcus will have their own escape campaign
I've never heard about exploring new ephyra, only that it's in the middle
Well new horde, versus and escape content won't be developed for free
They will be in the campaign, just not playble. They will be playble in a escape "story".
From what I get, obviously. This is just my interpretation
That would be a huge mistake and not liked by the community. Wouldnt think Coalition would be that dumb.
Why? They will still have their mission and the community may even enjoy that more than the kait's one because it will be closer to 3/judgement structure.
In the trailer the even set a new character who looks a close friend of jd, Fazh Chutani(the guy who talks with jd)
Because the need to be part of the story. Not part of some PVE mode. The story so far is perfectly setup now with Kait and Del going on their own journey and Marcus and JD dealing with the COG situation and then at the end meet up again. Would be pointless and really bad if we only get to see JD and Marcus in cutscenes on the stuff they are doing.
From the Xbox Games Studios site:
I've been saying this for years and with the recent investments in the PC space, i wouldn't be surprised if this was one of the 14 games for this years briefing.
Also imagine seeing Mechwarrior, Age of Empires and MS Flight Sim on stage this year :D The three oldest gaming franchises that MS has (correct me if im wrong btw).
I've been saying this for years and with the recent investments in the PC space, i wouldn't be surprised if this was one of the 14 games for this years briefing.
Also imagine seeing Mechwarrior, Age of Empires and MS Flight Sim on stage this year :D The three oldest gaming franchises that MS has (correct me if im wrong btw).
Nope, outside of leaks, I don't see them doing anything apart from hyping up.
Hopefully a tweet/statement that hints where we should set expectations.
they could deal with that without being playble and still being part of the story, their deal with Jin will be obviously treated in game. They will partecipate for sure in the absedium showed in the trailer.
Their eventual escape campaign will just be one of their mission for the cog.
Their journey won't be the only part of the plot, they will remain in contact, especially if got right the New Ephyra hub
I'm sure that they don't have any campaign, plus there are several things that I need to clarify. If new ephyra is the center, why they start from that village
Meh. They could throw a ton of lore into that escape mode with the short narrative touches. Cool stories from JD's childhood, them sharing memories of Anya, and them growing and developing a closer relationship. I think it could be really cool.
Agreed 100%. Xbox has enough multiplayer IP's. We need some more exclusively single player games
They own HareBrained Schemes, a studio still making content for BattleTech. The rights to both BattleTech and Shadowrun belong to Microsoft since they bought FASA.
It would not surprise me if Paradox and Microsoft reached some deal that would allow HareBrained Schemes to keep making games with those IPs (the head of HBS created both Shadowrun and BattleTech), but in exchange those games have to be GamePass material.
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