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When Microsoft bought Obsidian, they knew they would not get a launch title from them for their new console. Sure, they could have forced Obsidian to put 50 people on Grounded. Instead of the narrative being "15 devs are working on a passion project" the internet would be full of "MS forced these poor CRPG making devs to work on a survivor game to get a launch title". That would be horrific PR for MS. Not to mention it would ruin Grounded. Those devs truly want to work on it and it shows.
If you've looked at the credits on Grounded, you can see that's a lot of outsourcing already being done. They can't outsource the whole game.
Obsidian is doing what Microsoft wants from the studios. Steady flow of games for the service. If Obsidian worked on two big games at a time, it would mean 2-3 years between the projects. Not to mention it would burn out the staff members at Obsidian.
There's a bunch of talented devs at Obsidian who've been waiting for the opportunity to work on small/mid sized passion projects. Now they finally have the financial backing and the green light from MS. Those won't be some half-assed games, they will be made with passion and worked on until they are ready. It keeps the staff at Obsidian happy and in the company. It also gives GamePass a steady flow of games from Obsidian. If they can deliver 1 game each to the service, they are doing great and if those bigger games are released 2-4 years apart, it's not that different than it would be in scenario where everyone worked on the bigger projects.
Not to mention those smaller games give them opportunities to try out new things. Things that would not want to try out on a bigger game for the first time.
I would not call Obsidian's resources limited. They've grown those departments that have needed it the most. Animation and Audio departments have grown rapidly. I believe they've also added 3 or 4 new Narrative designers.
Obsidian has always had the culture of working on multiple projects at the same time. So they know what they are doing when it comes to spreading the manpower and using it wisely, so people are not just waiting around for something to do when their part in some project is finished. For example artists are usually done with their work way sooner than programmers, designers, audio guys and q&a. Most of the narrative designers are not needed in the very early stages or when they are about wrap up development. You want to have projects you can shift those people to with out a hitch. This is something Brian Fargo talked about when they were asking money for Wasteland 3, even though Torment wasn't yet released. It keeps people employed at the company, instead of them having to terminate contracts because there's no project that they can work on. And yes, in a perfect world the development cycles with 2 games would always be just perfect and you could just shift people from the 1st game to the 2nd.
But mostly it comes to down to the fact they want to keep their staff members and it means giving them a break from bigger projects and granting them freedom to work on something that they really want to make. GamePass is perfect for that.
Good to hear, I've been using my PX4's this gen and I seen these and the few reviews for them were all glowing. Just need them to come back into stock.
I dont know if this is the place to post this, but does anyone else's current dashboard remove the "watch" tab across their profile? Its been gone for me for quite sometime now, even on friends profiles pages. I always like watching friends most recent captures, and it just seemed like a great social feature for Live. To have it be swiped under the rug like that seems like a weird move.
Flou Good post. Thanks for writing it.
Sorry if this has already been posted. Don't think I saw it. A video where I can say I've been to/passed through most of these places :D. Wonder what area of the world they're gonna focus on adding more detail into first (or second, since the first was Japan, right?.. Or..?)
Sorry if this has already been posted. Don't think I saw it. A video where I can say I've been to/passed through most of these places :D. Wonder what area of the world they're gonna focus on adding more detail into first (or second, since the first was Japan, right?.. Or..?)
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MS is going all in with third party headsets this gen. We have so many options.
very nice!
There was an interview with Jerk Gustafsson in todays Dagens Industri.
The tl;dr for those who skipped swedish class:
They are happy to become a part of Microsoft.
They feel like they learned a lot about multiplayer- and rpg-mechanic design from Wolfenstein: Youngblood.
They are helping Arkane Studios with Deathloop.
The tl;dr for those who skipped swedish class:
They are happy to become a part of Microsoft.
They feel like they learned a lot about multiplayer- and rpg-mechanic design from Wolfenstein: Youngblood.
They are helping Arkane Studios with Deathloop.
This is a great idea, and could expand the GP subs even more.
It makes you worried because you correlate budget and more people with better games. If they needed more people on Grounded, they would get more people on Grounded. The Outer Worlds could be a case of needing more people and stuff getting left behind because of it, but Grounded isn't.
Unless its releasing immediately i don't see it as "big xbox news". Guess we'll see!
I don't think they do many Friday news things so I personally doubt it
Does seem odd to me that a PC 'client' for the cloud streaming service wasn't one of the earlier pieces put in place, as it seems (in my admittedly ignorant view!) that it would be a simpler implementation than mobile in many ways.
Even local console streaming is buried away on PC in the (no longer supported and soon to be decommissioned?) Console Companion app, with no sign yet of this making it into the newer Xbox app, either.
Like i said. Wating for series x blades. No point of xbox one blades for pc streaming. Wouldnt be good experience for pc
That does indeed make sense - a very good point, thanks. It would I suppose make sense to consolidate this into the plans to eventually offer cloud streaming services on the consoles, too.
Makes more sense to do it earlier in the week to generate content vs on the weekend when creators are off (usually). There's a reason why Bethesda happened first thing on Monday morning
Bethesda more happened that day because they wanted to get it out before pre orders went live.
It'd save me £6.50 a month, so I'd be very happy with that.
I mean, that'd get me an extra pint and a packet of crisps every month.
Or at least, it would if I could leave the house.
Excellent, thanks for the bullet points!
Would be cool, but think I'd prefer that money re-invested into the gaming business. Could go towards third party content.
Yeah I agree honestly, the game looked fun as all hell and looked like some of the most solid Halo gameplay yet. And I don't even think the graphics were that bad
Just watching now, the auto HDR looks weird in Black, check out the street lights.
One Mediamarkt is like 1-2 minutes away from me but I still have no reason to buy/pre-order the "Next-Gen Consoles" 😔
Agreed. I also think the gaming community is being a bit harsh on devs about the games. Microsoft is basically building an empire of first party studios so there's going to be growing pains - not to mention a world wide pandemic that has affected every thing. Perhaps gamers are just impatient but I don't think that's a reason to blast devs about the line up for next gen. No doubt the games are coming and most of us have insane backlogs that'll see huge upgrades next gen.
Report: Colombian Retailer Already Selling Xbox Series X, Posts Unboxing Video
Some retailers already have the Xbox Series X in stock, & don't really care for street dates, with one store in Colombia even posting an unboxing video.
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WTF $700 ?
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