I was just talking about this..based on Phil's comment about creativity and talent, i can see why they went for NT. They are the only independent studio capable of creating cinematic third person action games close to what the AAA devs are able to put out. They built Hellblade with just 20- 30 devs on a limited budget, now imagine what they'll be able to do with over 150 devs and the full backing of a publisher like MS.
I believe Playground Games second team will do just that...as they expand they'll probably start handling more stuff.
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Right there with you. Kameo was the biggest surprise of the 360 launch and it's a crime that it never got a sequel.
Yeah it was discussed a good while back. Job adverts mentioned a new IP.
They have one now with the Playground RPG studio.
That's fascinating. I thought with the success of the Crash remaster and the hype around the Spyro remaster, a return to Banjo was incredibly likely for Rare.
Not enhanced ? Why not at least use a higher Resolution. That shouldnt be much effort right ?
I think their top priority now for F8 is improving the career mode, I think there's a lot of potential there if they do it right.
Indeed, that concept video from Rare was great. Damn shame it was never greenlit.
I also support this, would be super expensive but 4A makes amazing games, and you can tell they are scaling up each metro series, I expect, the next iteration to be a full on open world game.
I don't know, we can't be sure about any of that either way unless we get some insider info.
There is a lot of reason to don't release a Forza game next year :
They just acquired a RPG studio - Playground Games. People forget that sometimes, but MS got 6 new studios - not 5.
I would argue it would've happened under current Microsoft leadership. The last year or so, all of Microsoft's studios have been heavily hiring and building up. Rare now has the Sea of Thieves sustain and their other team making a new IP, 343 has over 500 people and multiple teams, including their MCC patch and sustain, Halo Infinite development, etc.
Rare for a while has been turned into a new IP studio. Rare Replay was really the last time they touched old stuff and released it. They will go back to 2 teams making new IP like in the 90's and early 2000's altho obviously with not the same speed of release since games now are way bigger and something like Sea of Thieves will have more than a year worth on updates.
I hope not, 2 forzas is a lot of forza's.
next year? all the rumor talks about 2020, are we in 2019? Well looks like it's a different perspective because I'm one of the core guy of the trio which love their gameplay, to me nothing else matters(necessary metallica quote), I hope they focus all their money on gameplay focused game intstead of the trend of heavy narrative ow which I hate as nothing else in gaming.
Forza 7 is the 20th best selling game of 2017 according to that link, how is that not selling well? Yes GT Sport beat it, but it's GT and the first outing on PS4. We've had Forza 5 + 6 + 7 on XBO in the time GT Sport has been in development for PS4, so I'd suggest the combined sales of those entries would stack up nicely. But even on its own, it's beaten games like Uncharted Lost Legacy in a shorter timeframe.
Yeah, 20th doesn't seem too bad to me.
what kind of rumor and speculation? you should read the Gregg Bear's trilogy about the forerunner empire and get each hints about installation 07, could you be a bit more specific? I would be happy of discussing it
This is interesting and different of how Adam Bois described the deal.
Under current microsofft leadership yeah it would have happened, not sure about it back in the beginning of 2017 though.
The one game they can always count to be there yearly is forza, I'm not sure if they want to give that up.
