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It simply comes down to...IT'S GROWING. It's the long game and its still very successful.
I know the market is set on standard input, and it hurts lol. Everytime i start a new shooter game its always the same dot in the middle, 2 or 3 buttons for some abilities, and melee/throwables. Fortnite, arguably the most popular game right now, is even more basic than that its just one dot and buttons to pick up/switch weapons or switch/edit build pieces. whichever company starts with a new standard input will benefit from it greatly imo, the gaming world is inevitably going to head in the direction of something in the vein of ready player one, and theres no kbm or controller there. Now im not saying we need that tech now but something like a AAA game made with a modified oculus rift controller would be amazing. That first step needs to be taken.
Definitely don't think this will happen, Kojima has no reason to sell. He has more money and creative freedom than ever.
But I could imagine Microsoft funding an exclusive other than Death Stranding from Kojima sometime in the next generation.
You can't prove that last point without knowing that people moved from mixer to twitch whe. All that has happened in the past year is more people using Mixer. You are making some assumpiontions. While twitch is the more popular, the E3 streams that MS puts on shows that millions of people will use the service. Twitch may be have the numbers but it doesn't mean MS should stop building their own so that they don't rely on Twitch and get their own audience that they can monetize. And MS knows how to monetize the people who are in their ecosystem.
Do people (that actually play Gears of War) really think the mechanics need to be rebooted? They're great and there's still nothing like Gears on the market. My gripes with Gears 4 mostly have to do with how safe they played the campaign and the pay-to-win mechanics in Horde. It seems like they're listening to that campaign feedback and hopefully they're shedding the blind boxes, too.
I honestly though Microsoft would buy Unity after they bought Xamarin... But I've changed my tune over the years seeing that MS will partner in some areas still.
"We were on the verge of greatness.
We were this close"
IMHO 5 looks a game that rebuilt all the system instead of build on the previous iterations like from 1 to 4. But we heard too much bullshit from non gears people about the game being not on par with the other tps and so on, those people needs to watch the gears esport scene before quoting tlou, the division or the tomb raider reboot as modern tps
I'm interested in watching how melee weapons could counter the gnasher in the short distance and how the modified weapon will impact the game. I'm also curious about the crouched walking that kait used in the end of e3 trailer in the kitchen full of "swarmed" dee-bees
But they would lost billions from gaming, azure and now surface.
Mobile grew slowly and burned a shitton of money, from what we know mixer is small but growing at a fast rate and remains productive
it wasn't a reboot, it was a direct sequel without the "3" so it wouldn't scare newcomers. But the characters storylines are direct sequels from the previous ones.
This.
Plus msft e3 was the most watched event on both mixer and twitch, it means that both system could be successful and cohexist
I've read tons of bullshit from gears newcomers about how the gears mechanics are last gen and so on.
definitely not, it's just about modernising the game around the mechanics. confident in gears 5 to achieve that.
So I'm thinking...with the GP model does it make sense to launch 3 new big games at once (Halo Infinite, Forza, KI2)? I'm wondering if MS should space those out by 2-3 weeks.
So something like Halo at launch, Forza in Spring and KI2 in Summer?
Releasing multiple of your big guns during the same time period doesn't make any sense - no matter if on Game Pass or not. The only exception is a console launch of course.
Outside of brand recognition, what new stuff did Spider-Man bring to the table beyond a refined, fun experience anyone could jump right into? Why can't Crackdown have that same power? Why does Crackdown have to have the unfair expectations of innovating the entire industry?
I think they do. Bare in mind I'm coming from a campaign perspective, not multiplayer, but a typical strictly linear stop and pop shooter really isn't necessarily enough these days, not to reach that GOTY consensus or classic tier height.
We've had over a decade and several releases of that gameplay, so it's time to mix things up. Give us more exploration, wider environments, more intricate level design, more verticality, more mobility options, upgrades, new gameplay mechanics to mix things up, unique vehicles, improved AI, improved characters and story and things of that nature. If it's just more of the same, expect another Gears 4 type reception.
Well, maybe CD3 will remain one of the most important game of the generation by a tech point of view
The actual gameplay mechanics are great and feel way better than any other third person shooters I can think of. They just feel right. But it's everything else in Gears 4 that is still a little wooden and stuck in last gen, from the ultra linear environments to the animations. But from the footage we've seen of Gears 5 it's obvious these areas have been addressed. Really can't wait to see more of it.
On the topic of getting big Twitch streamers to play their games, I'm sure MS could do more, but publishers usually only pay streamers for 1-3 hours of play. Outside of that, they can only do so much to keep streamers playing those games.
They can't force top streamers to play those games.
So, they can do what they can to push games on Twitch, but streamers play what gets them views, not what a publisher is pushing.
They can't force top streamers to play those games.
So, they can do what they can to push games on Twitch, but streamers play what gets them views, not what a publisher is pushing.
Nope, don't fix what isn't broken. Gears plays perfectly fine as is.
Would make a ton of sense on the enterprise side, especially with their moves into open source and how they're planning on having dev tools being accessed via the cloud (like Havok for example), only problem is Unity's been shooting itself in the foot recently by messing around with Spatial OS, i wouldn't be surprised if a lot of devs have migrated over to unreal because of that fiasco.
Like I said, I don't think it will happen, but at the same time, I'd be surprised if MS didn't approach them with an offer, they're one of the few remaining high profile independent studios.
Well that's what I'm asking — does the GP model override the fact that it's a console launch. Because with GP, it holds double true that you want to space your releases.
Yes, I think the point is that the core gameplay mechanics still feel amazing compared to other cover shooters, but I agree they need to focus on all the areas you have listed too, but ensure they keep that Gears feel. The Gears 5 trailer suggests that are going for a wide linear approach this time with a larger variety of weapons including melee, and improved characters, narrative and animation As long as they don't add stuff in for the sake of it to tick the 'modern AAA' box. If there's a load of crafting nonsense I might die a little bit inside.
I also don't want to see an obsession with chasing GOTY awards, that's never been what Gears has been about, it's almost the anti-GoTY with its Verhoeven-ness. I don't want Oscar bait games, or pressing Square to "whatever" because my son is having a tantrum.
No, the mechanics definitely do not need rebooting, they can try and change many things in the game but not the mechanics!
When I say Gears can't be rebooted mechanically, I strictly mean the cover system, the act of going in and out of cover. You can change everything around it but the cover system must remain largely the same or you can say goodbye to that moderately sized yet incredibly dedicated MP community.
There isn't really any such thing as an Oscar bait game, only games that are incredible and better resonate with gamers and critics alike (hence win more awards). Gears also already was always a cinematic story driven game (and early in the franchise also part of those GOTY conversations), it's just that it's story was never that poignant and its characters not particularly deep or well written, and I don't think that was necessarily intentional either.
Also, sometimes you need those slower, expositional moments (which the Gears franchise already has) in order to flesh out the narrative and characters. If they're going for a deeper narrative with more complex characters in Gears 5, simply put, expect more exposition.
I don't think they need to chase awards, but Gears used to be in those conversations with the original trilogy and there's a way to put it back on that level without changing the base mechanics or having Kait craft new chainsaws for her lancer. Based on what little we've seen, if Gears 5 tells more a personal story and encourages some level of exploration, I think that's the kind of change the series needed. (I also think they could borrow some of the challenge options from Judgment and be better for it.)
When (not if) they merge gold and pass they should just offer two tiers of the service, the base one would be equivalent to what we have now and the higher one would include the ultimate editions of said games, as in all DLC included as well as the possible expansions.
I recently started broadcasting and it's tuff getting views but mixed is definitely growing. I've seen a few people in the 5-6k range and I saw onespanish guy who streams Fortnite have 17k. Mixer is growing fast. Microsoft should stick with it.
Why not both? And YouTube, and whatever other platform / method of communication they can use to reach as many people as they can, on their preferred platforms? I don't know how much more effort it really takes them to set up those other streams, but I can't imagine it's a terrible headache for a company like Microsoft and they obviously know whether it's worth it or not.
My expectation... And it's only a guess... Is that they are making a second KI but they'll make the game complete from the get go.
MS only halfway played around with a la carte purchases and the issue with seasons is while you are dedicating lower resources for each slice, you are spending more over the course of development of all seasons while having a net negative impact on product quality (the weird story mode mashup as an example)
How big of a game they would be going for is something I am not so sure of... Or if Iron Galaxy will be doing it, despite being fairly quiet since season 3 release
Also the whole first game not being on game pass is a curious thing, but that could be how the game works with all the random secondary downloads
There are other ways to innovate gameplay with Gears. Fighting a Swarmak with a Mech Suit in 4 was dope. Controlling a Brumak in 2 was cool. The vehicle sections in 1 were great. The gameplay just needs to be more varied, the core gameplay can remain the same.
That's quite risky when it's owned by Amazon, who are making moves that may potentially make them a direct competitor in the future - even moreso than Sony.
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Forbes "contributor". I feel like they'll let anyone with a blog with more than a 1000 total views write articles for them.
Define "better". I'd say Gears, outside of maybe 1 and Judgement, always had a great story filled with memorable characters. Maybe not ultra deep, but character moments like Dom's decent into hopelessness in 2 and 3, or Cole Train realizing how much has changed since the war started in 3 were extremely well done.
Maybe he should finally just partner with Sony Pictures if he wants to make a movie so badly.
I don't think this will Happen. Most players won't bother to change their settings. and even if they do lobbies aren't all that large, so I don't there will be much trouble filling them with kbm players.
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Why would want them to basically help out a direct Competitor ( with mixer and game streaming)
Who cares? The AAA that Microsoft users are looking for is Gears 5, i want other kind of AAA experience from Crackdown 3
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