I'm so tempted to get FF7 while it's on sale for $10 dollars and playing it now instead of waiting till it's on Game Pass.I'm so hyped for Yakuza and KH Collection. All FF coming to GamePass is also amazing
Perfect scenarioHow would people feel if the coalition did grow into a two team studio and worked on gears and perfect dark
Gears story should basically jump like 500 years into the future. Ala reboot, new characters, new places, new stories, etc. Design SP and MP from ground-up, Gears MP is not fun for new comers to get into.
I'm so in for Yakuza, still crazy that they managed to get it day-one on Game Pass as well :D
Hopefully, we see Dragon's Quest and/or Guilty Gear as well on Xbox. 2020 is starting to look really good if you're interested in JP games in the Xbox ecosystem. Crossfire and Kartriders as well next year which are two South Korean games.
I'm curious if the recently announced games made by the Black Desert devs will get some sort of console announcement next year.
You saying there are tons of bugs is also anecdotal. Just because some people make some videos doesn't mean the game is a trainwreck, especially if it's apparently possible to go through the game and never encounter them.
, he's led a team of 300+ that has delivered two ~85 MC AAA games in
I know ERA is in this weird bubble where Death Standing is considered a transformative gaming milestone and Gears 5 is a terribad and unpolished game, but hahahahaha
Watched the halo infinite trailers on my 84" qled in 4K. Anyone who says that doesn't look next gen either hasn't seen them in the proper format or they are straight up lying.
I'm supper impressed and can't for next gen.
Glad youre measuring rods ability to lead a studio by the fact that hes one point off an abritrary goal you set on metacritic. Also aw jeeze you said metacritic was terrible for a measure of quality but you go on to say that hes 0-2 because of the scores on it, hypocriteBoth games have an 84....I wasn't going to bring up Metacritic because its generally frowned upon when using it as a measure of quality but since you brought it up, Rod has never delivered an 85+ scoring game which further shows he's 0-2 as a studio head managing a studio with that size and budget.
Would do wonders for Gears 6.Hopefully they give Gears 6 more development time like Halo Infinite
Glad youre measuring rods ability to lead a studio by the fact that hes one point off an abritrary goal you set on metacritic. Also aw jeeze you said metacritic was terrible for a measure of quality but you go on to say that hes 0-2 because of the scores on it, hypocrite
Don't worry. They won't last long.
Lol
Gears is not going anywhere. It's Xbox's 2nd most successful franchise and has a hardcore fanbase who are in the Xbox ecosystem because of it. It's getting a spin off that's a X-com inspired game in Tactics and may appeal to those not interested in the quick twitch, cover based gameplay.
People not interested or no longer interested in Gears can only hope The Coalition grows big enough in size to support another IP or MS gets another successful franchise that gets the full funding as Halo, Gears, and Forza does.
Imagine where Xbox would be if MS never bought the Gears IP from Epic.
It's difficult to call a break to not only a successful franchise when you don't have others. but is also iconic to the Xbox brand. All they can do is support it, and hope other IP's can be as successful as Halo, Gears, and Forza... and possibly Fable.It doesn't have to go anywhere but a break from it wouldn't be a bad thing, after 6 that is because they clearly want to finish this trilogy. I just don't get certain decisions they made for the campaign. The whole thing with Kait in act 1 to 2 was interesting but they don't really do much with it after that , and now we have to wait for 6 to see it all come to a finish. Wished they had wrapped it up in 5 so that we get the story focused on something or someone else.
Tech wise it may be the best Gears yet, 60fps indeed is lovely but when it comes to campaigns it just isn't up there with the trilogy from Epic, not for me. It IS better than 4 in some ways and in other ways 4 is better. I now see that the discussion has been about Gears for a few pages now. I wasn't aware, I'm not in this thread daily.
The thought of this studio trying their hand on something new is exciting but doesn't seem likely for a few years to come. Thankfully XGS consists of many new names now, so that's promising for new stuff.
People would complain MS missed a big chance to get the Gears IP like they are now that they blew it with not getting Bioware.Imagine where Xbox would be if MS never bought the Gears IP from Epic.
I know yall have gotten annoyed as hell with me addressing TC and a new IP but I PRAY this is true. I would love for Perfect Dark to be made by TC. Can you link me the video?Was rewatching the IGN podcast sit down with Rod for Gears 5. When asked about just working on Gears he gave an answer involving retaining talent. An answer similar to what PG said when they opened the second team. With what Morgoth has said, it sounds even more likely that they'll be doing PD. That's pretty awesome and would love to see their take. The Vancouver scene has a lot of talent and is a beautiful place to live.
In that case two things would happen: everything will be cut and that would be sad since they are developing te lore and the background of each major nation like vasgar, or 6 would be a shooter big as the entire TES saga
They made the biggest changes that could have been made in a 2.5 year development time. I don't think people understand how short that is for the development of an AAA game with the level of quality and amount of content that Gears 5 has.Others have alluded to this but Gears is trapped by its own fan base, in a way.
Gaming evolution mandates change, or it risks becoming yesterday's game. But the hardcore don't want a massive reinvention/reboot. Treading that fine line is always hard.
I really appreciated the open world aspects but think they need to fill it out with more RDR2 quality side missions. As someone that never, ever touches arcade (it's a Jerky wall bouncing mess of pros)
Just to be clear: please stop this Gears 6 is going to end this arch
That was true back in 2014 when they wrote the first draft of the entire arch.
But after 4, developing 5 campaign they realized that while on paper it looked reasonable, it didn't worked in game and the whole game expanded, and now the longest campaign in the saga is just a section of the planned gears 5. Plus Gears 6 was way bigger than 6 on paper.
To complete the saga with 6 would means that an external force pushed them to put everything in a single game, which wouldn't be the case if they are free to do what the want. And msft definitely doesn't want to finish with 6.
If you just had a vague idea of how far the end is still...
Basically the plan was a trilogy explanding its size each chapter, super little in the first, with low stakes, 4 guys in the woods one night, then those guys turned into the army of new ephyra(medium size, it was 5) then a global warfare of endgame proportion with 6.
On paper worked, digitally it turned out way bigger than they expected, and msft supported their vision with 5 of let this entire story archs growing outside a trilogy.
AFAIK the plot didn't even covered half of the original draft for 5, which ended with the fall of the cog and new ephyra and then they started a war without a proper base for the entire sera.
Basically the next chapter is going to cover the new ephyra saga if they don't rewrite their plan, but again msft was enthusiast. The medium sized game wasn't that medium size they realized.
What's going on now? They are still working on 5 mp and 5 "deluxe/aniversary/riseof skywalker" relaunch with series x, because they plan to support that chapter as long as they could to gain more time, but they should do it in a way that the game doesn't results "old" on series X/S/E.
A lot of features were a "first time" for gears and are going to be expanded since the postive reception in 5, like choices, hubs and so on.
The closest examples I remind cames from literature, with A song of Ice and Fire, planned as trilogy and expanded in to such a huge saga growing with time. Again don't expect that to finish soon, unless msft changes her mind.
In that case two things would happen: everything will be cut and that would be sad since they are developing te lore and the background of each major nation like vasgar, or 6 would be a shooter big as the entire TES saga
I think XsS has to be at most 250 if PS5 is 400
If PS5 is just a little underpowered (even if that 9,2 figure is true) in regards to XsX at 400, I think the difference with Series S in power is too big to justify geting the S if it's only 100 less, even considering Game Pass (because Sony has the option to change Now so it's more on par with it)
I'm more interested in pricing strategies than power differences as I think at the end of the day it's what will have the biggest impact on next gen adoption
Edit: Also I th8nk Gears 5 deserves merit objectively given the time they hadto work in it. And yes, they could've spent more time in it.
But, if they did, think about how 2019 would have looked like for Xbox.
It would have been the worst year of the gen by far in regards to 1st party content and instead of a lot of people looking forward to thz future you'll have the entire gaming community saying how bad it was and with a new low on hype levels for the platform, wich is not what you want when going into a new gen
A lot of features were a "first time" for gears and are going to be expanded since the postive reception in 5, like choices, hubs and so on
I know yall have gotten annoyed as hell with me addressing TC and a new IP but I PRAY this is true. I would love for Perfect Dark to be made by TC. Can you link me the video?
Just to be clear: please stop this Gears 6 is going to end this arch
That was true back in 2014 when they wrote the first draft of the entire arch.
But after 4, developing 5 campaign they realized that while on paper it looked reasonable, it didn't worked in game and the whole game expanded, and now the longest campaign in the saga is just a section of the planned gears 5. Plus Gears 6 was way bigger than 6 on paper.
To complete the saga with 6 would means that an external force pushed them to put everything in a single game, which wouldn't be the case if they are free to do what the want. And msft definitely doesn't want to finish with 6.
If you just had a vague idea of how far the end is still...
Basically the plan was a trilogy explanding its size each chapter, super little in the first, with low stakes, 4 guys in the woods one night, then those guys turned into the army of new ephyra(medium size, it was 5) then a global warfare of endgame proportion with 6.
On paper worked, digitally it turned out way bigger than they expected, and msft supported their vision with 5 of let this entire story archs growing outside a trilogy.
AFAIK the plot didn't even covered half of the original draft for 5, which ended with the fall of the cog and new ephyra and then they started a war without a proper base for the entire sera.
Basically the next chapter is going to cover the new ephyra saga if they don't rewrite their plan, but again msft was enthusiast. The medium sized game wasn't that medium size they realized.
What's going on now? They are still working on 5 mp and 5 "deluxe/aniversary/riseof skywalker" relaunch with series x, because they plan to support that chapter as long as they could to gain more time, but they should do it in a way that the game doesn't results "old" on series X/S/E.
A lot of features were a "first time" for gears and are going to be expanded since the postive reception in 5, like choices, hubs and so on.
The closest examples I remind cames from literature, with A song of Ice and Fire, planned as trilogy and expanded in to such a huge saga growing with time. Again don't expect that to finish soon, unless msft changes her mind.
In that case two things would happen: everything will be cut and that would be sad since they are developing te lore and the background of each major nation like vasgar, or 6 would be a shooter big as the entire TES saga
Damn, that sounds juicy. Thanks for sharing this insight, mate.
Here's hoping that Gears 6 doubles down on its open world section and rpg mechanics
Gears is not going anywhere. It's Xbox's 2nd most successful franchise and has a hardcore fanbase who are in the Xbox ecosystem because of it. It's getting a spin off that's a X-com inspired game in Tactics and may appeal to those not interested in the quick twitch, cover based gameplay.
People not interested or no longer interested in Gears can only hope The Coalition grows big enough in size to support another IP or MS gets another successful franchise that gets the full funding as Halo, Gears, and Forza does.
Nothing lasts forever, but it'll definitely be here in the immediate future even if it evolves along the way.
Try 47:34