I can't argue with that, but when I think of franchise fatigue I consider both how often the game releases, and what has released since that game. For example, as you've stated Halo 5 and Gears 4 released in 2015 and 2016 respectively, but what huge critically-acclaimed and high-quality releases has MS had since then? With the exception of Forza, there really hasn't been much. And in between now and the release of Halo Infinite and Gears 5, the landscape doesn't look like it will change all that much. And that's what I mean by Gears/Halo/Forza getting the "spotlight." Not that they're releasing too often, but just that they're the only big releases that MS has. Whereas for Sony, look at what has released since Uncharted 4 only 2 years ago in 2016:
The thing is, I think your worries too much about critical acclaim. PUBG would r gotten destroyed yet 9 million people played it and it's one of the most played games on the system. Everybody hates sea of thieves except for the millions of people that play the game. The games that MS are targeting aren't going to be critical darlings or high forum chatter releases. Few multiplayer based games are. Like even titanfall 1 which I thought was a masterpiece wasn't a huge critical success
I want to play high-quality games like Gears/Halo/Forza, that aren't just Gears/Halo/Forza. That's my point.
True. Again though, I would counter-argue that every upcoming title for these three pillars probably will be the most successful games in these franchises, yet.
Let's look at that.
Microsoft had people leading the company and key divisions that did not have a good enough vision of what to do with gaming and they have started turning the ship with some leadership changes that have taken effect.
But Crackdown 3 has a lot of hate and not good opinions. And we very good know why. Unfortunately. But this is their fault that announced game too, too, too early and developer didn't do enough work during these years.
In the very end, a good game will be a good game, no matter the road it took.
I really dont believe that nonsense.
Hmm, that sounds like good news to me.
I'm really looking forward to the expansions they will be doing for FH4. So far these have been really distinct and offered a ton of new content.
Yup, i feel The same about Arkham Knight's story, the game has good moments thats for sure, but it has so many flaws too, stoic Batman is the biggest one, not to mention the villains logic regards Gotham's destruction or The Joker taking the place as te main villain again.
he was involved in asylum, city and partly in origins, and he left during knight development.
He wrote Asylum and city, his biography mentions wb montreal so he contributed to origins, and the fact that he left during knight development makes difficult to understand how much he was involved(for sure the main theme of the screenplay was written early) and so on
