Microsoft Studios (& Partners) Current and Future Landscape
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What a hypocrisy! Slightly related? LOL. After first GOW reviews it wasn't "sligthly". So, you, Xbox fans, are allowed to spew shit about Sony 1st party games in MS thread like "Sony's games are getting good reviews because they are media darlings". It's so sad that you don't get any single warning from mods. Not a single one. Yet, you provoke others and they get a warning or bann. Yes, it's annoying.
Won't even matter on the topic of "talking shit" (how the hell did you, personally, get offended by what was being discussed) but why do you care so much? Would you rather have people talking shit on the sony thread instead?
You're the one intentionally looking for trouble and you want other people warned. Baffling.
Uhhhh...Crackdown 3...then most likely Forza Horizon 4... #shrug...this year ain't like last year...which the internet makes it seem.
EDIT: Theorry we are birds of the same feather.
Lol
Exactly. just ignore the guy.
"You, Xbox fans" lmao. What the hell are you even doing here?
Rhetorical question btw, it's very transparent.
When is Crackdown coming out? And if Crackdown and FH4 are all we can expect that's pretty bad.
If Forza Horizon 4 is at least as good as FH3 then its pretty good
I know media outlets like to add "but without forza", "but without racing games" and the like when discussing xbox exclusive games, but they're still games as well. And pretty good ones, even.
Better than last year. Haha
Edit: I think they will release Ori 2 this year, Halo spin-off this year and the "Gears Spin off" next spring.
Yep, real shame. I do believe that this tech can be used to make games more dynamic!
I have been following Gow review thread and I have not seen anyone talking shit about Gow or saying media is biased nd all.
So, I don't what you are trying to achieve here.
This Summer.
But that not what you said tho. You said its a ghost land after State of Decay 2. So corrected you on that we still get Crackdown and Forza Horizon 4.
"Its a ghost land"
"Not true. sea of thieves, crackdown, forza, state of decay, these games all came out"
"But i don't like them. So, ghost land"
it usually boils down to this
its one thing to say xbox exclusives dont reach the same quality level as other companies (reasonable enough), its another to pretend they didnt exist
Ori 2 is not coming this year
Whats wrong with Crackdown and Forza Horizon though? Admittedly CD3 is kind of a murky one, but FH is consistently amazing. I'd be surprised if FH4 doesn't follow suit.
While I applaud Zelda and God of a War for taking chances and succeeding, I completely disagree with the take that radical departures are what needs to happen for those franchise to be great. People confuse correlation and causation. God of War didn't reinvent the wheel. It hit a home run in game design, graphics and story while using proven gameplay concepts from many games before it. Zelda did something similar. It took the open world formula and tightened it rather than completely innovating it.
Uncharted 4, Mario Odyssey and even Bloodbourne are also considered top games this gen and none of them did anything revolutionary compared to the games before them. I'd equate Mario's hat throwing feature to Spartan abilities if we're talking changes. Differences is Odyssey is a really good Mario game while Halo 5's campaign was worse than every Halo before it.
I played Gears 2 campaign for the first time last week and enjoyed it immensely more than the Gears 4 campaign. So Gears 4's issues were less about it being similar and more about it simply being not as good. Forza's progression and season are worse than they were on the 360...thanks in part to trying to implement loot boxes.
Halo, Gears and Forza need to be great while Microsoft tries to find some additional IPs. Right now they're merely good. Classic Halo's have some of the most memorable FPS missions of all time that are fun to play again today. Halo 5 has none of that. No wide linear levels similar to the best levels from Halo:CE...a game that came out 17 years ago.
It really comes down to a combo of talent and in some cases focus on micro transaction monitization. Coalition is simply not as talented or great at pushing Unreal tech as Epic and 343 is not as talented as the old version of Bungie.
Microsoft needs better talent. Needs better studio leadership. When the talent is there, the game quality will show through regardless of what it looks like on the surface.
Oh no doubt. Forza games are great but a known quantity at this point and something I'm honestly a little burnt out on.
If a Halo or Gears spinoff gets announced I'll be good.
Wasn't it last year at GAF that some "insiders" said MS was holding Xbox back, not providing them with a big budget? We could have easily heard the same thing now, but we're hearing the exact opposite and also from a legit reliable source and also not just from Phil Spencer in a tweet, which is nice for a change. It's undoubtedly gonna take a good while before we see any results but I can't think of much better news than this for Xbox owners really.
It's honestly making me sad. That place was literally my home on the internet for years from 2013 onwards. Now the subreddit is literally drowning in it's own self-made misery.
Yes for the past few years MS's E3 has been mostly multiplats, but the shows themselves especially from 2015 onwards have been, imo, very good. Game after game after game with a few tech announcements to keep people talking. I do want more first-party titles, but the absolute last thing I want is a CGI trailer for a game that's still half a decade away (coughFF7cough).
Well Crackdown 3 has looked pretty bad. It's good that it got delayed but I'm not expecting a massive turnaround with that game.
FH4 is fine I guess? Just expected like a new Madden every year. Kinda looking for something a little more exciting.
My expectations for E3 are now in the dirt though which is probably for the best. :)
This is unfortunate. I like Era's Xbox community, but holdover attitudes from the previous forum made it over as well. It's nothing wrong with preferring one publisher over another, but not to the point everything has to be positive or if people disagree they are desperate or fanboys.
So seems that whatever Microsoft's first next gen E3 is (2020 or 2021), it'll be fair to expect the world, right?
The Crackdown 3 we have seen was never the intended Crackdown 3. The single player campaign was a late addition as it was initially only going to be online multiplayer. Crackdown 3's destruction multiplayer mode is still a mystery and still has a chance to be amazing. The silence on it for the past few years could be really really good or really really bad. The fact that there is still a chance for greatness for the game is good though
I disagree because the trailer didn't end with a "2018" release window (for example Gears of War 4 reveal said "Holiday 2016" at E3 2015).
Exactly. I hope Crackdown 3 has a really good singleplayer campaign.
Well in the trailer for Sunset Overdrive, they didn't have a date and it came out the next October.
Crackdown 3 and Ori 2 are easily my most anticipated titles that we know about. I can barely contain my excitement, I don't know what I'll do with myself once we actually get release dates lol. Crackdown 1/2 and Ori 1 are some of my favorite titles in their respective genres, so the fact that we're getting sequels has me bouncing off walls.
It has nothing to do with "holdover attitudes from the previous forum" lol. Some posters make it abundantly clear, as did prison architect. There's no victim complex or anything, it's just calling a spade a spade when the spade is acting like a spade.
Are you really quoting metacritic averages from 17 years ago?
Heard the reason for the game being delayed was the Campaign (wasn't meeting quality standards by MS) and not the cloud-based multiplayer as we all thought. Take this with a pinch of salt since I've just heard that from a couple of users through DM on Era and Twitter and I haven't been able to get further proof.
And idk if Jez, shinobi602 or any other journalist/dev/insider is willing to answer this type of questions through DM, so I'm not wasting my time writing them a message just to be ignored (not meant to be rude, just trying to be realistic).
Yeah, I think I've seen that mentioned before. I just hope they were able to take advantage of the delay and the campaign is shaping up nicely.
Point is that games can reach above 90 on Metacritic no matter what genre they are in.
But hey recent examples why not
Forza Horizon 3 - 91
Undertale - 92
Inside - 93
Overwatch - 91
I mean they delayed it for a reason. For me personally I thought the game looked dated. Like a cleaner looking version of a game that would have dropped 10 years ago. I did hear it's more fun to play than watch...
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