Not to mention 343i probably has more than just game developers at the helm. They are the brand manager of Halo, after all.
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Does Mojang actually do stuff anymore? I thought Minecraft was mostly moved internally with help from SkyBox Labs.
But when you get to a point devs become bored and you get a talent exodus.
Mojang are design/creative directors and still write a lot of the procedural generation and systems, they also handle Minecrafts art. They basically lead all the Minecraft teams, from MS studios UK, Minecraft team (seattle) and other port studios.
That's fair -- games shouldn't be about individual talents anyway. But you do sign up to work on Halo stuff when you get to work at 343.
They also made that Cobalt game that Microsoft was promoting at like Gamescom 2016 and they didn't seem very happy with the sales of that game.
Oh MS didn't care about that, it was a indie team which had a member of Mojangs leadership team in it. So Mojang published it, Mojang have creative freedom to work on outside projects and do that sort of thing. It wasn't anything MS had any investment in, just a creative outlet for the devs.
Well Destiny 1 got rebooted multiple times and Destiny 2 Development got scrapped and rebooted in 2016. Microsoft would not put up with that. Microsoft would give them 3-4 years to make the game and if halfway into development it had to be rebooted, Microsoft would just cancel it.
Then you don't have the quality of animators and artists required to bring Halo to life. The name 343i is so generic same with Coalition.
I doubt the studio gobo game is that big if its coming anytime soon... they basically just started april last year
But that happens with every studio whether all you do is make new IP's or work on the one franchise, every studio goes through churn and then you start employing a young talented staff and you start the cycle again.
I honestly can't wrap my head around this narrative that the staff at 343i and The Coalition don't want to make Halo and Gears, its baffling.
Hmm, I don't think that's how it works. A lot of people working in the industry just want to have good working conditions, good benefits and job security. Working for a studio like 343, under Microsoft Game Studios, is a safe bet for a lot of devs in the Seattle area I'm sure.
It's not always about the project in this industry.
It seems they are.
Clear as day, new IP from TC. I' surprised as well.
I seriously doubt that devs have the power to determine the new IP that they will be working for, those must be most of the time an executive decisión.
In the case of the new IP for the coalition, I don't believe that they decided to work on a new and Microsoft just went along with it.
In the case of the new IP for the coalition, I don't believe that they decided to work on a new and Microsoft just went along with it.
I am still hoping to see a third person or Halo RPG some day. I definitely think that could work!
Not sure why some still seem to think TC is not taking on a new IP, I mean the website sure says so. :)
Not sure why some still seem to think TC is not taking on a new IP, I mean the website sure says so. :)
Their partnership was announced in April 2017, you typically don't get partnership announcements the day that the contract is signed so we don't actually know that. It's not like they announced the partnership right after signing the contract.
Third person action RPG based on Arbiter with emphasis on melee combat. Gimme.
I think that's a mistake, a pretty wild one but still a mistake. Some random middleware dev announces The Coalition are making a new IP and it's radio silence from MS? That's just too mental to be real lol.
Hmm. Do you think we could see VR implementation for the X at some point? Or do you think we'd get that at or around Xbox V launch? If Scarlet isn't a console, that's my bet. I would hope they don't just release a new controller, as much as I love the Xbox One controller, it's had enough re-releases and variations.
It's a motion cap studio which to me means they have been contracted to do mo cap.
I suppose it could be a typo. And they mean Gears 5?
Next Xbox I'm sure. Phil Spencer said he thinks VR belongs on consoles but not with wires, he wants to wait for the technology for wireless VR on console which is currently not possible according to him.
1) And then ND stopped this approach, why? Obviously because it wasn't working for them anymore (most likely because new gen meant a lot more people/resources needed to make 2 games simultaneously).
2) That was last gen, when you didn't need that much people to create an AAA game. Now Big AAA games needs a lot more people working on them.
3) Remaster is nowhere near "drain"ing as an AAA game.
4) The game is doing motion capture,so it's at full production stage, basically you need a whole team doing it.
5) Splash Damage is 300 people.
6) It's not possible, but it's highly unlikely. Bend and Sucker Punch are games mid-AAA level games and even then they take long to produce these games. This new IP is gonna won't mid AAA, it's gonna bigger (Think Halo/Gears big on term of budget) you don't make a small on that.
7) Insomniac has the whole team working on Spiderman, Respawn other game is not coming in this decade.
Oh be still my beating heart ;(. I will always have that dream as well. :p
Don't know if someone already said it, but StoryLabs deleted the page about TC working on a new IP.
Link: http://storylabproductions.ca/portfolio/new-ip-with-the-coalition-studios-2017
Link: http://storylabproductions.ca/portfolio/new-ip-with-the-coalition-studios-2017
Yeah it's like saying staff at EA Vancouver don't want to make FIFA games or the staff at Polyphony don't want to make Gran Turismo games or the staff at Sony San Diego don't want to make MLB games etc
Maybe Microsoft didn't give them permission to announce this new IP partnership and ordered it to be taken down. You know it's bad when studios are announcing projects that aren't allowed to be announced.
Yah, I noticed that too...probably much more busy with the promotion and focusing on whatever it is their working on. But seriously...that store needs help.
Yup, looks like something was posted a little too early then. Exciting.
From the Undead Labs instagram. Definitely seems like they're about to drop a lot of info soon :)
God can I just say how exciting it is that MS seem to be trying to actually make some waves.
Feels like ages since we got any real good news/rumours.
Feels like ages since we got any real good news/rumours.
Really? I still don't think it was true and was just a miscommunication in regards to work they are actually doing with The Coalition.
This has been a crazy few days, there's been so much information swirling about that its hard to keep a track of it all. I just don't see TC doing a new IP and Gears 5.
They're entering 2018 with a head of steam (X/PUBG). I think it should be a pretty solid year, and one that sets them up nicely for the "next" gen.
GAAS means nothing. It's funny that predictions for all Microsoft games is GAAS as if it's telling us something. Almost every big game Microsoft has released has had some form of GAAS since Xbox Live was a thing. There was a small exception of time when they published RPGs. I don't expect any AAA game to not have some form of GAAS ever again.
Those rumors would be false. State of Decay 2 is a "Spring" game and the developers keep reinforcing Spring. That means March-June. But Sea of Thieves is March 20 so it's probably an April game.
That's always the case even of Gaf, most industry news or rumors that were positive wouldn't get much traction unless it was a huge leak.
The majority of people who complain about lack of Xbox exclusives have no interest in playing Xbox exclusives even when they arise. I'd have thought that was obvious.
Now, imagine some insider news/rumor stating that MS canceled new IP from Coaltition...
Idk about February. They've been saying spring for a while. Which is April -June
So probably something like SoT in. Arch, State of decay in April and crackdown in June ish
And throw in some of those indies scattered here and there
Yeah, not much to go on to be fair. Their name is so beige though, it doesn't grab my attention.
It's indeed odd, especially because it seems to be from 2017,but still. Remember.... MS with their new stance on the announcing stuff. ;)
Nah but I get what you mean, you'd think they would comment on it.
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