Wild Sheep Studio are still hiring for the game so it's in some form of development - they're a much smaller team though so I'm less inclined to call vaporware on it the BG&E2
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Yeah! Who cares about where the series comes from.
Maybe by that point people may even stop pretending it will be anything else than another of their Assassin's Creed reskins.
Eh. I like those supposed reskins. So bring it on.
I'm 99% convinced that they have to continue development because they have arrangements with HitRecord or something like that.
Feels almost like Beyond Good & Evil 2 turns 20 years old this year.
I wish it was cancelled.
Original: Tight 10-12 hour narrative experience set in a small but detailed world with a great juxtaposition of cute and funny characters with a dark and sinister regime.
Sequel: Big open and expansive game which will probably be 50 hours long with 900 rpg mechanics, totally unrecognisable as the same series and might as well be Assassins Creed in space. Edgy and cool characters with swearing and attitude.
Original: Tight 10-12 hour narrative experience set in a small but detailed world with a great juxtaposition of cute and funny characters with a dark and sinister regime.
Sequel: Big open and expansive game which will probably be 50 hours long with 900 rpg mechanics, totally unrecognisable as the same series and might as well be Assassins Creed in space. Edgy and cool characters with swearing and attitude.
I wonder if that sequel to Immortal's Fenyx Rising that had leaked concept art is one of the canceled games.
God I hope not
Not sure I care anymore given what they said it would be always online meaning microtransaction and needless busywork quests with grinding the same activities over and over again.
Yep, it'd be better if it was cancelled. Needs a complete do over with a modest budget and actually continuing from the first game.
Im not even a huge fan of the original, it was pretty good, but not spectacular.
Despite the change in tone, I was really looking forward to this when it was announced. The original was one of my favorite games growing up and the cliffhanger ending hit me hard at the time.
With that said, it's really hard to care when it's been half a decade with nothing to really show for it.
With that said, it's really hard to care when it's been half a decade with nothing to really show for it.
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Eh, I don't. So feel free to keep wondering by yourself why people don't share your excitement.
This is one of those games I can't help but be excited for. Yeah it's not gonna be like the original, yeah it might fall apart under the weight of its own ambition.
But its one of a few Ubi games that just looks different, and I'm in day 1 for any of their stuff that feels off the wall. Open world co-op space pirate game? Hell yes.
If they can make a world that has a mix of dedicated hand-crafted action-adventure ish stages like the original for major story stuff and significant side quests, as well as fun if filler content that you do do with your buddies, and they make the point to point traversal fun and fast, either by jetpack or spaceship, it could be something really great.
Or it could be skull and bones in space I guess.
Oh well. At least it's not cancelled.
But its one of a few Ubi games that just looks different, and I'm in day 1 for any of their stuff that feels off the wall. Open world co-op space pirate game? Hell yes.
If they can make a world that has a mix of dedicated hand-crafted action-adventure ish stages like the original for major story stuff and significant side quests, as well as fun if filler content that you do do with your buddies, and they make the point to point traversal fun and fast, either by jetpack or spaceship, it could be something really great.
Or it could be skull and bones in space I guess.
Oh well. At least it's not cancelled.
Really? I mean this is one of the projects that should actually be cancelled, I assumed it was one of them lol. I know us here on the forums know what BGE is but I just don't think there's appeal for a wider audience anymore.
If not they should just rename it and create a new IP out of it.
If not they should just rename it and create a new IP out of it.
If there's any company that should be greenlighting more short, linear, or otherwise experimental experiences just for the sake of getting things out the door, it's Ubisoft. Their open-world-or-bust template is going to sink the company at this rate.
Haha. I love Beyond Good and Evil. I wanted a sequel for so long. What Ancel was working on wasn't really it and I have no confidence that they'll ever release that or any game in series now.
They should just remake 1 now. It would still be awesome.
They should just remake 1 now. It would still be awesome.
This really needs to happen. M&M could be used for a decent breadth of games and M&M X was a decent dungeon crawler. Nothing good since.
Yeah, that's the thing.
M&M X was basically made on a budget approximating "We'll pay you guys with exposure" territory and the team had to recycle assets from a tactical game spin-off (M&M Heroes VII) AND STILL manages to be fun and enjoyable.
Imagine if they gave the IP to someone who actually tried.
And to be frank it's not like I care about the setting itself, but both Might & Magic "mainline" and its major spin-offs (Heroes of M&M as a tactical game and Clash of Heroes as a puzzle game) were just excellent.
My apologies but I can't think of a game that was revealed 2-3 years ago. I think it was a new IP from Ubisoft (?) that looked similar is scope to ICO? Involved maybe brothers or two people? Art style wasn't that realistic.
Sell it to Arkane so we can have Dark Messiah 2.
reminder that this was announced as a normal sequel in 2008
Jade's voice actress passed away in 2018
Jade's voice actress passed away in 2018
Im as skeptical as everyone but I will say I find it extremely odd that Ubi is publicly cancelling multiple games but saying this one is still coming.
Having just beat BGE again for the nth time - this time on steam deck - I'm gonna go ahead and hold on to hopes that the lack of any info for the past few years has all been due to it being re tooled into a conventional single player campaign that actually continues the story of the first game (ie. Pey'j getting infected in the post credits sequence)
Pretty unrealistic given ancel I think says he has left the game industry
Having just beat BGE again for the nth time - this time on steam deck - I'm gonna go ahead and hold on to hopes that the lack of any info for the past few years has all been due to it being re tooled into a conventional single player campaign that actually continues the story of the first game (ie. Pey'j getting infected in the post credits sequence)
Pretty unrealistic given ancel I think says he has left the game industry
Ah shit didn't realize this, RIP
Yep, it's a shame to lose that heritage. MM5-7 we're very solid games back in the day. HOMM series was excellent (till they f-d it up), and MMX was good despite all odds.
Thing is now days I can't even think if anyone who would make that style of games anymore and would have funds to buy the IP.
I was wondering something similar.
I have to imagine there was some weird, complicated contract in place, particularly if they were actively using user-submitted content for free under the proviso that it would eventually be sold.
I don't know much about the company but I imagine when you have a known face like JGL attached they're probably very keen not to have a supposedly huge project dramatically fail and have him be associated with it.
I'm more surprised they REALLY plan on keeping the number.
Then again we've had a few examples of "sequels" becoming the new starting point for a series despite not being the first game.
Then again we've had a few examples of "sequels" becoming the new starting point for a series despite not being the first game.