Just equip your +3 to drop chance BR and all will be OK.
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Since this flew under the radar a few pages back, WELCOME (to posting)! Those are some interesting insights. I don't forsee a lot of fundamental gameplay changes to gears. Lots of tight but expressive spaces have been shown off in trailers and even in that spatial audio demo. I do hope it is organized a bit differently though, just personally. I have a hard time getting into the endless corridor/lane shooter. Break it up just a little with optional exploration. Horde is fine but not my personal favorite.
If MS go for some more studios, I'd love to see them pick up a few such as Nightschool or Playdead. I love those types of game and think they would really add a point of differentiation to the competition. Get 3 smaller studios like Nighschool and get them to release something on a 3 year dev cycle, sort of like an indie version of COD. Every year, MS will have at least 1 first party indie-darling at E3.
That said, Playdead take aeons to make games, so maybe not them!
That said, Playdead take aeons to make games, so maybe not them!
"Endless gameplay opportunities" stands out to me. I'm really curious about what they mean by that.I think 343 knows exactly what they are writing here :)
And mystery and wonder is exactly what the recent Halo games have been missing, so I'm really happy it's addressed here.
Sound like an open world, and a return to the more toybox nature of halo.
Well. It's not like Microsoft already has a publishing arm and an indie focused service that could enable them to fund indie devs or buy indie games that look promising, without committing very small teams to unrealistic expectations... It doesn't really make sense to do it that way IMO.
Maybe the (supposedly nonexistent) 2nd party track might work. Work closely with respected indie publishers, fund them separately for general operations, with the expectation that Microsoft gets an early look at what's coming. Not guaranteeing exclusivity (if Xbox even wants that), but just keeping relationships going. Any indie publisher would love just 200k a year to support a few more staff or to shore up development to get to a milestone. You could do that for 10 indie publishers, make lots of friends, get a pretty good stab at taking first dibs on a decent percentage of their games all for just 2 million - a fraction of the price of buying any new studios.
Imagine if Forge Infinite gave Dreams a run for its money.
Actually...imagine if they did take a load of their experience from Kodu and Spark and put that into Forge.
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Exactly, quality beats quantity. We don't need to see trash like Battlefield, Shadow of TR, Desert Black, Captain Spirit, Just cause 4 etc focus on quality not quantity
Dying Light 2, DMC5, Tunic, Cyberpunk (even though I don't care for it) Metro, Sekiro. Those are worth having on stage, the rest not so much.
Open world Halo sounds incredible to me. Imagine having he ability to explore installations on the ring, entirely optional.
Personal opinions, man.
Besides, MS takes what they can get for marketing deals. You never know what might be the next Fortnite, or the next HellBlade.
Imagine if a fan-made BR mode gave Fornite, Apex, PUBG... a run for its money :p
I still think MineCraft has the best crafting system to date, since you actually have arrange the item on the crafting table. No other survival game has nailed this aspect yet.
Or the next Anthem....
Also marketing deals are a waste considering that the games are still going to sell more on the PS4 and even possibly the PC. I don't see how the DMC5 Marketing deal helped Xbox, or an exclusive demo. How did the Battlefield V marketing deal etc. How did these benefit Xbox?
I doubt it..., bonnie said expect more on slipspace at e3
They need to keep up good third-party relations for continued support this and next generation, and marketing their games for them is one way to do that.
Agreed. I see Infinite as some sort of reboot for the franchise.
The goal isn't to get them to sell more on Xbox than PS4. How does that make any sense with double the PS4s sold? These deals benefit Xbox because it helps sell more of these games on Xbox than they would have and it associates the Xbox brand with some of the biggest games of the year.
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I have little interest in WHF but I also never liked games like Bioshock or Dishonored. However those games seem to benefit from having a more linear structure (although I know Dishonored had a larger hub world) it seems that Compulsion can make a higher quality game if they made a more streamlined, 8-10 experience. Their story telling, visual art style along with simplified streamlined experience. A $40 game could probably sell well and be perfect for Game Pass.
One of my favorite games this gen was Ratchet and Clank 2016, it was short (6-8 hours) but it was extremely polished, was gorgeous, solid gameplay mechanics and $40.
Those are the kind of games that Compulsion, Rare and to an extent Ninja Theory should be making (although I'd like for NT to make bigger AAA games as well) and would fit perfectly for Game Pass. $40 but extremely polished games that they can pump out on a regular basis and leave the bigger AAA games to Playground/Coalition/Initiative etc
I'd rather they buy Certain Affinity but I imagine it's cheaper to just give them contract work. As long as they keep doing a good job I'm sure MS will continue to go to them and give them a steady stream of projects/jobs and keep them employed.
I use to really push for MS to buy Moon Studios, but I think they have a good enough relationship and I think their publishing deal with MS will continue ei MS owning the IP's as long as MS puts them on the Switch as well.
i think we'll get a small teaser trailer for halo 5 - not the engine, but the game itself (cutscenes, gameplay, etc.). i also think we'll get a bigger, beefier trailer for the multiplayer and an announcement for when flighting will begin a few months later, 2019.
i dont remember the exact quote, but she mentioned one of the leads on slipscae would be at e3 talking about the engine. i'm not sure how that implies thats all they are showing or discussing in total. they could absolutely reveal the game AND talk about how their new engine works.
i dont remember the exact quote, but she mentioned one of the leads on slipscae would be at e3 talking about the engine. i'm not sure how that implies thats all they are showing or discussing in total. they could absolutely reveal the game AND talk about how their new engine works.
When I look at the amount of people on the game and length of development I wonder if it's one of the most expensive/most man hours games ever made. I'm guessing easily top ten maybe top 5.
Sounds good to me! Especially the brutality part. That's always been one of Gears key differentiators, so it makes sense to expand on it.
I feel like I'm getting too hyped for E3 at this point and I'm going to end up disappointed lol.
Industry leading mo-cap? I mean Gears needs better animations as moving side to side seems awkward as hell but didn't Rod say they aren't using mo cap?
I put over 120 hours into Gears 4 and think its an extremely polished, quality game. The Coalition with a smaller team and only 2 years really proved that they can be a stand out developer.
Now 3 years, the groundwork being laid down and 350+ developers, they need to murder it with Gears 5, prove once and for all that they're an elite developer.
and thats fine. its all speculation. i've just seen that bonnie ross quote used a few times to make the point that they are only, again, demoing and talking about the engine. i don't think thats what the quote means at all - or at least has to mean.
it would be a pleasant surprise, but I think GEARS will get all the hype push this year with a Halo blowout next year.
With Gears 5 coming they should keep all attention to the gameplay for it mostly. Engine info and details of development is what I really want for now from Halo Infinite. It takes time and polish to show gameplay to the best of it's design so with Halo Infinite it would be best to delve into gameplay next year if it's a 2020 title. Gears 5 though I have a feeling it's going to really blow us away with how it's going to be
I think 343 knows exactly what they are writing here :)
bring it!
i think infinite will follow gears 5 lead. like last year, a small glimpse of gameplay/story, blowout next year. i dont think this will overshadow gears which we will see a huge amount of real gameplay.
Definitely
We did see behind the scenes stuff for the E3 trailer they made and they were using Mo Cap for the cutscene actors
Do we know what the budgets for Halo 4 and 5 were?
Edit- Looking at a list of games with the biggest budgets, the most expensive game ever made is GTA 5 with a $265 million budget....
So basically they'd need 50 million subscribers to pay 10$ to break even.
I imagine that the engine cost quite a bit. Long term investment.
Anyone know the budget for Halo 4/5?
I... don't think that's how it works. Unless this is sarcasm.
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