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What is a possible Microsoft answer to Horizon Zero Dawn and Breath of the Wild?
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Damn! I forgot about this game. What a blast sunset overdrive was!
Crackdown has masses of potential based mostly off the fact that we haven't seen much of it it and they seem to have been given a reasonably long development time. I'm not sure what the teams experience is though I loved c1 but it was a long time ago and the lead guy made apb after and that was a bit of a turd to say the least. I hope they can deliver something special again.
JuanLatino
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i doubt Microsoft would even want that
it seems their focus is shifting towards MP Games
Apart from that, who would develop it?
it seems their focus is shifting towards MP Games
Apart from that, who would develop it?
PanicFreak
Member
State of Decay 2. Though I'm sure it won't scratch the same itch.
CharminUltra
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Fable: Zero Breath
dickroach
Member
if and when, yeah, I think this game's gonna do gangbusters
get2sammyb
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Why do they need to have an "answer"? Such a silly way of looking at things.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
It would have been Scalebound.
Now it's Crackdown 3. Which for me, unless they fuck it up, will be the best game of the three.
Now it's Crackdown 3. Which for me, unless they fuck it up, will be the best game of the three.
Obliterator
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I still dream that MS will deliver an actually awesome full scale RPG Fable revival one day. But they have no studios to do it at this point. Turn 10 are Forza. 343 is Halo. Coalition is Gears. Rare is on Sea of Thieves.
It fucking sucks what MS did to the Fable brand and I'm not sure that's something I'll ever get over after loving the first 2 games.
It fucking sucks what MS did to the Fable brand and I'm not sure that's something I'll ever get over after loving the first 2 games.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Ain't no way a Fable game would have been truly open world.
I would love nothing more for Microsoft to ask themselves this very question. The Xbox One very badly needs some original IPs and some new ideas. I was really excited when all the rumors were brewing about Black Tusk studios creating a new IP for them. I was on the brink of buying an Xbox until Gears of War happened. They play it too safe, but I guess they seem content with where they're at.
So I'm sure they'll just make another Halo and another Gears of War, and I'll keep not buying an Xbox One. It's too bad. I hope I'm wrong.
So I'm sure they'll just make another Halo and another Gears of War, and I'll keep not buying an Xbox One. It's too bad. I hope I'm wrong.
Guess we'll find out in a few months.
RichiRamjag
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Haha. I can see them in a meeting pitching this as we speak!
That's a lot of faith after the mess that was crackdown II. I hope they can get the magic back.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
When clicking the thread I already knew this was gonna be #Scalebound: The Thread
Cuz MS kept butting into the development and making them do stupid shit like adding 4 player coop.
Cuz MS kept butting into the development and making them do stupid shit like adding 4 player coop.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
I don't think anyone was suggesting it would.
But it would have been "their answer" to those games.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
That is an extremely bold proclamation.
GravityInsanity
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Scalebound and Cuphead are the only games that interest me from Microsoft. I also like the Forza Horizon games. Also, I don't know who thought Beats by Dre was a good idea for that character in a world where you have a dragon as a pet. Who greenlit that?
Maximilian Kolbe
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Isn't it sad when people keep asking "Xbox should have more diversity of games", but when Halo Wars 2, an RTS game(which is very rare on console) released recently, it keep getting ignored, and even pictures like #57 and #86 exist.
Surface of Me
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Blinx 3: Wild Dawn Zero
Because, quite frankly, RTS doesn't excite console players. It's just not something those platforms are known for. Nintendo has a similar issue with Pikmin (which isn't exactly RTS, but it kind of is).
That's like asking PC gamers to get excited over a fighting game. Yes, some will, but it will likely not draw players to the platform.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Proof?
RichiRamjag
Member
I'm not sure if I want to a new fable unless they can find a team to make that game what it always deserved to be. I've never forgiven Peter M. I remember reading about all the possibilities in regards to making decisions and watching them live on through the world. What we got was so terribly disappointing.
People probably just don't consider halo all that relevant in the same way anymore. When talking about bold new games, I certainly wouldn't think of halo.
Microsofts Hunert Smoke
Banned
This question is silly. Halo alone counters both of those despite its decrease in sales. Let alone what sea of the Ives and Scaleby under do.
Does anybody asking these odd questions think about how much ms first party actually sells?
Does anybody asking these odd questions think about how much ms first party actually sells?
Just because they havent announced any new games doesnt mean they haven't been working on any.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Open world Forza Motorsport.
CharminUltra
Member
With climbing and gliding.
For multiple publishers Kamiya had a perfect track record of games that successfully try out new stuff. Microsoft could have had a piece of that as well hadn't they cut it short there.
Resident Evil 2 (1998)
Devil May Cry (2001)
Viewtiful Joe (2003)
Ōkami (2006)
Bayonetta (2009)
The Wonderful 101 (2013)
Scalebound (Cancelled)
Microsofts Hunert Smoke
Banned
You mean what lionhead did?
Drillary Clinton
Banned
I don't remember the article but the writer said that the game shown at press conferences, which he heavily implied the second reveal, and the game shown behind closed doors were almost two different games.
Edit: Found it. It's not explicitly stated but you can make a pretty rational deduction as to what was happening. Especially considering Kamiya's frustrations with MS during the dev cycle.
Man, every single time I see an enemy spawn out of the ground in BotW, I think about Sunset Overdrive and how believably it spawned enemies into the game world. So awesome. I really hope we get a sequel at some point.
Chaos2Frozen
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I've pretty sure they've considered an Open world Halo.
Nothing? Forza, Halo, Gears, Sea of Thieves, Crackdown 3, State of Decay 2, Killer Instinct, and Minecraft all have online MP focuses. The last time they showed off Scalebound it was 4-player co-op. I just don't see how games like Horizon ZD and Zelda fit their obvious focus on building online communities with games as a service.
My guess is the next new IP they show off will also be MP focused and maybe have SP content. They'll partner with indies and small to medium devs for unique SP-built experiences like Cuphead, Ashen, Below, and Ori and the Blind Forest.
Unfortunately the commercial success of most of those games doesn't measure up to their critical acclaim.
My guess is the next new IP they show off will also be MP focused and maybe have SP content. They'll partner with indies and small to medium devs for unique SP-built experiences like Cuphead, Ashen, Below, and Ori and the Blind Forest.
Unfortunately the commercial success of most of those games doesn't measure up to their critical acclaim.
StrongBlackVine
Banned
Halo is FPS built around competitive play. I think question was referring to a game in similar genre. And neither Zelda nor Horizon are either companies biggest games so Halo would be competing against Uncharted/TLOU or Mario Kart/Pokemon/Smash under your terms of pure sales and it would still lose as of recent.
Electret
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Did you?
The last figure we have for Halo 5 was "5 million". Assuming that's sold-through, I would say Zelda is a lock to exceed that mark (it's Zelda and critically acclaimed), and Horizon has a good chance to do so as well (it sold 2.6 million in its first two weeks). Do you disagree? As for SoT and Scalebound, I'm not sure what you were trying to say there.
HighResTomato
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Come on bro, game looked like trash before they showed the 4 player co-op. For all the praise Platinum gets they shit the bed pretty hard with this.
Game also ran like trash if it (probably) couldn't run on Scorpio target specs because this could have been a showcase game for them. Things must have been really fucking bad for this to be canceled this late.
Haha, I see what you did there. I think your statement is still true though.
What? A: no one knows if that's true or not, and B: how is adding coop a bad thing? The main reason I was hyped was cuz me and my buddies were gonna ride around on our customized dragons together. Had the game been strictly single player, I wouldn't have been as hyped for it. Yeah, I still would've wanted it, but I don't see how adding Multiplayer is a bad thing at all.
OT here: Crackdown 3, State of Decay 2, and Sea of Thieves are gonna be some amazing open-world experiences. I think those will be pretty good answers in my book. Plus I'll get to enjoy them all with friends, which makes it even better.
Maximilian Kolbe
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It doesn't matter about excite them or not, it's people treat it doesn't exist when at the same time they're asking diversity lol.
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