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[nial]

God damn i didn't watch the show but sounds like they had nothing ...did they even show GEARS? It's 2025 and none of their heavy hitters seem anywhere close to releasing. Sony is almost as bad with nothing to show from Naughty Dog or Sony Santa Monica ..or Guerilla or Bluepoint

Three of those studios released stuff in 2022, and even ND had TLOU2 after Undead Labs and The Coalition released their last games in 2018 and 2019 respectively. Not to mention whatever the fuck The Initiative is.

 

[II_JumPeR_I]

Im starting to wonder how fucking slow and non productive this Studios are working nowadays. What takes so freaking long?

 

[Mortisfacio]

Fable I'm not worried about unless we get through game awards and we've heard nothing. It's expected to be 2026 so I expect a drop at game awards and then a press tour and build up for 2026 release. If we hit 2026 and have seen nothing, then I suspect trouble.

Perfect Dark I already suspect trouble.

 

[Jesb]

Fable I think will be fine. I wouldn't even be surprised if PD doesn't happen.

 

[SupaComputa]

Im starting to wonder how fucking slow and non productive this Studios are working nowadays. What takes so freaking long?

Software development as a whole has been taken over by good for nothing people. Corruption, laziness, incompetence, cowardice and selfishness are the name of the game.

 

[Redefine07]

We don't need those garbage games.

 

[powder]

Both of these games were announced 5 years ago, and were not shown during today's Xbox Showcase.

Fable was slated for a 2025 release, until it was pushed back again in February.

Gameplay was shown for Perfect Dark last year but was absent in this year's show and still has no release window.

I thought I heard that the Perfect Dark footage didn't contain gameplay, it was a proof of concept. Haven't they rebooted it twice now? It's probably in development hell and they're in the middle of turning into a live service game.

 

[powder]

Fable I think will be fine. I wouldn't even be surprised if PD doesn't happen.

Same. At this point they're going to be trying to get the attention of a generation that doesn't know anything about the original, so they have even more work to do if they want the youths to give a shit about it.

 

[tr1p1ex]

~Never works in the movies when they make a sequel ~20 years later.

 

[Black_Stride]

~Never works in the movies when they make a sequel ~20 years later.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Maybe wishful thinking but the recent bombs and backlash against woke might force them to backtrack their initial pitches.

Woke isn't the only problem.

It's also a complete lack of taste.

 

[Black_Stride]

Maybe wishful thinking but the recent bombs and backlash against woke might force them to backtrack their initial pitches.

The games that bomb dont bomb due to wokeness....otherwise Baldurs Gate would on that list....game is woke as.
EXP33 literally half the human characters are DEI or Woke as some people put it, hell the trope people love to spew about wokeness and DEI are all over the place before you have a full party....wont spoil the game too much but if you will know when you see it.......but the game is good so we dont talk about go woke go broke.
Control has a protag who is an angsty girlboss who "talks to herself" incessantly......so woke.....GOTY material.
And list goes on and on for "woke" games that succeed, and "woke" games that fail.

So Wokeness isnt the problem atleast not as much as people make it out to be, some games just arent 10 outta 10 and thats that, fitting any agenda to why is fruitless cuz then you detract from why a game is good or bad and start preaching the wrong message to devs.

 

[RAIDEN1]

The reason no Fable is easy to understand, they are probably optimising it for PS5 Pro.....Perfect Dark though, it's anyone's guess...Just goes to show you the state of play in the games industry today, how long does a James Bond, Metroid Prime 4 take to release, and then we have this with Perfect Dark, announced five years ago, and yet it's nowhere near a launch date...

 

[Horseganador]

Perfect Dark has clearly had development issues and has had to resort to outside help, and Fable is costing a studio dedicated to making driving arcade games much more than expected.

 

[SegaShack]

Im starting to wonder how fucking slow and non productive this Studios are working nowadays. What takes so freaking long?

Seems ever since XB1 came out Microsoft buys up all these studios and they have practically zero output even 7+ years later. MS must be terrible at managing studios.

It's a shame I used to buy all 3 platforms and sadly stopped with MS this generation after the 2013 XB1 had nothing great first party wise after 2014.

 

[DarthPutin]

i was expecting elder scrolls 6

That I feel is in the realm of dreaming dangerously Unless they wanted to give us cinematic. At least 4 more years, I imagine?

 

[Luc2010]

Every release of Perfect Dark has been delayed. Shit, even the Nintendo release was plagued by many delays. This is par for the course.