RiccochetJ
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Great news! Hopefully MS will mix their portfolio up with some known quantities along with taking a chance on new IP.
Microsoft Studios acquires rights to Gears of War franchise/Black Tusk does the work
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PopcornMegaphone
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I'm happy about this. One more reason I'll eventually pick up an XB1.
Exactly. I really hope that is what happens, too... I hope they reboot it completely. Who knows, Gears of War could turn into an RTS (doubtful, but would be kind of funny). I'm definitely interested to see what Black Tusk does.
I'm wondering what exactly happened with Black Tusk's game. I don't buy that what they showed at E3 was a "tech demo of sorts." Hopefully it didn't turn out to be a shitty game, and then scrapped. Which could potentially mean bad things for this deal.
Also now Microsoft needs to make a clone of Shadowrun FPS without all of the Shadowrun stuff and better marketing. I would have rather/was hoping that was what Black Tusk was working on originally, but oh well...
edit: Edited because I forgot a word...
KevKevinator
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I used to love Gears, but the franchise got stale for me. I was actually hoping for something new from this studio. That's too bad.
Commanche Raisin Toast
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You say that as if epic would have said yes... None of us know what the contracts and business plans behind the scenes are. Epic might have been contractually obligated to give ms first dibs on the gears IP should they intend on selling it. For all we know Sony put a bid in but epic simply said no.
Delusibeta
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I can only assume there is a bit of crossed wires on this. I believe alot of people had hard-ons for an EPIC-GAMES multiplatform game, it was not specifc to Gears of war. EPIC have an "unreal" engine, top class. PS4 owners would like to see it hammer the consoles hardware with new IP.
Both different things.
Rod Fergusson is on the team. He's worked on the first three along with Cliff.
Hmmm... I can't see Sony reading this news and thinking: man, we should buy Crash and Spiro so that we can make more games with them. Though anything's possible I guess.
The real winner here is Epic who probably charged an unseemly sum of money for this IP when they probably had no further desire to develop it. It's a win-win for them. Now they can go back to peddling middleware and creating iOS games.
adding some horror elements into the single player would be petty cool. Some of the early gears 1 trailers made it seem like the game was going to be legitimately creepy/ fucked up at parts (the trailer with the kid narrating). And since marcuses story is wrapped up, black tusk can definitely go in their own direction here.
TheGravemind
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omfg always the same ip, another gears, another forza , another 345 halo
microsoft are overusing so much the few ip he got that risk to produce nausea
microsoft are overusing so much the few ip he got that risk to produce nausea
It did but it had zero marketing and even Epic didn't really care.
Dragonborn
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Wouldn't surprise me in the least, in fact I expect it. Guess I'll buy an X1 in 2016 or 17 when it has enough exclusives to make it worth it
Also Kingdom Hearts. Not sure how they let that one slipped.
LittleJohnny
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SEGAvangelist
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I call bullshit. I just dug through a 100+ post thread from the PS4 launch special on Spike TV where people were predicting a possible Gears sequel for PS4. This is the closest thing I could find to what you're saying.
Everyone else in this thread not excited about Gears also wasn't excited about Gears if it came to PS4. Read this thread for proof.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=707449
This is clearly a case of your bias reforming memories.
Marcus and Dom's story is done.
I really think it's time for Baird and Cole to have the spotlight, as they still have stuff to settle. We don't know very much about Baird, and Cole's stuff is nearing the end too.
I expect they will, as the gen just started two months ago. But there already has been some new stuff announced, such as Quantum Break and Sunset Overdrive. Give it time, folks. We will see more new games from both Sony and Microsoft. Meanwhile, it's really no surprise to see the flames for older (and highly successful) franchises being rekindled for a new generation.
SwiftDeath
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lol no I didn't mean that actually. 343 are certainly competent devs at least technically [i.e. they are very techinically proficient as Halo 4 was pretty], not sure how I feel about their ability gameplay-wise but their track record is what Reach and 4 really? Reach was good I suppose and I do have hope they can improve what I and I guess many others consider to be their shortcomings in 4
xImmortal007x
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Gears has had 4 games since 2006.
Uncharted has had 4 games since 2007.
Killzone has had 5 games since 2009
Ratchet and Clank has had 12 games since 2002.
Why you Sony dudes gotta talk shit about MS milking a franchise?
They had 3 solid releases in Gears 1,2, and 3. Judgment was meh but wtf. Get that shit talking out of here ffs.
Uncharted has had 4 games since 2007.
Killzone has had 5 games since 2009
Ratchet and Clank has had 12 games since 2002.
Why you Sony dudes gotta talk shit about MS milking a franchise?
They had 3 solid releases in Gears 1,2, and 3. Judgment was meh but wtf. Get that shit talking out of here ffs.
Shrennin
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The only way I'll be extremely happy of this is if a reboot is done with the story. Expand the Gears universe. The current story was finished and had nowhere to really go.
I don't really think this would hurt sales either - as long as the multiplayer is unaffected (for the most part) then Microsoft can do what they want to fix the Gears storyline. I wouldn't be surprised if they even just started over in name as well - "Gears of War" instead of "Gears of War 4."
I guess this is one of the better sets of news if the TitanFall Beta wasn't going to happen today (not only the news about Gears, but also Ferguson). :/
I don't really think this would hurt sales either - as long as the multiplayer is unaffected (for the most part) then Microsoft can do what they want to fix the Gears storyline. I wouldn't be surprised if they even just started over in name as well - "Gears of War" instead of "Gears of War 4."
I guess this is one of the better sets of news if the TitanFall Beta wasn't going to happen today (not only the news about Gears, but also Ferguson). :/
il Diavolo
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Interesting news. Hopefully a new generation/new team can freshen up the series, as it was getting stale.
Every Sony game you mention was spread across different platforms, not the same type of milking. And its been 5 Uncharted games
purpletentacle
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You forgot the one Kinect Sports they'll release to reaffirm their commitment to the Kinect.
With all of the Phil Spencer and Mark Rein talk from the last couple weeks and adding a bunch of Gears devs on Twitter, I knew this was going to be Gears-related, gotta love those gut feelings.
The best part of course is that they brought Rod back for this, since he's a huge part of what made Gears what it is. It's the best thing they could have done, and I love it.
Like I've said before, if they keep the multiplayer like Gears 3 with the best additions of Judgment and bring back the Locust, even if it's just for multiplayer, I will be a happy Gears fan. I hope they'll be using the UE4 engine and retaining all of the controls, style and art, because to me it is still by far the best playing third person shooter out there period.
If you want to know what to keep in the game and what to add, ask people that have been playing the franchise hardcore since day one. Not the super-casuals that leave games that are too difficult for them, and don't add things that appeal to them either. Hell, I'd advise for free, I've been there since day one.
When they deliver this is when I'll finally be purchasing a new-gen console.
Funny how people have to chime in with useless posts about how they don't care about the news. You know how to know when I don't care about something? You don't see me post in a thread about it.
The best part of course is that they brought Rod back for this, since he's a huge part of what made Gears what it is. It's the best thing they could have done, and I love it.
Like I've said before, if they keep the multiplayer like Gears 3 with the best additions of Judgment and bring back the Locust, even if it's just for multiplayer, I will be a happy Gears fan. I hope they'll be using the UE4 engine and retaining all of the controls, style and art, because to me it is still by far the best playing third person shooter out there period.
If you want to know what to keep in the game and what to add, ask people that have been playing the franchise hardcore since day one. Not the super-casuals that leave games that are too difficult for them, and don't add things that appeal to them either. Hell, I'd advise for free, I've been there since day one.
When they deliver this is when I'll finally be purchasing a new-gen console.
Funny how people have to chime in with useless posts about how they don't care about the news. You know how to know when I don't care about something? You don't see me post in a thread about it.
I'm surprised they hadn't done it sooner, I don't know anyone who took Gears not being on an MS platform seriously, MS sure weren't going to let it happen. At the same time what else is Epic up to these days? Because next to Infinity Blade which apparently has made them quite a bit of money, they now don't have any other big games any more.
Shame MS aren't developing more new IPs though, Forza seems to already be on the milk train with Horizon and the main releases, if they could they would probably do it to Halo too. As someone else said though, I expect Gears and Halo to be an on and off series next to a Forza game every year the way they are heading.
Where is my god damn Crackdown 3?
Shame MS aren't developing more new IPs though, Forza seems to already be on the milk train with Horizon and the main releases, if they could they would probably do it to Halo too. As someone else said though, I expect Gears and Halo to be an on and off series next to a Forza game every year the way they are heading.
Where is my god damn Crackdown 3?
SocksForWoks
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More Gears for us : )
Every Gears title has had a two year gap between it. It's not as if the series is annually. People make it seem as if the series was as consistent as CoD.
KnockOneOff
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metareferential
Member
Fantastic news.
Gears needs a new direction or a new take, and a next-gen-in-house treatment could do wonders.
Hype.
Gears needs a new direction or a new take, and a next-gen-in-house treatment could do wonders.
Hype.
Aquamarine
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It's awesome that Microsoft is continuing on their Gears legacy to the new gen. I just hope Black Tusk can live up to the bar set by Epic.
Dragonborn
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Your post would be relevant if Sony relied on an endless Uncharted/KZ/GT cycle. Sure, they release sequels but they also release a wide variety if exclusives and new IPs. Heck, in 2013 alone the launches what, 5 or 6 new IPs.
That is the difference
I think this is good get. I don't Epic was interested in doing more Gears, so for people who want Gears, this was the only way they were going to get it.
Also, its not like most of those games are spread across multiple platforms.
To the guy earlier talking about Sony learning a lesson from this, I think they already learned it when they could not get Crash and Sypro. Every single franchise that is published by them is also owned by them...
Since 2009? What?
Also, its not like most of those games are spread across multiple platforms.
To the guy earlier talking about Sony learning a lesson from this, I think they already learned it when they could not get Crash and Sypro. Every single franchise that is published by them is also owned by them...
KnockOneOff
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We are in the first 3 months of a generation launch man.... A new IP will come!!!
Hell the Internet makes people crave new information everyday!!!
To everyone else WE ARE ONLY 3 MONTHS IN THIS GENERATION! New ips will come!!!!
BigDaddyFatSack
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Another game that won't ever come to the PS4. Ouch. I remember back when Cliff mentioned how GeOW might end up on the PS platform. Just ouch.
Congrats to Rod Fergusson and MS for this great news!
Congrats to Rod Fergusson and MS for this great news!
xImmortal007x
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Not sure how 2009 ended up there. my bad!
Actually, I was right. 5 games since 2009. 6 games since 2004. Crazy that there was like a 5 year gap between KZ 1 and 2
schwabdizzle
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I think its a smart buisness move on MS' part to do this, but I personally was hoping for alot more new IP's this gen from MS.
KnockOneOff
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Halo 4 was good people just live in the past and remember what they used to remember!
That kid that first tried halo 4 will have loved it !!
Everyone is just getting older and living in there memories
TheOctodad
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Disagree completely. Halo 4 was way worse, the MP population proves it was not received well.
You forgot halo which has had 8 games since 2001, and Forza with 6 games since 2005 for MS.
Interesting news! I wonder what they will do with it?
Keep the classic MP that people enjoy but add a Battlefield style mode. Much larger maps, class play( bits from Horde mode helps) and Vehicles. They need a BF style game that is way OOT and where a headshot feels like a headshot.
Keep the classic MP that people enjoy but add a Battlefield style mode. Much larger maps, class play( bits from Horde mode helps) and Vehicles. They need a BF style game that is way OOT and where a headshot feels like a headshot.