Nah this is just rare being rare, they literally do this to 90% of all there games, im sure the guy who original started this project left saying he couldnt figure wtf the game was, wouldnt be surprised if sea of thieves went through the same process
Dont think its got nothing to do with MS, rare are the masters of creating something and totally changing it, look at the development for banjo, conker and grabbed by the ghoulies, all games changed drastically from what they were meant to be, only difference here being is i think MS announced this game were to early just to show something
Very nice post, thank you.
look at the disaster that was gods and monsters. They should do their own thing.
That's what happens when you try to do something new. For some reason whole industry is so focused on different form of violence that outside of sport games (including racing) and economic strategies there is barely any game that don't have any form of violence.
Why you skipped 12 years of their existence under MS? They were bought in 2002.
Probably because their level of output in the 2000's doesn't represent their level of output these days.
Inept is harsh. At least the Sea of Thieves team at Rare has been fairly productive, but yes, their level of output these last 10 years (and even more) has been sad.
Why you think that Sea of Thieves (which is their most successful game ever) is worse than Viva Pinata?
I think you misunderstand me. I wasn't talking about the quality. I was talking about the quantity.
Everyone is releasing far less games now than on 360/PS3. For example Insomniac did 9 games for PS3 and 3 for XOne/PS4.
Where are you getting 3 from? I just checked Insomniac's Wikipedia page and I counted 5 games for PS4/XOne. Sunset Overdrive, Ratchet & Clank, Song of the Deep, Spider-Man, and Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Unless we're counting Miles Morales as a PS5 game.
For some reason Song of the Deep is not on polish wikipedia (that was first link for their games list in google for me). I didn't counted Miles because it's released on and during new generation.
That's a really interesting bit of info, and one I think is kinda cool. Games rely on violence WAY too much for gameplay, even if it's cartoony/stylized. I mean come on, even Mario is running into the Koopas homes and crushing them or burning them alive. It makes it even worse in NSMB that you slaughter them while they are dancing to happy music.(seriously, did no one at Nintendo see how dark this can look?).
Reading this makes me MORE interested in it. Take the time to come up with something fresh.
Maybe it could be like Animal Crossing++.
Their articles are a lot more flaimbait/clickbait than their magazine days but what makes you think this is bullshit?
I'm not saying this particular news was BS (ancient thread though lol), but particularly at the time I wrote that post I was seeing a lot of just crap from VGC, rumors w/o a lot of validity, etc.
Sorry, I didn't even realise it was a necrobump. You're right, VGC is a lot more rumour mill now.
No problem.
And why wouldn't they have gameplay to show? Rumor has it every Microsoft studio have submitted something for this Showcase, if that's true what else would Rare be showing?
Sea of thieves could be getting another big expansion or small crossover (maybe something monkey Island related?) Pirates off the Carribbean was completely out off nowhere. (Both are rare)
?So another year and yet...
So another year and yet...
