Support NeoGAF

[fermcr]

Bethesda’s Todd Howard has said MachineGames’ Indiana Jones game is a “unique” genre mash-up.
Howard, who’s serving as executive producer on the game, was asked if it will have an action adventure side to it during an interview with the Lex Fridman podcast.
“I would just say it’s a mash-up,” he responded. “It is a unique, it isn’t one thing intentionally, so it does a lot of different things”...

Full interview on link...
https://www.videogameschronicle.com...e-is-a-unique-genre-mash-up-says-todd-howard/


Here is another link on PC GAMER
https://www.pcgamer.com/todd-howard...e-is-a-definite-love-letter-dating-from-2009/

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

I loooooooooooove genre mashups....could be really unique if done well

 

[Gamerdude123]

I´ll believe it when I see it.

 

[Games of Today]

I loooooooooooove genre mashups....could be really unique if done well

Stealth, action, awesome puzzles, shooting, and hand to hand brawls, all with the whip in first person!? Sign me up.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Please don’t be a Jack of all trades, master of none.

 

[SantaC]

How about showing some footage...we are starving here

 

[RoboFu]

i saw a typewriter.. its a new tryping of the dead style game. lol

 

[bentanchorbolt]

Hoping it's an Uncharted/Tomb Raider style game but semi-open world level design with more exploration but retaining the big action set piece moments of the movies.

 

[StealthGoblin]

Any info yet about platforms?

 

[bentanchorbolt]

Any info yet about platforms?

Xbox|PC|Cloud, I'm guessing.

 

[cireza]

I hope this will be fun. Which means not bloated with stupid features most modern games have, like open-world, pick-ups, crafting, skill trees and all this shit.

 

[Iced Arcade]

Xbox|PC|Cloud, I'm guessing.

that unless contracts were signed prior.

 

[Ozriel]

that unless contracts were signed prior.

Any signed contract would have long since been renegotiated…if only to add the provision to bring the game to Gamepass.

We won’t know for sure until its next reveal or something.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Can’t wait!

 

[Topher]

that unless contracts were signed prior.

Or they could have agreed in terms for the game to be on PlayStation as well. We know nothing at this point.

 

[reksveks]

Yeah, it's a toss up re exclusivity

 

[DeepEnigma]

Less talk, more show.

 

[SantaC]

I have a friend working on this game, but be is a good boy. He refuse to say anything to me due to NDA of course.

 

[Big Baller]

 

[Topher]

I'm glad Howard is directly involved in this. Not sure about Machine Games for this game.

 

[Deerock71]

The last genre mashup I played (and loved) was Nier: Automata.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

Ok. So, where is the gameplay?

 

[SirKicksalot]

I hope Todd keeps a tight leash on them. Wouldn't trust them to boil me an egg after the shitshow that was Wolfenstein 2.

 

[oldergamer]

Please don’t be a Jack of all trades, master of none.

please don't post for the sake of posting.

 

[Stafford]

The one thing that I guess...worries me a little is that it's MachineGames and they are solely known for first person games. And if there's one thing I don't want a Indiana Jones game to be is first person, I want to see the character, the animations, the combat.

Maybe a mix of third and first is fine. Emperor's Tomb has this and that's cool. Optional first person aiming and that's about it. Never say never I guess, after all we've had studios that made third person games and went straight into first, so the other way around should be possible too.

 

[Topher]

please don't post for the sake of posting.

 

[Kvally]

Or they could have agreed in terms for the game to be on PlayStation as well. We know nothing at this point.

Well, besides MS still making Minecraft games for all devices, they haven't made any new games for PlayStation. I assume that since this is a first party game, it is Xbox exclusive. And, no, I don't ever trust Jez

 

[DragoonWalker]

I hope it's like 007: Everything or Nothing in spirit. One of the best movie license games ever, and definitely a multi genre game that encapsulates the whole property it was trying to capture. We don't get massive movie games like that anymore. Guardians of the Galaxy was the closest thing.

 

[Topher]

Well, besides MS still making Minecraft games for all devices, they haven't made any new games for PlayStation. I assume that since this is a first party game, it is Xbox exclusive.

The difference here is this isn't IP owned by Microsoft.

 

[Kvally]

The difference here is this isn't IP owned by Microsoft.

Oh, I see. Does that mean they have to make it multiplatform? Or does it mean they just don't have a choice and are a the mercy of the IP owner? I don't know how any of that works.

 

[Topher]

Oh, I see. Does that mean they have to make it multiplatform? Or does it mean they just don't have a choice and are a the mercy of the IP owner? I don't know how any of that works.

Depends on what MS and Lucasarts agreed to. I can definitely see this game being multiplat in order to secure the deal. Kind of like MLB. But it very well could be exclusive like Spider-man. We just don't know.

 

[EruditeHobo]

Just want some footage now.

Uncharted has made this game a no brainer for years now... we will have to see how well they do to maintain the spirit of the movies.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

MachineGames is a lock this game will be incredible.

 

[Iced Arcade]

The difference here is this isn't IP owned by Microsoft.

yeah could land on both or could be another Disney license like they did did allowing Sony to make Spider-man and Wolverine.


personally idaf what it lands on, just as long as its good and it's on gamepass lol

 

[The Stig]

Whatever form it takes, I do hope they get Harrison Ford to voice it

 

[SmokedMeat]

I wouldn’t hold my breath for a PlayStation port.

This will be exclusive to Xbox/PC.

 

[Topher]

yeah could land on both or could be another Disney license like they did did allowing Sony to make Spider-man and Wolverine.


personally idaf what it lands on, just as long as its good and it's on gamepass lol

Same. I'd expect at the minimum that it will be on Game Pass and that's where I'll play it.

 

[Orbital2060]

So something like a 007 game or Die Hard Trilogy? Id love that.

 

[Bartski]

https://www.videogameschronicle.com...of-riddick-director-joins-indiana-jones-team/

Chronicles of Riddick and The Darkness director Jens Andersson has joined MachineGames to lead design on its Indiana Jones game, he’s confirmed to VGC.

Andersson will act as design director on the title and work in parallel with creative director Axel Torvenius, who was previously art director for the Wolfenstein games.

The design director will be familiar with his new colleagues, as like many at the Swedish studio, he previously worked at Starbreeze. Andersson also contributed to many of MachineGames’ previous titles as a freelance designer.

In total, more than 20 developers who worked on 2007’s The Darkness are on the Indiana Jones team, VGC understands.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

I wouldn’t hold my breath for a PlayStation port.

This will be exclusive to Xbox/PC.

Ok?

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

Hopes there is no reference to the newer movies

 

[Majormaxxx]

Machine games ruined their own masterpiece. Wolf 1 and old blood were great. Wolf 2 was boring and cringe.

So I'm extremely cautious about this. Doesn't sound promising at all.

Sweden has a problem with its progressive culture (well to me it's a problem - for the swedes I'm sure it's fine and the problem is mine). I'm pretty sure this will somehow show in the game. Which is a pity.

 

[LordCBH]

Please be good please be good please be good please be good please be good

 

[Hendrick's]

The one thing that I guess...worries me a little is that it's MachineGames and they are solely known for first person games. And if there's one thing I don't want a Indiana Jones game to be is first person, I want to see the character, the animations, the combat.

Maybe a mix of third and first is fine. Emperor's Tomb has this and that's cool. Optional first person aiming and that's about it. Never say never I guess, after all we've had studios that made third person games and went straight into first, so the other way around should be possible too.

Probably driving, flying, some puzzles, maybe shooting is 1st person, the rest 3rd.

 

[AJUMP23]

A real leap from the head of a lion.

 

[SantaC]

This is also redemption. When I accepted the offer to go to San Francisco in 2009, it was to lead the design on an Indiana Jones game, but that game got cancelled before I even got there.

“Now, I get a chance to do what I originally hoped to, but this time I get to do it with some of my oldest and best friends. Joining MachineGames is like coming home – amazing people I worked with during Riddick and Darkness, but also teeming with new ones, whose talent daily blow me away.”

He added: “I’m so excited about what we are building, and the way we get to do it – featuring one of most iconic characters ever, in collaboration with my friends at Lucasfilm (hi Craig!), published by one the biggest publishers in the world, and doing it at an amazing studio like MachineGames.

Old starbreeze had some of the best talent in the industry. This game will be amazing.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

Another positive of Microsoft's newly aggressiveness stance towards gaming lately is Xbox gamers don't have to guess whether or not this is coming to Xbox. That is the kind of change Microsoft needs to bring to its platform. A lot less uncertainty all around.

 

[Fuz]

Please Todd, no stupid "cinematic" camera.

 

[Lions Gate]

another wait it's gonna be good, xbox is doomed

 

[Thirty7ven]

Though task for Machine Games, curious to see the game for the first time.