Well the adverts are "MMO-like" that sounds more Phantasy Star Online-esque to me anyways.
Microsoft making at least four new IPs
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Well the adverts are "MMO-like" that sounds more Phantasy Star Online-esque to me anyways.
And Rare hiring gets more bizarre!
Another Codie:
FPS/Action guy?:
Post-Scott Henson era may have some potential after all. It seems like Microsoft's racer and FPS portfolio is quite full, so I'm curious to see what type of games they make next.
Excite.
Platform Next was Kudo's studio wasn't it? Forgot all about them.
No I thought that was the studio behind Kinect Adventures, Good Science Studio...
@TheOddOne: almost sounds as though Rare won't produce original, and their legacy IP - but become a helper studio
No I thought that was the studio behind Kinect Adventures, Good Science Studio...
@TheOddOne: almost sounds as though Rare won't produce original, and their legacy IP - but become a helper studio
Well that might be because in this very case they might be making pgr5 with Lucid as the rumor goes thus they will need some staff to interface with an external developer.
My guess as well, maybe they become an incubation team. Phil Harrison likes that idea.@TheOddOne: almost sounds as though Rare won't produce original, and their legacy IP - but become a helper studio
Rare working on FM5 confirmed.
shinobi602
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"We just want MS to start pumping out new IPs!!"
*GAF discovers MS working on 4 new IPs*
"LOOOLLL probably more Kinect bullshit"
Never change GAF.
*GAF discovers MS working on 4 new IPs*
"LOOOLLL probably more Kinect bullshit"
Never change GAF.
By the beard of Dan.
Urgh sounds terrible that won't make Rare relevant again ... I will never get Banjo-Threeie
Don't they have 3rd party studios for that? I would presume that contracting would be cheaper than keeping Rare just as a backup studio.
Urgh sounds terrible that won't make Rare relevant again ... I will never get Banjo-Threeie
This was tucked under the Londen Lift studio news:
Same principle could be applied to Rare. Either Rare starts off as being a helper studio and stay that way or they are the go-to helper studio and also create their own franchises. Either way, Rare's resources are not wasting doing nothing. Rare is already known to be their tech hub, this would be a logical evolution.
Or they could green light Banjo-Threeie, Viva Pinata 3, Killer Instinct 3, Perfect Dark and Kameo 2, as well as new IP ...
A helper studio or incubation studio feels like even further demotion...
Urgh sounds terrible that won't make Rare relevant again ... I will never get Banjo-Threeie
It's for the best.
Lionhead's game is Unreal 4the studio's job pages mention that flatout.
HollovVpo1nt
Banned
Urgh sounds terrible that won't make Rare relevant again ... I will never get Banjo-Threeie
Who would make all those games? Those IP's are as alien to Rare as to any other studio because the only thing Rare has in common with the studio that created those IP's is the company name. Why would any Rare (from back in the day) employee that worked on great games stay at Microsoft for almost a decade without working on an exciting game project? I strongly beleive that very little developers from past Rare work at present Rare.
Redmond and Vancouver departments seems to be more "Focused". Their Europe department is just a mystery, Phil Harrison has just started so we might not see big changes soon.
They are exciting though
. Plus it would vary up MS lineup no end, for the core gamer brilliantly.HollovVpo1nt
Banned
They are exciting though
The IP's themselves are pretty neat. But if those IP's were to come from present Rare, I think it would feel like an awkward game. Like a non-Naughty Dog Crash Bandicoot.
Based on all you have found, how many new projects do you see are being worked on?
5/6 projects.
Nice finds. I still say you need your own thread for everything you found. All interesting stuff.
Doug Heffernan
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almost sounds as though Rare won't produce original, and their legacy IP - but become a helper studio
It works for Sony Santa Monica, why not Rare?
Imagine a Conker game made by Twisted Pixel! The Maw was essentially a throwback 3D platformer from the N64 days.
Also I bet Rare has at least one major project in production by themselves.
Eh it needs British humour for Conker to work thoug.
Plus Sony Santa Monica outside of thatgamecompany and their own IP(God of War) has their been other succesful projects collab projects on retail games?
REMEMBER CITADEL
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I think they'll show a fair amount of them at E3 and subsequent manifestations. Some will probably be ready for the launch. I expect a ratio of one new IP to two established franchises at launch, and then the opposite in the first year.
InaudibleWhispa
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I'd imagine they'll show a lot of them at E3, regardless of their state. If they want people to buy the console, they need to know there are a lot of games in development. Hopefully that doesn't result in mostly CG trailers.
As for launch, I imagine there'll be at least two first party games. Probably a racer and a shooter.
And at least two Kinect first party games.
Steverulez
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I'd forgotten about Ryse, could be interesting now its been reworked, hopefully into something that looks... much better.
Not expecting FM5 though, if the rumours are true about a new PGR then I would expect it to be that plus the Black Tusk new IP.
Hoping for Alan Wake 2 as well but can definitely see that being "launch period" and not day 1.
Please, stop, just stop, you're embarrassing yourself.
By making a reasonable post?
Xbox, Windows, Skype, Azure, SkyDrive, Hyper-V, Office, .Net, Visual, DirectX, Expression Blend, Lync, Mediaroom, Office 365, MSDN, SharePoint, SQL, PixelSense, Surface, Intune, etc.
Surely these are all incompetent products and services brought to you by the incompetent Microsoft?
Karak
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At least 5. Not counting Alan Wake 2, which, as you said, probably won't be done
At least 7 umm I mean 5 big budget titles? I guess you're including in this prediction multiplatform games as well...because 5 exclusive games sounds too good to be true.
Karak
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At least 7 umm I mean 5 big budget titles? I guess you're including in this prediction multiplatform games as well...because 5 exclusive games sounds too good to be true.
Nope I am not. Just what I think.
Dreams shattered!
Hopefully there's more than the 3 games that derFeef mentioned but I doubt it, to be honest all I need is AW2 to make me get the system day one...but yeah we need more game leaks, enough with the stupid leaks about the specs.
Thank god we still have TheOddOne and we still have something to talk about in this thread.
Oh man...maybe I'm more hyped than I should but I believe that AW2 will be glorious.
fm5 wont be at launch. pgr5 will.
FM5 won't happen, and rumours are pointing to it being targeted for 2014. If anything, it will be PGR5, after all that heavy hinting in the other thread.