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XBOX 2024 Direct Officially Announced: January 18th (Featuring: Indiana Jones, Avowed, Hellblade)

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Living World / Living Lands

So original
 

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
Hellblade 2 is straight fire. Expecting
a Plague Tale Requiem level experience. Avowed looks ehhh but still gonna try it on the strength of Obsidian pedigree.
if Indiana Jones looks good then yeah cool lineup for 2024.
Hellblade looks like nothing. They showed nothing YET AGAIN.
Plague tale requiem is 10x the game hellblade 2 will be. I bet your ass on that.
Hellblade 2 will be a cool experience. I want to play it too. but it seems to me it will be forgettable playing game like the first one.
Avowed looks like dogshit though. Skyrim mod game about beating up little lizards... not the best showing
 

Faust

Perpetually Tired
Ara: History Untold - An empowered new take of 4X games such as having a soundtrack that uses instruments from all other cultures and how the culture you form can change depending on your choices and how cities grow and evolve.

They just described every 4X game of the last decade. Humanity, Civ5/6, Pretty much ANY paradox game.

What are these devs smoking?
 

CamHostage

Member
Hellblade feels like one of those projects where everyone involved has convinced themselves it’s brilliant.

As a $15-20 indie game for a niche audience with a specific point of view and a unique narrative experience, it's brilliant enough.

As mass-audience entertainment that announces the power of a new generation of consoles and stands as a flagship title in multiple showcase events for a platform holder across 5 years of development... less so.

I think Hellblade 2 is going to hit a very specific sweet spot for a certain audience of people, which is great, but we've still not seen anything that says it'll connect with a wider player base, and it keeps getting showcased as if it's supposed to. That's been a problem ever since the next-gen Xbox announcement used Hellblade 2 at TGA 2019. Plus, even that specific audience the first game is going to have questions about its value when they're paying probably 2X to even 3X for the sequel.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
Would be great if game studios would just focus on showing the game and stop trying to be popular faces of the studio. NO other product line has companies promote their products showing office staff trying to chum it up. even movie studios dont do this showing "Hey, here's out new movie, lets talk to the lighting crew and VFX desk guys doing the CGI trying to be personalities"

You can showcase double the time of the game if the people got less face time.
 
Great to hear that they changed the combat. interested to see if its improved.

I dont care if its 4 hours or 6 hours or 12 hours. It needs to be good. FF16 was 60 hours and it sucked despite having probably the best 15 hours of the year in there somewhere. I am so sick and tired of 30-50 hour campaigns. The stories these games are telling just cant last what is effectively 3-5 seasons of episodes. If this is 6 hours then i wouldnt mind spending $10-15 for it on gamepass.

This is going to be 4 hours of big time suck
 

Rat Rage

Member
I legit am surprised Phil greenlit funding for this lol
I'm not. He's like most high profile managers out there: shallow. Shallow people like him are easily impressed by graphics and buzz words like "experience" "player choice" "cinematic visuals".
 

bender

What time is it?
Ah... we wanted to do something different and new in strategy so we bought 100 musical instruments.

Whaaaa....

Oh, Hi Dan.

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rofif

Can’t Git Gud
lol show not tell is not the memo they got for this show.
fucking hell shut up. Yeah we know it's a civ clone
 

winjer

Gold Member
I'm interested in a new Civ type game.
But this presentation is so boring. It's like they are trying to convince people not to buy the game.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
Ara game sounds good. It sounds like it's turnbased I think, but with each gamer's turn being done simultaneously(?).

So it's not real time strategy?
 
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