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Wormerine replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
I am not surprised. This is Arkane Austin - they have done Prey and its DLC and Redfall. Prey is an acclaimed, if not particularly profitable, and Redfall is a flop, that allegiedly drove away about 70% of staff that made Prey. So it's not even the case of "abandon Refall and work on something else", as the folks who made Prey are mostly gone and you have a live service oriented studio, that clearly didn't come together very well (not aiming on judging individual devs of course - **** happens). Tango is what surprised me. Sure, it probably didn't break the bank, but they made THE game that delivered some positive buzz for XBOX. Even if it somehow a perfectly sensible move (like keeping the talented devs and putting them to work elsewere, but shutting down the studio now when the founder is gone) it is still a terrible look. -
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the_dog_days replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
Let's be honest, Arkane's last commercially successfully was the first Dishonored. Everything they've made for more than the last decade has flopped. Not sure why everyone's surprised. -
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Gorgon replied to Raithe's topic in Way Off-Topic
I also watched the first fallout season. It started a bit mixed and turned out really good. I think they got the recipe largely right. There is a ton to chose from in all the games and having three characters just kinda move through it all, The good, the bad and the ugly style, while keeping the characters in focus enables all the lore not to become baggage. -
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Sven_ replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
It's also a natural evolution of kinds. Similar to how Call Of Duty has seen sequels developed by various studios since forever -- and their games released in turns. That's why they can serve the COD crowd regularly, while it's a TV series currently keeping the Fallout name alive in popular culture. Studios under the MS/Bethesda umbrella have already helped each other too, or co-developed -- id helping out Arkane on Redfall, Arkane co-developing Wolfenstein Youngblood with MachineGames. So having multiple studios working on projects of the most popular IP is one next logical step for bigger corps. Wouldn't say the only one. But it is one. Even if tools improve and AI will offer helping hands, the development time of blockbuster games isn't going to come down. The tech is getting ever more advanced, expectations go up accordingly. People entering the blockbuster gaming industry may eventually help developing but a couple of games in their entire career. It's crazy to think that even the core team of Doom³ still consisted of ~20 people 20 years ago... and that game was seen as the most bleeding edge thing ever -- on a technical level, anyhow. Similar to the first Pillars Of Eternity, relative for their type of game, The Outer Worlds was also a rather modest budgeted game with modest expectations behind. The sequel, just like Deadfire, seems to ramp it up quite a notch. I think expectations are much higher on TOW2 than 1. -
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uuuhhii replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
speaking of bethesda https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-closes-redfall-developer-arkane-austin-hifi-rush-developer-tango-gameworks-and-more-in-devastating-cuts-at-bethesda -
Also, because they add things for every new release and things don't always fit neatly into existing canon
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Just an update: I installed something called Emu Deck on my Steam Deck and oh my god.. it's so good I actually played through the entire Dragon's Quest 8: Journey of the Cursed King (PS2) again. That's a 200 hour game.. I let my cousin try it too. He was a huge Halo fan back in the original Xbox days and he was in awe when he got to try it on the Steam Deck. It's just so accurate. Best emulation device I've ever owned, it feels like it was made for it.
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Gorgon replied to Raithe's topic in Way Off-Topic
the music is supposed to be terrible, it's tradition -
The lore tends to be a mix of contradictory on purpose at times, because they like to throw in the unreliable narrator of Imperial History as controlled, redacted, and redefined by various parts of the bureaucracy.
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Malcador replied to ShadySands's topic in Way Off-Topic
Glad to hear you didn't die, Guard Dog. -
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Good read Gorth.
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Oh, well that's exciting ... I look forward to that conversation as time permits, BruceVC
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Thank you. I'M BACK, BITCHES!!
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uuuhhii replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
pretty sure outer world would do better if come out now anti bethesda sentiment are as high as it ever was no need to worry about that dying down anytime soon -
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Wormerine replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
It did, but it was also caught in „screw Bethesda” train after Fallout76. I am not quite sure how much interest there will still be in Outer Worlds2. -
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HoonDing replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
Only Alpha Prololol 2 can save Obsidian now -
I am going to do it, I havent forgotten
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Imagine being able to talk to animals in the future via ai translators. Would be wild.
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BruceVC replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
All business units and companies owned by Microsoft would have an individual yearly target within Microsoft's main financial target they announce at the beginning of the financial year Thats what all listed companies do and that is what is expected they must achieve for investors and shareholders So Bethesda and Obsidian would have a revenue goal they have to achieve and in gaming that would align with revenue sales once a new game is released I cant imagine it would work any other way? So its not really " Microsoft standards " but an expected agreement how all listed companies function and how smaller companies within the group need to deliver on -
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sorophx replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
at this point only performing well by Microsoft standards matters, and probably even that isn't enough (see Hi-Fi Rush) -
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uuuhhii replied to Lexx's topic in Computer and Console
didn't outer world perform pretty well by obsidian standard even come out with some enhance edition nonsense later what is the expectation of outer world 2 -
I've been religiously following his Channel since last year to the point that it's frighten me that he could just... stop uploading.