At least we will get another Fallout from the hands of Obsidian right? Right?
Fucking hysterical how everyone was celebrating Asha Sharma and Xbox a month or two ago, even though SHE LITERALLY SAID 1,600 CUTS ARE ON THE WAY.
This is because their AI bet fucking failed, and so did gamepass.
Yet the only ones hurt are Devs, the gamers, and potentially IPs people adore.
What a shit timeline this is.
Nah, they’ll still somehow limp their way into the next generation because Sony is trying to one up MSFT in bad decisions.
If they just sat back and did nothing, then it’d would definitely be over lol.
Imagine your job being making games, and finding a way to ruin that. Both of the big console teams have shit the bed simultaneously. Truly awe inspiring, the collective dipshettery we get to witness.
Meanwhile black isle /interplay reborn
Holy moly.
That is basically the worst case scenario, no?
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The absolute last thing Obsidian needs is Bethesda presiding over them. Bethesda (the publisher) is pure toxicity, and don’t they hate Obsidian?
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They should have given Obsidian TES/Fallout, and folded Bethesda into Obsidian as a studio to farm work out to. BGS has some great level design teams, but the decision makers need to go.
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The absolute last thing Halo campaigns need is to be more like Call of Duty.
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They should have cut 343, and split the IP amongst specialized studios. Like an Arkane “special ops” stealth game, another Halo Wars, and/or a strictly multiplayer Activision game.
This is beyond even my worst expectations. It’s what I would have done if I was a corporate spy inside Microsoft, assigned to sabotage them.
Obsidian is doing fallout.
Halo needs ANYTHING. 343/Halo studios has never had a fucking clue.
Worst case but certainly expected. Microsoft paid a ransom for Bethesda and the Bethesda brand and their IP. Nothing was ever going to be rolled into a “lesser” brand like Obsidian. It’s naive to think otherwise, this is capitalism to a fucking T, decisions made by penny pinching sleezebags who assign value to names.
Last good game by obsidian ? By Bethesda ? Commercial success now ? Obsidian dig their grave.
They made a bunch of good RPGs/RPG-ish games, and a bunch of “mid” ones.
My personal favorite is Grounded. It does sorta feel like classic Obsidian/BGS game, with its heavy implicit environmental storytelling, audio logs and such, and the survival aspect is great for coop.
No, none of them sold a zillion copies like Fallout 76 or Starfield, but I had more fun in them than either of those, by a long shot.
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Rip obsidian, I enjoyed pillars, avowed, and pentiment
Pentiment surprised me by being one of my favourite games I have played in years. There have no doubt been better, or more engaging, or more thought provoking games that I have played, but I struggle to think of many with as much care woven throughout it.
It made total sense to me when I later learned that Pentiment was Josh Sawyer’s pet project, one that he had been hoping to make for years. Apparently he basically said “let me make this game, or I walk”, and because of how Xbox gamepass affected funding stuff, he was allowed to make this cute, quirky game. Apparently they even had an on-call historian to ensure maximum authenticity.
Yeah that game was great a lot of people slept on, there’s another adventure game coming out soon “slime in the ice machine” that looks like it might be good too and I think Josh Sawyer is working on a fallout game hopefully they get the time to make it what they want.
I still think they should sell Rareware to Nintendo. The fact that so many of those excellent oldschool games are stuck in IP limbo is a tragedy. Can’t play them unless you emulate them, or are lucky enough to find original hardware.
Rare collection exists and is fantastic.
Tons of rare games are also in Nintendo’s online subscription especially N64 including Goldeneye.At least they gave us a teaser for what Conker 2 would be like.
What exactly is their plan? Just collect IPs so they aren’t being released on other platforms?
It is a very old strategy for monopolies to buy up competition when there are no anti monopoly protections so they can kill the competition, it’s how Microsoft was founded.
You can make good games to make people buy your games or you can destroy competition to make people buy mor games.
Don’t worry: their CEO was answering support calls. I’m sure things will be fine.
(Doomed.)
Yeah so historically PlayStation has had a lot of exclusives (Shadow of the Colossus, God of War, The Last of Us) that would be the deciding factor for a lot of players. So Microsoft wanted to ensure that Xbox/PC could synergize and compete against Sony by buying a stake in a ton of game studios, either to have their own exlusives or at least delayed release for PlayStation. But between bitcoin, AI and enshittification the gaming industry is in shambles so they’re cutting overhead.
I swear if she also mess up with Mojang…
Mojang must have a pretty strong contract, given how little they messed with Minecraft Java Edition.
Yeah, either that or noticed that Mojang is one of the biggest cows and the community can be pretty harsh if java gets ruined especially considering that most of the youtubers use Java and Minecraft is alive just because od community content
It probably helps that Minecraft prints money; no one wants to be the one that breaks the infinite money machine. I bet though if Minecraft sales slowed then you’d start to see more interference.
Fuck 343 Hasn’t made one good game Even the mcc which is great they needed 10 year for it to be good and even now u still have issue
I will say Halo Infinite did have good gameplay even if the single player story and multiplayer launch was half baked.
Well fuck, there goes Age of Empires…
How many more versions of 2 do we need? The 2013 sprite version still looks great.
Just the Definitive Edition. It’s pretty future-proofed too, and it’s essentially what I expected the “HD” version to be back when I got it.
But the issue isn’t with expecting another version of AoEII, but how Age of Empires as a whole will be managed from here on out. Activision is responsible for creating a lot of toxic online crap and is, responsible for outlining and coining the term “Live Service”.
With AoEIIDE, AoEIIIDE, AoMR, and AoEIV still getting support, updates, and DLC, I can absolutely imagine a very near future where Activision drags it all through shit and muck.
Ah, thank you for the context.
I tried playing the definitive edition of AOE2 but it didn’t feel right in comparison to the HD version, and haven’t really touched the franchise since. (Other than to periodically go back and play AOE2HD with a friend)
Strange. AoEIIDE to me looks and feels how I remember AoEII being. But looking back at the old version is very jarring.
I hold up the Definitive Edition as something a remake should be. Very faithful to the original. Unlike, say, the Ocarina of Time remake.
well, R.I.P. Elder Scrolls 6.
Obsidian, we hardly knew ye. 🫡
Bethesda should’ve been merged with obsidian, in my mind that name has way more prestige than Bethesda nowadays
Wow. This is what happens when you put someone without game industry experience in charge of your game division. Incredibly stupid decisions all around.
