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I'm Retarded? said:
to my mind, the only extant hopefuls are the Tainted Grail guys, who are making an Elder Scrolls clone as a sequel to their debut game, a roguelike card battler (lol). apart from them, there are the German autists who made Enderal, but that was a while ago now, it seems they're working on some goony raft building game now? also, shout out to James Wragg AKA Lovely Hellplace, the developer of Dread Delusion, a schizo Scrolls clone with a bit of Cruelty Squad fuck-your-eyeballs energy. or maybe the Legend of Grimrock guys could spring back from the grave and carry the flag.

comedy option: the Kingdom of Loathing guy.
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The real answer here is the Outward devs. That game is incredibly fun, and has a lot of the interesting exploration stuff that makes ES good. Give them an actual budget and let them work on a fantasy RPG, instant buy for me.
 
I'm Retarded? said:
to my mind, the only extant hopefuls are the Tainted Grail guys, who are making an Elder Scrolls clone as a sequel to their debut game, a roguelike card battler (lol). apart from them, there are the German autists who made Enderal, but that was a while ago now, it seems they're working on some goony raft building game now? also, shout out to James Wragg AKA Lovely Hellplace, the developer of Dread Delusion, a schizo Scrolls clone with a bit of Cruelty Squad fuck-your-eyeballs energy. or maybe the Legend of Grimrock guys could spring back from the grave and carry the flag.

comedy option: the Kingdom of Loathing guy.
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You've had my almonds jogging after that post.

There are two devs who should be given the TES, Fallout and all future RPG/Action games; Hello Games the No Mans Sky devs and Warhorse Studios the devs behind the fantastic Kingdom Come Deliverance.
 
Snekposter said:
They owe me a sequel first. Can't have Hans and Henry go on a road trip to Prague and not let me find out just what shenanigans they get up to.
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I wouldn't get your hopes up. The studio almost closed down because of the backlash about a lack of niggers cost them money in sales. Personally i think it was co-ordinated by bigger companies (MSFT, ACTI, BETH) because a little studio made them look like amateurs.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
I wouldn't get your hopes up. The studio almost closed down because of the backlash about a lack of niggers cost them money in sales. Personally i think it was co-ordinated by bigger companies (MSFT, ACTI, BETH) because a little studio made them look like amateurs.
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I disagree, I think the controversy actually boosted sales. Nobody would have heard or cared about the game otherwise. Anyways, they eventually got brought by Embracer and are presumably working on a sequel.
 
It isn't even a guess.

I know I could do this job better than any of these executives. How can you fuck up a release calendar this bad when you own Rare and Bethesda? I could make them billions and I don't even like their games.

Reading these emails pisses me the fuck off. Go over to GameFAQs and read for an hour, Phil. Those literal middle schoolers have been telling you this for decades.

You know those dumb games that Nintendo always has a drip feed of? Those games that "real gamers" make fun of? Maybe Microsoft needs more releases like Part Time UFO or Kirby's Dream Buffet (HAL Labs, a great second party dev and the model for how it should be done) every few months to keep your fans playing games and to keep your developers sharp. Microsoft needs some smaller, regular release types of games (of good quality) to fill these holes and buy time.

It always goes back to "what does Microsoft Studios make?" Yeah, Microsoft can, has and does buy talent. But the first party lineup needs proper input from the console manufacturer itself, not just second party thralls. Microsoft has to show its developers how to use their hardware. Nintendo does it. Sony learned from Nintendo and they do it. Where the fuck is Microsoft? How does one company eat so many other companies and crap them out without having some part of that company's culture leave a positive mark?

Where are Banjo-Threeie and Banjo Kart? What about Jet Force Gemini 2? Kazooie's Edgy Egg Extruder? Grunty's Blitz broom-mounted bombing simulator? Viva Pinata Island to rip off Animal Crossing. YOU USED TO MAKE MORE FLIGHT SIMS THAN JUST FLIGHTSIM. They have a ton of old pinball games which were great. Why isn't the Windows suite of games for sale as a bundle on EVERY console... people would buy this!! Minesweeper the RPG!

Games that used to be on Windows that Microsoft's friends make: Midtown Madness was awesome and on Windows. Where is MM4? Call Rockstar and have them make it! Starlancer and Freelancer left to rot while the entire space sim genre revived and took off. Microsoft what the fuck!? Doesn't Microsoft own Zoo Tycoon now? Dudes!

DUNGEON SIEGE. DUNGEON SIEGE. DUNGEON SIEGE.

Get THQ or whoever to make more Rise of Nations. I just read that Microsoft owns the Crimson Skies people. Jesus Christ... it gets worse and worse. Talk to ANY lower-tier developer, throw 20 million dollars at their face and have them make the game everyone has been asking for... exclusive to XBOX. This is what happened with Bayonetta. Where did NFL Blitz go? Where is Paperboy? What happened to Medal of Honor? Call EA, dig up the Command & Conquer IP and make Renegade 2; that game was bonkers and that design would kill nowadays. Do I need to keep going?

Okay.

Links used to be hot shit in the golf sim world. Why doesn't Xbox have a sports suite like Nintendo? People like that shit. But Microsoft abandoned their entire MS Sports angle almost a generation ago. Fable Links. Bam! Just made a low-key sleeper hit. Also how do you fuck up Fable so much? That Halo RTS from a decade or two back was very good. Haven't even mentioned Conker. YOU HAVE TWO MASCOTS YOU IGNORE! I just remembered Perfect Dark. Psychonauts Party for the whole family and Coach Oleander's Typing Challenge.

And aren't these the fucks that own Minecraft?

Hire someone from anywhere outside the West Coast or an East Coast university. This isn't complicated! And now the problem is compounding. They have no farm team to make games and really show off the hardware and this has been brought to their attention every year for literally 20 years.

WHAT DOES MICROSOFT MAKE?

Acquisitions. I love playing Acquisitions on my Xbox Series S.

*site works good but editing is still slow
 
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Bog-standard Poster said:
I've been thinking about the past, present and future situation of Xbox at microsoft, especially in light of these leaks and a ton of stuff just made sense.

There's an internal war going on at Microsoft. They want to jettison the hardware business, but they can't do so until cloud gaming/subscription services reach a self-sustaining level.

So you have one group of people trying to keep hardware afloat while tanking the cloud-based side enough to stay in a job. And another group of people that are trying to tank the hardware side while pumping up the rookie numbers of cloud and subscription-based gaming.

Looking at MS decisions through that lens makes a whole load of sense and makes me wonder if Sony are in a similar position.
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See the chart:
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OBLIVION REMASTER HERE WE GOOOOOO

Just imagine the shivering isles with modern graphics.
 
The Bovinian Derivative said:
I don't know if I should be happy or worry about that new Dishonored.
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Dishonored 2 thought it was a good idea to hire anita sarkeesian as an advisor, completely undid the knife of dunwall (which was even better than the original campaign imo) by pulling a palpatine and ressurecting delilah, and ended with a sheboon killing the fucking outsider, who was revealed to be a regular boy stabed with a ritual knife that gave him all his powers.

They wasted money on making 2 seperate campaigns one of which isn't even canon, while blacking half the population of dunwall and making emily gay.

At the same time they had 0 gameplay innovations at all. The only thing the new games did was add new powers that were minor variations on the previous ones and they still use the shitty power wheel system instead of adding proper hotkeys so you can use multiple powers at the same time.

The only good thing about dishonored 2 was the level design, because writing was literally tumblr tier and the gameplay was 10 years too old.

I have literally 0 faith in them making a good game, at this point I wish they just let the franchise die, they already mangled it enough.

Lokenstien said:
I will be playing regardless. Number 2 and Death of the outsider had totally haphazard and inconsequential stories but god do I love the level design of all of them.
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Death of the outsider literally killed the outsider which is where all the powers that are half the reason the plot happens. I wouldn't call it inconsequential. I agree that 2 was completely pointless and I agree the level design was on point though.
 
Bog-standard Poster said:
I wouldn't get your hopes up. The studio almost closed down because of the backlash about a lack of niggers cost them money in sales. Personally i think it was co-ordinated by bigger companies (MSFT, ACTI, BETH) because a little studio made them look like amateurs.
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That horseshit died down once the actual game came out. Since then, it sold 5 or 6 million copies, plus dlc. For Czechia that's a ton, and Embracer's hurting for well performing studios.
 
Guys don't worry those are totally outdated. JUS' WAIT for the REAL plans trust me bro...
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