It's the only thing that's really worth it in Xbox's entire portfolio. How is it Call of Duty's fault that they have to shut down studios that release games every six years and that people don't even touch, despite them being free on Game Pass? If it weren't for the acquisitions of Bethesda and ABK, Xbox basically wouldn't exist anymore
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I'll also miss the Pentiments and Sunset Overdrives and Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts type games, but they've also been making a lot of games that gamers don't like, even with their core IPs. At the very least they do need to have a bit more discretion, focus and vision.
Yeah, and they're not looking at the bigger picture.
Depends on the person.
You say that now but you and your ilk were cheering these studios and management style not long ago. Gamers do not want layoffs, they don't even know the people being laid off. There are just some people like yourself trying to push the idea that this is a good thing now.
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Could also be someone who lived through better times and isn't willing to gobble up all kinds of garbage.
Ah, that's just called the nostalgic type.
Idunno. Even at Xbox they are still making SOME good games. Microsoft Flight Simulator, Pentiment, the new Forza Horizon looks mostly pretty good. and then Sunset Overdrive if you go a bit further back. That's like maybe 5% of their output lol, but it's not nothing.
Elder scrolls 6 would've been massive.
Truth. I've always suspected, they're many posters here that really have no real interest in games. Seems like they are here, just to push their own personal culture war political agenda.
I think at this point if they want Elder Scrolls to succeed, it has to be some massive generational leap, like the difference between Morrowind and Daggerfall. They've let so much time go by, and so much has changed in wrpgs. At this point imo they're competing with Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and to a lesser degree with The Witcher games, so Elder Scrolls 6 better have even more immersive mechanics and an even more immersive world than KCD2.
Which would basically put them in rentseeking mode, since 5 out of those 8 IPs were funded/created by somebody else, and MS just bought them up after launch.
I prefer the fighting mechanics in Skyrim over KCD2, the rest of it was good in KCD2.
I personally don't think any of those ideas were bad at all, but you're right. The market rejected it.
That you have to list games from more that a decade ago shows that you don't really have a strong case to make.
"Cold, hard business".
I remember a little while ago talking about this with someone else on here and they had a really good point that Nintendo also takes crazy risks, on a smaller scale because they're a much smaller company overall, but still. The difference is that even though Nintendo's had some bad ideas too, their wild ideas have been right more often than Microsoft's.
Already topped with the "soft" Xbox layoffs:
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The average developer did their job. Is the management who shat the bed. Or do you think the average C++ programmer wants to do the new Horizon GaaS?
A lesson in balancing 'values' with commercial appeal.
They agreed to work with that management
Sure, chap. It's so easy to get a job in a shrinking industry… When your retarded-Netflix-chasing employer is half the industry your options have been cut in half just like that. Other big employers with "great" ideas are: GaaSony, Embracer Your Layoff, You'd Better Speak Japanese and Eastern Europe Wages
Arkane used to be level design masters, but by deathloop/redfall being complete pieces of shit it was clear they were a ship of Theseus and that anyone competent in those studios had left. Arkane being shuttered is better than their name being further tarnished.
Exactly, it's so easy to blame the small hands doing the work. The production result in any field is always dictated by management, always.
What does those three developers have to do with anything i said? As far as "projecting", aren't you putting your own projection on those games?
I feel like the truth is somewhere in between, meaning that there are people on both sides who are at fault. For one thing, there's some pretty bad writing and character designs in a lot of these Xbox games, and that can't be totally blamed on managers. Of course, managers are also to blame in that they allowed these things to happen, instead of insisting on better work.Exactly, it's so easy to blame the small hands doing the work. The production result in any field is always dictated by management, always.
