Deathloop's structure of using the same four levels over and over for the entire game was surely a way to make a big game on smaller budget, though.
Maybe you didn’t like it but Deathloop reviewed well and personally I loved it, never understood what issues people had with it. It’s such a unique concept.Prior leadership but Dishonored 2 was a sales disappointment and I doubt whatever the next game was did any better.
Bethesda and Arkane Studios put Dishonored franchise on hiatus
It seems that Arkane Studios has decided to put the Dishonored franchise to bed. Lead designer Richard Bare told VG24/7 in a recent interview that the series...www.techspot.com
Deathloop was also a poor game by their standards, I doubt it did very well on any platform, and Redfall... lmao. Look, it has nothing to do with the acquisition, I have a PC that can play any of their games, stop thinking that any criticism or negative comments about any Microsoft game is butthurt PS5 owners. At some point these studios need to be sell units and be held accountable or MS is just pissing money down the drain endlessly.
I can only get behind this if its revisiting the original Prey.
Theres an entire platform dedicated to this. Microsoft shouldn't need to follow the market leader, they need to make something else people want.
It was ok, I'd give it a 6/10, unique concept yes but totally underdone and babby shit compared to what they did with Prey and even Dishonored. MS doesn't need any one studio, what they need to do is make money and create a sustainable business. I've mentioned before on this forum why I think the whole "oh we are in a post-sales era, what matters is engagement" we've been hearing about subscription services for the past decade is total garbage.
Control was WAY more interesting visually than Deathloop, and more varied too (especially when you add on the DLC). I like to think that they had much bigger plans for Deathloop but had to scale it back because of the pandemic. Maybe that's cope but the game really could have been so much bigger, more varied, and more dynamic than what it was.
That was Bethesda's decision to name it Prey, not Arkane's.I can only get behind this if its revisiting the original Prey.
Theres an entire platform dedicated to this. Microsoft shouldn't need to follow the market leader, they need to make something else people want.
I don’t see what to argue with, that’s just your opinion on the game and business model and I respect it.
Absolutely. Instead of the open high-agency FPS games Akane clearly likes to make, they should something new - like third person games! It should have a grounded, character focused story. Long sections where the player just walks and listens to dialogue. Hours of elaborate cutscenes. A semi-open world structure, with RPG-style upgrade trees.
- yes but many people have this random take on the internet about making games into third person. I get some people prefer it but... it’s weird. The perspective of a game shouldn’t be the concern
You give it a 6/10, and professional reviewers give it a way higher score. It was far better than control imo - control was not more varied at all. It was an office building and some caves which all looked very samey. The entire gameplay loop of deathloop was fun because the whole concept is going through the stages in a specific order - it’s a puzzle similar to how Resident evil 2 works where you have to find a specific key to get into a specific area and you still have freedom in how you kill the visionaries and the powers you have. Redfall may end up being bad but Deathloop was not a bad game - you may not like the type of game it was but yeah
Yeah you are right. MS, and Sony are perfect in their sublime handling of acquisitions. They always make perfect decisions. Praise be thy console manufacturer.
Their single player games failing to be a commercial success led to Deathloop. They took inspiration from Dark Souls "invasion" gameplay.Prior leadership but Dishonored 2 was a sales disappointment and I doubt whatever the next game was did any better.
Bethesda and Arkane Studios put Dishonored franchise on hiatus
It seems that Arkane Studios has decided to put the Dishonored franchise to bed. Lead designer Richard Bare told VG24/7 in a recent interview that the series...
Deathloop was also a poor game by their standards, I doubt it did very well on any platform, and Redfall... lmao. Look, it has nothing to do with the acquisition, I have a PC that can play any of their games, stop thinking that any criticism or negative comments about any Microsoft game is butthurt PS5 owners. At some point these studios need to be sell units and be held accountable or MS is just pissing money down the drain endlessly.
You know absolutely nothing.
Here’s one you’ll like:
'Cause gamers don't want to think when playing... Shame, really.
Preys controls are horrible by all them metrics. Makes KZ2 on PS3 feel like a snappy shooter.
I mean it’s not some competitive action game - it’s an immersive sim. Regardless having played both quite a bit I think you’re misremembering KZ2
I used KZ2 so drive home the fact that I really hate Preys controls (on console) with a deep passion.
It is still a co-op shooter. What exactly did they redesign?
I don't think it's okay. Dishonored 2 deserved better sales.
They removed the always online requirement so the game could be played SP offline, announced there would be no online shop (which was planned at some point based on the pre-alpha) and pivoted the entire marketing message into « Arkane’s Far Cry ».
There hasn't been a top tier Thief game since Thief 3 in 2004 and the Thief series isn't set in a cyberpunk future so that series doesn't provide what I'm looking for. Also, in addition to gadgets I'd love the cyberpunk Ninja to have abilities tied to augmentations. Those could also be the substitutes for Dishonoured's supernatural powers.
Why don't you play Deus Ex Human Revolution & Mankind Divided, then? It's literally the game you're looking for, complete with stealth mechanics that personally reminded me a lot of Metal Gear Solid 2. The only thing that's kinda missing is that Jensen doesn't possess Corvo's agility and speed but otherwise both games share a lot of similarities, both being immersive sims and all.
They had an internal conflict (around 2016 to 2018) and one side lost and got either purged from the company/left the company or forced into silence and treating game making just as a job that got paid, without having any passion for their jobs anymore. Do not think newArkane is the oldArkane. Similar thing has happened to many other dev studios, more recent example being Rocksteady.
Arkane reduced to making GaaS games. Yep that sounds like Microsoft.
Does it? Everything seems to point at rare wanting to make a game like sea of thieves. Also, don’t really see it as being “reduced to”. Nothing about fh5 or flight sim seem worse than a one and done game imo
