Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
Talk means nothing these days lol. Look at all the previous Xbox games from the last couple of years.
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Indiana Jones by MachineGames Officially Revealed - Coming in 2024 | Xbox Direct 2024
Talk means nothing these days lol. Look at all the previous Xbox games from the last couple of years.
Ass of Can Whooping
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Don't fucking tempt me apple
Fredrik
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It’s on Steam, Microsoft Store, Xbox, streaming, Gamepass. If it plays great it’ll be a big release. Look at Palworld, came from nowhere and sold a million in 8 hours, concurrent players is at 600.000 now on Steam alone and the graph just keeps on going up up up.
PaintTinJr
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I'm definitely in that boat, except for being open to buying an xbox for a gamepass game that doesn't look like it will play well on a pad, with all the idTech3 American McGee's Alice whip swinging, and will probably get it eventually on Steam in a sale.
I dread to think what workstation they've ran the game on to produce the trailer. it still somehow looks janky in the gameplay animation IIMO compared to the last Carmack idTech (idTech5) from the original Rage 1.
I'm still interested in playing it, but suspect had it been released on PlayStation too, at full price, I would have passed on it entirely for the Bethesda rough edges, so on balance fitting the demographic you pointed out and accepting below pristine AA on PC when coupled with a good AAA IP the Indy reveal probably convinced me.
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ShadowNate
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It's too early to tell if I'll like it. In general I don't go for this gameplay style and first person is not better for me. I guess it's something that makes it slightly different than Tomb Raider/ Uncharted, which were largely inspired by the IJ franchise?
Hopefully the final game will look more interesting to me.
Hopefully the final game will look more interesting to me.
Fredrik
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I was blown away by the trailer, was grinning the whole time. So much nostalgia! Saw the first movie just now too. Couldn’t be more excited about the game tbh
But I’m in on Steam, instantly wishlisted, will go in early if they do another Premium early release like with Starfield. Hoping for some mod bonus again but if there is none of that I’ll get higher fps and mouse controls at least
Royalties on Indiana Jones will be MUCH less than on a franchise like Spiderman. It doesn’t also hurt that it was actually Zenimax that pushed for an Indiana Jones game.
They’re also not going to be spending a crazy amount of money on making the game as Spiderman 2 especially when wages are lower in Sweden.
But your concern is noted
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
Palworld is a game that looks like Pokemon. A much bigger brand then Indiana Jones, so this can’t be compared. The majority of the casuals just see another first person (generic looking) game which also does’t really look that great at all. It will be a good game if it plays good, but don’t expect anything compared to Palworld, Hogwarts or anything Uncharted etc etc.
Nostalgia won’t help with the gamers of today. The casuals didn’t care about the movie. It’s not Star Wars which has more variation. I can ask my 5 year old son what Star Wars is, but he won’t know who Indiana Jones is. That will say a lot about these brands today.
Im happy that Machinegame is making it, which might translate in a new Wolfenstein in the future.
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Bethesda isn’t making the game though
Hard to find an analogue to this one, though. It’s a license IP from a known franchise, in first person. What are you going to compare its potential to? Minecraft Dungeons? Starfield? Redfall? Forza Horizon 5?
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
That talk doesn’t automatically translate in a good game or high numbers in sales.
Yes. That is known.
We’ll know if this will be a good game when previews and reviews hit. Just as with any other game.
DaGwaphics
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People don't realize that Insomniac's numbers are their own and no one else's. It's quite easy to be very successful and inefficient with money, those two things are not mutually exclusive.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Well that's just bad parenting then
Raiders is a nice family friendly PG rated adventure, you should remedy that
I was blown away by the trailer, was grinning the whole time. So much nostalgia! Saw the first movie just now too. Couldn’t be more excited about the game tbh
But I’m in on Steam, instantly wishlisted, will go in early if they do another Premium early release like with Starfield. Hoping for some mod bonus again but if there is none of that I’ll get higher fps and mouse controls at least
Day 1, day -5 whichever comes first.
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SirTerry-T
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Machine Games, you effin' plonkers, you should have gone the obvious route...
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DenchDeckard
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I've watched the trailer like 5 times. Looks amazing to me. At least I know there's one huge game in 2024 to look forward to.
And yet the leaked PlayStation demographics chart put only 5% of the surveyed playerbase as being under 20 years of age. No reason not to expect similar for Xbox or Steam.
A significant part of the gaming population definitely know who Indiana Jones is.
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
That gaming population who knows it is small atm. The gamers from now don’t know much or don’t know IJ at all.
I personally don’t think it will have a huge impact like other well know IP’s. There is a difference between being relevant today or well know by everyone or pure by Nostalgia. The problem with indy is that it was gone for so many years.
I think the game can be fun, but im not sure the brand itself has a lot of impact by todays gaming community.
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Lumpyoatmeal
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This is that video game render look that I can't stand when playing today's videogame, it's instant immersion breaking. Look at when the characters get up close to the camera, they all got that jittery movement, that's not good at all.
hybrid_birth
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They should have a button press to change it to third person, so everyone is happy
ManaByte
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Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
Read my previous post. It’s not that people don’t know him or heard about him. But the IP hasn’t been relevant over more then what….-ages and ages. It’s well know by nostalgia not like a starwars which is still relevant today and new young kids even grow up with.
Kids today might know the name but i don’t think it will have much impact compared to other larger IP’s. The movie itself wasn’t impactful and easily forgotten.
Again, that doesn’t mean the gameplay can be fun. It’s machinegames so gameplay over graphics, but no gore or anything like Wolfenstein.
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Punished Miku
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The game definitely sucks. We just have to figure out how
Fake
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This speaks for itself.
Never liked the smug goody two shoes characters. Indy is just about as bad as spiderman to me (the guy who got bit by a radioactive spider and now fights crime in a spider costume lol). But the more I watch this trailer the more I think I'll like the gameplay at least. Still would've preferred a proper sequel to Wolfenstein. TNC was such a vibe. Incredible cast of diverse characters that honestly could've been put together by Tarantino. I hope they won't play this one too safe.
ManaByte
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SantaC
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He is not a swede though. Has a british name.
fuck you indy imma beat yo ass up
ManaByte
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ManaByte
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FatallyYours
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I genuinely think it looks good! It's probably the only thing I'm slightly jealous of PlayStation not getting
I think Indy looks pretty good. In some shots he looks almost spot on for Ford, uncanny valley aside, in some he looks off. I think the face could do with a little stubble, sweat and dirt, to make him look rugged, walked through the desert/jungle for 4 days to get here look- he just looks a little too clean cut, he looks younger in some shots than he appears in Raiders, maybe a bit thinner in the face??...Still have a little time to rub some sand in his face !
Also the voice is pretty close, needs to be a tiny bit lower and a little more gravely? Again, a bit too clean, like Indy hasn't had a drink and eaten bugs in a while, but I'd say it's close enough
Love the sound design, the set pieces look fun and over the top, very Indy, nice to see Marcus in there!
I think Indy looks pretty good. In some shots he looks almost spot on for Ford, uncanny valley aside, in some he looks off. I think the face could do with a little stubble, sweat and dirt, to make him look rugged, walked through the desert/jungle for 4 days to get here look- he just looks a little too clean cut, he looks younger in some shots than he appears in Raiders, maybe a bit thinner in the face??...Still have a little time to rub some sand in his face !
Also the voice is pretty close, needs to be a tiny bit lower and a little more gravely? Again, a bit too clean, like Indy hasn't had a drink and eaten bugs in a while, but I'd say it's close enough
Love the sound design, the set pieces look fun and over the top, very Indy, nice to see Marcus in there!
Mister Wolf
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Why wouldn't a whip look natural in 3rd person?
Phase
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The more I think about it the more I think first person was a mistake. In order to pull off satisfying platforming it would have to resemble Mirror's Edge or something close to it. I don't think they would try that, but if they did that would sell me on it.
We're probably looking at a more narratively driven set-piece experience.
We're probably looking at a more narratively driven set-piece experience.
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just_jr
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Maybe it's just me overthinking but I guess they'd have to work really hard on the animations and the whip's physics
I don't have many examples but in Darksiders 3 it just looks like a 'normal' weapon
Calverz
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Agreed. I thought it looked great in the cutscenes. ID tech!Y'all are some picky ass mofos lol.
Even in compressed YT format, it looks good. The hair, clothing material etc all look really well detailed, with sweat/condensation.
The incidental detail on even his hand is immaculate with fingerprints and creases between the knuckles also visible.
Mister Wolf
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Maybe it's just me overthinking but I guess they'd have to work really hard on the animations and the whip's physics
I don't have many examples but in Darksiders 3 it just looks like a 'normal' weapon
I see your point. I think that's not a perspective issue, just that no game has ever put much effort into making a physics based simulation of a whip.
Toons
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Wait.... I haven't played wolfenstein but you're describing a scene of a topless woman shooting nazis... as if it's a BAD thing?
Toons
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This speaks for itself.
It only speaks to your pretensrs and assumptions
Personal styling judgements dont factor into how someone writes
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James Sawyer Ford
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* Will be playing on my Series X
Even though I am disappointed with the first person perspective, this is the most excited I have been for an Xbox exclusive in a long time and I doubt it'll disappoint like Starfield. May not be the indiana jones I want, but it's an indiana jones nonetheless and I love the genre.
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ManaByte
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* Will be playing on my Series X
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
Phase
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Virtue signaling with the shirt in a promotional video actually tells us a lot about how they may write.
ManaByte
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Then why has there never been a third person over the shoulder Indiana Jones game?
Before Tomb Raider came out, all Indy games were either 2D side scrollers or point and click adventure games.
After Tomb Raider there were three Tomb Raider clones, but they weren't third person over the shoulder games. The first was a literal Tomb Raider re-skin, grid based movement and everything. The second was a sequel to that, and the third was basically a really terrible Tomb Raider clone with even worse Arkham combat.
amigastar
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ManaByte
Gold Member
That's not an "over the shoulder" game like you're describing. It's a bad Tomb Raider clone with a terrible camera. That's the second one.
Infernal Machine - Grid based Tomb Raider clone built on the Sith FPS engine from Jedi Knight. Released on PC with a N64 port by Factor 5. PSX port cancelled due to Tomb Raider being so popular at the time and exclusive to PSX so Lucasarts didn't want to compete.
Emperor's Tomb - The Collective's shit sequel to Infernal Machine that was so bad Lucasarts' producers threw up their arms and gave up during development. Released on PC, PS2, and Xbox.
Staff of Kings - Sequel to those two built for the Wii and PS2 by external studios with Wiimote aiming for shooting and horrible Arkham inspired combat.
Lucasarts internally was working on Staff of Kings for PS3 and 360, but Uncharted releasing caused them to cancel those versions and only release the external ports.
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UltimaKilo
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I just came in to passively watch after seeing 11 pages on this thread… Holy shit, I have been blown away! Game looks like game of the generation. Bravo!
Rien
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Y'all are some picky ass mofos lol.
Even in compressed YT format, it looks good. The hair, clothing material etc all look really well detailed, with sweat/condensation.
The incidental detail on even his hand is immaculate with fingerprints and creases between the knuckles also visible.
It looks a bit plastic if you ask me. Looks good but not amazing. Certainly last gen but unfortunately that is not uncommon
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