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@rjejr yeah it could work better to merge some elements. I'm assuming they are concentrating mainly on the first game for the first season of the show but maybe they are doing all of it in one season.

@honda Not in any way dismissing your opinion of the game but I'm just fascinated by the effort you have gone to for a game you found so uninspired and boring. You carried on playing for over 20 hours? Surely you have played enough rounds in a hour or two to know if you liked it or not?
Then went to the effort of creating an account on a site just for this game.

Fair play for giving it a chance, I just can't imagine devoting that much time and effort for something I disliked.

Feels like they are making the Ragnarok story instead of the original one. Most of these characters are not in the first game. I’m guessing they are going to mesh the two into one.

@Aniscape @nessisonett I've certainly never been a fan of the animus parts of AC and have been of the opinion that they would be better games as standalone historical adventures. Saying that, your idea would be an interesting way to frame the remake and give more freedom to rework the worst bits.

I love a good open world to explore and this one does look visually impressive and vast.
I'm not sure the combat looks to my taste, a bit over the top with all the powers and effects going off. Plus I'm not big on lots of long boss fights.

I feel like it's trying to do too many different systems and styles though.

Also, the videos are still lots of edited together clips. I'd like to see a full 15 minutes of unedited footage of doing a side-quest or something.

It would be handy if they do demo.

I let my sub expire at the end of November planning on resubbing with a Black Friday sale. Of course they never offered a sale on the essential tier so I left it for now.
None of the monthly games since have made me ponder for a second about rejoining.

Great news (if true of course). Having in the main saga up to 4 all in the modern style would be ideal for me. Hopefully Zero afterwards is true and then they do the original again.

When I borrowed a friends 360 many years ago the Fable games were the only ones I truly enjoyed of the ones I tried. So this looks very promising to me.
Still much to learn so I will wait for reviews but this is the first Xbox game I'm interested in.

Looks pretty good to me. Now they just have to come up with a compelling story.

Admittedly my only exposure to Roblox was a Dunky video but if all the content is similar to what he played it looked like cobbled together garbage. It's really hard to fathom why it is popular.

That’s a few big names for the cast. Not sure about this but can’t judge it until it’s done and watched.

What kind of character description is snack collector though? Not even sure what that means.

I posted a link in the Chit Chat Thread of the forums on Friday about this. Luke Stevens is one of the people behind it and did a quick video explaining what to expect.

https://youtu.be/JgefYxqX1A4

It seems certain that Fools Theory is making something for CD Projekt Red and it has most of their staff on it (unlike the Witcher 1 remake which is still very early with a small team).
Considering they have lots of ex-CDPR staff who know the Red Engine it seems very plausible. Lots of questions about what it actually is though.

If it's coming this year it might not be too long before we find out.

Blimey! Blooper is certainly churning them out at a fast rate.

For me, the biggest benefit of exclusives is that they give a developer the excuse to put quality above all else, even profit. The role of the exclusive is to bring people into your eco-system. The profit you make from an exclusive is not just it's own sales but all the potential extra sales bringing someone to your platform can bring.
Plus the one platform optimization he mentioned helps with that goal.

It's just a sad fact that a huge amount of workhours were lost to the multiplayer project and it has cost Naughty Dog heavily this generation. The same is true of Bluepoint.
I've watched enough behind the scenes documentaries on game dev to know that knowing precisely how much time is needed is very difficult.
Fingers crossed this extra push (if true) has been enough to get them back to a confident place.

Everything he says about the project sounds promising except the AI bit, but as long as that remains purely for throwing out ideas that a human creative then iterates and improves on before going in the game it should be fine.
I especially like that they want to go even more cinematic. I wish them well in expanding and becoming more efficient.

I'm curious how they are handling the two projects (earlier in the year they said they are working on 2). Are they planning slight overlap but concentrating mainly on one or working equally on both?

As much as I enjoyed Skyrim at the time, I think Bethesda has really struggled to evolve with time.
I don't have much excitement for ES VI but would love for them to prove me wrong. Probably a few more years before we see anything anyway.

@Americansamurai1 I'm assuming he was working with a very small group whilst everyone else did Ragnarok but would have thought it became the main project since that shipped in 22. I'd like to think they might be getting close to having something to show.
To be honest I'm happy for it to be a complete mystery until they are ready to show. It would be nice to get a rare surprise nowadays.

Had to have a second look at the gingerbread one to realise which studio it was.

I like the art style of the Santa Monica one best.

We have to find out what Corey is making in 2026 surely?

I wonder if Legacy of Atlantis does very well that they follow what Capcom had done with RE and do more remakes between new titles.

Tomb Raider
Resident Evil
GTA 6
Wolverine
Marvel 1943

Tricky to say with the final one as not seen any gameplay yet.

@ShadowofSparta The director of Anthem was Jonathan Warner. Casey Hudson wasn't even at the studio for half of Anthem's development time. Although I do believe it was Hudson who floated the idea of making a live-service game to EA.

@General-Foley fingers crossed they can find the right balance with this one. I'm sure it will be a fun game regardless but it will be great if they can master it again.
I very much look forward to the CV and 0 remakes probably more than the new ones because of that balance.

@AdamNovice I agree it's feasible but it will need the entire development to run very smoothly with clear set focus which seems quite rare in video game production.
I wish them the best of luck in achieving it.

@TheFakulty That project was given to Saber Interactive who stated a while ago that it is still being worked on but very little is known about it's current state.

I can see it working, the narrative switching between characters in the Revelation games worked well but I suppose the gameplay stays similar throughout in that.
I just hope they don't go overboard with the action in Leon's sections. For me RE2 is still the benchmark for the perfect balance. RE4 is still great but I consider it already tipping slightly too heavy into action.
I'm still hoping a few of the other original characters put in an appearance, even if we don't get to control them.

No idea how big the studio is but it was only formed in July. I'll be impressed if he can get it done in 4 years.

Fable is probably the only Xbox game that has the potential to be something I would be interested in if it comes over to PlayStation.

I'm curious to see how a developer known only for driving games does on a completely different game category.

@Nalodart Whoops my bad. I read the article but clearly only glanced at the title.

I still find it interesting a game could continue racking up wins in following years but yes I was wrong to mention it in this context.

@Nalodart Not denying it achieved it in a single show. The article is purely talking record amount of wins. I just thought it interesting that BG3 has slowly crept close to the same amount.

By my 'research' Baldur's Gate 3 has overtaken TLOU2 and is only one behind E33 thanks to the Community Support award this year and last.
If it somehow managed it next year it could tie.

Good trailer. Too soon to get excited yet but plenty of reasons to be optimistic about this one.

Only a couple of months away. I can’t wait. Looks great.

After BG3, Larian has my attention with whatever this turns into. Way too early to get excited though.

I could have sworn the last I heard about Casey Hudson’s new studio was that the project had been cancelled or something.

The little information for this does sound good though 🤞

EDIT: Looking into it, the studio he formed after leaving Bioware did indeed close down at the end of 2024 after their project failed to get enough funding. So this must be another start from fresh and means this must be barely more than an idea at this point.

If the pictures are real I'm eager to see the trailer. Not sure I can be bothered to stay up late to catch it live though.

Seriously though, surprise video game reveals are an endangered species.

@AverageGamer Have they always done early access? I wasn't sure if it was just BG3 as I wasn't familiar with Larian before that game.

@Fiendish-Beaver If you post your images to a website (There are a few, I use postimage.org) then right-click and copy image link.

Then on here type

(img)image link(/img) but swap the ( ) for [ ].

Ctrl+V pastes the link

Only 18 hours different playtime as last year.
Very similar amount of trophies also but a few more plats.

@ShogunRok In that case, fair enough. So a bit like the early Cyberpunk or Wolverine vids just an announcement of what they are working on.
It would certainly be the right scale of project to warrant the publicity.

Seems way too early for them to be showing a new game, doesn't it? I don't see all this effort for a port either.

I wonder if any of the other OG characters will put in an appearance?

Hearing about the addition of the loot system of the more recent games dampened my enthusiasm for this but will reserve judgement until we see exactly what it's changed.

@MrPeanutbutterz @Morzy I obviously didn't make my point clear because gameplay is irrelevant to my point. I totally understand you don't need flash graphics to be fun.
The point is you can make the game more visually appealing with very little effort and zero effect on gameplay. It is made with these visuals purely to evoke an era, for nostalgic feelings.

I'm not judging or saying it shouldn't be done. People clearly like it so that is all that matters.

@LifeGirl Yeah nostalgia was the only reason I could think of.
I mentioned the silent movie analogy as it's about technical limitations. Once they knew how to make films with sound there was no reason to make a silent movie as it wasn't an artistic choice. Rally games looked like that at the time purely due to technical limitations.
I suppose I just underestimate how appealing nostalgia is as a selling point. It clearly works or they wouldn't make them.

It doesn't really matter, just find it a weird creative choice.

Am I the only one who finds games made like this nowadays a little odd? I get making a simpler looking game is easier/cheaper and I understand it can still be fun. It just feels a bit like making a black & white, silent movie now.

Has anyone tried asking the people guarding the sculpture who they work for?

That footage has a very RE2 feel, so that makes me very happy.

@ShogunRok you might want to update.

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxzLX2eW6dHeKEyCntNiBWq2UAzF7ZxGvG

@Lucid_dream_14 That would be an amazing addition but I don't see it as likely. I don't believe Virtuos' knowledge or expertise with the Red Engine is enough to achieve something that big.

If it is anything for the game, I would imagine it's similar to their last update.