Weren't you recently complaining about companies like MS "milking" ips like Halo and not taking a gamble on fresh concepts? Now, you're groaning about not wanting unique games like Pentiment and HiFi to becoming the norm because they're not AAA?
You just like to complain for the sake of complaining.
The Switch is using Nintendo's bc tech which is literally playing the N64 version via system link.
Think of it like how the original Xbox (Xbox Connect) enabled people to set up LAN parties to play Halo 1 multiplayer online.
It's not for separate purchase anyway. It can only be downloaded through Rare Replay. It was part of the stipulation Nintendo made in relation to it being re-released at all.
Apples & oranges. Atomic Heart came from a company who was virtually unknown of outside of doing a single VR title. TDB comes a company with a slimy reputation, known for prematurely abandoning projects.
That means nothing, lots of reputable companies inadvertently promote scams (Youtube ads anyone?). Fntastic more than likely submitted one of the early vertical slice videos to Nvidia and they said "Good enough for us." It doesn't take much.
There is no trademark dispute. It's a ruse (from the devs). There are tons of games on Steam and other mediums with the words "The Day Before" in the titles. Come November, the team will come up with another "excuse" for why they can't release on time.
There is no game. This is all an elaborate scam (vertical slice) to promote a faltering Continental app.
Whose surprised? Of course it's a sham. It's nothing more than a glorified vertical slice by the devs as a means to promote their crappy, non-functioning Continent app.
Clickbait title. A subpoena isn't "asking for help." It's literally MS issuing Sony a deposition to provide facts or documents that them purchasing Acti-Blizz would be anti-consumer or a monopoly.
Where does this "milking" talk come from? Halo 5 came out three years after 4. Infinite came out six years after 5. There was an eight year gap between Halo Wars 1 and 2. MCC was released because the severs for the Halo games on 360 were closing. Milking would be MS literally releasing a Halo title annually (i.e. COD).
Considering Halo is the Xbox's premier ip, they don't "milk" the brand any more than Nintendo or Sony does theirs.
The idea behind The Initiative looked good on paper but logically wasn't. A studio composed of lead designers and directors from various AAA gaming studios is bound to become a clashing of egos and ideas. No-one would be willing to compromise their vision.
Imagine if Sony announced that they were creating a new studio in Japan tasked with reviving one of their dormant ips (lets use Syphon Filter for example) and the team was being led by Hideo Kojima, Tomonobu Itagaki, ...
They should be removed just off of the fact that they gave the Halo TV series show-runners free reign to do whatever they wanted with the brand. To which, they've (writers) admitted to not researching the games or studying any of the franchise's lore (novels, comics, animated films etc.) because it was below them to. Resulting in an imposter Master Chief who barely wears his helmet.
Phil should be the main Xbox employee to be laid off.
3rd party could simply be studios who've already had ties to co-developing previous Halo entries, such as Certain Affinity and Saber Interactive.
Why do I get the sense that id Software's going to be developing future Halo projects?
Sizing up for the Acti-Blizz purchase.
I'm not convinced (given the developer's shady track record). Practically every trailer released thus far has had the game mirroring that gameplay to that of another popular franchise in the zombie/survival category.
The first gameplay trailer looked like that of TLOU (straight down to the crouching/crawl animations). The second trailer's gameplay looked like The Division. The more recent gameplay snippets has the game parroting Days Gone and State of Decay.
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Yet, Embracer is being co-financed by Saudi Arabia through a fund spearheaded by a scumbag like Mohammed bin Salman.
RE5 getting a lot of unwarranted hate as of years. Yet, when it first arrived, game was getting rave reviews and sales (still the top selling RE game to date) across the board. Where did this 180 swerve come from?
People trying to re-write history and jump on bandwagons as if RE5 was the dark cloud of the franchise, simply because it's the cool and trendy thing to do.
Apparently, anything that doesn't feature a white male protagonist is now automatically deemed as "woke."
The two campaigns are trash anyhow and are pretty pointless. They're short and offer no achievements or skill progression to multiplayer component (despite serving as a prerequisite for such).
Smilegate is better off cutting their losses and focusing resources on Crossfire: Sierra Squad for PSVR2.