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Everybody is banished to the Call of Duty mines forever.
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Angryhead posted:https://www.polygon.com/24151045/microsoft-xbox-studio-closures-tango-gameworks-arkane-austin-redfall Killing id would be greeted only somewhat more warmly than Microsoft announcing they had murdered Santa Claus. It’s one of the oldest and most storied development studios in existence. They have until at least 2026. God, I hate Microsoft.
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May 7, 2024 21:30
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Guillermus posted:I like Rage 2's combat more than Doom Eternal and I say this as a positive thing. Doom Eternal went too much into Dante Must Die difficulty for me. I really liked Doom Eternal and the DLCs but for me is a one and done forever. I'd much rather have the ability to focus with one or two weapons at a time and have the nano powers on cooldown than constantly juggle weapons waiting for the grenades to cool down. EDIT: So it's Microsoft's turn to be tone-deaf dummies now. It's like they saw what Sony just did and said "We can do better!"
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In Training posted:Doom 64 over Ultimate Doom is nutso but I respect the hutzpah doom 1's maps are kind of trash outside of ep1 and parts of ep4. and the limited bestiary really hurts it
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May 7, 2024 22:54
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Even mid ep 1 there's some tiresome levels. I do think there are a few gems in ep3, even if most of it is pretty bad.
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May 7, 2024 23:27
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The Prey reboot, or whatever you want to call it, was legit one of the all time greats and them being treated like this after essentially being made to make a game against their strengths is so depressing.
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May 8, 2024 00:04
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Hasturtium posted:Killing id would be greeted only somewhat more warmly than Microsoft announcing they had murdered Santa Claus. It’s one of the oldest and most storied development studios in existence. They have until at least 2026. i doubt id is next on the chopping block, but machinegames are saddled with an indiana jones project that will probably be expected to do huge numbers, and im not sure the IP has that much pull with how mid the last few films were
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May 8, 2024 00:20
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E2 is my fave. I have a soft spot for it I guess.
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May 8, 2024 00:24
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Well this aged horribly https://www.thegamer.com/phil-spencer-tango-gameworks-xbox-japan/ quote:Xbox head Phil Spencer “can’t wait” to get to know Tango Gameworks after the Bethesda acquisition.
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May 8, 2024 00:32
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Turns out it was a threat
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Phil Spencer just thinks "can't wait" and "don't hold your breath" are euphemisms that basically mean the same thing.
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May 8, 2024 00:49
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Phil Spector gets to know game studios the way Galactus gets to know a planet, or Brainiac gets to know civilizations.
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Or Rouge the Bat from Sonic gets to know other characters (by eating them whole)
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i actually forgot microsoft has a perfect dark reboot in the pipeline, they've been working on that for 5 years and it's still very quiet
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May 8, 2024 00:55
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Hasturtium posted:Phil Spector gets to know game studios the way Galactus gets to know a planet, or Brainiac gets to know civilizations. Phil Spector, Herald of Microsoft
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repiv posted:i actually forgot microsoft has a perfect dark reboot in the pipeline, they've been working on that for 5 years and it's still very quiet
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May 8, 2024 03:29
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Hasturtium posted:Phil Spector gets to know game studios the way Galactus gets to know a planet, or Brainiac gets to know civilizations. on the one hand, his work with the Beatles was iconic. on the other hand, murder
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HolyKrap posted:Well this aged horribly This one sucks as bad as the Arkane one. I didn't love everything Tango put out but I really liked that they were just making single player stuff with a story and weren't trend chasing. Which I guess is why they got taken behind the woodshed and Old Yellered
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Arkane Austin was a ghost town after the post-Redfall brain drain. Even if they weren't shut down, they'd never be the same again. I heard rumors earlier today about Tango bleeding staff, which'd track since Shinji Mikami left and when big-name creatives and other higher-ups leave studios, other people tend to follow or take their own cue to leave. (Id lost a good few veterans to Oculus when Carmack got fired, for example - just one chapter of their pre-2016 strife). I wouldn't be shocked if both studios had been brain drained by circumstance beyond the point of capability.
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The Kins posted:(Id lost a good few veterans to Oculus when Carmack got fired, for example - just one chapter of their pre-2016 strife). carmack was fired? in hindsight that doesn't surprise me, but i didn't know his departure was involuntary
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UHD posted:carmack was fired? in hindsight that doesn't surprise me, but i didn't know his departure was involuntary People definitely followed him to Oculus, though, like the late Jan Paul "MrElusive" van Waveren, who was responsible for the Quake 3 bots and the OpenXR standard.
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UHD posted:carmack was fired? in hindsight that doesn't surprise me, but i didn't know his departure was involuntary
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Happy to report that after the patch, DF Remastered music sounds pretty much perfect. Glorious iMUSE timing! The music really does do so many interesting things. It's nice to be able to pay attention to it instead of desperately trying to ignore how bad it sounded.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Amusingly, the departures of all four of id's cofounders were more-or-less involuntary. Tom Hall either quit, was fired, or a hazy mix of both simultaneously during the development of Doom. John Romero was fired around the time of Quake 1's release. Adrian Carmack quit in 2005 and took Id to court over attempts to force him to sell his share of the company. John Carmack left during "Doom 4 1.0" development and got sued by Bethesda over allegations of taking code over to Oculus with him. A pretty torrid history, really, but it's easy to forget since other studios have been way the gently caress more torrid in recent history. Speaking of great games with torrid development cycles, noted indie developer Zane_Rocks_36 popped back up today to announce that Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer will be coming to Playstation and Switch on May 15th... with a mysterious teaser at the end... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOr3g9TQyYM
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Started Quake 2 Remaster’s Call Of The Machine and hollllllly shiiiiiiiiiiit the remaster should’ve been centered around this.
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Automata 10 Pack posted:Started Quake 2 Remaster’s Call Of The Machine and hollllllly shiiiiiiiiiiit the remaster should’ve been centered around this. Its so good right????
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Automata 10 Pack posted:Started Quake 2 Remaster’s Call Of The Machine and hollllllly shiiiiiiiiiiit the remaster should’ve been centered around this. It rather was, at least from a development standpoint. I kept having to adjust netcode to keep up with everything Machine Games were trying to do.
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Yeah CotM is really good and doesn't gently caress around. Over the q2 remaster was really really good and turned q2 into the game it deserved to be.
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Ahh, baby's first Horde Mode there. I was usually a Marine loading up everything with prox grenades and setting the whole level on fire until 14 year old me lost his nerve. Or running backwards as the Predator lobbing out Plasma Pistol bombs at a wall of fragmenting xenomorphs. Good times.
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PO'ed Definitive Edition has been officially dated. It brings its trying-to-redeem-a-3DO-game stylings to the world next Thursday, on May 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X9Io9kOIvU The Kins fucked around with this message at 17:44 on May 9, 2024 |
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FrumpleOrz posted:PO'ed is so good. I hope they keep the convoluted control scheme. No we actually want people the play our games.
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Rocket Pan posted:It rather was, at least from a development standpoint. I kept having to adjust netcode to keep up with everything Machine Games were trying to do. Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 01:44 on May 10, 2024 |
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Hasturtium posted:Killing id would be greeted only somewhat more warmly than Microsoft announcing they had murdered Santa Claus. It’s one of the oldest and most storied development studios in existence. They have until at least 2026. yeah that would be insane like delisting Unreal or something
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Automata 10 Pack posted:drat lol. But I mean like the game should’ve had giant neon arrows pointing at Call of the Machine saying “PLEASE PLAY THIS FIRST!!” Or rename the game to “Quake 2.5: Call of the Machine (and the rest of the Quake 2 campaigns w/er). Everything else is fine, and the Quake 64 inclusion was a great decision (I’m shocked that the campaign wasn’t dumbed down to accommodate the N64 controller, it’s quite hard!), but Call of the Machine is awesome to the point where the remaster ascends beyond a nostalgia trip and instead could be considered an essential play in the boomer shooter canon. Both the Q1 and Q2 new episodes were the second most played episodes after the base game, so I think most people got the message that it was new. I even bumped the new episode up in the Q2 UI hoping it might help more, but it didn't seem to have much of an effect either way.
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