Microsoft is looking to speed up development of future Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Halo games
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/microsoft-is-looking-to-speed-up-development-of-future-elder-scrolls-fallout-and-halo-games/
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sylver_dragon@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 82d
Translation: Microslop is going to start slopping out AI slop and hope that gamers eat it up like good little piggies.
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 10 pts · 81d
Probably, given who they are, but honestly the premise isn't bonkers on its own. There's been a massive wait between Elder Scrolls V and VI, with absolutely no signal how much longer VI may even be. Part of "speed up development" may even just mean adopting a strategy to keep development moving even when working on another project, like Starfield.
xylol@leminal.space · 3 pts · 81d
Exactly, they can outsource the games to different studios like call of duty and pump out an elder scrolls every year
kbal@fedia.io · 47 pts · 82d
Estimated chance of TES6 being good plunges to new lows
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 81d
And it was already on the ground.
dellish@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 81d
Yeah, because rushing things out has worked so well before.
Waryle@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 81d
That gave us Halo 1, 2 and 3
BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 81d
Yes, but also that was because of Bungie. Halo Studios is an Xbox Games studio meaning what Microslop says goes, Bungie was able to push back against that and have more control. We didn't have the contractor fiasco with H1, H2 and H3 like we did with Infinite, and no spaghetti code as a result. There was massive crunch, especially for 2, but they maintained control over the project and a much higher capacity. Devs stated many times it was always due to their own ambition being bigger than the time available, or even hardware limitations (Halo 2 E3 demo build).
dellish@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 80d
Bungie certainly was a massive difference. Playing Halos 1, 2 & 3 you can tell you are playing a game made as a passion project. They are games where everyone involved cared about the final product and went above and beyond to make something great. Big games these days from studios such as Microslop or Blizzard/Activision feel more like games made by committee for no-one in particular. Halo Infinite Was especially painful for me personally because I grew up playing those games and the gunplay felt really good - unfortunately the rest of the game was poorly thought out or half-assed. It could have been great, but they fucked it up.
kbal@fedia.io · 1 pts · 81d
esc@piefed.social · 18 pts · 82d
Last main series ES game came out 15 years ago, they really should let it die with what dignity it still has, same with Fallout.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 82d
Which is a shame, because TES' lore is incredible.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
True, but if you're really jonesing for more TES lore just play Elder Scrolls Online. Damn near everything can be done solo and there's great writing + voice-acting throughout.
warm@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 81d
Microsoft should have left all their franchises behind and hired creative talent to make new IPs, instead they put any developers they could get on crunch time to spew out shitty sequels. Now that strategy has come to bite them in the ass, as they don't have appeal any more.
j5y7@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 81d
Have some more sloppy joes. I made 'em extra sloppy for yous. I know how yous kids like 'em sloppy.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 12 pts · 81d
Would be really funny if Sega bought it and got back into the console market, but the more likely buyer would be Sony.
kunaltyagi@programming.dev · 4 pts · 81d
Sony would buy the studios and their IP but wouldn't touch Xbox with a 10 feet pole. Buying to bury the brand might get them labeled as Gatekeeper by the EU
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 81d
Why did they announce TES6 anyways?
Like, I thought it wind be 2-3 years out from announcement. This is kind of insane.
GT6 is pretty similar too.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 82d
Pay no attention to the 14th Halo remaster. Or the 67th Skyrim rerelease. Or Fallout Totally Better Than New Vegas 12.
No, we're gonna make something new. Trust us.