J_Allard said:
Rpruett said:
The biggest problem with a majority of the Xbox One lineup is many titles are limited or damaged in some way. The other part of the problem with your list is making a lot of assumptions on 'potential' and 'secret' releases. We could do the same with the PS4 list (The Last Guardian, Naughty Dog's project, etc). I stayed away from that because it gets into far too much of a grey area.
Titanfall - Very hyped up, but Multi-player only and built off of an old engine. Probably will be a lot of fun but it's going to have to be better than every shooter out there to have any lasting effect.
Project Spark - In terms of a game this will disappoint many in my eyes. (And I love Garry's Mod and Little Big Planet - created several levels myself). Simply put, this will be more a creative tool versus some wonderful exclusive. I don't see it selling very well either. Limited market, limited scope.
Quantum Break - No solid release date marked down --- Unique genre -- Not really sure how the game will be played at this point. Far too many questions regarding the nature and nuances of this game.
Black Tusk Game - What is known about this game? It's a complete unknown.
Fable Legends - End of 2014 at best, the creator is departed from the series and it's kind of taking a different spin. Still some serious question marks surrounding this.
Sunset Overdrive - Insomniac is a solid developer, haven't seen anything.
Halo 5 - Even though I don't think we've got a confirmed release date, I'd imagine this drops this year November.
I still believe that Fable Legends will crash and burn, Black Tusk Game is unknown completely, Quantum Break I think crash and burns or doesn't release in 2014 -- as does Project Spark. It pretty much boils down to (Titanfall, Sunset Overdrive, Halo 5). Halo 5 will be huge, Titanfall will have to prove itself and Sunset Overdrive going by track record will be probably an 'Okay' game. That's assuming most of these even release in 2014.
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You listed:
The Order - unproven, could easily "crash and burn"
MLB - baseball
DriveClub - unproven, could easily "crash and burn" much like Motorstorm "crashed and burned"
Deep Down - unproven F2P RPG could easily "crash and burn"
So basically you're left with Infamous 3 versus Halo, Titanfall, Quantum Break, Sunset Overdrive, Project Dragon, etc.
See, anyone can do this. It's subjective.
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Sure -- It's subjective. We could play that game with anything. We could what if, everything in the world.
However, objectively the games for Microsoft reside in unpopular genres and haven't had much if any exposure to the public media. We can also objectively take Microsoft's track record as a software publisher into account and their lackof success. Objectively, Microsoft had more exclusives at launch than Sony. Objectively, Microsoft hasn't been known to release many exclusives that aren't complete sequels or re-hashes regardless of success rate. First year of Xbox One (Fable, Forza, Halo).
The Order is a story driven, third person shooter with top notch graphics. It certainly could suck and crash and burn but that formula is tried, true and tested thoroughly and from what has been seen, the game looks fantastic visually.
DriveClub is an arcade racer with beautiful graphics. It certainly could suck too, but again it's a tried and true formula. Motorstorm wasn't great, but it wasn't the worst either. DriveClub will have a little more polish than Motorstorm (1) ever had.
MLB The Show - Baseball, so what? Many people in the world and most importantly, the United States love baseball. Especially the first next-gen iteration of the best baseball game on the market.
Deep Down certainly could suck being a F2P and all. However, Deep Down has shown extensive footage of the game and it looks to be solid at a minimum.
Halo and Titanfall we know what to expect. Pretty much every other Microsoft game resides in an akward genre ( Quantum Break, Project Spark) or simply hasn't shown ANYTHING tangible or both.
