None of this makes any sense.
1) Both Bleeding Edge and Grounded were in development before Microsoft acquired them and are games that Obsidian and Ninja Theory chose to work on. Microsoft promised full creative freedom to their new teams, something they've quite clearly stuck by. So what do you think they should do in this situation? Should they go up to Obsidian and tell them "Yeah no get that shit outta here and get to work on The Outer Worlds 2" or Ninja Theory with "yeah that's cool and all but our fans want more single player games so cancel that shit rn and get to work"? Then the argument would just switch to "See Microsoft ISN'T keeping their word and already forcing control on their new studios, man that new IP would have probably been great". It's quite obvious at this point that no matter what Microsoft does it's a lose-lose situation for them in some people's eyes.
2) "Huge ass Game Pass infomercial".... you realize every event at its core is technically an infomercial right? When Sony and Nintendo are showing you games at E3 they aren't doing it just because they want to. Don't get me wrong, I do think all 3 companies have passion for the industry, but ultimately they want to entice you to buy their games and systems. When Sony hosts their PS5 reveal it's not gonna just because they wanted to have some fun, they wanna convince you to buy the damn console. How is it any different or negative now just because it's with Game Pass? They have a product so they're gonna talk about it to show you why you should buy it.
3) Literally what says that Microsoft's games are going to be "cheap AA game pass filler"? Because if you actually even listened to what Matt Booty said on stage today it's the complete opposite. He said how a lot of the studios have multiple teams which is why you're able to see smaller passion projects come out at the same time as the huge bigger games. Grounded is made by 13 people...
4) "Obsidian fans didn't want this" Speak for yourself, phrases like this have always been dumb because it's like saying "i'm not personally interested in this, so therefore nobody else can be". YOU can personally not be interested, and that's fine, but I and plenty of other people am interested in it. I like seeing developers try new things and this is a creative twist on a different genre for them. Saying "people didn't want this" is like when people say "who asked for this" whenever a strange concept for a game comes up like Mario + Rabbids, it's a dumb statement because literally every game can be prefaced with 'who asked for this" by someone. Horizon: Zero Dawn "A game where you shoot robots with a bow? who asked for this" for example. If developers only ever made games based on 'what people asked for" we would literally never get anything new. And the fact that people who claim to be Obsidian fans are already trying to shit on Obsidian or their new game because they dared to try a different thing for once is really disgusting, and I bet these are the same people who complain about the lack of new ideas in the industry as well.
Last edited by FloatingWaffles - on 15 November 2019
