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Snoopy on 17 June 2020
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sales2099 said:
goopy20 said:

Generally speaking I think there are 4 types of games. Bad, Ok'ish, Good, and rare gems that are considered a must play. Maybe that's just me, but if any particular console brand has a bunch of games of the later category, it peaks my interest and I would buy a console just to play them. I bought a Switch just to play BOTW, for example, and the OG Xbox mainly for Halo. Therefore, I just find it hard to believe that anyone, who sees games like TLOU 2, GOW, HZD etc. getting 96 Metacritic scores, wouldn't feel any desire to play them. Yet the one single game that is coming to your platform of choice happens to be your most favorite ip of the entire generation, even when it's a 6 hour long game with a 80 Metacritic score. I get that you're into viking history and all, but come on. 

And no, all those studios you mentioned haven't been quiet for too long. Ninja Theory just released Bleeding Edge, Mojang just released Minecraft Dungeons, Playground released Forza Horizon 4: Lego Speed Champions in 2019, The Coalition just released Gears Tactics for pc, Obsidian is working on some indie kid game called Grounded and 343 Studios seems to be hiring for a new Halo Wars. Except for Gears Tactics all of their new releases is sitting on a 70 or lower Metacritic score.

Surely you must notice a pattern here. Most of MS's studios are busy making small scale type of games to fill up the GP library. That's why I'll remain skeptical and keep my expectations in check, but I truly do hope they'll prove me wrong in July. 

I explained myself enough. You skeptical that’s not on me. I think it’s a safe bet to say that Xbox plans to cover more genres then PS. And that will attract crowds that like said genres. MS clearly trying to capture the 3rd person narrative crowd that can’t get enough of PS4 exclusives, so let’s see how that goes. 

Bleeding Edge is a small game, where as Hellblade came out a few years ago. I didn’t mention Mojang or Coalition, but Playgrounds 2nd studio was what I was referring to. Again, Grounded is a small team, the bulk of Obsidian is working on a unannounced AAA game while the rest is working on Outer Worlds DLC. 343 will finally release a Halo game after 5 years and did a damn fine job keeping a closed lid this whole time and I can’t wait for it to pay off. So ya, I stand by my point that studios have been quiet for too long. 

If the small scale titles were all that those studios were working on I’d agree, but we both know that’s not the case. I mean they literally said they set aside 10-20 people for these smaller titles. 

Are you generalmld from youtube?