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Ryuu96 on 09 December 2023
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shikamaru317 said:
Ryuu96 said:

Jez said on XboxTwo that he has heard that many things on the leaked Bethesda games lists from the court documents are not happening, one that he specifically called out as not happening was apparently Doom Year Zero (Klobrille also confirmed this recently), so the list should therefore be taken with a massive grain of salt.

I believe this list was one of those lists which you make as a best case scenario, a "look at all this stuff we could make" list created to drive up the acquisition price, especially since it's from 2020 and the list was made for Microsoft. If you think about it, a new Doom sounds better than a new Quake to a businessman, saying Ghostwire Tokyo 2 will happen implies you feel confidence Ghostwire will be a success.

Imo, I think Doom Year Zero, Dishonoured 3 and Ghostwire Tokyo 2 are not happening and never entered development.

I don't really care about Doom, a new Quake would actually be superior there, but I will be pretty disappointed if Dishonored 3 and and Ghostwire Tokyo 2 don't happen, especially Dishonored 3 since Arkane themselves teased we would get a new Dishonored game eventually. Hopefully Arkane Austin starts on Dishonored 3 as soon as they finish their work on Redfall, the director of the Dishonored games is already the studio head there, Harvey Smith.

We still have a 2 year gap of Arkane Lyon development that is unaccounted for to take into consideration. Bethesda is saying that Blade just entered development, which implies development began a few months ago at most. Arkane Lyon released Deathloop in September 2021, and the game received nothing after that but a few bug fix patches, the Xbox port, and the Goldenloop update which added a few odds and ends such as a new weapon, a new enemy type, a few new trinkets, a new power, and an extended ending cutscene. The majority of Arkane Lyon had to be working on something for the 2 years between Deathloop and the start of Blade development, and it clearly wasn't Redfall assistance considering how shoddy that game came out. 

Arkane Lyon is a small studio Tbf, ~150. They were working on the Deathloop port to Xbox (maybe a few months, I don't know) and they would have had to create a pitch for Marvel, which likely is a few months of work, drawing up concepts, story ideas, etc. Then they probably entered pre-production a few months ago, so that all combined could be a years worth of work.

Bethesda tends to use their studios to assist each other as well, not in major ways but it all adds up.