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TiagoCosta on 13 May 2015
Goatseye said:
TiagoCosta said:

Black box made the best skate games, skate 3 still sells a lot.. What happens?

EA kills it.. Reminds me of Microsoft with ensemble.

Ensemble got disbanded in a time of economic uncertainty and MS wasn't so focused on PC gaming.

And you know what? MS can always re-use the Emsemble's assets. I have a feeling Decisive Games is comprised by ex-Ensemble devs and much more.

You don't kill a successful studio like that. They were doing a bunch of 360 games, and guess what halo wars was the only rts out of those..

that's hard, there are like 4-5 different studios formed out of ensemble devs, some yeah, the main core I doubt it.



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Goatseye on 13 May 2015
shikamaru317 said:

Microsoft's closing of Ensemble was one of the worst decisions they made last-gen, yet another one of Don Mattrick's disasters. Ensemble had an estimated value of $500 million at the time they were disbanded, and they had just released Halo Wars which sold fairly well, certainly not poor enough to justify closing Ensemble. Yes, the Halo MMO they were developing was eating up alot of money, but it would have been smarter to just cancel the MMO and put them to work on another RTS instead of closing the whole studio.

I really hope that Microsoft has managed to get back alot of the old guard Ensemble devs for Decisive Games, but it's doubtful since they spread out to like 5 different studios after Ensemble closed.

Just one of them is working on consoles. The rest are Zynga or defunct.



Jaywood2010 on 13 May 2015
shikamaru317 said:
Also, I'd like to point out the sad irony of the fact hat Don Mattrick closed Ensemble and fired all of those Ensemble devs, then later, after those devs all ended up at Zynga, he became CEO of Zynga and ran it into the ground too, costing them their jobs, their livelihood, a 2nd time. I'm sure they hate Don Mattrick so much, lol.


lol  They just couldnt get away from him xD




       

Goatseye on 13 May 2015

Microsoft can make an even better team than Ensemble. What doesn't lack in VG industry are devs with RTS experience.



Angelus on 13 May 2015

We really need to get a good doctor up in here, cus looking at the poll right now I can't help but notice that there's 8 people who most likely got some kind of brain damage



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Goatseye on 13 May 2015
Angelus said:
We really need to get a good doctor up in here, cus looking at the poll right now I can't help but notice that there's 8 people who most likely got some kind of brain damage

And 10 are lost cause. How does Cyberpunk plays anyway?

Don't care... it has robot with boobs!



Goatseye on 13 May 2015
shikamaru317 said:
Goatseye said:

And 10 are lost cause. How does Cyberpunk plays anyway?

Don't care... it has robot with boobs!

All you really need to know about Cyberpunk is that CD Projekt is developing it, that's pretty much a guarantee that it'll be amazing xD

I'm not a fan of medieval fantasy RPGs. So CDProjekt doesn't mean much to me.

Especially that this game is totally different than what they've done so far in terms of time settings.



Angelus on 13 May 2015
Goatseye said:
Angelus said:
We really need to get a good doctor up in here, cus looking at the poll right now I can't help but notice that there's 8 people who most likely got some kind of brain damage

And 10 are lost cause. How does Cyberpunk plays anyway?

Don't care... it has robot with boobs!

It's by CDPR.....that's enough to justify a vote of confidence

 

I voted Forza though



Goatseye on 13 May 2015
shikamaru317 said:
Goatseye said:
 

I'm not a fan of medieval fantasy RPGs. So CDProjekt doesn't mean much to me.

Especially that this game is totally different than what they've done so far in terms of time settings.

The details they have given do sound cool though. A dystopian futuristic world in which ultra-modern technology co-exists with a degenerated human society. As mature and ambitious as their Witcher games, a non-linear story with multiple character classes, 1st and 3rd person options, you have to buy translator chips to understand NPC's that speak in other languages.

Very cool. But I voted Forza because I believe Turn10 feelings were touched by the critics. I'm hoping they come out banging.



Angelus on 13 May 2015
shikamaru317 said:
Goatseye said:
 

Very cool. But I voted Forza because I believe Turn10 feelings were touched by the critics. I'm hoping they come out banging.

I voted Assassin's Creed because I'm more excited about Syndicate than I have been about any AC game since AC2. Cyberpunk is my #2 choice.