I say Alan Wake 2 is getting announced this year. And if it doesn't... well forget I said this.

I would also like Halo 3 and Gears 2 remasters. Because good games with better graphics are better games.

No remakes or remasters for me please.

* Freelancer 2. - Take to the stars and do battle against Star Citizen, when was the last time a console had a truly amazing space-sim?

* Black and White 3. - Could have been the perfect game for Kinect, might have actually made the accessory useful outside of voice commands and casual games. Still want even if it's with a controller.

* Perfect Dark 3. - Could have been a big franchise. But was squandered. #sadface

* Mechwarrior 5. - Yassss.

* Age of Empires 4. - They got Halo to work as an RTS on console. Maybe?

* Impossible Creatures 2.
* Fable 4.
* Viva Pinata 2. (I banned myself from playing the first game due to addictiveness.)
* Sunset Overdrive 2.


But if you truly wish to win the generation and make 10's of millions of kids around the world go absolutely spastic... Minecraft 2. Xbox One exclusive.

Freelancer 2 :) Oh yah, this game was so good and under appreciated... Mix of Wing Commander and Diablo (for the loot)

Halo RPG would really put the franchise back on the map, considering how popular the genre now is, the material and lore is really well suited for it. Tbh I'm surprised Halo Wars is the only spinoff we get.


If Fable is to come back, they need to overhaul the entire gameplay and combat mechanics, lets be honest the shallow gameplay of the past would not fly in 2017.

Fable would need to go all out Witcher if it's to succeed.

I appreciate all your suggestions, but I'm not really fond of any of them -- apart from Halo being taken away from 343

I don't think a big budget and a better engine separate a poor game from a great one. Banjo-Kazooie and Tooie were great because of the brilliant minds at Rare at the time and the stewardship of Nintendo. Microsoft throwing money at Playtonic to make Threeie isn't the same thing.

I would love a new Conker, but who's going to make it? 

I like the idea of Microsoft doubling or even tripling down on its bread-and-butter, shooters, but I don't trust 343 to make a new Perfect Dark. 

Lost Odyssey 2 and more RPGs in general is a great idea. Bring back Fable; there isn't really anything like it on the market. I'm not wild about Halo RPG. I would like more RTS games in the style of Halo Wars. 

A survival-horror game is a nice idea, but I'm unsure if the Gears milieu is the best place for it.

In general, I think you're right that Microsoft needs more shooters, more RPGs, more everything. I think it needs to do much more than bring in hired guns to handle an IP or ressurect an old property just because it's there. It needs to build up its internal studios, hire visionary talent, and form meaninful, long-lasting relationships with indie and Japanese developers. When Xbox was at its apogee it was getting amazing first-party-published games like Halo 3 and Reach, Gears of War 1, 2, and 3, Fable II, Ninja Gaiden II, Lost Odyssey, Mark of the Ninja, Shadow Complex, etc., plus all the high-profile third-party "AAA" games. It needs to do that again in order to compete with PlayStation.

I'm hesitant to get into this, really, but hear we go: You don't outright say that Platinum is incompetent, but the implication is there. Why is this? Now, I'm not outright saying that incompetence on the part of Microsoft lead to the cancelation of Scalebound, but when I see the dev spitting outright vitriol at the publisher on social media months before the cancellation, and read that Microsoft was forcing a tacked-on multiplayer component into the game that had nothing to do with the original vision....You know what? That's exactly what I'm saying. Scalebound would have benefitted from being in the hands of a more competent publisher. And why Rare? Their recent history hasn't been that great. They're long removed from the status of "elite developer" that they once held. I'll put Platinum's track record since their inception up against Rare's, and I think Platinum would come out ahead in most peoples eyes.

Yooka Laylee seems to suffer from a lack of budget, the presentation of the levels, not enough variety, the problems with the controls and camera all seem to stem from a lack of a bigger team.

Conker's original creator has its own indie studio, Im sure they can partner with Rare and Microsoft to make the sequel.

I heard 343 made a solid Halo game with tight controls and I think they can make a great Perfect Dark game, especially with its multiplayer.

Gears of War world would lend itself really well for a survival horror game, the 1st game had that vibe going and they could expand on it. Hell it could be their TLOU.

If that's the case with Yooka-Laylee, why would a partnership between a studio with poor design skills and a publisher with bad instincts be any better?

For Conker: this is just throwing money at an unproven studio.

343 made two underwhelming Halo games with poor level design and AI, and they removed splitscreen from the most recent one. I don't think the studio would be properly equipped to make a mission-based shooter focused on local multiplayer.

Actually, I need to ask: when was the last time you played an Xbox game?

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Playtonic doesnt have poor design skills, they just cut corners and made a basic product with the budget they got. This thread assumes MS making and funding these games with full creative control at the devs. Funding unproven studios and concepts is exactly what it encourages MS to do.

You're comparing 343 with Bungie, 343 made their own version of Halo, they're not mechanically bad games if you dont compare them with Bungies output.

Last Xbox game I played was about a week ago, SMT Nine, yeah I'm an og Xbox fan from 1999 before we got to see the console. Why do you have to ask?