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daredevil.shark on 05 May 2017

Their past history + current investment + smallest E3 floor area in 2017 as big 3 = Very unlikely.



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Snoopy on 05 May 2017

Microsoft will be smart to go the games as a service route for 80% of their games. That is the future for console games. I think they should buy out rocket league like they did with Minecraft. It will fit in their eco system pretty well.



S.T.A.G.E. on 06 May 2017
Mr Puggsly said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Microsoft needs to learn that givng their IP's to third party is not always a great thing. They would be wiser to create a Retro Studios/ Sony Santamonica, which is good at making every style of game so they can resurface old IP with better quality control. The fact that I can detail how they can fix this shows just how much Microsoft is lacking in the development and creativity department. They can scare off bungie by not wanting them to create a new IP and can make a dedicated studio to Halo, but not one for resufacing known IP? Thats ridiculous. They need to treat Microsoft studios like a real studio and not just a publshing house.

Santamonic probably helps polish games, but they don't create much per se. I've unknowingly playing a bunch of their games and they don't have a great record outside of GoW.

Its funny, you keep making the same terrible arguments. Bungie lied, they wanted to make more Halo but just not for MS. So they made Destiny, a Halo clone. Bungie can argue they were tired of making Halo but they made a blatant clone. They thought they had the next CoD if they went multiplat.

I believe Guerilla was tired of making Killzone and the series was mediocre, sales were modest, etc. So they made something completely different. That's what happens when a studio isn't lying.

Sony Santamonica helps co develop games and they create their own games. They are essentially Sony's retro stuio (Because thats what Retro does).  I dont know what bungie lied about. They wanted to make other games besides Halo and had let Microsoft know about it and Microsoft wanted them only working on Halo. Sony's philosophy is different from Microsofts, which is they expand inividual studios into multiple teams to achieve the ability to make more games. If they wouldve split destiny into two teams, you couldve had destiny and Halo Simultaneously on the Xbox.



S.T.A.G.E. on 06 May 2017
Snoopy said:
Microsoft will be smart to go the games as a service route for 80% of their games. That is the future for console games. I think they should buy out rocket league like they did with Minecraft. It will fit in their eco system pretty well.

Honestly, they need to stop doing that crap. Microsoft just buys and doesnt make anything better. Things have actually gotten worse creatively for Rare after acquisition.



Snoopy on 06 May 2017
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Snoopy said:
Microsoft will be smart to go the games as a service route for 80% of their games. That is the future for console games. I think they should buy out rocket league like they did with Minecraft. It will fit in their eco system pretty well.

Honestly, they need to stop doing that crap. Microsoft just buys and doesnt make anything better. Things have actually gotten worse creatively for Rare after acquisition.

They're making a lot of money doing this, so they won't stop.



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LudicrousSpeed on 06 May 2017

They're showing the Scorpio and detailing its release at this E3. It's factually a "huge" E3 for them.



endimion on 06 May 2017

It has always been the best for me anyway....



Aeolus451 on 06 May 2017

I expected an op that's better written or at least part of an article with a link. ugh.



Mr Puggsly on 06 May 2017
Pemalite said:
Mr Puggsly said:

For an old game it still looks okay. It was designed for a fairly powerful machine of the time. But if the old graphics bother you then don't buy it.

The Xbox being powerful was one of the reasons why I entered the ecosystem initially.

But games of that generation haven't aged well. Annoying part is, I am a collector, so if it's on Disk, chances are I'll probably pick it up at some point.
But it doesn't mean I should not be able to provide criticism where criticism is due. I criticise all the consoles and software equally in that aspect.

Mr Puggsly said:
Even if they don't have the source code I believe they can do a lot, even make major changes to the presentation. The story is this port of Phantom Dust was done secretly at first so getting funding for a big remaster may not have been an option. But if its just $15 or $20, I don't think there is much to complain about.

They can still do allot. But they can't do everything.
They are limited in mainly the same way modders are when a game doesn't have mod support, it takes a fair amount of cracking, hacking and reverse engineering to achieve some pretty basic things.
Discovery Freelancer for instance has been fairly open on it's approaches to modding Freelancer without any source or mod tools initially and have outlined their difficulties. (Which if you are interested, you could check out their Forum.)
They actually had to build allot of the tools to make their mod. That was after hacking the game.

Or take a look at Freespace, mods exploded once the source code was released for that game, some impressive overhauls are happening on that front, prior to the source being released, any and all efforts were pretty uninteresting.

This release I wouldn't call a "Remaster" though. Because it's not. A re-release is a more fitting term.

I'm not sure if you've seen the footage of the X1 port yet but it still looks surprisingly good. Some titles of that gen age better than others.

A simple port with some tweaks is fine as long as its priced accordingly. You can complain but its obviously better than nothing.



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Pemalite on 06 May 2017
Mr Puggsly said:

I'm not sure if you've seen the footage of the X1 port yet but it still looks surprisingly good. Some titles of that gen age better than others.

A simple port with some tweaks is fine as long as its priced accordingly. You can complain but its obviously better than nothing.

It really doesn't look that good.



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