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Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo

brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Holy moly.

That is basically the worst case scenario, no?

The absolute last thing Obsidian needs is more Bethesda.
They should have folded Bethesda into Obsidian and given them TES/Fallout.
The absolutely last last thing Halo needs is to be more like Call of Duty.
They should have cut 343, and split the IP amongst specialized studios. Like an Arkane special ops stealth game, or a strictly multiplayer Activision game.

This is beyond even my worst expectations.

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cheat700000007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Obsidian is doing fallout.

Halo needs ANYTHING. 343/Halo studios has never had a fucking clue.

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- brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Obsidian is doing fallout.
  
  But under BGS now. To me, that is frightening.
  
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darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s worse then that because studios aren’t names they are the people that make the games. **All these studios bare effectively dead. ** The only good that may come of this are the devs that start their own indio studio and make the games they want. Not an easy path mind you.

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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Its not even close to the worst thing. The worst thing was letting 343 “Halo Studios” keep Halo.

At worst, we just get another bad Halo game. But with entirely different people working on it, at least there is a chance it could be better. Under 343 “Halo Studios” it had no chances of being good.

Activision is a publisher, they don’t only make Call of Duty. They have a large variety of games they publish, including Blizzard’s Overwatch, which while one can argue doesn’t fit the Halo gameplay, proves that Activision has the capacity to publish an FPS games that feels almost nothing like Call of Duty.

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bigmamoth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Last good game by obsidian ? By Bethesda ? Commercial success now ? Obsidian dig their grave.

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- brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  They made a bunch of good RPGs/RPG-ish games, and a bunch of “mid” ones.
  
  My personal favorite is Grounded. It does sorta feel like an Obsidian/BGS game, with its heavy implicit environmental storytelling, audio logs and such.
  
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  - bigmamoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    So one niche game 10 year ago… I know obsidian for being the studio with the art director proudly claiming he would not recruit withe ppl. Wich except the legal side is utterly retard since they are the majority of your audience. Go woke go broke
    
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    brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Since 2016, Obsidian has released 10 games. BGS released 2.
    
    Grounded 2 is out in EA, seems to be close to release, and by all accounts is excellent.
    
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