The best game is the unreleased one, as they only exist in the best system: our imagination.
QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Microsoft could have a crown jewel, but noooo…
lorty@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I didn’t have much faith in it, honestly. The demo they showed us several years ago was smoke and mirrors because even after a long development period, they didn’t have a vertical slice that was anywhere near ready, and I’ve got no reason to believe that any large publisher would make a shooter like they used to. Do you think we’d have gotten split-screen and deathmatch in this game, or do you think they’d have some kind of live service multiplayer? Even a Free Radical run by members of the original team couldn’t make a TimeSplitters game when given the resources to do just that; they tried to make something that looks like Fortnite, just like everyone else, before it too got cancelled.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 days ago
You know, game projects are killed all the time, sometimes for good reasons…
But this was “the Initiative”, Microsoft’s “unlimited resource”, “quadruple A” studio, that was meant to redefine videogame standards no matter the cost. Really, that was what they said back when they announced it. And they shut it down before it could release anything.
They deserve all the ridicule they can get. Also the hate for all the studios they routinely acquire and kill, even when the ones that were actually successful.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 4 days ago
One of the worst companies imaginable basically everything is spyware spydows 11 spydrive.