COD suddenly overrated to PlayStation owners.
Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision
Submitted 1 year ago by TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://kotaku.com/xbox-activision-blizzard-bethesda-deal-every-franchise-1850925890
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FlashZordon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Name a good game by a Microsoft studio from the last 5 years that isn’t by Obsidian or someone who used to work at Obsidian
OrgunDonor@kbin.social 1 year ago
Ori and the Will of the Wisps(Great)
Sunset Overdrive(Good)
Battletoads(Good, at least I enjoyed it)
Forza Horizon 4 and 5(both are good, but definitely feeling a little repetitive and overly done now for me)
Flight SimulatorThat is all I got though. and technically Forza Horizon 4 is 5 years and 12 days.
Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Psychonauts 2.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 year ago
3D Ultra Pinball
Come on, how can they list that and not the masterpiece that is 3D Ultra Minigolf?
Seriously though, they’re at least missing quite q bit of Sierra stuff there. Like Impressions Games city builders, or The Incredible Machine.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Wonderful news, I sure did want all those franchises that I loved to be turned to shit before being shelved for eternity.
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Blizzard has already been doing that for a while. Also failing with new franchises, not investing in their core games, half assing releases. I hope they actually turn things around for games like Starcraft, Diablo, HotS etc
krakenx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Blizzard would never have done that if Activision hadn’t been allowed to buy them. The new conglomerate will be worse than we anticipate in the same way Activion-Blizzard was.
srecko@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Most of those are already shit (Fallout, Diablo, Overwatch, call of duty) or shelved 25+ years ago (Commander Keen, Hexen, Phantasmagoria…). Microsoft’s own games are rather good compared to Activision Blizzar or even Bethesda.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
“If there are fewer and fewer games coming out that are more and more exclusive people will just have to buy an Xbox!” --an MBA, probably
Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Look at them including perfect dark in the list as if they’d have the balls to make another sequel after they botched the last one after essentially using it as a launch exclusive title for the 360… such a shame. Perfect dark 64 was a masterpiece.
ShittingDickNipples@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unless it got canned, they do be making another Perfect Dark
Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Ultimately the problem with Perfect Dark as a franchise is that everyone who made it great went off and formed Free Radical and made the TimeSplitters games.
Icaria@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So many dead franchises. The videogame industry really went in an unexpected direction…
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
Imagine all the money stupidly left on the table. All because they refuse to accept long term investment over short term gains.
So much money these franchises could have made - if they were given an honest chance
thorbot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There was a glimpse of prototype in that trailer and I can only dream of a new version of that game
Damage@feddit.it 1 year ago
I remember buying a Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro joystick that came bundled with Interstate '76… Hey MS, up for a revival?
clearedtoland@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I kid you not, that joystick and MS Flight Simulator 2004 got me through flight school and several ratings.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m surprised I have avoided being invested in any of these franchises.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s probably because so many of them are mediocre or don’t really exist as modern games. It’s kinda sad that out of that list, there are so few 10/10 series there.
Psythik@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So you’ve never played Fallout: New Vegas?
Wow, just wow. You’re missing out.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I haven’t. I did try Fallout 4 but it just wasn’t for me.
Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s Obsidian
clearedtoland@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m voting for them to revive Soldier of Fortune!
ignism@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I see your SoF and raise you a Heretic/Hexen revival
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In the meantime, check out Amid Evil for an absolutely fantastic Heretic/Hexen like game.
I have more screenshots saved on steam in one playthrough of that game than any other game I’ve played.
Paradox@lemdro.id 1 year ago
I wasn’t singularity to get rebooted and finished
w2tpmf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My vote is for Heretic/Hexen.
brawleryukon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Imagine leaving Lost Odyssey off of this list.
(Although I suppose maybe you need more than one game to be considered a “franchise” 😢)
Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I think they published it, but don’t actually own it.
brawleryukon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Microsoft at least owns the trademark on it. Not being a lawyer, I don’t know if that’s at all decoupled from “the IP” or not, but I suspect they’d be tied fairly close together.
It would also be weird if Mistwalker signed a contract giving MS ownership of Blue Dragon (which is on the list, but has multiple games from different publishers) but not Lost Odyssey. I guess maybe the solution would be to remove Blue Dragon from the list rather than adding Lost Odyssey. 🤷♂️
dewritoninja@pawb.social 1 year ago
I knows it’s not gonna happen but since they own heretic and he eb now I would love to see a modern day reinterpretation by the guys at id
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Microsoft spent 69 Billy just so they could finally own geometry wars, change my mind.
echoplex21@lemmy.world 1 year ago
XBLA goat
simple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Microsoft can FINALLY make the Zork sequel we’ve all been waiting for
kaitco@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Candy Crush Saga. Guaranteed.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gonna get automatically re-installed with every single Winfows update for all of eternity.
BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Baller actually really wanted that THPS 3&4 remaster.
Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The music from that game started to play in my head when I read this.