David Sears, the former Creative Director of the early SOCOMs, just launched a new Kickstarter campaign. H-Hour: World's Elite by SOF Studios is hoping to pick up where the first two SOCOMs left off.
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The developers of We Happy Few, Compulsion Games, commented that trying to maintain creativity at Microsoft isn't as hard as people think thanks to the leadership that understands the importance of creative games.
Overall, they've had a positive experience so far.
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I think every new studio acquisition at XGS has come out and spoke about how they are able to retain creative freedom. This is good news to hear...looking forward to their next project.
@captaintravel
"You also said Ninja Theory is an indie developer and many other unflattering comments."
That's my opinion. A lot of their past games feels unfinished or missing depth. I thought DMC was their best game
Rare? Let's be honest, under Microsoft Rare aren't what they were. Also what about the Fable devs?
MS has been very hands off this gen and that will continue on into next gen. They want the studios to deliver the best of their ideas without "micro" managing.
yeah i hope they dont make good studios work on gimmicky things then close them down like lionhead studios and sony with evolution studios, that fable kinect and Psvr Rigs/Driveclub vr .... i really hope if Dreams doesnt sell that sony will keep Media Molecule i loved the little big planet games but so far the games in dreams feel a little unfinished
Well luckily they don't seem to have any gimmicks yet like a Kinect for this gen. Seems like they are more focused on their content delivery through the services and need big and small devs to provide a constant stream of games.
Lionhead was one of those situations where maybe MS should have had more of a hand in reigning in creativity. Molyneux is kind of one of those people who doesnt set limits on his own expectations based on what's actually possible to accomplish
@rainslacker
"Molyneux is kind of one of those people who doesnt set limits on his own expectations based on what's actually possible to accomplish"
He left Microsoft after Mattrick "forced" him into making a Fable Kinect game! After his departure Lionhead couldn´t create nothing relevant or very exciting. I think Playground will be a better studio than Lionhead ever could be without Molyneux.
My two cents.
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I know Lionhead was vocal about MS wanting a specific Fable from them, the Kinect one and then the 4 vs 1 Fable that got cancelled. And they even pitched a darker more mature Fable game to MS that they rejected in order for them to work on the ones I mentioned.
Im pretty sure bungie expressed themselves too but Lionhead studios were all over social media saying how frustrating it was working for Microsoft
Yeah, I feel like MS has changed a lot with this new leadership though. Seems like all their devs are expressing they have creative freedom. You see The Coalition being able to expand Gears in new ways with Tactics, Pop, and even change up Gears 5 formula a bit.
I'm hoping we see 343 expand a bit and do some side stuff outside of Chief after Infinite.
DaDrunkenJester
The leadership was the same. Lionhead studios was still under Phils management but after the game awards they've taken the right step. We'll see how it goes
Yeah but we are talking about the present though, and MS had learnt a lot from their past.
I mean, if you have to ask “like what?” then I don’t think you have actually been following any news at all.
Touted as the spiritual successor to the SOCOM series, H-Hour: World’s Elite has now entered the Beta stage of development and work has begun on the PS4 version of the game.
Really hope this game takes off...if you're interestred in starting clan, let me know!
Wonder if I'll get my PS4 copy when I pledged to back this a long time ago on Kickstarter? Or is that campaign promise dead?
I'm hoping the pledges still get honoured (be a good way to fill out servers early) but I wouldn't bank on it.
Wondering the same I'm doubtful since its been so long I figured this was done. Remember reading the director left a couple years ago figured it was all done from there
One of the reasons I bought a PS4. I'll be ready for it whenever it releases.
I thought they cancelled this. The first and only game I supported through Kickstarter. I learned from that mistake.
Sears was the man behind socom 2... After he left the series kinda started to suck more and more with each release. This could be interesting.
Socom fans were´s your chance to support something trully for you.
i hope this happen.socom for ps2 was my best online experience.maybe because it was new for gaming but it just has a special part in my gaming heart.
Great find...sounds awesome... Socom2 is my favorite all time shooter...
If s2 vets want a similar experience you can play CS: GO on psn.
You can really see that Socom was highly influenced by counter strike...I'll be playing it today so feel free to pm me and I'll let you add me on psn...
This needs to be in the consoles news as well. They already stated that they would like to port it to consoles if the process is a success....