Whether these got the short straw next to larger, similar-looking titles that dwarfed their marketability – or they were just overlooked altogether – more than ever in today’s digital climate you’re able to hunt down the lot for a far better price regardless.
Steam's Summer Sale looks primed for Steam Deck players - with a huge collection of titles on offer for the handheld.
Alpha Protocol has sneaked its way back onto Steam as part of its Summer Sale, much to the surprise of a few loyal fans.
One of the few 7th gen game that I'll full heartedly support for a remake.
Its a very unique RPG and deserves its faults fixed the 2nd time.
I would be so for this. Alpha Protocol is the definition of a diamond in the rough. Before being acquired by Microsoft, Obsidian presented their ideas for a sequel, multiple times, but were always shot down. Even something simple like a remaster is very unlikely.
Still have a physical copy for my PS3. Clunky at times but I had a lot of fun with it back in the day.
The Evil Within, Ghostwire: Tokyo and Hi-Fi Rush studio has closed its doors.
Ninja theory. Others will follow as well. The smaller studios MS owns should all be worried. Maybe MS will try and release some of their games day and date on ps5 to save some of these studios.
I can see Ninja Theory. At least Tango made a game that was reviewed well. Ninja Theory spent a lot of years to release a tech demo that didn’t do well at all.
I get it that Hellblade 2 is a boring game, but I hope they are not the next to be closed.
@repssahj
Ninja Theory is likely on the chopping block too. They released Bleeding Edge which bombed, took 4 years to release Hellbalde 2 which doesn’t seem to be doing well, and still have Project Mara in limbo. They’re high on the chopping block.
MS was likely expecting their God of War / Uncharted quality game from NT based on Heavenly Sword, Enslaved, DmC, and to an extent Hellblade 1, but NT hasn’t delivered since Hellblade 1 which was 7 years ago.
3 trillion MS is worth, yet they do this, well Phil the shit bag did. No studio needed to be let go, when you are worth this much.
Sad, but I see characters and posters of either less than average or barely average games.
Have to disagree here duder, with respect. Evil Within was a good game and the sequel was fantastic, as was HiFi Rush. I'd concede Ghostwire was pretty average but regardless, shuttering a studio which just put out MS best game in donkeys years was complete shithousery on XBox' part.
Microsoft paid 8B to buy Zenimax then fired well over 1000 people from Zenimax between the time they closed the deal and they announced these shut downs.
People talk about the 1900 they fired most recently, but that was only one wave of three sets of layoffs from their gaming division so far this generation totalling around 5000 people this generation. Not counting the dozen plus studios they canned last gen including Lionhead the original Fable developers.
By every real metric HiFi was an average game. I don't see an Evil within poster in the thumb, which is a shame, because if they threw their weight behind that IP, they might have still been around.
I don't understand how you can say it was average in every metric when it garnered the reviews it did?
Bulletstorm gunplay was great, the problem was the lousy story and useless cussing.
Binary domain was great but the stupid achievements and empty online ruined it for me.
Shadow of the damned was amazing although they should really tone down the puzzles if they ever made a sequel.
Yakuza series should be packed for the Ps4. Nuff said.
Splinter Cell Blacklist was amazing and piss me off that they put much more attention to AC than this game.
The Evil Within will most likely get a sequel since it sold more than three million copies and i think that is higher than Dead Space 1 and it got a trilogy and hopefully a fourth part is in production.
Remember Me
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
Rage
DmC: Devil May Cry
First off, I, personally, didn't like Evolve because the lack of true story as well as repetitive gameplay. Second, Mirrors edge 2 was already announced.
I don't know if it's underrated or not, but… Freedom Fighters!
Lost Oddysee is the only good one there, the rest are bland, and DmC absolutely f*****' sucks. Horrible list, F.