VP of the Assassin's Creed brand Marc-Alexis Côté ; teased some big Anvil Engine advances coming in Red and Hexe and vowed more sustainable development cycles.
Vapourware can end up being the stuff of legend, like Rockstar's Agent, Star Wars 1313, or StarCraft: Ghost. Without ever seeing the light of day, these games never risked the possibility of being played and forgotten, and instead live on forever as the subjects of lengthy YouTube essays.
Still, Molyneux's most notable lost game (or tech demo, depending on who you asked at the time) was arguably Project Milo.
I can see the potential of the kinect hardware... its rather impressive tech, but it was just not meant to be for gaming. If anything, MS had a huge missed opportunity to have used it for the AR/VR projects.
"Unfortunately, as we were developing Milo, so the Kinect device was being developed. And they realised that the device that Alex Kipman first showed off would cost $5,000 for consumers to buy.
"So they cost-reduced that device down to such a point, where the field-of-view...I think it was a minuscule field-of-view. In other words, it could only just see what's straight in front of you."
Hmm, exactly what tech was in it, that was cut, affected the development? It was only ever interpreting visual and audio inputs right? The xbox was processing those inputs.
Nor do I see how the field of view thing is relevant to the discussion.
Star Wars Battlefront 3 was in development at Pandemic Studios, but LucasArts wanted the team to make the game in just one year.
Sounds about right. They were rushed while making the second game. Not hard to imagine that trend continued with it's ill fated follow-up.
I actually really liked the first Battlefront. Its charm was that it was so simple and basic. It felt like a really well made modernised old school shooter. Ignoring all the COD style BS that took over all other games.
I absolutely loved Battlefront 2 as well but I enjoyed Battlefront 1 for its simplicity.
The director of InZOI claims that major viral glitches like kidnapping are very problematic but they're the cause of freedom.
AC Unity in 2014 showcased what the Ubi tech devs can do with rendering ... hope we get another Unity 2.0 jaw dropper.
I have been wonder about the engine. It's changed a lot over the years. I remember them being really proud and promoting AC3 by talking about the new Anvil Next engine.
One of the best systems they've developed is the revolutionary Neural Learned Motion Matching System. Not a single developer apart from Rockstar North so far has achieved the versatility of their locomotion system.