Ex-Days Gone director supports Bend Studio after the cancellation of its live-service project, stating that devs sometimes have no choice.
Marathon has always been teetered on the edge of future failure, but now that seems set in stone after recent events.
Paul Tassi is a known xbox/MS stooge.
Saying that, Marathon looks so meh to me, absolutely no interest at all.
Once he wrote an article characterizing Horizon Forbidden West, which came out over a year after the PS5 released, as a PS5 "launch game." Assuming this was just a mistake, I pointed out to him that "launch games" for a console are widely understood to be the games that come out on the day of a console's launch or in the immediate window thereafter. He responded and told me that he understood "launch game" to mean a game that launches, which would mean that every game that releases on a console is a "launch game" for that console.
I've basically ignored everything he has said since then. But I don't care about Marathon either way; playing Hunt: Showdown turned me off this genre pretty much.
If I was running Sony why would I not try to have bungie reboot Killzone and have it as their Halo. Honestly I don't know how Sony could justify that 3.6 billion purchase price. Insomniac games at 256 million has been their greatest acquisition in Playstation history for what they have already delivered and what's the pipeline
The smart money would have given them killzone but they brought them to be a pillar of their live services investment and seeming have no interest in allowing them near a single player story driven game again.
The bigger mistake imo is not having them do any SP projects. Just all LS stuff.
Also want to clear up some misinformation on my part about Marathon. It wasn't due to creative differences as to why Jade left it was due to early internal Play tests were reportedly not received very well. Which probably prompted her to leave. My fault on that.
It does look like ass shit.
Would pulling the plug now make any difference or is Bungie thoroughly cooked regardless?
The saga of the legal battle that sees Epic Games fight Apple in the attempt to bring Fortnite back to iOS has just gained another chapter.
A once bustling space offering plenty of choices, now a desolate land of greed, did EA really kill the sports game genre?
They made them better than everyone else at first. Once no one was playing any of the inferior options, they turned the investors loose on the customers.
I don’t blame Bend or Bluepoint. This reeks of management trying to fit a circle where a square should be.
Hopefully they revisit Days Gone 2 (without the muiltplayer pitch they originally went with)
Management is the issue and of course the bootlickers.
i swear, we are not even a month into the new year, and that guy is still talking about this.
Why is everyone so shocked by this? John Garvin is a writer, he wrote Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Days Gone, it's WHAT HE DOES! The fact he says: I guess we'll go back to making single-player games like he's pouting shows there's something seriously wrong in the industry and there's a puppet master pulling the strings. What writer pens a solid LSG? Said nobody EVER! He should be happy he's back to work penning a solid treatment for an amazing story-driven game, that's what PlayStation DOES! Xbox does LSGs because that's what they're trying to sell you, Xbox Live. Remember when Sony dragged their feet to make PSN competitive and eventually charged for it when it was free all along? Because they were focused on solid single-player story driven games.
Gamers have been telling devs FOREVER they don't want LSGs on PlayStation but it's like that same puppet master is willing to fight against the current to try and tell gamers they actually want LSGs, like he wants to save an immense amount of money to put in the effort to try and brainwash his customers into taking the red pill they don't want to swallow. Someone is making a lot of effort behind the curtain to move the needle and change the trajectory of the gaming industry, and it's toward the sun to burn up. Microtransactions are like setting a gambling addict loose in a casino. They don't care how he winds up, they just want his pocket change. They have the disclaimer to silence the anti-gamblers, but they don't want to help him, they just want his money. That's what this is. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" they say, but that could be deceiving as well, there could be a woman behind the curtain. A Sarah Bond type that doesn't know anything about gaming, all business and wants to run the industry from a business perspective with a business mind put into place as a publicity stunt, not an actual resume that qualifies her for the job. Come on, a woke company hiring a BLACK, FEMALE, EXECUTIVE! She's got a business degree from Harvard and Yale. Privileged up the uterus and no history, whatsoever, in gaming and she's head of Xbox? At least when Tom Kalinske entered the business at SEGA, he was making Barbie and Heman toys, he knew how kids thought was well aware of what his company with doing with Intellivision so he knew and say and talked with the gaming guys, he just hasn't seen 16 but tech until SEGA, but, Sarah Bond that knows nothing about games is dictating how your future gaming life goes based on trends plagued by casual gamers? No wonder Xbox is going the direction it's going. Nadella also needed a YES MAN (woman) in the driver seat that wouldn't fight his plan and Bond was the perfect transplant. Someone naive enough to just do whatever he was told. A tool. Just like Herman Hulst. Difference is, Hulst has a history in gaming, and a good one with Guerilla Games which is where they should have left him, the. guerilla would've only gone the LSG route and failed and learned from those poor choices instead of all of PlayStation suffering from it.
There's a major problem in gaming. Someone moving around in there is a cancer infecting and causing major damage that needs to be stopped