If it was that easy for Phil Spencer to force studios to make certain games for certain IPs (which isn't actually a good thing), we would've gotten Voodoo Vince 2 by now
>>733634491Is that tung tung sahur?
>>733634491I wish they just made age of empires 4>but they didOh yeah thats right.i havent tried it yet. Is it any good?
>>733634536yea it's good
>>733634491Is that dude sticking a needle into his ass
>>733634491>force studios to make certain games for certain IPs (which isn't actually a good thing)Everything new sucks so it's a good thing. I wish someone had forced Kojima to keep making Metal Gear Solid so i didn't have to play his gay art faggy shit funded by Sony. Or the this shitty horror game that Microsoft is funding.Speaking of which: if Phil Spencer is not overseeing things anymore then who is dealing with his Microsoft game? will it be forgotten about in this transition?
I think they were at a hard crossroads.Either push for fast releases with smaller games or finance big AAA games that take 5 to 8 years to make and still can end up not being that great. With just faster releases it would mean higher chances of actually good games but it would give the idea that xbox was now just a console for smaller indie like titles.I do think that there was an easier way to handle the AAA releases with the big IPs they already owned, and they did fail at that. Halo went to shit even when trying to go back to the roots (but fuck that since it was open world, no coop, no forge, one biome...), Gears stayed dead outside of Gears Tactics (actually good game but it's not that game that is gonna hype the console), Forza either losing quality or Horizon just being a constant repeat...The mentality should have been to go back to 2000 to 2010 mentality of dudebro content to at least solidify a foundation, and then spread from there with indies and smaller games to push the creativity
>>733635187Yeah, that's his gimmickHe's a Voodoo DollHe literally harms himself to harm others
>>733634536I'd say it's pretty good but it's more run-of-the-mill in design than the older games were for their time. I also hate they didn't do a schizo psudo-historical narrative campaign like AoE3 had.
>>733635467Kojima would've just double down on sabotaging Metal Gear if he was forced to make more of itSnake and Otacon were supposed to die in MGS4
>>733635467>Speaking of which: if Phil Spencer is not overseeing things anymore then who is dealing with his Microsoft game?There's still Craig Duncan I think Ken Lobb also works with outside studios for Microsoft published games as well
