Thread 717520427

Was announced in 2021 from Avalanche Studios (Just Cause)

I don’t remember this game, let me guess it had a black sassy woman as the mc?

>>717521259
No we literally only saw a CG trailer of a car in a garage. It was going to be a live service heist game from the JC devs, companies are all cancelling live service shit en masse right now so no shit lol.

Is Sony really still going to shit Marathon, Fairgames and Gummy Bears out?

>>717520427 (OP)
>Contraband
Who?

>>717521402
>live service

oh dear how sad nevermind

>>717520427 (OP)
>Avalanche Studios

they haven't released anything since Rage 2 in 2019, so what the FUCK are they doing now?

Is Fable going to be cancelled? It was delayed to 2026, and then we've heard nothing which isn't a good sign. It may be delayed to 2027 and outright cancelled.

>>717522208
Collecting a paycheck and wondering why no one at Microsoft has asked them what they've been doing the last 4 years.

>>717522208
I was about to say Just Cause 4, but holy fuck, that was fucking 2018.
What the fuck has the western AAA/AA industry been doing since ~2019? They haven't put out a fucking thing, just a ton of cancelled projects and delays since 2023 or so.

>>717522208
Aren't they owned by Warner Blows?

>>717522306
State of Decay 3 will be next.

>>717522410
a little something called the COVID-19 Pandemic fucked up the world in 2020. you may have heard your parents talking about it

>>717522306
Probably. They have to have some new executives or something that hates sunk cost stuff, which i agree with.
Cancel all this crap, close down all these studios. Let the industry burn, it needs it to survive. Have a Noah and an ark. Start video games anew.
Good for the businesses too since I bet Microsoft has just been eating all these losses for the past decade. Imagine AAA developers making games people actually want with the current technology.

>>717522758
Weird, it sure hasn't put nearly as much of a damper on Asia's gaming output.

>Avalanche Studios
They didn't make a game since Rage 2 and their last good game was Mad Max in 2015.
It's probably just a walking corpse filled with trannies and woke hires at this point.

>>717522817
>mobile trash
>"""""gaming""""" output

What the fuck is Contraband?
>live service
And nothing of value was lost.

>>717522910
I loved the combat in Rage 2. Shame you almost never had a huge horde to fight like in Doom. Instead it was mostly outposts with like 10 mooks in it

>>717523042
wasnt there like a huge sand worm too? I thought that was cool

>>717520427 (OP)
Xbox still hasn't made one game is impressive.
>>717522306
Nu Fable looks like shit and Fable 3 was terrible too. Hopefully it's canceled nobody seems to want to play it

>>717520427 (OP)
>blue cry
faggot

>>717522306
this shit is dead on arrival anyways, what made old fable good is the fantasy style, and now it is this DEI mutt.

>Xbox canceling a game instead of publishing it
In the last 15 years they've done this more than the inverse

>Contraband: A co-op smuggler’s paradise set in the fictional world of 1970s Bayan.

I don't remember ever reading about this being a live service game.

>>717522758
Anon, COVID 19 at least impacted AAA games from like 2019 - 2022, and mainly in terms of mocap due to safety regulations. We’re long past that point and as one anon mentioned, it didn’t seem to impact companies in Asia that badly. Hell even companies in Poland like the studio behind Robocop, Bloober Team with their Silent Hill and Chronos project, and CD Projekt are doing fine. Even Remedy in Finland are able to work on and put out multiple games despite having an extremely niche fanbase that takes upwards of a year to profit from, the same just can’t be said for most of the AAA industry.

>>717522758
amerimutts reeling from the effects of wuhan flu more than the people of wuhan china

>>717520427 (OP)
>kike twitter user
why you posting this OP?

>>717521828
I fucking hope so, I want Sony to go bankrupt
Still pissed that SEGA cancelled Hyenas

How is it to work for these Microsoft owned companies? They literally haven't realesed anything worth a damn in almost a decade. Do they just sit around and do nothing?

>>717527348
>How is it to work for these Microsoft owned companies?
I worked on another cancelled game and it's pretty comfy t b h.

Thank you Phil
Bringing more than hype, bringing laughs

>>717522775
>They have to have some new executives or something that hates sunk cost stuff, which i agree with.

They saw Concord come out, and sink, and likely got cold feet on these projects.

>Cancel all this crap, close down all these studios. Let the industry burn, it needs it to survive. Have a Noah and an ark. Start video games anew.

The fact is there's probably too many games, too many studios, and not enough customers. Many major games post 2010 stick around forever if they have online elements, liek Fortnite, Robox, Minecraft, etc and little kids love that shit.

>>717522413
that's avalanche software
i got confused by that too for a hot sec

>>717527348
Yeah, that's why they're all getting canceled/fired.

>>717527348
>"We felt that, while Nathan Drake’s first three adventures from the PlayStation 3 console still stand the test of time narratively, they would require a major overhaul visually to stand-up to modern PC releases and the expectations players may have," the studio wrote.

You will get a Uncharted trilogy demake changed for modern californian sensibilities and you will be happy

>>717520427 (OP)
WTF? I bought an Xbox just for this game!

are these fucking businessmen who said lives service is the future also losing their jobs?

>>717520427 (OP)
Xbox and Nintendo, the cancer of the gaming industry.
It's impossible for MS to go bankrupt but at least we'll be here to piss on Nintendo's carcass.

>>717520427 (OP)
>get as much money as you want and years to make a game
>don't make game
>don't even manage to shit out a trailer
>get axed
Good. This is exactly what I want from xbox. Cut all the lazy fucks who can't release a goddamn game while studios like Obsidian keep firing them one after another.

>>717523486
>Xbox still hasn't made one game is impressive.
Avowed, SoM, Doom and Grounded 2 all released this year. We still got GoW and Indiana Johnes DLC coming but Hellblade 2 also just got a super hard mode that also makes the lie of the game ending rot from the first an actual real mechanic.

It was on the list

>>717532195
Literally every game in this picture flopped lol, what a mess

Good

>>717532293
alan wake 2 didn't

>>717532446
>During the meeting, the company disclosed the sales figures for Alan Wake 2, revealing that the sequel has sold 1.8 million copies since its release on October 27 last year and still has not recouped its production costs.

It's the one that flopped the hardest

>>717532195
Good lord, what a horrible track record these people have.
These days, if your company hires any consultants of any kind, all it tells me is that your company is shit and your devs suck ass.

>>717522208
XD

>>717532446
considering how much they spent to buy the goty award from geoff it's pretty funny that they still weren't able to turn a profit.

>>717532446
cope harder egs shill

>>717532507
old news thoughbeit
>December 2024: Alan Wake 2 sales exceeded 2 million units and the game started to accrue royalties

>>717532507
see >>717532932

Is JC3 worth playing? I never finished JC2 and am in the mood for more silly exploding

>>717532507
>>717532826
acktuchtually they began earning royalties, so it officially turned a profit. massively successful, it only took 2 years of industry-wide astroturfing

>>717532975
It's pretty good. I don't remember anything about the story, though i liked 2's map more JC3 was still fun. Never tried 4.

>>717533087
>I don't remember anything about the story
Not surprising, it's just about liberating some nation after all
JC2's map was fine in principle but I did get bored after 20 hours or so cause you just blow up copypasted bases and villages. I assume 3 will be the same but 20 hours of fun is good enough for me

>>717520427 (OP)
Contraband Police already exists.

>>717521828
>Xbox cancels a game
>BUT SNOY!
Fucking seek help.

>>717521402
>companies are all cancelling live service shit en masse right now so no shit lol.
His influence reaches far.

>>717520427 (OP)
It doesn’t sound like they were very committed to it if they announced it just cause

>>717527348
I assume you just get shifted around the company a lot if you're not working on a big brand title. Sounds like ass honestly.

>>717532195
OOF. I'm interested in Battle Shapers tho.

>>717520427 (OP)
Wasn't this game revealed with like a sweeping shot of a bunch of smuggling gear in a car as a teaser video then nothing was ever said of it again?

>microsoft finally figured out we never intended to release anything

many such cases

Now I am understanding why they were so adamant on forcing always online games and live service games. That combined with the new ID garbage shit = everybody getting compromised and information stolen/life ruined.

>absolute nothing trailer in 2021 and then complete radio silence

the definition of vaporware

>>717520427 (OP)
Cost of doing business has only gone up while profit margins have only gone down since 2021. Having something to show for it even if only to management is incomparably worse than having a timeline that they've been able to stick to. Only one of these results in having money in hand on X date even if they never (or have no intention of) profit.sjhj8

>>717538864
It's insane how many fucking projects they funded where no one is working on anything. How did it take them this long to notice?

>>717522306
Pretty sure Microsoft are in the process of cancelling everything that's not close to hitting alpha, just in waves. If it's not there by the end of the year it'll be cancelled. Merry Christmas fabletards.

>>717520427 (OP)
LMAOOO good keep canceling

>>717542846
Probably going to cancel anything remotely interesting and stick to normie shit to ride out this shit economy until the orange pedophile is gone and it stabilizes.

>>717529892
Sony went third party. Seethe harder faggotsnoy

xbox has cancelled more games and studios and done more layoffs than actually released games that people have enjoyed. Hi-Fi Rush, Indian Jones the Great Circle and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are the only highly rated games they have. Everything else has been either mid or a complete disaster.

>>717524282
>Anon, COVID 19 at least impacted AAA games from like 2019 - 2022, and mainly in terms of mocap due to safety regulations
No, it was also because WFH does not work unless you can properly manage a team remotely. Communication is key for development and there's only so much a zoom meeting can achieve every other day.

>>717522306
The devs are retards. They missed the point that the Fable games were power fantasy games. No one wants to play as a female let alone an ugly one. The old Fable games let you marry and have kids with attractive big tit women. No shit the trailers for the new Fable game has had massive downvotes and negative post.