Microsoft has potentially interesting projects because I like Platinum Games, I like Remedy (on some level), and I want to believe Inafune and Mark Pacini (metroid prime director) know their shit.
Problem?
-Platinum Games isn't Microsoft first party and Kamiya doesn't do sequels. So there is no real guarantee Platinum will make another MS game unless Scalebound sells BUCKETS, which come on. Plus we've yet to see gameplay
-Remedy's last game: Alan Wake I don't think is that good. It's okay, it has some neat story beats because Sam Lake is cool. But writing wise he had some off moments with that game, and the gameplay was barely above average. The newest game looks super easy and makes the player come off over powered and broken. In a genre that's not all that interesting, I still don't really get what they are going for from a gameplay perspective with QB, because I'd like it to be good.
-Recore: We've seen no gameplay. Inafune was a producer not a creator, and they have yet to produce a good game there yet (might change this September). Armachair studios while potentially rushed with Batman Blackgate, still technically made one game, and said one game was a bad game. An atrocious game.
-Crackdown 3 - no gameplay, we barely know anything about the studio, and unless it builds on the greater potential of Crackdown it could end up a dime a dozen open world game. I want a Sandbox game, give me that.
After that you have
more Halo
more Gears
more Forza
more Fable
Which for anyone on this forum that ever uses the terms
more fucking Mario
more fucking Zelda
more fucking Uncharted
more fucking God of War
I would argue that same logic would apply here. Not saying they will be bad games, and not even saying I won't buy them (I won't buy fable, **** that, or God of War most likely), but those franchises are a bit stale and long in the tooth, and if the studios don't make major shifts to the gameplay, I'm not expecting anything special from that bunch.
Microsoft's funding interesting project, I'm happy about that, but they haven't built a first party until those games come out and deliver.
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