At least we will get another Fallout from the hands of Obsidian right? Right?

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[–] 233 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"I wonder what will happen if we put all of our eggs in the same basket?" - Famous basket-dropper.

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    [–] 155 points 1 week ago (40 children)

    Activision in charge of Halo? That's a deathblow if ever I heard one.

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    [–] 82 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Microsoft Is the worst thing that ever happened to computers

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    [–] 49 points 1 week ago

    Fallout with ads from Obsidian.

    There's no saving these IPs now.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

    Holy moly.

    That is basically the worst case scenario, no?

    • The absolute last thing Obsidian needs is Bethesda presiding over them. Bethesda (the publisher) is pure toxicity, and don’t they hate Obsidian?

    • They should have given Obsidian TES/Fallout, and folded Bethesda into Obsidian as a studio to farm work out to. BGS has some great level design teams, but the decision makers need to go.

    • The absolute last thing Halo campaigns need is to be more like Call of Duty.

    • They should have cut 343, and split the IP amongst specialized studios. Like an Arkane “special ops” stealth game, another Halo Wars, and/or a strictly multiplayer Activision game.

    This is beyond even my worst expectations. It’s what I would have done if I was a corporate spy inside Microsoft, assigned to sabotage them.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Its not even close to the worst thing. The worst thing was letting 343 "Halo Studios" keep Halo.

    At worst, we just get another bad Halo game. But with entirely different people working on it, at least there is a chance it could be better. Under 343 "Halo Studios" it had no chances of being good.

    Activision is a publisher, they don't only make Call of Duty. They have a large variety of games they publish, including Blizzard's Overwatch, which while one can argue doesn't fit the Halo gameplay, proves that Activision has the capacity to publish FPS games that feel almost nothing like Call of Duty.

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    [–] 44 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    These fuckers won't rest until there's nothing good left to play and all that's left are multiplayer only games that cost $100 up front and still need several microtransactions a day forever in order to be in any way playable 😮‍💨🤬

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago

    You’re missing one major step. It’ll be 100 up front plus a monthly fee to your cloud gaming access to be able to play the game until they decide you don’t get the license to play it anymore and they take it away. You will own nothing and like it.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    As I remember, back in the 90s, the CEO of Activision hated video games.

    So of course that zombie of a company is still fucking up gaming.

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    A good time to mention that Xbox (and boycotting Game Pass especially) is one of a dozen or so priority targets chosen by the Palestinian BDS Movement beecause they're vulnerable and Microsoft's cloud computing services are so vital for "Israel's" military and prison system

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  • [–] 36 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    Halo to become Call of Duty In Space in 3...

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    [–] 35 points 1 week ago (9 children)

    What exactly is their plan? Just collect IPs so they aren't being released on other platforms?

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    [–] 33 points 1 week ago (31 children)

    From what I've heard, Bethesda and Obsidian have always been great places to work. I hope Microsoft isn't ruining that for the devs. Hopefully the increasing union presence in Microsoft will bring worker interests back into consideration.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I imagine Bethesda hasn't been fun to work for for a good 10 years now.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago

    Word is that NOBODY wanted to make starfield other than Todd Howard. Apparently once whispers of being bought happened, he wanted that game out because he knew Microsoft would never allow them waste time on something that isn't elder scrolls or fallout.

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    [–] 32 points 1 week ago (12 children)

    Deck chairs on the Titanic.

    I honestly believe that Xbox will stop existing as a company in a few years.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    Yeah, Asha Sharma seems to be set up as an example of the glass cliff. She's clearly trying to bail out a sinking ship rather than revitalize a stale brand. Giving Halo to Activision shows a misunderstanding of what Halo players want, but the other things she's doing are things that probably could have helped five or more years ago, but are just too late now. We're probably heading toward a repeat of the 1983 crash. Xbox and PlayStation might still be around after, but they'll be in the position that Atari and Sega were after the crash, with their remaining market share evaporating the instant a new competitor arrives.

    Meanwhile, so long as Nintendo just keeps doing what they've been doing they should be fine. I could see them phasing out game key cards as an option for devs if the digital only backlash on the next generation is bad enough, but they might not have to given that the publishers that have been using them are the ones most likely to implode.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Honestly, Nintendo is in such a good position to pick up serious market share from Sony and Xbox. It's insane that just making actual games that aren't riddled with crap and not insta firing everyone who works for you is enough to be the clear front runner.

    I wonder if, like Sega and Atari, there will be someone to swoop in and take market share here. I worry it's a Meta or someone with a terrible spyware product.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Can't wait for Fallout 5: Skyrim Crossover Edition.

    Turns out Heimskr was working with the Thalmor the whole time and after Ulfric captured Hoover Dam, the Khajit Commonwealth just said "fuck it" and nuked everyone.

    Well, it was skooma spiked with Nuka Cola.

    The Radskeevers are everywhere and are a pain to kill.

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    [–] 26 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Activision is also overseeing Age of Empires as well... Couldn't let Sony outshine you in "who can shoot themselves in the foot hardest" could you?

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    [–] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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    [–] 25 points 1 week ago

    Wow. This is what happens when you put someone without game industry experience in charge of your game division. Incredibly stupid decisions all around.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    at least double fine got out... well i don't want to say "before" microsoft started gutting everything but at least they got out

    also daily reminder that the xbucks you spend on xbox fund genocide

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    [–] 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    So is Halo Studios/343 just.....dead now? Seems like they're dead if they don't have Halo. Kind of in their name.

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    [–] 21 points 1 week ago

    well, R.I.P. Elder Scrolls 6.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago

    Mainstream is dead

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Nooo not Obsidian! Fuck off, Microsoft.

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    [–] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Rip obsidian, I enjoyed pillars, avowed, and pentiment

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    [–] 17 points 1 week ago

    Lol, smells like desperation from here.

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