Perfect Dark

[J4MES OX4D 10,276]

Not sure if this is a remake or a new game but hopefully it’ll be better than the last. The original on the N64 was magnificent for its time and it was great to revisit it again on the 360 arcade

 

[phil bottle 10,057]

11 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:

Not sure if this is a remake or a new game but hopefully it’ll be better than the last. The original on the N64 was magnificent for its time and it was great to revisit it again on the 360 arcade

 

The original on the N64 was very underrated. It had multiplayer with bots. I had to get an expansion pack to play it. Goldeneye on steroids.

[phil bottle 10,057]

From what I just read, it has nothing to do with the original game, other than using the USP.  

 

[J4MES OX4D 10,276]

2 hours ago, phil bottle said:

The original on the N64 was very underrated. It had multiplayer with bots. I had to get an expansion pack to play it. Goldeneye on steroids.

Soundtrack was awesome too even compressed plus it was probably one of only a few games on the N64 that had voice acting due to the cartridge capacity. The lighting effects were amazing too even to this day. 

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[WelchyTV 484]

1 hour ago, J4MES OX4D said:

 

I think this looks really cool! I have no history with Perfect Dark but I’m definitely interested in this one! It definitely has the potential to be one those games that looks a lot better than it actually plays, but I’m hopeful it’ll be a good time! 

[GazzaGarratt 11,219]

The last one on Xbox 360 that came out with the console at launch looked amazing at the time but the gameplay and shooting was really poor. It does have that similar feeling, looks visually decent but that gunplay didn't fill me with any confidence it will be any better than the one years ago. Lets see what the reviews say when they come out. I feel like it will drop in the sale very quickly, but I hope I'm wrong for the developers sake.

[J4MES OX4D 10,276]

1 hour ago, GazzaGarratt said:

The last one on Xbox 360 that came out with the console at launch looked amazing at the time but the gameplay and shooting was really poor. It does have that similar feeling, looks visually decent but that gunplay didn't fill me with any confidence it will be any better than the one years ago. Lets see what the reviews say when they come out. I feel like it will drop in the sale very quickly, but I hope I'm wrong for the developers sake.

Perfect Dark on the 360 was a monumental disappointment. I think they should've remade the original but I'm still interested to see what a new game will bring. 

[J4MES OX4D 10,276]

Perfect Dark has been cancelled and the studio closed down. Feel very sorry for multi-billionaires Microsoft as this is clearly a very difficult time for them financially🙄

Microsoft cancels the Perfect Dark reboot that blew us away last year, closes developer The Initiative | PC Gamer

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Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees today, and cancellations and closures are following.

 

[phil bottle 10,057]

23 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:

Perfect Dark has been cancelled and the studio closed down. Feel very sorry for multi-billionaires Microsoft as this is clearly a very difficult time for them financially🙄

Microsoft cancels the Perfect Dark reboot that blew us away last year, closes developer The Initiative | PC Gamer

WWW.PCGAMER.COM

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Microsoft laid off 9,000 employees today, and cancellations and closures are following.

 

It's amazing how these companies who continue to make massive profits manage to persuade people that this behaviour is normal. 

[J4MES OX4D 10,276]

Xbox's Executive Producer of Publishing has suggested that the 9,000 employees affected by layoffs should seek solace in using AI to recover their plight. I've been studying LinkdIn cringe a lot lately and this surprisingly is one of the most normal posts on there but at the same time, it's laughably offensive at what is a very difficult time for a lot of talented people who have been persistently let down by the higher-ups before given the chop.  

[Tar-Eruntalion 522]

this one was the only upcoming game that looked promising enough and seemed the gameplay followed the deus ex/dishonored formula but sadly we can't have nice things, it's a pity

[Gunner_123 3]

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Xbox's Executive Producer of Publishing has suggested that the 9,000 employees affected by layoffs should seek solace in using AI to recover their plight. I've been studying LinkdIn cringe a lot lately and this surprisingly is one of the most normal posts on there but at the same time, it's laughably offensive at what is a very difficult time for a lot of talented people who have been persistently let down by the higher-ups before given the chop.  

 

Meanwhile, some browser-based turn-based games from the 2000s are still alive and well: portal.sacralium.game. Maybe they should be running Xbox.

 

it’d be so cool if Arkane or Eidos picked it up and made it their own...

[phil bottle 10,057]

Microsoft eh, raking in the profits and lying through their teeth. Closing the ESO studio, which had made them £2 billion is quite tge statement 👏

[J4MES OX4D 10,276]

9 hours ago, phil bottle said:

Microsoft eh, raking in the profits and lying through their teeth. Closing the ESO studio, which had made them £2 billion is quite tge statement 👏

Krafton as well this week sacked their entire leadership team from Subnautica 2 because the development into early access was 'going too slow' despite the team having two previous and highly successful projects on their books executed the same way and self-published. Just like Kerbal Space Program 2, the game will probably fail miserably and everyone will walk away. 

 

These scumbag publishers just ain't got a clue. 

[MrBiron 1,489]

Another video game crash can't come soon enough IMO.

These big publishers seem to think that gamers have an unlimited amount of money so they promise shareholders that profits will climb every year. Which obviously isn't possible as there are only a limited amount of players and money. This means that when profits don't go up they sack staff to save money. It's not even unbelievable that MS can sack staff and then Phil Spencer bangs on about how great they're doing as it's just the norm now. It's very believable that they did it.

[J4MES OX4D 10,276]

4 hours ago, MrBiron said:

Another video game crash can't come soon enough IMO.

These big publishers seem to think that gamers have an unlimited amount of money so they promise shareholders that profits will climb every year. Which obviously isn't possible as there are only a limited amount of players and money. This means that when profits don't go up they sack staff to save money. It's not even unbelievable that MS can sack staff and then Phil Spencer bangs on about how great they're doing as it's just the norm now. It's very believable that they did it.

I actually think he's worse than Don Mattrick now - he only butchered one console, but Spencer is literally playing Russian roulette with every decision they make and as you say, shamefully bragging about the success in literally the next paragraph after statementing a commercial travesty. Phil was popular because he was seen as more of a gamer than a corporate, but now he's immensely unpopular and can't even be seen as a scapegoat because it's all his doing. 

 

Huge acquisitions of Bethesda and Activision that wont even pay themselves off in my lifetime and having to penny-pinch against the very developers they proport to support to keep game pass relevant is just a total shit show to behold. The problem is they want desperately one console generation where they get ahead of Sony and they just can't come close and now everyone, from developers to the consumers is suffering. Sony ain't doing much better as they will likely burn a billion on dead live service projects in a decade at the expense of many exclusives but Microsoft are the ones that are gutting their gaming division to save money through bad choices they have made. 

 

How they fuck up so hard after the 360 I will never know. 

[Gunner_123 3]

3 hours ago, J4MES OX4D said:

I actually think he's worse than Don Mattrick now - he only butchered one console, but Spencer is literally playing Russian roulette with every decision they make and as you say, shamefully bragging about the success in literally the next paragraph after statementing a commercial travesty. Phil was popular because he was seen as more of a gamer that a corporate, but now he's immensely unpopular and can't even be seen as a scapegoat because it's all his doing. 

 

Huge acquisitions of Bethesda and Activision that wont even pay themselves off in my lifetime and having to penny-pinch against the very developers they proport to support to keep game pass relevant is just a total shit show to behold. The problem is they want desperately one console generation where they get ahead of Sony and they just can't come close and now everyone, from developers to the consumers is suffering. Sony ain't doing much better as they will likely burn a billion on dead live service projects in a decade at the expense of many exclusives but Microsoft are the ones that are gutting their gaming division to save money through bad choices they have made. 

 

How they fuck up so hard after the 360 I will never know. 

You nailed it. The Phil Spencer honeymoon is long over. The ‘gamer-first’ image doesn’t hold up anymore when layoffs and closures follow every ‘success.

[J4MES OX4D 10,276]

Another major name in the industry has spoken out against the game pass and then own employer. It's good for consumers short-term when there's a game worth playing for but developers, it's a travesty and I would love to find out how many games have actually become profitable at less than $1 an install. Imagine working 4 years on a game and then being buried on the game pass and having just 30,000 play your game and your studio doesn't even break even. The same game could've easily achieved 300,000 sales at full price as a standalone and marketing. With Bethesda and Activision propping up the pass and driving prices up, smaller games and devs are going to be forgotten about which has already happened and ultimately MS makes no money. I don't think the Game Pass has seen growth in years either.