Everwild completely rebooted and targets 2024 - Gregg Mayles has taken over the project

[Boosted_Gear]

@ProgStopper

And you fucking love to see it.

High five!

[ProgStopper]

Lol I don’t even know what thread I’m in.

I thought I posted all this in the XGS thread.

[SuikerBrood]

@SlaveZR0

The Playground games statement was just a separate idea.

My main point is that it’s probably a good time to take barrel of burning money that we call Rare, shut it down and invest in studios with proven talent. I have no idea what MS books looks like, but maybe they have Playground and Rare as the same line item on the balance sheet and it doesn’t matter what they do. I have no idea. But in terms of output, Rare is like the Dallas Cowboys of developers. A mediocre team that’s popular due to past heritage.

Alright. First this is very disrespectful to the developers and second it’s also complete nonsense. I don’t know where to begin…

[SlaveZR0]

@Boosted_Gear

Oh my god. So one of the studios that gave Xbox one of the most successfull and creative IP the previous gen should be absorbed just because a new project didn’t pan out the way they wanted ?

Just no. It happens more often than we think, especially with creative new games that want to do things differently.

I acknowledged Sea of Thieves. But my point is what have they done outside of that? Who knows, MS has a ton of One Franchise Studios. If Sea of Thieves can maintain a double-digit million userbase, maybe they become the Sea of Thieves studio.

[gremlinzzzz]

@SlaveZR0

Yeah, you’re right. This is Anthem with cooler heads in charge with balls enough to say “We need to fix this.”

Phil has got to be pissed with these guys. If Sea of Thieves flopped, I’m a firm believer that Rare would have gone the way of Lionhead.

These guys really need to be absorbed into Playground Games.

Rare has had Sea of Thieves that has been played by 20 million. Prior to that, they were one of the developers that made kinect an insane add on.

They may mess around here and there, but they are a hugely successful studio.

[Biggzy (Hassan)]

@BadNews

I just hope they keep the art style because that is what made the game look interesting imo

Same here. It was gorgeous and I am sure they have art assets lying around that they can use.

[Boosted_Gear]

@SlaveZR0

I acknowledged Sea of Thieves. But my point is what have they done outside of that? Who knows, MS has a ton of One Franchise Studios. If Sea of Thieves can maintain a double-digit million userbase, maybe they become the Sea of Thieves studio.

Rare is the Sea of Thieves studio, and they also have the right to work on other franchises. Then you could also criticize Epic for doing only Fortnite and I don’t see anybody calling them the Fortnite studio. Or even Activision as a whole since they put all their studios on COD now.

[javycane (Javier Ruiz)]

I think reboot is a strong word because Im sure the scope of the game has changed and they are reshuffling. Its not like they are gonna throw everything out.

[ProgStopper]

Very interesting how some leadership at Rare didn’t want combat in the game, and that left people stumped.

[SuikerBrood]

Andy Robinson

[Tesla]

How can a game be rebooted when theres nothing to reboot. Judging by reports what the game was, was still undecided. This change seems to be done to speed up progress.

[ProgStopper]

That’s an interesting discussion of what “combat” really means.

Like Tetris wouldn’t be considered to have combat, but would something like Mario?

You could just OVER the enemies yes, but by actively jumping onto them, you are defeating them, thus engaging in basic combat.

That’s a discussion right there.

What is combat in video games? Can most video games be combatless if the objective is to win the game?

[Boosted_Gear]

@ProgStopper

That’s an interesting discussion of what “combat” really means.

Like Tetris wouldn’t be considered to have combat, but would something like Mario?

You could just OVER the enemies yes, but by actively jumping onto them, you are defeating them, thus engaging in basic combat.

That’s a discussion right there.

What is combat in video games? Can most video games be combatless if the objective is to win the game?

What is life ?

[ProgStopper]

@Boosted_Gear

What is life ?

What is love?

[SuikerBrood]

To me it shows how used we are to violence in our video games.

[Boosted_Gear]

@ProgStopper

What is love?

Bay don’t hurt me, okay I stop !

[Boosted_Gear]

@SuikerBrood

To me it shows how used we are to violence in our video games.

That’s true, in nearly every video games out there, you have some form of fight.

[SuikerBrood]

You all know I’m readng this thread right?

[ProgStopper]

@SuikerBrood

To me it shows how used we are to violence in our video games.

Excellent point.

When they mentioned that they didn’t want the game to have any combat, I had to pause and think of any adventure style games that have zero combat.

[Boosted_Gear]

@ProgStopper

Excellent point.

When they mentioned that they didn’t want the game to have any combat, I had to pause and think of any adventure style games that have zero combat.

That would be original in itself to not have any combat. i wonder how things will change with Gregg Mayles now.