I expect CGI like the Dishonored 2, Deathloop, Starfield and TES6 announcements
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Itās an immersive sim where you play as a vampire, new Ip.
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Depends on the scene and those involvedā¦
Prey is one of the best games of the last generation. Iāll play anything Arkane makes.
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Interesting context on Arkaneās history approaching potentially a spookier game, though I suppose Prey was quite scary as well:
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You should check out the Noclip documentary on Arkane. Covers Raveholm and LMNO well.
Arkane are incredible world builders and have top notch level building talent.
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looks more like a horror game PLEASE NO
please no ;_;
I hope this will be a Xbox exclusive without caveats, I still find hilarious that Deathloop is PS timed.
If it is appearing at the showcase, it will be an exclusive.
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Youāll never know for sure with MS, I remember E32019 when they showed many games under XGS umbrella which were not exclusives (TOW, Wasteland 3, Psychonauts 2 and MC Dungeons, I know these situations were different, but still) and until official confirmation, itās better to fly low with expectations, MS lacks killer instinct in this department.
Minecraft aside, which is a platform itself at this point, all those games were being published by other companies or had backers for certain platforms. This game is being published by Bethesda, so if it appears at the Xbox showcase then that means Sony does not have any sort of deal for it otherwise it would not be allowed and Microsoft would have just canceled the PlayStation version just like they have done with Starfield by all accounts.
Just listen to what Phil Spencer said when he said the Bethesda purchase was all about exclusive content.
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I hope youāre right and I am 70/80% positive, but there is always the 20/30% chance MS played nice and didnāt shut down PS port of this game (which most likely does exist, considering Arkane Austin last game was Prey 2017), this wonāt be a critical title like Starfield so they could have thought that being nice wouldnāt have been a bad thing. I hope my fears wonāt materialize, because Xbox MUST/NEED to begin to play dirty.
They could have easily shut down at least PS port of Psychonauts 2, theyāve acquired publishing rights (itās a 100% XGS title) and overpayed Fig investors (like 30% more than initial projections) in 2019 and they could have easily refunded PS backers (and/or offered an alternative platform copy) in 2-3s at most after acquisition, so their āplaying niceā behaviour is always a risk (who would have cared if theyād shelved a PS port for this game honestly? Why not even try to probe the public reception for a small game like this before Bethesda?). Nintendo shut down an almost released game like Goldeneye or Sony pays for not releasing on Xbox every day, a very stark difference.
Excluding Deathloop and Ghostwire Tokyo, EVERY future Bethesda published game will be exclusive to Xbox/PC.
Theyād better be and rationally I think they will be, but Iām always careful about MS decisions in exclusive department, Phil words are very elastic and we donāt know how many contracts they chose to honor alongside the the PS timed exclusives. We also know for a fact that MS as a company since Nadella appointment as CEO is wary of bad pr, so we should always be careful when you already know that a significant portion of media will be against you. Iām sure about Starfield because itās a key game, Iām less sure about lesser games in this transition period.
If there were any other deals in regards to the exclusives going on PlayStation, Sony would have said so in a blog post or their twitter account. They havenāt which tells me that thereās no other games that Sony has paid for to be timed exclusive. As for bad PR, if they nail the quality of their exclusives, it wonāt matter and will eventually fade away.
No more exclusives obviously (I hope at least lmao), I was talking about multi-platform development, which can clearly be shelved, but who knows how MS would behave in these situations? With the other acquisitions they kept multi-platform commitments, even for games they directly publish like Psychonauts 2, so, I repeat, for this 1-2 years transition period nothing is certain 100%.
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I repeat for the nth time: Iām generally positive, but with MS you NEVER know, history is the ultimate proof. Until official announcements we should be careful, hopefully MS will shut down any lasting doubt with this E3.
Psychonauts 2 was a crowdfunded game and thereās no PS5 version. I would think that any Bethesda game that was multi-platform like Starfield is simply an Xbox/PC exclusive with the PlayStation versions being cancelled and trashed because no reason to keep them.