@Shpeshal_Nick time for punishment I guess, shoud ve never ask about it any further :s
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You mean for the whole game or per episode? If per episode I would be more than fine with that. But if Life is Strange length…that’s really not too long. Assuming it’s a action adventure.
I believe it. The AAAA megagame hype for The Initiative never matched what we actually know about that studio. Whatever “AAAA” means. XGS will provide plenty of huge blockbuster experiences in the years to come, but not from The Initiative yet.
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Would be fine with ‘loosely’ connected 8-12 hour stories that are released every couple years tbh.
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I mean, my comments were more in relation to fanboy reactions and hyperbole around anything Microsoft does. Clearly it was poorly worded.
Like I see all the expectations around what Microsoft is doing. Most of them are kinda unrealistic.
Given some of the reactions I clearly should have worded what I said better.
Having said that, I still expect mostly bad reactions to their game if what we’ve heard winds up being true.
For me personally? I’m fine with the concept. It was never about my own opinion on what I’ve heard. It was more my opinion on how “the internet” will react to it at large. I even said myself that Microsoft never stated The Initiative would be their studio to make “Sony games” and yet that’s what most were/are expecting anyway.
That’s sort of where the basis of my comments were coming from.
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This subreddit is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. For them everyone is a fraud if they make one false prediction. And if they don’t talk about how someone is a fraud they using some fanboy logic in this sub. Very weird place.
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Episodic like Telltale/Dontnod or Episodic like Asura’s Wrath? 
Wasn’t Alan Wake told in “episodes”?
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I’ll wait and see what it is before freaking out
Yeah, we have no idea what it’ll be about at this point.
What kind of expectations do you see that you believe are unrealistic?
I’m personally expecting The Initiative to be a Sony type studio because first, they have acquired a massive amount of talent and when you look at that talent’s background and history, seeing their game as potentially being episodic as a possibility isn’t exactly going to make Xbox gamers in general happy nor is it going to give these same Xbox fans confidence in Microsoft or the Xbox brand as well as their direction.
Second, they’re the ones who kept saying AAAA. Not me. Not others online or on twitter or other forums. It was those from The Initiative who said it and if they can’t deliver on what they said, then they shouldn’t have said it.
Microsoft’s diversity and variety is great but only if that diversity and variety is filled with quality. If it’s just quantity for the sake of filling up Game Pass, I completely disagree with that because at some point, 20 years in, over 10 since their last great game (Gears 2), they have more than enough studios, talent, money, time and resources to deliver great games to those who are invested into the Xbox eco-system.
Microsoft has RPG’s locked up (first and third person), they have the stylized art style with Rare games, they have the FPS/TPS with Doom/Gears/etc., they pretty much have everything except for the one genre/area that the majority of Xbox fans keep asking for which is third person action adventure story driven games.
I’m not expecting every studio to do this nor should they but it would be nice to get at least a few studios out of 25+ to actually do this because it would fill out the portfolio a lot better and make as many Xbox fans across the board happy and satisfied at the same time. Plus, all the other genres and games are still there as well so everyone would win.
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Bad title. Sounds like exactly the game I’ve been waiting for.
Like Black Mirror. Self contained stories per episode across multiple universes.
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The AAAA comes from a job post not xbox pr.
This is false.
…what?
But The Initiative/Microsoft is responsible for that job posting.
It’s also here from a Jeff Grubb article -
“Microsoft also describes The Initiative as its “AAAA” studio”
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True? Still does it say “third person narrative singleplayer game like sony does” ?
Halo is a AAAA game too. Destiny was as well
How does Microsoft saying it (and TAKING IT DOWN) in one listing, become “they keep saying it”? And it’s not internet people? It is. It 1000% is. Jeff Grubb doesn’t work for Microsoft.
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Microsoft hasn’t exactly hit on many AAA titles so I would think that they would stay far away from AAAA. To me, it simply raises expectations when the AAA expectation is already high. It’s like they want to make it harder for themselves and then complain when people get disappointed despite the fact that they’re the ones who said it all to begin with.
Regardless, once they said it, that’s it. It’s out there. Simply, they shouldn’t have said it. They’re the ones raising the expectations for their own game. Not me or anyone else. After all, we’re going based on what they said to begin with.
AAAA is a nonsense term that we shouldn’t be too fixated on. There is already a large spectrum of scopes in AAA as-is. Red Dead Redemption II is not on the same level as something like, say, Jedi: Fallen Order.
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