The Initiative game could be not the game we are waiting for

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I’ll just mirror my thoughts here that I posted a few days ago regarding the same.

@XboxEra Podcast OT - 3 Continents

If the episodes in this Initiative game are self contained, I have no problem, that’s something that could work really well and I would love to see that kind of a model being explored. But if its a single game broken into parts and made into episodes like Tell me Why, not entirely on board with that. It works with the type of games Dontnod makes, don’t know how it will in a game that’s more gamey than mere narrative heavy walking simulator type experiences. It would also mean game pass is directly influencing the nature and structure of the game, which will not make sense for those who aren’t in game pass or don’t intend to subscribe to it, which is still gonna be a thing, mind you.

@XboxEra Podcast OT - 3 Continents

All in all, it’d have potential to be received poorly by those who aren’t in gamepass ecosystem seeing games being fundamentally altered by it yet being distributed to them outside it, having that disconnect is something the game has to convince super hard that it’s aok, and imo one way to do it is to keep those episodes self contained than sequential.