COD suddenly overrated to PlayStation owners.
Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision
Submitted 8 months ago by TheOneWithTheHair@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://kotaku.com/xbox-activision-blizzard-bethesda-deal-every-franchise-1850925890
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FlashZordon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Name a good game by a Microsoft studio from the last 5 years that isn’t by Obsidian or someone who used to work at Obsidian
OrgunDonor@kbin.social 8 months ago
Ori and the Will of the Wisps(Great)
Sunset Overdrive(Good)
Battletoads(Good, at least I enjoyed it)
Forza Horizon 4 and 5(both are good, but definitely feeling a little repetitive and overly done now for me)
Flight SimulatorThat is all I got though. and technically Forza Horizon 4 is 5 years and 12 days.
Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Psychonauts 2.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 8 months ago
3D Ultra Pinball
Come on, how can they list that and not the masterpiece that is 3D Ultra Minigolf?
Seriously though, they’re at least missing quite q bit of Sierra stuff there. Like Impressions Games city builders, or The Incredible Machine.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Wonderful news, I sure did want all those franchises that I loved to be turned to shit before being shelved for eternity.
Maalus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Blizzard has already been doing that for a while. Also failing with new franchises, not investing in their core games, half assing releases. I hope they actually turn things around for games like Starcraft, Diablo, HotS etc
krakenx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Blizzard would never have done that if Activision hadn’t been allowed to buy them. The new conglomerate will be worse than we anticipate in the same way Activion-Blizzard was.
winterayars@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
“If there are fewer and fewer games coming out that are more and more exclusive people will just have to buy an Xbox!” --an MBA, probably
srecko@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Most of those are already shit (Fallout, Diablo, Overwatch, call of duty) or shelved 25+ years ago (Commander Keen, Hexen, Phantasmagoria…). Microsoft’s own games are rather good compared to Activision Blizzar or even Bethesda.
Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Look at them including perfect dark in the list as if they’d have the balls to make another sequel after they botched the last one after essentially using it as a launch exclusive title for the 360… such a shame. Perfect dark 64 was a masterpiece.
ShittingDickNipples@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Unless it got canned, they do be making another Perfect Dark
Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Ultimately the problem with Perfect Dark as a franchise is that everyone who made it great went off and formed Free Radical and made the TimeSplitters games.
Icaria@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So many dead franchises. The videogame industry really went in an unexpected direction…
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 months ago
Imagine all the money stupidly left on the table. All because they refuse to accept long term investment over short term gains.
So much money these franchises could have made - if they were given an honest chance
thorbot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There was a glimpse of prototype in that trailer and I can only dream of a new version of that game
Damage@feddit.it 8 months ago
I remember buying a Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro joystick that came bundled with Interstate '76… Hey MS, up for a revival?
clearedtoland@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I kid you not, that joystick and MS Flight Simulator 2004 got me through flight school and several ratings.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m surprised I have avoided being invested in any of these franchises.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s probably because so many of them are mediocre or don’t really exist as modern games. It’s kinda sad that out of that list, there are so few 10/10 series there.
Psythik@lemm.ee 8 months ago
So you’ve never played Fallout: New Vegas?
Wow, just wow. You’re missing out.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I haven’t. I did try Fallout 4 but it just wasn’t for me.
Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s Obsidian
clearedtoland@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m voting for them to revive Soldier of Fortune!
ignism@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I see your SoF and raise you a Heretic/Hexen revival
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In the meantime, check out Amid Evil for an absolutely fantastic Heretic/Hexen like game.
I have more screenshots saved on steam in one playthrough of that game than any other game I’ve played.
Paradox@lemdro.id 8 months ago
I wasn’t singularity to get rebooted and finished
w2tpmf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My vote is for Heretic/Hexen.
brawleryukon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Imagine leaving Lost Odyssey off of this list.
(Although I suppose maybe you need more than one game to be considered a “franchise” 😢)
Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I think they published it, but don’t actually own it.
brawleryukon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Microsoft at least owns the trademark on it. Not being a lawyer, I don’t know if that’s at all decoupled from “the IP” or not, but I suspect they’d be tied fairly close together.
It would also be weird if Mistwalker signed a contract giving MS ownership of Blue Dragon (which is on the list, but has multiple games from different publishers) but not Lost Odyssey. I guess maybe the solution would be to remove Blue Dragon from the list rather than adding Lost Odyssey. 🤷♂️
dewritoninja@pawb.social 8 months ago
I knows it’s not gonna happen but since they own heretic and he eb now I would love to see a modern day reinterpretation by the guys at id
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
[deleted]Boxtifer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Warcraft is listed
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Microsoft spent 69 Billy just so they could finally own geometry wars, change my mind.
echoplex21@lemmy.world 8 months ago
XBLA goat
simple@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Microsoft can FINALLY make the Zork sequel we’ve all been waiting for
kaitco@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Candy Crush Saga. Guaranteed.
paultimate14@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Gonna get automatically re-installed with every single Winfows update for all of eternity.
BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Baller actually really wanted that THPS 3&4 remaster.
Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The music from that game started to play in my head when I read this.