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Edited by eliteslaya:
4/4/2013 6:48:25 PM
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Microsoft Has Single Handedly Destroyed Its Two Action Franchises
[url=http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/gears-of-war-judgment]Compare Judgment's reception by the fans[/url] to [url=http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/gears-of-war-3]Gears of War 3's.[/url]
We already know what has become of Halo.
It's also ironic that two franchises were destroyed by decisions in the multiplayer side of things. Both Judgment and Halo 4 stray too far away from the excellent formula of their predecessors in favor of dumbed down and "[b]accessible gameplay[/b]".
Both communities are continuing to fall apart. With the dawn of the 720/NextBox, what will Microsoft have at the table beside their meaty list of Kinect titles?
Halo?
Gears of War?
Don't count on it. Considering the latest installments of these franchises have essentially sent them on a path into darkness.
How about Forza?
Quality, but it just doesn't have a large enough community on the Xbox platform to be a system seller.
Fable? Lol no.
I ask again, what's Microsoft going to do? How will they "win next gen"?
My Guess: They won't.
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2 RepliesEdited by DEZARATH: 4/4/2013 7:55:44 PMWell Microsoft really needs to stop with the deadlines and Developers need to step back and say is this really fun? Is this best I can do? Look at Gearbox they released a E3 demo for Alien CM and it was awesome. Six years of development and gamers were seeing what that would translate into a polished and fun game. But it wasn't, it was mediocre and embarrassing and a real loss for Sega and Microsoft in establishing a new solid FPS. This is the kind of crap that killed consoles in the early eighties. Rushed horrible games that were expensive, throw in the surge of gamers looking at PC again as a viable platform because it is viable again. Mod communities and steam and hungry developers are giving it life where console game developers are killing themselves by releasing sub par games. Thankfully gems turn up here and there that keep consoles relevant like Dishonored and Bioshock Infinity are doing for the top end of 2013.
