Arkane Lyon's New Game DEATHLOOP
 

So ever wonder what Arkane has been up to since the Dishonored games. Apparently they were working on another game called DEATHLOOP. Here is the trailer.

Personally not excited. What about the rest of you?

Yeah, probably.

Alright why? Cause nothing in that trailer made me go wow I must play this. Bethesda was stupid not to fund another prey or dishonored game over this game.

So my first reaction was this.

Oh hey cool, so they took the most annoying part of Mooncrash and expanded it into an entire game. Great, great. Yeah, I'm super interested I guess. Whatever.:roll:

Kind of old news actually. I've read about the premise of the game, and I can't say I find it interesting. This might be the first game by Arkane I'm not excited about playing.

I heard you say you're weren't interested the first time.

I'd rather Arkane, a talented developer, make what they want to make, not act as an assembly line for a game that suits at Bethesda deem should be made.

I'm not totally sold on the game. I'm not usually into Groundhog Day scenarios as gameplay. But I've enjoyed too much of their output to write this off, and it does look stylish and the setting might be interesting.

It might be fun, but Arkane is going a completely different way so their name basically means nothing with this game. They've got to prove themselves all over again.

Plus a tad extra because I'll be muttering about "not Prey 2" while I read the hype.

I'll assume you meant to say "not Arx Fatalis 2"!

Nope - though I would be open to a cross-over game where the two worlds got combined.

Somehow.

Shooter. No wonder Ralph left them.

Yeah he left right after Bethesda refused to fund another Dishonored/Prey and almost ruined Arkane. At least he has his own studio and is working on a better game.

Weird West - https://www.pcgamer.com/weird-west-i…ected-stories/

Going by this game, I think you can strike the "almost" from your statement. It might turn out to be a reasonably good shooter, but it's not what many people would have been looking for from Arkane. There are plenty of other studios that could develop this sort of thing, but not many others doing the (old) Arkane thang.

Coolio, I think that's available on XBOX gamepass.

Wont remove it as the articles about this are still on the net. Arkane was almost shut down a few years back, and had to do other jobs for other Bethesda games.
This game was the secret project.

Aiiieee that's sad. I thought Dishonoured 2 was excellent, had no idea that it supposedly wasn't enough of a financial success for Beth.

Whats funny is that 1-2 million sales don't mean much to a large publisher. They expect 4 million or more to call a game a success. Now smaller ones would call that a success.

From what data you can find Dishonored 2 and Prey sold at least two million each, but the expansion was a failure for Dishonored 2 that barely sold over 500,000.

I'm really growing to hate Zenimax/Bethesda Publishing. I wasn't among the people who thought Fallout moving to a first person, action combat model was sacrilege and would ruin the game, and I ended up very much enjoying Fallout 3 (and Obsidian's Fallout:NV). And though Morrowind remains my favorite Elder Scrolls, I got tons of mileage out of Skyrim, and to a lesser extent Oblivion.

But boy do they give off the stink of a company now being run by bean counters. Everything they do is calculated and bereft of creativity or even integrity. That pathetic pay to play Blades thing. Fallout 76. Even Fallout 4, which was barely an RPG. I'm not doubting that Zenimax thinks "single player games are dead" because all their recent actions fit that. BGS and Bioware, both dead in the water in 2020. I didn't see that coming 5 years ago.

Definitely agree. :nod:

If I remember correctly Zenimax hired some EA executive, and he brought the same philosophy they used towards publishing. Basically live services & micro-transactions.

Bethesda at least has two games with some type of SP in development. Another Elder Scroll game and Starfield. I don't know what type of MP service they will implement.

On the other-hand Zenimax Online is pumping out online expansions, and working on another Sc-fi MMO. The publishing side has shifted focus as well from SP.

RIP Bethesda.

Coming soon to a TES VI near you: Fallout 76 subscription model. Sweet Roll Hats for only $5.

Funny, Bethesda announced Deathloop on Twitter just now, so a bit late and it's just a 15-second video: https://twitter.com/bethesda/status/1356633860394655745.
It wasn't even after Bioware's tweet, go figure.

The site exists, that's probably old news too, but there you are. :)

EDIT: indeed ;)

https://i.ibb.co/ccTsZHJ/image.png

Ha the old announcement of an announcement. :lol:

https://i.imgur.com/MW8CF5K.png

Anyway minimal interest in this game but they have another unannounced game as well.