Thank you buddy! It was a bit weird sitting down without a script and just talking but I'm glad it worked out! I agree. I'm slowly starting to realize that there isn't one game company I can trust anymore. Which is pretty sad.

Lmao 🤣

Love this comment! My exact feelings too. Never getting answers about Ruvik and Joseph is just awful to think about.

Kiss any remake or remaster goodbye too. Another unfortunate move at MS Gaming

Yeah seriously what a waste of talent.

You sound like someone whos never played. SoT is a gem!

Yeah, it's kind of confusing. Arkane as a whole made Dishonored 1. Then Arkane Lyon was formed and their first game was Dishonored 2. So it was probably more their game at that point. So I think Dishonored is probably in safe hands if Arkane Lyon wants to make another one.

I'm trying bro! I'm glad my son is named after him so he can take up the torch someday!

Me too my friend

Glad someone said it! physical games are better.

For sure man! I totally agree the ending of Sebastian's story could end and it would actually be perfect. Sad, we won't get more answers for Joseph though.

I hope so bro. I want to be pleasantly surprised. Still won't bring Tango back though.

Showcase will be lots of indie games for game pass

Yeah bro it's annoying as hell. It's sad you can't go back and play for example the 1st Vanilla Destiny. I should be able to pop in the original disc and play the game the way it was at launch. But no this Live service shit has infected the industry.

Thank you bro 🍺

That would be the best case scenario for sure. Cause I don't see Mikami wanting to do another one. At least we know Johannas knows how to make a great Evil Within game.

@@linktothelight indeed my favourite one was the one that John make the evil within 2 I was very excited 2017 was the best year ever if I would have the man power to make another sequel I would make 5 titles of the series.

Yeah, we just need a really rich person that loves Evil Within to fund it lol.

They legally cant, MS Gaming owns the IP so unless they decide to make it its over with. Same with Capcom owning Resident Evil, the creator who left the company can't just make a Resident Evil game. Same with Konomi owning MGS & Silent Hill. Who owns the publisher is who makes those decisions not former employees regardless if it came from the former employees mind.

Hahaha 😆

Thank you!

for real, yes! camera-speaking extempore is *hard.* this guy does it like it’s nothing

Appreciate that man!

Thank you! Yeah, I agree. We need Microsoft or if not them, someone else who can compete with Sony.

Yeah bro, I forget it even exist half the time because it's not even relevant anymore. I would have loved to see a Battle Royale for Gears. But most of all I just want another Gears Campaign and some good Multiplayer.

I miss Xbox 360 Microsoft

@@linktothelight me.too. I kinda stopped caring about gaming after that, as I was 22,23,24 and when Xbox one came out I just didn't pay attention, tho I knew it was more halo and gears of war and nothing else. Forza was a given...but other than that.... Let's just imagine that it's 2007, and the only franchises Nintendo has, is Kirby,Mario and like...Yoshi or nintendogs.... That's where Microsoft is at. 25 years in the market, with no real characters or franchises or world's to call their own, that are beloved and have evolved time n time again, up stepping the bar to the standard of quality....most why I've been sick of Microsoft for a decade. the whole "switch has no games" actually applies to Xbox, and has for a very long time now

It is so true Microsoft has no identity. Their only Mascot right now is Master Chief and Halo and all it receives is negative attention now days. Luckily they have Bethesda and Fallout. That's their one great thing going on right now.

Couldn't agree more man! I'm a collector myself and I have to remind myself to pick up a lot of these gamepass games later. Cause I forget which ones I played through gamepass. Like Atomic Heart and Lies of P last year. I played them through gamepass. Then I bought them on PS5 later.

Haha thank you friend!

Seriously! She was such a cool character. She was warm Light in the darkness. Always made me feel safe with her around.

Honestly, I don't doubt it at this point.

Totally agree. And even if they say it's a success, we can't believe them after Hi-Fi Rush.

@@linktothelight Hi Fi is a cartoon with a smaller audience so it's not a great reference but it is something to point to I suppose. The problem with hellblade is it drops May 21, completed May 22, back to starfield May 23 & it's likely going to take a hit in review scores because of it.

I was more referencing Aaron Greenberg saying Hi-Fi was a success last year and in the end it wasn't enough for Microsoft. So if they come out and say Hellblade 2 is a success. I'll have a hard time believing them.

@@linktothelight yea but at the end of the day they're looking at how much money they'll make off a sequel compared to how much the last game made, regardless of people liking the game or having a cult following. It needs to profit at the end of the day.

Yeah, I wish someone that loved the series would get back the IP and run with it. It still has so much potential and name recognition. I'm holding out hope someday... We did just get a good Alone in the Dark game. So maybe Evil Within will get lucky someday.

What exactly did it innovate on in terms of gameplay?

@@DionPanday I personally think the open hubs are an innovative design choice, most likely inspired by Silent Hill. Either way, you can only find it in the Evil Within 2. I also find the upgrade skills and the stealth to work really well. Way Better than the first.

@@DemonKingCozar uhh im pretty sure resident evil 7 and 8 had a similar hub structure. And skill trees and stealth? Really? That’s innovation to you?

@@DionPanday Both Resident Evil 7 and The Evil Within 2 both came out in 2017. Yes the hub thing is pretty similar but The Evil Within does it on a larger scale with side content while RE7 really only has hidden items to increase the odds in your favor. The Evil Within 2's has a few weapons hidden behind field bosses, and other types of side content. Resident Evil 8 has a similar thing but that's for treasures or food (and the occasional weapon). Re 8's is like taking the mansion design of 1 and applying it to a larger scale but either way it's still a different type of open hub than the Evil Within 2's. I love both types but you can't deny that it's innovative in the survival horror/ action horror scene. And yes the skill trees and stealth are also good innovations because you have to look at it's genre. Stealth is a solid way to save resources and to progress but it also comes at the risk of getting caught and wasting more than you gain. This also ties into the open hubs because you have the choice to risk going for the side content but losing resources or going straight for the story but at the cost of the weapons and resources. And yes the skill tree is also innovative because of the skills you can get. The bullet time, the loud stealth takedown and the open world even makes the sprint upgrades more worth it. The biggest thing missed is the match system from the first. That could've added a crimson head quality to the hubs that was missed potential.

That is true. Arkane Lyon's first game was Dishonored 2 while Austin worked on Prey. Maybe their is a chance that series could happen again.

Yeah, I feel like Microsoft is going that route. Hopefully Playstation doesn't. If Sony goes all digital I guess we'll always have Nintendo...? Lol

Yepppp

Yeah, possibly. Best case coping scenario now would be Phil's hand was forced. Cause it makes no sense. I really hope this backlash makes them think real hard about their decisions. Cause as much as I'm pissed about it. We need Microsoft in the industry.

That's true. I could've explained that better. Since Lyon's first game was D2. I was a bit confused about that. I was mostly wanting to talk about Evil Within and Tango. You are correct though!

Sadly, this is true.

Gotta disagree man. Evil Within was and still is my favorite Survivor Horror game I've played. The story is easily my favorite one. And the gameplay with the crossbow, matches and stealth make it such a unique experience.

Yes, Daddy

Lol. Though I haven't bought a full priced game from them for a while , but I'll probably keep gamepass through Hellblade 2's launch. After that, I'm probably canceling for awhile until they have anything worth coming back for.

I truly hope you are right my friend. I really do. But there is something about a different studio making it that rubs me the wrong way. I like your thinking though! Still doesn't change that Microsoft basically closed one of their best studios. Noone will make their IPs like they did. In past interviews the director at Tango, he stated interest in making a sequel for Ghostwire. Now that won't happen.

@@linktothelight There's nothing to stop Microsoft from re-hiring that director and putting him to work at another one of their studios, though. I really don't know enough about the individual staff members in situations like this to know how likely or unlikely that is, but it's entirely possible. You say the idea of another studio working on Evil Within rubs you the wrong way but I think you're looking at it the wrong way; Studios aren't some sort of constant thing. The computer game industry is extremely transitory. Like Arkane Austin who also got closed today had 70% of their staff who'd been there prior to Redfall leave by the time Redfall was released. So you had people talking about how the studio couldn't have been to blame for that game because their prior history shows they can do better only that's not true; only a tiny fraction of them had actually done better previously. The overwhelming majority of them had done nothing at the studio except Redfall. The idea that one group of people will be able to produce something to the same quality as another, almost completely different, group of people had previously done because they were both called Arkane Austin is bizarre. A quick glance at the wikipedia pages for The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo in the info box at the top of the entries that lists the people who work on both games as a director, producer, designer, programmer, artist, writer or composer (so the biggest and most influential roles in making the game) shows that only one person - Masato Kimura - was involved with both as the producer of The Evil Within and one of two producers on Ghostwire. So other than him the personnel in the top positions were completely different across the two. My point here is that Tango was already a different studio in all but name prior to being closed down yesterday. So you'd have been happy for a bunch of people who'd had no involvement whatsoever with making The Evil Within previously making a new game in the series as long as they did so under the name of Tango Gameworks? Because Microsoft own that too, they can take a completely different group of people and hire Masato Kimura to be a producer and dub them Tango Gameworks and have them work on a new Evil Within game and it'd be just as true to the lineage of the studio as the people working there yesterday were.

I can definitely see your point. How do you feel about them closing the whole studio then? They could have kept making games. Now Xbox has one less experienced studio making good games. They have been very consistent with their quality.

​@@linktothelight Again; "They" haven't been very consistent with their quality. Numerous different groups working under the Tango banner have made games you've enjoyed. If there's a consistent factor it will be that these groups would have all been selected by the studio head, which was Shinji Mikami. But he's gone now so, going forward, there's no reason to believe that'd remain the same. I think people just aren't looking at this situation in the right way at all. Tango were acquired because they were a part of Bethesda when Xbox bought them. I doubt they'd have been bought by themselves. But Xbox still tried to make it work with them, thinking that they'd be able to make games that would help to gain market share in Japan for Xbox, likely based on Mikami's history of making stuff like Resident Evil which is hugely successful over there. But Mikami didn't want to be making commercial stuff like that any more so he left. I'd imagine that the rest of the people working there probably weren't enthusiastic about doing that sort of stuff either. So Microsoft don't want to continue to pay for the studio to make games like Hi Fi Rush which, regardless of its quality, is obviously going to be a niche game which isn't going to be particularly valuable to them and the guys at Tango don't want to make the sort of games Microsoft want them to. Close the studio and you free up the people who work there to go and work somewhere else where they *can* make the sort of games they want to make like, for example, maybe Mikami's new studio. Meanwhile Microsoft will retain control of the IP's like Evil Within which, as I noted earlier, was essentially going to be dead if it'd stayed with Tango. Everybody gets what they want.

are you paying any attention at all or just clowning

Sounds like Balsley hasnt been outside in awhile himself. Imagine being that clueless

@@guzumba15 sure have but why would you care? Oh but you do lol

Omgosh I think that alteast 2k people care enough to watch this sexy nerds video so don't worry too much about his Vitamin D level and worry more about your 1 to 11 view videos. Okie dokie.