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abadguy · Jun 15, 2014

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-staten/5/601/819?_mSplash=1

Found this to be interesting.

Credit to SpartanHardtop on Union VGF forums for finding it.

The Flash · Jun 15, 2014

SO, Crackdown, and Scalebound are in good hands then

Shpeshal Nick · Jun 15, 2014

This pleases me

BronsonLee · Jun 15, 2014

All three? Hrm....

SwiftDeath · Jun 15, 2014

Hmm so I take it his work is probably mostly within the first year or so of production for each title or can he work on all 3 at once?

JehutyRunner · Jun 15, 2014

Crackdown and Sunset Overdrive are small surprises. Scalebound is a big one.

Overdoziz · Jun 15, 2014

"It's a wizard from the moon."

Buzzman · Jun 15, 2014

Sounds like he's just a supervisor from Microsoft's side, I don't think he really has any deeper involvement in the actual design of the games.

AJLma · Jun 15, 2014

Woah. Awesome.

op_ivy · Jun 15, 2014

i like joe. gives me faith in crackdown and scalebound (already convinced SO will rock)

statham · Jun 15, 2014

Hes only been at MS for 6 months, so I expect sunset involvement might be somewhat limited, crackdown and scaledown are the bigger ones.

jesu · Jun 15, 2014

So, story writer then?

Dragonborn · Jun 15, 2014

Buzzman said:
Sounds like he's just a supervisor from Microsoft's side, I don't think he really has any deeper involvement in the actual design of the games.

Sounds like it, but if he is, hopefully he doesn't overextend himself. The games are years out though (other than SO) so I guess there's plenty of time. Maybe one for early 2016, one late 2016? I doubt either Scalebound, or Crackdown will get out in 2015, we'll likely see at least one of them for two more E3s.

Garrett 2U · Jun 15, 2014

helllllll yessssssssssssssss

Muscle Wizard · Jun 15, 2014

As I said in the other thread, I wish they would leave Saclebound's story to Platinum. Metal Gear Rising and Wonderful 101 had really fun and interesting stories.

shacklesmcgee · Jun 15, 2014

Is this a good idea? One man in charge of three completely different games.... Good luck Joe!

Retro_ · Jun 15, 2014

First kamiya game not written by kamiya?

abadguy · Jun 15, 2014

Muscle Wizard said:
As I said in the other thread, I wish they would leave Saclebound's story to Platinum. Metal Gear Rising and Wonderful 101 had really fun and interesting stories.

I thought Kojipro wrote Rising.

kitsuneyo · Jun 15, 2014

MS getting involved in Scalebound story? Did they influence that art style too?

Retro_ · Jun 15, 2014

abadguy said:
I thought Kojipro wrote Rising.

It was. Iirc etsu tamari was the scenario writer on rising from the kojipro side.

HoodWinked · Jun 15, 2014

please make these all part of the same world just for the lulz

GuardianE · Jun 15, 2014

This is the first I'm hearing of outside influence on Scalebound. It certainly makes sense given what we've seen so far.

UltraGunner · Jun 15, 2014

This is awesome News! But him joining only in January kind of confirms that Crackdown and Scalebound are a long ways away.

Dragonborn · Jun 15, 2014

kitsuneyo said:
MS getting involved in Scalebound story? Did they influence that art style too?

I don't we think a CGI trailers tells us much of anything. Have they even started working on the game?

Persona7 · Jun 15, 2014

Buzzman said:
Sounds like he's just a supervisor from Microsoft's side, I don't think he really has any deeper involvement in the actual design of the games.

This is pretty common. Look at the credits for Demon's Souls, two sony producers and the rest of the sony staff worked on smaller technical aspects and not the actual design.

â Narayan · Jun 15, 2014

Scalebound, eh? That's pretty awesome!

Sotha_Sil · Jun 15, 2014

Interesting that he's having direct involvement on multiple 1st party games.

mcw · Jun 15, 2014

The work that Greg Kirkpatrick did on Marathon and Marathon 2 earned Bungie a shitload of credit from their fans, enough that they could have produced more than a decade's worth of horseshit storylines and no one would have really cared as long as the underlying gameplay was good and the multiplayer was kickass. Such an environment can be challenging for a story lead, but not in the ways that will make him a better story lead.

This new gig sounds like it's going to be challenging for him, but in all the right ways. Within a few years I'll be very interested to see what sort of work Joe Staten is doing.

The 0451 · Jun 15, 2014

He was a great character at Bungie and even wrote a couple of the tie in novels. Good to see his involvement.

popyea · Jun 15, 2014

Don't step on Kamiya's toes. If he wants it to end in space, you make it work!

Sundown · Jun 15, 2014

Interesting. Staten definitely is a positive influence to have. I hope he can do something about the douche-y look of the MC in Scalebound. Kamiya might have him for it if he tries though.

kinoki · Jun 15, 2014

Overdoziz said:
"It's a wizard from the moon."

I started another class in Destiny and the second I heard this line uttered I laughed out loud. It was so funny. I just want this line read, out of context. It's so fucking stupid.

It's worse than Battlefield 3's:

"We don't need to bury you--you're already dead!"

Steverulez · Jun 15, 2014

Buzzman said:
Sounds like he's just a supervisor from Microsoft's side, I don't think he really has any deeper involvement in the actual design of the games.

Well if you click on the profile it says:

IP development, writing and narrative design for XBOX first-party games including Sunset Overdrive, Scalebound and Crackdown.

So yeh, I don't think he is doing anything in the actual design of the games, but the writing/story I'm sure he has a big input into... which is what his job seems to be.

Pathos · Jun 15, 2014

Wow that's awesome. Looks like they really want these games to shine.

Fried Food · Jun 15, 2014

That's quite a pedigree as a writer

abadguy · Jun 15, 2014

popyea said:
Don't step on Kamiya's toes. If he wants it to end in space, you make it work!

Amen! I think Staten involved in the story is great but i hope it doesn't lose that Platinum brand of batshit that i love so much!

Toa TAK · Jun 15, 2014

This sounds great, been wondering where else he'd jump to after Destiny.

cuyahoga · Jun 15, 2014

Crackdown's greatness was its lack of concern for narrative, and 2's downfall was the emphasis on narrative driving design decisions. I hope he doesn't try to do too much narratively speaking.

Mumford · Jun 15, 2014

Staten working on Scalebound sounds like it could really go somewhere. Other than that I'm not really sure what he could really do with Crackdown and SO as those already seem pretty defined, though I could definitely be wrong (as I hope I am, he's brilliant.)
It is a mystery to me though as to why he's not working on the next Halo as well.

Mr. X · Jun 15, 2014

Eww at the idea of MS meddling with PG's creativity.

blakep267 · Jun 15, 2014

Mr. X said:
Eww at the idea of MS meddling with PG's creativity.

that meddling just might make the game an actual success, sales wise

Wizman23 · Jun 15, 2014

Joe Staten is one of the GOAT's of gaming. This is one of my first fond memories of him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br8FdEexJBU

JaggedSac · Jun 15, 2014

Very nice. I was curious what games he was involved with.

Muscle Wizard · Jun 15, 2014

abadguy said:
I thought Kojipro wrote Rising.

Well, then have Etsu Tamari write Scalebound.

Syphon Filter · Jun 15, 2014

Dam i wanted him to do something with Halo 5 as well.

Femmeworth · Jun 15, 2014

He can't be the lead for all three games. Sounds more like a consultant/producer.

killer rin · Jun 15, 2014

Femmeworth said:
He can't be the lead for all three games. Sounds more like a consultant/producer.

Considering his title is Senior Creative Director, I wouldn't be surprised if he's more incharge of helping studios get the most of their properties. He has experience helping to make one of the industries largest cross-media properties, Halo, so I wouldnt be surprised if he gives tips in those reguards; He would also likely work on expanding the universes of Microsoft owned IP (such as Crackdown) to get them ready for the move into the cross-media agenda which Xbox is persuing through Xbox Video.

Thoraxes · Jun 15, 2014

Interest just increased by a lot.

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