CyberPanda
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Former Uncharted, Last of Us game designer joins Xbox Game Studios' The Initiative
Bring in the talent.
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Former Uncharted, Last of Us game designer joins Xbox Game Studios' The Initiative
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CyberPanda
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Yep. They’re hiring a lot of great talents from the industry!
HoldTheAir
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I can't wait to see what the future holds for Microsoft's first party studios!
CyberPanda
Banned
Yep, it looks good! Only if Microsoft had done this earlier during the 360 days. Oh well.
CyberPanda
Banned
Other people that have joined The Initiative:
Brian Westergaard - Lead Producer/Senior Producer on ROTR and Senior Managing Producer on God of War
Christian Cantamessa - Leader Writer and Designer on Red Dead Redemption
Tom Shepherd - Technical director at Rockstar games (RDR GTA)
Chris O'Neill - Senior level designer at Santa Monica and Kojima Production
Drew Murray - Lead designer at Insomniac games
Daniel Neuburger - Game director at Crystal Dynamics for 12 years.
Brian Westergaard - Lead Producer/Senior Producer on ROTR and Senior Managing Producer on God of War
Christian Cantamessa - Leader Writer and Designer on Red Dead Redemption
Tom Shepherd - Technical director at Rockstar games (RDR GTA)
Chris O'Neill - Senior level designer at Santa Monica and Kojima Production
Drew Murray - Lead designer at Insomniac games
Daniel Neuburger - Game director at Crystal Dynamics for 12 years.
Abriael_GN
RSI Employee of the Year
Not to diminish the work done by Mr. Ryan, but he wasn't in a lead role on any game at Naughty Dog, where he worked for 6 years, which is a relatively short time.
As a matter of fact, he has been in a senior role only for 2 years at motive and not at ND, so he isn't exactly a superstar. Again, with all due respect, I'm sure he's a very capable professional, but not someone whose employment status I'd consider really newsworthy,
Naughty Dog has literally hundreds of developers of a comparable level, and they come and go. So turning this into some sort of big deal appears to be little more than a clickbait headline turning a molehill into a mountain (and I'm not surprised that it comes from a platform-specific website dedicated to hyping that platform up).
I'd understand if he was at least a lead, but game designers join and leave companies pretty much on a daily basis, so I have to question the value of this news as anything more than basic cheerleading.
As a matter of fact, he has been in a senior role only for 2 years at motive and not at ND, so he isn't exactly a superstar. Again, with all due respect, I'm sure he's a very capable professional, but not someone whose employment status I'd consider really newsworthy,
Naughty Dog has literally hundreds of developers of a comparable level, and they come and go. So turning this into some sort of big deal appears to be little more than a clickbait headline turning a molehill into a mountain (and I'm not surprised that it comes from a platform-specific website dedicated to hyping that platform up).
I'd understand if he was at least a lead, but game designers join and leave companies pretty much on a daily basis, so I have to question the value of this news as anything more than basic cheerleading.
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Wimbledon
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I hope they show at least a teaser of the concept there making. Like a tech demo of sorts or CGI trailer.
I'm sure the game is a couple years out though, when was this team made, anyway?
EDIT: never mind just went to there site i don't expect anything from E3 from them.
I'm sure the game is a couple years out though, when was this team made, anyway?
EDIT: never mind just went to there site i don't expect anything from E3 from them.
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TeamGhobad
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Uncharted in Space is my bet.
AnotherOne
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MiyazakiHatesKojima
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Traitor.
Dabaus
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Isn’t the initiative still relatively small? Like 30 or less people small? New IP take a good 4-5 years with to make with 100 people or more teams. Look at days gone as an example. and we still don’t know much longer next gen games will take to make.
My point being while it’s good ms studios are staffing up but if you think these guys are going to be the next naughty dog or rockstar games you have no idea how much time goes into making a new aaa ip. And in my opinion time isn’t something Xbox has a a lot, at least from consumer perspective.
My point being while it’s good ms studios are staffing up but if you think these guys are going to be the next naughty dog or rockstar games you have no idea how much time goes into making a new aaa ip. And in my opinion time isn’t something Xbox has a a lot, at least from consumer perspective.
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ANIMAL1975
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But how is he going to know how to work with DX12? 
SonGoku
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Don't worry they'll have to go through Phill Spencer and Alber Panello bootcamp training in order to become masters of the DX sauce.But how is he going to know how to work with DX12?
CyberPanda
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Agreed. I want all developers to do good.
Baron Samedi
Member
If You want to hate on a company, go ahead, who gives a fuck... but why would You belittle someone who has actually accomplished what very few can in a very competitive industry? You can drop " Not to diminish" and "with all due respect" all You want You're essentially sniffing at what someone has worked hard to accomplish, which is just petty.
alabtrosMyster
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I think you worry too much about the details, these are mostly PR move made by MS to boost the hype - what they need to prove is if they can bring a team under their governance to build 9 to 9.5/10 games (you may personally prefer other games, but these are cream of the crop, critics as well as gamer generally see them as such) on a regular basis.
Their current model works well for iterative games that are light on story or actual differences (Forza/horizon has been doing great for a long time), but it seems that MS will either not give enough time and/or creative freedom to their teams to allow them to deliver amazing platform defining products, like Sony and Nintendo are doing.
Last Prime
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Microsoft is damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Stuart360
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And Microsoft are more than happy for you to do that.
FF:Enhanced_Reality
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And people wonder why PlayStation owners are wondering what's going on. An awful lot of former PlayStation development staff have joined this studio. With Microsoft snapping up development studios, I hope they aren't poaching staff. I can't see them being that petty, but seriously they're just opening the cheque book and saying 'go on, make your dream project.' Great news for gamers that Microsoft will be looking to be a major playing in the market and showing dedication but you can't help but feel as though Sony are under-estimating what Microsoft hope to accomplish to become market leader again. Phil really isn't taking any prisoners and if it is true that Microsoft have another 3 development studios coming at E3, I'd be wondering what their grand plan is for E3 and the future of their console.
theHFIC
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hopefully they are all working on different projects so that it isn't just one title with a "too many cooks" situation. Looking forward to seeing whatever they put out on PC.
The name has got to go though. "The Initiative" tries to come off as some high tech secret skunkworks operation, but it sort of falls flat and sounds more like they want to give people initiative to want to own an Xbox which doesn't sound good for the brand overall.
The name has got to go though. "The Initiative" tries to come off as some high tech secret skunkworks operation, but it sort of falls flat and sounds more like they want to give people initiative to want to own an Xbox which doesn't sound good for the brand overall.
Xenon
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ND games look great but completely forgettable gameplay. Not to say that thats what these people will bring over. For those pointing out that these people didn't have a large role in games design , I see that as a good thing. But if they can bring over some of that polish... Im OK with that.
DForce
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I just find it funny that people call Sony games overrated and over hyped, but get excited when MS signs someone who has worked on Sony exclusives.
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ResilientBanana
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You can smell the butt hurt in here. This is positive for MS, anyone with a Playstation and a gaming PC should be happy about this. The love has been spread and now we have the potential for more good games instead of the staff infection that Steam has become.
Freedom Gate Co.
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Of course we don't know what game they are making, but maybe we will see at E3 some gameplay and ore than a trailer.
Journey
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It takes time to do. PlayStation was nothing more than a 3rd party machine until PS2. Not only is Sony a generation ahead of the game, but the key successful entry (PS2) became the sole console for a long time after Sega bowed out and Nintendo wasn't entering until 2001. It's equivalent to just acquiring all the good cards in monopoly after players drop out.
Elenchus
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And they can’t wait to wipe the salt off your dollars and toss it in the vault with the other trillion.
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Elenchus
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Nah. Not really. Announcing new hires is what most large companies do. We do it here as well.
What’s done with the announcement on Twitter or GAF is another matter but they can’t control that.
Klayzer
Member
Too true.
DonF
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since when buying a product = salty ?And they can’t wait to wipe the salt off your dollars and toss it in the vault with the other trillion.
If anything im full of potassium, lol
Bernkastel
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Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
It's because Initiative actually grabbed some senior staffs from SSM, Rockstar, Crystal Dynamics and Insomniac. Playground Games also made headlines when they did that for their second studio, infact they are hiring at a faster rate than Initiative. Microsoft is not just acquiring studios, they are also expanding them.
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Bogroll
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No they don't, not for EA
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
Because it is not worth to mention. I mean we've seen these threads for months now as if other studio's not hire people? I always found it weird that people get hyped about some dev (as if they know the person) joins another studio. Pick some random studio or a big Sony studio and check what all those individuals have done before. A lot of them have done work for other major studio's or have been working on big AAA games.
So only senior staff's are worth to mention, but not he actual developers on the floor? Then Neogaf or Reset are going to be filled with this kind of threads. People already have far too high expectations for this studio and that's not too good. Or they must love to disappoint themselves.
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ResilientBanana
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You’ve played EA games, right? There is a reason why nobody cares about this.
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Stuart360
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It does make me chuckle when you see all the 'great, i'll buy it on PC' posts, like they are smugly getting one over Microsoft by buying on PC. Yes i'm sure Microsoft are releasing their games on PC, but secretly hoping no one buys them. Likewise i'm sure all those PC gamers are desperately waiting for a reason to go buy an Xbox.And they can’t wait to wipe the salt off your dollars and toss it in the vault with the other trillion.
Think guys, think.
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EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
Gamers know Naughty Dog has great developers, we'll see what they can create under a new roof.
Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
It's not like people knew about this individual from ND before, same as other individual devs from other studio's. It's like you are saying all Sea of Thieves and Crackdown individual devs are shit because the games did not live up to expectations...
I bet you still playing EA games, so what's your point?
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