Bethesda’s current game line-up is currently sporting quite some post-apocalyptic scenarios and big guns, with one exception. Inxile Entertainment’s Hunted: The Demon’s Forge not only sticks out because of its lush fantasy setting, but the fact that it is part of the rare kind of AAA titles that has a development team driven, if not obsessed, with offering a new grade of quality and richness in co-op gameplay.
Pete Hines is retiring from Bethesda Softworks after 24 years.
Im glad he leaving. Bethesda has been terrible under his leadership. Redfall, Starfield, Fallout76 and the list goes on an on. His leadership style is outdated. Hopefully, MS bring someone in that knows what they are doing.
I will give you Fallout 76, but Redfall and Starfield's blame needs to fall somewhat on the terrible Xbox publishing team. With all their resources and supposed smarts...they fungled it.
@Mika He’s the communications guy - you can’t blame him for the quality of the product.
Maybe they can go to their earlier purchases for replacements . Like Rare devs , Gear devs or 343, one of the very few studios they built up and man they are great.
That could work ...if MS knew what they were doing themselves ...
But let's be real. Xbox was in charge of redfall and Starfield. They just don't know what a good game looks like.
I interviewed at Bethesda once, and while there were some very smart mid level team members, the upper ranks (EP/VP/Studio Head) were a total boys' club. The Madmen series ego in that lunch was stiffling.
I interviewed at Bethesda once, and while there were some very smart mid level team members, the upper ranks (EP/VP/Studio Head) were a total boys' club. The Madmen series ego in that lunch was stifling.
Pete Hines was against locking out the majority of their console playerbase (ps gamers). Probably disgusted at the hypocrisy of white knight Phil assuring PS gamers that they can still play COD. Acquisition goes through, Hines goes out.
Goodbye Pete.
i wonder if he was asked to leave.
im pretty sure not everyone was on board with the acquisition.
Pretty much everyone outside of Todd has made snide comments against the acquisition but money talks
Besthesda's former Starfield quest designer, Veronica Harbison, has jumped ship and has taken a new position at inXile Entertainment.
It's interesting news to me. But for ppl invested in console wars its probably boring. Basically the quests for starfield will be very close in ideas to whatever inxile is working on now that she'll be there.
Edit: as long as it's the same genre. Also it tells me whatever inxile is working on involves quests which I'm happy about.
I said non news bc i imagined some would say it's a bad sign for Starfield. I play mostly xb now...
And InXile already has experience in the Fallout wing essentially. They currently make a Fallout spiritual successor as well. They are familiar with this style but rather in a top down form.
InXile always has quests..........
Maybe inXile's future Fallout spin-off ? 🤞🏻 (apart from the current steampunk RPG ofcourse)
(one can only hope, since inXile was originally consisted of ex-Interplay & Black Isle devs, who worked on the OG 1980s Wasteland and 1990s Fallout 1&2 games)
Inxile has a steam punk rpg coming?
If true that's dope af. I always enjoyed their wasteland games I'm sure other stuff they've made to that I can't think of.
It's a lateral move anyway (both under the same umbrella). But makes me wonder what InXile is doing more than anything.
This site really is obsessed with individuals moving companies. Its an unfortunate truth in almost all industries that you can improve your terms and remuneration by moving rather than staying put.
Yeah but for game developers they usually get a big bonus once a game is released so one leaving this late in development could reflect that they don't think it will turn out well enough for the bonus to be worth sticking around for.
As an ex tech recruiter, that's not necessarily true. They can easily get a sign on bonus from the new company that would roughly match what they would've received should the game turn out successful.
They're still at Xbox. Pretty good chance they'll still get a bonus since the salary is handled by Microsoft.
Unfortunate? Seems pretty damn good for people to step back and try new things now and then. Maybe company B offered them more money for doing mostly what they were doing with company A.
That's why i said non news bc i knew ppl would view it as a negative. Starfield is done and InXile is a former Fallout dev and MS first party. This ain't really shit.
That would be cool. I hope it's medieval fantasy or steam renaissance. Something set in olden days. Not that I wouldn't play something with advanced tech but I prefer the former.
"I hope it's medieval fantasy or steam renaissance."
Possibly both. Rumors are that InXile is working on two RPGs. One is an established IP and the other is a new steampunk AAA RPG.
I'd prefer almost a future steampunk kind of setting. I personally just feel the olden days especially medieval games are a dime a dozen there's so many. Not to say I wouldn't play it
I don’t know if game journalists know this, but it’s quite normal for people in the industry to move between companies. Hell, some are only contracted for a single game and have to find another job after the project is finished.
Surprised you didn’t do an article about the Devil May Cry battle director jumping ship from Capcom to Square Enix
"I don’t know if game journalists know this, but it’s quite normal for people in the industry to move between companies."
So they shouldn't report on it? I don't know if you know, but it's quite normal for a news article to just be news.
Another one leaving Xbox 😯.
In a few years Xbox's Bethesda is going to be a shadow of their former group just like Rare.
"Another one leaving Xbox 😯."
Leaving Xbox to join Xbox? Not the flex I think you want here.
From GameWatcher: "Wasteland 3 developer inXile Entertainment is currently hiring for a new project based on "a very ambitious new license" with which it "aims to renew the RPG genre."
Several open positions for its new project are currently available, developer inXile Entertainment seeking to fill roles such as 3D environment artist, VFX artist, or combat engineer."
Fallout. It’s not a new IP, it’s a new “very ambitious” license. That or a marvel game. A turn based children of the atom X-men game.
I thought Brian Fargo was president of InXile?
Did he retire from the games industry for good? No more Bard's Tale?
I've been dying to play a great co-op game, it's been slim picking for co-op fans. I'm expecting a lot from this one, especially when I hear what Findley has to say about it!
There's not enough good co-op games out there. I really hope Hunted is going to be as good as they're saying.... I need something new to play with my husband.
"We’re co-op in that all of our special skills and abilities are designed to make you work together"
Great, but nothing new. Wow has been doing this since 2004.