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The Last Son Podcast Ep. 3 - Why Xbox Will Prove The Naysayers Wrong

On the latest Last Son of Planet Xbox show, Kal explains why he feels reassured Xbox is on a path to success despite the naysayers.

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RainbowBrite2183d ago (Edited 2183d ago )

I love these "Ambassadors" podcasts, they are always agreeing with each other comments.

JaguarEvolved2183d ago

Five years in and Xbox one will prove what? That it's an utter failure. Every Microsoft game this gen has been a few mediocre game with a lot of rubbish. Nothing made was great

Lenrulesdaworld2183d ago

I'm not an ambassador, I'm the host and creator of The Inner Circle Podcast and Ticgamesnetwork, I run my own business and organization for gaming. This podcast is just one of a network of shows that caters to different gamer's and platforms. This just focuses on Xbox and our connects at Xbox/MS.

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PhoenixUp2183d ago

So you think naysayers were sprouting nothing but BS for the past five years? That’s half a decade you know

Lenrulesdaworld2183d ago

It hasn't been five years, no one was saying this five years ago. People are expressing that xbox wont make single player games and they don't care about their 1st party and its not true. I'm explaining that people are wrong, they have been restructuring since Phil took over and a lot of mistakes had to be rectified. Its not easy being a division that was running through windows. Now its it's own division with in Microsoft, Phil has Satya's ear and a lot will be revealed at E3. I speak about it all in the show, I can't actually talk about my convo with the exec but i'm breaking down what we spoke about the best way I can without giving away my source or what was said. If guys need proof of my clout with Xbox, just look up tic podcast.

slate912182d ago

I completely agree with you. They needed to really change the direction of the sinking ship. It just took a lot of time and trimming the "fat" off.

morganfell2182d ago (Edited 2182d ago )

Phil can't prove anyone wrong. Only good games on store shelves can do that.

And another thing. Stop acting like Phil wasn't one of the chief acolytes to the previous disaster. He was just the next piece of cheese in the tube when they cut off Mattrick. And its been 5 years. This sounds like Obama blaming bush 7 years later. At some point you own it and Phil owns this mess.

You do not get to hype Scalebound then later say hype killed the game. You do not get to say after Scalebound that you need to take more risks then fall back on timed exclusivity and the same old IPs.

People like you and your podcast are why MS keeps doing this. You are an enabler. Stop excusing their behavior. You need to give them the hot poker. They'll either really get off their ass and do the right thing (which would be good for all gamers) or they will quit the business allowing a new entry (which would be good for gamers). But continually drinking the kool aid and trying to persuade others to take a sip it it detrimental to gaming. Put your pom poms down and stop cheering until the team takes to the field. Force them to deliver, not just promise. When these MS announcements show up on store shelves then you can do the human pyramid and yell yeah team.

PhoenixUp2183d ago (Edited 2183d ago )

It’s been five years since E3 2013 when Xbox One started getting all the naysayers. You can’t do basic math?

I’m not even talking about Microsoft’s attitude towards single player games, I’m talking about the general public’s attitude towards Xbox One in general.

Microsoft has had five years to to deliver a frequent supply of quality first party titles. Not only that they reported they spent $1 billion towards exclusives in 2013. To top it all off before that they cut off first party support for Xbox 360 in its golden years to focus on the next console. Despite all that they’re still coming up short in providing frequent system selling exclusives like their competitors.

It seems really incredidulous to say the naysayers don’t have any credible reasons to be skeptical. Windows didn’t prevent Microsoft from producing quality first party content last generation, so that’s a really flimsy excuse to bring up now.

Lenrulesdaworld2183d ago (Edited 2183d ago )

But if you listen to the show, it has nothing to do with what Xbox did 5 years ago, this is about E3 and what people have been saying in relation to gaas and single player titles. That's the point of the podcast & the title as I address those things, would be better to listen than go off the title alone. And last generation MS produced
great content, might want to look at those numbers and meta if thats how guys judge things. MS was no slouch on 360 far from it. And they came out the gate with good titles this gen, remember sony is the ones who recognized that had sparse line ups prior to 2017. Just saying it's easy to bypass something you may not have interest in but 5 years ago at launch, yes the platform started terribly and that's acknowledged. However they delivered quality titles almost every holiday til 2017 & now 2018 has been up and down critical but base was decent. Windows did stand in there way and they even acknowledge that once they got free from the division. Trust and believe, I know this 1st hand.

RpgSama2182d ago

@Lenrulesdaworld

"However they delivered quality titles almost every holiday til 2017"

Wow! So impressive!!, In almost every holiday (not even all of them) they delivered quality titles, what about the other 10 months of the year of every year? What about the holidays that they didn't delivered anything? For you guys having maybe 2 good games (not great, just good) a year + a Forza is enough, which is so sad

xX-oldboy-Xx2182d ago

@Lenrulesdaworld - It's not what happened 5 years ago, it's what's continued for 5 years. Coming out of the gate with a few titles at the expense of 80million 360 owners is not the way you treat your customers.

Trust & believe you say, ok - I'll give them and your words the benefit of the doubt. But what's next if they don't deliver at E3? What happens if Sony AND Nintendo expose MS for the gaming frauds they are?

stuna12182d ago

Yeah right! They've been proving the naysayers wrong for the past few years already!/s

Atticus_finch2182d ago

I hear rumors that Xbox is opening a new studio lead by Logan paul, to develop Halo 6.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken3d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty3d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken3d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty3d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken3d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0072d ago (Edited 2d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken2d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot2d ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto2d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer2d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek2d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken2d ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie2d ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12083d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast3d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit3d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export3d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2033d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann Says AI Will 'Revolutionize' Development

Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'

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Jin_Sakai5d ago

I’m more interested in what else he said.

“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’

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H94d ago

It will be something like "we erased gameplay all together it's just a movie now"

purple1014d ago

every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'

from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4

and now we will see what they do with ps5,

H94d ago

Press X for doubt at "PS5"

-Foxtrot4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me

You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.

It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.

senorfartcushion4d ago

Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.

You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.

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Levii_924d ago

Geez how full of themselves are these guys.

Einhander19724d ago

He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.

CrimsonWing694d ago

I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.

Chard4d ago

Things will get far sloppier brother

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The Witcher 3 REDkit Q&A - CDPR & Yigsoft Confirm Steam Workshop Support; Further Changes Planned

CD Projekt RED and Yigsoft have launched The Witcher 3 REDkit on PC. We interviewed both studios to discuss the release of these mod tools.

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