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XBOX 2024 Direct Officially Announced: January 18th (Featuring: Indiana Jones, Avowed, Hellblade)
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Nice. I hope it's good. Machine games lost the plot with Wolfenstein but hopefully they can get back on track.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
100 dollars
SEGAvangelist
Member
Even better. Can you imagine how good a game must be if released at that price? Wow!
EDIT: I forgot about Phantasy Star IV!
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Efren is G.O.A.T.
Member
Indiana Jones better be a point and click adventure game like Fate of Atlantis is!
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I am very curious to see more Avowed. Looked promising at the reveal, then like shit last time they showed it. I wanna see Obsidian return to form.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
er .. what ?
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
What? Two wasn't as good as the first and the third was worse.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Subjective but Two was better than the first, IMO.
The third was a victim of Bethesda shoehorning forced co-op experiences in games at that time, something other games like Far Cry: New Dawn also suffered, it was also a spin-off project, not a proper sequel.
DeepSpace5D
Member
I will definitely tune in to find out more about Avowed.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Excited to see Indy and Avowed, and hopefully a surprise or two. So, what is the current announced lineup for Xbox this year? Is there one? I thought we were now supposed to be in the phase of a big first-party game once a quarter.
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Well they want it to sell multiple millions so it'll be an exploration/action game with RPG elements.
RedC
Member
If I'm not mistaken, so far, the Xbox first-party games scheduled to release this year are:
Hellblade 2
MS Flight Sim 2024,
Ara: History Untold,
Towerborne
Indiana Jones and/or Avowed and/or another game or two may be confirmed this year as well.
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
That's the issue when you show a game that hasn't even started development. Early reveal teasers of what you want your game to look like in 5 years is never a great way to introduce an audience to a new IP. It's totally pie-in-the-sky and unrealistic, and they really ought to not do that anymore. It just leads to too much dissapointment.
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Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Phantom Abyss is basically a 1st person temple exploration game with a whip. But I don't expect Indy to be anything like that really.
We know so far of Indy, Avowed and Hellblade releasing this year. Some second party indies like Towerborne and 33 something.
Wouldn't be surprised to see Clockwork or South of Midnight, but unknown.
Been strongly hinted that we'll see trailers for Perfect Dark, and Gears this year, likely E3.
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
It looks like just Towerborne has an actual date. The rest are just generic "2024". Maybe this Direct will fill that in a little. It's a bit late to date any of the above for Q1, so that window has passed, unless they have something secret to drop on us, like they did with Hi-Fi Rush. But it makes me a bit nervous that we're going into February and not a single one of their big AAA games have a release window beyond "2024" or just nothing at all.
Punished Miku
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If I had to guess Avowed is virtually finished. If you put a gun to my head and asked what would be shadowdropped, I'd say Avowed on 1/18. But I don't personally expect any shadow drops.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Indy doesn't have a date. Not even a year. All we've heard is a rumor that it might be 2024.
Hudo
Gold Member
It is also highly likely that Age of Mythology: Retold is coming out this year.
It's been in development for quite a while. Adam Isgreen himself said that it's going to be remade on their current version of the Age 3 engine. And that we probably hear something about it in 24.
I also guess that if a new id Software game is announced (hopefully something Quake related), it is probably at QuakeCon.
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DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Would be amazing if they launched like 4 or 5 big ish games this year.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Yeah, they won't shadow drop a major game like that. Avowed is prolly second half of the year, at this point. May or June at the earliest, most likely.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Only reason I say that is because it didn't seem to market that well last time. I think it will do better when people play it. It's just a wild guess.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Put me in the category that I wish indiana Jones was third person. With maybe some fps sections.
I feel we need to see indie
I feel we need to see indie
Hudo
Gold Member
I think third-person is inevitable for an Indiana Jones game. I reckon they will be heavily inspired by Uncharted (which is ironic, I know) since Phil said once in an interview that he was envious of Sony's third-person action games.
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vaibhavpisal
Member
No shadow drop this year?
Or is it gonna be Indi?
Or is it gonna be Indi?
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
I thought people were saying it was first person. It would be awesome if it was third person. Just make a straight indy uncharted style. Shooting nazis, an awesome train level. All that classic Ness.
Punished Miku
Human Rights Subscription Service
Zero chance you shadow drop someone else's IP.
Topher
Identifies as young
You don't shadow drop a game like Indy.
Hudo
Gold Member
Well.. they bought Activision and Activision own Geometry Wars...
Hudo
Gold Member
They were?
SEGAvangelist
Member
Would be cool if you had to solve some neat puzzle for early access.
vaibhavpisal
Member
Need to see how it is. If it AAA big budget title then probably not.
HeisenbergFX4
Member
Then right after
ultrazilla
Gold Member
I hope MachineGames nails Indiana Jones. Xbox could use an "Uncharted" like action/adventure game.
This is footage from the cancelled Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings that was aimed at PS3/Xbox 360:
That looked pretty impressive for the time.
Makes me excited for what a possible Indiana Jones action game could play/look like.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Indy's only been in development for 3 years, right? No way it's coming out this year. I guess holiday would be almost 4 years. But that would include pre-production. Just seems way, way early to me.
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Negotiator101
Member
This would be a great time to announce going third party 
sorry couldn't resist laughing at the clowns 
Looks a great show, Microsoft are looking like having the best year yet.
sorry couldn't resist laughing at the clowns Looks a great show, Microsoft are looking like having the best year yet.
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Well, it's Machine Games. I think people just assumed (safely)?
But the rumors are that it's actually both. Which makes sense since Todd Howard has his hands in it.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Machine Games' last full game was in 2019, and that was a spin-off title.
This has been cooking for a while. It was originally supposed to release in 2022 before the Covid delays per the revelations in the acquisition fiasco.
They didn't preempt a shadow drop last year either, they only talked about a mystery 5th game in the actual Direct's opening.
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balls of snow
Member
Soiid. All games Im interested in playing
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
Excited to see Indy, especially if it is indeed this year
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Dr. Wilkinson
Member
That’s the thing about shadow drops. Won’t know it til it happens!
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
The reason I've mentioned it is cuz MachineGames don't have experience in making Uncharted / Tomb Raider-like games. I mean, it doesn't mean that the can't do that, but still, some of the devs sort of had some 3rd person experience during The Chronicles of Riddick and original Starbreeze era, but it wasn't full-fledged 3rd person gameplay. Anyway, we'll see, I hope for the best but I honestly don't even know what to expect from this game - I know what it should be about, how it should look like and the way I want it to be played, but can MachineGames actually do it right is anyone's guess before we could actually see raw gameplay footage.
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Punished Miku
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I have no idea. I basically was just expecting a less violent Wolfenstein with puzzles and platforming.