Something STRANGE Is Happening With Hellblade 2...
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Following last week's kerfuffle, all eyes are on Xbox's next big exclusive in Hellblade 2. It's a game that many are finding great concern with as Xbox seems to be shying away from this style of game. At the same time, marketing is at low and many wonder if the game is being sent out to die. For me, there's another angle that few are considering with a game of its smaller size.
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You look depressed eating that mush.
that tv dinner looks like ass
Matty where's Fallout 4 Next Gen Update 2 the second next gen update that's as broken as the 1st one.
Are you the reason why Hoarcrux got banned as a customer? Confess!!!!! 😡😡😡
Weres that fake outrage for the square Enix lay offs
Yep. Everyone thought they were buying studios. They were buying IP’s
Buying IP so competition doesn't get them till a year later
And they’re 100% going to sit on these IPs and do nothing once they shut down their studios.
@@e3vL1You are assuming they are going to make games based off those IPs 🎉
IPs relevancy fades away if there is no team to make a game from that IP. Look at banjo or perfect dark. Those IPs are mere shadows of themselves.
@@d.bcooper876 isn't the Perfect Dark sequel in development hell right now?
Matty you didn't see the picture of Tameem on a yacht surrounded by 20 supermodels? It's clear that he isn't pursuing creating other game studios
Good for him, best time to cash in an get out honestly.
One of the many pictures*
Bros living it up 24/7 lol
@@WVRLORD yea i mean... can't say I wouldn't have done the same lol
Id be partying too 😂
The game is on gamepass. Who eoukd the marketing be for? If you have ganepass you mite play it on pc or xbox. I think those players are aware of the game
Microsoft is about to execute order 66
They are just glorified Patent Barons.
How can Xbox expect ninja theory to perform well if the publisher (themselves) doesn’t market their own game just to later on shut them down due to not meeting their standards
I mean, I know they did that with HiFi rush, but they haven’t shut down Ninja Theory yet.
@ContrastCopy that's what he's saying tho their just repeating the same mistake
I agree. Since we should believe the opposite of what Phil Spencer says … it”s not just 4 games being released on PS. Hellblade 2 will release on PS5 within 4 to 6 months.
They know no one is going to play it. Think outside your bubble.
No one is going to buy it anyways. They will just play it for free.
Anyone who thought Hellblade would be Xbox's GOW didn't play or understand the first one. Hellblade was basically a walking sim(an amazing one) with light puzzle and combat elements. Gow is a totally different beast that appeals to a mass market. Hellblade was and will never be that.
People need to stop comparing one franchise to another and just let it live on its own standing. When I played Killzone I never had any thoughts about Halo, even though everyone was trying to push that bullshit narrative.
@WauwautosaTufGuy
It's not god of war, it's better.
I think ultimately this whole thing was just Microsoft showing their true colors; they are Patent Barons.
Phil SpRockefeller
Always have been, right from the 1980s. The company's success is founded 99% on strategic and skillful manipulation of American IP laws to engage in rent-seekign behaviour from other corporations, and 1% on spreadsheets.
Everything else has just been leveraging their bulk and market share, but every ounce of initial momentum came from lawfare.
@@Cryptic0013EXACTLY
As much as I like Phil, can’t help but feel we are finally seeing the full effect of his “hands off” approach to management
Just feels like Ninja Theory going away party tbh
Ninja Theory are doomed. Let's face it. They're fucked.
Agreed. Microsoft has proven they are incapable of managing dev teams. They need to clean house at the executive level at Xbox and Microsoft's Gaming division.
I believe they are being setup for failure, due to the lack of marketing.
I'm done with not only Xbox, but Microsoft.
@@GordonShemway1 It's not even so much that, but it's clear Xbox acquiring Activision has drawn the attention of Eye of Sauron like bean counters. These people are not going to look at a game getting 3 million playing "for free" on gamepass and going "That's brilliant". They're going to be like, well you didn't make any sales so here is the guillotine for you.
Ninja Theory has absolutely zero chance, especially if Matty is right that this is going to be 8 hours. They're going to make minimum sales and then get closed. They won't even be given a chance to do something else or try again.
Unless they're a big studio that owns an IP the upper echelons view as valuable, such as Fallout, they're going to get closed.
@@Turtlesism then idk why microsoft xbox is not making bethesda not take 15,000+ years to make a new fallout game. if they wanted fallout sales numbers, make a new fallout game. obsidian did new vegas in less than 2 years.
I miss the days when games were coming out and you got the game mags to see the games characters, maps, weapons etc etc. Then the game came out and you purchased it based off that. Now there 22 million people on RUclips, Twitter(X) etc just breaking down each frame, res, lighting. Then telling us what the devs should or could've done... Blah blah blah... SMH... In my opinion, this era is just trash... Every body is a dev, and everybody is a critic. Just throwing round bull$hit!
Yeah. It's hard to look forward to any content creator in the gaming space uploading because it'll be stuff like this. Like damn why can't we just be excited about it and see what happens at release 😭
Yeah, the community has really lost it's mind lately too. Insane speculation after insane speculation. Hate to say it, but Matty's lost the plot.
those magazine editors were paid by sony and the other game developers to write positive reviews, even for bad games. remember when independent playstation magazine, with its honest reviews, sold out to sony and was incorporated into the official sony playstation magazine? that was the end for me.
That's partially why I rarely watch reviews anymore & go into games as blind as can be. I form my own opinion. Far healthier that way. That's partially what made old school gaming awesome
Nintendo needs to bring back treehouse live. Those were great in depth looks at upcoming games.
This is disgusting, theyre buying all of these awesome studios, not doing anything at all with them and closing them? Ive always owned both an xbox and ps5 but this is literally destroying the video game industry
It literally is not. 😂
@@TheGreatOne-gw7xheh a little.
They did not buy these studios. They bought Call of Duty and King. That's what Microsoft wants. All other studios were included in the package and Microsoft doesn't want these studios. Therefore they get rid of them. Stop being naive. This has been decided months ago or even before the acquisition. They let them finish their project to fill the Game Pass and then it's the usual Microsoft hire and fire time.
That is what the woke are banking on... once everything we like is destroyed, they think people will just take their political propaganda and eat it up.
@@derjoghurtmitdereckeyou call it the usual but did it ever happen this often?
Microsoft/Xbox instantly killed any goodwill they had. I would have loved to be in the room when they made this decision to know exactly what transpired.
Xbox out here burying their own ass with their own shovel. Again.
Ninja Theory is next on the chopping block.
Order 1886 was absolutely destroyed for being a $60 game that was 7 hours long. This is going to be the exact same disaster
Full price for a 7 hr game deserves roasting no matter who does it..
The order was amazing! 😢
I think H2 is 50 dollar tho. But still high and digital only.
Hellblade is xbox exclusive so it's on gamepass. If you're on xbox and don't have gamepass what are you even doing??
But hellblade 2 not full price right. Thought it was 50 bucks. Could be wrong.
Describing it as "a game you play once" and it's $70 outside of gamepass and it took 7 years to make doesn't paint the most appealing picture
Sounds like a winner!
I don't understand why you and everyone else keeps saying this. Hellblade 2 is $50 not $70, not that it's a ton better for a one time 8 hour experience, but it is better
@@Duke4214 oof my bad I didn't know. The way it's online presence has been hyped up as the big competitive release for Xbox this year I genuinely thought it was $70 especially after the lengthy dev time
@Duke4214 it's really only 8 hours? I thought it was more like 13
@@SaintJoseph911 I saw an article saying 8-10 hours but I personally hope it's closer to 13. The article was kinda old so maybe it's old info
I'm calling it: The game has musical segments. That's why they're hiding the game.
or its just another walking simulator.
Imagine a "The Furies sing" chapter :)
Nutty chanting moments
They definitely just don’t want to spend any money on marketing for a 6 hour game going to gamepass day one not like anyone buys games on Xbox anymore when it’s all on gsmepass
@@isturbo1984walking simulator? Definitely can't beat the game by just walking.
There is no way this game sells over 3mil copies
I mean, it’s going to be on GamePass so that’s a given.
Maybe, if it comes to playstation
@@S1X_Bucks the only way but it would be 1 year later
It will have more players than the first did. Players
Isn't that obvious if it's going to Gamepass day one?
I respect any studio that can make a game that just ends when you beat it. when I was a kid I wanted every game to last forever and have endless content. as I've got older i really respect a studio that has the balls to just let their game end. they tell a story how they want to and it's just over, no need to replay it if you don't want to. You just get to move on and play something else that may be just as great. This push that every triple A game needs thousands of hours of potential, repeatable content with an accompanying monetization cycle is going to be the death of games that are actually interesting.
On a positive note, MS shouldn’t be allowed to buy anyone else, Hopefully
Microsoft will be buying Square-Enix to make sure no one plays Final Fantasy games ever again.
@@user-mw1pp9yh8x Dude YES 😂😂😂 WTF are they doing?! Imagine if they'd invested all that $$$ they blew away on Bethesda and Activision into their existing IP and franchises, idk like maybe HALO and Gears of War?
@@user-mw1pp9yh8x Sony will buy Square before Microsoft. I have a feeling the people that control the money have cut off the funding for gaming acquisitions after all the new studious have done little to move the needle for Xbox(other than COD) Microsoft seems like it is slowing going to becoming just a publisher which sux but it will happen if you get destroyed by Nintendo and Sony for the last 10 years
@@wesgeorge4112
You really shoulnt advertise how little you know
@@TOAOM123 Just relax don't get yourself all wound up over RUclips comments. Breathe! 😮💨
I'm willing to bet Ninja Theory gets shut down. For the last couple of years I checked Xbox Studios to see who's hiring, 2 weeks ago I noticed Tango, Arkane Austin, and Ninja Theory weren't hiring. I found that odd and a week later Tango and Arkane Austin were shut down. Ninja Theory getting cut next. Bleeding Edge failed a couple of years ago.
I feel like xbox shot themselves in the foot, there's really no reason to own an xbox anymore
I'm really hoping they turn it around with the Xbox showcase in a few months, hopefully they have a couple games that really make it all worth it again cuz I was just thinking the other day I have no idea why I bought my series X
There's no reason to own any console anymore. Just my opinion.
I dunno I still got one and really don't want a Playstation.
I just wanna guys I've loved Xbox ever since the first one. So I hope they can turn it around. Shocking behaviour!
They will be fine. You will see.
As much as I like Ninja Theory, I feel they're gonna get the cord unplugged, soon.
Ninja Theory is next on the chopping block, clearly. It’s a shame since Hellblade’s success paved the way for more AA games. Long story short is that Phil Spencer bet all in on GamePass and lost.
Please stop the misinformation. There’s no official report of ninja theory going anywhere and Xbox did not lost yet
What success? Lmfao
@olivierpayette4284 its not confirmed, but the likelihood is over 50% at this point
@@rewpertcone8243 no it’s not, you guys need to stop being drama queens every time Phil Spencer sneeze. ‘’ Phil Spencer scrat his arm ‘’ ps fanboys: What does this mean for the future of Xbox? Blah blah blah. It’s been the same story for 10 years and here we are
@olivierpayette4284 brother they shut down tan0go game works. The only good game xbox published last year was hi-fi rush. Starfield is mid and FM is broken
Pete hines knew. That man annoyed me but I will give him props, he was a gamer. He knew the microsoft merger was a bad idea and he didn't want a part of it
I had no idea Hellblade 2 was even coming out this month until Matty mentioned it on Defining Duke
MS literally saying, hey Ninja theory you are next.
You’re literally on every RUclips channel that talks negatively about Xbox aren’t you?
I’m definitely looking to your take on what Square Enix announced today.
A bit of advice matty, don’t microwave those plastic containers
It is sad to see the erosion of video games. Back in the late 80's/early 90's you could see passion. Sega/SNES/N64/PS1/PS2/Xbox/Gamecube. And then slowly in the mid 00's we began to see corporate take over. I think the vast majority of Devs have passion, but they are puppeteered by corporate and milked to make money instead of art. Worse of all is the idea that has crept into companies about having to make more money every year. Doesn't matter if you are making amazing profits, if it is not more than the previous year they view it as a loss. They buy studios as a currency bleed them dry and then fire the human component and stop other companies from making a great game. Indie is more important than ever. I was initially on board with all the buying of companies Microsoft did, but I soon saw the mistake I was making. While people like Phil may want to make games for gamers, he still answers to business men and women and is forced to make a profit. Microsoft will eventually focus on Bethesda and Activision blizzard, and let all other studios sink or swim with no help or money from Microsoft.
It is no longer an investment on money spent. It is acquire things, do not spend money and if they do not make a profit for you shutter them. Meanwhile the only winner is big corporations and the friends of these CEO's. The consumer loses, the developers lose, and really the industry as a whole loses.
I think something strange is happening with Microsoft full stop, for the amount of resources and developers they have.....well had anyway the output has been pretty poor and lets be honest I suspect there is a major management issue with many many developers and publishers with extremely protracted development time in many projects not to mention games being a development hell for a long time
I replayed Senua 1 multiple times in VR. Awesome experience.
Wait there's VR support for hellblade? I feel like a game changer considering the plot of the game.
Feels like Tango fate coming up
They want $50 for a 5-8 hour game. Thay bumped their heads.
Wait, Matty you're developing a game?!?
Its Joever for the Ninjas.
This game will be a good send off for Ninja Theory. I really liked DmC Devil May Cry and Hellblade 1.
Hellblade 2's release should be a time of celebration for the team that worked so hard to make it, but all they're probably thinking about now is if they'll still have a job this time next year...
Goodbye Ninja Theory😢
Don’t forget how we saw Fable last year at the Xbox event in June and haven’t seen anything else
Just reminds me microsoft messed up that studio also.
Got a feeling that game is going to be a flop
@@urekmazino6800it’s gonna be a flop because they are focusing on diversity and being woke, not focusing on story.
@@reticulizeta7351 and definitely not because the game is going through development hell, and the turnover of employees including creative leads, not that at all, because you know better!
@@reticulizeta7351touch grass brother, “Wokies” aren’t real monsters
People on Reddit laughed at me when I said "I thought because they had Microsoft behind them that Hellblade 2 would be more like God Of War" I figured if they did what they did on Hellblade with a small budget imagine Hellblade 2 with a big budget. I thought from the first trailer that the big thing crawling towards them meant more boss fights or something. I was wrong, Ninja theory made the same again.
Agreed. I'll be happy with it because I loved the first game but I was hoping that they'd turn it into a big AAA full featured game.
It just can't be GOW. Hellblade combat was not its main point, it was environment and story telling, along with her mental battles with Furies and Darkness. They could have made 20 hour RPG but Senua could never move like Kratos and fight like him, she can't jump around Giants and use godly powers, at most she can use some focus time which she obtained possibly due to her experience as warrior.
Meaning that she is human, her actions were limited. Its not some Epic Game where you are fighting Gods, its just a game where you are fighting Humans appearing as Gods and Demons in Senua's eyes. It is also likely that for most game she is just slashing her sword in some empty forest. It sounds pathetic? Maybe, but for her and players she was just fighting Darkness.
@randomguy_069 it's a videogame. It can be whatever needs be. Now they'll get shutdown because they have no vision
@@Velly2g Nah, issue is that they had vision. But Microsoft overblown it. Touted it as best thing in Xbox when it was just a unique game which can not appeal to mainstream masses.
@@Velly2g
You are an impressively simple person
The biggest mistake those studios (Ninja Theory included) made was to join the money hungry company that is Microsoft.
100% agree they do not want to go crazy with marketing because of the 8 hour length. Ninja Theory should be very worried about their future. It took them a LONG time to make an 8 hour game.
Am I the only one who remembers Games For Windows Live? I'm scared, but I think this is where they're going. Now, Microsoft has everything Xbox has...
So it's not going to be Playstation vs Xbox. It's going to be Playstation vs Nintendo and PC on TOP.
lol did you even hear the news about square enix no its not at all the gaming industry is having a huge downturn atm, it was only a matter of time.
Its already like this tho.. Xbox market share has always been the worst, they just appear bigger than they are as a marketing tactic..
MS always had everything Xbox has. you just figure that out?
With todays economy pc is gonna take a huuuge hit nobody paying 4k$
I recently tried Hellblade 1, its not for me matty. Hope everyone that likes the first game, gets a really good game. enjoy gamers!
Gameplay is so bad. Graphics and story were fine. But gameplay needs a huge improvement
@@mrdee2454 which it doest have... they didnt explain how it was improved so i'm expecting the same trash gameplay
@@mrdee2454 the story sucked. Way too predictable. I didn't like the level design and puzzles either.
@@mrdee2454 Eh, story was bad too. Atleast speaking from someone with a more knowledgable experience of the subject.
95% of gamers won’t play it either. Mattys bubble is bursting
The issue is not just the quantity of ads but also the quality. What happened to the "believe" ads from the 360 generation that Microsoft did for Halo? or any of the high-production ads for Halo Reach and ODST. They've been replaced with boring focus-grouped ads with no art to them at all.
Hey, i need to know what's the song in the background...
I’ve seen more Making of / behind the scenes videos for Hellblade than actual gameplay. Yes the graphics look good and it has a story but is it good to play. Hellblade isn’t a console seller or games pass seller, it’s a tech demo for Unreal 5 funded by Microsoft. If you want to make a animated movie make a animated movie not a game pretending to be one. This game desperately wants to be Microsoft’s “Last of Us” moment.
I think the reason that Starfield didn't move the needle is because it's a massive piece of shit. If Microsoft was capable of making a good game then they could increase subscriptions for sure.
meanwhile GP sales shot up after it's release. and sold more than most Sony titles. got any more dumb takes?
@@tede1838 Is that even true? Matty has said multiple times that Starfield didn't improve GP subs, I doubt he's been lying. Also, is it really a dumb take to suggest that making good games would increase subs?
Crazy hyperbole. Starfield was a good game that got review bombed to hell. Same with Halo Infinite. Having a limited MP offering at launch suddenly means a game totally sucks? Such a crazy narrative.
@@MasterofLightningHali infinite was not a good game, story-wise, gameplay wise or multiplayer wise. Have played every single one and this is by far the worst (maybe apart from 5) in the series. And I can’t believe people are defending starfield, it’s a terrible boring mess
@@tede1838most sources put the games sales at 2.5-3 million that’s not great especially for a Bethesda game
Matty's acting job eating the microwaved dinner >>>
Wouldn't Xbox marketing have to exist to be shutdown?
Xbox is falling apart and it sucks. But it’s been happening since 2013
Yeah, it's been a long road. It's a bit odd, but vindicating, that's there's such an apparent discussion about it now.
I'd argue even before that with the Kinect "new xbox experience" 360 stuff towards the end.
What hurts is it got better for a little while. Backwards compatibility, day and date on PC, cross saves between console and PC, cross progression, cross play with tons of games, and some franchises coming back. Then ABK finally passed and we got excited for what all we will get. HI Fi Rush was finally an Xbox 360 Era hit! Then they just dove off a cliff and it has been bad ever since.
The 50-60% failure rate on their 360's didn't help either. Had to go through 3 of them myself.
I mean its also been happening to Sony/Playstation. Atleast Xbox is better about releasing games on PC and they dont actively hateblame their audience like Sony does.
"Hellbalde 2 is the God of War moment for Xbox!"
Best joke I heard this year!!!
i know right? even the first one was better than God of War. hell, even Ryse shit on God of War.
@@tede1838Those are some interesting delusions you've got there.
@rjproduction486
God of war is now just another copy and paste bore fest, the GDC presentation of the game loop was hilarious.
I gotta point out, Hellblade Senua's Scarifice had 1 trailer from Xbox, 1 from Ninja Theory and 2 (that I could find) from Playstation (1 from EU, 1 from NA)
Hellblade 2 will be Ninja Theories perfect swan song
This is how it should be, millions in marketing is worthless.
One of my favorite games, Edith Finch, is 2 hours, so...
I love that game. Unless you’re skipping cutscenes and dialogue that should take more than 2hrs though.
Edith Finch is quality, I also enjoyed Abzu, that was only a couple of hours.
So...?
Your in the minority buddy nobody paying 70 for a 2 hour game and nobody likes a 2 hour game but niche players
@@fabolousjada5070Edith finch isn’t 70$ and hellblade 2 won’t be 2 hours
WTF , the game will release next week and yet there is no gameplay showcase!!!
That's a mistake for sure.
The gameplay was by far my least favourite aspect of the first game, and I've yet to see any reason why this would be any better. Maybe some people like it, but it's hardly the selling point.
Seeing a Hellblade advertisement on this video.. oh the irony.
Truly think people just create problems that don’t exist to pile on for engagement. Quite literally remember people saying they were tired of seeing so much of Hellblade at the showcases
So you buy premium to avoid ads. And they still hit you with ads....😢
Ikr??
Or, you know, just use an Adblock extension.
@@stuckintheinbetweenYT runs sluggish anymore with adblock
@@abstr4cted496 Runs the same as always for me.
Change your browser - if you use Brave you won't see any ads and it's actually quicker since it blocks all cookies and trackers too. It is free and was set up by the guy behind Firefox.
Shakes his head thinking 'this chicken taste like sh**'
It looked vile
Xbox posted a story on instagram today - with the game's art on the corner and the console as the main image lol
Where do i recognise thet background music from? Is it Skyrim?
Yeah its Skyrim.
Cant wait to play this on PlayStation
No sir
@@kingsleyjackson8287yes sir lol
I think the less marketing, the less scenes from the game shown, the less we know, the better. I'm the same with movies. I HATE when trailers basically tell you the whole story, or when there is too much hype. There is NO way to live up to that when a movie/game does come out. Under-promise and over-deliver is always best (as with Hellblade 1).
Also the puzzles were the best parts of the first game. Without them, it's just another third person fighting type game... boring.
That 30 fps though is the real deal breaker.
I understand your POV, but the casuals won't know of its existence without proper marketing. It's one of the biggest reasons why Hi-Fi rushed bombed
I’d hate to see studios stop making games like Hellblade 2 and HiFi Rush. Shorter games, and/or quality games by smaller studios, are important.
I hope that if Mucrosoft will EA Ninja Theory and decide to cut them after Hellblade II, that someone from the studio will start found raise so that all of us who are fans of the Studio could could come together in support and help them open a new independent studio with all the og members still working together.
I feel so bad for the folks at studios like Ninja Theory, Obsidian etc. Its clear that Microsoft has no intention of supporting smaller IPs like that anymore. Has to be absolutely soulcrushing knowing that no matter how well Hellblade 2 does, you're probably getting shuttered in a matter of months. What a damn shame.
Xbox has been hyping this game up since they started the gen. Heck, they announced their new system with this game. Definitely weird.
Given that two of the first four games they've ported recently are by Obsidia and anither was fron Tango, I'm very worried.
I'm still calling it: Ninja Theory is done for. I think Hellbalde 2 will release, be critically successful, sell 2-3 million copies + Gamepass, and I think that will fall short of Microsoft's aspirations of minimum 5-10 million. It's not one of their core strong IPs and doesn't seem like it can be used to recoup the acquisitions Microsoft Gaming has made. You can save money by shutting it down though, you'll still have the IP if you wanna do something with it.
It won’t sell millions since it’s launching into gamepass. That will cannabilize the majority of potential sales it would otherwise have. What will happen is they’ll boast shortly after launch that “X amount of players played Hellblade2” and then shortly after Ninja Theory will be shuttered. I just hope we get a PlayStation port before then.
Less than 250k sales
@@balaam_7087 damn, I didint think I was the optimist here! I do feel Ninja Theory's pedigree and the first game's following will secure decent sales... but we all seem to agree that whatever they are, it won't be enough.
Hold on, 8 - 10 hrs! so how much are they planning to charge for this glorified tech demo?
If this comes out on release day for the PS5, I'd buy it at full price.
I won't be buying it if it's coming out a year from now at full price. Not after I've already seen people playing it on yt and Twitch
I still don't understand how it took them, what... 6 years to develop an 8 hour or so game. Very inefficient (even factoring in Covid). Yeah, if that's the pace they work at now, then MS very well might get rid of them. I'm saying that with a sad face because i'm a fan of their prior games. In terms of storytelling and technology Ninja Theory is up there with the best. I had hoped they would grow under MS to a fully AAA game studio again. Alas, looks like that will never happen. Sure, indie has its place but i feel like they should do the big stuff, there is so much potential in that studio. Oh, well...
I wonder though. Usually with big Dev times like this, the team spend a long time familiarising themselves with the engine and the new tech they are building. It might mean their next game/games might have a shorter turn around.
At least that's what I hope. Feels like the best story to tell to get Microsoft off their backs.
Prolly cuz you dont know anything about the dev process
Literally zero gameplay one week from release
They have, it's cleverly intertwined with cinematics so it doesn't appear to look like gameplay.
You're blind I guess. They've shown plenty, too much actually.
@@cun7usso its NOT gameplay
@@fabolousjada5070 yes it is.
They could be releasing behind the scenes documentaries, doing events for the game, anything that doesn't require showing gameplay. But it's pretty clear they're not willing to spend the money to market this game. I wish Ninja Theory went back to the size they were of the DMC days, so they could at least stand a chance, but they're clearly getting axed
I really liked the first one, but I’m not touching this until they give it 60 fps
8-10 hours is perfect. I'm so sick of having to invest 100 hours to a game with hundreds of games in my library I want to play. Hellblade 1 was short but left a mark. Something longer games with grinding and fetch quests don't do
@BobDole-gz4kk 2 years of covid restrictions, pushing unreal engine 5 which was not a thing 7 years ago, small studio, mocap, filming on location in Iceland and not just some crappy AI landscape etc. Don't expect this to take the same time as a large studio doing the bare minimum and utilising the same engine and assets as previous games.
And if you break down many of those large games to their real length and not their bloated length, they are pretty much only 10 hours long narratively speaking. But all the grinding and fetch quests ruin what could have been a tightly polished experience.
Why are ten hours and a hundred hours the only options?
Amen, I want shorter & better experiences, not longer ones
@@gavinhillickit's the way 100 hour games get praised for being value for money despite even if they are needlessly padded with bloat and shallow as a puddle
If Hellblade 1 was even twice as long at 20 hours it would have overstayed its welcome. Its length was just right. Games need to be judged on the quality of their gameplay/storytelling - not some arbitrary run time figure - as every game is different.
@BobDole-gz4kk lol the number of hours develop should equal to play time good lord. But hey yall want them bloated games with collect 100 feathers type stuff and think its well worth the price.
Fully Overblown issue.
this. but at least the Ponybots get to vent in the chat.
Fr
Holo wouldn’t simp for garbage like Xbox
Not simping
Still saying it's an issue, I think they should have had a four week advertising window instead of the two week advertising window we are getting.
The issue is overblown though, mostly due to clear hypocrisy. Other companies do the same thing, yet hypocrites do not care. Only when Xbox does it, then it is a Cardinal sin.
Also Holo would not simp for anything, Xbox, Playstation, PC, or Nintendo.
@@sleepngnight Holo would simp for the Apple salesman
Wasn’t there a rumor that Ninja Theory was going to close by the end of the month? Or at least have layoffs?
I'm so happy I got to grow up with the Xbox360 generation.
What would RUclipsrs do without Factor😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Who actually buys that shit I wonder? 🤣
I can't imagine being so busy I couldn't make pasta with fresh ingredients that I could eat for a week after
I swear they're not marketing the game so they have a "valid" excuse when they shut them down.
I think it's already a done shut down deal (in microsofts secret meetings)
Is the background music in this video the Manaan track from KOTOR 1? 🐐
I gotta be honest,I dont think it even looks that graphically appealing. Kind of reminds me of a Dark Pictures Anthology game. Which isnt bad, but its not like its gorgeous.
I'm so psyched to play this game.
I just replayed hellblade 1 last week because I forgot what happened 😂, it’s been 7 years since I played it on the ps4, I just replayed it on game pass on the series x and it is a gorgeous game for being 7 years old 👍🏼
The marketing just beginning less than 2 weeks out from launch is very concerning. I get they may have little to market but I haven’t even seen them aggressively marketing that even.
I played the first one over the weekend excepting to not really care for it but I was very wrong. I really liked it and I’m looking forward to the second. The issue imo is games like this shouldn’t take years and years to create.
There's a lot of revisionist history around Hellblade, it was a decent game, nothing special. It was impressive as a AA game but the gameplay was stiff, repetitive and the FMV stuff was cheap looking. But people now talk about it like it was a AAA masterpiece. Makes me wonder how many people actually played it.
I saw some cool clips
I saw a comment elsewhere under this video that says the majority of people think the first game is a masterpiece. There was no evidence provided.
Why be an Xbox fan at this point😭
And it’s wierd to care. Touch grass
WTF
This is the best looking game that showed that first trailer in that time!
The Last of Us 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding, God of War even PS4 game Uncharted 4 looks incredible than this
Ninja Theory is an R&D studio for Xbox. The tech they have developed will be useful in other studios and their experience will be invaluable.
Dunno. This does seem like jumping on the negativity band wagon to me. We'll find out in a couple weeks.
I think people need to calm down and understand that ARKANE as a whole is not gone. Ninja Theory was an Independent studio that was bought not a sub dev team like Tango, Arkane Autsin and the other 2.
thats a good point. people thin when Microsoft bought Zenimax, all of their studios got redistributed as equal and independent studios under the greater Microsoft Game Studios banner. they aint.
No reason to try to reason with irrational fanboys. They’re all executives and top tier business men. 😂 The funny part is how they ignore the fact that the whole gaming industry is in just as big of a struggle while constantly talking about Xbox like they’re the only ones.
@@Jpilgrim30 it's insane to thin Microsoft is sitting with nearly 40 studios and people are expecting them to give each one a minimum of $100 million each to make a game. There is going to be cuts and closures. Because they have waaaaaaaaaaaay to many devs. Ninja Theory has a proven track record. Highly doubt they would shut them down because people are afraid Hellblade 2 will fail. Microsoft has only been shrinking ABK and Zenimax subsidiary studios that haven't made or built anything. Now Tango I do not understand that. But nevertheless, Microsoft still owns the Ips.
It's very sad
The game looks like a real work of art
Imagine taking years to make a 5hours long game 🤣🤣
10:20 LOL who in the world thought that hellblade 2 would be Xbox god of war moment 😂😂😂
Yeah I watch console fanboys for fun and even I never heard about that
Oh I actually do remember these influencers actually comparing them due to over-the-shoulder camera and better graphics than the PS4 games.
Just saying some people are crazy, and I'm not crazy for saying that.
I bet Matty thought it was.
@@acev3521pc gets game late on a 4k$ rig and sitting on a desk all day sucks lol
i've played the God of War reboots. even the first Hellblade was far better.
I Don’t Get The Hate .. I’ve It Downloaded .. Very Excited & It’s Only £40 🎉
What hate? It's the lack of hate/interest in marketing that he is talking about. Why do people think just talking about something critically means you hate it?
@deathproof8732 the constant creation of narratives and fixation on negatives is hate. Xbox posts the game which was seen by thousands but its bad because it's not proper " marketing "
@@deathproof8732I'd say it's deep-seated insecurity that people assuage by identifying with some particular group, and MS is making that very hard to maintain.
@MrMattyPlays Have you by any chance, any info about "State Of Decay 3"? I really hope it won't be cancelled.
I still feel they could do more. They obviously felt the studio was worthy of purchasing to make exclusive and then they make this game for you and barely push it out regardless of how much content is in the game. You can still push and market a game without spoiling much about it.
They can do it for a film 1.5-2 hours long. A game shouldn't be so hard.