General / Off-Topic New movie based FD game in development... guess the franchise!

xyphic

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Kaltern said:
If Frontier are getting paid lots of £££ for creating a tie-in game... they're going to do what every other game developer has ever done, and make a mediocre game to get the cash, and say in their next advertising for Elite and/or Planet Coaster - 'From the creators of "The Predator (2018 release)"'.....
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The announcement read to me like Frontier have paid for the licence, rather than being contracted for creating a tie-in game. Pretty sure at this point they won't want to be under the thumb of a publisher again, so they'll be making whatever this game is their way, with their own money.
 

xyphic

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Mengy said:
I guess from my point of view, when I see the state of Elite’s development today being behind schedule but still full of so much potential with lots of possible features and improvements, and couple that with the strong desire in the gaming community for great space games (look at NMS), to me it just seems like if Frontier would only increase development efforts on the Elite franchise (instead of diversifying the team onto other projects) then they could easily sell many more copies of it, not to mention ship kits, paint jobs, and other store merchandise. Frontier could easily corner the space game genre right now and strongly take the crown (and market) if they could only get their game under control, but spreading resources out onto new projects runs counter to that on top of adding a whole lot of risk.
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I know from long experience developing software that throwing resource at something doesn't necessarily make it happen faster or better. In fact, it's often to the detriment of a project as there's time required to get new team members up-to-speed, etc. You also have to remember that regardless of how much effort they throw at Elite, it's still something of a niche genre. They've sold something like 2 million copies of the game, and I'm not convinced that the cap for the game will be much higher without the obvious platform diversification that they're already tackling.

I suspect that the reason for delays are mostly technical. Getting multicrew working with their P2P architecture is probably nightmarish. Adding resource isn't going to get through those technical barriers any faster. It might help them to get ahead for work that's coming later, but I believe they already have that in hand. They'll have a team on 2.4, and a team working on the technology required for whatever next season is -- they won't want there to be a lot of dead air between the end of this season and the start of the next.

Mengy said:
I’ve seen studios in the past try to grow too fast and diversify too quickly when they still had projects which needed too much work or were having issues, and the result is almost always TWO franchises which fail due to strained resources and feature slip (stagnant development). I’d really hate to see Elite die a slow death, especially with the potential is has, simply due to Frontier trying to grab greener pasture just over the next hill when all they had to do was water the grass on the hill they were already standing on.
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The whole point of diversification is for risk mitigation. If they put all their eggs into the Elite basket, they have long periods without revenue. Without an ongoing monetisation strategy (subs, F2P type microtransactions, etc.), every day is a day closer to failure for the business. This will make them reticent to take risks, make them more likely to rush releases and a critical failure of one of their releases (e.g. if nobody buys into the next season) will put both the game and the company in peril. By diversifying (particularly into those areas where they have a lot of expertise) the goal is to have multiple revenue streams providing buffers for those periods when one or more streams aren't flowing.
 

playfuldreamer

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"Enduring" suggests to me that it's a dated property. Given FD's portfolio, it wouldn't surprise me to see Blade Runner (also note that the sequel/reboot is coming).
 

c00ky1970

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Like you say "Enduring" hints at something that was released ages ago...

"Driving Miss Daisy"

"Steel Magnolias"

"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"

"20,000 leagues under the sea" -although that might be quite good!
 

AgamemnonWhen

AgamemnonWhen
Anyone mentioned Robocop yet?

Much as I'd love another futuristic time-sponge, in common with many folk posting here I don't think it will be sci-fi themed.

My head says Jurassic Park is probably about the right ballpark for Frontier's skillset. My heart would love something else!

RPGs I would totally sell my young off to play:
WH40k Dark Heresy MMO (though the upcoming Inquisitor: Martyr will probably scratch that itch).
Space RPG franchises set in the Farscape, Firefly and/or Blade Runner universe (or, indeed, any good cyberpunk RPG).
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
playfuldreamer said:
"Enduring" suggests to me that it's a dated property. Given FD's portfolio, it wouldn't surprise me to see Blade Runner (also note that the sequel/reboot is coming).
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I would be v happy with this.... and alien, hell yeah! but honestly (and this is not a slur on FD) but do FD really have the money to buy rights to these?

IF FD were to stay scifi, which as I said I doubt, I would guess the suggestion someone else made of Firefly / Serenity is probably more likely
 

Andovar

Andovar
Boomer Kay said:
[woah][woah][woah]

Banana nananana....
An "Overlord" like Minion game? I salivate in anticipation.
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Just imagine how cool the avatar creator would be. I want one with three eyes! [haha]
Although all must be yellow. No skin color variations allowed, otherwise, what's the point? [wacko]
 

Boomer Kay

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Andovar said:
Just imagine how cool the avatar creator would be. I want one with three eyes! [haha]
Although all must be yellow. No skin color variations allowed, otherwise, what's the point? [wacko]
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Well, I can see that working very well with the PlanetCoaster crowd mechanics. Doing chaotic heists and other masterminded stuff.

Not too sure if that franchise would be up for licensing, though. Or affordable.
 
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