Midnight Suns (Marvel X-com Game) December 2nd

[Rell84shots]

Picked this up from the current sale and it's pretty damn good. At first I was a little upset because of the gameplay since I prefer free flowing combat, but I have MUA 1&2 & the Avengers game for that. The card based system is actually cool and very strategic.

 

[Cuban Pete]

Game literally made me put respek on Doctor Stranges name

 

[Rell84shots]

Deadpool is legit too.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I’ve rarely seen someone play this game and not like it, its a shame we won’t get more

 

[Rell84shots]

I’ve rarely seen someone play this game and not like it, its a shame we won’t get more

The Avengers game plus poor marketing doomed it, but it does seem like it's reaching cult classic status.

 

[Cuban Pete]

I’ve rarely seen someone play this game and not like it, its a shame we won’t get more

Is Firaxis working on anything new?

I feel like a dark fantasy X-Com like would HIT BOY

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Is Firaxis working on anything new?

The leads left to start another company and a lot of the staff left with him or got laid off also, so its not looking good

Firaxis vet Jake Solomon unveils new studio making a 'life sim' game

Firaxis veteran Jake Solomon and several former colleagues have founded Midsummer Studios and are making a run at The Sims.

www.gamedeveloper.com

Firaxis hit by layoffs after Midnight Suns disappointment and departure of iconic creative lead

Around 30 devs have lost their jobs at the company.

www.pcgamer.com

Firaxis senior franchise producer Garth DeAngelis leaves studio after 14 years | Game World Observer

Garth DeAngelis has stepped down from his role as a senior franchise producer at Firaxis. He spent 14 years at the company working on the XCOM series and Marvel’s Midnight Suns.

gameworldobserver.com

 

[Flexington]

I wish we got an X-men version of this game

The social dynamics would work well for the Xavier School

 

[Cuban Pete]

The leads left to start another company and a lot of the staff left with him or got laid off also, so its not looking good

Firaxis vet Jake Solomon unveils new studio making a 'life sim' game

Firaxis veteran Jake Solomon and several former colleagues have founded Midsummer Studios and are making a run at The Sims.

www.gamedeveloper.com

Firaxis hit by layoffs after Midnight Suns disappointment and departure of iconic creative lead

Around 30 devs have lost their jobs at the company.

www.pcgamer.com

Firaxis senior franchise producer Garth DeAngelis leaves studio after 14 years | Game World Observer

Garth DeAngelis has stepped down from his role as a senior franchise producer at Firaxis. He spent 14 years at the company working on the XCOM series and Marvel’s Midnight Suns.

gameworldobserver.com

Was holding out for a sequel to this since that ending is kinda... open to say the least

Open the world up more and have you choose between different Marvel teams to interact with

Avengers
X-Men
Fantastic Four
Midnight Suns
Spider-Family
Defenders

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Was holding out for a sequel to this since that ending is kinda... open to say the least

Yeah, the post credit scene had me hype. Oh well

what makes it worse is that all these people left to not make x-com style games so…

 

[Rell84shots]

The leads left to start another company and a lot of the staff left with him or got laid off also, so its not looking good

Firaxis vet Jake Solomon unveils new studio making a 'life sim' game

Firaxis veteran Jake Solomon and several former colleagues have founded Midsummer Studios and are making a run at The Sims.

www.gamedeveloper.com

Firaxis hit by layoffs after Midnight Suns disappointment and departure of iconic creative lead

Around 30 devs have lost their jobs at the company.

www.pcgamer.com

Firaxis senior franchise producer Garth DeAngelis leaves studio after 14 years | Game World Observer

Garth DeAngelis has stepped down from his role as a senior franchise producer at Firaxis. He spent 14 years at the company working on the XCOM series and Marvel’s Midnight Suns.

gameworldobserver.com

The bigger issue is just how unstable the gaming industry has become over the last decade. Whole teams/studios are being wiped out off of one bad game or slow sales.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

The bigger issue is just how unstable the gaming industry has become over the last decade. Whole teams/studios are being wiped out off of one bad game or slow sales.

the marvel license surely didn’t help. A lot of these licensed games feel like the big nail in the coffin for developers these days, its not gonna be worth it to pay disney/marvel/lucas films those incredibly high licensing cost anymore since the games don’t guarantee people even being mildly interested in them anymore.

people don’t talk about that part. just like how a lot of studios took too long to put out certain live service games there’s also studios who are getting murdered under the licensing fee’s they thought would pay for itself 5-6 years ago

 

[42 Monks]

The bigger issue is just how unstable the gaming industry has become over the last decade. Whole teams/studios are being wiped out off of one bad game or slow sales.

jake simply didn't want to do it anymore

and it makes sense - xcom2/wotc were basically perfect and became a tentpole for the entire genre lol. if you and your team want to do something else after knocking it out of the park like that, you deserve to be able to

if they wanted to keep making similar games he'd have been poached long before leaving

 

[Rell84shots]

the marvel license surely didn’t help. A lot of these licensed games feel like the big nail in the coffin for developers these days, its not gonna be worth it to pay disney/marvel/lucas films those incredibly high licensing cost anymore since the games don’t guarantee people even being mildly interested in them anymore.

people don’t talk about that part. just like how a lot of studios took too long to put out certain live service games there’s also studios who are getting murdered under the licensing fee’s they thought would pay for itself 5-6 years ago

I knew the Avengers game was doomed when people expected the characters to look like the MCU actors. I actually liked the game and was looking forward to all the post launch DLC. Both of these games could've had a big resurgence if the support had continued.

 

[SupaHotIce]

I wish we got an X-men version of this game

The social dynamics would work well for the Xavier School