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Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision

kotaku.com Every Franchise Xbox Now Owns After Buying Activision

From Call of Duty to Fallout and beyond, Microsoft has swallowed up a lot of popular and successful video game franchises

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Microsoft spent 69 Billy just so they could finally own geometry wars, change my mind.

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- XBLA goat
  
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- Microsoft can FINALLY make the Zork sequel we've all been waiting for
  
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- Candy Crush Saga. Guaranteed.
  
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  Gonna get automatically re-installed with every single Winfows update for all of eternity.
  
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- Ballmer actually really wanted that THPS 3&4 remaster.
  
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- The music from that game started to play in my head when I read this.
  
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COD suddenly overrated to PlayStation owners.

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- Name a good game by a Microsoft studio from the last 5 years that isn't by Obsidian or someone who used to work at Obsidian
  
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  Psychonauts 2.
  
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3D Ultra Pinball

Come on, how can they list that and not the masterpiece that is 3D Ultra Minigolf?

Seriously though, they're at least missing quite a bit of Sierra stuff there. Like Impressions Games city builders, or The Incredible Machine.

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Look at them including perfect dark in the list as if they'd have the balls to make another sequel after they botched the last one after essentially using it as a launch exclusive title for the 360... such a shame. Perfect dark 64 was a masterpiece.

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- Unless it got canned, they do be making another Perfect Dark
  
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- Ultimately the problem with Perfect Dark as a franchise is that everyone who made it great went off and formed Free Radical and made the TimeSplitters games.
  
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Wonderful news, I sure did want all those franchises that I loved to be turned to shit before being shelved for eternity.

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- Blizzard has already been doing that for a while. Also failing with new franchises, not investing in their core games, half assing releases. I hope they actually turn things around for games like Starcraft, Diablo, HotS etc
  
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  Blizzard would never have done that if Activision hadn't been allowed to buy them. The new conglomerate will be worse than we anticipate in the same way Activion-Blizzard was.
  
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- "If there are fewer and fewer games coming out that are more and more exclusive people will just have to buy an Xbox!" --an MBA, probably
  
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- Most of those are already shit (Fallout, Diablo, Overwatch, call of duty) or shelved 25+ years ago (Commander Keen, Hexen, Phantasmagoria...). Microsoft's own games are rather good compared to Activision Blizzar or even Bethesda.
  
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So many dead franchises. The videogame industry really went in an unexpected direction...

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- Imagine all the money stupidly left on the table. All because they refuse to accept long term investment over short term gains.
  
  So much money these franchises could have made - if they were given an honest chance
  
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There was a glimpse of prototype in that trailer and I can only dream of a new version of that game

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I'm surprised I have avoided being invested in any of these franchises.

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- It's probably because so many of them are mediocre or don't really exist as modern games. It's kinda sad that out of that list, there are so few 10/10 series there.
  
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- So you've never played Fallout: New Vegas?
  
  Wow, just wow. You're missing out.
  
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  I haven't. I did try Fallout 4 but it just wasn't for me.
  
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  That's Obsidian
  
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I remember buying a Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro joystick that came bundled with Interstate '76... Hey MS, up for a revival?

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- I kid you not, that joystick and MS Flight Simulator 2004 got me through flight school and several ratings.
  
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I’m voting for them to revive Soldier of Fortune!

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- I see your SoF and raise you a Heretic/Hexen revival
  
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  In the meantime, check out Amid Evil for an absolutely fantastic Heretic/Hexen like game.
  
  I have more screenshots saved on steam in one playthrough of that game than any other game I've played.
  
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  I wasn't singularity to get rebooted and finished
  
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- My vote is for Heretic/Hexen.
  
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Imagine leaving Lost Odyssey off of this list.

(Although I suppose maybe you need more than one game to be considered a "franchise" 😢)

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- I think they published it, but don't actually own it.
  
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  Microsoft at least owns the trademark on it. Not being a lawyer, I don't know if that's at all decoupled from "the IP" or not, but I suspect they'd be tied fairly close together.
  
  It would also be weird if Mistwalker signed a contract giving MS ownership of Blue Dragon (which is on the list, but has multiple games from different publishers) but not Lost Odyssey. I guess maybe the solution would be to remove Blue Dragon from the list rather than adding Lost Odyssey. 🤷‍♂️
  
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I knows it's not gonna happen but since they own heretic and he eb now I would love to see a modern day reinterpretation by the guys at id

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Is WoW not part of the list?

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- Warcraft is listed as well as world. Good reading skills there.
  
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