Friday, September 14th 2018
Bethesda Confirms Wolfenstein III Still Happening; Dishonored is Not Dead Just Yet
When Bethesda took the stage at E3 this year and announced Wolfenstein: Youngblood, many were dismayed and feared that the lower-than-expected sales for Wolfenstein II, combined with the deep discounts early in the product cycle, may have changed the timeline in more ways than one. Specifically, there was doubt on whether another numbered entry was coming to the main Wolfenstein story which had received a reboot of sorts beginning with the 2014 hit Wolfenstein: The New Order. In an interview with GameCentral, Pete Hines (VP, PR and Marketing for Bethesda) confirmed that Youngblood is to be treated as a standalone title similar to what we saw with Wolfenstein: The Old Blood in 2015, and that MachineGames is absolutely going to develop Wolfenstein III.
Specifically, Pete Hines said and I quote, "Absolutely we're making a Wolfenstein III. They [MachineGames] said on stage that they're taking a break from the larger story to do this thing. But we all have to see how that ends." This was part of a long discussion, that is well worth the read, with insights on the revival of single-player AAA games, Bethesda's continual commitment to story-driven gameplay, and more. As part of said discussion, Pete Hines also helped provide some relief to fans of Arkane Studios' Dishonored series which, as with the recent Wolfenstein series, enjoyed great success with the first entry but then tapered down subsequently when it comes to sales of Dishonored 2 and its standalone DLC. Arkane Studios had recently said that the series is "resting", and in response to this Pete said that he "wouldn't read too much into that" and that Arkane having two studios meant that the situation was similar to how Bethesda Studios themselves went from the Fallout franchise to Starfield before returning to The Elder Scrolls series. Sounds like good news to Dishonored fans, and we will be sure to inform our readers of any updates accordingly.
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GameCentral Interview with Pete Hines
Specifically, Pete Hines said and I quote, "Absolutely we're making a Wolfenstein III. They [MachineGames] said on stage that they're taking a break from the larger story to do this thing. But we all have to see how that ends." This was part of a long discussion, that is well worth the read, with insights on the revival of single-player AAA games, Bethesda's continual commitment to story-driven gameplay, and more. As part of said discussion, Pete Hines also helped provide some relief to fans of Arkane Studios' Dishonored series which, as with the recent Wolfenstein series, enjoyed great success with the first entry but then tapered down subsequently when it comes to sales of Dishonored 2 and its standalone DLC. Arkane Studios had recently said that the series is "resting", and in response to this Pete said that he "wouldn't read too much into that" and that Arkane having two studios meant that the situation was similar to how Bethesda Studios themselves went from the Fallout franchise to Starfield before returning to The Elder Scrolls series. Sounds like good news to Dishonored fans, and we will be sure to inform our readers of any updates accordingly.
39 Comments on Bethesda Confirms Wolfenstein III Still Happening; Dishonored is Not Dead Just Yet
idTech 5 was used to make Dishonored 2. idTech 6 was used to make Wolfenstein II and is being used to make Wolfenstein: Youngblood. I assume idTech 7 will be used for Wolfenstein III, should it happen. idTech 7 exclusively renders using Vulkan.
It is unknown what Arkane Studios is working on now. Last title they worked on was Death of the Outsider a year ago. Something is under way and probably not a follow up to Dishonored.TES VI may be based on idTech 7. That's going to add years to the development time but it will most likely be worth it. TES has been long overdue for a complete technology overhaul.
Fewer physical copies are sold of games every year! Eventually, in this digital age, there won’t be any. Many games don’t get ANY physical release.
Trying to extrapolate sales numbers from Steam is more witchcraft than science, since Valve releases no sales numbers.
Epic has Unreal. Ubisoft has Anvil. EA has FrostBite. Square Enix has (had?) Glacier. Crytek has CryEngine. Amazon has Lumberyard. Zenimax has idTech.
But hey, the indifference is understandable as PC gamers just pirate games anyways. Oh and all the people on steam that bought the buggy mess never paid for the game due to their super-pirating skills.
^ The italicised text above is sarcasm, sometimes context isn't enough. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Edit: Figured context would be enough. Apparently not.
Both Dishonored 2 and Wolfenstein II were perfectly playable by me from day 1 (and also revisited and played again just a couple months ago). Which source shows that PC gamers just pirate their games anyway? I know I pay for all mine, it’s the right thing to do. As to Steam’s game owners all having pirated the games? Do you have any concept how utterly ridiculous and uninformed you sound?
I can only conclude you stopped by to troll.
Wait, I do read their reviews on Indies, because these reviews are actually intelligent, and when they rate a game negatively it is usually documented by them well, and for logical reasons.
If I had let negative Steam user reviews on Steam influence me on major games, I would have missed out on alot of very fun games which also played perfectly well for me.
Ubi also has Dunia (modified Cryengine) and Massive's Snowdrop engine. Crysis is a game made by Crytek using the CryEngine lol.
Edit: iirc Lumberyard is a modified CryEngine too.
Loved RTCW, New World order is good, Old Blood is better(because nazi zombies), but Wolf 2 the SJW/socialist theme had no place in a game like it IMHO.
We never got the last one part due to how bad that was in fact it was( kind is still a joke if she cannot sleep.
To me story wise game play was alright how ever story like most of their game's are pretty dam weak.
As for Dishonored, now that was much different story to most of the pretty much other crap they come out with.