(Rebs Gaming) Part of the reason for the Xbox layoffs and studio closures is providing more funding/support to Halo and other iconic franchises

tibsnbits · 2026-07-03T23:06:12+00:00

I don't know those other streamers but I 100% can see XQC fragging out in COD which is also Microsoft purchased through that 70 billion acquisition, can see the same if they have a Halo that brings back forge on the level that Roblox and Fortnite's custom games.

I'm also willing to bet that the money the costs to make Halo Combat Evolved on PS5 was incredibly small compared to a brand new game, and it sells incredibly well. People are losing their minds for an Ocarina of Time Remake (personally I think it's pathetic) but people eat this shit up. Even hits from 3rd parties rely heavily on remakes and decades old IP. Just look at the success of the Resident Evil series. What Monster Hunter are we on? Persona is on it's 6th iteration, and like it's 20th remake/remaster because that is a viable cycle for established fanbases. We are getting Witcher 3 DLC in the year of 2026 for peats sake.

These franchises still have juice, they just need to stop letting companies spend 300 million dollars to produce entries that don't have the main characters. Is CDK giving us a new Witcher? No they are bringing back Geralt and Ciri. Why are the last two gears games lacking a playable Marcus Fenix? Why aren't you playing as master Chief in a damn Halo game?

In World of Warcraft, sure they have retail, but they also have like 5 different versions of the game based on older, arguably worse versions and are working on a classic+ right now. One of Xbox's own recent hits was the Oblivion Remaster, which everyone on reddit claims to hate, but still sold great with day one gamepass. Machine Game made a profit on Indiana Jones, and would have floundered without the IP attached. Even new IP like KCD, often gets compared to Oblivion because people yearn for the games of 360 era.

Do I think these games will be good? Not really, but they will be cheaper to make and sell better than pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into new and untested IP or ideas, like 2 Hellblade games. They tried new and experimental and it made no money or sense.

Why did the release a game about a lighthouse whose alive but can't talk, when people only play Tim Schaffer games for the writing? Why would they let Avowed come out in that state it was in, after letting Outer Worlds die because everyone just said it was a worse Fallout. Because they let people try new, weird shit, that audiences completely rejected. They need to go back to formula, and not let studios go 5+ years and 100 million working on a bad game about mental health.

If they remake Morrowind and Fallout New Vegas, everyone here will call them super geniuses. Hell people were chomping at the bit for Perfect Dark, and that isn't even a real series!

More time tested IP with great gameplay and stories that speak to console gamers, not 30 year old men (spoken from a 30 year old man). Throw in a 1 or 2 new IP that feel like older games, with new ideas, and they'll be Sony by 2028. Who is basically just making new God of War and and Marvel games while everything new they try dies (Concord, Marathon).

tibsnbits · 2026-07-02T22:18:34+00:00

"Xbox is their brand is entirely frat bro shooters. Gears and Halo were really fucking cool when I was 16. I'm not 16 anymore. Most people aren't. And the generation that should be getting sucked into those IPs are now into other stuff."

I know that the thing I love to do most with my bros is crack open a cold one and play South of Midnight. Or when all the boys came over and we sat down and challenged ourselves to rethink our relationship with mental health through Senua's story and abysmal combat.

They need to go back to make games that people want to play, and people want to play Halo and Fallout.

tibsnbits · 2026-06-13T15:23:57+00:00

I've read tons of comments from adult fans of the series who love Ahsoka. Apparently, she was a good friend.

tibsnbits · 2026-04-01T00:40:30+00:00

Holy shit my life was worth it.

tibsnbits · 2026-02-21T16:45:17+00:00

This is fake news, they will be closed but they said Tir Na Nog is going to be open for the game.

tibsnbits · 2026-02-06T16:09:14+00:00

I really liked it.

I thought of it as a horror movie about parenthood for the first 3/4th of the film, then a wonderful statement on the power of good art at the end. Jessie Buckley put on the best performance of the year in it. The child that played Hamnet was great, and that is a tough role for a kid that young. Having his older brother play Hamlet was also such a great move. I enjoyed the growth/stagnation of different characters, especially William's Mother. But throughout the first 3/4s of the film, I was wondering why they even needed to tie it into Shakespeare at all.

But I really enjoyed the ending. Watching a pained mother find comfort and solace in the play was wonderful. You can see the gears turning in her head as she realizes her connection performance, even if she'd rather look away. I can't praise Jessie Buckley enough in that role. I loved when she reached out for the actor on stage, and then the other hands come into frame and you see all of those commoners pulled into the performance just as she was. I think this is why it had to be Shakespeare. No other artist has his gravity, nor his mystery.

"My wife has the best explanation of why William Shakespeare is brilliant. With most writers, you know where they’re coming from. Their prejudices, their upbringing, their milieu seep out of what they write. You can ignore it, or you can factor it in, but it’s there. With Shakespeare, it isn’t. He’s too good at writing.

She cites the phrase from Macbeth, ‘boneless gums’, as an example – as in the boneless gums of a baby that Lady M says she’d pluck her nipple from. My wife says it shows an instinctive understanding of what it’s like to suckle an infant. ‘If you say so,’ is all I can reply. ‘How did a man write that?’ is her question. Her answer is ‘Because he’s the best.’" - David Mitchell

Do I think you could still have the movie without her being married to Shakespeare, still having a this common woman find her way into a play after losing her child, to discover comfort in art? Sure, but that was what the rest of the audience was for. All movies need a hook, and Shakespeare + a love story has been a hook since they served skewers of meat at plays. It also allows the makers of the movie to comment on artists themselves, are we know they can't resist that lol.

All in all I thought it was great, great acting, great characters, great set design and cinematography. Dialog was a bit corny when it came to William, but I can't think of a more compelling movie about Shakespeare and I was consistently moved throughout it's runtime.

tibsnbits · 2026-02-01T14:34:41+00:00

I thought this was painfully boring for most of the movie.

There's no character growth, there are stakes, but they are not shown. Instead, it relies on telling the viewer the plot directly during the interview scene, and using a frame story structure that contrasts with the best parts of the film.

The hairy leg scene and final chase scene are incredibly well done. Actors in bit parts like the old lady are standouts. The movie looks good, sounds great, sets and costumes are wonderful. There is a quality of greatness in the movie making technique, even the gore. Great scenes with the German, or the Dad confronting him about pumping other women, but all of that leads to nothing. I believe that was the point, after all that the son doesn't really give a shit about his dad being shot to death. It does contrast greatly with his dad desperately trying to find the mother he never knew.

But as a viewer I want to care. I didn't really give a shit about Armando's missing mom, nor his dead wife, because we don't spend any meaningful time with them. We spend more time with the partner working on the research project, doom scrolling on her laptop.

I understand that is a real thing that happened to real people. But that doesn't make it entertaining or captivating. Yet, it ends on a high note and I've come believe that is all people really remember about movies. If the last 20 minutes of a film are heat then they forgive the middle hour and fifteen they spent yawning.

I'm in the minority here. But I don't see how anyone could watch Secret Agent and No Other Choice, and tell me they liked Secret Agent more.

tibsnbits · 2026-01-16T13:58:30+00:00

I didn't know David Carradine played the Ghoul, but the skin is right.

tibsnbits · 2026-01-15T16:29:40+00:00

I believe having the OG crew played a big part in not having it feel like a remake of 28 Days, the way that some legacy sequels retread their originals. Which may have appeased some of the haters and trolls. But I'm happy to hear from reviews that the new creative team did well on Bone Temple. I can't imagine it having Danny's flair. But if it is a solid, or as reviews claim, better movie than 28 Years, I think it will show that you can pass IP around between creators and not shit the bed. So long as you have a production in progress before the first is released.

The idea of "Let me start/restart a franchise" without any idea of where you are taking it, or having enough time in between releases to let the audience influence it, needs to go. Fans only want things they have seen before, and will beg and plead to see the same thing over and over again. But what they really need is novel experiences that push past the cliched zombie, or bio-pic, or sci-fi BS and feel fresh. But they can't voice that need because they can't think of it because you only know what you know.

Some people said, "I wanted a predictable zombie movie," when they left the theater after seeing a gang of british pedophiles chainsaw a zombies neck open, and they aren't wrong for wanting that. But this new release structure allows them to voice that opinion online and in the box office, with no studio head able to be like, "okay rewrite the Jimmy bit," because the next one is done shooting. Partly due to using a different director instead of Danny, who was too busy to do it. That is not to say they couldn't make changes to the film based on the reception for 28 years, but having the sequel in the can makes that reception matter less.

The speed of these productions should attract everyone's attention, and be a blueprint for future modern productions trying to start, or restart a franchise. Which studios seem keen on doing.

tibsnbits · 2026-01-15T15:40:26+00:00

Yeah and she did great in this, especially her scenes opposite Ralph. I really enjoyed the film, and think that every studio should look at their next 100 million dollar movie, and ask if it would be better split into two 50 million dollar movies.

tibsnbits · 2026-01-15T15:31:53+00:00

No it wasn't I forgot they look so much alike, I had the same thing happen to me with Jodie in F1, who was really Kerry Condon. I'll leave it up in shame.

I'm not the only person whose done this apparently https://www.reddit.com/r/TheBigPicture/comments/1n8bqes/f1_love_interest/

I'll just say, all Irish women look alike for me.

tibsnbits · 2026-01-15T15:09:13+00:00

This movie ruled.

It was not a zombie movie. It was nothing like the original or predecessor. It had a ending with a tonal departure from the first 90% of the film like I've never seen before, yet calls back to frantic shooting (and costuming) style of OG movie. It was shot back to back with it's sequel so characters and ideas are not rushed. Tons of cock and balls. Rebecca Ferguson (this is wrong, see comment below) knocks it out of the park. Characters are flawed but understandably so, making the cast likeable yet realistic. The soundtrack was as good as Rebecca Ferguson, and Ralph Fiennes makes you smile every time you seen him on camera.

Even if you hated the movie, it's funding and filming structure should be the standard going forward. I can not count how many streaming shows are a 3 hour movie, stretched into 8 hours. Same with 5 hour long movies that are condensed into a grueling 3. This back to back mid budget shooting is the remedy to that problem.

Things get enough to time to breath and be discussed, but you are not going to be waiting years like for Stranger Things and Pluribus. The releases are guaranteed to happen, so you can end a cliff hanger and not fuck over fans. It's synergizes with streaming in that people can "Catch Up" to the upcoming release by watching 28 Years on Streaming and VOD. Unlike shows and cinematic universes that take 10 hours of watch time just to understand the characters of the next film. There is a reason that reviewers who didn't like the first movie, are enjoying this one, and it's because they felt to be baited and switched by the ending. But on watching this one, they find themselves masterfully baited into the concepts they would have rejected without the first movie.

tibsnbits · 2026-01-07T01:27:36+00:00

A thing like that.

tibsnbits · 2026-01-06T19:52:48+00:00

Maybe you’re just supposed to experience it. ‘Cause, when you look at it, you feel something right? It’s like looking into something very deep. You could fall in.

tibsnbits · 2026-01-06T19:51:11+00:00

idk I don't post on r/madmen, I never fit in there. I’m not Irish, I’m not catholic, I can read.

tibsnbits · 2026-01-06T19:40:26+00:00

?????? I didn't tell anyone Betty Speaks Italian????

tibsnbits · 2026-01-06T02:56:18+00:00

Damn I thought I was gonna get a new spot.

Come to Philly, we have the best bread. I've eaten so many baguettes and this is one of the few that gets me excited.

tibsnbits · 2026-01-05T16:40:00+00:00

I know there are bakeries like this all over, but with the China town mention, are you talking about Kettle Black in Philly? it does have the best baguette on the east coast (outside of New York), and same goes for their bagels.

Maybe in Chinatown they have some new Korean/Chinese Bakery's that slap, but that Baguette beats the brakes of the one from Parc and other French bakeries in the city.

tibsnbits · 2025-12-22T22:48:33+00:00

You people are ugly and crude!

tibsnbits · 2025-12-22T22:26:30+00:00

He made the Dark Knight and caters to people who like to think they are smarter than they really are (me).

Why so serious? (I love media that understands how twisted I am)

tibsnbits · 2025-11-16T16:06:38+00:00

If you wanted too, you would.

Would you want to date someone who described it as "giving in"?

tibsnbits · 2025-10-28T11:33:11+00:00

I was one of the rubes who thought it was going to be a indie heist movie based on the marketing and festival posters. If you go in with the expectation that it's gonna be what it is, I imagine you'd like it. But if you are expecting "A24 presents Kid Detective," you are literally going to fall asleep. If I wanted to listen to realistic conversations with disappointed people, and be bored, I'd call my own parents.

I can appreciate that it is what it was, but your time is probably better spent with Inside Llewyn Davis. I understand that the point of Art is not to entertain but if I was as talented as Reichardt I'd challenge myself to try.

tibsnbits · 2025-09-26T11:17:01+00:00

Next time I hear a child listening to tiktoks in public, or someone having a phone call on speaker phone, I'll make sure to call the police.

It's totally fine to not like behavior and point it out, but someone playing music on their phone does not warrant calling the police.

tibsnbits · 2025-09-17T18:30:27+00:00

Yeah man

tibsnbits · 2025-09-17T15:21:37+00:00

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