The soundtracks for both games are superb as well.

Cyberpunk 2077 is a new entry into the Cyberpunk franchise which began in 1988 with Mike Pondsmith’s roleplaying game (and has nothing to do with Bruce Bethke’s story Cyberpunk which gave the genre its name in the early 1980s), so the franchise has been around for quite a long time, and since the genre first started…

That’s the combined sales of Human Revolution and Mankind Divided. Individually we don’t know which way that number divided, but Square’s statements make it sound like that’s weighted much more in HR’s favour than MD’s.

The director’s cut itself is ten years old at this point, and HR’s visuals definitely are starting to date (though it’s perfectly playable). I agree MD still looks pretty good. Still, updating both in a package for next-gen consoles creates a bit of an event to draw in new players or older players needing a refresh,…

Conversely, them doing a remaster of Human Revolution and Mankind Divided and then a new release of Part 3 would be a good (and relatively cheap) way of creating a lot of new content for next-gen consoles for current gamers. Embracer’s new acquisition Gearbox took that approach with the Homeworld IP which has worked…

I suspect rights issues with the Terminator IP.

This is true, but their fans point to this being a good(ish) thing, waiting 2-3 years for sequels rather than 7+, and their franchises do a big refresh every few instalments. They also sometimes take risks, even if they don’t fully succeed (Watch Dogs: Legion had some great ideas which didn’t really come together).

Not necessarily. The figures for LotR came from a New Zealand government official and Amazon has been happy not to correct them for the publicity. Reuters had an earlier report that the figure mentioned was for the first two seasons rather than one, which drops the LotR budget also to the ~30 million per ep bracket.

Macross definitely has the most continuations, prequels, OVAs and mini-series spin-offs (Macross II, Macross Zero, Macross Delta, Macross Plus, Macross Frontier).

I believe there has been some interest from Netflix (which makes sense, post-Voltron, which was the huge anime crossover hit before Robotech). But every time the topic comes up, you get some people angrily demanding it’s a from-scratch reboot of Robotech and some people angrily demanding it’s a from-scratch reboot of M…

My understanding was that the renewal deal meant that HG would have to release (or not stand in the way of releasing) the other Macross shows in the USA. However, there has been no sign of that happening so far. Though this Kickstarter does carry both logos, which I think was another stipulation of the renewal.

I think it’s more the fact the Mankind Divided was set up to continue directly into two more games (at least at the time, some time later they suggested it could have been just one more, but maybe that was an internal idea to try to convince Squenix to greenlight another game), so they decided to make the story more…

It’s interesting how this comes up. Mankind Divided is both a longer and larger game than Human Revolution, albeit not by much, with more abilities, but its cliffhanger ending and smaller scale and scope means that it feels smaller.

Various data-miners, leaks and rumours have pointed to two big DLCs coming. The first is set in Pacifica (somewhat underutilised in the main game), redesigns the zone somewhat, has new gangs and a story predominantly set in Pacifica but takes you around other areas.

Ah, there are behind the scenes shots of the actress from the trailer showing she’s on a soundstage in costume a wig? Got a link?

Twice the Hungarian production spend, which is maybe 50% of the total budget of the show. Halo’s total budget is likely on a par with Picard’s, if not somewhat higher.

The show’s Hungarian production spend was $40 million, but an absolute ton of stuff is not covered by that (casting, vfx, post-production). The $40 million figure is likely 50%-60% of the total cost of the show, which would make it more comparable with those other shows.

In terms of quality of CG, shows can now briefly match movies. Where you notice the difference is mainly in things like number of sets (films can afford to blow $3 million on a cool set that’s used for 15 minutes and then torn down and never seen again, a show cannot), the number of vfx sequences and the quality of…

Lord of the Rings’ budget is insane, not helped by confused reporting over the figure: some say it’s about $30 million per episode, some as much as $60 million (which is more per-hour than the Jackson movies, adjusted for inflation).

That’s the Volume technology. Paramount does have access to that tech as they use it on their Star Trek shows filming in Toronto, but Halo started production so long ago that it might not have been available (and certainly not in the Hungarian soundstages).