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Ninja Theory website update
- Thread starter SolidSnakex
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If I'm not mistaken. Surfer Girl said a new HS was coming this year. It would be very impressive if true because last I hear their team is only around 20-30 people. All I can think is that they are very efficient at building a game from art to level design and the outside help from Sony really adds to what they can accomplish.Opus Angelorum said:
nelsonroyale
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Aeon712 said:
yep, give me npc, an epic quest...the damn gameworld was designed for that...the HS gameworld was very beautiful, but you could hardly explore any of it
I don't like the concept art. Looks like really meh post apocalyptic world. A low rent version of the machine world in Matrix.
I hope they go back to Heavenly Sword 2. But they got to work up some new gimmick to get people to buy it. I think this is Phil Harrison's responsibility to make HS2 good.
I hope they go back to Heavenly Sword 2. But they got to work up some new gimmick to get people to buy it. I think this is Phil Harrison's responsibility to make HS2 good.
A Human Becoming
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DMPrince said:
The reason I said it is because I think it's the LEAST possible scenario.
Sure they could make a PSP game and port it to PS2 and Wii, but a game made for the Wii in mind and then ported over to other systems? Not happening. I'm pretty sure Raving Rabbids is the only game to do that so far.
PuppetMaster
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This looks krad!
Spank_Magnet
The Male Lewinsky
WhatRuOn said:
KFC - critically acclaimed but didn't sell well. Has a pretty good cult-following.HS - critically acclaimed and sold pretty well. Almost a million according to all reports.
So...not a bad track record so far...
Spider_Jerusalem
Member
Nice! I'm a sci-fi wore and I like much more this than the HS settings. Do want!
Damn. I was just joking around. Didn't think my prediction would actually come true. Well, I can chalk one down now. Yay, for Ninja Theory. Though, when I made the prediction I thought it would be a sequel to Heavenly Sword, or, at least, Heavenly Sword 2 in essence. Now I don't know. Looks entirely different. Hmmm. Somehow, I just got a little bit excited about this secret project. Heavenly Sword or not, I'll be following this game very closely.
You can tell yourself that.
WhatRuOn said:
You can tell yourself that.
Spank_Magnet
The Male Lewinsky
Crusade said:
lol. NT built their own company (admittedly they were signed to Sony but the above statement reads as if Sony had some sort of say in the growth of the company).
Spank_Magnet
The Male Lewinsky
Madman said:
Sony Cambridge staff have been working on many Sony titles. There was some stories kicking around that Sony Cambridge had to "bail out" NT and that they "saved" HS but that is entirely untrue.
Spank_Magnet
The Male Lewinsky
WhatRuOn said:
Metacritic has it at 68 out of 100 with user rating of 8.6 out of 10. A bit more criticallly acclaimed than 5/10 ;-)
"Critically acclaimed" would be referring to the 68/100 figure from the actual critics, though.Spank_Magnet said:
If the rumours were true, and I said previous, HS does say "A Sony Cambridge Game", then I think Cambridge actually just helped out with the technology side of things. It seems that Camrbidge's main focus so far this gen has been helping with the shared technology.VonGak! said:
That would be one hell of a twist on the game, and if done right it could be amazing. Although I didn't mind the time period they had for HS, your idea would be a breath of fresh air. Not totally industrial but a nice mix with organic settings like the forests and fields we see in the concepts.kaching said:
Also Samurai Jack kicked ass so it's all good
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Even better production quality than HS? Great news, I was worried that HS didn't sell well for them to have that kind of budget for their next game, but I hope they can go ahead and make something even bigger and better.
As for tech, HS graphics engine could be reused as-is almost, just with some optimizations to get better framerate and less artifacting shadows, they only need to work on an even more seamless loading and overall glitch-elimination from their engine.
As for tech, HS graphics engine could be reused as-is almost, just with some optimizations to get better framerate and less artifacting shadows, they only need to work on an even more seamless loading and overall glitch-elimination from their engine.
Spank_Magnet
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pswii60 said:
I believe they are in the same office building but not the same offices.
Spank_Magnet said:
I'm sorry, but Metacritic and Gamerankings are shite. They have terrible policies that bar off otherwise credible sources. They are not user interactive, and, even if, they could have noted many of the more famous sites that many people go by. I'm trying to discourage the two as sources. They don't even serve their own objective: to provide one complete comprehensive location to navigate through influential media informants (for a rather technical term). In that case, it sucks. It truly does.
prodystopian
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gcubed said:
Agreed.
Visualante said:
Good point. I can't imagine NT would want to put an action game up against GoW3. The hype machine for GoW is beyond huge.
SolidSnakex
Member
prodystopian said:
Assuming this is HS2, I doubt they're worried about GoW3 since it seems to be a long way away.
Hmmm.
They went on and on about their hopes for HS as a franchise.
But now this sounds like they're leaving HS behind. Doing something perhaps spiritually similar, but they're not saying it's a new HS.
Nor are they saying who they're developing for (what publisher).
But they do say it's got everyone they've spoken to about it excited. Does that sound like they're shopping it around to anyone else?
Has Sony let them go? I had a slight impression that maybe Sony wasn't entirely happy with how HS turned out, but maybe I'm wrong..afterall, they did include it alongside Motorstorm in their EU bundles..
I just get a certain vibe from their new site. No mentions of publisher relationships or relationships with Sony going forward etc.
They went on and on about their hopes for HS as a franchise.
But now this sounds like they're leaving HS behind. Doing something perhaps spiritually similar, but they're not saying it's a new HS.
Nor are they saying who they're developing for (what publisher).
But they do say it's got everyone they've spoken to about it excited. Does that sound like they're shopping it around to anyone else?
Has Sony let them go? I had a slight impression that maybe Sony wasn't entirely happy with how HS turned out, but maybe I'm wrong..afterall, they did include it alongside Motorstorm in their EU bundles..
I just get a certain vibe from their new site. No mentions of publisher relationships or relationships with Sony going forward etc.
SolidSnakex
Member
Luckyman said:
Man i'm glad people at game companies don't think like this. HS had its issues but it's clearly got alot of potential. If people were to just toss franchises whenever the first game doesn't turn out focus then we would've never got ZOE2.
Opus Angelorum said:
- it will be a SONY game
- Ninja Theory and SONYs Cambridge Studio share the same building now
- former NT members are working for SONY Cambridge now
- former SONY Cambridge Studio members are working for NT now
- SONYs Cambridge Studio helped them with Heavenly Sword
I hope I could help you
deepbrown said:
Well, they say it's a new concept..
I mean, maybe their working on a new concept for Sony, but if they were still with Sony, I'd have thought a more direct sequel to HS was likely.
I've asked them on their boards if they can confirm a publisher or if they're looking for one now or what
And what the deal is with HS. We'll see if they say anything.Opus Angelorum
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TAFKAA said:
So you're confirming an Xbox 360 version?