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Scalebound cancelled [Platinum Games and Kamiya have commented]
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Devilgunman
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Not sure how this is good for Platinum. A lot of people will suddenly have no project to work on and could possibly be laid off. This is the worst for anyone who are currently working on the game.
dancrane212
Member
Time to cash in on that Crimson Dragon IP.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
If anyone in this industry would do that I'd expect Kamiya to be the person who would. Just because the game didn't have a hardcore anime inspired vibe or a waifu character doesn't mean that it wasn't the game that Kamiya wanted to make when he literally stated the opposite multiple times. In fact I imagine it was probably refreshing to produce a game at that fidelity on next gen hardware. At least until development hell started to crop up.
moltonasty
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Nah I don't believe it. The game looked fun as hell, yeah a little rough but it was still being developed..maybe a delay?
I don't think they care that much.
Welfare
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What the fuck?
I don't think they could possibly explain this unless Platinum have been missing deadlines consistently and MS are just wasting money. This game has been worked on since what, 2013? To cancel it after beeing in the public eye since 2014 and was told would be released this year is fucking terrible. Another Fable Legends.
Does not bode well for future games if MS are willing to do this over and over again when Xbox One is in need of exclusives.
I don't think they could possibly explain this unless Platinum have been missing deadlines consistently and MS are just wasting money. This game has been worked on since what, 2013? To cancel it after beeing in the public eye since 2014 and was told would be released this year is fucking terrible. Another Fable Legends.
Does not bode well for future games if MS are willing to do this over and over again when Xbox One is in need of exclusives.
dragonflys545
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I have all 3 consoles but this was one of the games I was excited for on the Xbox one...
Like what? Nothing comes to mind.
Sorcerer Supreme
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people seem to forget vanquish was a collaboration with shinji mikami and his old studio
Blackquill
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Maybe because... I dunno Microsoft was not the best support as a editor, that will be not the first time after all, remember what Lionhead developpers said about Fable 3
IMO it has looked consistently crap, with the only thing giving any interest being that it is a platinum game headed by Kamiya. If a Platinum statement or Kamiya himself get to talk openly about it, I'm interested in seeing what there intentions are now.
Also if I recall correctly, Kamiya did put up some rather angry tweets regarding MS that were later taken down. Although that was pretty much forgotten about, I wouldn't be all that surprised if this is just another issue of two companies failing to see eye to eye
Also if I recall correctly, Kamiya did put up some rather angry tweets regarding MS that were later taken down. Although that was pretty much forgotten about, I wouldn't be all that surprised if this is just another issue of two companies failing to see eye to eye
You could say the same for Nier Automata.
Reason in that case being, they actually show work in progress of what at that time still is an incoherent game rather than highly polished fake gameplay demonstration like most other devs do.
So that might was the case with Scalebound as well.
I'm pretty sure we shouldn't blame anyone before we have more info.
Duxxy3
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Fable Legends looked awful. I was glad when they cancelled it. Should have been Fable 4 instead.
Genuinely asking - was there anything else this generation?
I love how Microsoft try to sell the fact that wasn't so new IP after all was said and done.
Triggerhappytel
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If this turns out to be true I think this leaves Sea of Thieves as their sole original IP in development, right?
SatoAilDarko
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They should salvage the dragon bits and make a Crimson Dragon sequel for as cheap as possible. Seems a shame to lose over 3 years of work.
privitsan02
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To be honest, I don't blame Microsoft for wanting to cancel a game that's not meeting milestones and looking grim in terms of critical and commercial success. Sure Sony are more open to failure, but they have always been risk oriented with game production, whereas Microsoft haven't been and a lot of Sony's risky games are smaller titles.
It's not like Microsoft haven't tried this generation. The quality of the games for the most part is subjective but if it doesn't pick up steam, there's not much they can do. Ryse, Sunset Overdrive, Quantum Break and Ori are all variable in terms of critical success, but none of them blew up like Microsoft's old IPs.
Games are expensive and Microsoft are about fast results. They want that big new franchise like Halo and Gears were and they aren't getting it. It's also not like Sony where they want to build a big and strong first party, otherwise they wouldn't have shut their studios or downsized them over the past decade or more.
Best wishes.
It's not like Microsoft haven't tried this generation. The quality of the games for the most part is subjective but if it doesn't pick up steam, there's not much they can do. Ryse, Sunset Overdrive, Quantum Break and Ori are all variable in terms of critical success, but none of them blew up like Microsoft's old IPs.
Games are expensive and Microsoft are about fast results. They want that big new franchise like Halo and Gears were and they aren't getting it. It's also not like Sony where they want to build a big and strong first party, otherwise they wouldn't have shut their studios or downsized them over the past decade or more.
Best wishes.
Can't blame MS tbh. The game just did not look good, the premise of the game sounds awesome but it just didn't look anywhere near as solid as what the goal was. It's usually better to take the hit than produce something garbage that's gonna tank even more money and not make you anything in return while also making your system look bad.
*raises hand*
Day 1 here, demo was ace.
Salty Rice
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That butt makes already a great game. This assumption makes no sense.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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Time for Sony to buy the rights and fund them and help them wrap it up. Send in Sony Japan to fix this mess.
Sony will take the risk, gladly.
Sony will take the risk, gladly.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
This is great to hear.
Sunset Overdrive, Quantum Break, Recore?
People here are still shouting they want a SO 2. But can you blame MS for being abit reluctant about that. Because it didnt sell well.
Relaxed Muscle
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Yeah, we don't know the full story.
Maybe there was a friction between MS milestones, PG taking longer to reach it's full vision and MS studios thinning down their portfolio to more service based games and known IP's.
Spiral Insanity
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FantasticMrFoxdie
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welp rip in pieces
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Doesn't MS own the IP (which is weird , considering I have read that it's supposed to be somethin Kamiya has wanted to do for a long time).
Maybe the first rounds of testing didn't have good feedback?
Still strange for a game supposedly so far in development imo.
Edit: holy crap, 18 pages in less than 1 hour
Salty Hippo
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Do you get my dislike for Spencer now, Spencer believers? Do you fucking get it?
KratosEnergyDrink
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Bayo1 released on two successful consoles. Bayo2 released on a low selling console and had decent sales under these circumstances. Nonetheless it seems Bayo2 was a successful release in the end, because it probably moved some consoles and had WiiU in gaming headlines for quite some time. Much cheaper than as campaigns.
digita1alchemy
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...Yes?
vpance
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Their money is radioactive.
Tell that shit to Konami. Outrage will be from an incredibly loud and obnoxious small subset of fans, while everyone else who felt dissapointment over the cancellation will say, "thats a shame" and move on like reasonable people.
IgotElbows
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And the Pirate game by Rare.
And maybe a new season for Killer Instinct?
Phantom Dust HD as well? (Unless that is cancelled again. lol...)
But yeah, year is looking real rough for Xbox.
Actually the future is looking rough for exclusives in general unless they have a lot of secrets.
What games did they have planned for the future?
Forza? Pirate game Rare (sorry don't know name)? Crackdown (development hell? lol) "Scalebound" and Halo 6?
Am I missing something? I can't be missing something right?
Because Sony's future games are
Horizon, Persona 5, Crash HD collection, Spiderman, GOW, GT Sport, Gravity Rush 2.
And unannounced games like Suckerpunch.
Double the amount of games just from the top of my head.
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