Insane Metal
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Yay!!! It's not cancelled. Thank you SONY.
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IGN: The Last Guardian cancelled, mayhaps; Sony: Nope - Stage XI: Mole Hunt
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hahahaha
Portugeezer
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MightyHedgehog
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As much as I loved ICO for its time and dug SotC, I can't care much about TLG when there was never much ever revealed about it to begin with. Don't want it cancelled yet it obviously has had problems with it being delayed for six or more years now. I'm guessing it will be officially reintroduced for PS4 at E3.
SDCowboy
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ROFL
RealityPales
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As much as I despise IGN for what transpired last night, let's be real - it was fun while it lasted.
Druckmann mocking IGN over this; Scott Rohde saying it's not cancelled; Yoshida retweeting that message.
The only good thing to come out of IGN's fuck up is that they basically inadvertently got Sony to confirm it's coming once more. There is now virtually no doubt it's coming. No company would be this stupid if it wasn't.
PairOfFilthySocks
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Maybe Steve Butts is so desperate to see TLG released he's willing to sacrifice his journalistic integrity and force Sony to proceed with development of the game to prove him wrong.
Not the hero we wanted, but the one we need right now.
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Not the hero we wanted, but the one we need right now.
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Ultimadrago
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This picture is so full of life, Trico really seems to be a living creature, looking and admiring his creator.
More like begging to be released from its prison.
DarkoMaledictus
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Well if it was cancelled they probably had no ideas what to do with it. Great concept, but probably went nowhere...
Fallout-with-swords
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The Editor and Chief wrote the article. It's ridiculous to think he couldn't find the time on a weekend to properly edit the story especially when the site he works for is being thrown under the bus by other members of the games' media.
The article writer is the editor in chief, and he wrote and subsequently edited the article on the weekend. I am sure he can do whatever he wants regarding the article at this point. The tweet was not an off-hand remark. It was an explicit denial. It's been retweeted by other official Sony accounts. I think it is fine to treat that as seriously as a press release. The person you responded to didn't really ask for an in-depth follow up. He suggested a retraction or apology. I think IGN should go ahead and state that the game is not cancelled and that the info they heard appears incorrect, rather than simply "waiting for more information."
This picture is so full of life, Trico really seems to be a living creature, looking and admiring his creator.
I remember that post. Hehe too obscure though for most of us
There was never any doubt.
As soon as Sony had to correct Tretton's 'on hiatus' statement, there was no way it was canceled. They'd already basically dropped the bomb, and they decided to actively put it back in place. There's no way they would have done that.
Haha. Other source other than Sony exec himself. IGN gonna be IGN.
Brutalitops
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Heh, Butts
SDCowboy
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Mhm...I can't imagine the boys at Sony would be jumping all over this like flies on poop if this wasn't, hopefully, getting shown. Tomorrow.
TheLostBigBoss
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Nintentoast
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Maybe IGN had a substantial reason to think it was cancelled. Maybe that reason was so substantial that Sony's twitter denial isn't even enough to negate the possibility that it is cancelled.
I'd like to give IGN some credit, as I frequent that site quite often. But damn do they look silly rn.
I'd like to give IGN some credit, as I frequent that site quite often. But damn do they look silly rn.
Alex_Mexico
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Except Kotaku was right. Their original story talked about Versus XIII being canceled or being reworked as the next numbered FF. Either way fact of the matter is Versus XIII will never see the light of day and isn't coming out to the platform it was originally announced for. That's a cancellation.
Kotaku wasn't wrong.
MightyHedgehog
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I don't think it can live up to whatever expectations there might be coming from the most invested fans. Then again, it never was very well sketched out for people to understand what it was that we were supposed to get in the first place. Aside from the video and a basic explanation of the relationship between the boy and the furry cat-thing, this was running off of the team's pedigree more than anything else.
Agreed, I don't feel like we ever saw a proper game, rather conceptual ideas. We have pretty much zero information on the game outside of the meager trailers Ueda deemed us worthy of seeing. What is it even about? We don't fucking know. There's been rumors that TLG had technical problems (ran like shit) or that the super amazing ratbird AI was too complex and unwieldly (bullshit). Frankly, I believe Ueda, for once, had no idea what the fuck he was doing and started making this game without a properly outlined game design and development plan.
Honestly, I think that if that early trailer hadn't leaked we wouldn't have seen shit.
dreamer3kx
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5000 post incoming.
hydrophilic attack
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I was hoping the poll would be about whether IGN should be added to the list of banned sites.
Disappointed.
Disappointed.
SDCowboy
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I frequent the site all the time, daily. It doesn't make the story any less embarrassing.
Alex_Mexico
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That FF Versus XIII cancellation debacle is what makes me think that TLG may have been cancelled for PS3 and reworked for PS4 and that leak was somewhere lost in translation as a full TLG CANCELLED crap.
We're 36 hours from Sony's E3 press conference. We will know by then.
We're 36 hours from Sony's E3 press conference. We will know by then.
krypt0nian
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Hahahahaha fucking IGN again. Good to see their journalism fucked in the ass again.
SmokedMeat
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Where did IGN receive this report? Microsoft?
TheKastorian
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This picture is so full of life, Trico really seems to be a living creature, looking and admiring his creator.
he looks like hes about to death ray ueda for not releasing the game till now.
Even if that was how it was meant, no one can deny that the use of the word official and the lack of the word "Rumor" is hugely unprofessional and just plain stupid on IGNs EICs part.
No. They might maybe have had enough to say "Rumor: Last Guardian cancelled".
Posting "Last Guardian Officially cancelled" was completely fucking moronic and below even the lowest levels of due diligence I'd expect from a message board poster let alone them.
editing in "may" afterwards is the shit icing on the cake of incompetence that is IGN
BoboBrazil
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The game will be what it will be. Team Ico games though having a great critical reception were never crowd movers. They were always more of hallmark titles and studio that gave some cachet to Sony as a company that risked funding and let these sort of creative and original titles thrive on their platforms.
Is there a summary post anywhere? I've been at work all night and just saw this thread. I don't want to read a 95 page thread so I'm curious what the highlights are.
It looks like IGN ran this story and Sony denied it unoffically via Twitter messages. It seems like there is more there though (other sites mocking IGN etc.). Just curious what transpired overnight.
It looks like IGN ran this story and Sony denied it unoffically via Twitter messages. It seems like there is more there though (other sites mocking IGN etc.). Just curious what transpired overnight.
Russia.
Don't act like there's some MS conspiracy here, come the hell on. They do this for any number of games, exclusive or not.
Confused Cheeseburger
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You know what? Although dubious, maybe this fire is necessary to smoke Sony out of its ambiguous apprehension lately.
Perfect reply.
sublimit
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Sorry but this is ridiculous and you know it.
A cancellation is a cancellation.The game ceases development and the team moves on to other projects.Kotaku clearly said that the game was cancelled so they either flat out lied (in order to get more clicks) or they trusted an unproven source and just published the rumor.
So they were either being douchebags or just unprofessional.
Galactic Barret
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FinalStageBoss
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IGN being IGN, they're a joke.
Lol @ how this thread blew up so quick though. If TLG gets announced at e3, Gaf servers are going down.
Lol @ how this thread blew up so quick though. If TLG gets announced at e3, Gaf servers are going down.
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