Shigeru Miyamoto with Starfox 2
It does not, again this thread is about active opposition or hinderance to the completion or success of a game, it's not about what you PERCEIVE to be the active sabotage of a game.does Sakamoto with Other M count?
he was the force behind the game being super linear, Samus' personality shattering everyone's image of her and the controls being unnecessarily limited. he even blocked the localization from spicing up the script and doing more emotional voice acting.
Being indifferent to the damage your decisions have on the game could be considered sabotage though, no? I know it's not as severe a crippling or knockout as others in terms of a game being released but I still think they knew how it would affect the game and did it anyway, which resulted in a hollow game devoid of most of what was promised.Because they knew it was gonna be huge and they have a massive following and no one really talks about the story after a certain amount of time. Hell, I couldn't tell you the story of most of the games I play.
That's just incompetence.Does Mighty No.9 count?
Even though most of the problems with alpha protocol is their own fault, and objectively it's only a B to C quality game in there first place, I still maintain that it would have been received a hell of a lot better if Sega hadn't just sat on it for six months, refusing to pay for the bug checking they wanted to do. And making it miss the holiday window. And most importantly, making it come out after splinter cell and, more notably, mass effect 2I swear Obsidian needs to do a better job at the contracts they get with companies.
I know KOTOR 2 was screwed over because the publisher gave them a crazy release date too. This seems to happen way too often with Obsidian.
Prey 2.
Bethesda fucked over Human Head in an attempt to buy them out on the cheap.
I swear Obsidian needs to do a better job at the contracts they get with companies.
I know KOTOR 2 was screwed over because the publisher gave them a crazy release date too. This seems to happen way too often with Obsidian.
We have another infamous incident from the final days of GRIN, when after the huge commercial flop of Bionic Commando, the company was in dire financial trouble, and were betting everything on their Final Fantasy spinoff project they had contracted from Square-Enix. But after seeing the performance of Bionic Commando it seemed as though Squenix got cold feet and tried to weasel their way out of the deal, not paying development milestones and sending ludicrous requests like asking them to fax over the game's source code and assets.
Any other notable instances of these things you can think of?
I was gonna mention Fortress, but op has me covered
Um, I guess Phantom Dust reboot https://kotaku.com/how-a-small-game-studio-almost-made-it-big-1696997142
The publisher [Square-Enix] voiced its dislike for the Nordic style, contending that it didn't fit Final Fantasy. GRIN actually sent in a picture of Final Fantasy XII -- developed by Square itself -- and even that was rejected. Square said of the image, "It does not look like Final Fantasy." The Anderssons said in the interview, "Then we realized that whatever we do... they have decided."
http://www.webcitation.org/6f8HvrEP...uare-enix-didnt-pay-unannounced-final-fantasy
Was Destiny screwed over in development? Didn't it have a story at first that eventually got thrown entirely out the window?
Counterpoint:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/f...tar-wars-battlefront-iii-failed/1100-6400936/
Don't trust everything from a particular side in these things.
I love Miyamoto but hes ridiculous. Does he still head the straight Mario series or did he turn that over like Zelda? Because the normal Mario series seems to get better and better with its gimmicks. But Paper Mario just gets worse and worse. (And Im not a fan of whats happened to M&L either but I suspect thats not Miyamoto?)
Prey 2.
Bethesda fucked over Human Head in an attempt to buy them out on the cheap.
lolThere was this group that paid developers to fuck up the games they worked one. One, I think it was SimCopter or some Lego thing, spawned shirtless guys who would gather around helicopters and get cut up. I'm 90% sure I'm getting part of the story wrong.
EDIT:
Okay, let me get Wikipedia to handle it:
From everything we know of LucasArts of that era, the things FreeRadical alleged weren't that out of character.
I swear Obsidian needs to do a better job at the contracts they get with companies.
I know KOTOR 2 was screwed over because the publisher gave them a crazy release date too. This seems to happen way too often with Obsidian.
Modern Warfare 2 lowkey.
Modern Warfare 2 lowkey.
Sonic Extreme...and basically everything done by Sega in the mid 90's.
If I recall correctly, at one point they were halfway done, but they were using Naka's engine for NiGHTS, and when he found out he forced them to switch engines and start from scratch.Sonic Extreme...and basically everything done by Sega of America in the mid 90's.
Who would that even sabotage, it was out so late in the console's life.It's alleged that Id Software was pissed at Nintendo censoring Wolfenstein 3D, so they gave the source code to unlicensed Christian developers Wisdom Tree for them to make Super Noah's Ark 3D. Maybe that's more sabotaging the system instead of the game.
If I recall correctly, at one point they were halfway done, but they were uding Naka's engine for NiGHTS, and when he found out he forced them to switch engines and start from scratch.
I was reading about Fortress and HOLY SHIET ABOUT THIS PART:
Wow. That can't be real
Recently? Shadow of War, Mankind Divided, and MGSV.
Will never not want this gamePrey 2.
Bethesda fucked over Human Head in an attempt to buy them out on the cheap.
That's just incompetence.
Marvel is most definitely responsible for the glaring omissions on their side and one could argue that they dictated the art style & lack of classic themes for the Marvel side, but that's really it.I feel like Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite is a contender.
Prey 2.
Bethesda fucked over Human Head in an attempt to buy them out on the cheap.
I think what MS allegedly did to Scalebound and the Phantom Dust reboot should count. Intentionally setting impossible tasks and deadlines with impossible budgets, trying to change what the games were at their core midway through development... If those allegations are accurate about them doing those things to break out of their contracts with the devs, then that's absolutely sabotage.
jesus... the misinformation in this thread