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The final hours of Zipper Interactive (Socom Devs).
- Thread starter sjay1994
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Blargonaut
Banned
Huh? You say you don't have sympathy for Zipper but you blame Sony for ruining them? :/ Shouldn't you have sympathy for Zipper then...?
Nope. They accepted the poisonous fruit by sticking with Sony and listening to their demands. I still count halo 2 and socom 1 and 2 as the best multiplayer games ever made. If they stayed indie, this franchise could have been something.
That looks like a huge improvement!! Can't wait for the beta.
Coolade
Member
They can develop proof of concept for the PS4 all they want. They still need a publisher to fund the full project.
SJRB
Gold Member
MAG was one of my favorite games last gen... damn I had so much fun.... BUT NEVAH FORGET!
I still had a ball getting my ass kicked because of this.
Hahaha this brings me back. God I hated SVER so much.
MAG is an incredible accomplishment but has some bizarre design choices. Some quality journalist should write a lengthy post-mortem on that game, I'd love to know the "behind the scenes" stuff from development to release to support.
Warm Machine
Member
Last gen was very bad for certain multiplayer games that tried to push the envelope. Frontlines:Fuel of War, Section 8: Prejudice, Starhawk, Test Drive Unlimited, etc were ground breaking titles in many respects but the audience never appeared to make them big hits.
MastaKilla
Member
Not to derail this thread, but what's the deal with H-Hour? Is it even an actual game at this point or still just a concept? I want to be excited and i backed it on kickstarter wayyy back when, but is this ever even going to happen?
Razgriz-Specter
Member
We basically funded a demo that they show to get investors to fund the actual game.
MastaKilla
Member
Damn then, nothing really is guaranteed. I wish Sony would just bring them in call it Socom: H-Hour.
Actually MAG outsold SOCOM by almost double and was an online only game and was profitable for a MAG2 with more than 1.5mill units sold but the profits went into SOCOM4 development instead which was just bullcrap cause if not for SOCOM4 the fans of MAG would have had a MAG2.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
MAG should have been a Socom spinoff if anything.
Slant 6(despite me liking Confrontation)should not have been given Socom,Zipper should have established a PS3 Socom first and then move on from that.
After Socom 3/CA and MAG Zipper just didn't get it anymore.
Reckless Onion
Member
I liked socom 4. *runs out the room*
Razgriz-Specter
Member
It was an alright TPS,
horrendous Socom.
Canis lupus
Member
MAG was awesome, it just wasn't meant to be on PS3. The other mistake was to make it online only, servers get shutdown, they need to let you play whats on the disc with bots. Hell they should've experimented with f2p models to see if it could live on in that form.
I hope such a massive shooter, or just more tactical shooters in general comes back on PS4.
I hope such a massive shooter, or just more tactical shooters in general comes back on PS4.
MAG......LEGENDARY FPS !!!!
WHY ?
What game has this kind of intensity
32vs32 by default
Command and PROXY CHAT...this should be present in any serious FPS
BIG MAPS
Decent clan support though not perfect.
AFAIK no AIM assist so better bring your A-game
AND last but not least
the MAG Community with it's DRAMA
WHY ?
What game has this kind of intensity
32vs32 by default
Command and PROXY CHAT...this should be present in any serious FPS
BIG MAPS
Decent clan support though not perfect.
AFAIK no AIM assist so better bring your A-game
AND last but not least
the MAG Community with it's DRAMA
TheStruggler
Report me for trolling ND/TLoU2 threads
Loved MAG one of my favourite games last gen, my friends and I were bored of cod and bf so MAG was a breath of fresh air, spent countless hours playing it with my friends. Wish there was a sequel to it to fix the issues it had however outstanding fps
Yes.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Did well but was from Slant 6 not Zipper.
MAG underperformed, Socom 4 was a disaster and Unit 13 was a Vita game.
Actually Yes only for Socom. MAG made great profit for more sequels but that profit was (in a mind numbing decision) was put towards SOCOM4 which ofcourse bombed.