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THQ will drop Devil's Third (Itagaki's game)
- Thread starter Kifimbo
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Not really surprising, given the situation THQ is in. Guess we won't be seeing this game at E3 
Why would you want Itagaki's masterpieces to be exclusive to one system? You gotta share the love and have it available to as many people as possible.
Problem is the game isn't being designed to be similar to NG/Bayonetta. So it won't be rivaling either of them.
Why would you want Itagaki's masterpieces to be exclusive to one system? You gotta share the love and have it available to as many people as possible.
Why does this have to happen to the good devs. Why can't bad studios ever be shutdown
Problem is the game isn't being designed to be similar to NG/Bayonetta. So it won't be rivaling either of them.
MuzzledBasher
Member
Probably just PR talk but if they manage to make it happen hopefully it'll at least get some marketing budget
Various Artists
Banned
Man this generation sucks so bad for original games. The market is going to crash and reset soon I think.
Wii u is next gen
They have a few WiiU games in the works, one is exclusive. Presumably that's what they are talking about.
MadOdorMachine
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Something has to happen. There's too big of a gap between $.99 mobile games and indies flourishing while the console devs get murdered to death. There's a serious imbalance in the industry right now.
IdreamofHIME
Member
lol Microsoft buying them.
I love Xbox, but MS doesn't give two shits about making exclusive games anymore outside of Halo, Forza and Kinnect.
Cryin'
ComputerMKII
Banned
If anything happens to Patrice Désilets' unannounced game I'll kill somebody. I'm very curious to see what he's capable of after creating Assassin's Creed.
Has to be "You Gotta Move"
"I was hanging with the Devil when we made a pact
now I'm drinking welfare whiskey smoking food stamp crack"
This was inevitable. I imagine Itagaki has been looking for other prospective publishers for a while now, if he's smart.
THQ will cease to exist before we see a single screenshot of that.
THQ will cease to exist before we see a single screenshot of that.
R_thanatos
Member
It seems itagaki cant make games on his name alone..
Not that i'm surprised by the news ..i dont recall seeing a teaser or a concept art
Not that i'm surprised by the news ..i dont recall seeing a teaser or a concept art
Forsaken82
Member
Don't forget that Guillermo del Toro/Volition Collaboration as well.
But that's inSANE, plus it is not cancelled (yet).
Itagaki should've gone with a brawler action game, not a shooter. No one will pick this up.
I'm not a fan of the idea either, but they have been forming and buying studios over the last couple years. Someone mentioned they were up to 18 studios now, though I don't know if he listed who they were after I asked.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
There was a trailer. Looking good actually.
At this point? 2 years maximum.
But it is a brawler action game. It also has shooting. It also has multiplayer. Because shooting and multiplayer are popular. Yeah!
ComputerMKII
Banned
I wouldn't be surprised
Infinite Justice
Member
Not suprising given what's happening to THQ but its hard to see who would pick it up though
ii Stryker
Banned
As pretentious as Itagaki can be with development and given the financial troubles THQ is in kinda figured this would happen.
Hopefully EA, WB, Square, 2K, or Bethesda publishing pick this up, but as long as Itagaki takes with development its more than likely dead.
Hopefully EA, WB, Square, 2K, or Bethesda publishing pick this up, but as long as Itagaki takes with development its more than likely dead.
Well, my impression is that it was a multiplayer focused shooter with some sword action in between and not the other way around, but I admit I've seen very little of it. Didn't look that interesting tbh.
Phoenix Fang
Banned
The jokes on you. You do realise they are actually close friends right?
Glass Rebel
Member
Desilets' game and that Turtle Rock project are so dead. So so dead.
cj_iwakura
Member
Psst, Atlus? THIS is the kind of game you should publish.
Forsaken82
Member
Oh was that insane?! My bad For some reason i kept thinking Insane was some racing game!
R_thanatos
Member
Well i guess that trailer didn't make enough hype then ....
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
They're not hating each other to death, but close friends? I don't think so. Will you post a picture of Kamiya, Itagaki and Kojima, now?
Mr. B Natural
Member
Indies are not flourishing. Yes, a couple of big hits make it, but most fail and miserably. That should sound familiar.
The imbalance is a lot of things. Many of them affecting the entire spectrum of gaming right now. Oversaturation being the big one. When everyone is out of ideas and the entire spectrum of the "art form" is archived and accessible, the market should shrink, but that never tends to happen. We bubble.
no, it really fucking isnt, it has practically zero chance of making money and a bomb this large could kill a publisher as small as them
cj_iwakura
Member
So you prefer they keep on publishing trash as long as it makes money as opposed to good titles worth purchasing?
MadOdorMachine
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Perhaps flourish was the wrong term to use, but certainly the business market is better there and we're seeing more creativity and innovation than in the console space. It's quite obvious that rising dev costs are doing the most damage. I'm curious what the size of the team was that did NSMB on Wii. I'm really shocked more console devs haven't followed that model being that it was one of the most successful games this gen.
no I'm definitely not a fan of them publishing stuff like a game of thrones/the cursed crusade either,I've been pretty vocal about that but throwing themselves on this grenade isnt their only other option ya know? lol
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
I'd rather see Sony getting Valhalla Game Studios, then MS.
cj_iwakura
Member
I think it's their best option. It would get them some recognition, and this is a game worth taking a chance on, not Cyanide's tripe.
That's what the original trailer looked like. But there was a survey conducted last year where they seemed to describe the game in much more detail and it just sounds like Ninja Gaiden + third person shooting + multiplayer. It's pretty hard to get a good sense of how the game really looks like without new footage, but it definitely had melee weapons, martial arts hand-to-hand combat, wall running, jumping from building to building, fast paced shit, and also shooting. Apparently the theme of the game is to make stylish and beautiful kills.
Sony is in no state to buy third party studios. Maybe a deal as they did with Marvelous and Inafune for Soul Sacrifice could be an option. Who knows?
The Wheel of Fortune
Member
Wait, what's with inSANE? I haven't heard any bad news (or news at all) about it. Did something bad happen to it?
And damn for Devil's Third; I am looking forward to that game, it looks fun and creative! I'm looking forward to many THQ games (Metro, inSANE, Darksiders, SR3dlc, D3rd), so it's sad to see them doing so bad right now. If they die (which I hope not), I hope at least Volition & Valhalla find a good publisher for their upcoming proyects(Ninty?).
Mr. B Natural
Member
But, what I'm saying is, that it's not better there. You just aren't hearing about the failures because it's like not hearing about a individual murder when there are massacres going on. It's not healthy. It's equally unhealthy. And the creativity and innovation thing I totally disagree with you. Yeah, 5...10 years ago the indy scene was booming with brilliance. Not so much anymore, if at all. But that's arguable. We can agree to disagree there.
But what we can't really argue about is that there are literally hundreds of indy games coming out a month and you and I will not hear of any of them, maybe one most likely. They will not break through the strata of the indy cloud. They will not sell and each game was at least 1 person's effort to make money in this market.
Case in point: many indy games these days are actually free, but they still can't get people to notice them. That wasn't the case 10 years ago. A free indy game would come out and everyone that was interested in the niche market flocked to it as it was THE free game of the week or two. These devs are now backed in a wall, a wall with nothing behind it.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Yeah, you're probably right.