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IGN: The Last Guardian cancelled, mayhaps; Sony: Nope - Stage XI: Mole Hunt
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SDCowboy
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Exactly. The TLG hype and hope has reached legend status. Project Beast was just recently leaked.
Holy *bleep*. Between IGN and Polygon (and the occasional Kotaku and Eurogamer shenanigans), it's like many gaming journalists are competing for "The Most Inept Journalistic" Award.
TLG will be a bigger applause, but that's not what's most important to Sony.
Dark Souls is the King right now, it's the core title, it's the community to capture. Sony securing Beast Souls is like them personally collecting the million most prolific gamers for the entire generation. They'll buy the most games, they'll be the most vocal about the platform, they're 'alpha consumers' within the market.
TLG should be a great game, and I think it'll sell respectably, but it's not going to impact PS4's performance much at all.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
what if sony is the one who is not speaking the truth?
HORRORSHØW
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Probably shoot themselves in the foot and sudoku. Maybe publicly apologize. Officially. Maybe.
Aquamarine
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"AND YOU CAN BUY THE FULL, COMPLETE VERSION OF THE LAST GUARDIAN...
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RIGHT AFTER THE CONFERENCE ON PSN!!!!!"
The crowd goes wild and GAF servers crash for a week.
Shadow_FFVI
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I know. FF VII remake for PS4 will be glorious!
Im super excited for The Last Guardian, hope it's there 
Handy Fake
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PSNetwork wouldn't so much go down as collapse into a black hole and take the planet, solar system and most of the galaxy with it.
Apart from Neil Druckmann. Nothing can destroy Neil Druckmann.
Hibiki Kurosawa
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lol! I love this. "officially" is now officially a meme.
BananaSprinkles
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Edit: Apparently this thread was moving quicker than I thought and this post was rendered redundant.
Symax
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This is perfect.
IGN would run the story and tell its readers to check back frequently for more TLG news as it breaks. There will be no accountability and no real consequences for this breach of journalistic "integrity." No one is even going to be talking about it by this time tomorrow.
Imperfected
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This thread's massive popularity / #1 trending on Twiter gives me a lot of hope that The Last Guardian, if it ever does come out, it will sell quite well.
Well enough to cover 8 years of development costs, at least.
I sort of doubt they'd make back the budget, but I think if they come within a reasonable ballpark of doing so they would probably be satisfied writing off the difference as worthwhile for the sake of driving PS4 adoption in Japan and "franchise maintenance" (not that TLG is a franchise as such, but because of the developer's pedigree it has a similar function in practice).
Write off the difference as being reflected in PS4s sold and call it a day, sort of like Microsoft wanted to do with the whole Titanfall hooplah.
Krasnoya Ronin
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Oh man, it amazes me how huge of a mess this has become.
I do want to play The Last Guardian, though.
Of course.
Gamestop employees have been told that they have to work longer hours during E3. To handle the crowds pouring in to buy Last Guardian.
And GAF would never recover from this announcement.
lazybones18
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Fallout-with-swords
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The Hermit
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I consider IGN worse than chartz, so yeah it should be banned a long time ago.
IGN.com = *******
IGN.com = *******
Hype was too strong.
boiled goose
good with gravy
Ign heard it is no longer being developed.
They misreported the news.
It is no longer being developed because it is finished and ready to be announced at e3.
Right?
They misreported the news.
It is no longer being developed because it is finished and ready to be announced at e3.
Right?
Shadow_FFVI
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Is there any hope for Microsoft winning E3, if Sony shows The Last Guardian tomorrow?
The Last Guardian and Project Beast would be one hell of a one two punch.
The Last Guardian and Project Beast would be one hell of a one two punch.
Shenmue 3
It sure as hell isn't IGN's place to claim it's been "officially cancelled", let's be clear about that. I'm fine with reporting on rumours, if they're explicitly reported as such. What IGN did was ridiculous.
But Sony saying it's "NOT cancelled" doesn't mean a whole lot. It's the same vague shit they've been saying for years. It's up to Sony to fucking DO SOMETHING and show us it's still there, instead of just half saying it's still alive. Like I said, there's a large area between "not cancelled" and "in active development", and Sony seems to be content with keeping us guessing where in that space exactly the game has been lingering for, what, 5 years? It's shameful, really.
The worst part is that everything will be as good as forgotten when/if the game does pop up again, and Sony's presser will be celebrated and GAF will cry tears of joy. Nobody should be celebrated for showing a game they promised 5 years ago.
I don't even care anymore. Just let this shit be over.
TheRealTalker
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maquiladora
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Danny O'Dwyer think TLG will be shown tomorrow.
You're my new favourite member.
SDCowboy
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My final input on this is that after all this fuss about the game and with the presser being shown in theaters across the country, if Sony doesn't show TLG, I think it will be a disappointment that will go far beyond the usual "another show and no TLG". I think it will be a huge failure on Sony's part.
Well if you don't like either of those games and love Halo and Phantom Dust I'd imagine MS would be the winner for you.
ethomaz
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Seeing how we have had 3 whole Souls games and possibly a 4th on the way before we even seen gameplay for The Nevercomingout Guardian, I think that is a safe bet.
licktheenvelope
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LegendofDragoonLives
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reboot or bust
LowParry
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The Last Guardian will be re-announced this or next year.
lol that's not how it works. It's either this year at E3 or TGS. You gotta do what those FFXV folk do.
I'd rather have a legend of dragoon reboot with updated magic and battle system.
Sony getting shenmue 3 would be too much, too much power for a human. Their heads would explode.Cerny is on a mission with this though
LookAtMeGo
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I can't even imagine what the OT for TLG would be called.
The Last Guardian |OT| ... i got nothing.
The Last Guardian |OT| ... i got nothing.
Love Deterrence
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I laughed at this game "not being dead" over dinner. The Last Guardian HAS been canceled.
Orthogonal
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Failure is a bit too strong, but I can see the disappointment leading to the start of some negative sentiment after all the goodwill they've garnered.
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