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Scalebound cancelled [Platinum Games and Kamiya have commented]
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Unreal Champ
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Have you played it? Have the game released yet? Do you know what state the game was in? Public showing could be versions that are months old. SO you have no idea how good or bad the game was. And how do you know who pushed it back?
Looking at the footage I don't even blame Microsoft.
Imagine it from their perspective. They probably thought they were getting Vanquish, and ended up with
Looks good to me. What was wrong with it?
Coffee Dog
Banned
Between Bayo 2 and W101, Nintendo probably feels like they set enough money on fire as a favor to Platinum.
In some cases it is
If The Last Guardian was being developed on a Microsoft machine it would never have come out.
Kingpin Rogers
Member
How will this affect Kamiya/Platinum's relationship with Microsoft? Last I heard it was strained and this could be the byproduct of that.
I will say though that this is the one platinum game I wouldn't weep over being canceled. I don't know if microsoft got too involved or something but it didn't look anywhere near as fun as platinum's usual titles.
I will say though that this is the one platinum game I wouldn't weep over being canceled. I don't know if microsoft got too involved or something but it didn't look anywhere near as fun as platinum's usual titles.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
And a Metroid game was released in 2016
Jimnymebob
Member
I'm not knocking Kamiya here, because the games he directed are fantastic, but they were never really hugely popular in the mainstream. His biggest game was probably RE2, and aside from DMC, which ended up becoming more popular with it's sequels, the rest of his games are fairly niche titles like Viewtiful Joe, Okami, W101 etc.
I doubt there'd be a huge outcry.
ethomaz
Banned
Schreier (Kotaku) and Shinobi has a perfect track record
Vampirolol
Member
The first gameplay I saw of this looked like game of the generation material, but the second time my hype deflated immensely. A game being canceled is always a sad thing, let's just hope that (if true) this is for the best.
orichalcos
Member
God, pls no.
There's no reason to believe that Scorpio has a materially better CPU than base xb1.
You didn't like Federation Force?!
Whaaaat!? And he is used to write hundreds of tweets everyday. Maybe he is indeed stressed to hell now
Not looking good
The Cartographer
Member
If you're really worried about PlatinumGames then just buy Nier: Automata in two months.
Why the heck would you want Platinum to lose its independence?
Why the heck would you want Platinum to lose its independence?
BronsonLee
Member
Schreier (Kotaku) and Shinobi has a perfect track record
I dunno man I have Shinobi in my phone tagged as known liar
Duxxy3
Member
Because they might cancel a game that has never looked particularly good?
Seriously, if people didn't know Scalebound was being developed by Platinum would people even give a shit about it?
It sucks that games like this continue to drop out of the race in mid development. Whether the game was to be a hit or not, it would have found an audience. That seems to be a problem with the industry nowadays...for sure potential (if that makes sense) to be a multi-million dollar seller, or the IP just doesn't get made. That's why the industry suffers from sequalitis for 2 gens now, IMO. Bank of the name and similar mechanics of a past title...as even us gamers like to play it safe...and the publisher know this (the sales reflect this every time...outside the very few exceptions).
going by posts in this thread from people that seem to know.
Omega Kirby
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Looking at the footage I don't even blame Microsoft.
Imagine it from their perspective. They probably thought they were getting Vanquish, and ended up with
Should have just made Vanquish 2 an Xbox One exclusive, that would turn a lot more heads
Best case scenario I can think of is it goes multiplat, but even that seems pretty unlikely right now.
While the game looked rough in previous reveals, the concept was really cool.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I'm sure the main reason this came out was because budget wise it wasn't gonna be super expensive to develop to completion. Most studios wouldn't let a project sit on the backburner not making any progress whatsoever. How did TLG sell btw?In some cases it is
If The Last Guardian was being developed on a Microsoft machine it would never have come out.
A super low budget 3ds title. That only has literal seconds of Samus in it. Come on man. Ծ_Ծ
The Jackdog
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looking at the games that were SUPPOSED to come out they had a pretty diverse portfolio, and they first revealed the game what, two years ago? It was scheduled for this fall.
Thats a lonnnng time to not see anything, and buying an exclusive from platinum couldnt of been cheap initially.
It really just sounds like the game is in hell and MS isnt trying to sink anymore money into it if its not gonna come together.
People acting like MS is the people in the Lyft commercials, sitting around a dark boardroom like LETS CANCEL THE GAME SO WE CAN SCREW FANS AND DEVELOPERS
Welp. That's pretty much what I figured. MS doesn't seem quite as lenient towards Platinum like other publishers have been.
Hard to say, I guess. We only have one trailer to go by for now but based on the details Gematsu provided, Granblue seems VERY ambitious, to me.
http://gematsu.com/2016/09/granblue-fantasy-project-re-link-follows-story-new-skydom
http://gematsu.com/2016/08/cygames-...e-action-rpg-granblue-fantasy-project-re-link
Without going OT too much, I dunno. Scalebound... something about it just seemed offputting to me. One thing I'll give the game is the world design looked somewhat interesting but... there are other open world games (like Granblue, DQXI, Breath of the Wild etc) which look far more appealing IMO.
Mass Effect
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Do you know something or is this just conjecture on your part?
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
That's not funny.
Blackquill
Member
Sounds like the developpement was a mess which is a shame
Don.Abbade
Member
So without Scalebound -- a HUGE title -- Microsoft have Sea of Thives (i think it will be delayed), Crackdown 3 (huge question mark) and State of Decay 2 (we didn't saw a single in-game image)
So, I guess, Fall 2017 won't be the GREATEST GAMES LINEUP IN XBOX HISTORY" again.
So, I guess, Fall 2017 won't be the GREATEST GAMES LINEUP IN XBOX HISTORY" again.
Relaxed Muscle
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Is not only Scalebound and you know it.
Source? I don't think it's possible because it sold :
49k in 3 weeks in Japan
Just over 10k in UK first week
68k in October NPD
This has GAF meme potential.
In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... Come again?
likedamaster
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I don't believe ANYTHING kotaku writes/says, but I have to say I'm curious about this.
SenjutsuSage
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If this is at all true, I'm blaming Platinum Games and not Microsoft. They have the talent, and I assume they were giving the resources. It fell on them afterwards to do the vision proud, and I honestly don't feel much of what I saw was as exciting as I hoped for it to be. And I'm saying this as someone who was more excited to see Scalebound above anything else entering Microsoft's press event at E3 last year, and I really didn't feel like what was shown lived up to the potential. A real shame if this ends up being canceled, but if the game isn't coming together and things aren't working out, that's what they have to do.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
I'm so upset. It's over.
Dreamwriter
Member
Maybe they are just rebranding it as a Panzer Dragoon game!
I have no problem believing that Kamiya really wanted to make the fundamental game that Scalebound is, and that "making a game with a big dragon you fight with" is a dream project for him, but that only goes so far. Of course Kamiya or other staffers aren't going to come out and say "yeah, Microsoft really has us by the balls on this" or something like that in a PR interview.
Peroroncino
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If not for the fact that I also want to play State of Decay 2, I'd be pretty effin' pissed right now about not selling it much earlier.
I hope this isn't true...
I hope this isn't true...
Vital Tundra
Member
Lets be honest, the game never looked any good. Everything we have seen has had jank written all over it. Its just a shame so many years have gone down the drain. Microsoft don't make this a habit. You kinda need the first party titles.
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