Ayyy.
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Scalebound cancelled [Platinum Games and Kamiya have commented]
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Ayyy.
I don't know about that. If MS wanted to fund another game, I'm sure they'd sign on the dotted line. You don't stop working with a company because they cancelled a project you were working on. If the game was progressing into a finished product or at the very least, showed potential, MS wouldn't just kill it. They'd release it. It's probably not in a state that warrants putting more resources into it which means the blame can be placed on Platinum since they're not delivering what MS wanted and paid them for.
V
Vilix
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I never really understood the premise behind Scalebound. But I knew that if anyone could hit it out of the park it would be PlatinumGames.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
I believe Microsoft is stupid enough to go through with this.
Dang, another one bites the dust.
Rolling wherever he is right now, please come back T_T
JB2448
Member
Why don't you edit the picture to make your (misguided and frankly tasteless) point, then? There are plenty of places where this image can be used as a basis for discussion instead of a tool to derail an existing one.
On topic, tragic news. I hope Kamiya is doing better than what hearsay and rumors are suggesting. The dude's put out some gems.
Is this in response to ShockingAlberto? Damn.
It is absolutely not a 1 to 1 situation, not just because PS4 is in the lead, but because Sony didn't show off/announce that expensive SSM project to the public. It is absolutely not the same thing. MS is making a habit of doing this over and over again. Hype up/reveal big AAA exclusive titles to the public, pitching them as essential parts of their upcoming lineups only to end up cancelling them and not following through on it. Sony's only notable thing like this this gen that I can think of has been for Rime which is an indie title that has only been shown at their gamescom conferences and not touted as an essential part/pillar of their upcoming exclusive lineup.
EatinOlives
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The Antitype
Banned
I don't blame them entirely for this, obviously, but damn Platinum has fallen from the God-tier they were at with Bayonetta and Vanquish a few short years ago. Korea, Transformers, TMNT, ugh...
Now Scalebound cancellation, which was clearly at least partly informed by the sloppy, messy gameplay they had put together for major presentations, etc.
I prefer the Platinum of few, excellent games.
Now Scalebound cancellation, which was clearly at least partly informed by the sloppy, messy gameplay they had put together for major presentations, etc.
I prefer the Platinum of few, excellent games.
Madrugador
Member
Honestly, MS has been a disaster this gen. I'm enjoying my Xbox One but I keep getting the feeling it should have been so much more.
rocketskates
Member
...........that Kamiya had lost faith in MS since posting that tweet, in 2015.
SomedayTheFire
Member
Most definitely. I just didn't want to spell out every possibility in that post. I hope everyone comes out OK, hell there will be people in MS on the chopping block for this too. Hopefully everyone lands on their feet.
Well considering that's never happening, I guess you're safe.
LukasTaves
Member
Specially since the tweet is from 2015, I doubt there were any serious talk about cancellation back then.
giancarlo123x
Banned
I would not be surprised in the slightest.
Amazing how a cancellation brings out the best in all of us gamers.
We don't have and hard facts and we have fan boys coming in here lighting the usual fires.
I stick by my original opinion, this game was in development hell and much like Fable was a bomb waiting to happen. I think it was smart of them to pull the plug with Scorpio around the corner. They need shining titles to showcase alongside. Would you have preferred them to stay silent for years like other publishers do? I'm not defending the cancellation, I think it was justified though just not this late in development.
We don't have and hard facts and we have fan boys coming in here lighting the usual fires.
I stick by my original opinion, this game was in development hell and much like Fable was a bomb waiting to happen. I think it was smart of them to pull the plug with Scorpio around the corner. They need shining titles to showcase alongside. Would you have preferred them to stay silent for years like other publishers do? I'm not defending the cancellation, I think it was justified though just not this late in development.
It depends if you judge it by exclusives. If you own a PC or PS4, then yeah it's pretty clearly among the worst mainstream consoles ever made. But if you play only on XBox I would think you would be fairly happy with it.
It will always have Forza though, can't really beat that.
The requirement of installs is an unfortunate side effect of Blu Ray discs and their slow read speeds... It's either installations or abysmal loading times. Both Sony and MS decided that full installations were the best resolution, with how large games have gotten today.
bananafactory
Banned
It's not stupid in theory, it's smart and serves their overall business well.
Nydius
Member
For me this has always been the question. When the system launched, I was interested in Titanfall... but had a PC ready and able to run it so I bought it from Origin. I was interested in Sunset Overdrive, and eventually got to play it with a friend's XBO but then didn't want to pick it up again. Then Windows 10 happened along with the announcement of play anywhere, basically announcing all of their future XBO exclusives would be on PC. So instead of buying an XBO, I set up a W10 dual boot where I've played ReCore and Forza Horizon 3 (buggy though it may be). If I want to play Gears 4, I can play it there too. Crackdown 3 has been a game I've been looking forward to but that game is apparently in development hell. If/when it comes out, it probably will use the Play Anywhere model too.
Why bother with the hardware at this point? Especially as Microsoft continues to lose exclusive developers? I wish I could say I have some hope for Sea of Thieves, but I'm skeptical because Rare has been used as their Kinect and avatar dev for way too long and I'm not sure what market there is for yet another MMO. Edit: I wish I could also sit here and say I'm optimistic about Crackdown 3 but that game has been marketed under several different revisions since E3 2014. Fully destructible, power of the cloud, multiplayer, blah blah blah.
Magic Mushroom
Member
The Last Guardian is winning Game of the Year awards, how does that even compare to the dud that is DNF?
Milly Osworth
Member
Everything MS says screams phony. More than other PR and marketing for some reason.
Dash_Riprock
Member
This E3 is gonna make or break the Xbox brand, thats for sure.
Osukaa
Member
Wow didn't see that coming ... I wasn't excited with the latest trailer they released but I still would have purchased it cause I know Platinum would have delivered some awesome gameplay moments. To me it seemed like it was trying to hard to make the main character to much like a wannabe Dante but with a cringe factor ( those headphones.....) I wanna say hopefully someone comes in to save the game but I don't know if its worth even saving. Bummer. I hope Platinum doesn't get affected by this too much financially.
Obliterator
Member
A portion of GAF is just going to go with its all MS fault, and Kamiya and Platinum are totally innocent.
Its annoying but we basically just have to accept that's the way its going to go
I know the reason, slow diskdrives.... I just don't like it. It is why I"m so happy with the Switch being cards
. It is one of my main "HYPER!" points about it. That and couch MP and Nintendo exclusives. Still I pray to the gaming gods that Nintendo will pick this one up for Switch, won't happen... but I really looked forward to this game. I might even have bought an xbox for this game. But noooopppeee. MS truly want a "Halo, Gears of Wars and Forza" Box.
facetheslayer92
Member
It's about Xbox's future prospects/software lineup.
SplitYourInfinities
Member
Good luck selling that.
SomedayTheFire
Member
I didn't even think someone could misunderstand how a RT is laid out on Twitter all I read was "better than ur life" and I was struggling to understand how that backed up the rest of his post. My bad.
Mass_Pincup
Banned
Since apparently you can't do it yourself I'm going to explain what he means by that.
First Sammy Samusu is an obvious Nintendo fanboy as evidenced by these posts:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=227540769&highlight=#post227540769
(cheering because Nintendo C&D's a Rom Hack)
I think that's established now.
Now the first part of his post is to make it seems like he doesn't care about the game so that port begging allegation don't happen. Then he post his Nintendo saviour fantasy which is the port begging part.
Now why would he think that Nintendo would save this project when Microsoft owns the IP, it wasn't looking like it would be an hit as usual with P* and it seems to be in development hell?
The only logical reason is that he wants it to happen since nothing shows that Nintendo has any interest in it.
Killer Queen
Banned
Salt and MS hate.
That being said though. If they're games as a service thing is to be believed I'm sticking with PlayStation and grabbing a switch.
lukeskymac
Member
None of those three are coming this year. GoW is most likely 2018, DS might be either 2018 or 2019, and TLOU is definitely 2019.
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Salty Hippo
Member
Nah, it was all Kamiya and Platinum's fault. They have a vast history of incompetence, unlike Microsoft. How can we blame Phil for this? *IF* there was any interference, it was certainly this guy pulling the strings from far away somehow:
Babylonian
Member
Just for comparison's sake, here's a list of what Nintendo announced at E3 2014, and here's a list of all the games Sony announced at E3 2014.
Many of the games announced at E3 get cancelled or just go away. Its pretty common.
There aren't any cancelled games on either one of those lists... unless you count Dead Island 2, which iirc is back in development (and, either way, isn't a Sony game).
Xbox Fitness is dead too.
That makes a lot of sense, and is completely consistent with what we have seen recently across nearly all their games.
What a bummer.
Who would buy them though?
mere_immortal
Member
I can see the press release now.
"Due to issues with our cloud service we have stopped development on Crackdown 3. However, no clouds means a bright future for XBOX."
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