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[Forsaken82]

Killer Instinct is alright.

Divekick though? That was only fun for like two minutes.



It shouldn't be that amazing. In theory, someone could make Crysis run on the handheld at 1Frame Per Second. Would you accept that?

You are comparing a game running 20+ fps on an unoptimized engine for a platform with (likely) little development time to a hypothetical game that runs at 1 FPS under the same circumstances? I'd take a 20 FPS playable version of Borderlands any day of the week...

This comparison is silly...

 

[thelastword]

I think Boyes can make something special out of these guys, they're a decent enough studio, it's not like they're high voltage.

 

[joms5]

Include Johnny V and that whole company then becomes the best place to work in the industry.

Great news!

 

[many places]

CEO title had to be tempting af.

 

[Doug Heffernan]

GFB Industries taking over.

 

[Scrub Mcgrubb]

John Vignocchi joining Iron Galaxy in 3... 2...

 

[Deleted member 59090]

Great news. I hope that means Lang gets to spend more time with his kids.
I'm sure they got an internship opening for JV too.

 

[Sakwoff]

You are comparing a game running 20+ fps on an unoptimized engine for a platform with (likely) little development time to a hypothetical game that runs at 1 FPS under the same circumstances? I'd take a 20 FPS playable version of Borderlands any day of the week...

This comparison is silly...

Generally, when ports are bad, it's better to look at the publisher than at the porting company anyways. They are the ones responsible for allocating budget/time.

See also: Arkham Knight.

Being hired for an outsourced port is a pretty thankless job as far as making games goes.

 

[The Flash]

Adam just got Lang'd

 

[Mechanized]

Now just add Johnny V and we got the nWo of game dev studios!

 

[MastaKilla]

So indie galaxy is the dev behind the socom remaster confirmed?

 

[SpecX]

Congrats, I'm curious as to what this means for Destiny and Sony partnership in the future since Adam was a big fan and probably helped push it more than it would have been otherwise.

 

[thepenguin55]

Now just add Johnny V and we got the nWo of game dev studios!

Maybe they'll make a new Backstage Assault.

 

[GitarooMan]

Good luck to him. I am getting a hearty chuckle over some of the armchair career analysis in the thread.

 

[Scrub Mcgrubb]

Iron Galaxy, Yacht Club Games, and Microsoft on a new Battletoads... make it happen Adam!

 

[amdb00mer]

About time someone took the reigns at Iron Galaxy and put the train back on the tracks.

I have to disagree. They never stopped being great. Hopefully he will help them in developing new IP.

 

[Calm waterfall]

Well done Adam.

 

[deriks]

This is the studio that did Arkham Knight pc port and 7 Days to Die console port. Yikes.

It was 12 people to port Arkham Knight for PC. They need a lot more time to do justice

 

[Salty Rice]

Hope John Vignocchi gonna be next and nobody gonna stop this unholy alliance.

 

[Ushay]

Let's hope Iron Galaxy can build something special under his guidance.

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

This is amazing to hear.

 

[adamantypants]

Damn that IG pairing.

Listening to GFB radio, Lang always seemed super busy. I'm not surprised he was willing to step down. It seems like he was always struggling to find time with his family (and look for excuses to watch F1 races in person.)

 

[Raitaro]

Hey Boyes, you now have one job: secure the rights to Windjammers and do a remake or sequel.

On behalf of Giant Bomb and the rest of the games loving peoples of Earth,
Cheers.

(Oh and a current gen port of 3rd Strike - with NG and 2nd Impact stages added this time - would be great as well. I'm sure Capcom would listen to you, so make that your follow-up task.)

Edit: All kidding aside: I'm sure he'll be a great fit and that he will enable IG's star to rise even higher as it has been.

 

[Zojirushi]

So can we expect good ports now?

 

[xxracerxx]

The Apocalypse is upon us!!!!!

 

[Randdalf]

So can we expect good ports now?

I sincerely doubt that IG make bad ports because of lack of expertise or leadership. They get given a time, and a budget (that admittedly they were probably the lowest bidders for) and then have to do a job with those constraints. The fact that ports are being outsourced in the first place shows you how highly the publisher of that game values the platform it is ported to.

 

[Yukinari]

Iron Galaxy has made some questionable KI decisions but i appreciate them keeping the game alive. Its more unfortunate that Double Helix is stuck making garbage again for Amazon.

 

[thepenguin55]

Hey Boyes, you now have one job: secure the rights to Windjammers and do a remake or sequel.

On behalf of Giant Bomb and the rest of the games loving peoples of Earth,
Cheers.

(Oh and a current gen port of 3rd Strike - with NG and 2nd Impact stages added this time - would be great as well. I'm sure Capcom would listen to you, so make that your follow-up task.)

Edit: All kidding aside: I'm sure he'll be a great fit and that he will enable IG's star to rise even higher as it has been.

There's literally no reason CVS2, Hyper SF2, SF2HD, Darkstalkers Collection, SF Alpha Collection, and 3rd Strike (with NG & 2nd Impact content like you suggested) aren't all on current generation platforms. Those games should all just always be available on everything.

 

[Lijik]

FYI, for people who don't already know, Boyes' and Lang have been best friends for line 20years. They worked together at Midway in the 90s.

For those wondering why IG of all places.

Yeah if I got to be the ceo of a company and hang out with one of my best friends all day, Id probably jump on that too.

 

[thepenguin55]

Iron Galaxy has made some questionable KI decisions but i appreciate them keeping the game alive. Its more unfortunate that Double Helix is stuck making garbage again for Amazon.

So as minor as this is my biggest problem with KI since they took over is they made all the menus terrible.

 

[Mad Season]

Yeah if I got to be the ceo of a company and hang out with one of my best friends all day, Id probably jump on that too.

It's not a playground. This is business

 

[ElBoxyBrown]

Good for him I guess. Iron Galaxy is a pretty shitty dev tbh.

Based on what? Cuz other than bad ports they can maintain great fighting games.

 

[Fattony12000]

@amboyes congrats on the new job at iron galaxy
10:28 PM - 10 Jul 2016

weird...

 

[deltacanuckian]

It's not a playground. This is business

Except even in business, the world never really evolves beyond high school.

 

[Fattony12000]

Photograph by http://www.chicagoillinoisweddingphotography.com/.

nice, nice

 

[exmachina64]

Wow, that's a big hire for Iron Galaxy.

 

[RiccochetJ]

Hopefully Boyes will be on their podcast.

 

[jabuseika]

Makes sense.

But who holds more power now, Lang or Boyes, and when's the cage match?

Also, Lang mentioned recently on the Bombcast, they they wanted to branch out a bit more into all types of indie games, so this makes even more sense.

 

[krae_man]

Wow, that's a big hire for Iron Galaxy.

Seriously, he's quite tall.

Congrats Adam!

 

[etrain911]

I hope he can turn that ship around after what happened with Arkham Knight. I want to like them, they're a small studio, some of their ports are genuinely good, and KI is a very nice fighter, but after that and 7 Days to Die, they've lost my confidence as a customer.

 

[Jyrii]

That is pretty awesome. Can't wait till next time Boyes, Lang and Vignocchi are together on Giant Bomb.

 

[Blam]

Can't wait to see what they are going to be working on.

 

[The Ummah]

weird...

Was that today? If so, back to normal now. That is weird.

 

[Forsaken82]

Generally, when ports are bad, it's better to look at the publisher than at the porting company anyways. They are the ones responsible for allocating budget/time.

See also: Arkham Knight.

Being hired for an outsourced port is a pretty thankless job as far as making games goes.

I know how developer/publisher relations work, i've been in this industry for almost 10 years. My argument has nothing to do with that. Ultimately BL2 was playable, what he was arguing was that Crysis at 1 FPS is garbage, so naturally why should you care about BL2 which averaged between 20-25 FPS. It was a silly argument.

Now if the argument was comparable with a 20 FPS version of crysis, i am sure a lot of people would be fine with that. Just like most seemed to be with BL2 Vita.

 

[orthodoxy1095]

Whoa, that's great. Congrats Booya!

 

[Lijik]

It's not a playground. This is business

You know I was this close to changing my wording but I had other things to do and I thought "Theres no way someone would be that dense and pendantic to jump on this". Thanks for proving me wrong I guess?

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

Finally Dave can return to developing for the Saturn.

 

[Occam]

Congrats!

If Borderlands 2 on Vita was the only version of the game in existence I would agree with you. But the mere fact that they got it running, even as shoddy as it runs, is amazing to me. I honestly can't imagine a world where Borderlands 2 runs better on Vita than it does now.

It's unfortunate they never patched it to make use of the additional memory Sony made available on Vita.

Please Mr. Boyes, give us a patch for Borderlands 2 on Vita!

 

[GeoramA]

I'd love to have Adam for a boss. Congrats to him and the studio.

 

[Shift Breaker]

It's unfortunate they never patched it to make use of the additional memory Sony made available on Vita.

They did, actually. Months later. It wasn't an incredible improvement, but an improvement, nonetheless. It's better than it was from the patch before, but there are still noticeable drops in intense areas.