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[walking fiend]

Hmm. I can understand your reasoning, but I'd like to think both could have been reasonably successful with some marketing. And spacing out.

I think of Epic Mickey, I wonder how bad it could have bombed if it wasn't pushed despite every odds being against it.

 

[Despera]

I have the game. I've beat it.

And I still can't believe it was out already.

 

[Saint Gregory]

Wow, I'd never heard of this game before spoting this thread and I'm a huge fan of Suda and Mikami. Either I'm really not keeping up with game announcements anymore or someone sucks at promoting their game.

 

[Lesiroth]

For some reason at least on GAF this seems to be a huge problem. No one knows this game released yet. Someone screwed up with marketing.

You can't screw up marketing if it doesn't exist.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

This is the best game I have played all year.

Rebel against the dudebros control of the market and buy this game.

 

[walking fiend]

Wow, I'd never heard of this game before spoting this thread and I'm a huge fan of Suda and Mikami. Either I'm really not keeping up with game announcements anymore or someone sucks at promoting their game.

both. I stopped playing HD games on 2007, yet I knew when it was going to get released. But many don't.

Rebel against the dudebros control of the market and buy this game.

you will lose even if you try that in your dreams, I am pretty sure you will, they are inside your mind, their fear, their horror, their power, their resent, everything!

 

[mintylurb]

Wait..this is already out? ;00

 

[Wario64]

Suda51 is truly crying after this thread.

 

[walking fiend]

Suda51 is truly crying after this thread.

Hopefully he will start working on NMH Wii U.

 

[dragonflys545]

$40 still a bit too much for me. I still have Vanquish wrapped i purchase at launch lol

 

[Revolutionary]

Good job on that marketing, EA.

 

[Totobeni]

Good job on that marketing, EA.

Alice Madness Returns got zero marketing too, if EA keep doing this then I feel sorry for all future games in their partners program‎.

 

[Saint Gregory]

both. I stopped playing HD games on 2007, yet I knew when it was going to get released. But many don't.

You're probably right but I do kind of remember something about Suda working on a PS360 game years ago but I didn't see one thing about this game during the E3 coverage so I thought it got scrapped.

It doesn't really have his usual visual style so maybe I saw it and just didn't have any idea what it was.

$40 still a bit too much for me. I still have Vanquish wrapped i purchase at launch lol

You sound a lot like me, I have Vanquish, NMH2 and a host of other games waiting to get unwrapped. I'm just starting Darksiders.

 

[subversus]

I think such fuck ups are the reason why EA are in red for like 4th year straight.

 

[Shiggy]

It's out already?

 

[G.O.O.]

WTF, this game is out? When did it come out?

I keep reading this and it depresses me.

What doesn't depresses me is the autograph I got from Suda today, while having no ticket for it. <3

Spoiler

He wasn't crying

 

[ZROCOOL]

Buy it people. Well worth every penny. imo

 

[Kaako]

Damn, didn't this just came out?

 

[apana]

EA must be saving all their marketing money for Star Wars and FPS games.

 

[sixteen-bit]

It's out already?

Yeah, they really dropped the ball with marketing.

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

I'll buy it at $20.

:smug

Yup.

 

[Adam J.]

I would buy the hell out of this game if I wasn't broke right now. Hope I can still find a good deal on it next week when I get paid.

 

[Blast Processing]

I have a bet with a friend concerning NPD numbers for this game, but I think even at 66K I'm coming in over...

 

[Gigglepoo]

For whatever reason, EA decided to cut ties with both this and Alice. I don't really get it. I mean, okay, Alice I get. But this could easily be turned into a small hit. Not like the dev budget was huge...and it's a shooter.

Ultimately, I think Alice Madness Returns had a better shot of succeeding at retail because it has name recognition. New IPs rarely sell in this industry, and bizarre games have even a tougher time getting people interested. Shadows of the Damned was doomed from the beginning, which is why I'm shocked it even exists. But I'm glad both games somehow got made and released because they're both great.

 

[eXistor]

Just dropped in to say: buy it. It's probably the most shameless fun you'll have with a game this year.

 

[Totobeni]

Ultimately, I think Alice Madness Returns had a better shot of succeeding at retail because it has name recognition. New IPs rarely sell in this industry, and bizarre games have even a tougher time getting people interested. Shadows of the Damned was doomed from the beginning, which is why I'm shocked it even exists. But I'm glad both games somehow got made and released because they're both great.

Shadows of the Damned has super ultra mega famous directors all over it ,they can market it as twisted RE4 or something, and it's a shooter, so there is a market for it ,Alice on the other hand are niches 3D platformer and only small cult care and know about the original one.

 

[ShaunBRS]

If 90% of GAF didn't even know the game was out (a week after the fact, no less), it was pretty much DOA. There were people coming into the OT who didn't even know it existed.

 

[Stabby McSter]

I'll buy it at $20.

:smug

This, but only because Steam already murdered me.

 

[akilshohen]

EA was stupid to release both games within a week of each other (or barely) Should of been spaced out, and one should of probably came out around Halloween. Come to think of it, Alice would of been good around Easter perhaps.
It's worse with Shadows. I met the agent that reps the designers and everything.

 

[Gigglepoo]

Shadows of the Damned has super ultra mega famous directors all over it ,they can market it as twisted RE4 or something, and it's a shooter, so there is a market for it ,Alice on the other hand are niches 3D platformer and only small cult care and know about the original one.

I'm not sure how much weight Suda's and Mikami's names carry. Other than RE1/4, I don't think Mikami has released a successful game, and Suda's biggest hit is, um, No More Heroes? Maybe? They're two of my favorite designers (in one game!), but I don't think most people care.

 

[IC_Champion]

For some reason at least on GAF this seems to be a huge problem. No one knows this game released yet. Someone screwed up with marketing.

EA can mass market their sports titles, but not a game made by two legendary Japanese game makers? WTF. I haven't seen a billboard or commercial.

 

[Barkley's Justice]

another game that should have been digital-only for $30.

why do these publishers keep doing this crap?

 

[Wario64]

another game that should have been digital-only for $30.

I don't understand this.

 

[sixteen-bit]

I have a bet with a friend concerning NPD numbers for this game, but I think even at 66K I'm coming in over...

Would it even chart with those numbers?

 

[Net_Wrecker]

I don't understand this.

I don't know about digital only, but if it released with any marketing at all at $40 retail + digital, I think it would've been more successful in the short term.

 

[corporate cheerleader]

At least you'd SEE the game if it were download only.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

How are they going to market bf3 if they spend money on titles like this game and Alice? You guys need to see the big picture. EA gets it.

 

[subversus]

How are they going to market bf3 if they spend money on titles like this game and Alice? You guys need to see the big picture. EA gets it.

then DON'T FUND THE GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE ffs.

 

[MrHicks]

never heard of it

 

[LemonGremlin]

One of the biggest suprises of the year for me. It's like RE4 crossed with Evil Dead. I'm really enjoying it

 

[subversus]

"-but how do you know?! It's a top secret demonic stuff!
-not on the internet"

 

[overcast]

What is this? Suda is attached to it?

 

[Tokubetsu]

Love this motherfucking game.

 

[sixteen-bit]

What is this? Suda is attached to it?

Mikami and Yamaoka too!

 

[subversus]

What is this? Suda is attached to it?

he's the director.

WTF GAF

 

[Dascu]

What is this? Suda is attached to it?

Goichi Suda wrote the script, Akira Yamaoka handled the sound and music, Shinji Mikami had input on the gameplay design and Massimo Guarini directed the game.

he's the director.

No, he isn't.

 

[Fjordson]

:lol @ thread title.

Buy this game. Hell of a lot of fun, good humour, atmosphere and a kick ass soundtrack.

 

[overcast]

Goichi Suda wrote the script, Akira Yamaoka handled the sound and music, Shinji Mikami had input on the gameplay design and Massimo Guarini directed the game.


No, he isn't.

Wow. How have I not heard of this? I feel like a disgrace.

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

then DON'T FUND THE GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE ffs.

Isn't it preferable that the game exists without promotion if the alternative is that it doesn't exist at all?

 

[Fox Mulder]

EA can mass market their sports titles, but not a game made by two legendary Japanese game makers? WTF. I haven't seen a billboard or commercial.

I haven't even seen it in a retail store yet. Walmart, Best Buy, and Target don't even have it here, and not because it's flying off shelves. So I wonder if it's a low run in addition to no marketing.

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