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[SapientWolf]

And Supreme Commander 2. Seriously, what the fuck was Chris Taylor thinking when he sold the IP to SQUEENIX?

Square Enix didn't design the game. It was still a Chris Taylor production. If I had to guess, he was thinking about how he could make an RTS in the franchise that would appeal to people that didn't have supercomputers. I guess it worked because it hasn't left the Steam most played list since it was released.

Front Mission and Mindjack, on the other hand, were completely boring and are already forgotten.

 

[cuyahoga]

Had the title confused with Gun Head for a moment there.

It'd be nice if EA announced that game. It needs to happen.

EA canceled it (again) last year, sorry.

 

[TheOddOne]

EA canceled it (again) last year, sorry.

Again?

 

[AgentChris]

This looked like complete shit.

 

[bloodforge]

SE does have half a brain!

It baffles me that this was even green lit. Who was their target audience? Seems a bit too out there for the COD/Gears crowd.

 

[Dark Schala]

The game looked terrible and unfun. Good job, SE! Yoichi Wada really greenlit this?

I wonder how terribly Mindjack sold.

 

[AgentChris]

Mindjack and Gun Loco... Square Enix what were you thinking?

 

[Shed_a_Ninja]

SE does have half a brain!

It baffles me that this was even green lit. Who was their target audience? Seems a bit too out there for the COD/Gears crowd.

It was being branded a Borderlands ripoff so... maybe the Borderlands crowd?

 

[Xater]

Mindjack and Gun Loco... Square Enix what were you thinking?

Mindjack made it onto the market! Unbelievable!

 

[Plywood]

Fixed that for you.

 

[outunderthestars]

SHould have been canceled ten seconds after someone put forth the idea.

 

[Kyoufu]

S-E needs to make me CEO.

I would green-light a new Legacy of Kain game. Evaluate the work done on that Fortress game to see if it can be made into a good game. Get more muscle behind Versus XIII and release that fucking game finally. Abort FFXIV and pretend it never existed. Green-light FFVII Remake. Re-hire Matsuno and give him everything he wants. Have Yoichi Wada fetch my coffee every morning.

 

[Shed_a_Ninja]

SHould have been canceled ten seconds after someone put forth the idea.

I'm sure Brothersworker/Brothersfree/Kennyworks/Kenny Wong may have had something to do with it.

Which reminds me. What's his reaction? Does anyone follow him on twitter?

 

[Kung Fu Grip]

Does any of the development teams that made those classic RPG's from the NES to PS generation still work at squaresoft? Im mean jesus Square has become such a useless developer. Hero to F'n Zero.

Spoiler

Yes i said squaresoft

 

[Struct09]

Probably for the best

 

[KingJ2002]

Hopefully no (innocent) employees were fired in the process.

same sentiments exactly

 

[Kagari]

S-E needs to make me CEO.

I would green-light a new Legacy of Kain game. Evaluate the work done on that Fortress game to see if it can be made into a good game. Get more muscle behind Versus XIII and release that fucking game finally. Abort FFXIV and pretend it never existed. Green-light FFVII Remake. Re-hire Matsuno and give him everything he wants. Have Yoichi Wada fetch my coffee every morning.

Haha.

Glad the game got cancelled though... it looked terrible, much like S-E's other "western" games.

 

[Shed_a_Ninja]

Does any of the development teams that made those classic RPG's from the NES to PS generation still work at squaresoft? Im mean jesus Square has become such a useless developer. Hero to F'n Zero.

Spoiler

Yes i said squaresoft

Good question. A lot of them spun off to small independent studios like Genius Sonority and Mistwalker. Kagari keeps a good track of who is left and who fled to where.

 

[cyclenut]

lol..the fact that they even made a trailer for it is sad.

 

[Shed_a_Ninja]

lol..the fact that they even made a trailer for it is sad.

There were also character vignettes. Somebody got banned on the OT for quoting "I'VE GOT FUNK IN MY JUNK" and nobody knew what the hell the user was talking about.

 

[Lijik]

lol..the fact that they even made a trailer for it is sad.

Yeah! How dare they try to market a game!

 

[Shadow780]

I am shocked of this development.

 

[Rahxephon91]

Could have been hilarious fun. Sad to see it canceled.

 

[-PXG-]

Could have been hilarious fun. Sad to see it canceled.

You truly do live up to your tag. Or you are one helluva joke poster.

 

[Unregistered007]

easy decision.

Square: no one cared .. why should we...

 

[mello]

No way! Gun Loco got cancelled!? Why?! How could you do this S-E? Me and thousands of other people were looking forward to this! (((

 

[Goon Boon]

Noooo.jpg
How can it be???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWz3IZHiHlM

You linked the wrong trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceq1ItoU3hQ

I GOT FUNK IN MY JUNK

 

[El Sloth]

I remember Tactics Ogre, Nier and TWEWY not selling too hot.

I was under the impression that TWEWY sold pretty decently actually, just that it was a slow burn for a while. I remember Square saying they were "pleased" with the sales at least. Or am I remembering wrong?

 

[Shalashaska161]

I'm surprised it made it this far to be honest. It actually had negative hype.

 

[SciencePilot]

Oh thank heavens. This game looked horrible. I'm not going to plead for Square Enix to go back to making things I like, but at least I'm happy they won't humiliate themselves.

 

[DR2K]

This game looked Loco.

Fixed.

 

[I NEED SCISSORS]

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[B]Hopefully no (innocent) employees were fired in the process[/B].[/QUOTE]

You can't make expectations like this while at the same time shitting on the game - the saying "you can't have your cake and eat it too" is just perfect in this situation.

If they get fired, it's because they weren't doing their job correctly when they made such an abomination of a product.

 

[WEGGLES]

You can't make expectations like this while at the same time shitting on the game - the saying "you can't have your cake and eat it too" is just perfect in this situation.

If they get fired, it's because they weren't doing their job correctly when they made such an abomination of a product.

That only goes so far.

Some people losing their job had no hand in why this game was so bad.

 

[Femmeworth]

You can't make expectations like this while at the same time shitting on the game - the saying "you can't have your cake and eat it too" is just perfect in this situation.

If they get fired, it's because they weren't doing their job correctly when they made such an abomination of a product.

What I meant is that I hope no one on the non-creative side of the project is negatively affected by this.

 

[Rahxephon91]

You truly do live up to your tag. Or you are one helluva joke poster.

I enjoy bad Japanese games.

 

[=HERO=]

Funny, SquareEnix Members had a contest to do the theme song for the game. The grand prize included a copy of the game...

 

[ULTROS!]

This is probably Square Enix US' shortest "press release".

SQUARE ENIX CEASES DEVELOPMENT OF GUN LOCO

Friday, March 18, 2011 — Square Enix announced today that it has ceased development of the Xbox 360 game Gun Loco.

 

[duckroll]

Funny, SquareEnix Members had a contest to do the theme song for the game. The grand prize included a copy of the game...

I thought the grand prize was 3000 bucks. The runner's up prize was a Xbox360 console and the game.

 

[a Master Ninja]

You linked the wrong trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ceq1ItoU3hQ

I GOT FUNK IN MY JUNK

That looked like it had amazing Quick Look potential.

Aw I would have loved to see how awful it was. Could be one of those games you play just to laugh at how redonk it is.

That "Funk in my Junk" trailer actually makes me want to see more.

 

[InfiniteNine]

I thought the grand prize was 3000 bucks. The runner's up prize was a Xbox360 console and the game.

So they were going to punish the 2nd place winner for being first to lose?

 

[SapientWolf]

You can't make expectations like this while at the same time shitting on the game - the saying "you can't have your cake and eat it too" is just perfect in this situation.

If they get fired, it's because they weren't doing their job correctly when they made such an abomination of a product.

Maybe this is what the management at Squeenix thought Westeners enjoyed. Honestly, that's the scariest part of all this.

 

[Jigsaw]

so how about finally canceling last remnant ps3 too hm?

 

[TheFLYINGManga_Ka]

And it was about to come out this month, right?

Wonder how much SE lost or how far they were in development before canceling this.

 

[Arpharmd B]

Noooo.jpg
How can it be???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWz3IZHiHlM

My god.

I have seen bad games, and then I have seen Gun Loco. Wow. A guy name Nuts just grabbed his nuts.

I mean look Square Enix as a name doesn't mean shit to me or a lot of gamers, but the fact that Square Enix was almost synonymous with this game, I don't think any game company could recover from a blow like that. Thank god someone in the producing department at Square had half a brain to abort this... this... this god forsaken holy abomination of a turd.

-edit- I JUST figured out this was going to be a full retail release, and not XBLA. Mind blown?

 

[TheFLYINGManga_Ka]

-edit- I JUST figured out this was going to be a full retail release, and not XBLA. Mind blown?

Yeah, a $60 retail game made no sense. I thought it was a XBLA game at first as well.

 

[Zwei]

so how about finally canceling last remnant ps3 too hm?

NO!

 

[Arpharmd B]

This game looked crazy.

Spoiler

I would've bought it for $5.

Gun is Gun. Loco is CRrrrraaazzzzy Taxi.

 

[The Spoony Hou]

embarrassment averted

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

S-E needs to make me CEO.

I would green-light a new Legacy of Kain game. Evaluate the work done on that Fortress game to see if it can be made into a good game. Get more muscle behind Versus XIII and release that fucking game finally. Abort FFXIV and pretend it never existed. Green-light FFVII Remake. Re-hire Matsuno and give him everything he wants. Have Yoichi Wada fetch my coffee every morning.

No KH3 = no support from me!

I have some faith they'll improve on XIII. They've had plenty of time and know what many fans expect.

Eagerly awaiting the first proper reveal.

 

[Despera]

Awesome news.