Byronic Hero
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I'll buy another FFXIII if it means I get another Tomb Raider. Bring it Square.
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Square Enix: Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs, & Hitman all broke even, sequels implied
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BronsonLee
Member
I'll take all three, thanks!
And Deus Ex too please
And Deus Ex too please
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
LOL, don't think my heart could take another round of the madness. I’m scarred.
Chance Hale
Member
Looking forward to the next Hitman game. Absolution was flawed but it brought along an incredible amount of refinements to the forumla and the ending of the game implies a return to normalcy in terms of mission structure.
UnlovedJew
Member
The idea of Sleeping Dogs 2 and Tomb Raider 2 gives me butterflies. Glad to hear that these games did well, especially Sleeping Dogs.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Looking forward to Tomb Raider and Hitman sequels, but for the last one only after 3 or 4 years and only on next-gen consoles cuz I don't think that we need a quick sequel for this game.
grosvenor_92
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I'm down for more Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider
toastyToast
Member
Hype for Sleepy Dogs sequel. Something they could improve is the feeling that the story is super compressed. The big events were there but there wasn't enough build up between them really stand out. More of that John Woo madness though, I'm hard as fuck
Get rid of Lara's awful friends, subtract a few hundred enemies, make the puzzles harder than what I could find in a Dora the Explorer game and I'd definitely buy a TR sequel
Get rid of Lara's awful friends, subtract a few hundred enemies, make the puzzles harder than what I could find in a Dora the Explorer game and I'd definitely buy a TR sequel
British colonial authorities nicknamed the gangs 'triads' owing to their use of triangular imagery. The triads were originally formed as a resistance to the Manchu emperor of the Qing dynasty in the 1760s and called themselves the Tian Di Hui, the Heaven and Earth Society. Spreading through china with the goal of overthrowing Manchu rule and restoring that of the Han chinese, they branched out into many different groups. One of these was called the Sanhehui or the Three Harmonies Society, a reference to the trinity or triad of Heaven, Earth and Man.
As an aside, the Sun On Yee and 18K triad gangs in the game are actually the Sun Yee On and 14K gangs in real life.
I'm curious to see how the next Hitman does, because it was a giant letdown. I doubt the same people will be suckered into purchasing another mediocre Hitman game.
If they fuck it up again, I doubt the Hitman franchise will continue. And based on a lot of replies here, no one cares about a Hitman sequel, but rather for more Tomb Raider/Sleeping Dogs.
If they fuck it up again, I doubt the Hitman franchise will continue. And based on a lot of replies here, no one cares about a Hitman sequel, but rather for more Tomb Raider/Sleeping Dogs.
I want to be excited for a Tomb Raider sequel but it is tough. I really hope CD looks to the series past a bit and realizes how far away from the core of TR they went with this. So many of the new aspects would have worked perfectly in TR, but they just ditched the classic challenging platforming and puzzling almost entirely. And they seemed completely frightened to challenge the player in the slightest bit which is really a shame. There is a happy medium between the reboot and their previous titles. Hopefully they can hit it with the next one.
Glorified G
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NEXT GEN SLEEPING DOGS
UnluckyKate
Member
this will be glorious
It seems that Square's new focus is to make games like Tomb Raider for us Western gamers in addition to their flagship FF titles (Bullet Three - Regionality, starting on page 8) albeit with smaller budget (the "Improve Investment Efficiency" chart on page 10).
I find it interesting that game companies like Square have been operating with the mindset of US Auto companies from the 70s and 80s. And while it is affecting all big AAA studios worldwide, it just seems funny coming out of the mouth of a company like Square since Japan is the cradle of the whole Lean Kaizen movement (Toyota,etc)...
Yep, there is no third gang IIRC. The main ones in Sleeping Dogs are based off of real HK Triad names.
they said before they want to make Sleeping Dogs a franchise long ago( when SD was doing badly on sales charts)
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Slee...ly-a-Franchise-Despite-Low-Sales-314015.shtml
so yeah I think they just made that decision a long ago and it's not related with it getting it's budget back.
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anyway it's still kind of hard for me to believe Tomb Raider broke even (wasn't the rumored budget over $100 million? or was that BS?)
Tizoc
Member
TR 2013 had some nice gameplay elements, but overall the original/traditional exploration and platforming needs to come back.
Maybe have a hub world leading to big areas which you explore and can then go back to re-explore later when have more skills/items to find more stuff? Sorta Metroid-like?
Sleeping Dogs 2 Next Gen should take place in China, Japan and nearby Asian countries.
Maybe have a hub world leading to big areas which you explore and can then go back to re-explore later when have more skills/items to find more stuff? Sorta Metroid-like?
Sleeping Dogs 2 Next Gen should take place in China, Japan and nearby Asian countries.
If that is what they say, I'm inclined to believe it. Besides, something, something sequels are going to be cheaper now that the groundwork has been laid out.
Off-Kilter
Banned
Great news. I very much enjoyed all three titles
Smushroomed
Banned
Bought all 3 of those games on release date for the pc
hitman was the one I couldn't finish, and I wouldn't buy another game in the hitman series unless something changed
hitman was the one I couldn't finish, and I wouldn't buy another game in the hitman series unless something changed
OdysseusVA
Banned
I don't care at all for Tomb Raider or Hitman, but I'll gladly take another Sleepy Dawgs!
dragonflys545
Member
Sleeping Dog 2?!!?!?!?!?! OMG MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!
Yeah, that's why I said kinda. You could've guessed plans had changed after they were all gloom-and-doom about Eidos, but it seems they haven't. Glad to hear it.
The end suggested that the next Hitman will go back to the past formula. No more Agent 47 on the run. So I'm pretty sure it will be different.
The next hitman is being made by a different team. But if/when IO does it again it should return to its roots more.
Did not know that, should be interesting to see how it goes.
GlamFM
Banned
YES!
Femmeworth
Banned
Hey now, it wasn't completely worthless. Some of the environments were nice.
By the context of implying they generated some (small, below expectations) amount of profit, I would have to imagine it does.
Sleeping Dogs is amazing.
I have it thanks to PS+ on my PS3. I knew it would be a good game, but not how good. One of the best, most satisfying games of the generation IMO.
Bring on the sequel. I don't care if it's current gen or next gen, just make it the same level of quality and fun, and I'm there.
I have it thanks to PS+ on my PS3. I knew it would be a good game, but not how good. One of the best, most satisfying games of the generation IMO.
Bring on the sequel. I don't care if it's current gen or next gen, just make it the same level of quality and fun, and I'm there.
Good stuff, can't wait to see how Wei's story develops.
I hope they can do more than break even with the next round of sequels tho, as a publisher they had some neat intuitions, like picking up True Crime when it was almost dead and publishing that beautiful game that sleeping dogs turned out to be; they just need some more experience probably at how to properly handle PR founds and at how much to actually expect from their games.
I hope they can do more than break even with the next round of sequels tho, as a publisher they had some neat intuitions, like picking up True Crime when it was almost dead and publishing that beautiful game that sleeping dogs turned out to be; they just need some more experience probably at how to properly handle PR founds and at how much to actually expect from their games.
Four_Chamber
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Square Enix has got to be the most mismanaged company in gaming. How did they only break even on these games? I wonder how much in the red they'll be for FF Versus whenever its released. Just pissing away money in development costs.
Anyway, excited to see Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider get sequels. Both were fantastic games.
Anyway, excited to see Sleeping Dogs and Tomb Raider get sequels. Both were fantastic games.
the_sun_king
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I'm down for more Sleeping Dogs.
there was plenty of gameplay.