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Xbox One Exclusive Scalebound Was Shelved Twice, Originally Starred a Little Girl
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hosannainexcelsis
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Since Platinum is not a publisher, they have little control over the platforms their games release on. Obviously with Microsoft funding Scalebound and Nintendo funding Bayonetta 2, they aren't going to let those games release on competitors' platforms. Platinum's new game coming out next week, Transformers Devastation, will be multiplatform though (PC/PS3/PS4/360/XBONE), since it is being published by Activision.
Mass Effect
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So basically The Last Guardian... except a girl instead of a boy and dinos instead of feathered dog-things
I'm trying to conceptualize how this would work and the only thing that keeps coming to mind is TLG.
lmao
I'm trying to conceptualize how this would work and the only thing that keeps coming to mind is TLG.
lmao
Why? Are xbox one users allergic to little girls? Are people who like Japanese games or anime lolicons? Does the character being a little girl mean it's going to pander to that crowd?
entremet
Member
I was joking about the Vita, but no I don't think the game would've been as appealing with a young girl protagonist to the masses.
Just being realistic. Grown woman? Yes. But not a small child. At least for a full priced game.
yes it will pander to that crowd
Well yeah, just changing to a female lead in of itself is a challenge because of the ways the video game consumer base are set in, let alone changing to a young female lead (or old female lead, for that matter). But at least let's not be blind to the fact that going towards the dragons and male yuusha archetype is at least a little bit lazy and hackneyed.
Also, let's not forget that this is what marketing to the masses looks like:
Yes.
That question doesn't make sense, but yes.
Sigh. Please tell me you're joking.
Professor Beef
Banned
Just from what i've seen I have low expectations but platinum could very well defy them.
Scientist Supreme!
Banned
Yep. It's kinda messed up.
Cave Johnson
Member
Aww, what a pity. I would really like to see that concept in action. Everyone wants to play the safe route nowadays.
What about them? Is this going to be a drive by statement in every thread where anime is brought up? Some of most stuck up one dimensional clickish high school behavior in this thread, just need someone with a hot real chick avatar calling someone a jap loving weaboo and I could call bingo.
It's just funny how everyone with an anime avatar comes in the thread like "it would be better with a little girl"
Because yea, controlling a little girl instead of a man would make a game better. ROFL
Like come on, this post with this avatar
Hilarious and creepy as fuck at the same time
I can guarantee that this game will sell better with Not-Dante than the little girl.
Developers still gotta eat. Anyway I think the little girl idea could be interesting as a smaller downloadable type game.
Developers still gotta eat. Anyway I think the little girl idea could be interesting as a smaller downloadable type game.
Honestly, a young girl who commands dragons is a funny idea. Especially if no one knew who she really was, and as the game progressed, legends spread of this badass 8 foot tall dragonrider dude, sitting on his seat of skulls with silent smoke-snarling sentinels at his side.
But when they finally meet the man behind the legend... it's just some little girl who gives her dragons cute names and dresses them up when she's not ordering them to burn shit down. And no one can comprehend it. They keep looking for the badass dragonrider, and the girl keeps getting away.
But when they finally meet the man behind the legend... it's just some little girl who gives her dragons cute names and dresses them up when she's not ordering them to burn shit down. And no one can comprehend it. They keep looking for the badass dragonrider, and the girl keeps getting away.
sixteen-bit
Member
Disappointing to be honest. I need more diversity in games.
entremet
Member
It's just funny how everyone with an anime avatar comes in the thread like "it would be better with a little girl"
Because yea, controlling a little girl instead of a man would make a game better. ROFL
Like come on, this post with this avatar
Hilarious and creepy as fuck at the same time
Etrian Odyssey is a dope series, though.
Booker Dewitt
Member
In Kamiya we trust. The fact that it seemed more like Kamiya was dissatisfied with the previous versions, wanting the combat to be more active and referring to the prototype as a failure, makes the decision seem more like Platinum's rather than publisher mandated. Even if so, i'd rather not dwell on what could've been,otherwise I'd be bummed a lot.
Spring-Loaded
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It's funny hearing about age/gender being the basis for a character's strength or power.