We did a couple new IP pitches. One was steampunk but that didnt make it very far. There was a really awesome futuristic sci if one that I really liked. We had an amazing future scifi city and a character that could run around and scale buildings with these jet boots, and it was awesome. We had a lot of assets done for that demo when it was canned. I was really bummed when that one got binned.
?Well, they are making an open world horror game.
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Fuck. Here I thought the Logan's Shadow ending was meant to be a cliffhanger.
Don't know why you couldn't pull of inFamous on Vita, Gravity Rush is a similar sort of game and works really well. With the tech skill and engine base Bend had, it would've been no trouble.
Goddamit, Sony.
This sounds amazing.
He's saying he doesn't think Bend could pull it off, not Vita.
I thought Sony Bend's Uncharted game was actually pretty great.
Tilting the Vita ever so slightly to fine tune your aim really worked well.
What genre saturation would come from Infamous Vita? Too much like Liberation, only with super powers? Sad that it never got greenlit.
In the sense that Sony as the publisher guided them in the direction of a third person shooter, as that was what Sony wanted at that time.All I've ever read is that Amy Hennig was hired during Jak 3 to create a new IP for the studio and Uncharted is where they landed. In what way did Uncharted come from above?
Well considering Sucker Punch's Infamous games are best I don't know how Bend could do any better. They also made one of the worst Resistance games.
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Golden Abyss was awful and I doubt you could pull off inFamous on the Vita so it's no surprise those pitches got canned. Hopefully their PS4 IP is interesting.
FTFY
Well Killzone is sci fi. But that sounds very different.What would be the reason to canned this? Sony doesn't make Sci-fi games and I don't really see which game it could've been close to. It's a shame it's sound interesting
What would be the reason to canned this? Sony doesn't make Sci-fi games and I don't really see which game it could've been close to. It's a shame it's sound interesting
What would be the reason to canned this? Sony doesn't make Sci-fi games and I don't really see which game it could've been close to. It's a shame it's sound interesting
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Can you name a new retail handheld IP from Sony's US based studios? I can't. I figure there's a reason why Bend went from their own series to spinoff duty.
Can you name a new retail handheld IP from Sony's US based studios? I can't. I figure there's a reason why Bend went from their own series to spinoff duty.
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It was a Shinobi Rumor!
I am not sure if it was Shinobi or not, but I remember there were rumors that the cancelled Bend game was perceived to be too much like Destiny, or similar in some ways.
Yeah, the last one Sony announced was Warrior's Lair, which was very publicly cancelled.
I think that was about Santa Monica's game
I think that was about Santa Monica's game
On whether there will be a new Syphon Filter:
'Hah. No. Dont hold your breath on that one.
Source: worked at Sony Bend for 8 yrs
John Garvin got burned out on Syphon Filter. He wanted to make something different. People seem to like to ignore that Gabe Logan died at the end of Logans Shadow. Garvin literally killed off the main character so he wouldnt have to make any more SF games. Plus, despite all the praise, they didnt sell. Very low sales all around.'
"Naughty Dog worried about franchise burnout."
>Releases a fucking awful card game
Yeaaaaaaaahhh uh
"Naughty Dog worried about franchise burnout."
>Releases a fucking awful card game
Yeaaaaaaaahhh uh
Naughty Dog didn't come up with Uncharted on their own either, that was from up high.
This has nothing to do with not being able to come up with something, it has to do with also aligning what the person with the purse wants at any given moment.
You'd think that Sony would have more of a say as to what Uncharted game gets made or not over Naughty Dog. Oh well.
"Naughty Dog worried about franchise burnout."
>Releases a fucking awful card game
Yeaaaaaaaahhh uh
I'm not sure what your point is. The card game is obviously radically different from standard Uncharted games. Franchise burnout comes from too many games that play similarly.
Some random card game for Vita is hardly going to make people say 'Man, I've sure played enough games in the Uncharted franchise after this'.
instead of that they should've put out an uncharted equivalent to syphon filter combat ops
small PSN multi-only game that reuses assets from the base game