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Microsoft: Killer Instinct to continue; will announce "new development partner" soon
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Chance Hale
Member
Spark Unlimited's big chance.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Will DH still do DLC for a while, or are they going to immediately stop working on the game?
Meaning it's not going to be developed in-house but by a third party. It wouldn't make sense to refer to an internal studio as a "development partner".
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Back to Rare you go, KI!
SwiftDeath
Member
Hmm I'm sure killer instinct will be fine. How much of the work still needs to be done anyways?
I assume if it was under contract they would at least finish what they had so they get paid from Microsoft then send all assets to the new dev team.
nckillthegrimace
Member
Quantum Break declared a proof of concept; Remedy put on Killer Instinct patch duty.
Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
Caaaapcom
Deckard Cain
Banned
Who? It's a fighting game. You can't just put any development team in charge and expect success.
In-house but third party? Making games, how does that work?!?
soxinthebox
Member
Netherrealm?
One of the things I liked about DH is that they went from nobody to an actual, legible fighting game developer with enough talent to work around a few things to make their own fighting game if they wanted to. Not to mention the vast amount of love and respect they had for KI and Rare Ltd. in general.
I feel that it won't be the same. Once again, KI's stripped of people who /knows/ KI. And that's a damn shame.
I feel that it won't be the same. Once again, KI's stripped of people who /knows/ KI. And that's a damn shame.
Well, I guess this means whatever deals Double Helix had going on with third parties are going to evaporate.
Then again maybe that's the thing: third parties as in those no affiliated with platform holders will be OK, but not platform holders themselves. At any rate I just want to see STrider completed if it's going to be awesome.
Then again maybe that's the thing: third parties as in those no affiliated with platform holders will be OK, but not platform holders themselves. At any rate I just want to see STrider completed if it's going to be awesome.
Platinum
Or High Voltage Software.
Yuke's
Vinterbird
Member
Yup. Amazon has bought Double Helix.
ChosenPredator
Banned
this is very interesting but it's also nerve wrecking if it goes to the wrong people
who would be an excellent studio for MS to give KI too
who would be an excellent studio for MS to give KI too
Bahaha, that made me crack a wide smile.
I hope whatever happens, a portion of the real talent (regarding game play balance, music, and graphics) remains with MS. I haven't played KI yet but I do plan on dipping into if the main pack ever gets a price drop.
Can you name a /good/, western developer with knowledge on how to make a fighting game?
Note: NetherRealm is owned by Warner Bros. Interactive. Who does this leave?
No one. Either Mike and the rest of the KI team will leave DH and continue the grind on KI (which is not unlikely), or....yeah Spark Unlimited.
It is odd how vocal Spencer is about Killer Instinct, though.
UnluckyKate
Member
I hope not for the fans
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
WB could still be a dev partner.
What did dice do for ms?
And wasnt bizarre sold off by microsoft itself?
Chobel
Member
Fuck, fuck , FUCK!!!
What will Amazon do with DH? Don't tell me making game for that micro console
bullshit
Capcom doesn't have a full, internal fighting game team anymore. A lot of the people who worked on SF4? Dimps. Mahvel? Eighting. Those people are gone.
Warner Bros. Interactive is a publisher.
dice did Rallisport Challenge i think
ChosenPredator
Banned
No clue all i know is Helix recruited talented developers who workeds on fighting games before....not sure if that can happen again
Not in-house.
Sigh...I need to go to sleep
I haven't played it yet, and probably won't for a long while, but KI is the one game that I was exciting about playing when I finally bothered to get an Xbox One.
I'm pretty scarred about this news.
The new developers even if they know how to make a fighting game, might have a vastly different vision then DH, when it comes to balance and system mechanics. Even just small tweaks could completely ruin the game.
I'm pretty scarred about this news.
The new developers even if they know how to make a fighting game, might have a vastly different vision then DH, when it comes to balance and system mechanics. Even just small tweaks could completely ruin the game.
Rallisport Challenge
Bizarre was an independent studio before it was bought by Activision.
They are currently making MK10, well some kind of MK game at least.