rebooting xbox one with scorpio as well as their first e3 this gen.
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Microsoft renews Scalebound trademark
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rebooting xbox one with scorpio as well as their first e3 this gen.
DriftingSpirit
Member
It wouldn't be Platinum working on it anyway. It would essentially be a new game.
BrettHeazy
Member
I'm glad we're on the same wavelength here
Rumblebones
Banned
Yeah, people were shitting all over the game at every instance despite Kamiya's record, but fuck it, it'd be a pain to dig and verify if any of those posters are now defending PG's vision.
Hentailover
Member
B-but. It's not really the IP that people were excited for...
Taliban Stan
Member
If they didn't do this, couldn't someone make a game called Scalebound?
Because many interested wanted​ a large budgeted platinum game, when the last one, w101, is a masterpiece, that almost no one played. That ms fucked with the studio Zenimax style and now might be going even further in the regard, why would those folks want anything further to do that. Just like Prey, whatever happens will be an imitation of something else.
Star fox is good, despite gafs hated for all things motion control, and the fact that they didn't design the game, and TMNT was a budget title that Activision gave no shit about.
The Giant
Banned
MS must have hired High Voltage Software to reboot it
franklyshankly
Member
Filing extensions for an intent to use application really doesn't mean much. It costs $100 every 6 months there's really no reason for them not to do it for the full five extensions just in case something changes even if they don't actually plan for anything to happen.
Schrödinger's cat
Banned
Development now handed over to Konami.
Pachinko game featuring 4K cutscenes from the original incoming.
Please be excited.
Pachinko game featuring 4K cutscenes from the original incoming.
Please be excited.
TannerDemoz
Member
Can we get detective Tom Phillips on the case plz
Hentailover
Member
Yes it was...they were excited when it was cancelled.
It was suddenly when it was cancelled.
What I mean is, people were excited because it was a game from Platinum, not because they were inherently attached to the IP.
Would be interesting rebooting them just to recancel them on the Scorpio. Let history repeat itself
DriftingSpirit
Member
Scalebound was the highest rated exclusive in Gaf's Most Anticipated for two years in a row. People were interested. Of course news of a cancellation is going to spike attention. That applies to any game.
GwyndolinCinder
Member
People being critical != People dont like concept.
Hentailover
Member
Are you an expert?
Money talks. I think people forget that Platinum got paid for what they did. Just because they didn't release the game didn't mean that they didn't get money.
Bits N Pieces
Member
The first bit of your post doesn't correlate with the second part?
hydrophilic attack
Member
Re-announcing games you have already promised does not make for a great conference
It's not a "holy shit you guys are great" moment so much as a "welp I guess you guys aren't complete pieces of shit promise breakers" moment
DriftingSpirit
Member
Right, it would essentially be a brand new game. It isn't going to be the same as what we saw before.
Considering platinum is one of the best developers on a tight budget, gonna guess MS is gonna need to throw more money then they did at platinum to get anyone to bite and that's not gonna happen after already cutting their losses once.
Rumblebones
Banned
Why do people post shit like this? Scalebound was my most anticipated game in years and I was so bummed and disappointed with Microsoft when they cancelled it that I got rid of my XB1 and now only play on PC and my PS4 Pro. I was as excited for a game by Platinum Games in Kamiya envisioned it as anyone else, but if the IP still lives, we don't know anything about it. We don't know what's changed - not that we ever knew all that much about it when PG was making it.
For all we know, if the game is coming eventually, it might be completely different, it might be better - who knows - but ruling it out entirely is silly at this point.
Yes, theoretically, but no one would attempt it any time soon because of the copyright and the game would have to look completely different in key areas.
PartTimeWarrior
Banned
Well I hope this new studio makes it look better than what platinum shows off
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
In ignoring that bs gaf was critical but hell like I said highest rated Xbox exclusive on the voting thread so if ppl on here weren't hyped for that speaks volumes for the other titles
MosquitoSmasher
Member
How amazing it would be if they announce the project is very much alive. MS and Platinum settled their differences and etc etc.
In reality, let's not be so negative right away and let's see if anything at all comes from this. If this had come from a more well known source for example that would have been nice.
In reality, let's not be so negative right away and let's see if anything at all comes from this. If this had come from a more well known source for example that would have been nice.
Ultimadrago
Member
Hey, I didn't forget. From what I saw of Scalebound, I still don't care that it was canned. That said, Microsoft doesn't have too many other projects I know of that are keeping me invested in their potential software either.
tkscz
Member
So if both of these things are to be believed, they basically just kicked Platinum off the project and used a first party team? Kind of a dick move if true.
Hugh Swank
Member
I'm with you...who cares. The gameplay I've seen didn't look like anything another studio couldn't handle, or even improve upon.
Maybe that's why the project was halted? Maybe Platinum was fucking it up?
Shil Pencer
Member
I love how the situation is still labeled as Microsofts fault. Nobody knows what happened and honestly as much as I liked some of Platinums games most of them were bad to avg. I know some likes the games I consider bad and that's great I respect your opinion but they also didn't sell. This is not like Microsoft booted out Kojima without giving him a chance
Suzushiiro
Banned
Wasn't Scalebound, like, Kamya's dream project or something? To give him the opportunity to make it, mismanage them into the fucking ground to the point of canceling it, and then have a completely different studio reboot and actually ship it would be the biggest dick move they could possibly make.
And it would honestly be pretty fucking stupid, too- the entire reason why anyone gave a shit about Scalebound was because Platinum was making it. To use the IP for a game built by a different studio would just hurt the game since the ghost of the game that Platinum could have made with that name but didn't because MS fucked them would haunt its reception and sales. Better to take the basic ideas behind it and attach it to a new IP.
And it would honestly be pretty fucking stupid, too- the entire reason why anyone gave a shit about Scalebound was because Platinum was making it. To use the IP for a game built by a different studio would just hurt the game since the ghost of the game that Platinum could have made with that name but didn't because MS fucked them would haunt its reception and sales. Better to take the basic ideas behind it and attach it to a new IP.
Welcome to GAF
Inviusx
Member
/thread.
Because it's true? Firstly seeing Kamiya's dream game being potentially (we obviously don't know) handed off to someone else leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Secondly are their any MS first parties even capable of putting out a game as good as Kamiya? A lot of the past evidence and history of MS doesn't really support them making an average game let alone a Kamiya level game. Wishful thinking is fine but it's just that.
If it could magically be amazing with no evidence then why can't I act like the opposite might be true? Especially when the studio and lead who made me care enough to drop 350 bones on a console (that I sold after it was canned) potentially have no involvement at all? Sounds like a perfectly valid way to feel if I'm being honest.
MosquitoSmasher
Member
Dick move or perhaps only...normal?
We don't have the fine details on everything concerning this but what if Platinum took way too long, missed all the deadlines and wanted to delay it again? Should MS keep giving them the "ok go ahead"? Or much worse if that rumor is true that Platinum was using the funds for something else? None of that is fact...... but still.
Rumblebones
Banned
For all the "if it's not PG/Kamiya no one is gonna give a shit" folks... it's presumably still going to be a third person action adventure RPG set in an open world with flying dragons, monsters and co-op, and it's probably going to look and run great on Scorpio.
People will give a shit, most of you included, even if you don't want to admit it right now.
People will give a shit, most of you included, even if you don't want to admit it right now.
That's not really true.
For 2015, each of the "holy trinity" was technically a re-announcement, even if not all were Sony directly.
Shenmue 3 was something that was already supposed to have happened.
The Last Guardian was something that was already supposed to have happened.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake is a little different, as it was more the original showing made people think it was something that was happening... but you get the point.