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Scalebound cancelled [Platinum Games and Kamiya have commented]
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SomedayTheFire
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I know it's fucking ridiculous. That post will be quoted a lot there's even another post I just quoted that mentions it. Like people are so so fast to believe anything just to take a side.
Magic Mushroom
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I mentioned that before. A brawler in which MP was always the focus. All their games were never about MP and given what has happened to Fable Legends and Phanton Dust it would hardly surprise me.
There you go. Your first sentence was pointless.
Ricerocket
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Wow I remembered a tweet I saw from him and found it. He saw it coming.
EDIT: Disregard, I'm a twitter newb. -_-
EDIT: Disregard, I'm a twitter newb. -_-
Great, so the only thing Microsoft had to even get me to buy that POS install box (Don't get me wrong I also think the PS4 is a POS install box. I want my games to run not to be installed, and I know that isn't a popular opinion, on a console).... get's cancelled.
The headphone haters can rejoice. MORE ultra muscular dudebro shooters for them with no couch MP and more Online MP where they can go "that's gay.. huhuhuhu" and think it is a hilarious gay joke. (As a gay man, I love good gay jokes, but not when Dudebros consider that the word or a stereotype is the wholejoke
Way to drive of people AGAIN MS! Just like you did with the Xbox crowd moving to the 360.. (Xbox had a lot of great exclusives)... and the few Japanese Xbox fans you had with the 360... by making the latter half of that console into "DUDEBROK FUCK YEAH!" gaming.
Sorry just pissed of at the decision. It is like MS WANTS to lose.
Maybe it is all the activist shareholder Value act jerking about to get them to drop the XBox brand, as otherwise MS is just ... too...bloody... stupid!.
what does install box even mean?
Ricky Ricardo
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Microsoft and Xbox in general are in a catch-all no-win-even-for losing situation.
If you query the responses in that Flops of 2017, Scalebound will likely yield a lot, if not the most responses.
Yet, here we are bemoaning how terrible Microsoft is to cancel a project that wasn't working out. Did Sony not have to gut an expensive project at SSM that wasn't working out? Obviously, this isn't a 1-to-1 situation as Playstation 4 is in an enviable position from both a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party viewpoint, but the principle remains the same. Projects get cancelled, and sometimes, they need too.
I'm devastated because I've remained hopeful for Scalebound since its announcement. But I'm also not blind to the realities the Xbox brand has faced since the XB1 announcement in 2013. In my honest opinion, the brand has been irrevocably damaged and Microsoft is still struggling to this day to find some path forward. Looking at what their announcements for E32017 could be paints a bleak picture, I think most can see that.
But it's better to can a project that is not working out, than to release yet another "mediocre" game that folk in this very thread would pan MS for.
I'd be fine with this.
Hentailover
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Who cares about idiots. We have the right to speculate whatever we want, as long as we make it clear we are speculating.
Naked Lunch
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The game honestly looked terrible in every showing it had. Big Platinum fan too - but it looked really BAD.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
If it wasnt announced as a multiplayer title, it was likely added on later and the scope of the project changed. Changing demands from the publisher can be scary, just ask Arkane who had to be bought out by Bethesda just to finish Arkane due to Bethesda dicking around with the requirements and milestones.
Lol calm down man how u know its spencers fault? You better chill before he catches you on the street and pulls out that Draco.
Ah, here's what I was looking for
July 2015: "Those shits at MS...are they fucking with me?"
So, let's set a timeline HEAVY with speculation. Game was announced at E3 2014 without much notice. It skipped E3 2015, but showed up at Gamescom that year in August with an announcement of four-player co-op, which was shown off with a much rougher game in E3 2016's conference. The game was then cancelled soon after.
My guess is that, in July, Kamiya was told he had to rejigger the game into a four-player co-op thing. There were never any hints he wanted to make the game a Monster Hunter-like, but I am guessing people in charge of money were expecting him to do so. It gets announced, shown off, and the response is tepid. Changing tides at Microsoft, a desire to free up the UE4 team they put together to work with Kamiya, and being unhappy with the state of the game lead to it being cancelled.
If my guess is correct, that's really sad.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
It's literally half the list...
Maximilian Kolbe
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We summon the!!!
Well its good that it appeals to you, but those franchses are now suffering from sales decline. I've seen people say that the Scorpio is going to destroy the PS4/Pro but if there are no new exclusives to show then all they have is 3rd party which is not enough, If they have a PS4/PRO whats the insentive to switch?
Gravity Rush 2 and Kingdom Hearts 2.8 aren't on there.
SuperSonic1305
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Kamiya walks into Sony HQ and says "I got an idea for Lair 2"
Gai Murakumo
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I would flip out if that happened. Platinum working on a Ninja Gaiden game is a match made in heaven.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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MSのクソどもはよー
俺をナメてんのか
？
Bitch Pudding
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LOL; that's the very last one they'll cancel, cool MP game and so much potential for micro-transactions. Seriously, if they cancel this game, you should hurry to sell you XBOX. And no, this is not going to happen.
Vigilant Walrus
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Japanese AAA games are dying. It's sad to see.
No way they're going to do that
SplitYourInfinities
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I'm worried for Platinum's future.
SomedayTheFire
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OK, this is really funny.
NightShift
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Jesus, from that Kamiya tweet this looks pretty serious. I just hope Platinum isn't too hurt from all this. Scalebound never really interested me though and the little amount of hype I saw for that game was concerning.
Retweet.
Did you want them to give the hard drives that the game was stored on a Viking funeral and livestream it?
That actually would be rad as fuck
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Im not buying those 3 other games either. Sea thieves look ok but I aint playing it unless they give me a review copy or it 13$
Magic Mushroom
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Instead of rushing to the "it's all Platinum's fault" you mean?
Wow I remembered a tweet I saw from him and found it. He saw it coming.
https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/626385177317478400?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
There it is. Im sure that the deal changed and that whatever milestones they had internally were scrapped in favor of going all in on multiplayer. Something that Platinum had no experience working on. They work themselves to the bone trying to meet microsofts incredibly stupid goals and when they cant they get cut off.
panama chief
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Smh. I wasn't hype for the game. But I was happy to see more products from MS. Shame.
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
Almost like the Switch.
Riposte
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They were teasing multiplayer at TGS 2014, a few months after the game was revealed. I have a feeling that Kamiya may have hinted at multiplayer even earlier, but don't really feel like looking stuff up.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09/19/tgs-2014-scalebound-developer-teases-multiplayer
I personally think Kamiya cursing at Microsoft had to do with auxiliary details (which you would think MS has more control over to begin with), like the marketing or presentations. He once openly criticized the art of MS's official site for the game.
Also thinking we were seeing a "depressed" Kamiya on stage is ridiculous. How he acts in interviews and within documentaries is not how you should base how he feels about presenting to a huge crowd. On top of this, E3 is very stressful, in a different time zone, and he's probably not as comfortable speaking english, in that context.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/09/19/tgs-2014-scalebound-developer-teases-multiplayer
I personally think Kamiya cursing at Microsoft had to do with auxiliary details (which you would think MS has more control over to begin with), like the marketing or presentations. He once openly criticized the art of MS's official site for the game.
Also thinking we were seeing a "depressed" Kamiya on stage is ridiculous. How he acts in interviews and within documentaries is not how you should base how he feels about presenting to a huge crowd. On top of this, E3 is very stressful, in a different time zone, and he's probably not as comfortable speaking english, in that context.
Huge Succeeded
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I was hoping that by asking you to actually quote and re-read the post you're complaining about, you'd realize that nobody actually portbegged to begin with, and maybe even admit to it.
so I'll just quote it for you!
there's no portbegging here.
SomedayTheFire
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What is this even supposed to mean?Wow I remembered a tweet I saw from him and found it. He saw it coming.
https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/626385177317478400?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
Seemed really pissed at MS.
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