Oh God...
Is this a meme or are you trying to force one?
Met the guys behind Cuphead and the project is progressing, animation like that just takes a long as hell time with the way they're making it.Goddamn
I'm so much happier now that I'm dead. Technically missing. Soon to be presumed dead. Gone.
And this lazy oblivious and incompetent "Microsoft" company will go to prison for my murder. They took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. They took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder. Let the punishment fit the crime. To fake a convincing release date for Scale-fucking-bound you have to have discipline. You befriend a local foold, Platinum Games. Harvest the details of his hundrum life and cram him with stories about how development will be "doing fine", how the the game will soon be playable from start to finish. Secretly create some money troubles: forced online co-op, micotransactions, western bullshit. With the help of the unwitting, you bump up your life insurance. Purchase the Xbox One. With the Elite Controller. Generic. Overpriced. Pay cash. You need to package yourself so that people will truly mourn your loss. And I don't know how much you know about Japan, but they truly believe in honor, it's an important part of their culture... You know what's hard? Faking your excitement for this game. First, you pretend to follow all the dishearting news about this trainwerk of a game. Watch every damn E3 showing. From the first CGi vaporware trailer. Wake up at fucking 3.a.m, June 2016 just to see how this game has been resorted to a How To Train a Flying Potato simulator. Then you steal a Recore copy. And you pretend to like it. Voila! The game is nothing like you wanted. You wasted 60 dollars. Happy 3th Anniversary of this game's announcement. But then you go on NeoGAF, and post "wow I loved the E3 demo, MS is doing a great job " while you dry off the tears running down your face. Wait for the clueless director to announce the release date. Off he goes... and the clock is ticking. 20 weeks away from the release day and they haven't even shown final console footage yet. You feel fisically ill. A lot. A lot. A lot. You start to post about how the game is likely being saved for Scorpio How the game still retains that Hideki Kamiya-sama magic, even though you know deep in yourself that's one hell of a lie. June. E3 starts and they fucking bring a broken demo on stage. "Well, Platinum has never made a bad game, so there's no reason not to trust them". I repeat to myself. But everyone else playing the demo booths agrees that it is just bad. And because you're you, you don't stop there. You go back. To the day this fucking game was announced. Start with the fairy-tale days. The biggest Xbox One exclusive. A system seller title. From the creator of Resident Evil 2 and Bayonetta. Those are true. After that, you invent. "Scalebound was supposed to relive the Xbox brand" "X1 would likely outsell PS4 when this game gets released... at least in the US" The spending, the abuse, the fear, the threat of violence... burn it, just the right amount. Make sure the fans will find it. Finally, honor tradition with a very special treasure hunt. And if I get everything right, the world will hate Microsoft for killing his beautiful, legacy franchise. And after all the outrage, when I'm ready, I'll go out on to GameStop and buy a Playstation 4 + NieR: Automata bundle. And when my mother finds me investing my precious time trying to bond with this hot anime girl, I'll look straight into her eyes and say "but have you looked at her butt? Have your really looked at her butt?" In that very moment, she knows. She fucking knows. As she handles me the nugget pieces she previously cooked for me, she leaves my room with these words: "NierR is the true savior of Platinum Games". And that's when the people will know, Microsoft dumped Scalebound like garbage, and it floated past all the other abused, unwanted, inconvenient titles like Phantom Dust and Fable: Legends. The Scalebound fans will be gone, but then... we never really existed. We loved a game we pretended to like.
"An Xbox One exclusive".
Gamers always use that, don't they? As their defining compliment: "Quantum Break is a true Xbox exclusive". A true Xbox One exclusive is hot. A true Xbox One exclusive is game. A true Xbox One exclusive is fun. A true Xbox One exclusive never makes its fans angry. It only smiles in a chagrined, loving manner. The Platinum Game fans like what they like, so evidently they're vinyl hipsters who loves fetish Manga. If they like girls gone wild, Claire Redfield was a good example of empowering woman design. Bayonetta is sexist trash.. When I met Phil Spencer I knew he wanted "true Xbox Exclusive experience". And for him, I'll admit: Scalebound truly was it. He created an empty development funded by vapor and nothingness. Microsoft rewrote the concept to fit those Sony esclusive games everyone loves. They put headphones into the game because we all love headphones. They showed the game, semi-regularly. I lived in the moment. The same dragon portion for three years. I was fuckinging game. I can't say I didn't enjoy some of it. Microsoft teased out in me things I didn't know existed. A lightness, a humor, an ease. But I made them smarter. Sharper. I inspired them to rise to my level. I forged the company of my dreams. We were happy pretending to be other people. We were the happiest couple we knew. And what's the point of being together if you're not the happiest? But Platinum got lazy and Microsoft stubborn. They delayed the game. Microsoft actually expected me to love support their Xbox console unconditionally. And before finishing with Platinum, they delayed the game another time. From Holiday 2016, to simply "2017". We knew it was coming. We knew that what the press sneaks were telling us, was true.
You think I'd let Microsoft destroy me and end up happier than ever?
No fucking way.
They don't get to win. I don't know how much the rest of you know about social culture (I'm an expert), but grown-ups work for things. Grown-ups pay.
Grown-ups suffer consequences.
Yeah I wish they had a more diverse lineup. Japanese games in particular. Reason why I use my PS4 much more often. I'm not big on multiplayer either so there's not much that interests me. I really hope they aren't satisfied with just a Halo, Gears, and Forza rotation.It's a big blow to the Xbox line up. Honestly there's a serious lack of single player story driven games. Well, exclusive ones at least. Everything is literally MP focused. Forza 7, State of Decay, Sea of Thieves, Crackdown...(and I've heard Crackdown isn't going too hot either, though nothing as bad as this).
Unless they have a bunch of first party studios secretly tucked away somewhere (which they don't that I know of), I genuinely struggle to think of what surprises they could have at E3 *as of right now*. Halo 6 is to be expected, and I don't see publishers playing ball much anymore with 3rd party exclusives unless Microsoft gives the Xbox division a huge budget to throw cash around, which I highly doubt. Their major first party IP are on a decline with Halo doing less than before and Gears 4 not selling that well at all relatively speaking (not good enough to sustain a huge studio with that many workers and budget).
What's happening now is the exact opposite of what Xbox fans seemed to want out of a Phil spencer leadership.
I remember when he became head of Xbox and everyone was saying how there'll be tons of new games, but they're still coasting on announcements from 2013-2014 and in that time, games have been cancelled, multiple studios closed including Lionhead...
As a big Xbox fan since day one, I'm not very hopeful for the future. Scorpio won't do anything without software to push it heavily.
Now is the time and place for Microsoft to start pandering to the fans.
E3 this year should have a teaser Trailer for Banjoo Three. People would flip their shit in joy.
Even though the Scalebound cancelation is relatively a drop in the bucket, the trend you're describing here is really disappointing. Not sure where they go from here aside from doubling down on their cash cow franchises. (which, as you mentioned, are waining)
ms honestly doesnt seem to have any exclusives coming, they havent announced new shit in ages.
halo 6 better be good
Oh damn. Is there a thread in this by any chance?
It's a big blow to the Xbox line up. Honestly there's a serious lack of single player story driven games. Well, exclusive ones at least. Everything is literally MP focused. Forza 7, State of Decay, Sea of Thieves, Crackdown...(and I've heard Crackdown isn't going too hot either, though nothing as bad as this).
Unless they have a bunch of first party studios secretly tucked away somewhere (which they don't that I know of), I genuinely struggle to think of what surprises they could have at E3 *as of right now*. Halo 6 is to be expected, and I don't see publishers playing ball much anymore with 3rd party exclusives unless Microsoft gives the Xbox division a huge budget to throw cash around, which I highly doubt. Their major first party IP are on a decline with Halo doing less than before and Gears 4 not selling that well at all relatively speaking (not good enough to sustain a huge studio with that many workers and budget).
What's happening now is the exact opposite of what Xbox fans seemed to want out of a Phil spencer leadership.
I remember when he became head of Xbox and everyone was saying how there'll be tons of new games, but they're still coasting on announcements from 2013-2014 and in that time, games have been cancelled, multiple studios closed including Lionhead...
As a big Xbox fan since day one, I'm not very hopeful for the future. Scorpio won't do anything without software to push it heavily.
Bad news for MS = people queuing up to post it on GAF.
It all depends what they have in the pipeline - who knows, they could have a number of projects lined up ready to go from pre-prod to full production. It just seems very inopportune to have what might constitute 2/3 of their workforce not being involved in any active projects.
Microsoft is in trouble. I don't mean this as hyperbole or shit posting. I want them to succeed. But it's not looking good for this year and next years lineup.
More stuff has been closed down or canceled under Spencer than Mattrick lol.
How do you know that? It's also an exclusive and Nintendo gave W101 all the time they needed to get it in order, which included delaying it.There is no way the budget of W101 is even close to what scale bound had.
2 Months before E3 2014, Phil Spencer took over as Head of Xbox.SOD2, DR4, Sea of Thieves, Rare Replay, Tomb Raider(?), Crackdown 3 (big ?), Gears 4
Everything else IIRC was under mattrick, i'm probably missing some but I think that's he main ones, not sure on Crackdown
I bought an Xbox One just for this game.
No.
Are you perhaps saying that Microsoft... should be kissing their business goodbye?
Y'all better blow up Twitter for this. Microsoft can't be getting sway with this all the time
Can Microsoft sell the Xbox Division already.
This is true.. but I'm not sure if funding Scalebound was a good decision in the first place if they need to be pushing units for exclusives. Maybe it started as something and turned into something else and they're refocusing money and energy elsewhere.It's a big blow to the Xbox line up. Honestly there's a serious lack of single player story driven games. Well, exclusive ones at least. Everything is literally MP focused. Forza 7, State of Decay, Sea of Thieves, Crackdown...(and I've heard Crackdown isn't going too hot either, though nothing as bad as this).
Unless they have a bunch of first party studios secretly tucked away somewhere (which they don't that I know of), I genuinely struggle to think of what surprises they could have at E3 *as of right now*. Halo 6 is to be expected, and I don't see publishers playing ball much anymore with 3rd party exclusives unless Microsoft gives the Xbox division a huge budget to throw cash around, which I highly doubt. Their major first party IP are on a decline with Halo doing less than before and Gears 4 not selling that well at all relatively speaking (not good enough to sustain a huge studio with that many workers and budget).
What's happening now is the exact opposite of what Xbox fans seemed to want out of a Phil spencer leadership.
I remember when he became head of Xbox and everyone was saying how there'll be tons of new games, but they're still coasting on announcements from 2013-2014 and in that time, games have been cancelled, multiple studios closed including Lionhead...
As a big Xbox fan since day one, I'm not very hopeful for the future. Scorpio won't do anything without software to push it heavily.
Can Microsoft sell the Xbox Division already.
Can Microsoft sell the Xbox Division already.
Y'all better blow up Twitter for this. Microsoft can't be getting sway with this all the time
Can Microsoft sell the Xbox Division already.
It's been confirmed by Eurogamer through independent sources. Microsoft has yet to release a statement but I don't think it'll turn out to be false. Sorry.Hope it's not true. I know a lot of people were looking forward to it.
That's because they are clearly positioning the next round of games they're making as Scorpio killer apps. Hence they won't announce them until they can use them as promo material for the new console and that would be E3 2017.
But I'm sure they have some surprises in the pipeline, hopefully they're not just Halo, Gears, Forza sequels.
Jesus, there's some horrible comments in here.
I thought Halo 5 did decent sales and REQ packs on top of that?Their major first party IP are on a decline with Halo doing less than before and Gears 4 not selling that well at all relatively speaking (not good enough to sustain a huge studio with that many workers and budget).
Y'all better blow up Twitter for this. Microsoft can't be getting sway with this all the time