Why is Sony wasting time with this IP?
Literally nobody cares about it
This was a lame duck Layden move and he’s not at Sony anymore
Can you please add this to the OP? Perrott
It looks like the original news article misinterpreted some stuff, and it's also of a bigger budget than the 2019 game.
Before anyone freaks out, the $70 part is the mod's own speculation, it could very well be $40-$50, which is already more than what the PS4 title ever cost.
If it's cheap for them and it sells enough to recoup costs then it's ok, besides it won't be Made by a first party studio. I loved medievil and medievil 2 deserves some love too.
Someone at Sony has to really love this series
The likelier explanation might be that the folks over a PlayStation Productions wanted to explore doing a MediEvil movie/show, and in response to that PlayStation Studios decided to go "fuck it, why not?" and greenlit another remake from the series.It's very strange to me, I can't figure out who that "someone" is?
If Medievil was being made by some salvage studio formed by former SCE/Guerrilla Cambridge staffers offering Sony a deal on development cost if they can resurrect their brand, then that'd make some sense, but Medievil PS4 was made in California by a team that has no relation, as far as I can tell. (I did see in the credits several who worked on the Death Jr. franchise, which has a similar Burton vibe to it, and that makes sense that they may have treasured Medievil back in the day, but it's still a stretch to go from fan to developer on an otherwise retired franchise.) A podcast about the first game said that Sony worked with "some of the talent that [was] originally associated with the title 20 years ago", but the only connection I can find in the PS4 Medievil credits is that Chris Sorrell and Jason Wilson of Cambridge were "consultants" on this in between other jobs.
Also, there's already been the jokes that Shawn Layden somehow fanboyed the first game's PS4 remake into existence, and maybe there's some actual smoke in that burn, but still would be very surprised if he had the pull to do it a second time before leaving (although maybe Other Ocean could have rigged the contract for both games at the same time... and maybe somehow they got a stay of execution even while other Sony studios had cuts?)
The likelier explanation might be that the folks over a PlayStation Productions wanted to explore doing a MediEvil movie/show...
The same was true of another, long-forgotten property such as Twisted Metal...
Gravity Rush 2 is getting a remaster according to the MediEvil 2 leaker.Same for Gravity Rush
I did motherfucker.No one asked for this..
Because Sly Cooper was a flop from the very beginning that SCEA kept and kept pushing to make into something relevant, until they gave up.Why this franchise, of everything, while Sly Cooper gets ignored for the last ten years.
Sorry, no one RELEVANT asked for this.I did motherfucker.
GIVE ME MEDIEVIL 2!!!!!
Seems to sadly be fake.
Seems to sadly be fake.
Imagine if the same person loved Motorstorm and Wipeout just as much...Someone at Sony has to really love this series
I can't understand why, the first game is one of the better 3D platformers I've ever played.Because Sly Cooper was a flop from the very beginning that SCEA kept and kept pushing to make into something relevant, until they gave up.