Mass Effect lost in space, Deus Ex hiding, Dishonored vanished, Hitman dead....man
A lot of good franchises were lost in the last couple of months.
At least we still have Sonic
Honestly I feel Square did mostly right by Hitman. I remember seeing a LOT of Hitman marketing, relative to the 9 month rollout or whatever it had.
Gamers just suck. They're too thick to buy quality.
Yeah I don't actually think IO got hard done by SE. Hitman got quite a bit of exposure, even marketing wise.
Sometimes games just don't sell.
Sonic never dies until the gamers do. And they will. Father time doesn't like Sonic and he's gonna win.Sonic will never die. Edgy 12 year olds won't allow it.
arghhhhhhh.
What are you "argh"ing about? I don't want to see Io die either but they made a great game, Square put a ton behind it and people still chose not to buy it. Business reality. Something's got to give.
I don't get why Square is bad. They're bad when they let their devs take 10 years to make a fucking Kingdom Hearts game, not for this.
Sonic never dies until the gamers do. And they will. Father time doesn't like Sonic and he's gonna win.
That's my problem though. They are willing to spend an obscene amount of resources on Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy but Hitman and Deus Ex? Nah, kill it.
This I'll agree with. But my position here is firmly that they need to fucking fire Tetsuya Nomura.
That's my problem though. They are willing to spend an obscene amount of resources on Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy but Hitman and Deus Ex? Nah, kill it.
Or have him head up the next Hitman game. At least it will survive then.
Yeah I don't actually think IO got hard done by SE. Hitman got quite a bit of exposure, even marketing wise.
Sometimes games just don't sell.
What are you "argh"ing about? I don't want to see Io die either but they made a great game, Square put a ton behind it and people still chose not to buy it. Business reality. Something's got to give.
I don't get why Square is bad. They're bad when they let their devs take 10 years to make a fucking Kingdom Hearts game, not for this.
One of Ben's top 3 is Fallout 3?
I don't know the greater sin between that, the amount of hours he's got in Dota, and not knowing Cannon Spike. You're killin' me Ben.
You don't shitcan a terrific studio because one game didn't sell, mostly because the previous game was terrible. Don't defend this.
They made their money back on FF15 though.
And kingdom hearts will sell.
I'm honestly not sure if they did though. I mean the game sold amazingly but they worked on it how long? Good on them if they did though.
But anyway, I'm not saying they should kill FF and Kingdom Hearts, just that immediately shutting down an IP and selling the developer is a shitty move just because one game didn't sell as much.
They said they broke even within 24 hours on FFXV.
Wow, that's insane. They worked on the game for like 20 years and break even in 24 hours? Damn
before IO split, can we get that hitman campaign where 47 just goes and kills a bunch of squeenix characters
Wait, what's happening with IO. Got the disc version of hitman season 1 after seeing so much of it on giantbomb and it's one of the best gamey games I've played recently. Was the game as a service model, free and constant updates making it too expensive to make or maintain. And is season 2 dead in the water now?
Dave Lang needs to buy them. He'll do right by them.
Nier was likely heavily cost-managed... dev was like 2 years and it's Platinum, who know how to get shit out of the door.
Resi 7 feels the same way. Japan's future is in focused games with short dev cycles. Nier is hopefully a wake-up call to Square of how all their games could be made.
Honestly I feel Square did mostly right by Hitman. I remember seeing a LOT of Hitman marketing, relative to the 9 month rollout or whatever it had.
Gamers just suck. They're too thick to buy quality.
who's gonna break the bad news to Brad
When they announced hitman was going to be episodic, didn't they get a ton of shit for that approach? May have poisoned the well before the actual quality of the game was able to show through
They said they broke even within 24 hours on FFXV.
Ben is very good at explaining mechanics and what he does and does not like about games.
I am just not sure he is the entertaining replacement we were hoping for. He is good though, chill and fun.
Give him some time to grow a bit. Not everyone's a natural at entertaining or has killer comedic timing like Jeff
I was just thinking the other day that in the wake of Deus Ex, Dishonored, and Prey all flopping, at least we still had Hitman Season 2 to look forward to!