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[mckmas8808]

PlayStation gets Men In Black game while Xbox gets Indiana Jones game. Yeah, Sony got the sort end of the stick on this one...

I'm not too sure about that. Sony doesn't "NEED" an Indiana Jones game being that they own the Uncharted IP.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

Could be a fun project. Very sci-fi alien characters and world to explore with retrofuturistic weapons. I'll allow it.

The worst MiB film..

Yep, thats pretty much how it will turn out too.

 

[Aenima]

Not a fan of videogame adaptations from movies. But MIB has a nice universe where alot of cool things can be done in videogame formart.
If this game is true and by Bend, can either become a really nice game or a pretty mediocre one.

 

[PlayedStation]

I can see it now...you customize your character and are thrown into the crazy world of MiB with a mentor character showing you the ropes like K in the first movie. You should be able to choose your own backstory and codename/letter with unique in-game character responses to both. It would be really cool if they even got Will Smith's J to come back as your mentor. Large open-world game ranging from the grimy city to some of the countryside with bumpkin characters like Earl. Some aliens you can even recruit to join MiB instead of killing or capturing them if you make the right choices. With a badass car to modify and travel in with a mix of spontaneous events, side-missions gathered from the MiB database and main missions. The weapons would definitely be insane.

Hell, online co-op would be amazing as well with a friend. Running around the world as partners sounds too good to pass up.

I'm excited for the possibilities but we'll see if this is real.

 

[SkylineRKR]

It Days Gone sold 10 million, Days Gone 2 would've been greenlit immediately.

I remember reading it sold about that amount in total but can't find it. Apparently there around 5.5 million players over a year ago, if I google it. So it sold quite a bit, thats excluding PC sales.

But, the developer said to Jaffe the game underperformed at full price, which makes sense as the launch product was kind of broken. Sony can't have been happy with the metacritic average either. Though I'd give the patched version, esp. on PS5 much higher. I personally liked every second of it.

 

[MrSec84]

That could be awesome, depending on how it's done.
This could have so much potential.

 

[MDSLKTR]

But why? MiB is a franchise graveyard of failed movies and games.

The first movie means a lot for boomers, stick Will Smith as a guest NPC and success.

 

[Golgo 13]

4 movies, 3 sucked completely and the first was also kind of cheesy, but at least ok. Hard to imagine a good game about MIB.

But losing your minds makes perfect sense now with the flashy-thing and the game fits for a cinematic 3rd person action adventure. So i guess it's true.

Yeah this seems likely to be what Jaffe was talking about. But I'm hardly mind blown. Maybe this will coincide with a new unannounced MIB movie coming out in a few years?

 

[Amiga]

This is not a great IP though. Nobody cares about MiB.

MiB settings begs to be a game. cool cars, awesome weapons, weird aliens, campy tone.

 

[reksveks]

MiB settings begs to be a game. cool cars, awesome weapons, weird aliens, campy tone.

My thoughts is Saint Rows plus Aliens

 

[envyzeal]

Hope this doesn't turn out to be true

 

[Amiga]

My thoughts is Saint Rows plus Aliens

Saint Rows produced by Sony studios would be great. for me SR was too silly. hopefully it's more of good mix of serious/stupid like GTA.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Who the fuck asked for a MIB game?

I see this comment thrown around a lot nowadays and I can't stand it.

Who asked for The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption, Fortnite, Animal Crossing? Creatives don't wait around for non creatives to tell them what to make.

MiB, like all games, will succeed or fail based on how fun it is when it finally reaches market.

 

[Corndog]

I tried twice to get into Days Gone, but probably lasted only a few hours before getting bored for some reason. It's strange because you'd think hordes of zombies would be guaranteed fun, but I think it was the protagonist that killed the game for me.

On topic - MIB game sounds like potential fun to me.

I liked it overall. I think it needed a bit more time in the oven though.

 

[Corndog]

Awesome if true.
Days Gone was technically sound but the world was generic as %$#!.
Bend + great IP could give us another Spider-Man.

I disagree. It had technical problems. I remember once I drove up to a area and my bike started riding in circles. Another bounty quest at the sawmill I killed the guy but every time I walked by the quest area he respawned.
I think the game was good but could have been better with another year of refinement.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

MIB deserves a good game for once, but it needs Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones-era MIB, not whatever the new one was.

Actually, why can't they do a Bad Boys game? The new movie for that was actually great, get Will and Martin in there along with the new kids. There's some potential for that tbh (Sony does own the IP rights to Bad Boys, do they?).

I hope it's real and I also hope they make it good. The Order 1886 mechanics would do fine.

Yeah as long as they make an actual game to go along with those mechanics, then we're talking. 1886 is still one of the best-looking games on the market from an artistic and even technical POV IMHO.

 

[MrS]

Absolutely awful I pray this is a wind up

 

[WoJ]

If this is what we get instead of Days Gone 2.....

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

 

[G-Bus]

This could be really cool. Look forward to this being real and Bend doing something great with it.

I like how people are writing it off without even seeing it, or know even what kind of game it is.

But that movies mostly sucked! Like that has anything to do with this.

 

[Dr Bass]

I see this comment thrown around a lot nowadays and I can't stand it.

Who asked for The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption, Fortnite, Animal Crossing? Creatives don't wait around for non creatives to tell them what to make.

MiB, like all games, will succeed or fail based on how fun it is when it finally reaches market.

You don't see the difference between MiB and the examples you gave?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

You don't see the difference between MiB and the examples you gave?

I'm not talking about the differences. I'm talking about the fact that no one asked for any of them. Creative people don't wait for non creative people to ask them for things.

 

[PlayedStation]

I'm getting excited. For me, this gen is already starting better than the last. We'll see how it all turns out.

 

[Magnific0giganticus]

If this turns out to be true (can't know what to feel about it since it's just a rumor), at least it'd better be made from the ground up PS5 exclusive.

 

[BootsLoader]

MIB deserves a good game for once, but it needs Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones-era MIB, not whatever the new one was.

Actually, why can't they do a Bad Boys game? The new movie for that was actually great, get Will and Martin in there along with the new kids. There's some potential for that tbh (Sony does own the IP rights to Bad Boys, do they?).



Yeah as long as they make an actual game to go along with those mechanics, then we're talking. 1886 is still one of the best-looking games on the market from an artistic and even technical POV IMHO.

Totally agree with you. The Order 1886 is one of the best looking games to date. I loved it and I think it didn't get the attention it should.

 

[skit_data]

Wierd.
Wierd, wierd, wierd.

I hope they are actually making a Men In Black game unrelated to the movies and that the photo is just a stockholder. Because that could end up pretty cool. X-Files feeling. Aliens. The Government. The Alien Government -oh it was just a false lead- but its actually Aliens.

I approve of this game. At least I approve of my idea of what it potentially could be. Aliens.

 

[Dr Bass]

I'm not talking about the differences. I'm talking about the fact that no one asked for any of them. Creative people don't wait for non creative people to ask them for things.

People ask for "new properties" all the time. You literally cannot ASK for something specific that you don't know about, so the assertion you're making is impossible. But the general idea of wanting something fresh and new is something that is wished for regularly, and is happening in the PS5 showcase thread right at this moment.

By contrast, I have not seen anyone "asking" for an MiB licensed game. At all. So yes, it is totally accurate that "no one is asking for this." At the same time it IS accurate that people are asking for "new games we haven't seen before."

Considering that 1st party output is limited, I think taking a company that was producing an original IP that saw decent success and replacing their output with licensed content that was pretty damn lame when it was originally released back in freakin' 1997 is probably not a smart move. Yeah I know there were recent releases but ... they were even worse. So why? Why not a sequel to a game people wanted a sequel to, or let those "creative people" ACTUALLY be creative and make something new, and not something that was the brainchild of someone else 25 years ago? There is nothing creative about that at all.

Of course, this is still a rumor, but there seems to be too much smoke for there not to be fire. I think this is going to end up being a bad call by Sony.

 

[abacab driver]

I see this comment thrown around a lot nowadays and I can't stand it.

Who asked for The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption, Fortnite, Animal Crossing? Creatives don't wait around for non creatives to tell them what to make.

If this is their next game, you can bet your ass that they were told to make it by higher-ups going through a booklet of popular Columbia pictures films to make games out of.

 

[off duty ninja]

Skipping a days gone sequel for another first party licensed title? Fuck you Sony.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

People ask for "new properties" all the time. You literally cannot ASK for something specific that you don't know about, so the assertion you're making is impossible. But the general idea of wanting something fresh and new is something that is wished for regularly, and is happening in the PS5 showcase thread right at this moment.

By contrast, I have not seen anyone "asking" for an MiB licensed game. At all. So yes, it is totally accurate that "no one is asking for this." At the same time it IS accurate that people are asking for "new games we haven't seen before."

Considering that 1st party output is limited, I think taking a company that was producing an original IP that saw decent success and replacing their output with licensed content that was pretty damn lame when it was originally released back in freakin' 1997 is probably not a smart move. Yeah I know there were recent releases but ... they were even worse. So why? Why not a sequel to a game people wanted a sequel to, or let those "creative people" ACTUALLY be creative and make something new, and not something that was the brainchild of someone else 25 years ago? There is nothing creative about that at all.

Of course, this is still a rumor, but there seems to be too much smoke for there not to be fire. I think this is going to end up being a bad call by Sony.

Context for when "Who asked for this" makes sense:

- Sony announces open world videogame based on CS Lewis's The Screwrape Letters.

- Sony announces open world videogame based on Academy Award winning musical La La Land.

But I'm sorry, it just doesn't make sense when it's attached to Men in Black.

Microsoft greenlit a game based around sci fi gadgets, aliens in disguises, and secret government agencies. It's called PERFECT DARK.

There was also another videogame franchise based around sci fi gadgets, aliens in disguises, and secret government agencies called DEUS EX.

It's a framework that fits in naturally with the videogame medium and it's most lucrative demographic, 15 year old boys. Only, Sony has one big advantage over Microsoft and Square Enix, they own the Men in Black movie rights so they can synergize the property better than its competitors can. It wouldn't shock me if we see a MiB movie reboot or TV show in a few years.

"Who asked for this?" just comes off whiney and entitled to me. We get people asking for new Wipeout games, new Splinter Cell games, sequels to the 11th Ratchet and Clank game...No one cares about commercial viability or gameplay creativity. People just want games that appeal to them specifically. That's really what "Who asked for this" means though right?

Edit: Btw, go spend some time in MiB fansites. The comics, movies, TV show, and books have spawned a sizeable fanbase that does indeed ask for videogames from time to time.

 

[elliot5]

- Sony announces open world videogame based on Academy Award winning musical La La Land.

I would buy a PS5 for this

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

If this is their next game, you can bet your ass that they were told to make it by higher-ups going through a booklet of popular Columbia pictures films to make games out of.

I'll take a built from the ground up sci fi open world game that's based off an existing property over Uncharted 8, Ratchet and Clank 14, God of War 5, The Last of Us 3, Gran Turismo 7 etc...

At least Sony bend has the ability to create whatever they want in terms of gameplay. Those other franchises are shackled to fan expectations for the most part.

Plus, let's face it. Men in Black, as a universe, is richer than anything PlayStation Studios has ever come up with.

 

[Corndog]

This could be really cool. Look forward to this being real and Bend doing something great with it.

I like how people are writing it off without even seeing it, or know even what kind of game it is.

But that movies mostly sucked! Like that has anything to do with this.

I typically hate movie related games. I feel no different here.

 

[Rhazer Fusion]

Men in Black? Why?

 

[Corndog]

Context for when "Who asked for this" makes sense:

- Sony announces open world videogame based on CS Lewis's The Screwrape Letters.

- Sony announces open world videogame based on Academy Award winning musical La La Land.

But I'm sorry, it just doesn't make sense when it's attached to Men in Black.

Microsoft greenlit a game based around sci fi gadgets, aliens in disguises, and secret government agencies. It's called PERFECT DARK.

There was also another videogame franchise based around sci fi gadgets, aliens in disguises, and secret government agencies called DEUS EX.

It's a framework that fits in naturally with the videogame medium and it's most lucrative demographic, 15 year old boys. Only, Sony has one big advantage over Microsoft and Square Enix, they own the Men in Black movie rights so they can synergize the property better than its competitors can. It wouldn't shock me if we see a MiB movie reboot or TV show in a few years.

"Who asked for this?" just comes off whiney and entitled to me. We get people asking for new Wipeout games, new Splinter Cell games, sequels to the 11th Ratchet and Clank game...No one cares about commercial viability or gameplay creativity. People just want games that appeal to them specifically. That's really what "Who asked for this" means though right?

Edit: Btw, go spend some time in MiB fansites. The comics, movies, TV show, and books have spawned a sizeable fanbase that does indeed ask for videogames from time to time.

I hope if this game fails you don't blame those who don't want it.

 

[Shmunter]

I see some people happy about MIB. Such an ip cannot have any edge, it would be a family friendly affair. There is space for such things no doubt, but excitement from core gamers? I just don't get it.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I hope if this game fails you don't blame those who don't want it.

That's how every game fails. That's why we don't see Splinter Cell or Wipeout anymore, they failed because not enough wanted them.

 

[Arsic]

Zero interest in this. Like even at deep discount lol. Hell even as a free monthly game or a gamepass title if it was on Xbox I'd hard pass.

Major waste of bend studio talent and no wonder they were pissed they didn't get DaysG2 greenlit.

This shit is gonna ruin them lol

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Nothing wrong with these licensed games. They only get a bad reputation because they've been predominantly used as marketing material.

 

[Corndog]

That's how every game fails. That's why we don't see Splinter Cell or Wipeout anymore, they failed because not enough wanted them.

And. Are you saying I need to buy a game I don't want?

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I see some people happy about MIB. Such an ip cannot have any edge, it would be a family friendly affair. There is space for such things no doubt, but excitement from core gamers? I just don't get it.

Do "core gamers" value gamings single greatest strength (interactivity) more or less than its aesthetics?

The idea of writing a game off without seeing it seems so bizarre to me.

 

[JoeBudden]

I see this comment thrown around a lot nowadays and I can't stand it.

Who asked for The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption, Fortnite, Animal Crossing? Creatives don't wait around for non creatives to tell them what to make.

MiB, like all games, will succeed or fail based on how fun it is when it finally reaches market.

I was in the boat asking who the hell wants an MIB game but this was a very good response so i had to salute it

 

[Shmunter]

Do "core gamers" value gamings single greatest strength (interactivity) more or less than its aesthetics?

The idea of writing a game off without seeing it seems so bizarre to me.

An IP sets the tone and expectations - some of which elicit a negative premise depending on taste.

Would you not dismiss it if it were a Barbie Horse Adventures IP?

 

[Saber]

Could be a fun project. Very sci-fi alien characters and world to explore with retrofuturistic weapons. I'll allow it.

You could use a better gif for a representation of the franchise.

Because this movie is...freaking terrible, cheesuz.

 

[fersnake]

Who is asking for a MiB game? What a waste of Bend's talents.

kinda butthurty comment right there

 

[Concern]

Most disappointing thing to me about this is this most likely means those rumors canceling or putting Days Gone 2 on hold are true.

Fuck MiB and fuck will smith too

 

[Marty-McFly]

This seems like BS.

The MIB licence doesn't seem very relevant at this point... though I believe Sony owns the rights.

Could be weird. Could be cool.

 

[Phunkydiabetic]

Why are people so down on this? Let's at least see it first.

 

[sendit]

Will wait till I see gameplay to reserve judgement.

Didn't want a Spiderman game until Insomniac did it properly. I have faith in a Sony game studio to deliver.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

An IP sets the tone and expectations - some of which elicit a negative premise depending on taste.

Would you not dismiss it if it were a Barbie Horse Adventures IP?

I've long said I'd rather play with a Dora the Explorer themed Chess set than a $5,000 platinum and glass plated Lord of the Rings Checkers set. No hesitation.

Barbie Horse Adventures might skew a bit too young for me (I doubt it would have interesting enough gameplay mechanics for someone my age) but some of my favorite games last gen were Fortnite, Breath of the Wild, Stardew Valley, Overcooked, Heroes of the Storm etc... All IPs that don't really appeal to me.

Men in Black from Sony Bend feels like it could fit in that latter group provided the game design is there.