Perfect Dark Cancelled, The Initiative Shut Down
- Thread starter Dr. Samuel Hayden
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Holy shit. Western AAA is cooked. Thank God we still got Western AA though, gimme me my boomer shooters and I'm good.
Ceadeus
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They were working on a well established and beloved ip. How do you call it an experiment? The outcome should have been positive. I think Microsoft were right for green lighting the project, unless I'm missing something as usual.
DeepEnigma
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"The Initiative" was all an experiment that amounted to absolutely nothing.
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nowhat
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Just for the record - the KZ2 trailer was meant just as a preview reel for "this is the art style we're aiming for", meant for internal use only (Guerrilla barely had a single polygon running on a PS3 devkit at the time). And then some genius at Sony (marketing, probably) decided to include it in the E3 presentation. Guerrilla were initially horrified, but then thought "no one is going to believe that it is real". Buuuuuut... you all know the rest. Just that Guerrilla never intended it to be a trailer.
EverydayBeast
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Perfect dark id imagine should be easy to make especially if dice did it
Ceadeus
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Okay thanks for the conversation.
GHG
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Yes darling, everything that's happening is this websites fault.
DreamcastSkies
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Xbox enthusiasts, I'm sorry things have turned out this way.
Gambit2483
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That's because it was being outsourced to Namco Bandai....and you pick literally the one game out of almost every single other game they ship. Nintendo is, in fact, known for holding onto completed games for months, if not years before announcing/releasing them. Heck, just look at MK World and DK Bananza, both announced mere months before their release.
Edit: And here I was hoping you'd have something intelligent to rebut with
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Pedro Motta
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lol
DeepEnigma
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ResilientBanana
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Oh well.
Badlucktroll
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Dirk Benedict
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It was supposed to be this big dick studio that was made to rival Naughty Dog. Fuck hell, LOL!
Dr.Morris79
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She surely takes Z'dars crown!You can always get your fix by looking at shows Kate Fleetwood is in..
Steve Holt
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That
Ass of Can Whooping
boy sure has caused chaos with all this refunding malarkey.
Ass of Can Whooping
boy sure has caused chaos with all this refunding malarkey.
Dirk Benedict
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Never! His Chin destroys, Leno without a second thought.She surely takes Z'dars crown!
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Moses85
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Fake
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'Happy pride month for anyone left.'
DenchDeckard
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This is like watching E3 in reverse
Hahaha, youre on fire today.
AREYOUOKAY?
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Mobile ads have given me a vision. She must play her in a live action movie since they sure don't want to make a game.
Dr.Morris79
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They didnt even know what they were making! They just knew the jaw had to be more square!
What a crappy timeline though, the perfect I.P, handed over to utter flannels.
You could make some serious bank if you just stuck to the original Joanna and formula
These people are truly lost.
GHG
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We need to edit that picture of Sarah and Jez in to this gif.
Either that or so that there's a flaming building behind them:
Banjo64
cumsessed
Delivering Titanfall as a launch window exclusive is already a greater move than anything that's followed since.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
In a perfect world, MS would have hired Warren Spector to turn Perfect Dark into the immersive sim it deserves to be.
Keep the cyberpunk setting, Carrington Institute as a central hub. Same mission structure as the N64 game but a bit more open and with larger levels.
And that's it. The game designs itself, it's not rocket science.
GHG
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At least the Xbox one had a first party launch lineup.
Wildebeest
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At least Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still a sure thing with development going great. Right? Right?
Dr.Morris79
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Yes! That'd be perfect!
It's all a bit depressing really
All the money they have and they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.
Moriarty1889
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Fuck you Phil! MS a 3 trillion dollar TRASH company. Pathetic and embarrassing.
CuteFaceJay
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This is rough. I'm guessing what they had cooked up wasn't enough.
digoutyoursoul
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I thought having Insomniac make an exclusive was great. I know it doesn't have a big fan base but I love Sunset Overdrive, really enjoyed it
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
The original Perfect Dark for the N64 was beloved and a bonafide bestseller (3.2 million copies sold), but the sequel for the Xbox 360 wasn't anything special. It sold 1 million copies on the strength of it being a launch title but it was almost immediately forgotten. Even Kameo is remembered more fondly than this dud. The only other PD game was a remaster of the original N64 game released in 2010 that sold half a million copies.
In the world of AAA games that need to sell many millions of copies just to break even, the Perfect Dark IP is an extremely minor. The only people clamoring for it are fanatic middle aged Rare fans who mistakenly believe that new games based on old Rare IP's will sell millions of copies based on name recognition alone. Warner has Batman, Sony has Spider-Man and Wolverine, but MS has IPs that will sell better than ANY of those: Banjo & Kazooie, Conker, Perfect Dark and Battletoads!
Power Pro
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There's nothing that says older IPs can't have new life breathed into them with a new entry though. The concept was still good enough to make for a fun game. Sexy spy action shooter, with sci-fi elements. there's nothing there that a talented team couldn't do something new and exciting with. It's just lack of talent and good management that would make it a failure...and these are the people who are making the games these days. it fucking sucks.
The original Perfect Dark for the N64 was beloved and a bonafide bestseller (3.2 million copies sold), but the sequel for the Xbox 360 wasn't anything special. It sold 1 million copies on the strength of it being a launch title but it was almost immediately forgotten. Even Kameo is remembered more fondly than this dud. The only other PD game was a remaster of the original N64 game released in 2010 that sold half a million copies.
In the world of AAA games that need to sell many millions of copies just to break even, the Perfect Dark IP is an extremely minor. The only people clamoring for it are fanatic middle aged Rare fans who mistakenly believe that new games based on old Rare IP's will sell millions of copies based on name recognition alone. Warner has Batman, Sony has Spider-Man and Wolverine, but MS has IPs that will sell better than ANY of those: Banjo & Kazooie, Conker, Perfect Dark and Battletoads!
Porcile
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This game looked so bad. You can tell the only idea they had was "Futuristic Egypt" and that was it. No concept for game at all. The basic level they had looked like it was designed using AI.
Sorry, but it really wouldn't be that difficult to make a new Perfect Dark/Timesplitters style game. They pumped out those kinds of games 20 years ago no sweat. These devs seemed massively up their own backside from the beginning and totally missed the point of the franchise.
Sorry, but it really wouldn't be that difficult to make a new Perfect Dark/Timesplitters style game. They pumped out those kinds of games 20 years ago no sweat. These devs seemed massively up their own backside from the beginning and totally missed the point of the franchise.
EarsOfASnake
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I mean…they had 7 years and produced nothing. I'd expect to be closed down too.
