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It's a good game but Charron trolling me into closing and restarting SMT4 is really bad in a setting where you either do or die in almost any fight.
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Harrow posted:Are you still in the first big dungeon? Things get much more interesting, story- and setting-wise, immediately after that. (Also, the game gets a lot easier.) Yeah- guess I'll keep at it here. I'll come back to it later now that I'm home but I've drilled through some of the introductory bullshit at least
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Just skips right through The Body of the Many https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3VguJ0T3eI&t=709s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTwSQLkJy5Q https://www.destructoid.com/-update-square-enix-breaks-up-with-hitman-developer-io-interactive-435667.phtml There goes season 2 https://twitter.com/ynakamura56/status/862557468102098948 Assepoester fucked around with this message at 17:28 on May 11, 2017 |
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Cardboard Box A posted:Just skips right through The Body of the Many Based off what I've read since it was announced, it doesn't seem like it's a big shock. Hitman was apparently well praised but sold really badly. You can blame the episodic release or whatever but it seems like it underperformed the hell out of things. Which sucks but i also can't say it was wrong for them to go episodic considering that is probably what allowed it to be designed in the way it was.
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Phantasium posted:Nintendo is one of the few companies that will actually announce a game a few months before release anymore. That plateau has replaced Kokiri Forest as best intro Zelda area imo
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Alfalfa The Roach posted:Square Enix will always be bad until they allow Crystal Dynamics to make a new Gex game W-when was the last time you played a gex game...
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Looper posted:W-when was the last time you played a gex game... Enter the Gecko for PS1 back in 2014 It sucked quite a bit but I have legit fond memories of the first game, so if anything a new Gex should either go back to being a side-scroller or double down on being self-aware
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The blue shell rant I posted on page 45 was a neogaf meltdown I thought was funny but I was too dumb to put in a quote box.
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The Duck of Death posted:The blue shell rant I posted on page 45 was a neogaf meltdown I thought was funny but I was too dumb to put in a quote box. It's called a spiny shell
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you think i'm just gonna update the goon rant spreadsheet... without proof
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Here's my goon rant: Hitman 2016 is good. My favourite game of last year. To see its future die like this is quite disappointing.
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I'm still melting down over changing the title of the amiibo thread to "amiibos"
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Saint Freak posted:Release the numbers on how many people got their preorders cancelled and just never came back. About ten to twelve.
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road to e3 thread is up. the art of hte donut https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3820122
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DLC Inc posted:No idea what will happen to IOI or the Hitman name but Square should absolutely sell Deus Ex to Zenimax so the boys at Arkane can have it. Give Harvey Smith his baby back. Some of the higher ups at SE really like yoko taro and his games and will find them regardless of reception. That's not speculation btw it's explicitly how drakengard 3 got made
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Cardboard Box A posted:There goes season 2 Congratulations, everyone boycotting Hitman for the always-online single player mode. We won. 
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Cardboard Box A posted:Just skips right through The Body of the Many For those keeping score for the Eidos Acquisition: - Square Enix acquires Eidos for ~$120 million USD. They paid a premium over the book value since the offer was a last minute bid to beat out Warner Bros. Games during the Eidos auction. - After shipping Arkham Asylum to great critical and commercial success. Rocksteady Games was acquired by Warner Bros. Games. This largely ends the developer's relationship with Square-Enix outside of merchandising. Square-Enix still has a 25% stake in the developer. - Crystal Dynamics is given extra time for Tomb Raider 2013 so it becomes a mega-hit. The game reviews well but its sales fall short of expectations, especially in North America. A new project led by god of War alum Cory Barlog is cancelled at the developer. The sequel, Rise of the Tomb Raider, is a Microsoft time exclusive in exchange for helping advertise the game in North America. SE is pleased with the sequel after all the DLC ships. Crystal Dynamics will work on a Marvel IP in addition to more Tomb Raider games - Legacy of Kain Dead Sun by Climax Games is cancelled after Square Enix faced financial difficulties after the failure of FFXIV. A playable hub world and a Visualworks CGI trailer was created for the game. The writedown for the game was $16 million. The game's assets were reused for Nosgoth by Psyonix. Nosgoth was eventually cancelled with Psyonix shifting its focus to Rocket League and other in-house IPs. - Eidos Montréal is given more time for Deus Ex Human Revolution. The game is a critical and commercial success. Thief 2014 suffers from development hell and releases to a middling reception. An undisclosed project at the studio is cancelled in late 2013. Deus Ex's sequel, Mankind Divided, is a financial bomb. The studio will now work on Marvel games. They are also believed to be making Tomb Raider sequels on Crystal Dynamics's off year, similar to the Treyarch and Infinity Ward with Call of Duty. - Square Enix Montréal is formed from Eidos veterans. The plan is to staff up and become a AAA developer supported by the Canadian government, similar to Ubisoft and EA's Canadian studios. The AAA projects are cancelled but the studio creates successful mobile games based on Eidos IPs, such as Hitman Go and Lara Croft Go. - Beautiful Game Studios undergoes restructuring after the acquisition. The studio is downsized and staff is relocated to Eidos Shanghai. Championship Manager struggles against genre titan Football Manager by Sports Interactive as its experiments with MMO and mobile versions. It finds its niche as a F2P alternative to competing football manager games. - IO Interactive releases Hitman Absolution and Kane & Lynch 2 to disappointing sales. They tried to reboot Hitman into an episodic series. Square Enix has ended its relationship with IO and is shopping for a buyer for the developer - One of the motives for acquiring Eidos was to establish an international technology base so that developers from around the world could help each other with development or technical support. Engine architect, Julien Merceron, would have served as the head of a worldwide engine solution. However, the publisher's studios continue to have their own technical solutions. IO had Glacier. Crystal Dynamics had the Foundation Engine. Eidos Montreal used Unreal Engine 3 and a branch of IO's Glacier technology. Square Enix Japan uses everything from Crystal Tools to Luminous Studio to Unreal Engine 4. From a scale of Rare to DMA Design, how would you rate this acquisition?
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I whole heartedly admit that despite it's praise I didn't buy into the recent Hitman because I thought the old ones were annoyingly janky and hard to be good at. Also too many other AAAAAAA++++ premium good games to be playing. Maybe IO should come up with a new IP is what I'm saying
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"I wish Bayonetta and Vanquish would come to PC," I whispered to the monkey's paw. Now to take this big sip of coffee and check the news for Hitman Season 2
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suuma posted:I whole heartedly admit that despite it's praise I didn't buy into the recent Hitman because I thought the old ones were annoyingly janky and hard to be good at. Also too many other AAAAAAA++++ premium good games to be playing. Yeah I guess it's hard to overcome people being dumb idiots who aren't good at stealth games. Maybe they should have made a fps about ww2
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Wow, didn't know WB Games was that close to getting Hitman. I wonder if they still would have gotten Rocksteady if they succeeded? Things could have been very different. Squeenix doesn't seem to know what the gently caress they are doing with anything not named Final Fantasy so I have to wonder how hosed up the Avengers game will be. The Spider-Man game has at least some pedigree behind it with Insomniac and Sony footing the development.
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DLC Inc posted:Wow, didn't know WB Games was that close to getting Hitman. I wonder if they still would have gotten Rocksteady if they succeeded? Things could have been very different. They also don't know what to do with final fantasy
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In Training posted:Idgaf about numbers unless it's my XP bar going up
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DLC Inc posted:Wow, didn't know WB Games was that close to getting Hitman. I wonder if they still would have gotten Rocksteady if they succeeded? Things could have been very different. They might be one of the prospective buyers for IO Interactive. Recently, WB Games has said they're on an acquisition spree since they want avoid lean years where Rocksteady/Monolith Productions/Netherealms aren't ready to ship a game, such as in 2016. They recently purchased Avalanche Software (the Disney Infinity developer, not the Just Cause developer) to fill up their portfolio. Even if the purchase doesn't come with the Hitman IP, they own several stealth action properties that IO could work on.
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Sunning posted:They might be one of the prospective buyers for IO Interactive. Recently, WB Games has said they're on an acquisition spree since they want avoid lean years where Rocksteady/Monolith Productions/Netherealms aren't ready to ship a game, such as in 2016. They recently purchased Avalanche Software (the Disney Infinity developer, not the Just Cause developer) to fill up their portfolio. Even if the purchase doesn't come with the Hitman IP, they own several stealth action properties that IO could work on. An episodic game is a great way to avoid those lean years!
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I know I'm late to the Breath of the Wild train but I just discovered pulling out your bow in midair lets you make sickass slow-mo shots and yeah this game owns. Only thing I've disliked is the shrine in the second town
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Episodic games are actually a great way to gently caress your developers over.
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I saw an enormous amount of backlash against the idea of Elusive Targets. Which is stupid
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MMF Freeway posted:10 is low on the list for me but I liked it when it came out. Its one of the least fun games in the series to replay It was pretty unfun for me the first time around, I looked up a faq for those sphere temple puzzles not because they were difficult, but because they were so mind-numbingly loving boring and I wanted to get through them as quickly as possible. Still not as bad as 2 or 3 though.
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corn in the bible posted:Yeah I guess it's hard to overcome people being dumb idiots who aren't good at stealth games. Maybe they should have made a fps about ww2 My point was that Hitman was critically successfully and sold poorly, and perhaps part of that is because historically speaking some of the Hitman games have been bad, hence people didn't want to buy the new one.
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ImpAtom posted:Based off what I've read since it was announced, it doesn't seem like it's a big shock. Hitman was apparently well praised but sold really badly. You can blame the episodic release or whatever but it seems like it underperformed the hell out of things. Which sucks but i also can't say it was wrong for them to go episodic considering that is probably what allowed it to be designed in the way it was. These are just Steam numbers, but... Hitman Absolution: Owners: 3,020,229 ± 50,168 Hitman: Owners: 631,227 ± 23,003 Yeah...
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suuma posted:My point was that Hitman was critically successfully and sold poorly, and perhaps part of that is because historically speaking some of the Hitman games have been bad, hence people didn't want to buy the new one. Everyone is saying Hitman Absolution sold gangbusters, though? Man, everything about the games business is so opaque and it's surprising that it has remained this way for decades. The film business has three separate powerful trade publications that cover every business and production detail in the entire industry. Games have... Gamasutra, I guess? You don't even hear about anything happening within developers or publishers that's not curated PR unless you have some source doing some tell-all in secret like some Woodward and Bernstein poo poo
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What the heck even is Prey? I've never played System Shock...or Bioshock for that matter. Is there character customization?
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