It’s been a very interesting few weeks for Vigil Studios, creators of the Darksiders franchise. In the wake of THQ’s bankruptcy, Vigil and other THQ properties were auctioned off, but Darksiders has yet to find a home. Even when a number of Vigil employees were hired to form Crytek USA, there was no interest in their only established video game series.
If recent rumors are to be believed, a number of former Vigil employees jumped ship for Nintendo-owned developer Retro Studios in the months before THQ’s bankruptcy. With the Darksiders IP still up for grabs, and likely at a relatively low cost, it simply makes sense for them to take advantage of this opportunity
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
That the core artists have all apparently moved to Retro means that the game would have maximum consistency on a visual level. The trick would be injecting it with what it needs to have that Nintendo-like quality, which I don't think would be a problem with Nintendo overseeing everything Retro does. I'd be curious to see how this turns out, though I admittedly don't think it's too likely.
If that's what they're planning with the Vigil Employees then no. If Nintendo becomes the publisher of the future Darksiders games, then i fear a lot of great ideas and designs from Zelda will carry over, and there's just gonna be controversy around Darksiders copying zelda or something. Face it: If Crytek isn't planning on continuing the franchise, it's dead already.
Someone needs to buy the IP FFS
Maybe with the help of these new devs Retro will reinvest in an project of there's announced way back for the GameCube that never saw the light of day... Raven Blade
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I think there definitely needs to be a Darksiders 3. Nintendo did save the Bayonetta franchise (at least we'll see how Bayonetta 2 sells...).
I think Vigil just needs a little direction with Darksiders 2 and tone back some of the puzzles. They have some excellent combat mechanics that need more attention - at least in my opinion.