The video game industry certainly has its usual months when it releases many of the big games that debut each year.
Why this criminally underrated shooter should share the spotlight with Platinum’s finest.
They should be working to getting games out on a timely matter not adding more games to the pile. I used to be a big fan of Platinum but their game turn out rate is atrocious these days. The games I want are no where to be seen and what is releasing is retro looking games no one asked for. I'm all for retro style games but not at the cost of bigger games sitting on the back burner for years at a time.
PlatinumGames wants to bring Scalebound back, and Microsoft should listen.
“Excitement” and “interest” in Scalebound seemed to only occur after it was canceled… However, IO interactive is rumoured to be developing a game involving Dragons for Xbox Studios. So maybe IO Interactive’s title could be branded as Scalebound.
I agree. The game looked terrible. People only got upset because it's cancellation was a dig at Microsoft but I was with them on this one. Better to cancel a game then release a bad one. Then again someone might have liked it. I don't speak for everyone.
Personally was looking forward to it prior to cancellation. It looked a little rough/janky, but it was still very early in development, so i figured it would improve before launch.
I think the cancellation was a smart move. The main character looks cool, like Nero from "Devil May Cry 4," but the gameplay looked so boring I was yawning.
I like platinum as a dev but let's be honest they were doing their low tier work on the game which they're notorious for. They'll either do S tier perfection work or they'll do whatever to just get by for the contract they have. Maybe that's changed but they were doing low tier for microsoft and microsoft called them out on it and cancelled the project. I don't blame microsoft one bit for doing that. It was basically a whatever project for platinum while they worked on the other game at the time, i forget which one it was but it was just miles better.
Microsoft already owns the IP, has the design docs, and has a playable build. Hand the project off to an internal team or another 3rd party.
Why give a second chance to a team that phoned in development and filtered their funds into other projects?
I like Platinum, but their management can be really shady.
PlatinumGames seems ready to finish Scalebound, and if Microsoft follows through with them, it would be a big boon for the Xbox Series X gen.
If MS wants to finish it, they dont need PG to do it. They have plenty of other talent now vs before.
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Makemit happen MS. You need a game like this as badly as you needed it last gen. Let’s see if they actually care enough to follow through.
You couldn't pay me to ever play another Halo, Forza or Gears. Those games were so uninteresting last gen for me I don't know if I will ever get another Xbox (sold my One X) even though I prefer their controller and console features over my PS5. I actually bought a Xbox One even though I already had a PS4 expecting Scalebound and Sea of Thieves to be amazing and we all know how that turned out.
Launching certain titles within the crowded holiday season can indeed hurt a game's chance at selling well. However I think that's the least of Scalebound's potential issues.
In the past Platinum's games and JRPGs haven't sold as well on Xbox consoles, and this game is both. It has a tough hill to climb to be a big success on Xbox One to the level of fellow RPG Fable previously was.
So MS is actively sharing dev info with outside studios?
And since when have Platinum made a JRPG? Action games with RPG elements is one thing, but a pure RPG?
keeping an eye on Scalebound.
Any delay is good if it helps the overall final product. If they are still working on design stuff, I say the delay was worth it.
I don't think scalebound will have issues selling on Xbox. Yes in the past jrpg's have had problems but that's while the majority were still into battlefield, cod and halo. This gen has been a lot different and I think gamers are wanting more different titles on Xbox rather than seeing the same plain faces. Look at tomb raider for instance while it's an old franchise, it was put up against fallout 4, people automatically assumed it was a failure on Xbox one, yet they were wrong.
If there are any lessons to be learnt this generation of gaming, it's not to assume anything as that's your first mistake, secondly that gamers tastes seem to be shifting and thirdly there are millions of gamers on Xbox so at anytime any title can succeed or fail just as it can on any other platform..
I think that if anything mmo's, jrpg's will be widely popular this gen on Xbox one and already we've seen amazing results towards the genre on xb1. If not because of the genre, then deffo because many pc gamers have gone and got them selfs an Xbox one because of the unification Microsoft have done with Windows 10 across there devices and others. Simply the more friends you got to means that all this cross platform gaming that's coming into effect so quickly means that anyone can come sit round your house and you can all jump into fog games together and have fun..
There is a lot going for mmorpg games on Xbox one, the future is lovely to see this at last when for a while last gen it was uncertain to see which developers would risk there franchises on the console. Now there are tons of developers lining up at Microsoft's doors with new and old ideas, with new and old franchises and certainly new and old experiences all bringing us better gaming, instead of seeing all the same few franchises win all the time ie cod, halo, battlefield, forsake, you get that stale picture.
Look at the division, I reckon last gen an alpha or beta would of had no where near the people playing it, people have pre-ordered through the roof and so far despite a lot of so called gamers thinking they have experience in the game, despite a very first alpha great review and now what looks to be an amazing beta. Basically it seems as though the haters have failed there mission towards Ubisoft and the division because whether they like it or not if just goes to show if a game is marketed rite and it has been done rite then it will succeed..
Gamers just need to start changing theretastes a bit more, which by looks of it, seems to be happening on Xbox one.