/v/ - Video Games

Why the fuck would anyone want to buy that game? Wasn't it a massive flop that practically put an entire state into debt?

>>15413165

>Wasn't it a massive flop that practically put an entire state into debt

That means the IP is cheap and up for sale.

>>15413165

Just to be clear, by "buy that game", I meant "buy out the rights to that game", like THQ did.

>They're gonna buy fucking SEGA and Capcom?

that last one would be an improvement honestly

And they get these forgotten Ips for cheap nigger, these are top of the game acquisitions, I think only Koch Media surprised me but those guys were on their way to bankrupcy.

>>15413173

>>>/cuckchan/

I actually liked Amalur (in the way one enjoys movies like Deathstalker), but it did have a really shitty FOV that I had to use a widescreen fix for, and said widescreen fix would randomly crash the game.

Hopefully THQ Nordic keep up their usual schtik and release a technically enhanced version of the game too. It had a decent enough world and setting and gameplay, it was a B game at best, but it was obviously made from pieces of an MMO that was pushed into a single player game.

>>15413148

Liked the game, even though it really failed on a lot of things and was just an on-rails linear Action RPG.

>>15413165

Curt Schilling was ambitious, like it's really a bad idea when you both used all the millions you saved while playing professional baseball and get a subsidy and loans from a poor state, on top of that, he had both this game and the MMO both on development instead of slowly doing a double AA development cycle that THQ Nordic is doing that could have both saved him money and the studios under his helm. Too bad for Curt that his buddy R. A. Salvatore who did the shitty lore, managed to shit talk him on a recent Polygon interview, it's amazing, he had talent like Salvatore, Grant Kirkhope and Todd McFarlane to work on this game and the MMO they were making, but sadly Schilling mismanaged and went bankrupt like if Kojima didn't have a tard-wrangler, he'd get a fucking loan over and over and kill Konami.

>>15413188

It's just average, just really average, there's some good ideas that could have expanded like "Fate System" like the World has this "Everyone's Fate is written" bullshit going on to it, and your chosen one is the "Fateless". Now it mostly concerns the combat system where you go all Kratos on your enemies, but they could have made it a point that you as the Fateless One could potentially see and change Fate of several individuals and questlines, but it's pretty much not utilized other than the main quest and shit. Going on a ramble, tl:dr, it's got a nice combat system, but nothing else going on for it, and you should see this game as a demo for their MMO.

>>15413188

I played the game for about 1 or 2 hours so I'm not an expert and it, but it felt like a single player MMORPG to me. Not really a fun experience

>>15413148

The more you know: R.A. Salvatore recently blamed Gamergate for throwing the Amalur devs out of business. But this actually happened years before Gamergate, due to jewish money management as Amalur received tepid but not terrible success.

Salvatore is best known for his Drizzt fantasy novels, celebrating anti-racism in the world of D&D. His views were always leftist, but became more preachy and SJW over time. His very first trilogy was shameless, horribly written plagiarism of LOTR, with basically all main parties and events being a 'tolkien homage rewritten for a D&D campaign'. To get an idea of his latest, consider that Drizzt's father who sacrificed himself twice to save his son, has been retconned into a hateful patriarch who persecutes Drizzt because of his race-mixing marriage.

>>15413188

It was okay, the stone greek titans and the inhuman Fae were cool.

It had better crafting, combat, stealth, leveling, monsters and magic than Skyrim. A shame everything else was mediocre or trash.

I think it was made by the guys who made Titan quest and who went on to make Grim Dawn. The skill tree certainly had a few skills taken from TQ.

>>15413148

>They're gonna buy fucking SEGA and Capcom?

isnt SEGA owned by the yakuza?

>>15413209

Oh wow, so fucking disappointing. There goes into the trash another childhood memory.

>>15413218

So they'll just buy the yakuza

>>15413245

how much money do you need to buy the yakuza that own a company?

>>15413263

I don't know but THQ Nordic clearly has infinite money

Kingdoms of Amalur is the second most boring, uninspired, and mechanically stagnant game I have ever played. Only Viking: Battle for QTEs was worse. I have never hated a game more than this one, though.

>>15413266 (checked)

how though? is the owner a millionaire or what?

>>15413188

It's basically Fable 1 with more mechanical complexity and character building, but I wouldn't describe it as good or bad. It's completely average.

Let it die.

based thq nordic, rescuing the worst single player mmo grind fest of the previous generation, truly the saviors of the industry.

>>15413296

Sorry to burst your bubble, EA only handled publishing and distribution, if they owned the franchise, they would have gotten into those lawsuits.

>>15413302

>rescuing the worst single player mmo grind fest of the previous generation

That's not White Knight Chronicles.

>>15413318

yeah its kingdoms of amalur which everyone rightfully shat on at launch but it's now a cause for celebration because based eurojank publisher

Slow and steady. I'm more interested in their upcoming title to see what they can do. Biomutant looks like a neat little game. I've never played Darksiders, but I'm interested to see how that is received too. Them buying cheap IPs doesn't mean much if they don't do anything with it but sit on it, but the potential for them to do something decent with it might be nice.

>>15413347

>Them buying cheap IPs doesn't mean much if they don't do anything with it but sit on it

I'd rather have that than this

>>15413356

Of course, but it doesn't warrant praise either.

>>15413358

Wait I didn't actually watch the vid. I'm not much of an expert on JA. Seems like their going with a new take on it? I'm not sure what to think of it.

>>15413365

Everything is awful, the gameplay, the visuals and the production values, it's also done by mobile devs, that's all you need to know.

>>15413371

>it's also done by mobile devs

kek yeah I can see why that might be an issue if that's all they have experience with. I guess that begs the question of how many competent developers THQ Nordic has under their belt.

They're buying a bunch of dead franchises like penny candy, will probably license some low effort games and hope one's a home run.

I doubt this IP cost them much.

Nobody cared about the game, so why would anybody want to hold onto it? I'd be surprised if it cost them more than $80k.

I wonder why people hated Amalur, but loved Dragon's Dogma, despite games being almost identical save for lolis.

It's lolis isn't it?

>>15413148

>They're gonna buy fucking SEGA and Capcom?

Would be nice if they had all the PC rights for those. THQ Nordic is actually anti-drm. They're launching Darksiders 3 on GOG alongside Steam. Which I think is the only full price game with a physical release to do that outside of the Witcher games.

>>15413556

The worst part of Amalur, even more than being a wow clone, was the horrible FoV.

They should have programmed a bunch of NPCs to make the game feel like a not-empty MMO.

>>15413209

Drizzt was always a faggot, though. Who else but a faggot would wear bracers of blinding strike (speed) on his legs?

>>15413866

Basic jewish "economics", there is no money, they are using wealth by acquiring wealth. THQ Nordic also know how to fuck with the system pretty hard with full return investments.

>>15413838

Top gear was never the same after that car crash.

>>15413209

Iirc KoA:R failed because they need 3 million sold to get even, but it reached barely 1.

>>15413148

Do Actijew&Kikezard even sell anything? They can hold on to their IPs with no sweat.

>>15413885

>having a dozen subsidiaries.

All of those subsidiaries are tiny studios that don't make shit though. So they're either doing something incredibly shady on the side or they're economic geniuses.

>>15413854

Didn't he do that because his hands were already super fast and he needed faster footwork to keep up? Or am I thinking of something else

>>15413148

I liked Reckoning. Large word, autistic grinding, and a choice of looks and weapon styles.

>>15413945

>I will never forgive them what they did to mercer though

>playing a game where you play a nigger

I have no clue what they did. The racism I held without knowing back then, saved me from sharing your fate.

I liked Kingdoms of Amalur

>>15413945

>That crop

Good fucking taste my nigger

>>15413940

Koch Media

>small

>>15413994

Mercer become all bad and edgy all of the sudden (explained in a COMIC) so they could introduce angry nigger to fuck his shit up. Mercer had an arc in the first game, where he became better than human Mercer was.

>>15414021

>>15414020

That sounds really shit. Glad I never played the game.

Kingdoms of Amalur was better than Fable 3 tbh

>>15413288

there is a thing called central banks

>>15414047

not a particularly impressive feat though i disagree with you. i can actually remember things in fable 3. the only thing i remember in koa is you could sneak attack with magic attacks which was great

>>15413188

>>15413293

Imagine if Fable was of the size of WoW. That's what Kingdoms of Amalur is. In a lot of ways it felt like singleplayer Tera Online as well.

>>15413165

Man do not talk shit behind the guy who made the game.

All he wanted to do was make a great game, so he spent his entire fortune but was way over his head and it came out so fucking generic.

I'm glad someone at least bought the IP from him so he could recoup something.

Making a shit game isn't a sin.

Making a shit game, knowing its shit, marketing the shit out of it and then paying journalists to change what makes a good game and shill it, is.

>>15414106

Apparently Kurt Schillings was obsessed with the Wizardry series and the Ultima games.

That's why he invested so much money in the company.

A shame it turned out so mediocre, maybe if he didn't mismanage his money, we could have had a game studio where the CEO was actually passionate about games.

>>15413173

Q is a fucking faggot and I hate him, but he's also the greatest LARPer to ever live. I thought NoLongerSilenced was the ceiling, but single-handily hijacking the Republican party takes the cake.

>>15414115

More then likely he was conned, it happens often in any industry where you have only a small idea how the industry works.

People will take advantage of those who don't have enough knowledge to call another on their bullshit.

>Yeah man we got to get another 50k to upgrade the engine

>Oh man we got these sick new graphics but we need to spend 100k.

>>15414125

Since it was published by EA, I could see that happening. At this point, I'm pretty sure EA is just a front for cocaine dealers and that the games are there to launder money.

I mean, how do you explain football games being sold like hotcakes every year? There can't possibly be that many retarded people out there.

>>15414160

I live in a college town that is also right next to a nigville.

My fagbook(have it for keeping touch with family) is filled with nothing but Madden and the basketball game memes.

Why would I play a sports game like nigga I can play it in real life.

I can't get anime bitches, and cast magic though.

>>15414189

>>15414196

>hurf durf I'm finna buy dats new madden game

>it's exactly the same as the last game

Explain this logic to me

Who is retarded enough to do this every year?

>>15414206

I don't fucking know anon, but it happens for some reason. Every game seems more like a patch than a new game.

>>15414206

for quite a few of them it's the only game they play so buying it every year isn't a big deal i'd imagine. they know it's the same shit every time though. the updated rosters is worth the price i guess

>>15414196

They don't actually want it to change is the thing. Remember what happened when Activision made a CoD game that actually had jumping?

>>15414272

nothing

silent majority?

remain quiet

the train has left the station

>>15414272

The think he's a White House Insider due to cryptic info.

Remember all those fake Psychic shows 15 years ago?

Most known one being John Eddward?

He even got a South Park skit that got popular

That's this but on the internet and with politics.

>>15414272

Explain to me this "boomer" shit and how it isn't a cuckchan forcedmeme?

>>15414323

Boomer is a term that's been used for years now and was used extensevely even before these garbage cuckchan memes.

It's a label used on people born in the 50s and 60s, decades that saw a boom of births after WWII.

The full term is Baby Boomers but people use boomers to shorten it.

>>15413188

A Mediocre off-line World of Warcraft. Compared to the shit we get now, it might be ranked above average. Ambitious but the money behind it was mismanaged.

>>15414339

Irony of this sort isn't clever or amusing.

>>15414355

Where's the irony in telling you a fact?

>>15414252

In this regard i completely understand these people.

Way too many games i loved got sequels trying to do something new when all i wanted was just more of the same old but… just more!

>>15414272

nobody takes Q seriously its just a shitty cuckchan meme. current year cuckchan users are just kids from facebook and reddit

>>15413165

Rhode Islander here, the scandal was all the news we had for awhile and I feel as though I should get a copy for free along with every other taxpayer here, even if it's just to throw it in a corner

>>15413395

lol me too m8

>>15414323

Just another divide and conquer psyop to drive a wedge between gen z and millenials.

>>15413148

THQ Nordic is a good company (the only AA publisher out there atm), but Kingdoms of Amalur is a dead IP that never even had a peak moment. It felt and played like a WoW clone, but singleplayer. I don't know why they'd want such a thing.

>>15414206

Normalfags, i know people who own consoles solely for madden, fifa and those nba games, do you know how much old sports games cost in the third world/europe? $30 and up, with brand new copies selling above retail price (for example fifa 2014 retailed at 1000 peso, today it sells for 1200), hell even in america you won't find a single nba game below $20 (gotta milk those nigs i guess), and even if they are the same game every year they don't have the same players, that's what sells the game to normals, sports games make 2 billion every year on lootboxes alone.

>>15414483

They're becoming some prime fucking IP necromancer, buying all the dead and buried IPs that no-one wants for $10 and then reaping the profits of remastering them.

>>15414514

They got a loan off of Rhode Island.

>>15414514

The IP was seized by the state because the company didn't pay its taxes or something.

>>15414517

>>15414514

>>15414521

Rhode Island is a cool state where they put giant road signs up letting you know just how overbudget and how behind on deadlines the perpetual roadworks projects are, this place is a fucking joke

>>15414587

Lovecraft and MillionDollarExtreme are both from RI, so it's an alright state in my book.

>>15414604

Sam Hyde was born just outside of RI in the same place I was, oddly enough. His old OLD videos are all running around places I recognize

>>15413209

>To get an idea of his latest, consider that Drizzt's father who sacrificed himself twice to save his son, has been retconned into a hateful patriarch who persecutes Drizzt because of his race-mixing marriage.

>drow

>patriarch

What the fuck?

>>15414651

so he was just Goku but now he's LE BAD HITLER

>>15413209

Leftists can't create compelling stories. Their agenda always comes through, and since theirr identity revolves around being pathetic, their books will be such

>>15413556

Amalur was much more akin to Fable than Dragon's Dogma

>>15414745

Don't let facts get in the way of his narrative that Dragon's Dogma is Japanese Skyrim.

>>15414514

>was Kingdoms of Amalur state funded?

Yes, in fact, it's due to criminal charges that the company went bankrupt. I would link an article but the archive is not working atm.

>>15414821

That's wrong though, there was insufficient evidence to charge them for anything. Which meant that RI got a $28 million bill.

>>15413206

Because it is. They built it as a MMO then ran out of bear asses or something so did a quick switcheroo to single player.

>>15413342

What a prized IP to celebrate the revival of. I totally forgot about that, wasn't it also directed by some nobody who played sports ball or some shit? It was such disaster at the time for so many reasons.

>>15415112

reply was meant for >>15414876 and not gayzard

>>15415147

>legitimately liked playing vidya

>dream game was a shitty fantasy MMO years after the genre already died

>>15415147

What was his role on the project? Director, right? People need to learn that having a fuck load of money means you should get people who know what they're doing and how the industry works before you take a project by the reins and think you're the perfect candidate to lead it.

>>15415154

Even shitters can dream. It's like a skyrim or mass effect fan winning the lottery and wanting to make their spiritual successor to it.

>>15415169

The only difference would be that Rhode Island would have a bigger debt to pay and the game wouldn't be permanently unplayable.

>>15413188

I liked it, sadly im in the minority for that one. Was really sad when it failed too.

>>15413209

>R.A. Salvatore recently blamed Gamergate for throwing the Amalur devs out of business. But this actually happened years before Gamergate

You can't be serious this game came out 3 years before people found out how corrupt kotaku was and created GG.

>Drizzt's father who sacrificed himself twice to save his son, has been retconned into a hateful patriarch who persecutes Drizzt because of his race-mixing marriage.

What? Thats fucking absurd his entire story arc was him bemoaning the fact that his entire race were full of racist fucks and that he knew that the other races didn't deserve that treatment.

>>15415221

>did the tax payers have any say in that loan?

Tax payers never have a say in anything. The only solution is to not pay taxes.

>>15413148

>How do they even get the money to buy an IP that bombed so hard it bankrupted a state

Gee, I don't fucking know, maybe they robbed a homeless person

>>15413556

If you can't see the difference between a shitty MMO that was turned into a single player game (complete with the terrible combat that MMOs tend to have) and Dragons Dogma then you might be a bit of an idiot, anon.

Lolis are pretty great though.

>>15415221

My point was that it never had a chance being anything but a failure.

>>15415403

What makes you say so? I understand why some consider it average and disliked it. But what made you believe it was gonna fail

>>15415420

EA, MMO, "beginning of an epic saga/trilogy/whatever", R.A. Saltatore and the god awfully generic title sort of struck me at first.

>>15415453

>EA

>beginning of an epic saga/trilogy/whatever

Ah i remember when i was still naive enough to trust EA and believe trilogies were necessary for story telling instead of companies trying to milk me out of every last cent. Good call anon

R.A Salvatore was kinda what drew me to the game. Shame

>>15414060

dont the protomen absorb memores when they eat people? thatd fuck anyone up.

>>15413593

source?

On topic, I did like the mixing of classes. It felt more indepth and rewarding than fable. Leveling skills also didn't make you a wrinkly gorilla.

>>15413203

> R. A. Salvatore

I find it hard to believe this fuck shit talk anyone. Only good shit he wrote was Icewind Dale, Dark Elf, and Cleric Quintet series. Everything since then been the same fucking thing. Drizzt get separated from friends, thinks they died and goes on 1 man army rampage. Rinse and Repeat.

>>15413148

>I hope they buy out Prototype next

I hope they deliver with any of the new IPs they've been hoarding first before jumping the gun like that.

Salvatore is such a hack, I'm not surprised he has joined the contemptuous-of-nerds-because-of-incompetence alliance, since he's been getting shit on for years for his writing. Dragonlance was the superior lefty D&D novel series anyway.

>>15416027

Dragonlance was great as a kid, but I just re-read everything from Dragons of Autumn Twilight to Test of the Twins, and I have to say they don't hold up to well since I read them 20 years ago. Writing is very childish now that I look back. Also Forgotten Realms I really enjoy are the books based on Justicar.