3809ff No.15498604
I heard about this game constantly for years, then it got cancelled.
What happened?
78091d No.15498621
Microsoft canned it halfway in order to try and kill Platinum, hoping they could finally put a stop to the "imagine X game but made by Platinum" fags
7327ed No.15498627
Microsoft decided the only exclusives it needs are Halo, Gears and Forza to survive; and that they can make up the difference by selling you games you already purchased a generation or two ago just like Sony does.
1c50d7 No.15498629
Microsoft cancelled it. Some speculate as a bid to bankrupt Platinum so they could buy out the studio as a first-party. Also, the new protag looks gay and never shuts up so we wouldn't even have gotten the cute loli we should have.
cf8603 No.15498633
>>15498621
There's no way that's true, that would be too good a thing for Microsoft to do.
4513ae No.15498650
Because they're fucking retarded. Seriously, think of everything they've done the last who even knows how long and try to explain it any other way. You can't.
add5f2 No.15500355
Microsoft meddling. The game was supposed to be about a loli and her dinosaur friend, but Microsoft forced them to change it to an asshole with a dragon and ape off of Drakengard. Then they tried to force in 4 player drop in drop out co-op which the game could not handle even in the gameplay trailer made to show it off.
a83675 No.15500371
They Tried to take out the mandatory Space Harrier segment so Kamiya Blocked Microsoft
fcc56e No.15500384
Nothing happened. Buy my lootcrate.
1e8dac No.15500407
>>15500355
>>15498629
I didn't know there was anger in me left. Thank you for showing me the way.
597064 No.15500450
>>15498629
I doubt Microsoft had much interest in purchasing Platinum games. They weren't doing extremely well at the time and they put out a lot of licensed trash. More likely, Microsoft wanted to micromanage them into the ground and that chaffed with Kamiya who is notoriously bullheaded and abrasive to people he doesn't see eye to eye with. Meanwhile, Microsoft was busy hatcheting projects and closing studios in an attempt to stop hemorrhaging money after they failed to parlay the colossal fuck-up of the Xbox One launch into a salvageable product. They weren't looking to buy anybody, and the only reason why they're busy purchasing studios now is so that they can have something to come out swinging with when next-gen starts.
85a293 No.15500488
>>15500450
Hopefully they'll come out swinging by the rope around their necks.
4513ae No.15500501
>>15500450
Microsoft is all about either buying out or just bankrupting third party studios that could end up in the hands of competitors.
597064 No.15500528
>>15500501
But at the time, who fucking cared if Platinum ended up in some other studio's hands? What were they making that was worth a shit, or sold? Korra? Helping with Star Fox WiiU? Transformers Devastation, which sold like ass? They were fucking nobodies, and Bayonetta was flash in the pan which hasn't even done that well as a Nintendo exclusive. Kamiya literally thanked Taro and credited him with saving Platinum from bankrupcy.
4513ae No.15500553
>>15500528
Because they are paranoid and incompetent. If they weren't they wouldn't have had to pull this stunt, or even bother thinking of it at all, in the first place because they'd still have a healthy line up of developers on their side. There's no point in analyzing this rationally because rationale wasn't its deciding factor.
c459b6 No.15500562
>>15500450
I don't understand how Platinum games ever thought they would get along working with an American company let alone fucking Microsoft. Not even a weaboo but Japan and western videogames should never coincide.
597064 No.15500588
>>15500501
>>15500528
Also remember that a similar thing happened with Darkside Studios and their Phantom Dust reboot. Microsoft kept demanding massive shifts to the development goals (even going so far as promising shit at E3 before even telling the dev studio) and changing the scope of the project without giving an extra penny in budget or release date. They drove Darkside to bankruptcy, and they didn't then use that opportunity to buy them out. They just told them to get the fuck out of their office, and kicked them to the curb - then released an ISO hack of the Xbox Original with microtransactions.
Incompetence is the answer you're looking for. Not malice. Even if they wanted to act with malice, they were too incompetent to make it effectual.
4513ae No.15500597
>>15500562
The only time they should work together is when the westerner is a massive weaboo who licenses of his series to Japanese companies for ports and spinoffs. Fun fact: Wizardry was made by a guy who subtitled old anime VHS tapes who ended up marrying his interpreter.
c459b6 No.15500604
>>15500597
Granted, not be fuck ups like tree house.
>Fun fact: Wizardry was made by a guy who subtitled old anime VHS tapes who ended up marrying his interpreter.
He married is waifu, but at the cost of racemixing.
4513ae No.15500615
>>15500604
I've never seen a Japanese port of a western game that didn't seem like a complete improvement, granted I wouldn't be able to tell as far as the script goes. It's pretty cool looking at their console and domestic computer ports of old ass PC games.
6a483f No.15500618
>>15498629
>Also, the new protag looks gay and never shuts up so we wouldn't even have gotten the cute loli we should have.
What? You must be confusing scalebound with cry on, another potentially great exclusive cancelled by them, i don't remember scalebound ever having a female protagonist, it was always that faggot.
597064 No.15500682
>>15500618
It had a female loli commanding dinosaurs back when it was still in the concept stage as a proposal for a Wii game. That got shelved to work on other projects, and Platinum pitched it to Microsoft once they had the chance. Microsoft loved the idea, absolutely loved it, and then demanded that they change everything about it. And that was obviously the right call, because who the fuck ever heard of a game about a little girl controlling a big lizard companion ending up being a good game? Ludicrous, right?
2f351e No.15500768
>>15500528
>What were they making that was worth a shit
THEIR FUCKING BRAND NAME
Platinum will always get my admiration for Vanquish and Anarchy Reigns. I bet it is like that for a lot of other people. And microsoft being the communist organization it is would try to demoralize any joy in the world by getting rid of it and/or ruining the legacy of the name. Platinum has kinda been doing that since the only thing recently they have made is a fucking mobile game.
>>15500618
> You must be confusing scalebound with cry on, another potentially great exclusive cancelled by them
Wait? What!?
so you're saying local anon has discovered more rage he didn't know he had!?
I was really interested in that game. Wasn't Cry on supposed to be another ending to drakenguard after the giants had the war with the dragons.
59ba2e No.15500830
>>15500615
>I've never seen a Japanese port of a western game that didn't seem like a complete improvement
Jaleco's Famicom version of Maniac Mansion was a huge downgrade from the DOS original. It was so bad, they hired Realtime Associates to do a completely new version for the NES release, and that turned out much better.
597064 No.15500840
>>15500768
>THEIR FUCKING BRAND NAME
Their brand name means fuck-all if it doesn't translate into sales, and it wasn't. You might have had faith in them because of their brand, but look at it from Microsoft's perspective. Look at it just in terms of short-term revenue to please a bunch of jumpy investors who were still spooked after the disaster of the 360's hardware failures and the Xbox One's launch flop. Shit, Microsoft probably thought that they were completely in the right, because Platinum wasn't doing anything worthwhile with their brand at the time, so they might as well micromanage them since they're probably arrogant enough to think they could tell Platinum how to develop their games better than Platinum could. But the truth of the matter is that Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about Platinum, doesn't care about games, and doesn't care about their community. They've lost their stranglehold on the OS market for general computing and now are trying to build an "ecosystem" to compete with Apple and Android. Anything that didn't fit with that vision of games as a service, and capable of extending their monitization window with live services, microtransactions, DLC, and other assorted horse-shit was like the holy cross to a vampire.
6b9822 No.15500864
>>15500615
>I've never seen a Japanese port of a western game that didn't seem like a complete improvement
Spyro the Dragon.
4513ae No.15500890
>>15500864
Why would that even need to be ported? Wasn't the Playstation hardware identical across the pond?
6b9822 No.15500905
>>15500890
I don't know, but for some reason Spyro became near-unplayable and thus ended up being much less well-known by Japs there.
2f351e No.15500910
>>15500840
>Their brand name means fuck-all if it doesn't translate into sales
Didn't stop them from trying to team up with them in the first place
>You might have had faith in them because of their brand, but look at it from Microsoft's perspective
Marxist trying to destroy everything with a semblance of merit around them. but that is being facetious to the rest of your post
>Look at it just in terms of short-term revenue to please a bunch of jumpy investors who were still spooked after the disaster of the 360's hardware failures and the Xbox One's launch flop
I'm sorry but I can't see this from that point of view nor care to anymore. They are the biggest company in the world with all the fucking revenue out the wazoo. If they can jump up on stage and talk about TV being the future, have account/one time use game per disc DRM, and have an $100 spyware box to the forced to be bundled along with the console; then yes they could spare to lose some money on letting developers make the games they want. I'm fucking sick of looking at this shit from a business angle every single time my entertainment gets fucked.
>Shit, Microsoft probably thought that they were completely in the right, because Platinum wasn't doing anything worthwhile with their brand at the time, so they might as well micromanage them since they're probably arrogant enough to think they could tell Platinum how to develop their games better than Platinum could
I can agree with this
> But the truth of the matter is that Microsoft doesn't give a fuck about Platinum, doesn't care about games, and doesn't care about their community
Yeah. which is goes back to why I won't even bother to see their business point of view if it ultimately leads to this with every game with potential.
4513ae No.15500929
>>15500905
Looking up info it seems it was just localization, so really I don't know if port is the word to use here. Still a weird case regardless.
dabb2c No.15500936
>>15500910
That video is a troll.
e93c07 No.15500938
>>15498604
they canned it because it did not meet their quality standards or some retarded shit all the while they forced platinum to add MP or co-op to the game and then refused to give them more money to finish the game.
The original sale of the game was it was an action rpg, so it was not good enough for some reason.
Either way Platinum came out pretty well off with working with Square Enix and they are working with some other publishers for another rpg/action game called Granblue Fantasy Project Re: Link
7bb1ee No.15500954
>>15500910
>nothing to hide
Every time they say this in response to privacy breaches, these companies are now getting for free information that they should be paying for, and often they do, just not to you.
6a483f No.15500973
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>15500682
I didn't know that, now i want scalebound loli edition, but who would fund them? Sony would absolutely force them to change the protagonist to a nigger/tranny, and nintendo would change the protagonist to a shota and shove their nintendo cancer (think skyrim's master sword and all those stupid costumes in bayonetta 2) in it.
>>15500768
>Wasn't Cry on supposed to be another ending to drakenguard after the giants had the war with the dragons.
Nope, it was more or less ICO except you played as yorda, and "ico" was some kind of tiny doll that could barely hold its own in combat in its base form, but you could power him up temporarily and he would turn into this massive colossus that could squash its enemies like flies and you could even bypass a few puzzles with this since he could just lift you into the next area or smash the walls/ruins blocking your way, the story was also supposed to make you feel miserable (thus the tile, and the girl's tears are what power up the colossus) and the ending was going to be fucking brutal, but they canned it before we even knew what the story was supposed to be about, a real shame since mistwalker and cavia had just released lost odyssey and nier, and those two games were fantastic.
943933 No.15500987
>>15500936
it's not a "troll" (which implies that it is falsified or wrong in some way), it's just not very meaningful. as you can see right in the video, it is taken from the pre-release Windows 10 Insider Preview which did indeed include a keylogger and other privacy-breaching things. Those measures are not present in the standard release branch of Windows 10.
2f351e No.15501001
>>15500973
>Nope,
How do you explain the art, music, sombre tone, apocalyptic atmosphere, faces that look like the watchers, and cavia being behind it as well?
be945a No.15501019
Scalebound probably failed due to a combination of factors.
1)IIRC Platinum was having a hell of a time getting the game to run well.
2)Microsoft was forcing multiplayer integration on a game that was already resource demanding as it was.
3)Microsoft meddling in general probably the biggest factor.
Also I'd like to point out that Kellams was producer on Scalebound IIRC and went quiet around the time the cancellation story breaks. Then leaves Japan for EA where now works on loot boxes for Madden Ultimate Team in relative obscurity. I think he was a glorified translator and spreed sheet shuffler anyway. I also place the lionshare of the speculative blame on MS. However I find the timing interesting regardless.
4cf139 No.15501035
b4ad33 No.15501054
They replaced Nero with that dude and ported him into DMC5.
Dragon will probably pop up as some boss or devil trigger mode or bonus stage.
0690b1 No.15501061
I really want a dinosaur-riding loli game now.
597064 No.15501102
>>15501061
>I really want a dinosaur-riding loli game now.
Loli Regina separated from her parents in a Jurassic World type park, but cute and she's friends with most of the dinosaurs who help her solve puzzles and navigate the environment.
33a8aa No.15501108
>>15501019
Came here to post this. Pretty strange for Kellams to get a job at EA so incredibly fast in the sports game department when his expertise was exclusively character-action games and japanese-english translation, and let's not forget that he worked at Platinum since the Clover days
Also you don't simply cancel a AAA game with 3+ years of development on top of two E3's showings, especially when the library of exclusives of your console is a fucking desert, and then give a non-answer when asked why
0d2888 No.15501139
>>15500450
>Meanwhile, Microsoft was busy hatcheting projects and closing studios in an attempt to stop hemorrhaging money after they failed to parlay the colossal fuck-up of the Xbox One launch into a salvageable product.
56f1aa No.15501206
>>15500562
take into consideration they're a small and new (relatively) studio with a developing track record and were in a very rough patch in 2016. Probably a mix of being spread really thin, probably were willing to take on any projects and that bit them in the ass since TMNT, korra and star fox all fell to bits. Those results probably didn't bode well with microsoft and scalebound was likely in development hell so they pulled the plug
f943ad No.15501252
>>15501061
Panzer Dragoon Orta.
b81889 No.15501603
>>15501139
>They cancelled the Phantom Dust reboot out of the blue
Well that ones only half on them. The deal was that if the free Phantom Dust remaster did well, it'd get rebooted. It didn't do well at all.
Absolutely zero advertising beyond enthusiasts stumbling across it didn't help.
000000 No.15501688
>>15500768
Brands are cancer.
>>15501035
This.
597064 No.15501694
>>15501603
Pretty sure the reboot came first, but ended up getting stuck in development hell since Microsoft kept making increasingly ludicrous design changes (like a 6-hour minimum story campaign) and promising shit at E3 that they never even told the dev team about (they even farmed out a CGI Trailer for E3 that nobody at the studio worked on and only barely resembled anything they had in the pipeline), but wouldn't make allowances for an increased budget or development time to incorporate those changes. When Darkside Games went to MS hat in hand to ask for more money or else they couldn't keep the studio open, MS told them to fuck off - I guess the game's canceled then. Then MS tried to salvage the situation by rom-hacking the original game to add in micro-transactions and higher resolutions.
I think Darkside is still around, but they're back to being an asset farm for other people's projects. Phantom Dust was their chance to really make something of their own, and MS completely fucked them over on that one.
There's an article all about it on Shitaku if anybody cares to pull up the archive.
0d2888 No.15501714
>>15501694
>There's an article all about it on Shitaku if anybody cares to pull up the archive.
Here it is: https://archive.fo/JdigI
Who's ready to get angry?
6a483f No.15501774
>>15501714
THEY WANTED 7 MILLION AND KIKESOFT TOLD THEM TO FUCK RIGHT OFF.
7 million ain't shit to them, sony spends at least 10x more just on the cinematic trailers to their games, i bet those 7 million went to their fortshite rip-off with a halo skin, or gears of goblina 5.
0d2888 No.15501834
>>15501774
Don't forget, Microsoft hasn't made less $12 billion annually for the past 14 years:
https://archive.fo/cedt5
Sony only just broke $4 billion last year:
https://archive.fo/sS2b5
And, Nintendo, Ubisoft, and EA are barely making above $1 billion.
228d94 No.15501840
>>15501834
I don't know why this would surprise anyone considering Microsoft is more than just a games and entertainment company while Nintendo Ubisoft and EA mainly just focus on vidya. And Sony, while still fairly big, are not nearly as big as they were in the 1990s. Apple ended up stealing the luxury technology market from them.
8d48b3 No.15502142
>>15501252
Not being able to emulate Xbox games is suffering.
997d76 No.15502152
>>15498604
It was probably so shit so they cancelled it. I mean, Lair-levels of bad.
480731 No.15502185
>>15501748
I never knew about this, and I really liked maniac mansion.
dc239d No.15502193
>>15498604
>What happened?
d1e2df No.15502202
>>15500528
The E3 it was announced had all 3 console makers throwing their name around to try and generate hype. The reason we found out they worked on Star Fox was because Miyamoto interrupted the treehouse staff trying to close the segment to start bragging about how they had Platinum games helping them.
3809ff No.15502231
>>15500615
I've heard the Japanese release of Hotline Miami is buggy as fuck.
The Fallout 3 port also removed the entire town of Megaton and a lot of quests relating to it.
d1e2df No.15502284
>>15501019
>Then leaves Japan for EA where now works on loot boxes for Madden Ultimate Team in relative obscurity.
Really? Kamiya probably got fed up of looking at the fish lipped faggot and told him and his buddies at MS to fuck off.
9cdd97 No.15502290
>>15498604
they renamed it
59ac73 No.15502321
>>15502142
Playing PD:O on Xbox with backwards compatibility is pretty good.
The extra resolution let me see enemies that I never knew were in the game back when I played it on launch with my shitty CRT TV.
Even the Saturn original hidden in the Appendix runs an assload better than it ever did in OG Xbox hardware.
My only gripe is that it's still in 4:3 aspect which looks shit on a 4K TV.
2df8c3 No.15502454
>>15502142
>wallpaper
>5:4
That's not 16:9 what the hell.