/v/ - Video Games

>>16256469

I mean, would you really WANT a new one with the way Sony has been going recently?

>>16256471

True, but I feel like it'll be a very difficult game to fuck up. Even with the short comings with the 2012 version, it was still a pretty solid game.

Though I can image Sony wanting to add some extra shit that ends up muddling the game or something…

>>16256478

Well they did it with God of War and Spider-Man. Either way they're not a publisher I trust when it comes to actually developed video games

>>16256469

Oh you bet your fucking ASS that twisted metal 2012 had budget cuts. There are a metric fuckton of interviews from the director, languishing about how they wanted to do so much more, but were suddenly choked on funding and had to scale everything back. Hell, there are a ton of un-used and unfinished cutscenes that you can find on youtube. Its a shame, because the visual style of the cutscenes was the best in awhile. The fucking awful CG of the past games may have aged well a tiny bit, just because the fact that everything looking horrible is intentional, but even with that in mind it doesnt really hold up. There is a reason everyone remembers Comic-book Calypso and not whatever the fuck twisted metal black was going for.

But regardless, the 'Destruction Derby'-style of game wouldn't sell these days, and that's why a new one hasn't been made. Driving games are pretty niche as is, and there isnt a company alive who would probably fund a game that is a niche of a niche genre. What makes it worse, is that Twisted Metal has always been a mis-managed title. David Jaff will have my respect for pretty much sibgle-gandedly trying to keep his baby alive, but at some point it may have been smarter to just start a new francgise.

>>16256543

Watching the cutscenes makes me think everyone had fun making them. Even seeing the Preacher as some 30 year old in a wig just gives me the comphiest of feels.

For a game about murder, demons, and evil it really kept a wholesome feel.

For all the talk of how unoriginal modern video games are, Sony does not take care of their first party franchises well at all. So many classics simply tossed by the wayside, barely even making appearances in PlayStation All-Stars, which itself was fucked.

2012 was good, great even, except for the fact that it focused so heavily on multiplayer, with single player feeling bare bones by comparison, even though there were plenty of good ideas in there. Also, I could never get the online working well anyway, even when new. And now it's gone, so the main part of the game is gone. If they did a better single player, it would still be as good as ever. David Jaffe has heard these complaints and has taken it as people prioritizing story over gameplay, but it's not that at all. He doesn't seem to realize how far even tiny slideshow cutscenes went in the old games as far as encouraging replayability and a feeling of having more content. Doesn't really matter what the story is. Just give incentive for single player play.

Also, Jaffe has said that if Twisted Metal did come back, it would probably be a "games as a service" thing. The way I read it sounded like him just saying it as a matter of fact, not necessarily that that's how he'd want it. And I could see that being the case. If Sony was going to make any of their franchises a "service" model, this would be it.

But Jaffe is an SJW now anyway so fuck it. What happened to 989 Studios? Maybe they can do a Twisted Metal 5.

>>16257943

As for the Game as a Service model, I can't quite image how that would work for TM and still be good. If anything it'll be a very washed out version of what the game was and what really made the game was the storymode. Maybe they can monetize maps, car types and/or specials, but in the end it'll probably just end up rewarding players who spent more.

Well Twisted Metal makes sense as a game that can be played online, so Sony's logical course of action then is to make it online only. Then if people want to play it they need to pay for PS Plus, and then you fill the game with ads and microtransactions anyway.

>Also Twisted Metal 5 was Black, I think the next would be 8, but then again there are so many spin offs who the hell knows

Yeah but like how when 989 was fired, their games weren't canon anymore, I'm pretending like 989 would come back and make everything else not canon. Direct sequel to Twisted Metal 4. Of course the next game would really be Twisted Metal 9.

>>16257105

Agreed, but it's best we left the past rest peacefully.

>>16256469

Sony doesn't have the autistic fanbase for a lot of their franchises, and the Americans tend to be fickle consumers, still want Legend of Dragoon sequel and a Syphon Filter Remake, but we can't have nice things. Though, each entry feels like it reboots itself or tries something new in the presentation after Twisted Metal 2, must have pissed fans when they're buying a literal reboot each game, even though the obvious comic book motif was there.

>>16256543

Definitely, looks like David Jaffe got fucked over with the budget or he couldn't control himself, the game should have more characters along with different vehicle types that have said character's spin on them, would give more personality. And would have been funny if David Jaffe made a Rocket League minigame before Rocket League hit autists and milked them of their money.

>>16257105

There's plenty of independent games announcing their intention to make a new Car Combat or Destruction Derby games, but F for the fallen and resting in peace Twisted Metal franchise.

>>16259711

>shilling discord

Fuck off you glowing nigger