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Post by dsparil on Oct 26, 2017 12:10:16 GMT -5
More unfinished games need to end like Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain. It's based on a book that was never finished so it ends practically mid-scene with what amounts to "Everything was a movie the whole time! Go outside" as the camera pulls back and shows the crew. If KotOR II had ended that way instead the cobbled together last area, maybe that franchise wouldn't be dead?
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Post by Snake on Oct 26, 2017 12:50:38 GMT -5
Cosmic Fantasy
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Post by 8 Bit Dreams on Oct 26, 2017 13:02:23 GMT -5
I wish Thunder Force would come back, such a solid 16bit series. From my understanding after the 16bit games it was diminishing returns?
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Post by SonnieSlim1 on Oct 27, 2017 19:27:09 GMT -5
BALDUR'S GATE DARK ALLIANCE
I want a third entry or reboot so bad. Hell I would take a remaster of the first two games or the Champions of Norrath games.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 17:42:13 GMT -5
Think the odds of Dead Space 4 happening are pretty nil.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 28, 2017 17:59:32 GMT -5
Think the odds of Dead Space 4 happening are pretty nil. Yup, I mentioned as well Dead Space is likely.... dead. It's amazing to think of a fairly recent franchise with 3 main entries, spin off games, spin off books and even a spin off animated movie already being over with. But it's not too hard to figure out what went wrong and that was the third game, while I've never played it myself, I have been curious since I already own it on Origin, but I remember it got a negative reception to the in-game microtransactions and this was also not long after Mass Effect 3 when people haaaaaaaated EA with a passion (not that they don't still)
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 18:05:47 GMT -5
Oops, sorry. Didn't realize the thread was so long!
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Post by silentstorm on Oct 28, 2017 19:04:14 GMT -5
Ultima is pretty damn dead for such a classic RPG series since the last game was incredibly awful.
Simcity also seems to be dead too after the 2013 game, i guess removed game features, always online connection for a single player game and bad launch really did not do wonders for the franchise.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 19:09:20 GMT -5
As far as SimCity goes, someone on Twitter (Frank Cifaldi, maybe?) had obtained the unreleased prototype ROM for SimCity on NES. Hopefully that'll be released to the public soon!
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Post by X-pert74 on Oct 28, 2017 19:10:16 GMT -5
You know... I've generally gone easy on EA, relative to other maligned major game publishers. But I've gotta acknowledge that they need to get their shit together. They've got a bunch of franchises under their belt, that they mismanaged and then just let die because they don't know what to even do with them. Their track record with developers in particular is fuckawful. Ugh.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 28, 2017 19:33:00 GMT -5
Simcity also seems to be dead too after the 2013 game, i guess removed game features, always online connection for a single player game and bad launch really did not do wonders for the franchise. It's a shame the Sim series in general seems pretty dead beyond The Sims, with modern hardware it would be interesting to see concepts like SimEarth revisited. You know... I've generally gone easy on EA, relative to other maligned major game publishers. But I've gotta acknowledge that they need to get their shit together. They've got a bunch of franchises under their belt, that they mismanaged and then just let die because they don't know what to even do with them. Their track record with developers in particular is fuckawful. Ugh. EA doesn't personally piss me off as much as Konami does, but there's no denying it's a shitty publisher that doesn't know what the hell they're doing. I can almost guarantee you they'd probably already have gone the way of THQ if it wasn't for the cash cow that Madden football is. In EA's defense, they seem like every so often they earnestly try to do better, they released some interesting titles in the early 00s before descending into solely sports, racing and licensed games, but then they tried again in the late 00s with new ips like Dead Space, before falling flat on their faces again. Now it seems like they're going the way of Activision and abandoning single players games entirely (for fun, try to imagine all the hard work I'm sure Amy Henning and Visceral games put into their single player Star Wars game only for it to be flushed down the toilet by EA like a big fat turd) so I don't think there's going to be any more getting better now.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 19:36:12 GMT -5
Their dogged insistence to apply Frostbite to every goddamn genre keeps biting them on the ass, too, yet they never seem to learn anything from it.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 28, 2017 19:57:44 GMT -5
EA is the ultimate "failing upwards" company, like I said so many bad choices would have sunk a lesser publisher by now but because they have Madden football (the majority of purchases of which are probably by people who play nothing else keep in mind, not to mention the fact that EA has the exclusive NFL rights, so they have no competition) they keep on chugging along.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2017 20:02:47 GMT -5
That article about the demise of Visceral mentioned executives telling Amy Hennig that Ultimate Team in FIFA earns a billion dollars a year. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but it really pisses me off how companies can make so much money and not give a shit about quality. The whole point of making that kind of dough is so you can afford to do good stuff with it, not so you can make the insanely rich slightly richer.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 28, 2017 20:18:51 GMT -5
That article about the demise of Visceral mentioned executives telling Amy Hennig that Ultimate Team in FIFA earns a billion dollars a year. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but it really pisses me off how companies can make so much money and not give a shit about quality. The whole point of making that kind of dough is so you can afford to do good stuff with it, not so you can make the insanely rich slightly richer. If you compare it to Hollywood, Hollywood releases tons of "summer tent pole" movies and the like, but still releases "Oscar bait" movies that are for the critical acclaim and the prestige, they're not movies about making tons of money, they're funded by the ones that do. Nothing could have been hurt by them just finishing and releasing the single player Star Wars game by Visceral, it might not have made a billion dollars but it probably would have gotten a lot of critical acclaim and that should be it's own reward, the video game industry doesn't see it the way Hollywood sees it though. That's what makes it so frustrating it it's just greed plain and simple, it's not like these publishers don't have the money to make plenty outside of the big money makers, they just don't want to.
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