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[Moses85]

Asha

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Ninja Theory took all the criticism of the first Hellblade game and threw it in the trash and then proceeded to take some pretty pictures while vacationing in Iceland/Greenland (wherever the fuck) for 6 years on Microsofts dime and then came back and made a 5 hour walking simulator. Job well done boys.

That being said NT is a small team of what, 50 people? Their size was relatively small and to my knowledge HB2 was AAA done on close to Yotei budget, not a bloated 400+ million mess like new Gears. NT acted as a prestige team (like MM and Asobi for Sony) and not a huge moneysink and it's kinda disheartening to start a purgatory with them and not Turn10 or some other truly expensive failures like 343.

 

[Embearded]

The entire point of Bluepoint was to make remakes of games, smooth brain. Then Sony went and put them to make a fucking God of War GaaS. Imagina defending this shit. Some people are retards

I was also angry at Sony for BP but wasn't there a report from ex BP devs who said that it was BP who decided to work on that?
Also management internally wasn't that great.

I surely blame Sony for not letting them go forward with Bloodborne remake because FromSoftware didn't like the idea of someone else doing it.

 

[Det]

Ninja Theory took all the criticism of the first Hellblade game and threw it in the trash and then proceeded to take some pretty pictures while vacationing in Iceland/Greenland (wherever the fuck) for 6 years on Microsofts dime and then came back and made a 5 hour walking simulator. Job well done boys.

Nobody can convince me otherwise: the owners of Ninja Theory sold the studio to Microsoft, pocketed the money, and stayed there working for six years making a tech demo to inflate their own resumes. As soon as they delivered Hellblade 2, they left the studio.

Imagine, selling your company and continuing to work there, receiving the same pay as before... And even using the company to make a tech demo to inflate your own resume, and as soon as the tech demo comes out and flops, you find another job, IF you want to work...

I've always said that Xbox is the "dumb playboy" trying to buy success with daddy's money and being the sucker of the "industry".

 

[Det]

I was also angry at Sony for BP but wasn't there a report from ex BP devs who said that it was BP who decided to work on that?
Also management internally wasn't that great.

I surely blame Sony for not letting them go forward with Bloodborne remake because FromSoftware didn't like the idea of someone else doing it.

'It's So Sad They're No Longer Around': Fumito Ueda Would Have Liked to Remake ICO with Shuttered Sony Studio Bluepoint

"I hoped there could be a chance to work with them"

'It's So Sad They're No Longer Around': Fumito Ueda Would Have Liked to Remake ICO with Shuttered Sony Studio Bluepoint

"I hoped there could be a chance to work with them"

www.pushsquare.com

I don't know who the idiot was in this story, BP for not suggesting an ICO remake or Sony for not approving it...

 

[DavidGzz]

Because they are idiots

Or even more savage than we could ever have believed. "It's funnier this way."

 

[KanKamAndNob]

Best thing that could have happened to gaming was China and Korea start focusing on AAA single player games. We eating good. Now they just need to stop making souls clones.

I had that same mindset as well, but they have branched out which is good. Crimson Desert, Phantom Blade Zero, Tides of Annihilation, etc. They're getting better at diversifying their single player offerings.

Would still like to see more variety like CRPGs, platformers, fighting games, single player shooters, etc, but it's a very good start for both countries

 

[Cre8]

After the XBox showcase
Asha: Nice work, so when are you able to release the game?
Ninja Theory: in about 5 years and Millions more in funds.
Asha after 8 days

 

[Robb]

Damn.. That's surprising considering they just revealed a new title.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Studio closures are always unfortunate, but the industry will surely survive with one fewer studio that focuses on eye-candy cinematics rather than gameplay.

 

[roosnam1980]

 

[STARSBarry]

I don't know who the idiot was in this story, BP for not suggesting an ICO remake or Sony for not approving it...

Yes

 

[diffusionx]

I was also angry at Sony for BP but wasn't there a report from ex BP devs who said that it was BP who decided to work on that?
Also management internally wasn't that great.

I surely blame Sony for not letting them go forward with Bloodborne remake because FromSoftware didn't like the idea of someone else doing it.

Seems obvious to me that Sony was telling their devs if they want a game pitch to be approved it better be gaas/live. I'm not going to go through the list of studios now but it seems like 90% of them were working on a live game and that's not an accident, it's an official policy from HQ.

Yes, technically, BP devs decided to work on that stupid God of War game, but it's unlikely that they had free rein to choose anything and decided to make that.

 

[archangelmorph]

I honestly hope they go back to Sony, cap in hand and take up a 2nd party role to do a Heavenly Sword sequel.

That was such a great game with a lot of promise a sequel would have done great things to deliver.

& I actually think the studio will do better without Tameem & his unique style pf "leadership".

Whilst I hated what the game represented and that it existed, DmC demonstrated that at their best when they're not solely focused on graphics whoredom, NT can produce actual (character action) games that are pretty solid.

They need to go back to that and bring down the aspirations towards production values alone; it's the wrong trade off.

 

[Hohenheim]

Damn, the Xbox team is on a massacre spree if all these rumours are true. Id Software, Ninja Theory, Double Fine, Compulsion... what a mess.

I really hope they all mange to continue independently, or at least het bought out by someone.
If not, I'm sure a few new studios with a lot of talent from these teams will emerge.

Sad to see the state Xbox is in if all this shit it true.

 

[CashPrizes]

I get shutting them down, Hellblade was an overly expensive vanity project and didn't sell. But… I need to know what the process was here, they literally just announced a brand new game and went on the interview tour to talk about it.

I think it makes a twisted kind of sense. They put out that trailer, let the devs go out and give interviews about it, fan excitement is just not there, views and shares and likes are non-existent, and they decide to cancel it.

It does make them look like clowns, like they don't know what they are doing from week to week (they clearly don't), but I guess they would rather look stupid then put another 100 million into a game that no one cares about.

The one upside is that for the people who only tune into the showcase and don't follow the news, the trailers inclusion makes their portfolio look a little more exclusive and a little more AAA in the moment.

 

[SNPlayen]

But at least Gears of War is not on PlayStation right?

 

[DEAD ORIGINAL]

A video gaming forum celebrating the closure of a gaming studio…

 

[Embearded]

Seems obvious to me that Sony was telling their devs if they want a game pitch to be approved it better be gaas/live. I'm not going to go through the list of studios now but it seems like 90% of them were working on a live game and that's not an accident, it's an official policy from HQ.

Yes, technically, BP devs decided to work on that stupid God of War game, but it's unlikely that they had free rein to choose anything and decided to make that.

Yeah i won't argue with that.

They can't all be that stupid, surely Sony asked for GaaS. Question is, who the hell thought GoW is a good idea..