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Sucker Punch‘s cancelled game: Prophecy
- Thread starter Kenzodielocke
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there's a 1 second gameplay in Raising Kratos, from a background dev monitor, it's a character jumping on a vehicle in a sci-fi environment very a-lá Mass Effect Andromeda.
This looked really interesting.
Really liking a lot of Sony's cancelled games, lol. (ND, SSM and now this)
Really liking a lot of Sony's cancelled games, lol. (ND, SSM and now this)
Our masked main character observes a bunch of soldiers tearing down a statue, examines the interior composition of the material used in the statue and is found by the local guards/dockworkers and called a thief. Soldier Captain then removes his half mask, remarks that he is a wanted criminal and heats up his sword to intimidate/torture our main character who uses said heat in combo with a powder/dust he had on his person to cause a small spark/explosion off the blade and run away.
Cue chase sequence with lots of stuff you've seen in other games. Very early fighting system, climbing over stuff, stuff like punching a hole in a fence to get through and using that power to similar effect against other guards.
He ends up falling through the roof of a building and pleading with the owner of said shop or house to not go outside as the guards will kill him which the dude scoffs at.
He walks outside and guards kill him to keep the reward money.
Hero melts the iron bars with his magic dust, then the Guard Captains armor before killing him and running away across a bridge which he spreads a LOT of the dust on and then ignites with a torch to cut off the guards still trailing him.
He locks swords with the one guard who made it across the bridge and we cut to black.
movement/fighting looked pretty early but competent. World and style looked real good if not fairly familiar (dishonored comes immediately to mind) but as far as a very early vertical slice goes it's pretty good.
Couldnt get myself to finish watching the video. Looks generic and boring.. a lot of videogames get canned. Here is a good example that it has its reasons.
I am more intrigued to find out if it was some sort of vertical slice demo or to some context fully playable game?
This means that even if they wont grow, their next game (presumably ghost) will launch sometimes in 2023-2024. We surely wont have to wait another 6 years since they made two new ips from which one got canned.
I am more intrigued to find out if it was some sort of vertical slice demo or to some context fully playable game?
This means that even if they wont grow, their next game (presumably ghost) will launch sometimes in 2023-2024. We surely wont have to wait another 6 years since they made two new ips from which one got canned.
These vertical slices are meant for internal (within Sony) consumption only. GoT at one time looked exactly like this in terms of polish.
It's rare but ultimately depends on the publisher/license owner (likelier for a Nintendo, Sony or MS to do this than a 2K or EA)
Battlefront III was never announced but was damn-near finished as an example, and Project H.A.M.M.E.R was far along as well for the Wii when Nintendo killed the team and the game.
Shu watching this
fbt this was also his reaction to Demon's Souls.
The Order: Assassins Creed
On a side note, an AssCreed without fucking animus is welcome
The setting (Order 1886 like, alternate/fantasy medieval ) seems like it could be interesting, but considering how many games that are set on medieval time, it'd be hard to stand out. I'm glad they went with GOT at least, considering the result.
You get some months, maybe 3, maybe 6, to come with vertical slice containing what the game is about, how it plays, etc2 to show to the publisher and see if it will get greenlit. It's not far in development at all most likely. This is where you put bell and whistles and not care about performance :P
Yeah I wonder as well. There's a lot of solid animation work and even voice-acting in place.
Looks like a very generic crossover between AC and Uncharted. Wild that sony cancelled it though when it was this far into development.
Feels kinda weird that Sucker Punch went from making fairly outlandish super hero games to just really wanting to make Assassins Creeds. I'm still fairly surprised that the rumour they were making Spider-Man didn't pan out and it was Insomniac instead.
Which Sony games besides Bloodborne and The Order have had grey/brown palettes in the past 7 years?
Loved God of War, and it's plenty different from the rest of that IP's entries...
But mad props to Sucker Punch for, when their new IP pitch went under, they doubled down and tried again with a new IP concept, instead of just defaulting back to one of their old IPs
But mad props to Sucker Punch for, when their new IP pitch went under, they doubled down and tried again with a new IP concept, instead of just defaulting back to one of their old IPs
It's always a shame when a game gets cancelled but this literally looks like the most generic game possible, so if they diverted resources to work on Ghost, I think they made the right call.
I didn't mean "all games have all these" but "all games have some combination of these"
Probably reused from previous titles :P
When he squeezed through the planks, it really looks similar to how Jin squeeze in GOT lol.
Games getting cancelled and completely rebooted, with gameplay elements built, lines voiced, etc, can be pretty standard for some companies.
Seems interesting for how very early in development it looks, not sure if there's enough to go on to judge it on anything other than setting and core philosophy. Hard to say if it was a good decision since we have no idea how Prophecy would have turned out, but Ghost is an awesome new IP so I ain't complaining.
You know, more power to the people who like Sony first party games, but for me this generation has been a pretty big disappointment as a fan of Sony's weirder, off-the-wall, super colourful games. To be honest I'm more excited for Ratchet and Clack Rift Apart than I ever was for anything Sony first party on PS4.
Now this one REALLY hurt.
Art allegedly from Sony Santa Monica's cancelled sci-fi PS4 IP emerges
In 2014, God of War developer Sony Santa Monica suffered layoffs when a new PS4 IP it was working on was cancelled foll…www.eurogamer.net
The concept was a lot more interesting than this one. Shame that it got cancelled.
imagine that moment when you realize that Sony as a publisher and first party holder has the most diverse catalogue of the gen lol'd.
the things you cited are more like a 2013/2014 design trend than Sony "boxes" tbh, or you really didn't played a lot of Ps4 exclusives.
They basically want to make open world game with close combat unlike infamous which focus on ranged combat, and infamous already have some climbing and parkour element in it. Whatever setting they pick for new ip, itll probably have some assassin creed likeness in it.
As do I. There is no objective basis for that claim given the portfolio of titles Sony's FP has put out over the last two generation.
Yeah, like when people say TLOU II isn't colorful because they watched trailers lol
I'm glad we got Ghost over this, but this looks cool. I wonder how far this was into development before it got cancelled/reworked into Ghost?