https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/1...3-the-black-order-ended-up-on-nintendo-switch
Sounds like a similar situation to Sony/Marvel Games/Insomniac and Spidey
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IGN: How Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order Ended Up on Nintendo Switch
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Interesting honestly. I like Marvel Games' strategy of working with platform holders and shopping around looking for developers to work on their properties. God, Activision and Marvel's partnership ending was the best thing to happen to superhero games in a LONG time. Also, since the Ultimate Alliance games have been delisted from digital storefronts, I'm not sure if we'll be seeing any sort of remaster or what not. Don't Activision still own the rights to those games?
I'm not against a Marvel Musou game on switch, but It feels weird to use the Ultimate Alliance name for (what looks very much like) a Marvel Musou game.
Very excited for this. It became my most anticipated title of 2019, even more so than Death Stranding and The Last of Us 2.
Nah this isn't a Musou game, lol. Different developers are working on it. This'll have more in common with Team Ninja's other games than a Musou title.
Interesting, I guess KT really wanted to do something with Marvel, and Nintendo was basically the link between all of that.
But that doesn't look like a Musou game? Hell, it's not even the Musou devs on it.
So I'm not crazy...I must have purchased UA1 and 2 from PSN like RIGHT before they were taken down, because a few days after I told my friend about it and we couldn't find them on the store from his console.
What is the deal with this?
Could possibly have to do with this in some way actually. Like if Nintendo got the sole license to the Ultimate Alliance series. Makes me wonder if we're getting a Switch port of those two games.
Not surprised about there being no plan for MAU1&2, since Activision lost the license and they don't even appear to be listed on PSN/XB1 anymore.
I'm into this whole Team Ninja-Nintendo romance though.
Also, every time someone calls this a musou game, an angel loses its wings.
I'm into this whole Team Ninja-Nintendo romance though.
Also, every time someone calls this a musou game, an angel loses its wings.
Looked nothing like a musou game
Looked far more like a classic ARPG/Diablo style of game cause that's what the UA series is
I was pondering the same thing, luckily I had purchased them over a year ago (on multiple platforms!). You'd think after all of the trouble they went through to re-release them..... they'd be available to purchase for more than 2 years :P
The rights expired. It happened with the Marvel vs. Capcom 2 rerelease last generation, and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 for a while.
It seems to be a particularly recurring thing with Activision games though, at least the licensed ones. Deadpool disappeared and reappeared several times as well. I think it also affected some of the Platinum games like Transformers and TMNT.
How anyone can come to this conclusion is honestly beyond me.
What games have the current developers worked on before? I was going off of the trailer where:
-The angle is behind the back 3rd person and not isometric, like musou games
-tons of person-sized enemies on screen, like a musou game
-Limited & janky animation/hit reactions, like a musou game
-filled with short combos that end in a flashy attack, like a musou game (Think XXY and XXXY)
You should either watch the trailer or play a Musou game because you must have not done at least one of those two things to think it looks like a Musou game.
Activision is the worst when it comes to renewing liscenses for games like this so i hope Nintendo will at least keep it around for a while.
Deadpool's game got delisted the quickest ive seen in history.
Deadpool's game got delisted the quickest ive seen in history.
Team Ninja have also worked on Hyrule Warriors and Fire Emblem Warriors with Omega Force (also they developed Metroid Other M).
You are right that this isn't a Musou game and it wouldn't make sense to be one.
I'm sure the coop multiplayer is a core feature of the game and that Nintendo will really focus on it when marketing the game (because it fits very well the Switch concept).
The team is best known for Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden. Also Metroid Other M, if you're into that sort of thing.
But everything you're describing there, besides the camera angle, also applies to previous MUA games. Or any beat-'em-up. It's pretty non-specific. The press release for the game also mentioned that this over-the-shoulder camera angle for the game is an optional mode. The traditional fixed camera is most likely still the default option.
Why has no one mentioned Nioh lol
Anyways Team Ninja have a great relationship with Nintendo making musous for franchises such as Zelda and Fire Emblem so no surprises that they'd recommend 'em to Marvel.
It's a direct sequel to the previous Ultimate Alliances games. It's not a musou. Check out videos of the previous games.
Probably because Nioh's team is working on Nioh 2, so there are different teams.
To be fair we did get that with the PSP version of the first game and the DS/PSP versions of the second game.
Well, wouldn't be the first time. The first two games were released on PSP, and the ports were pretty decent.
The first game on PSP was amazing. I still can't believe they pulled it off that well.
I've played the previous MUA games, the last 7-ish Dynasty Warriors games, Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Warriors, Samurai Warriors 1 & 2 etc. I spoke to the writer of MUA2 for like an hour at SDCC the year it was coming out.
Can someone link me to the place where it says the 3rd person camera is optional? Because it's weird that that's the camera that they used to announce the game.
it's like the only frame of reference for any sort of action game is a musou, lol
https://www.businesswire.com/news/h...ntendo-Marvel-Unite-Nintendo-Switch-Exclusive
I picked up MUA1 and MUA2 on PSN and Steam and couldn't find either one anywhere. the delisting makes sense now since Activision doesn't hold the license anymore.
what trailer did you see that this reminded you of a musou game and not of the other UA games?
People need to understand who team ninja are lol. THey primarily work with omega force on collaborations, but its generally omega force that does musou. They also worked with them on toukiden among other things
I imagine that Nintendo was pushing for a game with a strong multiplayer focus, and MUA would be among the first things you would want to talk about if you had that opportunity. I'd also imagine that Nintendo saw it as a huge opportunity to be able to have that many Marvel characters in the same game with the heights the MCU has reached these days, as the games that Sony and Squenix are putting out are a lot more limited in that regard.
There's nothing stopping Omega Force from making a "Marvel Heroes" musou game or something.
Oh, I'm not. I was exactly trying to point out IGN's weird title
I mean the focus is on the new product and the second game wasn't very good compared to the first.
Also feels like this is definitely aiming for a March to May release window no way do they want to miss thatendgame synergy