He's not at PlatinumGames any more so I was under the impression he's just giving us some much appreciated insight on what the project was like under Microsoft, not what may or may not be happening now.
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RUMOR: Nintendo has plans to revive a 'Dead and Buried' game (Update: Possibly Scalebound?)
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None of the big sites like IGN, Kotaku, Gamespot, etc. have reported on the Scalebound rumor yet. Hmm. Maybe they know it's fake.
Yup Mega Man is having a brand revival, might as well resurrect the game that caused it to spiral down after they canned it to regain those still burnt fans. Would make them Capgod again for me personally.
Not necessarily. There's no hard and fast rule about these things in studios. For example, when Obsidian was working on Stormlands, the big RPG for MS which got canned, JE Sawyer was the director. It was based on ideas he and Avellone proposed at the time iirc. After it was cancelled Sawyer went on to launch the Pillars of Eternity IP. Later the ideas they had for Stormlands were revived to be used in Tyranny - a game that neither Sawyer nor Avellone had any part in.
So if they wanted to reuse some ideas from Scalebound in Astral Chain, and Kamiya says "yeah that would be cool", it doesn't mean he would want to direct the game himself. Especially when it's someone else's project now.
If it is Mega Man Legends 3, I don't see why Nintendo would need to have any direct involvement in it. Surely Capcom has seen the demand for more Mega Man and would be willing to start a new Mega Man Legends project on its own accord.
I didn't know you were the creative producer? Wouldn't you know if Scalebound was picked up by Nintendo then?
Edit: Oh wait, you are no longer with PG.
Well Scalebound looked great! Just to let you know.
Since 20 pages ago.
But people think it has been revived into a very different game.. but then, why not just make a new IP?
They are probably working on X9 right now and might not want to split resources. So Capcom gets X9 and Nintendo helps with Legends 3 (since it would be the bigger game)
What if they're being incredibly literal when they say "buried" and they are remaking E.T. for the Atari 2600?
Game was never publicly announced.What if this dead and buried game is actually the canned Retro project and Retro has been working on it for the last 4 years?
Platinum Games have plenty of game mechanics that they reuse in completely different games with different directors/teams. Like, NieR Automata is basically Bayonetta Lite. It takes a whole lot of mechanics from Bayonetta (but is a bit more shallow). Transformers is basically Bayonetta with Transformers skin & some Transformers appropriate moves added. So someone inside Platinum might easily have taken a look at Scalebound and have been inspired to try a somewhat similar "player + AI parter attacking in unison but capable of fighting separately" feature and changed it to apply to smaller robot partners.
And it was far from officially cancelled. We didn't even know that it exists outside of a passing comment from Tanabe.
Oh absolutely, and that is a great example of ideas carrying over under different people. I was just under the impression that the idea of Scalebound was kind of Kamiya's baby, and if there were another game that carried over those ideas in a capacity that would be the best they could given the opportunities that existed, Kamiya would maybe want to keep control of his baby, even in another form.
Then again, I am ignorant of tons of things that could contribute to this, like Kamiya having a change of heart after the MS fallout, him feeling confident in passing off those design elements to folks he trusts, a change in the way the studio approached things, how Platinum's realtionship with Nintendo evolved, etc.
lmao, no bro, no
Nice to see a reply officially putting a stop to this fanboy made up nonsense too
edit: this too:
Mega Man Legends 3 was leading this poll the last I checked.
Honestly I'm starting to think it's something super obscure that no one really cared about.
Honestly I'm starting to think it's something super obscure that no one really cared about.
Why did you say bad things about Scalebound?
Taking a look at some gameplay, it actually looks neat.
I didn't make anything up, just restating what had previously been said on the subject in lieu of official responses/sources. JP has settled the issue.
Sticking with Chakan: The Forever Man. No one cares, except me. Plus, something about all this stinks like something Sega-related.
Don't ask me why. It's literally tales from my ass. Well, not literally. That would be gross.
I think it would be rad if it indeed is Scalebound, but there is one tiny problem. The game ran sluggishly on the XB1. Is it even remotely possible for it to run respectably on the Switch without extensive visual downgrades? Like, I think it would take ARK levels of downgrades to run at a solid clip, and then it would be a shadow of its former self.
If the project is really out of left field from what Imran was hinting at (and obviously not Scalebound), then fuck it I'll pull something out of the indie gaming market that infamously imploded from total incompetence:
Beast's Fury
Just to add some nuttiness to the theory: Nintendo gives the game to Lab Zero once they get around finishing Indivisible. If you followed the story of the game, the reaction from it's creator (Rhyan Stevens) would be a popcorn-eatin' worthy event. The FGC would certainty get a kick out it.
Beast's Fury
Just to add some nuttiness to the theory: Nintendo gives the game to Lab Zero once they get around finishing Indivisible. If you followed the story of the game, the reaction from it's creator (Rhyan Stevens) would be a popcorn-eatin' worthy event. The FGC would certainty get a kick out it.
What Nintendo would do with Scalebound? From what I remember, the demo looked rough.
I can't think in any game which was cancelled and and buried by a third party apart from the early days of Retro Studios with their Raven Blade.
I can't think in any game which was cancelled and and buried by a third party apart from the early days of Retro Studios with their Raven Blade.
We live in a world where the original Devil May Cry is coming back in less than a month, after eleven years of radio silence and a reboot.
Anything is possible.
Live your dreams.
Ask your Mom.
Next week in gaming magazines.
Anything is possible.
Live your dreams.
Ask your Mom.
Next week in gaming magazines.
Another reason it ain't Scalebound:
Platinum said they had a "shapeless and formless" game being done by new director. Astral Chain is by NieR Automata's Taura and Bayo is obviously not that, so it must be the third game they mentioned.
I can't imagine anyone but Kamiya himself directing a Scalebound revival.
Platinum said they had a "shapeless and formless" game being done by new director. Astral Chain is by NieR Automata's Taura and Bayo is obviously not that, so it must be the third game they mentioned.
I can't imagine anyone but Kamiya himself directing a Scalebound revival.
Man I'm still so sad about this. It looked like such a dope concept. Le sigh.
Yeah, it's possible. By throwing the Unreal Engine 4, and switching to the PlatinumGames in house engine.
Unreal Engine 4 was the main reason behind the cancellation of the game.
The game was struggling even in Xbox One, because this engine is not intended for games with this scope on consoles.
I actually vaguely remember this game lol. I remember thinking it was pretty cool, but I didn't get too far into it.
Lmao Damn Phil Spencer.
If Halo DS was a reality, then we could have Master Chief in Smash by now. Dangit.
Really?
I figured they meant someone with no prior directing experience. I'm unfamiliar with NieR's staff. So he wasn't directing in any capacity? I guess that would be Yoko Taro.
Fortnite is an open world game with 100 players.
The video mentions there were some things Pg wanted to cut back but weren't allowed to
He was the game designer/gameplay director or whatever it's called for NieR.
Yoko Taro was the director but he was in charge of the gameplay portions
That was my thought, but I assumed that even being just the gameplay director would count.
To me, I see a directionless game. You call forth a gigantic dragon, yet you transform into a beast yourself. You have arrows but also fight up close. You're constantly using a grappling hook to latch onto a monster properly to break it's parts instead of the fight being about movement. The humans just get destroyed by your dragon. You can then throw a Monster Hunter like shock trap to stun the monster too. You then progress the stage in a somewhat linear fashion but nothing is really engaging you.
I see this as way too many ideas put into one to the point I don't see the challenge nor the direction of it. Scalebound, at least in it's current form doesn't look like a good game to me.
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