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Is something going on with Platinum Games?
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I've heard that sometimes companies announce a big project as way to encourage job applications and investment even if the actual project is just starting the planning stage. It's possible that Astral Chain has been in the works for some time but they only wanted to start marketing once they had gameplay to show as it's a new IP
I wouldn't be surprised if Babylon's Fall was quietly cancelled and they're waiting for all of us to forget it was ever announced, in classic Square Enix fashion.
I have to agree with others that it's weird timing for this, with Astral Chain about to come out.
It'd be one thing if everything was in development hell and they couldn't get anything out of the door, but Nier Automata was 2017 and Astral Chain is 2019. That seems like a VERY good turnaround to me in this industry.
It'd be one thing if everything was in development hell and they couldn't get anything out of the door, but Nier Automata was 2017 and Astral Chain is 2019. That seems like a VERY good turnaround to me in this industry.
the creative director dude left Platinum and left Bayo 3 without a lead. but it's now back on track apparently.
Babylons fall is going to be like a mobile game for square or some dumb shit.
Babylons fall is going to be like a mobile game for square or some dumb shit.
They are getting ready to release a new IP for Nintendo that just looks off the chain. Astral Chain to be exact ...
"Is something going on at Nintendo & Square Enix?!" seems like the better question (not a good question, but it would at least make sense, since they control the marketing and press releases). Platinum has confirmed Babylon's Fall is not cancelled and development was going well, but they're not publishing it and don't get to decide when or what updates or marketing is done to the public.
Astral Chain getting announced so close to launch is par for course on Nintendo published stuff.
Nintendo clearly announced Bayo 3 really early, but again, it's Nintendo, they've never been one to give a constant stream of development updates for years in advance. Mid development trailers are basically something they never do. You're probably not going to hear shit from them until 6 months before release.
Astral Chain getting announced so close to launch is par for course on Nintendo published stuff.
Nintendo clearly announced Bayo 3 really early, but again, it's Nintendo, they've never been one to give a constant stream of development updates for years in advance. Mid development trailers are basically something they never do. You're probably not going to hear shit from them until 6 months before release.
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I really hope we will see something at TGA.
To be honest though, if it wasn't progressing smoothly, we wouldn't hear about it either.
Bayo 3 was announced early because it was in the first year of the Switch release. Astral Chain is surprising though. As for Babylon's Fall, my money is on that being the worst of the three.
I wouldn't really guess that announcement timing is up to Platinum so this probably isn't on them
There's definitely been a notable absence since Automata since all of their mobile phone games seemingly are now vaporware (Lost Order with Matsuno, that cel shaded ancient Japan game that disappeared as well) and they're no longer on Granblue. At least we're finally getting a new game in Astral Chain and it's out so soon.
The mobile games are dead. At least the CyGames one is. The other is all but dead
Shame too since they both looked really good. Especially the Matsuno one (Lost Order), I'm desperate for a new Matsuno game. Akihiko Yoshida was working on that too, wasted his art. That game went into dev hell during beta, obviously. So weird.
Remember everybody.
If the OP makes no sense, its because you didn't read it, not because it just makes no sense.
Is it not weird to have that game be announced and out and the other game not even get a trailer? Not to mention they're both games for the same system.
Bayonetta 3 was announced like what, 18 months ago? It's not even that long ago... we'll see footage sometime after Astral Chain is released.
Director of Bayonetta 2, and that might be a blessing in disguise.
After the cancellation of Scaleboind, they're probably being selective with what they want to show and to be fair I can't blame them. It is often hard to demonstrate something to an audience and keep them interested enough to follow, but not so interested that they start to ask when the game will be finished and become impatient. Games are a 2-6 year investment these days and having a game pulled because you showed a few snippets and the numbers and charts people upstairs did not like the response is troublesome.
Let Platinum do what they do.
Let Platinum do what they do.
Real talk first of all, there is usually "something going on" with game dev studios, that is very vague. Employees, even high level ones, come and go all the time. And the more freedom a company has to rearrange its projects the better from a creative point of view.
Secondly, if a well known IP/sequel, collaboration or publisher deal is secured early it can be tempting to announce it to gauge the fan response and keep publishers/investors on board. Whereas with a new unproven idea, it might be smart to announce it later so that they can keep up marketing momentum on it and have more to show for a first impression.
Secondly, if a well known IP/sequel, collaboration or publisher deal is secured early it can be tempting to announce it to gauge the fan response and keep publishers/investors on board. Whereas with a new unproven idea, it might be smart to announce it later so that they can keep up marketing momentum on it and have more to show for a first impression.
The weird thing isn't that we haven't heard anything from these games in some time, it's that Bayonetta 3 got announced so early. I guess Nintendo wanted to announce a couple of Switch games that were a ways away with that and MP4 but it's still a big difference from how they've treated everything else recently, including Smash which usually has long hype cycles.
Bayo got announced early just to hype up the Switch, as AAA software roadmap was grim for the first two years of its life. Probably the same reason MP4 got announced way too early too.
I fully expect bayo3 to be released next year
I fully expect bayo3 to be released next year
He fixed everything that was wrong with Bayonetta 1. And then he broke everything that was right. Bayo 2 was a moneky's paw game. At least for those that like the combat of Bayo 1. Bayo 2 is still a good God of War style spectacle action game, but it's a bad Bayo/DMC style extreme action game.
Given the chance of bomba Platinum makes, I think buying them is the dumb choice lol
By bomba do you mean making games that sell 5-6 copies? Do you know Platinum's history? At this point its surprising if they make a game that sells 7-8 copies (P* games are still going to be lit anyway).
BF was announced only last year with a 2019 release date though. So they didn't think they were announcing it early at least.
Was gutted when it didn't make an appearance at E3 this year.
Ah ridiculous historical revisionism totally helps explain anything
No it was a better bayo style game than the other bayo game. Not being able to do elite 1600x combos on YouTube as much doesn't make a much more structurally sound game worse
Call it what you want.
Every platform holder does it at some point.
Except, the issue wasn't about being able to do ludicrously long combos. It was about the game mechanics all working properly with each other and there being good enemies to fight against. The enemy design is terrible while Bayo's moveset is unbalanced as heck with certain moves being near useless for no good reason. People don't want to accept that Bayo 2 had massive flaws because they enjoyed it on the first time through, whereas Bayo 1 had massive difficulty issues due to it's awful tutorial not telling the player how the game actually worked, and that's not what a lot of them are looking for anyways.
Since people prefer Bayo 2, they don't want to let anyone criticize it and say it was worse in any way than the original that they didn't like.
I feel like Bayonetta 3 is probably ready to show but they're holding off because they dont want to distract from Astral Chain, since it's a new IP.
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