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It's been 3 years since Microsoft cancelled Scalebound
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As much as I'm inclined to agree, the character always struck me as being straight from the Devil May Cry School of irritatingly RAD characters and I found it odd how this seems to be an inconsistant criticism across the community.
It looked bland and terrible. Perhaps the game was down off too early. The support went from mild to goat after it was canceled.
I've never been into DMC for kinda the same reasons if I'm honest.
I was interested in deep down, they showed that early and I never got that either.
Game looked like a mess and boring everytime they demoed it. I'm not gonna knock people for being disappointed, but be honest and tell me that game didnt seem like a subpar technical disaster in the making. Could it of possibly been great? sure, but i highly doubt it. You don't axe development of something you've actually shown gameplay for without solid reason.
"Character action games" need cocky characters, how am I supposed to understand that they are awesome?
The darkest hour as a one-console-owning person at the time who pined for the state of Japanese games on Xbox One to return to being remotely in the same ballpark as the previous two gens. The writing was on the wall well before Scalebound's cancellation, but the official news left me disillusioned with Xbox's Japanese game (especially MS funded) situation and thinning general publishing in early 2017.
But I was for Scalebound - I didn't quite see the issues that other people had with it from the prerelease media. I was quite interested in the exploration video that was out there. Alternate history - I wish Kamiya and team were collaborating with the current Microsoft that doubled down on gaming rather than how it went down in the early Xbox One era (not that I'm privy to if a lack of resources was why the project failed).
But I was for Scalebound - I didn't quite see the issues that other people had with it from the prerelease media. I was quite interested in the exploration video that was out there. Alternate history - I wish Kamiya and team were collaborating with the current Microsoft that doubled down on gaming rather than how it went down in the early Xbox One era (not that I'm privy to if a lack of resources was why the project failed).
Maybe that alternate history could instead be future history and happen on XSX.
It got cancelled because it wasn't going to be good, yet alone great. C'mon now.
I said it couldn't been great, not that it was great and going by Kamiya's track record it probably would've been but since it was cancelled we will never know what it could've been and I think that's sad.
It could've been an incredible title but it was obvious that Microsoft was sticking their nose in everything and it had the feel of a Microsoft Studios type of game. I didn't like the UI and the general vibe, but the concept could've been really damn fun. Hopefully one day we'll see some of the assets and mechanics resurface as a new game.
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Knowing Kamiya, it was gonna be a generation defining game.
Literally the only thing wrong was the crappy fps which are things that get fixed.
People are just afraid of things they don't understand, "crappy main character", "dubstep lulz"
Scalebound was gonna be GOTY in the year it would've come out, it would've been so much different than all these samey open world games out there. Can't believe games like Witcher 3 and AssCreed 456958 get to exist and not Scalebound!
#SaveScalebound!
The setting and tone looked like total ass, but...
It's ok because Platinum can use this experience to make a Drakengard game with good gameplay
It's ok because Platinum can use this experience to make a Drakengard game with good gameplay
It's absolutely the lure of what could've been that makes people bemoan the cancellation of a game that never looked good while it was in development. Why take the real and the tangible when you can instead endlessly speculate about the potential of a game whose development was troubled enough that the publisher axed it after several public showings and millions of dollars in sunk coasts?
To compare it to another Kamiya game, you still have this weird sub-community of Resident Evil fans who are obsessed with the original version of RE2 despite him and everyone else involved saying it wasn't great.
To compare it to another Kamiya game, you still have this weird sub-community of Resident Evil fans who are obsessed with the original version of RE2 despite him and everyone else involved saying it wasn't great.
As someone who was holding out hope it would come around, especially since we never saw the gameplay mechanic they showed behind close doors that sounded like it could of been the equivalent of the time manipulation in Viewtiful Joe, this is grass is always greener at this point.
It's been three years, and it sounds like both Kamiya and Kellam were not happy with how the project was progressing before it got cancelled. Just let it go.
It's been three years, and it sounds like both Kamiya and Kellam were not happy with how the project was progressing before it got cancelled. Just let it go.
It saddens me that MS cancelled this, yet spent years and fuck knows how much money to get Crackdown 3 out the door, just for it to release like a wet fart and be forgotten five seconds later. Scalebound didn't have top notch graphics exactly, but it looked like an interesting game, something new that could help MS sell their ailing Xbox One.
A lot of people were pissed when this happened, I guess they never actually saw the game. It always looked bad, it's just that Kamiya makes good games I suppose
There is nothing worse than what if people - it's the most negative way of looking at things.
Obviously it wasn't hence it being cancelled. As if MS wanted to flush tens of millions of dollars down the drain and have nothing to show for it.
Scalebound should have been more Panzer Dragoon world and less Isekai "look a me, I'm in a alternate world with my Beats headphones and cool new superpowers".
I always felt like the ppl that were excited for this game were just quiet because regardless of how much shit ppl would give this game it always ranked highly on the most anticipated lists. The highest Xbox exclusive in fact most of time so it's weird lol. I wish it could've came out. Maybe it'll get reborn in some way
Yes, I would absolutely love Microsoft and Kamiya/Platinum to collaborate again. As far as Xbox and Japan, I'm more sentimental about Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, but I can't think of a better goodwill gesture by Microsoft to specifically make up for an Xbox One fumble than following through on a well supported Platinum project.