scooby_dooby
Legend
It better not be Too Human, I've been looking forward to that game in a big way.
Shane Bettenhausen (1up) rumours canned 360 project?*
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scooby_dooby
Legend
Phew, the one title I didn't really care about
Also, for the record this is nothing but speculation by 1UP, based on some fairly thin evidence.
This is devasting news. Far worse than Bungie becoming independent.
Did people really have high hopes for this thing? I know I didn't.
iceberg187
Regular
He's Quartermann. You all have never known that? iD, Bioware, and others creating PS3 exclusive games ring a bell? He's almost always off the mark.
Sarcasm? Hard to tell, especially so considering your past posting style.
Anyway, what a lame rumor. Seriously, I didn't even know this game could be considered major. City of Heroes has never really been that successful and some of the updates its gotten are so basic to the MMO formula that you have to consider a developers competence and why they weren't there from the start.
Perhaps "major" in the sense of investment and development as opposed to something "major" for gamers to care.
Quartermann is just a bullshit spacefiller, though. He said this as an exclusive "wow"-type announcement on 1up Yours as something that would be announced this week, complete with hyperbole around how major the announcement was going to me. That's very, very different from a gossip column in a gaming rag.
Sure, he can try and joke it off as a "ha ha, you all fell for it", but it just means a lot of people are going to ignore him and think his opinion worthless moving forward. And who is going to want that kind of person writing for them, or representing them? What a way to kill your (gaming) journalistic career.
Meh, we probably ran with the story more than he intended (though, he should have known).
I dont think this cancellation is meaningless (as say, cancelled Viva Pinata sequel would have been). I happen to think a popular MMORPG will be KILLER in popularity for whoever develops it first. WOW, without the need for troublesome PC hardware, would be free to addict a whole new class of people.
However, if there is a PC Marvell MMO and it sucks, then this might not be much loss.
MMOs have always largely been a PC territory due to the need of an HDD and hefty memory requirements. Even there i'd be shocked if yet another based on super heroes from comic books (which in itself is niche since no one under the age of 20 problably reads them anymore) could sell. It was the smart call if you ask me, but i'd also would have to ask why someone even thought it was a good idea to begin with? Far from a devistating loss.
Too Human is too far in its devlopment to of been cancelled, and it didnt make sense that they would after having signed a long term contract for future titles.
Too Human is too far in its devlopment to of been cancelled, and it didnt make sense that they would after having signed a long term contract for future titles.
That's not entirely true. Plus it's also made worse by the fact that everyone else on the 1up show are very 360 minded, so if Shane didn't talk about PS3/Wii, then who would eh?
