RIPPA Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 On 12/7/2023 at 6:39 PM, RIPPA said: The Day Before has hit Early Access on Steam and reportedly it is the big steaming pile you expected it to be In what is probably a fitting twist for this game Fntastic - the studio behind The Day Before fiasco - announced that is has closed due to The Day Before being a financial failure (their words) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 Light No Fire is available to be wishlisted on Steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 4 hours ago, RIPPA said: Some other stuff that was announced Visions of Mana Let's see if I continue my streak of starting but never finishing a Mana game ------------------------ Senua's Saga: Hellblade II I am still not ready to play the first one so who knows when I will get to this I'll have to see who's doing the soundtrack for Visions of Mana. Some things you just shouldn't mess with. Senua's Saga... man, I bought the first one to support the studio, but I don't know that I'll ever be mentally healthy enough to play it., much less another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 50 minutes ago, RIPPA said: In what is probably a fitting twist for this game Fntastic - the studio behind The Day Before fiasco - announced that is has closed due to The Day Before being a financial failure (their words) What the fuck was this lol https://www.ign.com/videos/the-day-before-first-22-minutes-of-gameplay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 Not that IGN’s reviews mean fuck all, but they hated that game so much they gave it a 1 out of 10. Someone refresh my memory: Is The Day Before the game that was making some waves a little bit ago for how good it looked, but when people dug deeper, they started suspecting it was bullshit and possibly vaporware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 12, 2023 Author Share Posted December 12, 2023 16 minutes ago, Craig H said: Someone refresh my memory: Is The Day Before the game that was making some waves a little bit ago for how good it looked, but when people dug deeper, they started suspecting it was bullshit and possibly vaporware? Basically The last (and newest) bit was that it had been promoted as a survival MMO (with zombies) but when the game dropped - it was an extraction shooter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 The buy game button on the steam store is already gone today. This really was an all-timer. Makes you yearn for the simpler times of Bad Rats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 23 hours ago, RIPPA said: In what is probably a fitting twist for this game Fntastic - the studio behind The Day Before fiasco - announced that is has closed due to The Day Before being a financial failure (their words) The day before (lol) they announced this, their studio name was changed on Steam to Eight Points. But it’s only on one game for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 That has to be a new record for how short of a time a hyped/top five selling game (even for a day) lasted before the developer shut down and the game was removed from Steam. Good work. Was gone so fast we never even got to talk about it in the proper thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 14, 2023 Author Share Posted December 14, 2023 Naughty Dog has officially cancelled The Last of Us Online (they had announced the game had been delayed in May) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 A leaked screenshot of the main menu showed a battle pass tab, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew POE! Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 On 12/14/2023 at 6:58 PM, RIPPA said: Naughty Dog has officially cancelled The Last of Us Online (they had announced the game had been delayed in May) Honestly, Naughty Dog could have passed development to a different studio and let them finish up instead of cancelling it. The way the announcement described it made it seem like it would be a decade long commitment. But oh well. I'm hoping we'll see The Last of Us Part III next year or the new IP they've been working on next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 (edited) Looks like that Insomniac hack went deeper than a lot of people realized. Their internal schedule of games was leaked today from the same packet that also leaked devs passports and personal info (which is hella shitty), and they’re now basically a Marvel studio. Fall 2025: Venom Fall 2026: Wolverine Fall 2028: Spider-Man 3 Fall 2029: Ratchet & Clank Fall 2030: X-Men 2031/32 will see a new IP, lol. The full plot of Wolverine, its cast and gameplay have leaked too. (and if you’re wondering why they’re pivoting to being a Marvel studio - internal docs show that Ratchet & Clank didn’t turn a profit. The new game in 2029 is probably their send-off, seemingly a sequel to A Crack in Time) Edited December 19, 2023 by Casey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew POE! Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 6 hours ago, Casey said: Looks like that Insomniac hack went deeper than a lot of people realized. Their internal schedule of games was leaked today from the same packet that also leaked devs passports and personal info (which is hella shitty), and they’re now basically a Marvel studio. Fall 2025: Venom Fall 2026: Wolverine Fall 2028: Spider-Man 3 Fall 2029: Ratchet & Clank Fall 2030: X-Men 2031/32 will see a new IP, lol. The full plot of Wolverine, its cast and gameplay have leaked too. (and if you’re wondering why they’re pivoting to being a Marvel studio - internal docs show that Ratchet & Clank didn’t turn a profit. The new game in 2029 is probably their send-off, seemingly a sequel to A Crack in Time) I wonder if Venom will be a standalone game a la Spider-Man Miles Morales or Uncharted: Lost Legacy or if it'll be expansion pass DLC for Spider-Man 2. Sucks that Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart didn't sell even though it's a visual showcase for the PS5. Not everything on every system has to break even or have a profit. At least Sony is putting out games vs what Microsoft is doing where they say a game is coming but who knows if it's actually going to be out. By the time 2030 rolls around, I'll be 49 (!). I'm getting too old for this sh*t. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 4 hours ago, Andrew POE! said: By the time 2030 rolls around, I'll be 49 (!). I'm getting too old for this sh*t. I'll be 43. I am not okay. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 19, 2023 Author Share Posted December 19, 2023 I hate both of you 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbarrie Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 I'm turning fifty in less than two months. I don't know where that puts me on the Rippa scale, but I would like to request both Andrew Poe and Chaos remove themselves from my lawn. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 19, 2023 Author Share Posted December 19, 2023 Also of note from the leak - apparently all the X-Men games are Sony exclusives (PC too but we also know the track record of the games actually getting onto PC) Also apparently in the agreement between Sony and Marvel - if any game doesn't sell at least 6 million units in the first year (PS5 and PC) either side can terminate the agreement (so basically if one of them bombs, the deal is gonna be off) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 You’re burying the lead on that one. If Marvel terminates, it’s all roses. If Insomniac/Sony does, they pay $9m to Marvel. From that same slide: Console bundles nets Marvel 35% to 50% of the net sales. Physical (and DLC) games gets Marvel 19-26% and digital gets them 9-18%. Jeeeeeesus. UI concepts and artwork for a live service multiplayer Spider-Man leaked (The Great Web) and honestly it looks kinda dope. But it’s probably cancelled. Looks like they had several seasons mapped out with rotating teams covering each season. It was “planned” for a 2026 release with support at least continuing until 2030. Also: they made $567 profit from Sunset Overdrive. YIKES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted December 19, 2023 Share Posted December 19, 2023 6 hours ago, Chaos said: I'll be 43. I am not okay. I'll be 56. Get the fuck off my lawn, whippersnapper. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 (edited) On 12/18/2023 at 9:15 PM, Casey said: (and if you’re wondering why they’re pivoting to being a Marvel studio - internal docs show that Ratchet & Clank didn’t turn a profit. The new game in 2029 is probably their send-off, seemingly a sequel to A Crack in Time) That's not what the docs showed, and I thought the same thing you did at first. The doc you're referring to showed an internal projection. As it turned out, when a list of Sony's first-party game sales dropped, R&C: RA was at almost 4M copies sold to customers. https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/18magu9/sales_numbers_for_a_ton_of_sony_games_including/?rdt=53665 IDK why Insomniac's bean counters made a projection that would indicate that R&C: RA was unlikely to turn a profit, but there is zero chance that it hasn't turned a pretty sizeable one at this point with those numbers. EDIT: The doc also showed that Rift Apart was "cheap" to develop (~80M in funding), so really Insomniac should probably make a new R&C sooner than 2029 considering the cost-to-earnings ratio. I love that they're making Spider-Man games, but this Marvel stuff is way costlier and riskier than just doing more R&C. Edited December 29, 2023 by SirSmUgly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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