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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: y2kev on July 28, 2008, 11:27:32 PM

Title: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: y2kev on July 28, 2008, 11:27:32 PM: Any EB insiders know anything?

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Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 28, 2008, 11:29:13 PM: can't say anything until spaceworld
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 28, 2008, 11:33:36 PM: now that they have Blizzard to balance the books, other developers are superfluous
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Bocsius on July 28, 2008, 11:37:02 PM: They dropped a lot of games no one would ever buy.

Then again, they're keeping a lot of games that no one will ever buy, too, at least according to that Gamespot (laughing emoticon) article.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: y2kev on July 28, 2008, 11:37:57 PM: why make a ghostbusters game anyway

it's like 20 years late

i hope they make a back to the future game!!!
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: demi on July 28, 2008, 11:38:02 PM: Oh... so they finally posted it...

Yeah, I didn't want to say anything...
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 28, 2008, 11:38:50 PM: bye bye skate 2
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: demi on July 28, 2008, 11:39:44 PM: We caught wind of this yesterday, so I spent today going through some company trees and doing the whole work thing before it was made public
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Bocsius on July 28, 2008, 11:41:13 PM: Quote from: y2kev on July 28, 2008, 11:37:57 PM
i hope they make a back to the future game!!!

Doesn't Wii have 88 megs of RAM? Now would be the time.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: T234 on July 28, 2008, 11:41:38 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on July 28, 2008, 11:38:50 PM
bye bye skate 2
Wrong giant publisher sir
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: y2kev on July 28, 2008, 11:42:25 PM: Wow. That's...kind of sadistic. I mean they are showing the game at comiccon. Maybe they expect someone to swoop in and snatch them up.

Activision murdahhhhh vivendi
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 28, 2008, 11:42:44 PM: Quote from: T234 on July 28, 2008, 11:41:38 PM
Quote from: Professor Prole on July 28, 2008, 11:38:50 PM
bye bye skate 2
Wrong giant publisher sir

oops
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 28, 2008, 11:42:50 PM: Quote from: y2kev on July 28, 2008, 11:37:57 PM
why make a ghostbusters game anyway

it's like 20 years late

they will make a Dark Knight game instead, that's what the kiddies want
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 28, 2008, 11:45:02 PM: surely that ghostbusters game will see release somewhere

wouldn't cancelling a game that deep into development be a waste of money?
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 28, 2008, 11:47:17 PM: also, like everyone I know was super excited about the Ghostbusters game

"you are the secret fifth Ghostbuster" SOLD
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: AdmiralViscen on July 28, 2008, 11:47:50 PM: Aren't they the biggest and most profitable games publisher? wtf is this shit?
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 28, 2008, 11:48:19 PM: Quote from: Professor Prole on July 28, 2008, 11:38:50 PM
bye bye skate 2

Guitar Hero: Punk is Alive!

play your guitar while pulling off ridiculous skating tricks in the latest Guitar Hero, Guitar Hero: Punk is Alive! use your anti establishment god-like abilities to create rifts in time, altering world events with the power of punk!

*skate on the Berlin wall while rockin some Dokken!

*pull off a front side nose slide to escape Pearl Harbor!

*rock out with Jimi and MLK during the Detroit Riot of 67!

*challenge Iggy to a game of lucky hit!
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Draft on July 28, 2008, 11:49:03 PM: 50 Cent 2 and Chronicles of Remake nooooooooooooooo.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: demi on July 28, 2008, 11:49:43 PM: Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on July 28, 2008, 11:47:17 PM
also, like everyone I know was super excited about the Ghostbusters game

"you are the secret fifth Ghostbuster" SOLD

I think it's pretty much confirmed you're gay
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 28, 2008, 11:51:29 PM: gay for Ghostbusters!
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 28, 2008, 11:52:33 PM: bustin makes him feel good
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 28, 2008, 11:52:43 PM: everyone also complained about lack of co-op
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 28, 2008, 11:53:51 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on July 28, 2008, 11:52:43 PM
everyone also complained about lack of co-op

what? I thought the game had online co-op?!?

...

maybe ATVI made the right decision
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: AdmiralViscen on July 28, 2008, 11:55:00 PM: Fuck is Vigilante 8 cancelled? It says XBLA titles
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Enl on July 28, 2008, 11:55:53 PM: Heard that this may be effecting Brutal Legend. Hopefully that isn't the case.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: cool breeze on July 28, 2008, 11:57:09 PM: I had co-op in the sense that Resistance 2 has co-op, but it just isn't the single player campaign, it was supposed to be separate.

Damn you to hell, Activision! Another year of shitty franchise games and you get rid of the hot shit you had cooking. EA can save us. EA (:bow2), prove you are super awesome now.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: y2kev on July 28, 2008, 11:58:08 PM: so how did too human make it to almost release

ms needs balls like atvi

ghostbusters looked really shitty :-\
Brutal Legend would probably be good but I can't take Tim schafer fans anymore after psychonauts
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 28, 2008, 11:58:46 PM: i would bet money that gb game still hits this year
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Post by: duckman2000 on July 29, 2008, 12:02:37 AM: Radical Entertainment :(
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Jansen on July 29, 2008, 12:11:06 AM: prototype is safe, which makes me happy

fiddy cent is not, which fills me with rage
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Tabasco on July 29, 2008, 12:13:23 AM: So the entire merger was literally and figuratively Activision+Blizzard? They are throwing everything else out from Vivendi's "stable." It's a testament to WoW that it was technically Vivendi who acquired Activision, even if they kept Activision's shitty mgmt. Most of Sierra's stuff sucked, but I wanted to play Riddick 1.5 :(
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: siamesedreamer on July 29, 2008, 12:28:42 AM: This include the new James Bond?
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: y2kev on July 29, 2008, 12:38:58 AM: Quote from: siamesedreamer on July 29, 2008, 12:28:42 AM
This include the new James Bond?

no, this just includes sierra/vivendi properties it seems.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Bildi on July 29, 2008, 12:44:47 AM: I can't think of any Activision games I care about off the top of my head.

But if Riddick is among the things that are now gone, then :(
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Tucah on July 29, 2008, 12:57:26 AM: Brutal Legend + Riddick + Ghostbusters cancellation = :(
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Himu on July 29, 2008, 12:57:36 AM: THIS IS PSYCHONAUTS ALL OVER AGAIN
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Himu on July 29, 2008, 12:57:48 AM: Riddick NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 29, 2008, 01:17:23 AM: Brutal legend sounded shitty anyways.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Joe Molotov on July 29, 2008, 01:18:32 AM: Wow, that sucks.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: duckman2000 on July 29, 2008, 01:20:12 AM: Quote from: ParticleReality on July 29, 2008, 12:56:11 AM
World at Conflict isn't the badass relic game right? I don't think it is so I don't give a fuck.

Dumbass
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Madrun Badrun on July 29, 2008, 01:22:37 AM: Quote from: AdmiralViscen on July 28, 2008, 11:55:00 PM
Fuck is Vigilante 8 cancelled? It says XBLA titles

I thought these where only vivendi games getting canned. V8 is in the activision branch.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Mr. Gundam on July 29, 2008, 01:26:31 AM: One of my close friends works for a small Vivendi-owned developer up here in Washington state, he's been really nervous the last few weeks about what may happen.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Tabasco on July 29, 2008, 01:30:39 AM: I think Massive makes the World in Conflict games. So I guess you are a dumbass for not knowing that ???
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Tabasco on July 29, 2008, 01:40:17 AM: Err I want not calling you a dumbass.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: pilonv1 on July 29, 2008, 01:43:28 AM: Wasn't PS3 lead platform or the dev team said PS3 was better? Interesting now it's been cancelled...
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: cool breeze on July 29, 2008, 01:58:59 AM: Quote from: pilonv1 on July 29, 2008, 01:43:28 AM
Wasn't PS3 lead platform or the dev team said PS3 was better? Interesting now it's been cancelled...

I don't think anyone would say the PS3 was better to develop for, but it was probably lead on PS3 because Sony pictures and all that. Another case of lead on PS3 and bad things happened to the devs was with The Force Unleashed. Then again, nothing bad happened to Criterion yet.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: disgruntled_jojo on July 29, 2008, 01:59:38 AM: I can't believe they are canning fiddy. Does Activision not like money or something? That first one practically saved Vivendi's financial year from a non-Blizzard viewpoint.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Grecco on July 29, 2008, 02:00:08 AM: They kill Brutal Legend yet?
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: pilonv1 on July 29, 2008, 02:06:19 AM: Quote from: disgruntled_jojo on July 29, 2008, 01:59:38 AM
I can't believe they are canning fiddy. Does Activision not like money or something? That first one practically saved Vivendi's financial year from a non-Blizzard viewpoint.

Someone will gladly pick it up if Activision don't want it. I can see THQ being all over it.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Mr. Gundam on July 29, 2008, 02:16:12 AM: Quote from: Grecco on July 29, 2008, 02:00:08 AM
They kill Brutal Legend yet?

Didn't they drop Brutal Legend months ago?

Heh, I preordered the game when it first showed up on Gamestop's site. They sent me a free t-shirt for it, even.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: pilonv1 on July 29, 2008, 02:25:21 AM: I can see THQ literally peeing themselves about getting 50 cent involved with Saints Row 2.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Himu on July 29, 2008, 02:25:46 AM: Quote from: Father_Mike on July 29, 2008, 01:17:23 AM
Brutal legend sounded shitty anyways.

Bullshit taco.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Grecco on July 29, 2008, 02:37:22 AM: Quote from: pilonv1 on July 29, 2008, 02:25:21 AM
I can see THQ literally peeing themselves about getting 50 cent involved with Saints Row 2.

Shit this would be ballin.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: pilonv1 on July 29, 2008, 02:38:12 AM: Quote from: ParticleReality on July 29, 2008, 02:29:59 AM
Quote from: pilonv1 on July 29, 2008, 02:25:21 AM
I can see THQ literally peeing themselves about getting 50 cent involved with Saints Row 2.

I think this would happen too late though, I don't want them to delay SR2 for it. A SR2 LE with one of those spinning G-Unit chains would be neat though.

Yeah I don't see him being in the game, but if they put him in the marketing or put some G Unit stuff in the game I can see them doing it.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on July 29, 2008, 02:42:49 AM: Man, we better get Riddick and Brutal Legend somehow, somewhere. I was just on the official Riddick site last night looking for any updates on that game. :(
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Grecco on July 29, 2008, 02:43:09 AM: Just make some DLC chapters after the story ala GTA4
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Himu on July 29, 2008, 03:02:28 AM: Quote from: Grecco on July 29, 2008, 02:43:09 AM
Just make some DLC chapters after the story ala GTA4

This is a remake. I was hoping for this remake because it's my favorite single player fps and because gay box 360 doesn't have it bc.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Mr. Gundam on July 29, 2008, 03:05:15 AM: Didn't we hear some audio from Riddick during Sony's E3 presentation?
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Post by: Himu on July 29, 2008, 03:07:17 AM: We did.
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Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on July 29, 2008, 03:14:56 AM: According to Starbreeze, one of the main reasons they're making this as a partial remake was because MS was unable to make Riddick BC with the 360, which makes some sense. There's probably a ton of code written specifically for Xbox's GPU and since MS doesn't have access to that anymore.....pfft. Sayonara . You know MS would have that game BC or up on Xbox Originals if they could.

This works out better anyway. Not only do we get what's supposedly a substantial chunk of new content but the game will also (hopefully) look a whole lot better too. Riddick on the Xbox was so weird. It was absolutely amazing looking at times but then a cinema would start and the game's resolution would get so freaking low that it looked like old Sega CD video.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Himu on July 29, 2008, 03:29:51 AM: Yeah i really need the remake.
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Post by: Darunia on July 29, 2008, 04:34:26 AM: 50? Brutal Legend? this can't be happening
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Eel O'Brian on July 29, 2008, 06:57:28 AM: Quote from: Groo on July 29, 2008, 12:54:12 AM
Quote from: Eel O'Brian on July 28, 2008, 11:45:02 PM
wouldn't cancelling a game that deep into development be a waste of money?

You mean like Marvel Online, True Fantasy Live Online, Frame City, Dead Phoenix, The Getaway, Gran Turismo 5 Portable, (FFversusXIII?) etc.?

yes, exactly, waste of money
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: demi on July 29, 2008, 09:02:40 AM: Brutal Legend canned... sweet justice
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Eric P on July 29, 2008, 09:04:35 AM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on July 28, 2008, 11:45:02 PM
surely that ghostbusters game will see release somewhere

wouldn't cancelling a game that deep into development be a waste of money?

or

a great write off

:cry halflife dc ;cry
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on July 29, 2008, 09:37:49 AM: Sony still holds some small rights to the Ghostbusters liscence, so I wouldn't be surprised if Sony publishes Ghostbusters, but cancels the 360 version
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Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on July 29, 2008, 11:07:55 AM: Quote from: demi on July 29, 2008, 09:02:40 AM
Brutal Legend canned... sweet justice

smh

tsk tsk tsk
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and Co
Post by: Trent Dole on July 29, 2008, 11:34:01 AM: Aw, Brutal Legend looked cool regardless of insufferable developer fanboys. :(
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Post by: tiesto on July 29, 2008, 11:36:18 AM: I'll be in tears if the 50 Cent game gets cancelled, trust me :'(
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: Bloodwake on July 29, 2008, 11:59:08 AM: Sierra claims that Ghostbusters is still coming out, but I'm not certain on the source for that one.

Seriously, Sony planned the Ghostbusters Blu-ray releases for around the time the game came out (evidently to promote getting the game on the PS3 as well as the movies to watch on the system). If Ghostbusters is truly canceled, Sony will pick it up.
Title: Re: Activision cancels like every game they are making except Guitar Hero and CoD
Post by: disgruntled_jojo on July 29, 2008, 01:21:41 PM: Quote from: Bloodwake on July 29, 2008, 11:59:08 AM
Sierra claims that Ghostbusters is still coming out, but I'm not certain on the source for that one.

Seriously, Sony planned the Ghostbusters Blu-ray releases for around the time the game came out (evidently to promote getting the game on the PS3 as well as the movies to watch on the system). If Ghostbusters is truly canceled, Sony will pick it up.

Yeah, the source is not clear. Still, has hope.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53905 (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53905)

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Ghostbusters 'Not Cancelled,' Claims Sierra
by Chris Faylor Jul 29, 2008 9:36am CST tags: Ghostbusters
Amidst fear that Ghostbusters, Brutal Legend and many other Sierra-published titles are on the chopping block following the merger of parent company Vivendi Games and Activision, Sierra has assured fans that Ghostbusters is not in danger.

"It is not cancelled and will not be cancelled," a Sierra representative informed Destructoid, without elaborating on the details. Developed by Terminal Reality and Red Fly Studio, the game was slated to hit PC, PS2, PS3, 360, Wii and DS this fall.
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Post by: Himu on July 29, 2008, 03:47:40 PM: brutal legend is fine guys.

http://www.doublefine.com/news.php

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