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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Stoney Mason on January 29, 2013, 12:59:39 PM

Title: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 29, 2013, 12:59:39 PM
http://www.vg247.com/2013/01/29/disney-confirms-closure-of-epic-mickey-developer-junction-point-studios/

Time to retire Warren.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 29, 2013, 01:06:39 PM
His fall has been incredibly depressing.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Steve Contra on January 29, 2013, 01:10:41 PM
How bad did the second one do in relation to the first?
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 29, 2013, 01:15:51 PM
How bad did the second one do in relation to the first?

4 times the consoles, 1/4th the sales.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 29, 2013, 01:17:50 PM
I don't care, never played any Mickey.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Don Flamenco on January 29, 2013, 01:19:27 PM
in b4 people saying the "steampunk mature" version seen in the concept art would save the series or have a chance in hell of being released ever.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: TakingBackSunday on January 29, 2013, 01:28:57 PM
interesting concept ruined by terrible mechanics.  he kinda deserves to be a failure at the moment
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Stoney Mason on January 29, 2013, 01:35:46 PM
Anyone can put out a bad game and eventually time will pass us all by. That's kinda forgivable.

What's a bit more annoying is that in recent years he has become increasingly cranky and opinionated about the game industry in general yet he seemed very defensive about the reception Epic Mickey got. You can't have it both ways.


Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 29, 2013, 01:36:40 PM
He should join the Sphinctersoft team and get back to making quality games.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: wrowa on January 29, 2013, 01:47:18 PM
Sad for the team, but I prefer Spector as far away from Disney as possible. Nothing good has come from his time there. Epic Mickey was kinda promising, but with the second one being worse in every regard I doubt that the team would have ever had the chance to make a better game.

(And since that 3DS one was already terrible, I make Disney guilty for all of this. If two theoretically pretty good teams fail to deliver miserably, there has to be something going wrong somewhere)

Actually, Spector is one of the people I'd like to see making something with Kickstarter.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Sho Nuff on January 29, 2013, 05:08:51 PM
I'm more offended by his run of the DuckTales comic, which was the most horrible Duck-related thing I have EVER. READ.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: thisismyusername on January 29, 2013, 05:23:21 PM
or have a chance in hell of being released ever.

It's Disney, of course a steampunk mature concept art version wouldn't have released because they need their family friendly.

Despite the fact that would've gotten a hell of a lot of people that aren't interested in family friendly Disney anymore (so, people like me?) interested in the game.

I'm not delusional, but shit you know?
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Positive Touch on January 29, 2013, 05:36:03 PM
no, i dont think hardly anyone would give a shit about a video game with a "mature" mickey mouse
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Steve Contra on January 29, 2013, 05:37:15 PM
Yeah, Disney needs kids to sell.  The only people who want mature Disney are certified perverts.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Great Rumbler on January 29, 2013, 10:25:09 PM
or have a chance in hell of being released ever.

It's Disney, of course a steampunk mature concept art version wouldn't have released because they need their family friendly.

Despite the fact that would've gotten a hell of a lot of people that aren't interested in family friendly Disney anymore (so, people like me?) interested in the game.

I'm not delusional, but shit you know?

But the only people who actually care about there being a "mature" Disney game are a handful of adult manchildren. If they're going to make a mature steampunk game, then they should just do that, not try to cram Mickey and Co. into it, too.

And really, Dishonored is a better Warren Spector game than Warren Spector has made in about a decade.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: The Sceneman on January 29, 2013, 10:27:15 PM
His pen and paper rpgs look interesting...

(http://images.theage.com.au/2012/07/10/3442424/spector-toon-300x0.jpg)
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 29, 2013, 10:48:19 PM
Warren Spector's fur fetish confirmed. He needs to make a new Tiny Toons games or a mature steampunk Heathcliff RPG or something.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Dickie Dee on January 29, 2013, 11:23:03 PM
save the mature steampunk mickey mouse for hot topic tshirts kthnxbye
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Tasty on January 30, 2013, 12:07:24 AM
shoulda made Wii games

The "leave Nintendo curse" strikes another victim.

Rare

Factor 5

Silicon Knights

Junction Point

:violin
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Tasty on January 30, 2013, 01:15:54 AM
It was an admittedly dumb joke, haha.

That's probably not too far off the mark, but I feel the... lack of... quality in the first game is more the issue. Apparently sales dropped off super fast for the first.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: chronovore on January 30, 2013, 05:52:47 AM
His pen and paper rpgs look interesting...

(http://images.theage.com.au/2012/07/10/3442424/spector-toon-300x0.jpg)
I have this, somewhere in my US game backlog. I thought it was just Costikyan's thing.

But the only people who actually care about there being a "mature" Disney game are a handful of adult manchildren. If they're going to make a mature steampunk game, then they should just do that, not try to cram Mickey and Co. into it, too.

And really, Dishonored is a better Warren Spector game than Warren Spector has made in about a decade.

Isn't Kingdom Hearts kind of a steampunk, marginally mature game?

I'm asking with a serious face, because I've never played them.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Positive Touch on January 30, 2013, 07:45:06 AM
kingdom hearts is targeted at young teens
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: chronovore on January 30, 2013, 08:19:55 AM
kingdom hearts is targeted at young teens
and sad lonely fat girls

:rofl

Well, then.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Don Flamenco on January 30, 2013, 09:24:30 AM
Epcot Center is just the perfect example of withering, tattered beauty, like the years of my childhood drifting away the older I get. (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=47041320&postcount=48)

Dark.

Mature.

Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: tiesto on January 30, 2013, 10:01:31 AM
Epcot Center is just the perfect example of withering, tattered beauty, like the years of my childhood drifting away the older I get. (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=47041320&postcount=48)

Dark.

Mature.

Well when I was at Epcot back in 2006, it was very dated and kind of a shithole. Not sure if they re-did it since then, but I remember being real disappointed (especially after loving it in the late 80's... seems like it didn't change very much since then)
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Don Flamenco on January 30, 2013, 11:06:53 AM
even when I went there as a kid, it was lame.  that's why they only show you the outside in commercials!   It probably looks like the epic mickey concept art nowadays.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on January 30, 2013, 11:31:26 AM
I only watched The Lion King all the way through and that was because it was the movie everybody my age (7-8) saw.

I have no nostalgic feelings towards Disney.  I couldn't make it through Up and I could only watch a few minutes of Ratatouille before I got bored.
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: Trent Dole on February 01, 2013, 10:48:43 PM
I couldn't make it through Up and I could only watch a few minutes of Ratatouille before I got bored.
Your disdain for Pixar is unacceptable.  :meeble
Title: Re: Epic Mickey sinks Warren Spector
Post by: ManaByte on February 02, 2013, 09:11:37 AM
Epcot Center is just the perfect example of withering, tattered beauty, like the years of my childhood drifting away the older I get. (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=47041320&postcount=48)

Dark.

Mature.

Well when I was at Epcot back in 2006, it was very dated and kind of a shithole. Not sure if they re-did it since then, but I remember being real disappointed (especially after loving it in the late 80's... seems like it didn't change very much since then)

In order to change anything, they have to spend money; something WDW won't do unless something burns down.