What the crap?

[Michael Bluth]

First Microsoft drops XSN Sports for 2004, then they decide to not publish the next Oddworld game, and now they decide to not publish the next Psychonauts game? That pisses me off and shows what terrible decisions the new heads of MGS are making - they only want the same kind of crap they know will sell instead of trying something different that will most likely be high quality but not necessarily sell that great. They're turning into...... EA............



Yeah, with the way my life is, I don't have time for consoles, so I don't think I'll be getting anything the next generation of consoles. :(

[MCKingKongMushi]

Whoa, no Psychonauts? WTF?

[Haris]

ha. MS is dead. Peesh, gates.

Well.. as long as Splinter Cell and Metal Gear keep coming, i'm good for the rest of my life...

[Michael Bluth]

Whoa, no Psychonauts? WTF?

No, not dead - Microsoft is just helping them find a different publisher, same with Oddworld.

[MCKingKongMushi]

Whew. That's a relief. Still sucks that MGS isn't doing it, though...

[Viper]

They aren't going Sony are they?

I may not be a MS fan but I do like competition. Seems like all three compsnies have made some really odd decisions this generation.

[Blaksmoke]

Yeah, with the way my life is, I don't have time for consoles, so I don't think I'll be getting anything the next generation of consoles. :(

You can say that again.

[Gunpei]

Psychonauts has to be one of the most freaking overrated looking games EVER. I dont see what people like about it. The graphics look like complete shit.

[orcus116]

Same could be said about Animal Crossing. Graphics looked horrendous but the game was fun as hell. For awhile at least.

[Prince]

Here's some information on the cancellations (from a Microsoft Game Studios employee)

- said High Voltage Software (devs on NBA Inside Drive) were hard to work with. some XSN Sports games (Fever, Rivals) are being completely re-written from scratch / "retooled".

- Oddworld was far from done even after all the time they had, a lot of the major people left Oddworld Inhabitants for Sammy & working on the western FPS Darkwatch.

- Psychonauts was in development for 4 years, bleeding money [for MS], no strong release date, no ablity to deliever on what was promised, bad platformer (but he also said it had "brilliant dialog and graphics").

[Michael Bluth]

Microsoft is giving High Voltage Fever and Rivals now too? I know out of all of the XSN league sport games (which doesn't include Links, Top Spin, Amped, etc.) NBA Inside Drive was said to be the best, which High Voltage did. I'd like to see them make another new Hunter: The Reckoning game, though.

[Prince]

No, High Voltage gave Inside Drive to MS. He said "HVS [High Voltage Software] sucks as a partner. nightmare to work with." The split between MS and High Voltage was a mutual decision (both agreed to seperate).

[Michael Bluth]

oooooooooooooooo I get it now, sorry, read it wrong. Sucks then. They should just buy Visual Concepts.

[Gunpei]

Same could be said about Animal Crossing. Graphics looked horrendous but the game was fun as hell. For awhile at least.

uuh you have no idea what your talking about. animal crossing is an n64 game. i am talking about how disgustingly crappy the art direction is in Psychonauts.

[Sendok]

uuh you have no idea what your talking about. animal crossing is an n64 game. i am talking about how disgustingly crappy the art direction is in Psychonauts.
...i bet you said the same thing about "The Grim Fandango" and "Full Throttle"

[bobo_ess]

Isnt animnal crossing a gc game ?

[Prince]

more info on Psychonauts:

he said Psychonauts had these problems before: 2 years ago the game was "retooled" and with each milestone it became more apparent that the game wasn't fun. He said gameplay was extremely repetitive, and that even though you had different powers you only used one of them to do anything. he said the game was "painfully boring" and "the only thing that saved it was the dialog"



Really dissapointing to me, I wanted Psychonauts so bad, it's sad to hear that the gameplay sucked :(

[Viper]

Ouch, that's some harsh stuff.

That has to hurt someones feelings.

[Nights]

After seeing Sphinx and Beyond Good and Evil to horrible, they probably realized this was a huge gamble...

I personally didn't care any about the two games. As long as Sega is making a Panzer Dragoon sequal, I'll be content.