This would make so much sense right now.

...... Awesome

Damn.... we begging to get games made now? If you still own the IP just kickstart it. If Star Citizen can trick people to give a few hundred million, surely Playinum can trick people into ten. At least on N4G. Xbox fans swore it was the second coming... until it wasn’t coming.

Why do they need Scalebounds funding to help develop another game?

And really?.....
After you burned Xbox gamers on wonderful 101 your going to ask for them to send letters...

I would send Phil a letter and add language stating you own the IP let Ninja Theory take assets and develop Scalebound.

Ninja Theory did a fantastic job with Devil May Cry why not allow them to step up to the plate.

I think it's a win. I wouldn't give Platinum more money after delivering 5 games around the time of developing Scalebound and not completing your game. That's not acceptable. To top it off they develop mutiplat games for competing platforms and continue to skip Xbox.

Finish your other ...

i'd still love it, i honestly liked the look of it and thought it had potential. the whole dragon thing looked awesome.

that's lame, you have to beg fans to get a game. lol. If one company don't want your game there's 2 other consoles that might love your idea.

If they bring it back, Microsoft should acquire the rights to it and have it done internally.

If this game released, it would have released in the state of Crackdown 3. I don't even think Crackdown 3 was supposed to come out, but the backlash of cancelling the game would have been massive.

There is a video recently released online that discusses the development of this game. Basically, the game didn't have a clear identity. The game continued to get new features and become more ambitious than originally planned.

Phil doesn't like single player games that (aren't forzahaloofwar#58,) don't teach people math or combat the spooky forces of polarization. He said so from his "soapbox".

I wonder if MS has ever thought about buying Platinum.

l dunno man, the feature creep everytime it showed kinda killed it for me. like holy shit how much do you need going on in this game?

If they’re not listening to our feedback now in just giving Sony a run for their money and trying to outdo them with exclusives, I doubt they’ll listen to us for Scalebound. I mean I was expecting their last conference to prove to us that they’ve been listening, but they whiffed exceptionally hard on that. I know, I know, the next-generation Hasn’t even started yet so who knows, but all I’m saying is they’re still not being very reassuring about things.

Why would they trust Microsoft again? They worked a lot on that game and it was suddenly cancelled by Microsoft (who also owns the IP)

They are not likely to support new single player IP's.....they are mostly focused on games as a service now.

The problem with this game is the forced coop. It was announced in a time during single player is dead narrative and the develooers needed to add some multiplayer garbage. If Platinum want to revive the game, then they need to reboot it with a focus on single player. Also this game could benefit from being semi-open world as it already shows large open enviriment.

We need a good, open world, dragon riding game!

I'd love to see it on the series x though

I guess platinum games need money to develop their 5 other lol I hope Ms don't give these dudes anymore $$$.

they needed this game badly. to late now.

Letter..... Really? Letter? Should also try smoke signals.

Why? MS wanted to enforce questionable practices on the game.

I hope they do revive it, it looked interesting.

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Platimun is a great dev, but that game never really looked that good.

Everyone write a letter!

People who believe that the reason this game never saw the light of day is on Platinum Games ain't too smart. Clearly base on the comments by Platinum Games they obvious are not the ones that stop the game.

"And we also think, man, it would have been really nice to have that kind of opportunity, but it's not for us to say. Kamiya is just adding, if you want to see it again - please, send a letter to Phil Spencer."

Use your brain people. Platinum Games has not had that kind of issue with other publishers. MS has been having these type of issues with other developers.

Microsoft would rather settled with low quality game pass crap than AAA experience.

I never found the concept of the game interesting. I realize that this game became cannon fodder for the console war, but even if it was made I think the game would have been-meh.

Does it really matter what went on in the past. If MS and Platinum can just put aside the past and do what needs to be done to make a great game, then I'd welcome it.

So it wont ever happen. Got it.

This game looked BAD let’s leave it has the footnote it was way back when.

If they promise to change the main character ill think about it

I got a letter for Phi but it ain't about Scalebound.....

Who do we send a letter to if we just want Scalebound never discussed again?

A letter? It's 2020. How about a text?

Send it to Sony. They are better partners.

Screw scaleboud platinum . Get on with a metal gear rising 2 !. Love platinum games they do awesome games , we apart from TMNT that was average .

So Microsoft DID cancel the game, not Platinum. I guess fans could write Sony as well.

well after years of reading nothing but hateful comments,(towards MS) concerning this game, it's nice to see some common sense being applied to it
it wasn't a good game.
it wasn't fun.
they couldn't make it work.
it was way over budget.
there were other concerns as well, they didn't cancel the title lightly,
especially at that point the way things were going for Xbox one.
do you really honestly think they would cancel a promising IP,
that people really had interest in,
if it was going to work out... 🤔
"no let's just flush all that money down the toilet, and harm our reputation further!"

I just don't think that was their plan.

notwithstanding they now have more than enough studios to venture into it, seeing as they own the IP.
they wouldn't need to form a partnership with anyone else.

I believe in never say never,
but a lot of things (like having flying dragons amongst it) would have to change about the game.

I sent an email back in 2018 but I think it is a lost cause

I think if they could have done it before Monsterhunter went mainstream then it would have had a better impact, now I can't see how it would give something other than that...except that it would have platinum flavour. It seems like final fantasy 15 meets dmc . Looking at the gameplay it does seem like something I would want to play, but looking at pre alpha gameplay the framerate was very bad, with a more powerful console and hype it would be a feather in MS cap to restart the game, but update it for the changes we see nowadays.

Game felt like Nero from the dmc series was inside Final Fantasy with a Bahamut summon active 24/7. That may sound interesting but it wasn't

I'm a sucker for dragon games much less one that can evolve them and has different play styles and attributes and variations. What I saw had soo much potential it was insane and I need my dragon itch satisfied since the last good games with dragons were shadow of mordor and skyrim.

having no exclusives, that's what it'd solve

Microsoft didn't make a mistake on this one. The main man behind the development team came out and said the project became too ambitious for the team and it was canceled. He's gone out and said this twice. MS took the blame and never commented on the issue, except for a tweet by Spencer.

Mistake on who's part? Because last I checked Plat Games was using Xbox/Scalebound money to fund other projects, which led to the cancelation of Scalebound. How anyone could blame Xbox is beyond me. I am curious as to why Plat Games is now pushing for this after all this time. As it stands now Xbox doesn't need PG to finish Scalebound considering all the studios they have now. PG is a good studio but they effed that whole thing up so it's pretty ironic why they would publicly make this kind of push. I would imagine a private convo is in order before anything.

LOL why do people refuse to let this one go? People act like Platinum had a GOTY on their hands with that game. Itd be like PlayStation fans still hollering to Capcom about Deep Down. Move on already.

Was it enticing though? All I remember back at the reveal and subsequent showings was a wall of hate about the trendy protagonist, his beats headphones, the underwhelming gameplay and terrible framerate. Weird that it has now turned into this unrealized masterpiece from some in the community. By the way I am aware that some were looking forward to it but I would say they were a decided minority.

I’m going to make an assumption , maybe given the newer and better hardware the Series X .. Maybe they feel more compelled to actuality finish the game since they can probably achieve the vision they want now ..

Well if they scrap the multiplayer part and focus on a full Single player campain it might be cool and better!The problem i see is that Platinum Games cannot be trusted,they seen to rely to much on work been made for other publisher to survive has a team of developers, they take too long to produce there games,they have talent but to me it seems theres great mismanagement inside Platinum Games,they seem to focus on more than they can chew and them end not completing the work or take too long because they are been financed by others.Lets not forget they had the chance to do it right and lost it due to this mismanagement,if i were in charge of would not support or invest in them anymore,they most likely take the job and money and end working on other projects to survive in the long run.