Perfect Dark reboot cancelled, The Initiative Shutdown

[Anecronomicon]

@MasterChief

…is wasted time and money it is the devs that will pay the price and not a single higher up afaik, their jobs seem to be safe. I understand Everwild getting the axe because that game has been unheard of for over 5 years so it was probably on ice at Rare anyway who are just a Sea of thieves DLC factory these days, but Perfect Dark shocks me and pisses me off, I was really looking forward to that, Zenimax also shocks me, this thing was also in development for so long and it is Zenimax Online, a very successful studio, maybe stop wasting time by making us wait 20 years for Elder Scrolls 6 and put that studio to work Elder Scrolls 6, besides Everwild, I don’t think these cancellations were just because of troubled development, I think it was mainly a money move, screw this greedy ass corporation.

That “established studio” (Crystal Dynamics) will be next for the chopping block if they don’t get their act together and make a proper Tomb Raider game soon. So many of these legacy dev studios (if we can call them that) have been coasting on reputation and name alone for years and years.

[Failwood]

@Anecronomicon

That “established studio” (Crystal Dynamics) will be next for the chopping block if they don’t get their act together and make a proper Tomb Raider game soon. So many of these legacy dev studios (if we can call them that) have been coasting on reputation and name alone for years and years.

Yeah, CD has been bleeding money for years even before they were sold by SE. Tomb Raider has always been do or die for them.

[crazillo]

It seems the structure The Initiative was set up with never worked. Having very experienced leads develop core concepts, stories and ideas and then getting them developed at an external studio just wasn’t feasible. It’s a shame, because I genuinely think the Perfect Dark IP has so much potential and I liked the trailer in 2024. Rough day for Rare fans.

[KvallyX]

From Perfect Dark developer:

"This demo. It is actually in-engine. I was one of three level designers that worked on it. It worked best if you played it the way the person playing in the video plays it, but it still worked even if you didn’t hit the marks perfectly. The combat is “real” in that someone had to really do all that stuff in the video, but it’s set up to be played exactly that way and didn’t play well if you played it a different way.

I’m seeing big controversy over “THIS WHOLE THING WAS FAKE” and it’s annoying me, so I wanted to say something.

Bluesky

[SilentJay76]

@KvallyX

From Perfect Dark developer:

"This demo. It is actually in-engine. I was one of three level designers that worked on it. It worked best if you played it the way the person playing in the video plays it, but it still worked even if you didn’t hit the marks perfectly. The combat is “real” in that someone had to really do all that stuff in the video, but it’s set up to be played exactly that way and didn’t play well if you played it a different way.

I’m seeing big controversy over “THIS WHOLE THING WAS FAKE” and it’s annoying me, so I wanted to say something.

But based on that quote it basically was fake. The game was clearly nowhere near finished and the demo was misleading.

[KvallyX]

@SilentJay76

But based on that quote it basically was fake. The game was clearly nowhere near finished and the demo was misleading.

I don’t know either way. Just going by what the dev said. It’s dead anyway.

[Searsy82]

Yeah, its a bit pedantic, but technically what was shown was “real” in that it was in engine and controlled by a human being. But its “fake” as far it wasnt representative of an actual product. It was a currated selection of vertical slices intended to make it look like there was a game.

Either one isnt good after 6 years or whatever.

[CallMeCraig]

@SilentJay76

But based on that quote it basically was fake. The game was clearly nowhere near finished and the demo was misleading.

The quote says how a vertical slice of a game usually works.

[Searsy82]

@CallMeCraig

The quote says how a vertical slice of a game usually works.

And thats fine. Its much less about the vertical slice and much more about…you know…that being all the have after half a decade +