Cervantes
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Post by Cervantes on Feb 12, 2018 16:46:48 GMT
The funny thing is that the game looks ok and, as far as I know, the first entry was very successful (I even have the 3 Lords of Shadow games on Steam, but haven't played yet). It's a very DMC situation: it would be better as its own thing than as part of an established series.
To go back to Nintendon/Miyamoto/Star Fox, that's also what happened to Star Fox Adventures, right? It was just Dinossaur Planet, Shigeru Miyamoto thought the characters were similar to Star Fox, then it became a Star Fox game.
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Post by spidershinobi on Feb 12, 2018 18:53:50 GMT
Those were moments of creativity bankruptcy. Yes, that's what happened to Dinosaur Planet; and I'm only ok with these happening because I remember an old interview with someone from either SEGA or Nintendo saying how the ideas for new games would come before the set of characters or series they are supposed to be in were decided; but this talk should be kept for another time.
As for Lords of Shadow, the first game you got is an easier God of War.
Lords of Shadow 2 reminds me of one funny moment in a podcast, in which Liam (who tested 2014 Thief) mentioned how his team found guilty pleasure in how their game wasn't the worst February 25th release that year.
Mirror of Fate is whatever. I played a demo of that one too, but might as well not have done that.
It's hard to call this set of games "fine" by themselves, if they were better than mediocre I'd even be ok with them being called Castlevania because some of IGA's games were mediocre too, but all Dave Cox's team managed to do was picking the worse parts of other games released in the same decade and frrankensteining them.
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