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Bluepoint Games Continues to Seemingly Tease Next Project

Bluepoint is back to making more obscure tweets that could be teasing the developer's next project.

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ApocalypseShadow1639d ago (Edited 1639d ago )

Would have been easy pickings if they said "Let strength be granted so the world might be mended." "So the world might be mended."

Sounds like two games though instead of one that they're working on. They are tempted to say but can't say just yet. Holiday announcement coming? A compilation of games?

neutralgamer19921639d ago

I wonder when Sony will announce this acquisition of blue point games. They have grown a lot and you are right they have more projects in the pipeline

DogJosha1639d ago

Imagine a smaller company like Bluepoint walking into Sega asking to make a Skies of Arcadia remake. Sega being a much bigger company would have more bargaining chips, which means they could pressure Bluepoint into a deal that greatly benefits Sega, while still being reasonable for Bluepoint. In that case, the game is more likely to be greenlit by Sega. On the other hand, if they were to be acquired by Sony, Sony would push for certain things like exclusivity, publishing rights, and maybe even some part ownership in the IP. Yes, they may still be able to work out some middle ground and a deal can still be struck, but it isn't nearly as likely as it would have been.

Why would you want to limit Bluepoint as much as possible by having them being acquired by one of the big 3? That means 2 companies will automatically lose remake potentials, and all 3rd party IPs become less likely. I don't know about you, but most of the games I would want remade come from 3rd parties.

Hardiman1638d ago

Hey DogJosha because Sony allows devs to be as creative and imaginative as they want! They have the most talented Studios in the business. Sure things happen nothing is perfect but when the positives greatly outweigh the negatives it's just common sense! If I was a studio that was going to be acquired I'd go with Sony every time!

neutralgamer19921638d ago

Dog

By that logic why did Ms but all those studios? It's business and it's already done only matter of announcement. I said months before insomniac news that Sony bought them and was laughed at. If you think Sony didn't see ms make a big deal out of acquiring those studios just wait till E3. People aren't ready for what's about to come

The days of independent 3rd party are over so now developers have a choice and that is which console maker or publisher do they want to be under. Don't believe me insomniac were one of the most successful and financially stable companies yet they even understand that game development costs keep going up and its a huge risk up self fund

Just wait till reveal of Ps5 and E3

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DogJosha1637d ago

@Hardiman
"Sony allows devs to be as creative and imaginative as they want"
Not true, but I will avoid that topic.
"positives greatly outweigh the negatives it's just common sense"
Right, so why would you want the company to be limited to 1/20th of the library of classic games to be able to remaster? That is the negatives greatly outweighing the positives.

@neutralgamer1992
By what logic? I'm saying the best case scenario is them staying independent. MS buying studios is a perfect example. They pretty much destroyed Rare by acquiring them along with a bunch of other studios. So the question I posed to you guys, I will pose again. Why would you want a studio focused who focuses on remakes to be limited to a single company?
"The days of independent 3rd party are over"
The big 3 don't have infinite spending power. Also, as they acquire studios, people leave those studios and start new studios. Finally, are you saying all I have to do is open my own indie studio and Sony will just start forking over money to me?

neutralgamer19921636d ago

DogJosha

you can't keep bringing up rare again and again(by you i don't mean just you but others) Rare was never the same studio because original members weren't part of acquisition(or not many stayed)

Bluepoint games would have closed it doors had it not been for sony maybe you should look at their history. 3RD party publishers weren't cal;ling them to offer any great working opportunities. SOTC was a huge test for the studio/sony and sony were quite happy i would assume with the result. No matter what anyone says as a publisher sony does provide creative freedom more than others(sony aren't the only ones and that's not what i am saying) and these developers have families to feed so if enough money is thrown their way they have to look at it. Insomniac are the perfect example of that for over 10 years they kept saying no to sony, ms and others. They have stable studio with good amount of money and had enough 3rd party working deals to survive for next few years but they knew moving forward cost of development is going way too high and they can't take chance

ms sony nintendo all have billions to spend on buying new studios so might not be infinite but they have enough to buy EA, UBi and take two

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The Wood1639d ago

Sony should just buy them already

lifeisgamesok1639d ago (Edited 1639d ago )

Here's some games that I think would be great for Bluepoint to remake for the PS5

Resistance 3
Legend of Dragoon
Uncharted 2
Metal Gear Solid
Demon Souls
Killzone 2
Infamous 1 or 2

zsquaresoff1639d ago

Infamous 1 and 2 would be awesome along with metal gear solid 3

lifeisgamesok1639d ago

That would be great. Sony has a lot of older IPs that could be remade to make a big splash

autobotdan1638d ago

They dont do remakes. They do remasters

Elda1638d ago (Edited 1638d ago )

Nope. When a developer takes an original old gen game & build it all over again from the ground up with current gen technology that is a remake.Taking an original old gen game leaving it in it's original form by touching it up with a fresh coat of paint & implementing some textures & upscaling the resolution & the fps while implementing a few other things is a remaster.

BlaqMagiq11638d ago

They remade Shadow of the Colossus from the ground up.

KwietStorm_BLM1638d ago

There's this game called Shadow of the Colossus. You should check it out.

Hardiman1638d ago (Edited 1638d ago )

Remasters are just recoats of paint. Remakes are demolishing and then rebuilding!

autobotdan1638d ago (Edited 1638d ago )

Okay I will have to hunt down and try Shwodow of the Collosus remake

EmperorDalek1638d ago

@Elda - Sure, that's how they're made. But they add literally nothing to the core game. A proper remake should be an entirely new game like Resident Evil 2, otherwise it's just a glorified remaster.

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Spikeantestor1638d ago (Edited 1638d ago )

I'd love a remake of Resistance 3. I got it from Christmas years ago but before I could start playing it my PS3 broke:(

jeremyj29131638d ago

I loved that game so much. I would be so happy if Resistance made a comeback.

lifeisgamesok1638d ago

That sucks :( but yeah a Resistance 3 remade with next generation graphics would be a great addition as a FPS and to test the waters for a Resistance 4 or a spinoff

neutralgamer19921638d ago (Edited 1638d ago )

Rumor has it

Demon souls remake

2nd game is a playstation classic IP

GG 2nd team is remaking socom or rebooting

I think reveal of Ps5 and E3 will be very exciting with some huge blockbuster news

MajorLazer1638d ago

Please, please, please be Demon's Souls

SprigganN4G1637d ago

Sony should buy these 4 IPs from Konami, pay whatever Konami wants for them and let them still use the IP for Pachinko machines only:

Metal Gear
Silent Hill
Castlevania
Zone of the Enders

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Forn1639d ago

The kindling bit obviously makes me think of Souls games.

Enturax1639d ago

The fact you got dislikes proves how many manbabies are using this site.

Or that they don't like dunkey...

LucasRuinedChildhood1638d ago

The joke has gotten a bit old, to be fair

Juusterey1638d ago

oh the horror
imagine 19 manbabies on one website :o
funny how you're saying that in a reply to somebody named Poopmist too

Mr Marvel1638d ago

I know you're joking, but it's just not funny.

jukins1638d ago

I'd like sony Japan to continue. Knack 1 was good but knack 2 was/is one of the most underrated games. Had good platforming fighting puzzles jump in jump out co op and its dynamic difficulty meant anyone could play and get a challenge

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Hedstrom1639d ago

February anouncment along with the Ps5 reveal?

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Is 2K Games actually making FIFA 25, the next “best” entry yet?

FIFA president Gianni Infantino teases the future of FIFA games in a brand-new interview, and NBA 2K24 studio 2K Games might be behind it.

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Cacabunga9h ago(Edited 9h ago)

I truly hope so.. day one buy

Ninver7h ago

Time for a change. Football games haven't evolved much.

Cacabunga7h ago

It’s tough when there is no competition

Abear211h ago

There’s PES and now we’ll have FC25 and FIFA so yes, but it is no longer true, shit is about to get real!

Now if we only had two viable options for Basketball and American football we’d be on to something.

anast6h ago(Edited 6h ago)

The barber shop and roulette wheel are going to be awesome.

Abear211h ago

Pay to win is the new free to play

CrimsonWing696h ago(Edited 6h ago)

It’ll be monetized to all hell, regardless

StormSnooper5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

Hmmm, let’s see how they do. If they riddle it with microtransactions, hell no. Otherwise, I’m excited.

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Sorry George Miller, but you’re wrong about the Mad Max game

George Miller expressed dismay toward the 2015 Mad Max game recently, but Avalanche Studios' take on the lore is still so good to this day.

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lelo2play23h ago

Mad Max is a good game... George Miller should STFU.

-Foxtrot19h ago

I think the funny thing is if Kojima made a Mad Max game it would be so trippy and "out there" I don't think it would feel like Mad Max by the time he's done with it. This is why he's better off with original new IPs.

Kojima seems like a buzz word these film directors use because he's probably the only big name they've heard from the gaming industry.

Wretchedstain13h ago

Article is correct in my opinion, Miller is wrong. That Death Stranding II trailer is bonkers, looking forward to that in itself.

And I agree, unless Mr Kojima wants to change his tune, or laughably, be told what to do, you're right, it wouldn't be Mad Max or close.

porkChop13h ago

Yup, Kojima really doesn't suit Mad Max. Avalanche did a great job though. It looked, felt, and played like what I'd expect from a Mad Max game. I really enjoyed my time with it, and the sand storms were handled incredibly well.

TheGamingHounds12h ago

I never played it but the recent buzz around Mad Max has piqued my interest. Will check it out this year for sure

maelstromb12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

MM is not a perfect game by any means as it was held back by lots of repetitious, standard open-world copy and paste missions, but the devs SO perfectly captured the world, atmosphere, lore and brutality. It also just so happens to boast one of THE best photo modes out there and some of the most impressive explosions I've ever seen in a game to date. The car combat is of course another impressive standout, both vicious and fun. MM is a game which I have revisited multiple times since its release, and now having just seen Furiosa, I can feel it calling me back again.

There's a ton to love there, but I think you'll pickup on the areas where the devs struggled likely due to reigning in the scope, budget and time constraints, leading to an incredibly fun, albeit uneven experience. Though, as mentioned, it's absolutely a game worth experiencing once, and I truly hope you enjoy it. The game really does deserve a sequel.

victorMaje11h ago

Word for word. Exactly this. A lot of fun to be had in there. A true Mad Max game. Sequel can’t come soon enough.

gigoran82h ago

and the fact that they originally had an American voice actor until everyone kicked up a big stink about it?

maelstromb12h ago

Honestly, Kojima would do the game justice, but given his studio's current workload, it's a bit far flung. I could much rather see Bend Studios (Days Gone dev) doing a Mad Max follow-up. I'm playing through DG right now for the first time and I see lots of similarities between the games to where imo Bend could develop an impressive MM sequel.

VersusDMC12h ago

While i like the Mad Max game and think it's underrated...i don't know why people are mad at George Miller for not liking the game based on the IP he created. Especially since a lot of people hated it at release as well looking at that 69% metacritic.

-Foxtrot6h ago

I think the issue is the studio was told by higher ups and most likely himself to make something linear yet when they got a first look at it they didn’t like it and wanted something open world

The head guy was basically like “you’ve just hired an open world dev and forced them to do a linear game yet now you want open world which has just wasted a year of development which we could have done from the start”

I think that’s why people are p****** because of the context the lead dev at Avalanche has given us.

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken16h ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty14h ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken13h ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty11h ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken10h ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0079h ago(Edited 9h ago)

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken8h ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot5h ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto3h ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer1h ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek58m ago(Edited 53m ago)

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek54m ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty31m ago(Edited 30m ago)

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

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Rangerman120823h ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast23h ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit22h ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export20h ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight20318h ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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