Platinum Games Shows Interest In The Darksiders Franchise

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BlkPaladin said:

Vigil was appearently shuttered by the one who was in charge of the sale, it was a one shot for development teams since they need to get paided and they will not get paid by the bank in charge of the sell off. Platinum has contacted them to see if some of them wanted to work at Platinum. The IP will go for cheap. The cheapest IP in the first sales went for a little over 500k, which probally indicate the starting bid was specified as 500k. So the new starting bid will be a lot lower than that in the second sale so someone will buy it.

As zarx pointed in another thread, those 500k are not a real indication of the real price of the IP. The reason is that the buyers were Crytek, who are developing Homefront 2 for them and, given their situation, THQ probably owed them several pays. So those 500k could be the real pricew of the IP minus the money THQ owed to Crytek (more or less).

OT: While I'd like to see the story going on with the other 2 horsemen, I'll go against the rest and say that I don't really like the idea of Platinum being in charge of them.

Mind you, I know they are a bunch or very talented and very good developers, but even though their games have some resemblance to Darksiders, there are many more things that set them apart: the genre (action/hack'n'slash vs action/adventure), the pacing, the art style, etc.

I'm not sure a Darksiders game developed by Platinum would feel and play like the other two previous games.