My first E3 2015 prediction! A return to darkness...

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Augen said:

Essentially reports were that Silicon Knights lived off the reputation of Eternal Darkness and that Nintendo helped that project quite a bit. See also the MGS remake.  

They made Too Human with Microsoft, which I'm pretty sure bombed critically and sales wise.  Then they went to Activision and made X-Men: Destiny and that was a disaster of a title.

Point is I loved Eternal Darkness, but it is clear that Silicon Knights got desperate after two major bombs and tried to drum up support and the crowd funding effort failed while being plagued by bad press about reports within the studio and people who run it.  At this stage I'd rather someone else try to mimic the best elements of Etenral Darkness and Silicon Knights just go away.

Even really good developers make duds here and there:

High Voltage (developed Injustice and MKX) -- see all the shovelware they made before

Telltale (Walking Dead) -- see all the CSI 

Platinum Games (Bayonetta and others) -- Legend of Korra

 

There's probably a very good reason the likes Miyamoto and Kojima thought highly enough of the team to work with them in the first place.