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Forums - Gaming - Head of Microsoft Studios calls new Killer Instinct a success, says other IPs will return

Still having fun with mine.
A week ago, I had my house full of friends to play KI like old times.
We had Killer Fun...



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Put 80 hours into KI so far. Def my favorite fighting game ive played when it comes to online. Sabrewulf all day! Spinal out in 2 days btw, woo!

Anyways, bring us Banjo, Conker, Jet force Gemini, Viva Pinata, Kameo, or Perfect Dark.




       

Darth Tigris said:

Hahahhaa.

I love platformers and bought Blinx 2 dirt cheap years ago and played a good portion of it before I stopped because I wasn't having as much fun as I thought I would and something in the game was reeeeeally hard and I got stuck (can't remember what it was) so I moved on to other 360 games.  I feel you in sense, but there is ZERO market for platformers or mascot games like that.  After seeing the way most of the community responded to the criminally underrated Nuts and Bolts, I just gave up on one of my favorite genres ever making a comeback outside of Nintendo consoles ...


Nope, I know you're exactly right.  Looking at the sales of recent Ratchet & Sly games on PS3, the market really is cornered on Nintendo consoles with legacy IP's and nothing else...

... but I think there can be success if budgets are just managed correctly and the games are released at the right price (i.e. Sly 4 and Ratchet Nexus were both ~ £30 on release I think).  

Probably just wishful thinking on my part.  I love mascot platformers.  Especially with anthropomorphic animals (except Sonic, which has just never clicked for me).



Would love to see the return of Banjo Kazooie or Conker. To see some variety in the Xbox IPs is always a good thing, it's the one thing I felt was missing with the 360.



Kresnik said:
I'm really glad to hear that. I like it when legacy IP's return.

And yeah, this is about Phantom Dust isn't it? I hope they revive Blinx. For reals.

God, no...



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J_Allard said:
I wish they'd bring back XSN and focus on some nice sports alternatives to stale NFL, NBA, and MLB games. Not to mention return to Links and motherfucking RalliSport Challenge.

Sadly these would probably damage their EA partnership too much.


Some indie devs are trying to do that. Mutant league football or something similar was on Kickstarter. A few others come to mind but cant think of their names.. I would like to see Arch Rivals, Base wars and a few others come back as indie titles



Kresnik said:

Probably just wishful thinking on my part.  I love mascot platformers.  Especially with anthropomorphic animals (except Sonic, which has just never clicked for me).

Perhaps you are not entirely irredeemable after all.



Figgycal said:
Areym said:
I'm glad KI found success, even with its selling style and 6 characters. Wish it could be multiplat so I could give it a shot but no chance in hell that's happening.

Killer Instinct looks like a great game. I wish they had gone with a more traditional release/pricing method instead though.


I never understood why those who weren't interested in the full game didn't just buy the $20 combo pack with all the characters and treat it like a $20 arcade title?

Sure, you can buy it one character at a time but if you wanted a 'normal' game release it was really easy to treat the $20 pack like one.



Good news honestly. If MS keeps this up I may have to rethink my never support a MS console stance.



ListerOfSmeg said:
J_Allard said:
I wish they'd bring back XSN and focus on some nice sports alternatives to stale NFL, NBA, and MLB games. Not to mention return to Links and motherfucking RalliSport Challenge.

Sadly these would probably damage their EA partnership too much.


Some indie devs are trying to do that. Mutant league football or something similar was on Kickstarter. A few others come to mind but cant think of their names.. I would like to see Arch Rivals, Base wars and a few others come back as indie titles

Loved Mutant League Football. The one on KS is Mutant Football League as EA AFAIK owns the originals IP. Would love to see that or Mutant League Hockey return.