Hyenas - The "Overwatch killer" by Creative Assembly

[DOUBLE_WHEEL]

It's not about money necessarily, mass layoffs will recoup losses. It's a matter of reputations and concern for the stability of sales of future products.
Maybe even some of the narrow-eyed overlords got their eyes widened by WHAT was created for this time and this money.

I wonder if Sega or CA are able to use Hyenas as a tax write off like WB did with Batgirl?

 

[Big moth tiddies]

It's more that the western side of game development has gotten so bad since the last decade, that I would trust far more the Japanese themselves (and Asians too) to make a western-stylized game.

Japs chasing westernized style games ended up being a terrible business move.
You had a few hits here and there, such as Lost Planet, but looking at garbo like Dark Void, Bionic Commando, Lost Planet 2 and 3, and Remember Me (which ironically almost everyone forgets until they're reminded of.) shows their western campaign bullshit flopped and flopped hard. Don't even get me started on that shitty Steel Battalion kinect game.

Square Enix had a similar run of retardation, leading the special needs charge with titles such as Front Mission Evolved, the surprisingly good Quantum Conundrum, and the 3rd Birthday, which was heavily coordinated reputation assassination of the Parasite Eve series. A game that eschews everything including the main character and mechanics to make a shitty third person shooter on the psp, a console that I'd rather bite my fingers off than try and play a shooter on.

Square was so convinced that jappy games were done and over with, they decided not to publish Bravely Default in the west, so Nintendo did and when it sold like crazy and they were left watching Nintendo rake in the money, it finally kicked them in the ass enough to realize people still wanted their Grindan Adventures and the like. Other companies did shit like this too such as Konami and it all went sideways.

To break this down succinctly, Japs already tried this and it flopped super hard, and if they try it again, it's gonna be 2008-2012 all over again.

No thank you.

I wonder if Sega or CA are able to use Hyenas as a tax write off like WB did with Batgirl?

That's exactly why they're shitcanning it. Just like the star wars hotel and getting batgirl to a decent state, I'd cost less to just throw it in the trash and fill out a tax form.

 

[think]

I remember making fun of this title around a year ago. I believe it was archived because it was under NDA at the time and some sperg uploaded gameplay of an alpha test. Jump to a minute in to skip the intro.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220818204416/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq7iXpn0BHw

 

[dame dudi jench]

If you're willing to do turn based battles there's Field of Glory II + FG:Empires combo, but you need 2 games to have decent campaign and battles.

I created an account just to say do this, if price is an issue wait for an Xmas sale, but this is the best 4x experience out there, they have the bad boy and Roman civil war mechanics paradox wished they could design.

 

[Fougaro]

"JOIN THE ACK!" indeed.

Reminder that in a world that has Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2, there is absolutely no reason for any other shooter to exist. End of story! And if you unironically enjoy Overwatch aside from the porn, there is a good reason why your parents have disowned you.

Also, muscle chicks are best chicks. Eat me! Manlets keep coping!

 

[LettuceMan]

Man what the fuck is going on at Sega RTS studios? Relic fagged up Dawn of War 3 and (apparently) Company of Heroes 3, and CA always had issues with fan relations.

And apparently saw how Blizzard is completely fumbling Overwatch and thought yeah we can do better. Clown show all around.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

They picked "Hyenas" based on the assumption that they're scavenging animals, which fits the game's premise of a bunch of retards scavenging the Earth's remains for funko pops.

However, that is incorrect, because hyenas are not fucking scavenging animals.

Also "Join the pack" is retarded because a group of hyenas is called a crackle, or clan.

JOIN
THE
CLAN

Doesn't sound good

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

They are hot but D.Va is best girl and always will be.


I fucking swear, musclegirls always seem to out the most closeted faggots in the weirdest way possible. What's wrong with a woman being physically fit? Do you want to fuck an anorexic stick or a fat lard?

As far as I'm aware musclegirls don't exist unless a woman specifically goes out of her way to become one. All of the athletic women I've known have been a bit toned, but they didn't look like even an average weightlifter. Like you'd never look at one and say "holy shit she's ripped." They just look healthier.

So musclegirls are gay

 

[Prööt :DD]

Hopefully CA learns their fucking lesson and goes back to making more total war. I want them to make more content for WH3 not more janny tranny looter shooters.

The Monkey's Paw curls its finger
Enjoy Total War: Pharoah
we wuz kaaaaaaaaangz

 

[Fields Of Rye]

As far as I'm aware musclegirls don't exist unless a woman specifically goes out of her way to become one. All of the athletic women I've known have been a bit toned, but they didn't look like even an average weightlifter. Like you'd never look at one and say "holy shit she's ripped." They just look healthier.

So musclegirls are gay

I did crew in highschool, I was the Coxswain for a heavyweight woman’s 8. Let me tell you buddy, all those women looked like tellytubbies crossed with Oompa Loompas. . Built like an hourglass and not in a sexy way. There’s athletic, and then there’s muscular, and gay men want to fuck neither. Muscle girl dudes like their girls pretty, but they like their pretty pretty ugly. Let them keep them.

 

[Quijibo69]

This looked like the new Saints Row game in Overwatch form. No wonder they canned it!

 

[Doppelmonger]

How bad does a game need to do in closed beta to get the plug pulled?

Ask Amazon, they even unlaunched this game

 

[Snekposter]

(apparently) Company of Heroes 3

There were exactly six prototype Black Princes made, they didn't leave the workshops until May of 1945, and here's one chilling in Italy next to one of the Cruiser tanks, a Crusader I believe. This image that is an abomination against all good sense of anything pretending to be historical was copy/pasted from the game's Steam page. This is somehow not the worst thing they have done with the game.

But hey, at least despite the bugs and balance issues you can always buy some fucking skins.

 

[Slimy Time]

JOIN
THE
CLAN

Doesn't sound good

How about
SUCK
THE
TRANNY
DICK

 

[ChefKiss]

How bad does a game need to do in closed beta to get the plug pulled?

I hear the beta had 600 players. Not 600 peak, 600 total. They were giving keys to anyone who asked but nobody even wanted to try it for free

Man what the fuck is going on at Sega RTS studios? Relic fagged up Dawn of War 3 and (apparently) Company of Heroes 3, and CA always had issues with fan relations.

And apparently saw how Blizzard is completely fumbling Overwatch and thought yeah we can do better. Clown show all around.

The same thing happening at every western studio, they hired game journalists and diversity hires and pretended they were equally good as any developer

 

[Linger Longer]

Goddamn, trashing vidya in October! Oh yeah boys, I'm thinking we're BACK.

 

[BoomerSperg1922]

You wouldn't believe the amount of critical infrastructure that's running on 60's tech that barely anyone still alive knows how to maintain let alone build again. This stuff is ancient but its reliable, almost bulletproof, and it was a huge investment which means it would take a similar if not bigger investment to replace with a more modern but unproven version so its left alone, "not broken, don't fix it".

One particular case I know is of a major industrial facility (wont powerlevel) that needed to fix systems that were written in FORTRAN which is even older than COBOL. The only guy still alive who had the knowledge to fix that had been retired for nearly 30 years, they sent company reps to find him camping near a lake only for him to tell them "I'm done with that", I shit you not its like something out of an action movie when they go looking for the hero except the guy was a literal pocket protector-wearing square glasses nerd from the space age.

I had an old client tell me a funny story about an older friend of his. Shortly after he retired, they hired a bunch of college graduates to come put in a new system (can't remember the specifics, I think it was about tracking production) and modernize the manufacturing plant he worked at. Unsurprisingly, they were so confident that they completely removed the old system first. Even more unsurprisingly, the new system fucked up seconds after it was booted up and sent everyone into a panic because this wasn't something that could be easily replaced.

They hired back the old guy at more than three times his previous, considerable salary and he ran the thing using pencil and paper like he did it before the old system had even been put into place for 2 years before they got a new system setup again, he was literally the only person alive who still knew how to do it without computers.

Modern management is composed of braindead retards propped up by an even more braindead bloated HR department, which shouldn't even exist.

 

[Billy_Sama!]

If I give some credit to Sega, most companies would have allowed Hyenas to be released, at least they put a bullet in it before it did more damage being released.

 

[Rebel Wilson]

Complex systems wont survive the competency crisis.

 

[A Sentient Cloud]

Holy shit words words words words words more words. This is some jerkoff FPS, not The Brothers Karamazov. Just tell us what roles and abilities of these discount losers are.

Complain about Overwatch all you want but THIS is how you do a character reveal:

Ten seconds each and you get an excellent sense of each character, their name, their personality, their nationality if that matters, and their movesets. And the game looks exciting! Imagine that!