Bayonetta dev willing to buy Darksiders... for cheap

I'd be okay with this. Hell, Platinum would probably even make the franchise actually enjoyable instead of a weak Zelda clone.

Posted:4 months ago

THQ is bankrupt, they will sell the franchise to any buyer, 'embarrassing' or not.

Posted:4 months ago

yeah right. THQ would never sell it off for cheap to the Japanese. Do you have any idea how embarrassing it would be for western developers if Platinum made this game into a success. Darksiders 1 was OK, Darksiders 2 sucks.

What? What on earth has it got to do with them being Japanese or otherwise, let alone there being any embarrassment for a 'western' dev, let alone the plural. Care to elaborate?

Posted:4 months ago

Surely if a developer can make something of the IP, it doesnt matter whether its whatever it is.

Posted:4 months ago

Kwan - I find your assumptions quite broad and Harsh...

As a Western Player and Dev, I can think of a few Idiotic moments from the press or individuals slagging off the Japanese market, but It's not wholesale at all. Most people love Asian games companys in the West, Konami, Nintendo, Sony, Capcom, Square-Enix, Sega..

For you to spout that we're all basically Xenophobic because of a few people critisising the fact that some Japanese studios don't understand the Western market well enough, Is not exactly going to go down well on a site like this full of professionals.

And Sega has bought Relic from THQ for the largest bid in the entire auction... So Japanese Publishers have every oppertunity to aquirte western Talent, and I think all western studios these days would welcome a Japanese publisher like they would any other...

Let go of your stereo types and get some perspective. A few articles doesn't mean anything, If you saw the Press bashing EA gets all the time you'd understand It's not just some Asian Publishers who get slammed in the press too for mistakes.

Posted:4 months ago

Darksiders would benefit inmensly if Platinum buys it. Platinum are experts at over the top action games, something that fits in comforatibly with darksiders, because of its characters and lore. I love Darksiders, but found it often pretty slow, the pacing of the game needed improvments. Sometimes Im invested in the story, it moves along well with a few action segmants, then I stumble in an area where i killed all enemies and am hours trying to solve a puzzle, move boxes and stuff around. This is the only thing that I dont like, but if aquired by platinum, it would be great, cause they never allow a player to "stay still" in there games for long. Im not talking about taking away puzzle elements from the game, but the pacing of the game can improve.

Posted:4 months ago

So lets roll this back to the beginning because I think we've veered off course a bit.
Because there was a twitter-based comment of "we wanna buy it on the cheap" rather than an official auction bid from Platinum that is hard to take seriously western press and developers are inherently racist? Sorry you feel that way, but I think a couple of snide media comments about the supposed 'decline of the Japanese industry' or CliffyB moaning about Res doesn't really underline the argument. The British Gaming Industry has been getting a kicking for decades along these lines with only some of it justified. Pretty sure all devs get equal kickings, not just Japanese ones.

Posted:4 months ago

So tell me how do you think I feel when the western press attack Japanese developers and the entire industry as a whole?

Because even high profile Japanese developers have been criticizing the Japanese gaming industry because of how they have made very little advancement in their products, while the rest of the world is evolving the industry. Platinum Games is one of the few examples of a Japanese company that's not afraid to try different things and expand for a wider audience.

I think you're the only one with any xenophobia problems here.

Posted:4 months ago

If the Japanese were to buy this game and make it successful. Then (as a western developer) my embarrassment would be so great, I would have no choice but to carry out seppuku.

Posted:4 months ago

How posts here on GamesIndustry have fallen :(. If this keeps up, I'll have to abandon this site, just like the ones before it.

On-topic - *someone* needs to pick up Darksiders. Surely the IP has some value? Heck, I'll put in a bid for it!

Posted:4 months ago

@ Michael Shamgar: Just ignore the posts, as comments are freedom of speech, if you don't like them, don't get involved in them :)

Posted:4 months ago

DarkSiders is an IP with potential and Platinum could do nice things with it if they really wanted to grab it.
i think the "buy it on the cheap" comment was a humorous attempt! it has been given ludicrous proportions.

Posted:4 months ago

I'm not sure of the details of this bidding process... But surely there must have been some starting bid set? Perhaps that was set too high? Otherwise I could have bought the IP of Darksiders for $100? That would be crazy.

Posted:4 months ago

@Ylannis I think he really meant what he said. Platinum Games is a middle-size developer, not publisher. They still need SEGA and Nintendo for publishing their games. I don't think they have enough money to buy another IP let alone entire studio. I think Inaba-san really feel sorry for Darksider and want to keep the IP alive but his company just doesn't have enough money to spend.

Edited 1 times. Last edit by Nuttachai Tipprasert on 25th January 2013 1:01am

Posted:4 months ago