Free Radical is gong to get re-killed by Embracer that revived it in the first place.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/embracers-timesplitters-studio-free-radical-faces-closure/
Free Radical is gong to get re-killed by Embracer that revived it in the first place.
Fuck this gay earth
You just ruined my morning, thanks
What was the point of Embracer "saving" all those old IPs just to shelf 'em again?
>What was the point of Embracer "saving" all those old IPs just to shelf 'em again?
sell them to arabs for 2 billion dollars Im not joking
And I bought in on the good news of them "saving" Deus Ex from Squeenix. More likely it'll be shelved or put into some other company's IP horde.
That's all IPs are now. A Dragon's Horde to attract the gullible nostalgic boomer when it's time to make easy money from a remaster/remake/reboot/sequel/whatever.
All they need to do is remake Deus Ex 1, not have it suck and BOOM, instant money and praise.
Deus Ex does not need a remake, it's already perfect.
True dat, but I'd really dig a GOOD modern console port of the first one
Source?
I'm just using it as an example.
>All they need to do is remake Deus Ex 1, not have it suck
>not have it suck
That's a huge fucking ask from the industry
They expanded quickly with money they didn't actually have and expected their big projects like nuSaints Row which flopped and the Saudi deal that fell through to pay for it afterwards.
Just typical "to the moon or bust" business of the 21st century.
Seems like the Saints Row flop has saved us all from a veritable zombie apocalypse of "revived" franchises.
I guess something good came from it after all.
The Spongebob and Destroy All Humans remakes were good.
Why do you hate fun?
I think there's a reason why they're called Embracer
That's an insult to Death, he should sue.
It was an investment. They are a holding firm not a charity. Anything they said like that was lip service. I'm worried about Crystal dynamics and Eidos now. Xbox will probably buy CD though if that happens since they are working on perfect dark already
Either they were drinking the Kool-Aid and genuinely believed that people wanted bullshit like nuSaint's Row, or they just expected the free money to keep rolling in forever. That describes pretty much every company in the industry right now.
They can't create, they need new and 'frash' IPs to spread their disease. Their problem was timing, the funds are a little more diluted and less direct than before these days.
Hoping to god one of them could turn into a huge ass hit to subsidize weaker/more average performing titles.
The problem was that it took forever for shit like Dead Island 2 or Remnant 2 to happen and they weren't happening in a way big enough to offset fuckups.
If the producers hadn't fucked with Saints Row' tone and made them go for the wacky friendship shit and if it hadn't come out in such a buggy as fuck state it probably could've done well enough to be another big seller much like how SR3 was the last thing keeping the original THQ above water for a while.
Payday 3 should've been another cushion for them, but the botched launch probably killed that and now they're going to be playing rehab for that if not circling the drain.
The Spongebob game didn't do as hot as they could've and Jagged Alliance 3, a fucking strategy game, isn't exactly the best thing to pin your quarterly hopes on.
Right now their last big hail mary in the pipeline for the forseeable future is the Alone in the Dark reboot, which they pushed back to avoid Alan Wake 2 and the bloodbath of August to November launch season.
In a perfect world, Saber Interactive could grab the Duke Nukem IP and haul ass out of there, maybe get a sweetheart deal with game pass to keep the lights on to chug out indie-to-AA scale projects.
>Southern Gothic horror game
>Guy Davis monster designs
I'd really appreciate it if this was good, guys. Please.
>MC is a hollywood actor
>please be good
think again
I mean it's David Harbour and Jodie Comer, they're not grabbing fucking Ryan Gosling or Chris Evans. It's more "hey we got those guys from those shows you liked for this genre thing" rather than "lmao Jon Snow in Call of Duty"-tier stunt casting.
keep telling yourself that, retard
they bought bunch of AA developers and expected AAA money
Saving? Who ever said Embracer was saving them? Embracers' whole plan was to purchase IPs and Devs to look appealing to investors and other bigger companies so they could sell themselves off for a ton of cash. They fucked that up when they were far far far too big to be considered an option of being bought by anyone. so they cannibalized themselves in order to not go belly up.
They are just assets like any other investment.
Its a sign we all need to grow up. We should have outgrew video games long ago. I know you all might not want to hear this but things will only get worse anyways. You will have no choice but to hate video games in time unless you wise up now.
nah I'm gonna keep playing vidya. Self loathing nagger.
TS was my favourite series fir the duration of its life, but I can't see it translating to the modern day at all.
You don't need to translate it.
Just port the games to PC in a HD collection or something
Then why bother if it is not a new installment? Just emulate.
Online multiplayer on PC.
Do you hate fun?
These games would need an entire rework with mouse controls. This isn't the simple job you think it is.
A Timesplitters 2 PC Port already exists within Homefront the revolution. Besides a few bugs its pretty much flawless with mouse controls
Sure, but the game usbt designed in a way that it will be balanced and good with online multilayer using louse controls. I'm not saying it can't physically function.
Overwatch is nothing like TS in terms of gameplay or tone.
>Post series that flopped and is only alive due porn
Anon....
Timesplitters actually had a story and single-player campaign, anon
Ah jesus.
Unfortunately if it was brought back it'd just be called a Fortnite ripoff because that's basically what the cast looks like.
so there is literally not a single non japanese game to look forward to
What if Sony bought FR and revived TimeSplitters as a fun competitor to Halo and CoD?
Didn't they put these devs to work already? On Haze.
That was FR themselves, and Ubisoft just published it.
Sony in their infinite wisdom decided to make a deal with Ubisoft to make Haze exclusive, you have to understand that the PS3 was starving for games in its first few years.
It's not the same story as Lair, for example, which was funded by Sony.
>Sony
It'll turn into a dull movie game. But maybe they could use Idris Elba hot off Phantom Liberty to play Cortez, that would be kinda neat and I can see it work.
But beyond that it'll be dull or crap.
Why bother when they have other ips that they could use but rather leave dead.
Like what? Sony doesn't have any shooter IP that is as good as TimeSplitters was.
>killzone
worse
>socom
worse
>syphon filter
worse
>resistance
worse
>warhawk
worse
>mag
worse
I didn't say they were good. But why spend money on something when you have dead ips you could use.
Ever heard of Haze?
Have you?
Anon, do you remember what happened to Killzone and Resistance?
They stopped selling, and Sony put the studios on better projects.
They never sold well to begin with
They became world wide phenomenal hits still releasing solid entries to this day
Fuck everything. At least we still have Rewind...
Rewind is dead, they're posting an update only once a year.
They should've stuck to the original plan of remaking only the multiplayer and only after it's finished, start the work on the other game modes.
>Rewind
You mean that community project thats like what 10 years in development by now? That shit aint coming out anon.
exactly. they're too busy banning people on discord and launching witchunts against developers that get any work done.
>Resurrecting Free Radical just to kill them off again
Why did I ever get my hopes up? Like fuckin hell they could have at least put out an HD collection before pulling the plug. Fuck Embracer.
Did anything ever improve or get fixed with that TS2 port in Homefront?
Haven't played that, what's wrong with it?
Couple of things off the top of my head - I think things like reaper splitters crashed it for some reason, graphical things like laser grids appearing pitch black, and HUD elements not scaling properly.
who cares, not like they were going to do anything with the IP anyways.
just wait for the Rewind team to release something in the coming years
>not like they were going to do anything with the IP anyways
They brought back the heads of the original Free Radical, put together a new team and everything. They WERE going to do something, but Embracer's incompetence means FR now has to be sacrificed to protect the suits that put Embracer in the red with trash like the Saints Row reboot.
I mean anon, NOBODY is really giving a shit for a good chunk of the classic IPs people LOVED when we were younger. Most companies just sit on them to horde them away from others in case THEY get successful with it where they couldn't.
To hear someone TRYING to bring 'em back in a substantial way was hope enough. And now here they are just casually ending it all because they pumped too big and now have to dump themselves to stay solvent.
Copyright should end, the enterteinment industry should be a free for all, atleast that would make everything game
Embracer has been a cancer on the industry. Fuck em.
just played future perfect yesterday while testing the xbox emulator, man that game was quirky as fuck. the gun variety, the characters.
>by Embracer that revived it in the first place
Embracer just hold licenses
Figures, this franchise is to good for this gay earth.
>heterosexual earth
ftfy since gay people actually like videogames
serves them right for not making time splitters for 20 years fucking idiots, name one game these morons have made worth a wet fart since
>caring about a company that hasn't made a game since the deathrows of the PS2
lol.
>they had David Doak and Steve Ellis working on it
>character designs looked decent, pic related, leak from their office
>David Doak seemed as based as ever. when he was asked in a recent interview what he plays, he said he loved Outer Wilds, Baba Is You and just plays indie stuff
I hate this industry
timesplitters robots are always so cool
They would have sent it off to Sweet Baby or some other trannies and it would have been butchered anyway. That white girl with the chains and the skirt? No way, not allowed.
Nigga shut up, those fuckers have worked on like 10 games. They ain't shit.
>those fuckers have worked on like 10 games
Anon they dont announce every single game they work on in their website. Its far more than 10, the bigger issue is that their hands are all over every major release.
remember kids all but the multiplayer of Timesplitters 2 is hidden in Homefront: The Revolution and theres a mod on the steam community page that makes accessing it easier.
>remember kids all but the multiplayer of Timesplitters 2 is hidden in Homefront: The Revolution
Why?
easter egg, most of Dambusters (the devs of Homefront: The Revolution) are ex-Free Radical, and the publisher owns the rights to TimeSplitters.
>most of what people even remember about Homefront is that the second game has fucking Timesplitters in it
https://github.com/HFTSRedux/TS2Redux
RELEASE THE HD TRILOGY ON PC YOU COWARDS
All I need is a comprehensive TimeSplitters game that includes all the campaign challenges/story missions, characters, maps, and weapons from all three games with online multiplayer. Don't just remake them individually, make them all one connected product. A complete collection of sorts with everything mixed together. I'm torn if I'd just want the level editor 1:1 ported/recreated or for them to change it up to something more advanced.
see
and nothing of value was lost
Proof?
Embracer is really tugging on my cock and that makes me mad!
>spending money you didn’t have yet
>now you get to shut down companies you bought and fire hundreds if not thousands of people
Place your bets, which company is next down the embracer chopping block?
I don't want a remake, i want a remaster.
Something akin to the Nightdive stuff, where they get the original game, and patch it up so it runs at modern resolutions/widescreen/framerates with quality-of-life changes.
I don't want HD remade models or levels.
Thank god. One less corpse to desecrate. TimeSplitters was awesome -- you know what wouldn't be awesome? A new TimeSplitters game adjusted for 2023.
Alright so I've decided on the method
I'm going to fumigate myself while masturbating to my robot wife
Can't think of a better way to kill myself
How does Saints Row happen.
Does no one really not see the writing on the wall for that many years?
Suits really want to believe that "untapped demographics" meme is real despite it failing constantly in case of vidya.
Suits who think that mentally ill self hating whites,blacks and other twitter golems are majority of consumer base plus managements that are filled with leftists who push for retarded shit. Reminder that Volitions CEO openly said that they are happy about making Saints "diverse" when series always had literally almost every single ethnicity/race represented and most popular character is a fucking asian gangster lol.
Fuck Embracer. As bad as EA.
I'm so fucking mad you have no idea
THEY WEREN'T EVEN GIVEN A FUCKING CHANCE TO RELEASE THE GAME
TS2 multiplayer with the bros was so based, I will miss it...
Kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me
kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me kill me
I liked timesplitters but I've been hearing about their new game for like 10 years now with no result, what the fuck have they been doing all this time?
>I liked timesplitters but I've been hearing about their new game for like 10 years now with no result, what the fuck have they been doing all this time?
you're getting confused
Timesplitters: Rewind was announced a decade ago, it had NONE of the original team behind it, and was basically an authorized fan project to re-release a multiplayer-only version of Future Perfect, and cut all the single player missions
this project was an attempt by Crytek trying to foster goodwill, because they bought Free Radical and then put them to work on boring military FPS slop and fans hated it, so they just went "here's a bone you fucking losers"
this project STILL has not seen the light of day, it's just dead without being officially cancelled
what we are lamenting is that 2 years ago Embracer Group bought Free Radical, including a LOT of the old team, and let them work on a new official Timesplitters 4 (which was in production back when FR died in 2009), now we are being told that they are being killed again BEFORE WE EVEN SAW A TRAILER of what they had been working on the last couple of years
this is happening because Embracer Group were gearing up to be bought by Saudi's like SNK was, but then the deal fell through and now they are scrambling to cut costs anywhere they can
it's like a slap in the face for fans, who have now been waiting 18 years for a new installment. We were given a glimmer of hope after we thought all hope was lost, and now it's being ripped away again because LOL CAPITALISM
>that image
Hey anon.
You just ruined my week. Fuck you.
I know the meme of Ganker hates vidya is strong, but my heart fucking loved these games. I'm super fucking sad to have a hope of a potentially decent revival squashed. Might have sucked but I was willing to give it a chance.
Welp, all up to PD now.
the Perfect Dark reboot is third-person and made under nu-Microsoft with a 'AAAA' budget. don't expect much
>third-person
They already fucking said it was an FPS.
wrong
Saints Row reboot and its consequences has been disastrous.
Bruh Embracer was always fucked before Saints Row. If anything it's just an unintentional casualty of the Saudi investment/Tencent race.
Why the FUCK did time splitters not become the standard for shooters on console? It feels great in the hands, responsive with just enough movement speed and the maps are extremely fun. Hell even it's zombie levels were better than just raw tower defence style.
someone from the dev team should release the source code for all their games before they get shut down
embracers collapse was planned, ms is going to buy them and have a bazillion more IPs
None of you seem to realize that TS was a product of its time and it could never work in the modern world. There is literally no fucking way they'd ever release a game as based as TS1-3 again, because some corporate suit would eventually show up and say "no, you can't have this character's tits be that big", or "no, you can't have cortez joke about looking up a highschool girl's skirt". Even if they could somehow keep all of the lewdity and humor intact, you think you're going to get a full game like the first 3? TSFP had 150 characters, 40 guns, etc. There is no chance in hell that if TS4 came out, it would be anything other than a glorified Fortnite with all of the content hidden behind microtransactions. This is to say nothing of how they'd inevitably chance the core gameplay, adding shit like sprinting, ironsights etc. If TS4 ever did some out, it would be some cucked, neutered shit with censored tits, DLC and Call of Duty gameplay. Just appreciate the fact we got 3 amazing games and move on. You are never getting the TS4 you want.
this. honestly we should've gatekept TS harder. it should've remained our little secret. i guarantee most of the people that played these games ended up playing them like 10+ years after the fact because their favorite soiface on youtube did a muh hidden gums episode about TS. nobody ever appreciated based TS until now, and now it's too late.
I'm literally the Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had, because I wasn't aware they were revived until this thread.
Thanks.
What studios is Embracer even going to keep at this point? They'll probably sell off Gearbox and Crystal Dynamics
It’s remarkable the Square Enix was the company that came out ahead of the sale in the end.
>FR is basically dead
>TS Rewind is still a fucking sperm in the metaphorical development ballsack, not even in purgatory, and will likely remain that way for a long time
Unpleasant outcome.
I hat the antichrist
This would have been the first western game in 11 years I would be willing to pay money for
There is no God we live on a rotting corpse, life is suffering
I'm getting ready to drink away the pain
>we never got to see mr. space again
it's so over
Every day in clown world