Bulletstorm Dev's Canceled Project Way More Serious

[Cain_Zeros]

That looks damn cool. Shame it got cancelled, because really... Damn.

 

[Moeez]

"I'd much rather throw hundreds of foes onto cacti and wing them around with an electric whip than visit that boarded-up house anyway." - Tom Goldman

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And this is why we can't have good things.

Do people really hate adventure games this much? Is it that niche to the point you see a writer on a respectable gaming website berate an entire genre of games?

Spoiler

Or was that a joke? Sarcasm doesn't work in text, Tom Goldman.

 

[Pifflestick]

Thank you for another attack on my faith in humanity... Seriously? That looks far more interesting than Bulletstorm. I see Bulletstorm and I think "Oh great, another fucking shooter with a small dose of comedy. Whoopty fucking doo." I see even this little information on Come Midnight and I think "Something classy and stylish in an old-timey way in the survival horror genre? Count me in!" But no, we get shooting enemies in the nards. Thank you videogame industry and thank you humanity, I hope your fucking proud of yourselves.

 

[Arkley]

What the fuck, guys? Bulletstorm looks great and all, but I'd much rather have the cancelled game. The tone and atmosphere look incredible, both survival horror games and games set in that particular era are rare, and as good as Bulletstorm looks, we don't really need another off-the-wall shooter.

It's true we don't know anything about how Come Midnight would have played, but that trailer alone had classy, elegant, unique era atmosphere in spades.

But whatever. Shooting enemies in the junk with projectile drills, right?

Right?

Yeah.

 

[duchaked]

Thinking something more along the lines of Heavy Rain, but without all the damn QTEs

So... just a start menu?

...game of the year!

 

[Player Two]

This might sound odd, but looking back, you find a lot of killer development studios that have arced between juvenile gore and more serious gaming. id software originally intended Quake to be more like an RPG with a continuous world, for example. I think People Can Fly (can someone please bring an acronym into general use?) could have really pulled a survival horror game off. A Noir theme would have been nice too, but eh... I'm still looking forward to Bulletstorm. I mean, it's crude and nasty and childish... but I still think it'll deliver fun in spades.

 

[Retardinator]

I want more noir games. Gritty, sepia toned realism with an alcoholic PI that was removed from the force for [that one incident]. I guess I just want a cinematic game that will make me think with cynical undertones about life, and to pretend to be Bogart.

I agree. As much as I like LA Noire, I still can't get over the fact that it lacks Bogart.

What the fuck, guys? Bulletstorm looks great and all, but I'd much rather have the cancelled game. The tone and atmosphere look incredible, both survival horror games and games set in that particular era are rare, and as good as Bulletstorm looks, we don't really need another off-the-wall shooter.

It's true we don't know anything about how Come Midnight would have played, but that trailer alone had classy, elegant, unique era atmosphere in spades.

But whatever. Shooting enemies in the junk with projectile drills, right?

Right?

Yeah.

And this. Escapist seems hyped over yet another FPS with a dose of "humor".

 

[Terramax]

Looks to me like a point and click adventure like Grey Matter or And Then There Were None the game.

 

[josemlopes]

In all seriousness, the market is already saturated with failures in survival horror at this point. Maybe not always sale-wise, but with regard to reception...

No, the marked is saturated with flesh coloured action games.

Actual survival horror games are few and far between.

It is getting now with the Serious Sam remakes, Duke Nukem Forever and Bulletstorm because they disappeared for a long time. I cant say much about their game, for me if the game involved too much action it would be a failure and it would be just like any other survival horror games. Since the video doesnt show gameplay I cant judge on that.

 

[Cursed Frogurt]

Does anyone else remember that game Campfire that People Can Fly was working on for last-gen consoles back in 2003? It was a [survival] horror game where you played as a variety of slasher villains. You were rewarded for scaring your victims before killing them, ala cheesy horror-movie style.

Even though I'm not a fan of slasher horror movies, the concept just sounded so original. I was very disappointed that it was canceled and how every M.I.A. videogame list I see never mentions it.

 

[Peter Pottorff]

Now I'm sad because that looked so cool with the noir feel.

 

[milkkart]

just watched the bulletstorm trailer and at the start i was like oh fuck no i can't take any more cover based shooters but then it turned out to be a pretty great parody of stuff like GoW and army of two. now im actually torn as to which id rather they had gone ahead with.