Probably. Publishers tend to retain rights to that sort of thing.Secret world leader (shhh) said:
Report: Rockstar Saved LA Noire, Won't Work With Team Bondi Again
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Blah blah blah... La Noire has enough prestige points and popularity chips that they'll be able to find SOMEONE willing to bankroll a sequel and publish it. Most likely someone high up. Someone desperate. Someone like, "Activision."
We haven't seen the end of LA Noire at all. Hopefully.
We haven't seen the end of LA Noire at all. Hopefully.
EA was their first publisher. They dropped them in 2008-2009. The games been in development since 2005.Riobux said:
I haven't gotten a chance to play LA Noire yet, but from what I've heard people were excited to see a sequel expand on the game's new ideas and fix mistakes and...
lol guess that's not happening. well the sequel might, but without Rockstar...I dunno Team Bondi. with McNamara seemingly trying to outdo Kotick...haha
lol guess that's not happening. well the sequel might, but without Rockstar...I dunno Team Bondi. with McNamara seemingly trying to outdo Kotick...haha
Well the main reason was probably that Bondi is a small name, whereas Rockstar have many AAA titles under their belt. But that doesn't change the fact that Bondi seem decidedly scummy.dt61 said:
I remember while I was at Rockstar, someone there was joking that David Jaffe makes great games, but he is completely insufferable personality-wise, whereas on the other hand, Brendan McNamara, who was leading LA Noire in a terrible direction, was probably the nicest person imaginable. I guess he was wrong.
Here's my question. What role does 2K play? Rockstar is apparently a division of Take-Two Interactive, so are they just a publishing arm of 2K Games, or are they under 2K games? What's the schematic of the hierarchy of publishers and developers? Wait, is Take-Two (who owns 2K) actually also 2K or is 2K a... oh god I'm so confused. ._.'
It could have been another *shriek* DUKE NUKEM FOREVER! ...thank god for Rockstar I guess.JourneyThroughHell said:
Well, in all honestly, I wasn't that excited about this game as when, let's say, Red Dead Redemption came out. I played both once and I loved RDD at once. LA Noire? Eh, not so much. Yahtzee is right; cardboard figures with really realistic faces. And perhaps that one of its main features; one of the first games to use real people to animate faces and expressions. I also assume that was all Rockstar and not Team Bondi.
So...I predict that if there is a LA Noire 2, it will:
-Look crappier
-It will be shorter
-Less things to do
-Much less compelling story
-It will just be a big pile of shit
Now, from my amateur point of view, I would imagine doing a sequel shouldn't be so hard. After all, Rockstar already gave them everything they needed. For a sequel, all they need to do is tweak the plot and characters a little bit and presto! It's done. If Team Bondi manages to do it right, they will redeem themselves. If they don't, well, that will just prove how awesome Rockstar is and lame they always were.
So...I predict that if there is a LA Noire 2, it will:
-Look crappier
-It will be shorter
-Less things to do
-Much less compelling story
-It will just be a big pile of shit
Now, from my amateur point of view, I would imagine doing a sequel shouldn't be so hard. After all, Rockstar already gave them everything they needed. For a sequel, all they need to do is tweak the plot and characters a little bit and presto! It's done. If Team Bondi manages to do it right, they will redeem themselves. If they don't, well, that will just prove how awesome Rockstar is and lame they always were.
They were in it for the great game idea not the in house developer soap dramaFursnake said:
OT: I just hope Bondi employees jump ship while they still got the fame to carry them to a better studio.
Power changes people, it's possible McNamara is a great person to know, but horrible in management role where he dictates the rules, kinda like those geeks in school who people think are nice because they lack assertion and let everyone walk all over them, then when they get a modicum of power they treat others the same way as they never really aquired leadership skills so can only treat people the only way that's familiar to them: like how other people bullied them before.ZeroDotZero said:
That was just an example of how people can change in leadership roles, I don't know McNamara so can only make guesses though.
I can honestly see this.
There were some terrible design and gameplay choices made in this game, it's not hard to see where they failed.
I do hope they manage to overhaul the game and make a modern day sequel or something. It had such good potential.
For some reason I can't get Josh Hartnett out of my head for a detective role in the Bronx.
[sub]Then again, I can't get Josh Hartnett out of my head period. That man is the sexiest thing alive.[/sub]
There were some terrible design and gameplay choices made in this game, it's not hard to see where they failed.
I do hope they manage to overhaul the game and make a modern day sequel or something. It had such good potential.
For some reason I can't get Josh Hartnett out of my head for a detective role in the Bronx.
[sub]Then again, I can't get Josh Hartnett out of my head period. That man is the sexiest thing alive.[/sub]
I kinda feel bad for Brendan McNamara, he had good intentions for the game but lacked the funds to produce and therefore Rockstar came in and started to pull the strings to shape the game in their eye removing Brendan from the creative aspect and when your in Brendan's position its is upsetting to see a dream that you have created be taking from you.