Those fuckers betrayed me

Those fuckers betrayed me.

>get hired by a game studio after pitching a game idea for them
>game idea was a 3d cyberpunk fighting game in the style of Tekken, DOA, Soul Calibur, etc.
>had so many ideas for dark and gritty futuristic stages and characters, really awesome stuff
>tell me they love the idea, think it's fantastic
>get started at studio, things are kinda slow but whatever, just the planning stages
>2 weeks in get told that the studio thinks the game just wouldn't be profitable, that fighting games don't sell much or make much money, get shown SFV sales figures
>mention MK and Tekken selling really well, they ignore it, get told we'll be working on an entirely new project they've had in the wings
>really upset but try to deal
>find out this project is a fucking "fusion of Souls games and MOBAs", with "full 3d action packed combat" in a "dark and gritty fantasy world"
>I went from possibly working on creating what would have been an amazing fighting game with a unique aesthetic
>to working on a fucking fantasy souls moba clusterfuck in some generic grimdark fantasy setting


Fuck these goddamn assholes. And fuck you MOBA and Souls fans, for making those games popular because you fucks couldn't hack it in a fighting game and need baby mode pvp shit catered to you. God forbid you need to use inputs beyond "tap left and hit A" or "click qwer" to attack. Fuck you.

wow they fucked you hard op

Give up.

you forgot to mention 'superior limb-based combat'

weeks in get told that the studio thinks the game just wouldn't be profitable, that fighting games don't sell much or make much money, get shown SFV sales figures

Bwahahahahaha, looks like crapcom is even ruining other fighters from being made

atleast you have a job fampaichi. just work on your game in your free time.

A job working on a game that fucking sickens me to the core. It's horrible. Imagine if you were a police officer and you got hired thinking you'd fight drug dealers and rid the neighborhoods of that scum. Then the police chief sits you down and says "hey man, look, we ARE the drug dealers, so stop busting these guys, and go help us peddle drugs to the street dealers, and don't say shit alright?"

That's how I feel.

>this thread
>again
Plz no

SUPERIOR

I saw this same exact thread months ago. You still at this? Also where's the game, man.

>Also where's the game, man.


It's dead. They killed it.

Where's the corpse?

Incidentally, you might appreciate This is the Police.

>no info given
>just falseflags and strawmen

gg

But I have roots in both genres. Fuck you for liking one thing, quit limiting yourself

>things that never happened

You have roots in shit genres. Souls and MOBAs are trash. Fighters are better than both and greater tests of skill.

>I'm the idea guy

Wow, this nigga is still going

>Instead of making my dream game they've asked me to be a code-monkey for something that sickens me to my core
>And I agreed to it

You have only yourself to blame you dumb cuck.

Wait is this studio out of Texas?

name the fucking company you lying shit

They bait and switched me.

>I'm an idea guy

>he fell for the cyberpunk meme

Im glad they shut your shit idea down OP

I cannot. I could end up blackballed from the entire industry.

Still your fault for not understanding your own contract fuccboi

Yeah literally nobody cares

Welcome to business you fuckin newbie

He's been doing this for well over a year, maybe even 2. It's the highest degree of autism and I can't look away.

You should care. You could have got a kickass fighting game, instead you're gonna get some weird ass hybrid souls moba ripoff shit in a fantasy setting. No cyberpunk for you.

you're aware this is an anonymous imageboard right?

Youre working for a GAME company in th3 current era and you didnt expect them to fuck you over for the flavor of the month? Keep your hopes up high and your head down low my friend. You should have seen this coming. If they'll lie to their customers face, why wouldnt they lie to the people they pay's face?

You had an idea but didn't have the stamina. You were bought and sold to the highest bidder. It's called business. Sad!

But they said they loved my idea, said it was amazing. You should have seen my face when they broke the news, and worse showing me SFV sales figures as part of their "evidence".

Trump would rather have had a cyberpunk fighter than a souls moba hybrid.

No, we couldn't have, because "idea guys" are literally lib arts majors who think their ideas are profitable and better and usually don't know a lick about game design beyond that. The fact that you haven't touted anything you've done for the game rather than the idea you've had for it is telling

Anyone who believes this is dumber than OP. No game company would hire someone based on a single game idea, especially not one where the primary focus was on characters and setting.

nobody cares about the trash you're working on OP

How can I tout much more than that when they canned it so goddamn fast? We were in the brainstorming phase.

...

I was including fighters and souls, you ham fisted cunt

[/spoiler]I will devastate you in BlazBlue[/spoiler]

Explain the mechanics you had in mind. Beyond just "a fighting game".

I'm a AAA game designer yes, really prove to me that your idea was worth making in the first place.

The Fighting Game Community would have. Ass.

Answer me nigger

"Things that never happened"
By OP

Then it was likely genuinely shit, or the people actually making the game realized it was either impossible or not profitable enough to justify the cost to make that game. The brainstorming stages are where everything gets asspulled and washed and stalled for months; did you really expect two weeks on an initial idea to make it to the final product?

Why would FGC care about another shovelware title from no name devs?

>fgc
So yeah, nobody.

Think of a gameplay system very similar to Tekken series, juggle oriented with a mid jigh low attack system, guard crushes, strong okizeme and very frame based gameplay. Except I'd have worked in projectiles like a more classic fighter to allow for greater zoning potential, and an extensive meter system to allow for EX skills, supers, move cancels, and crush counter mechanics. A refined masterpiece in a gritty cyberpunk setting with unique characters.

>maybe even 2
He's been going at it for at least 5 years, user.
He used to go on about SUPERIOR LIMB-BASED COMBAT
It's indeed the highest degree of autism.

Cyberpunk games historically have not been profitable.

Also fighting is a horrible genre for cyberpunk.

Shop around. Or threaten to. Make them do what you want or leave.

>not profitable enough to justify the cost to make that game.

How is a "souls/moba" hybrid profitable at all? Why would anyone play it over League of Lesbians or Dark Souls 3?

Good, fighting games are fucking boring.

>very similar to Tekken
>projectiles
>juggle oriented
>EX skills/supers

Sounds like a real hot pile of shit.

Even though this is copypasty.

>get hired by a game studio after pitching a game idea for them

Literally never.
Ideas will NEVER get you a job in the industry. They don't matter. Everyone has ideas, Ideas don't mean shit. Actually doing something with them and being able to communicate them to someone else is far more important to getting that game jorb anons.

Fuck this dumb pasta. Its probably one of the worst pastas in the history of the world kill ursleff

ive actually seen this same op post the same thread weeks earlier, but worded differently.

most samefags just copy paste, so this probably is some game dev tearing his hair out and trying to vent.

No, explain actual mechanics. You spouted a bunch of fighting game keywords. Why would a fighting game fan play your game over SF or MK or SC? When explaining why your game is unique, don't mention the theming. If you can't do that, your game was shit and nothing special and deserved to get scrapped.

>Also fighting is a horrible genre for cyberpunk.


How? Think of the character possibilities and fighting styles:

>humans
>cyborgs
>robots
>genetically modified humans/mutants
>futuristic soldiers/cops with crazy guns
>gang members
>corrupt CEOs
>aliens
>people fighting with cybernetic limbs and weaponry

And think of the stages you can have. Factories, rooftops, dark alleyways, office buildings, oil rigs, space stations, mining facilities, nightclubs, casinos, bars, etc. Meanwhile this souls moba hybrid they're making us do, wtf arenas could it even have? Dark forest, evil swamp, evil cave, dark castle, hellscape?

How is it not? Souls fanaticism is still riding on coat tails and BB broke all expectations for a single plat single player from game. Plus, DaS3 was lacking according to their fan base, leaving them wanting more but still wanting a familiar souls style setting.

And if you're not going to agree that mobas print money compared to the cost to create I'll know you have no idea.

It's been a long time since I saw this meme.

Not nearly long enough, though.

No, it's some autist who made up some fantasy story. I'm sure all that happened was he sent some dev some idea, they told him no, he got butthurt and decided to take it out on Souls and MOBAs

Hey OP, haven't seen this thread in months. How is life?

Ghostcrawler got hired by Riot and all he ever did was shit ideas. Metzen never even did anything besides write bad stories with mary sues and redemption plots.

>Superior Limb Based Combat guy is still making threads after all these years

Cyberpunk's subdued and subtle themes clash with fighting games. The theming and gameplay are at odds with one another.

Sounds like they made the right decision. Who needs ANOTHER fighting game? They're all the exact fucking same with different skins for the characters. It being cyberpunk literally means nothing because it's a fucking fighting game, all you can do is fight. Oh, but instead of a hadouken it's a cyber pulse blast from his augmented arm! kys

Everything you mentioned it having is in Tekken, aside from aliens. The company scrapped your game because they didn't want to get sued by Bamco.

Why would they play it? It offers a new take on 3d fighters, which have long gotten criticism for not having the level of zoning that 2d fighters posses or meter management. This game would have that and more, giving fans of both kinds of games something they both can appreciate and enjoy.

>Sounds like they made the right decision. Who needs ANOTHER fighting game? They're all the exact fucking same with different skins for the characters. It being cyberpunk literally means nothing because it's a fucking fighting game, all you can do is fight. Oh, but instead of a hadouken it's a cyber pulse blast from his augmented arm! kys


I can say the exact same thing about doing a moba/souls game.

Who needs ANOTHER moba? They're all the exact fucking same with different skins for the characters. It being dark fantasy literally means nothing because it's a fucking moba, all you can do is fight. Oh, but instead of a Jinx ult it's a magic missile from his magic staff!

Exactly why you combine it with Souls-style combat to keep it fresh, unlike your generic run of the mill fighting game.

You're literally just saying the same thing as that user.
>no, that idea is shit, who wants that
>listen to my idea, it's not shit and everyone will want it
Do you not see the hypocrisy?

>turns out a few replies later no one does

How would a "Souls/MOBA Hybrid" even work?

Prolly the same way as another gay ass cyberpunk fighting farm

My fighter would have had a coherent and consistent theme. This wouldn't beyond "dark fantasy". Look at mobas, it's all clusterfucks of random shit because they need to make tons of characters with so many different mechanics to appeal to different people. It's why you end up with shit like medieval warriors with huge axes fighting punk girls with miniguns and rocket launchers fighting ninjas fighting dragons and shit. Dota has the same problem, although least that game doesn't have futuristic shit fighting medieval stuff.

This is some stale pasta op

There are plenty of fighters with consistent themes. Cyberpunk isn't interesting and having several characters that appeal to several people sells.

So far it's supposed to be souls style combat mixed with unique skills for each character and items and shit like that. As well as npc enemies that also attack the players as well, and environmental hazards.

>cyberpunk
>fighting

But it's a purely multiplayer game, right?

I didn't fighters don't have consistent themes, they usually tend to. I'm saying moba shit doesn't. It's just random ass ideas for characters slapped together into one setting that makes no sense. Look at shit like Ekko, Aatrox, Darius, Teemo and Zed, that shit doesn't even make any sense in the same game.

All these newfags

This shit is at least 3 years old

nobody plays fighting games for the themes and setting, they play it for the machanics

Yes, although they mentioned the possibility of some offline storymode shit.

You're missing the point, I'm saying that fighters are better about that shit than mobas are. Mobas are literally just randumb character designs sapped together. Fighting games have actual THEMES. It's why Street Fighter doesn't have say, knights with huge swords and tentacle monsters fighting street fighters. And cyberpunk is a relatively fresh setting and aesthetic for a fighting game.

If it makes you feel any better, I haven't liked a Souls game since the first one. Didn't stop me from preording 2 and 3 of course.

you're missing the point, nobody cares

Okay.

Gonna be honest with you, I neither care about that game nor the Fighting Game you wanted to make.

Maybe you should try to make it as an indie project?

...and?
When the games stop being successful, then there's a problem with adding a diverse cast.

>3d cyberpunk fighting game in the style of Tekken, DOA, Soul Calibur, etc.

You could come up with any creative ideas for video game and this is the best you come up with?

It looks retarded, that's the problem.

>It offers a new take on 3d fighters
How? You haven't explained how the mechanics would provide a new take on 3D fighters.

This actually sounds way cooler than a cyberpunk fighting game. And I fucking love cyberpunk.

Can we make this a spiderman thread now?

>implying anyone gets hired for pitches these days
Yeah you're a fucking liar. Pitches just don't happen anymore, at least not like they used to. Now it's a team of senior devs and designers who have been at the company for years and have corporate's best interests in mind who does the pitching.

post your gdd faget

Post rare Spideys

Get a trip so I can filter you.

>Fighting games

What is this? 1996?