Sands of Time remake is CANCELLED? It was the best PoP game!
Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC
Submitted 2 weeks ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
dandi8@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Given the original announcement footage, it might be for the best...
victorz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It did kind of give that alpha stage vibe, but if it was like a few bucks, it probably buy it. It was a remake after all, with slightly better graphics.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m going to guess that decision was based on the failures of the recent 2.5D PoP games, which were well reviewed but barely advertised (and oft compared to indie games)
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s also the only one I ever played!
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Warrior Within and The Two Thrones contiued the Sands of Time story and were both pretty good too.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
More focus on open-world titles and games as a service? Every time I think they’ve hit the bottom, they manage to dig deeper.
silvana@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
too be fair to Ubisoft they have been focusing on open world slop since they started milking assassin’s Creed gor all it’s got.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They‘re essentially a corpse that gets electrocuted every now and then to emulate nerve signals.
halfsalesman@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
6 cancellations and 7 delays? That’s an omen.
13igTyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
6-7 you say?
UntimedDiffusion@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Nobody said that
popcar2@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Crazy that the Sands of Time remake was supposed to come out early 2021… Remakes are supposed to be quick projects for easy money, how could Ubisoft mess it up that much? Sands of Time isn’t even a long game!
One was a cancelled mobile game but now I’m curious what the other 4 were. I guess we’ll never find out as they funnel all that money to their successful live-service stuff.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When they said we have to get used to not owning our games, they really meant it!
58008@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In any other business, having 6 simultaneous failed projects would be cause for dismissal of the CEO and probably the majority of the management staff. If I owned or had a large amount of shares in a company where this happened, I would not be a happy chappy. But I’m assuming the Ubisoft upper echelons are patting themselves on the back for their business acumen and financial savviness, already penning their bonuses into their calendars.
Meanwhile, regular workers are dropped like pubic lice the minute it’s convenient to do so.
Parasites.
FirmDistribution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ubisoft, the people who fuck up Assassin’s Creed + ninjas. How can you fuck what up? It’s a easy home run, but no.
RIP Ubisoft.
sen@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’ve been thinking about that a lot this week. I played ACS at launch, got ten hours in before I got bored and cancelled whatever the subscription is. Came back last month, got ten hours deeper and uninstalled.
How are they making ninjas boring? HOW?!
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Dammit, I was looking forward to SoT seeing as it plays pretty janky now compared to modern standards and I was hoping they’d fix up the combat a bit. That said, I only have the Xbox version to go off of. Is the PC version any good? Maybe someone will do a Black Mesa on it.
scholar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The combat is fine, my only issue with it was the camera trying to get you killed, especially around corners. Still one of the best games Ubisoft have ever made.
addie@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Well, having not played the Xbox version… ;-) Once you’ve got it running, it remains one of the finest games of all time.
Getting it running is the real sands of time, tho. It has a particular hatred of multi-core CPUs, requires a graphics card that supports both hardware transform & lighting but also truly ancient versions of DirectX, and is obstinately not-widescreen. You’ll be wanting a fan patch; last time I tried one, it was a bit of a crash-fest (it wasn’t, back in the day) and some of the SFX looked plain wrong.
Graphics still held up perfectly - the art style is very strong - and the story remains charming. All I wanted from a remake was the damned thing to start up in a modern screen resolution, and it seems they’ve managed to spend years on it without even managing that.
defuse959@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I tried going back to it on pc recently and was met with a pretty janky experience. GoG and Steam versions. I ended up emulating the PS2 version with some upscaling and it was great. There’s community texture packs and widescreen patches as well if you have the hardware to run them (low bar fwiw, I had success with an anbernic android device and a few mods as an example).
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why do I feel like Beyond Good and Evil is on the list…
fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
It's good that they didn't remake an otherwise good game, they'd figure a way to ruin it.
13igTyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Charge your credit card every time you rewind time.
songwriterallnighter@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That sucks, was looking forward to SOT
naticus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah literally the only IP I’d even consider giving my money to Ubi for. The only other one I have been at least lukewarm interested in is BG&E2 but the problems there are it’ll never release, and they’ve completely missed the mark on what fans have wanted this entire time.
emb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Didn’t see it on first scan of the article, so highlighting this bit for those curious about the other games:
. . . Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake has been cancelled, as well as four unannounced titles, including three new IPs and a mobile title. The identity of the sixth game has not been clarified.
and the delayed games have not been clarified yet either. From the related article:
In addition, Ubisoft said it’s delayed seven games to ensure they meet quality expectations. It did not say which games had slipped, but confirmed that the seven titles include one title that was planned for release before April 2026, which will now be released before April 2027.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I went to ubisofts page on steam and ignored everything they got. I will never see whatever they create again
sly_lemmy@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yeah, keep it up U-be-soft. I reckon you’re hit ‘Invincible’ mobile game can safe your pathetic ass.
God, the day this company declares bankruptcy, I’ll coat the nearby surroundings and then forget they ever existed.
Till I inevitably want to play AC Black Flag for the 15th time
bigmamoth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have no idea how they could drop the ball so hard for a remaster. They give the project to their indian studio, it didnt look good but at least it seem it worked. And now the project is canceled and i never heard of any ubisoft game that came ou of thoses indian studio. What the hell hapened ?
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Think positively. They won’t fuck up the Sands of Time remake either.