Backbreaker Developer: "Very Unlikely That We Will Revisit Full-On Football Again"

[Klue516]

lol BB, bye-bye.

[LingeringRegime]

Quote: Originally Posted by wEEman33

I guess this is officially "The End," then, with the Backbreaker forums shutting down. I don't get why they wouldn't at least continue putting their games on XBLA. Backbreaker: Vengeance actually outsold Tecmo Super Bowl: Throwback on XBLA: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Ga...by=BestSelling BBV is ranked 226 out of 421 games on the XBLA sales charts.

Sad to see BB being shelved.

But the world will be a better place with the BB Forums being shut down.

[dcal]

Yeah, it is amazing how they seem to be disavowing anything to do with Backbreaker (full football). I sent them an e-mail two weeks ago to see if they could give me a yes or no answer to a question. I asked them if Euphoria was licensed by a 3rd party developer that intends to make an American Football game.

I knew I would not get an answer but why not try? I heard nothing.

Maybe anyone interested in a Euphoria based football game should send them a similar e-mail, maybe someone will get lucky and get a response. I just want to know if something is in the works, the tech would work in the right hands.

[dp68]

Quote: Originally Posted by chicagopax

It didn't even feel like football, football logic didn't work and it was all based around arcade gameplay.

Which pretty much sums up the Madden experience every season imo.

[mestevo]

Quote: Originally Posted by dp68

Which pretty much sums up the Madden experience every season imo.

If you think that about Madden then surely you think Backbreaker is exponentially worse.

[Phobia]

Lets be honest. If EA purchased this tech and implemented it with their animation systems. This physic based system could fix much of our complaints with madden such as Poor O-line vs D-line interactions.

[mestevo]

I just don't see the love affair, anyone with the money to make a football game (licensing commitment, development costs, etc) are probably just going to build something in-house rather than give Natural Motion a cut.

We won't see the kind of thing that you describe on current gen consoles, at some point next gen when there's more overhead to do it right you'll see EA try and make the product you describe.

[bkrich83]

Who's really surprised? It was blatantly obvious the first release was designed to be nothing more than a tech demo..