There was a Max Payne movie a few years ago. And while it did well enough at the box office to make more than double it's money back it was, nonetheless, pretty much universally panned by both film critics and fans of the game.
Gee, I am surprised. if Dyack really wants to help his projects he should just fade into the background and become a non-public member of his team. At this point his name is pretty much cancer to his company.
Wouldn't have been alive yet. I doubt the any future 'Red Dead' games are going to necessarily involve the Marston clan. I think it'll be much like the 'Grand Theft Auto' series, with new characters each game.
I was a huge 'Legacy of Kain' fan back in the day, but with Amy Hennig gone I'm not sure that I want them to try to bring back that franchise. Also if SE is disappointed by the sales of 'Tomb Raider' then I'm sure they'd be horrified at the sales of a new LoK game. Not a knock on the franchise, but that series was never a huge seller even at its peak.
The point is that, in spite of SE's disappointment, Tomb Raider did make a profit, and that SE spends far too much on other projects. A project's success or failure should be judged on its own merits, and not because it didn't meet expectations that were not realistic to begin with. Also, you can't expect a product to be a blockbuster if you do nothing to promote it.
Those games sold fine and made more than their budgets. The problem is that they didn't sell as much as Square-Enix wanted because SE was counting on those games to float the entire company while they fritter away gajillions of dollars and several years on the latest Final Fantasy reheat.
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