NOTE: There is an editing mistake at 11:25 when a KI boxart appears. This was actually supposed to be Crackdown 3. I intended to have the KI box appear later, when I discuss Microsoft potentially considering pulling Platinum off the project, to replace with another developer. This was to allude to the fact that Iron Galaxy replaced Double Helix between the 1st and 2nd seasons. Sorry about this mixup! Lots of people know KI is my favorite fighter of this generation, so this is especially embarrassing.

So, ultimately, Scalebound was bound by its scale.

“Legally distinct, the best kind of distinct” - Every company ever

Pretty refreshing to see this one ending with everyone agreeing to do the hard thing to preserve everyone's artistic integrity instead of doing the business man thing and ruining everything.

Scalebound: The kiler X-Box One title... That was killed (That new intro, 2Snacks is outdoing himself)

Why did you have to remind me, Matt? I'm still sad about it.

I hate getting reminded that I'm not going to get my boy with headphones dragon game :(

“Gee, 2020 sure does sucks” *gets reminded that Scalebound’s never coming out* “And now it’s worse”

I remember as a casual observer hearing a lot of people talking about the game but not about what the game was actually _about._ Like in other hyped games you get a much stronger impression of who the characters are and what they're doing beyond the core gameplay loop. From the sounds of it, I guess even Platinum and Microsoft weren't sure either.

now thats a flashy intro. i love what happun

As someone who actually liked everything shown about the game...This cancellation stung haaaard! :(

After playing a bunch of Monster Hunter, I just wanted a game where I was friends with the big dragons. If this game had delivered just the sort of weird relationship shown in the Giant Enemy Crab trailer, I would have been happy.

I don’t think there has been a game that I wanted to exist more than Scalebound, but I can’t deny being willing to cancel something when you realize you aren’t going to be able to achieve what you wanted it to be earns a lot of respect from me. Sad to see it go, but glad it wasn’t released as a shadow of what everyone wanted it to be.

The legacy of Kain cancelled sequels named Legacy of Kain: The Dark Prophecy and Legacy of Kain: Dead Sun, along with the cancelled early access 3rd person MOBA Nosgoth (which was a reworked multiplayer component to Dead Sun).

Moral of the story: Buy Astral Chain

That new intro is poggers. 2Snacks killed it

RIP, Discount Nero. Would Deep Down (y'know, that PS4 Souls-like dungeon crawler that may or may not still exist) make for a good episode, maybe...?

I think it's pretty wholesome that Platinum stood up for Microsoft in regards to the backlash of that cancellation. It'd be so easy to just let the overseas publisher eat all the blame for that call and I think it's great that despite all the work put towards Scalebound going for naught, the two companies are still amicable. I kinda wish more game developer/publisher relationships could be like that.

with so many tragdor references got me thinking, What about "Adobe Flash - What Happened?"

I will continue to foolishly hope that they revive Scalebound. If they want me to buy a Series X, that's a good way to do it.

Yeah this is like when you start making a sweet, solo pop record and then you're like... now it's technical death metal for some reason.

Still crying over this. There’s an abysmal lack of high quality Dragon games and Scalebound looked like it was going to satisfy that need.

"Last Trogdor reference I swear!" Press X to Doubt *edit* Knew it

For a future episode: I recalled a game that was announced back in 2006: "Sadness", it was supposed to be a horror Wii exclusive game about psicosis set during the years of the Great War (WWI) with a lot of scandinavian and nordic elements, made by Nibris, a polish indie developer that never got support. The concept was very interesting and it would be a good episode... but a very short one because people know what happened: Nothing. The game got oficially cancelled in 2010, and the developer team got disbanded, only realeasing the soundtrack (avalaible on KZfaq) and a DS game that was awful, a Tumblepop ripoff that was destroyed by the two crítics that played it. There were rumors about reviving the game for the Switch but still nothing happened, and to this point, making it would be useless. Why play "Sadness" while we already got "Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice"?

Man, to this day I've never been so dissapointed a game got cancelled. It had everything I would have wanted but I guess that's what it killed it.

Oh scalebound, why did you have to be cancelled..

I feel like we're never going to get a good "here's a big cool dragon that we don't want you to kill" game

I stopped at 15 seconds just to say that I love the new intro. Especially the fact that Randy Pitchford is in it.

Oh man, a promising game that didn't end well :( Love the use of Trogdor in this ep, Matt! And while I'm here, DO ONE ON PREY 2! That game's unfortunate cancellation deserves to be highlighted!

This is probably the one game that actually really made sad when it comes to game releases. I was so hungry for something like Scalebound and the fact it was almost there, then it wasn't hurt so much.

Nice new intro and thumbnail. Seeing all that Korra footage just made me think of how cool a full-blown, dedicated Korra or A:TLA game by Platinum could be.

"BUY ASTRAL CHAIN" I see you're a man of culture as well.

Love the new intro, Matt!

That Todd Howard head in the intro reminds me of a certain song... "It just works, it just works, little lies, stunning shows, people buy, money flows, it just works! It just works, it just works, overpriced open worlds, earnings rise, take my word! It just works! It just works! It just works, it just works!"

I can appreciate the MAX ANARCHY ost being used here!

Babylon’s Fall is the ultimate answer of why Scalebound got cancelled. Platinum’s second attempt of making a evolving live service game, launched the same week as Elden Ring, became the worst rated PS5 game so far, and now is getting shutdown AFTER LESS THAN A YEAR of launch.

That intro made me smile

I used to be a manager at gamestop and when this was originally cancelled I remember alot, and I mean alot of people being pissed off and voicing as much during my day to day. Far more than any other title i can think off.

I like how Nero in DMC5 looks pretty similiar to Drew.

That new intro is so fitting. Whoever animated that deserves major kudos

You don't think the Cuphead Switch port contributed to the Scalebound Switch rumors?

Woah a brand new What Happun on my birthday what an amazing present

7:31 Jeez, that Korra game looks better than one might anticipate from a tv license.

I feel like throwing in a Yoko Taro with Kamiya and using the dragon game idea would end up with an incredibly awesome Drakengard. I want this to happen now.

You should totally cover Capcom's "Deep Down."

The description of what this was supposed to be reminds me of Astral Chain.

You had me at “buy Astral Chain.”

Man Phil Spencer's so fucking cool. Here's hoping he can get a dev like Platinum to work with him and MS again.

ok so like, now that I've heard about this game. am I the only one who wants a Halo spinoff by platinum games that's in a similar writing and gameplay style as Bayonetta?

i still am holding out hope that Mircosoft will show off a new scalebound for the next xbox and we get the game. The game looked like it was gonna be so much fun

I nearly bought an XB1 specifically to prepare for this game. Decided at the last minute to buy a PS4 instead and just wait until Scalebound came out - to wait for reviews and stuff - since there weren't any other games I knew I'd buy otherwise. Best decision of my life, given it was cancelled. I never would have bought any games, or if so, very few.

Scalebound may be dead but at least we got a proper return to the Devil May Cry series with DMC5. You lose some and then you win some.

This is probably my favorite series on YT, and also I just want you to know that at least one person has noticed that you build in transitions around the YT ads and I appreciate that effort, even if no one else does.

5:27 Platinum used Unity for the game World of Demons, which was a gacha game that died in only a few months. I'm surprised no one made any Honkai Impact comments toward it.

I love how Todd is doing the old "it just works" jazz hands from the actual song

Would love to see a What Happened on Snowblind Studios, loved their games and they just disappeared out of nowhere :( wish we could get some dark alliance or champions of norrath remasters on PC.

Love the idea of creature companions and I love dragons. I would've been a big fan of this game. Hope some way somehow the IP gets revived if there's newfound confidence in its success, and if possible goes multi-platform since I don't have an Xbox lol.

I live for these. I'm obsessed. Thanks for putting these together, Matt McMuscles!

Love the Trogdor references. I should go watch some Homestar Runner.

That quote near the end kinda encapsulates why people like Phil Spencer - there's some media trained corpo-speak sprinkled in there, but overall he gives a surprisingly honest account of what happened with Scalebound, and in saying that they just want to move on from it.

is it just me or that the foundations Platinum used for Scalebound could be used IF Square hired them to make Drakengard 4?

There's never a limit for Trogdor references

The silver lining to all this is I suspect _something_ from Scalebound got recycled into Bayonetta 3’s Demon Slave mechanic.

Damn, I feel sad again. I must cope by playing something by Platinum, or DMC5.

*The Darkness of Night Falls Around My Soul and The Hunter within los-* Oops. wrong short white haired cocky protagonist with a disfigured arm that looks demonic.

This was going to be the next big game I could feel it, and man I don’t think I’ve ever been more sad about a game getting cancelled, I hope something can come out of this eventually

NGL, I was worried we'd lose the song in the intro again, but it's insane to see the history of the channel so far now there. Seems like yesterday that I subbed. Great work!

Dang, now I'm really gonna buy Astral Chain.

God, this one really stings for me. Scalebound was one of the very few Xbox One exclusives I REALLY wanted to experience. It had so many elements that would make for a hell of a good time. Platinum-style combat? Check. A big ol' badass dragon buddy? Check. Gigantic monster fights that would make both Shadow of the Colossus and God of War proud? Check. I could go on and on... Seriously, hearing such a promising title from a developer like Platinum get canned felt like such a punch in the gut, and the fact that Microsoft still holds the rights for the IP despite them not planning on doing anything with it makes it even more frustrating. They might as well just GIVE it back to Platinum, but they won't because... at this point, just "Fuck you", I guess. I know that last thing I said was a bit of a hyperbole, but the idea of holding on to an IP that you'll probably never use again for anything still makes no sense, especially when trying to keep the rights costs money.

This one broke my heart, I was so excited for this game, even if it was a trainwreck.

It saddens me that is how the chapter of that game idea comes to a close. Was such a wonderful concept to admire.

>The parties agree that the project is going bad and decided to cancel it. Why this didn't happen with Babylon's fall?!

I was on the fence when you said you were changing the intro. I'm no longer on the fence, I'm all for it now.

Every time I see this game never seeing the light of day, I still cry.

Loved this new opening! (I dont know if that's the first time you used it, but it is awesome!)

I still have a wallpaper of this game as my desktop background. The game that never was, and it's literally the single most "my style" game their could ever be.

feelin' like shit, I just want it back

I bought the Astral chain collector's edition, I've done my part.

Dude your videos are legit the only videos I enjoy watching, keep up the great work man !!

Ooooo flashy new intro bossman...! And a delight to watch as always. I'm not sure if there's much info to be found on the game at all, but I'd love to hear literally anything about Capcom's Deep Down. :(

I can't help but wonder what could have happened if the monster hunter dev team tackled something like this, especially with modern tech

Btw Homestar Runner is back, on youtube, and still funny as hell. I rescued a The Cheat plush from a goodwill a few years ago

I really love your affinity for that character select soundbyte from SF3

I was really hoping for an episode about Scalebound, thanks!

A devil may cry game with dragons Me: Yeah! But it's on Xbox Me: Aaaw And it's cancelled Me: Aaaw !

Kamiya: blocks everyone Xbox: blocks Kamiya Kamiya: surprised pikachu face

Great video, and the new intro looks fantastic!

Thanks for doing this one Matt! I've been looking forward to this!

Seeing todd howard in that into brought a smile to my face.

“This is fair.” *two seconds later* “This is unfair.”

The new Intro is awesome, man. I really enjoy your stuff. You're doing very nice.

ive quickly found myself waitin for these to come out. keep it up

I really wished Scalebound wasn't canceled. I legitimately thought it was a great idea and I wanted to see the world and the story it brings. What can I say, I love How to Train your Dragon and this was my cup of tea. Hopefully in the near future someone will take the idea and make Scalebound a reality, whether it's a movie, a novel series or another video game. Fingers crossed!

The only thing that prevented this from sinking Platinum outright was NieR Automota coming out in Feburary 2017 XD Thank you Yoko Taro!

Great job on the intro 2Snacks!

Wow I had totally forgotten about this game. Thanks for the vid Matt! I like the new opening.

The new intro was great! Also, I need to pick up Astral Chain!

Seems some SB gameplay, ideas went to Bayo 3

That's a dope intro, nice work!

love the new intro animation. good stuff like always