Backbreaker Video

[GTheorenHobbes]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDQ

So I guess the trendy word is "vaporware." Backbreaker is an idea taken from a small company that wants to make an attempt to introduce something they feel is missing in a football videogame. Like any other development cycle, I'm sure they have setbacks etc., and it has been frustrating to see very little from this team, but I'll always be supportive and hopeful for people that are trying to innovate. They're making an effort and we have no idea what's before them as far as setbacks etc.

Good post, Dave...I agree. Personally, I'm really looking forward to playing it sometime this year.

[jaosming]

IIRC the lack of info and setbacks have been due to not having a publisher.

They ended up getting one, I forget who, I'm sure it's on their forums.



There is a guarantee from them that we will get information before E3, followed by a showing at E3. So we have around 3 weeks until we know more about this game.

[mKoz26]

Quote: Originally Posted by dickdalewood

No one has forgotten it. But all it was was a glorified tech demo, it showed nothing of what the game could do with real football (11v11). Like most have said, this game is the Duke Nukem of football games right now.

Duke Nuem is coming out!!!

[RedheadKingpin]

Quote: Originally Posted by Kitchens

I'm pretty confident that it'll get some good coverage at E3. At least I hope. I really want there to be a Backbreaker II.

Backbreaker II? Can we at least wait until we see Backbreaker I on the shelves before we start talking about 2?

[TDKing]

Quote: Originally Posted by RedheadKingpin

Backbreaker II? Can we at least wait until we see Backbreaker I on the shelves before we start talking about 2?

[StormJH1]

Quote: Originally Posted by drae2

Thanks. That crowd looks NUTS! Player movement looks very fluid. I'm guessing gameplay videos should be showing up soon.

Haha, we all made that same guess about 18 months ago.

[StormJH1]

Quote: Originally Posted by jaosming

IIRC the lack of info and setbacks have been due to not having a publisher. They ended up getting one, I forget who, I'm sure it's on their forums.

Midway sounds about right...

It's not that I don't support upstart groups who want to fill a void in certain areas of gaming, I just object to the treatment of this title like it's the "second coming" of videogame football before we've ever seen a single image from it that looks like a GAME, as opposed to a CGI movie about football.

Even if they could actually get this thing released, the natural order of things dictates that there will probably be significant problems with it (akin to how EA, an established developer, struggled with Madden '06 and '07), and then the only shot at getting those fixed would be if this new IP could actually generate enough money to warrant a sequel.

If 2k sports couldn't suceed well enough for all of those things to happen, why are we so sure that this graphics design project could be any better?

[Kitchens]

Quote: Originally Posted by RedheadKingpin

Backbreaker II? Can we at least wait until we see Backbreaker I on the shelves before we start talking about 2?

Sure. All I'm saying is that if Backbreaker sucks, there for sure won't be a BBII. So I want BB to be good, so there'll be at least the possibility of a sequel.