Mirrors Edge2 Laid on Ice!

[Sleepingzombie]

It appears that Patrick Söderlund Confirmed in an talk with press2Play that Mirrors Edge 2 has been laid on Ice. Apperantly team that worked on the sequel has been moved to other projects.
http://press2play.tv/rekommenderat/10/glom-drommarna-om-mirrors-edge-2

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/mirrors-edge-2-dev-team-dispersed-to-other-projects-20110214/

In what I read He said that the sales was too bad to warrant a sequel. It is stated that EA was shown a prototype and did not take the bait.

Personally I don´t like this, since I liked Mirrors edge very much and I hope that Mirrors Edge 2 sees the light of day after Battlefield 3 has been completed.
I compare it to Dead Space; A game that is good but is improved in its sequel. Especialy since Mirrors Edge had more "unrefined edges", though I loved the game.

How do you feel about this?

 

[AnAngryMoose]

I am disappoint.

 

[Avaholic03]

Weak. You gotta give the brand time to mature. I guarantee a more polished version of Mirror's Edge would sell great.

 

[P.Tsunami]

I don't know. I think Mirror's Edge 2 could've held some potential. Assuming they stayed truer to their original concept than I felt the first game did, and they take some valuable lessons from what marred the otherwise creative gem of the first game. Still, would they have? Mirror's Edge was too diluted to really work, and I don't honestly expect the second game would've been any more loyal to the idea. I would not be surprised if the sequel had been even more of a half arsed FPS. And if that's the sequel we're being denied, I'm not crying. Still, there's a lot of potential in the concept of this series. I cry for that potential.

 

[Sleepingzombie]

In the comments on the site they talked about how the games goal: speed, was not handled right. For me the goal of the game; what made it really enjoyable was just to get around. Like, if you remember, in Call of Juare where you climb a mountain. There you see the open expanse and when you fall you see the mountain as you fall, head first.

Ergo, I liked it for exploration.

In my dream the sequel would change the goal from speed to moving around with finesse, with speed as a bonus.

Imagine one large open-city where the journey from A to B is not the most boring part of the game but the most fun, and when you get to B; it gets even better.

 

[Mikeyfell]

I want Mirror's Edge 2 bad...
With a bit of polish (or a metric ton of polish especially in the load time and collision detection areas) Mirror's Edge 2 could redeem my faith in the games industry

now finish Blade Kitten and release Jak 4

 

[Samechiel]

Does this REALLY surprise anyone? I was honestly shocked that there was ever talk of a sequel.

Mirror's Edge was a truly innovative game, I'll give it that. But innovative does not immediately equate good. It's the same with Hard Rain.

You tried, you failed, now do something different.

 

[migo]

Damn. Well, here's hoping for Brink.

 

[Sleepingzombie]

The guys at Dice likes it and wants to make it; EA apperantly has said that it deserves a sequel. Now I can only hope, that there is enough profit to EA to enable them to take some risks.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

In the comments on the site they talked about how the games goal: speed, was not handled right. For me the goal of the game; what made it really enjoyable was just to get around. Like, if you remember, in Call of Juare where you climb a mountain. There you see the open expanse and when you fall you see the mountain as you fall, head first.

Ergo, I liked it for exploration.

In my dream the sequel would change the goal from speed to moving around with finesse, with speed as a bonus.

Imagine one large open-city where the journey from A to B is not the most boring part of the game but the most fun, and when you get to B; it gets even better.

Uh, that doesn't make any sense, how can the journey be the most fun part and yet it gets better when you get there?

Anyway, yeah I really would've liked to see a Mirrors Edge 2, but it's not a huge deal.

 

[Chicago Ted]

Mirror's Edge was fun. Maybe not the best gameplay, but I loved the settings that it put you in and the soundtrack was soothing. All in all, sucks to see it gone.

 

[cabalistics]

Mirror's Edge 2 is the only game that I would get super excited about other than Portal 2

 

[Littaly]

I freaking hated Mirror's Edge. But I absolutely loooved what they were trying to do with it, bad as it was, it was still a cool, refreshing and creative game, I would love for them to make another attempt. Unfortunately a new attempt would mean a risk, which as much as I hate it, I understand you can't always afford to take

HEY! You know what has like a 100% chance of success and profit though? Military shooters! -.-

The world is unfair

 

[Sleepingzombie]

Easy:
lets say Fun have many aspects that are equal. Take the enjoyment from playing a good shooter to a great platformer. There are different actions that stimulate in different ways; in the shooter you use your twitch skills to kill first and are rewarded then you score a kill. In the platformer you string togheter jumps and navigate the level and breathe out when you are at your goal, past all the death-traps.

So its two kinds: A to B= Fun A=100 A

General platforming: Fun B=100 B

They are different kinds of fun but both give you much enjoyment.

 

[Mikeyfell]

I want Mirror's Edge 2 bad...
With a bit of polish (or a metric ton of polish especially in the load time and collision detection areas) Mirror's Edge 2 could redeem my faith in the games industry

now finish Blade Kitten and release Jak 4

jaks not coming back
At least not soon. Uncharted is the companies bread and butter now. And to be fair im alright with it, their both very good game series (jak and uncharted)

Well Uncharted is very pretty and functional but there's not an original bone in it's design.

I will admit I had fun with both Uncharted games but I couldn't bring my self to care about the story or characters enough to finish either of them.

That's just my preference, good story and characters are what make games enjoyable, that's why Jak 2 and Prince of Persia SOT are the two best games of all times.

 

[Mouse One]

Mirror's edge was the girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead: for when it was good, it was very very good, but when it was bad, it was horrid.

I still play Mirror's Edge from time to time. When everything is working fine, and you know where all the collision detection issues are and how to deal with them, and you can skip the chapters with the god-awful combat or the jumping puzzles that involve inching along ledges for minutes on end....it's great! And I'm not kidding, either-- it really is immersive, and you feel like you're running along at breakneck speed over rooftops while doing Olympic grade gymnastics.

But god, the issues. If they had simply made a BETTER Mirror's Edge, it would have been game of the year material. Icing Mirror's Edge 2 is a lost opportunity, to say the least. I'm convinced that it is possible to do a First Person Platformer, and ME came close. But like all those million times Faith missed a jump by a nanometer when I played-- Close wasn't good enough.

 

[Tony2077]

that sucks i just hope that this doesn't happen to beyond good and evil 2 "knocks on wood"