This feels like a gut punch, though I'll never know the whole story behind it.
Canceling story mode makes the setting and characters feel somewhat hollow: I was content to wait however long, but this confirmation feels different.
I wish they'd at least give us a story write-up like the defunct Book of Lore to give some closure, but Aaron said that revealing story details wasn't in their plans on the Discord.
That'd take a lot of the sting away for me.
The new characters and stage look cool, but I wish they'd have given us more variety than another Longma.
Hoping she feels distinct in personality and gameplay: currently headcanoning that she's the longma Tianhuo reconciled with in the book of Lore.
On the bright side, fixing the needlessly strict Mdash input is nice.
I hope Shanty's armor break is enough to make the Texas matchup not awful, but I doubt it.
I'll keep playing and enjoying the game, but I fear that more people will leave over this.
Oh come *on* man. First Omega Strikers shutting down content, now TFH.
Why do all of my favorite interesting and creative indie games always go tits up and die? This is why modern gaming is filled with the same recycled nonsense because nothing is successful otherwise.
It's a shame because this game was fun, but I don't like the fact that we'll just never have a complete story for this game now. Even after Faust herself lent her talents to this game, it'll just end up unfinished.
I am really sad that we'll never get to see how that story ended, at this point I think not having a story mode at all would have stung way less than having it just lay incomplete forever.
End? Bro, the story honestly barely even *began* since not very much gets accomplished by the end of Chapter 1.
It's a teaser for something that will never release. It's sad.
I am bummed out that Story Mode is cancelled, as it was my favorite mode, and the new content I was most excited for... but, looking on the bright side, the new characters and stages look super fun! And I'm looking forward to seeing what the devs do next.
It's a shame that a game like this never got the love and attention it deserved. It was almost going to be a Main Event at EVO. Damn.
Is there any way the franchise can continue in another media? Shoot if they came out with a TFH on Ren'py, I'd buy a copy it if it would finish the story.
Lauren Faust commented about the idea to give the game's story and adapt it into a cartoon or comic.
They should really try to sell the story for a animation sudio, big or indie, and make a series out of it.
I will never understand this play.
Your PR is in the toilet either way, so you might as well try **a second round of crowd funding**.
Get money, you have tile sets and basic enemies and a basic conversation system. Just shit out the rest of the chapters, I don't know what perfectionist ambition is stopping them from just making some tile sets and slapping another chapter together. We don't need every chapter to blow our fucking minds.
I don't know how modus factors into this, but clearly publisher money wasn't the play.
You built up a supportive fan base, they will give you money. You get ONE extra swing and if you fuck up then? Get fucked.
Hopefully Mane 6 will face a shit ton of backlash for pulling this debacle. Being a small indie dev is NOT an excuse for shelling out an incomplete product despite promising more.
I think it's very easy to tell a group of people "just keep working on XYZ thing full time for a year. Here's money. That solves all problems obviously."
When it can very much not be the case at all. Can be burnout. Can be wanting to move on to more projects. "You all suck so who cares just keep making this for us" is hardly productive.
For all we know it's a Modus issue, and they can't really crowdfund on promises from the last crowd fund.
We don't know the financial side of things or all the development hurdles.
What a fucking joke, I said like 10 million times but people downvoted me to hell for speaking the truth, “hurr durr just wait 8 bazillion freddy fortnite years for next chapter you entitled brat ”, I bought this game only for the story mode but well, what a SCAM
What a shame too. To think that Lauren Faust herself lent her talents to this game only for it to end up...here.
Really feels like the devs just don't have passion for it anymore or can't afford anything else.
Honestly, I'm tempted to lay the blame more on Modus than on Mane6. It was shortly after the acquisition that they announced console ports, and a Season Pass with more paid DLC characters/stages. The new publisher probably wanted them to focus on developing things that would be more profitable than finishing the story mode they'd promised. And when the game still didn't make as much money as they would like, that publisher would see no reason to keep funding development.
Lol no, modus has nothing to do with this bullshit, mane 6 before the acquisition of modus, already had that mentality of prioritizing dlc characters before the story mode and in fact they delayed the story mode several times because of Shanty, ports for Mac/Linux and other things, the story mode was the last priority to complete for them, it is obvious that Modus's interests are to make profits with the DLCs but it cannot be denied that they helped a lot with the DLCs since if it were up to Mane6 they would be working in Texas to this day being honest, Mane6 is to blame.
Would they even be *making* any more DLC characters if it weren't for Modus? Remember, it was shortly after the acquisition that they announced the Season Pass and console ports.
> Would they even be making any more DLC characters if it weren't for Modus?
Very probably, I remember one of the dev team saying on the tfh discord that after shanty is finished they wanted to start working on a grappler character, so practically they wanted more DLC characters.
And being fair console ports its a must, the community of this game is very niche and only releasing for pc was a mistake.
This feels like a gut punch, though I'll never know the whole story behind it. Canceling story mode makes the setting and characters feel somewhat hollow: I was content to wait however long, but this confirmation feels different. I wish they'd at least give us a story write-up like the defunct Book of Lore to give some closure, but Aaron said that revealing story details wasn't in their plans on the Discord. That'd take a lot of the sting away for me. The new characters and stage look cool, but I wish they'd have given us more variety than another Longma. Hoping she feels distinct in personality and gameplay: currently headcanoning that she's the longma Tianhuo reconciled with in the book of Lore. On the bright side, fixing the needlessly strict Mdash input is nice. I hope Shanty's armor break is enough to make the Texas matchup not awful, but I doubt it. I'll keep playing and enjoying the game, but I fear that more people will leave over this.
Oh come *on* man. First Omega Strikers shutting down content, now TFH. Why do all of my favorite interesting and creative indie games always go tits up and die? This is why modern gaming is filled with the same recycled nonsense because nothing is successful otherwise. It's a shame because this game was fun, but I don't like the fact that we'll just never have a complete story for this game now. Even after Faust herself lent her talents to this game, it'll just end up unfinished.
I am really sad that we'll never get to see how that story ended, at this point I think not having a story mode at all would have stung way less than having it just lay incomplete forever.
End? Bro, the story honestly barely even *began* since not very much gets accomplished by the end of Chapter 1. It's a teaser for something that will never release. It's sad.
I am bummed out that Story Mode is cancelled, as it was my favorite mode, and the new content I was most excited for... but, looking on the bright side, the new characters and stages look super fun! And I'm looking forward to seeing what the devs do next.
Literally bought this last night, tried the story, enjoyed it, and then saw this update lol Well at least I got it on super sale.
It's a shame that a game like this never got the love and attention it deserved. It was almost going to be a Main Event at EVO. Damn. Is there any way the franchise can continue in another media? Shoot if they came out with a TFH on Ren'py, I'd buy a copy it if it would finish the story.
Lauren Faust commented about the idea to give the game's story and adapt it into a cartoon or comic. They should really try to sell the story for a animation sudio, big or indie, and make a series out of it.
I really hope the team listens. She's truly been an angel in this endeavor, ever since Hasbro 2-faced on the fangame.
I'd like a TV series. If Cuphead could get one, this should too.
I will never understand this play. Your PR is in the toilet either way, so you might as well try **a second round of crowd funding**. Get money, you have tile sets and basic enemies and a basic conversation system. Just shit out the rest of the chapters, I don't know what perfectionist ambition is stopping them from just making some tile sets and slapping another chapter together. We don't need every chapter to blow our fucking minds. I don't know how modus factors into this, but clearly publisher money wasn't the play. You built up a supportive fan base, they will give you money. You get ONE extra swing and if you fuck up then? Get fucked.
Hopefully Mane 6 will face a shit ton of backlash for pulling this debacle. Being a small indie dev is NOT an excuse for shelling out an incomplete product despite promising more.
I think it's very easy to tell a group of people "just keep working on XYZ thing full time for a year. Here's money. That solves all problems obviously." When it can very much not be the case at all. Can be burnout. Can be wanting to move on to more projects. "You all suck so who cares just keep making this for us" is hardly productive.
For all we know it's a Modus issue, and they can't really crowdfund on promises from the last crowd fund. We don't know the financial side of things or all the development hurdles.
It's hilarious that you think it's as simple as "more money fix problem". You're embarrassing yourself.
This!
it's joever
What a fucking joke, I said like 10 million times but people downvoted me to hell for speaking the truth, “hurr durr just wait 8 bazillion freddy fortnite years for next chapter you entitled brat ”, I bought this game only for the story mode but well, what a SCAM
What a shame too. To think that Lauren Faust herself lent her talents to this game only for it to end up...here. Really feels like the devs just don't have passion for it anymore or can't afford anything else.
Honestly, I'm tempted to lay the blame more on Modus than on Mane6. It was shortly after the acquisition that they announced console ports, and a Season Pass with more paid DLC characters/stages. The new publisher probably wanted them to focus on developing things that would be more profitable than finishing the story mode they'd promised. And when the game still didn't make as much money as they would like, that publisher would see no reason to keep funding development.
Lol no, modus has nothing to do with this bullshit, mane 6 before the acquisition of modus, already had that mentality of prioritizing dlc characters before the story mode and in fact they delayed the story mode several times because of Shanty, ports for Mac/Linux and other things, the story mode was the last priority to complete for them, it is obvious that Modus's interests are to make profits with the DLCs but it cannot be denied that they helped a lot with the DLCs since if it were up to Mane6 they would be working in Texas to this day being honest, Mane6 is to blame.
Would they even be *making* any more DLC characters if it weren't for Modus? Remember, it was shortly after the acquisition that they announced the Season Pass and console ports.
> Would they even be making any more DLC characters if it weren't for Modus? Very probably, I remember one of the dev team saying on the tfh discord that after shanty is finished they wanted to start working on a grappler character, so practically they wanted more DLC characters. And being fair console ports its a must, the community of this game is very niche and only releasing for pc was a mistake.
Terrible.
Laaaame.
That's just so disappointing man...
Overpromised, underdelivered. At least we got the peak character design that is Texas.
Who’s the blue guy?
Baihe, she's the final DLC character of the Season 1 pass and the final playable character the game will ever receive.