This makes me sad, I really liked SR3 was going to buy a copy (I'm not a pirate I played it on a friends game console)
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And Red Faction, and the good saints row games, and CoH among other things. When did you go from the funny pun guy to another hateful bile spewer that appears to fall into the "you made a game/s I subjectively didn't like so I hope you lose your job" crowd?DVS BSTrD said:
So long as someone else scoops Relic out of this mess with the Dawn of War rights then everything will be fine to me!
I am not a fan of any of THQs other games but I want DoW to survive so much.
Oh and Red Facton. But only the very first game and at an absolute stretch the second. I loved the first Red Faction so much that I still play it, but they have gone so wildly off course with the current gen games that I have no interest any more in the series.
I am not a fan of any of THQs other games but I want DoW to survive so much.
Oh and Red Facton. But only the very first game and at an absolute stretch the second. I loved the first Red Faction so much that I still play it, but they have gone so wildly off course with the current gen games that I have no interest any more in the series.
What goes up eventually must come down. It's only a matter of time and circumstance. While I enjoyed some things about THQ, there were almost an equal number of things I didn't like about them.
The only people I feel sorry for are the people who actually put forth the effort into making games some people enjoy. May they wind up at companies who can give them a good working home.
The only people I feel sorry for are the people who actually put forth the effort into making games some people enjoy. May they wind up at companies who can give them a good working home.
THQ, what are you doing?
THQ, STAPH.
Seriously, your developing Dawn of war 3! Dawn of War 3. a reported spiritual successor to the original Dawn of War style of gameplay and not the Dawn of War 2 style of gameplay. Please THQ, just release Dawn of War 3 first before you go under.
I dread to think of all the RTS glory we'll miss out on if another company picks up the rights to it and just churns out pale imitations of what could be.
THQ, STAPH.
Seriously, your developing Dawn of war 3! Dawn of War 3. a reported spiritual successor to the original Dawn of War style of gameplay and not the Dawn of War 2 style of gameplay. Please THQ, just release Dawn of War 3 first before you go under.
I dread to think of all the RTS glory we'll miss out on if another company picks up the rights to it and just churns out pale imitations of what could be.
Well Pachter can make solid predictions. Of course its usually when someone walking by who glances at the info goes "****ing DUH!" but he can be right in those situations.TizzytheTormentor said:
Where is the great lauding for the poor facsimile of Boys in the Hood in San Andreas? It's not there because it doesn't exist. It was loved for things like zooming around in a jetpack shooting soldiers off a speeding train to steal some weird alien goo. It was loved for everything BUT the seriousness. GTA developers have strange pretentions of making great topical crime dramas.rhizhim said:i kind of have to disagree with you.Treblaine said:Saints Row 3 delivered far more than the supposed king of city sandbox gaming; GTA4. GTA4 looked good, was reviewed highly and sold well yet in retrospect everyone hated.DVS BSTrD said:Yes I have: Saints Row 3 was the Call of Duty- Black Ops of sandbox gaming.Treblaine said:Someone hasn't played Saints Row the Third.DVS BSTrD said:Well that didn't take long. They split on their investors, now their investors are splitting on them.=hidden to save your shame]
It was an open world with far more enemy variety.
saints row 2 was what gta4 should have been.
part silly fun, part serious.
saints row 3 was just silly fun. yes, the hidden mission was awesome but it lacked a serious tone and quickly became monotone.(johnny gats death was meaningless)
plus the upgrade that turns you into god was out of place.
It's not a like for like equivalent of San Andreas that was the promised successor, but continuing along the theme of what was appreciated. The humble origins of some downtrodden street thugs wasn't what was memorable and loved, we can see feature films that do a far better job. But is there driving around in fun vehicles doing weird missions.
The story was what you made of it. The character was to an even greater extent what you made of them.
How can you call Saints Row the Third monotonous with such enemy and vehicle variety, customisation and different types and ratings of difficulty?!? That's not a rhetorical question, the "and quickly became monotone" is a complete non-sequitur, it came out of nowhere, with no basis in fact.
Vacillating schizophrenically between fun tone and serious tone CANNOT WORK. It has never worked, one only drags down the other. You can't go from making witty remarks about shooting up zombies with Burt Reynolds to suddenly sad-trumpet-Niko-talks-about-his-former-life. That's not the cure to monotony. That's hack writing.
And Saints Row 3 didn't have a cast of harmless buffoons, there were resolute threats that were played deliberately over the top.
That is pretty crappy news, sad for the devs etc. And all down to stupid greedy a-holes who dont know anything about games pandering to a bunch of equally moronic shareholders thats are dreadfully uneducated in video games. THQ can eat sh!t Trying to be more like EA rushing and chopping up games for DLC milking. Or simply not giving studios enough time or staff, example,
Space Marine, while im a 40k fanboy id love to defend it but i cant, it really does feel lacking in somthing, scale? Combat does get boring after awhile, and the lag makes it unplayable at times. But felt like an uncompleted game which i had to complete by buying DLC.
Dawn of War 2. Is great and being an RTS vet from good old Total Annihilation days it was a good refreshing take on RTS with a kickass universe to be apart of. But things like, GFWL, crappy match making, lag coz they dont have servers P2P crap or what ever it is. And not enough staff to work on balance. The missions was above average but nothing great but still good. Retri kinda sucked. Otherwise a solid RTS but could have been better.
And then there is the 40k MMO...or wot ever it is now, So much promise there, but no THQ are morons,I could go on forever. I wish they would stay alive long enough for CoH2, SouthPark, Metro, DoW3. They are some titles that could make save them.
Just start a kick Starter to buy THQ lol or at least save Relic & Vigil ^.^
Space Marine, while im a 40k fanboy id love to defend it but i cant, it really does feel lacking in somthing, scale? Combat does get boring after awhile, and the lag makes it unplayable at times. But felt like an uncompleted game which i had to complete by buying DLC.
Dawn of War 2. Is great and being an RTS vet from good old Total Annihilation days it was a good refreshing take on RTS with a kickass universe to be apart of. But things like, GFWL, crappy match making, lag coz they dont have servers P2P crap or what ever it is. And not enough staff to work on balance. The missions was above average but nothing great but still good. Retri kinda sucked. Otherwise a solid RTS but could have been better.
And then there is the 40k MMO...or wot ever it is now, So much promise there, but no THQ are morons,I could go on forever. I wish they would stay alive long enough for CoH2, SouthPark, Metro, DoW3. They are some titles that could make save them.
Just start a kick Starter to buy THQ lol or at least save Relic & Vigil ^.^
Slycne said:Tell that to Relic Entertainment, Vigil Games and Volition, who are all genuinely talented developers that will be affected by THQ's mismanagement.DVS BSTrD said:
Well that didn't take long. They split on their investors, now their investors are splitting on them.
OH NO! WE MIGHT LOSE SEQUELS TO DARKSIDERS AND SPACE MARINE?
WHATEVER SHALL WE DO?
Oh that's right, hold a goddamn parade.
Like one of THOSE parades.
And Saints Row 3 wasn't a patch on SR-2, it just stank of either a developer getting lazy/jumping the shark/being ironic.
I'm not (that) bitter, they got my $99 for Space Marine, I hope it serves them well.
SO you've got faith in the series... you realise THQ going under screws any chance of a 4th Saints Row game when that could be moving back to what you want from Saints Row 2.ResonanceSD said:
I just don't get people.
"Love them for Saints Row 2, but after Saints Row 3 i hate them and hope they die and destroy all chances of them ever doing it right"
And I've yet to hear serious criticism of SR3 that could possibly nullify all the new content and features. Just vague platitudes like "being ironic" whatever the hell that means, I think like Alanis Morissette they don't really know what Irony means and worse than not recognising it, mistakes other things for "irony".
Treblaine said:
Let me put it another way. Compared to SR2, SR3 was a steaming shitpile.
Irony in this case being a publisher of a game where the central theme was a gang becoming too comfortable with success finds that it shouldn't rest on it's laurels and gets punished for it, suffers the exact same fate.
I thought them pushing games back would bite them in the ass. Damn shame, as a publisher they were more consumer friendly than the vast majority of their counterparts. Damn shame, loved their core games. I think it'll be a miracle if they make it. I will weep for one of the few good publishers out there.
That is a completely worthless criticism and you know it. It's not literally true of course, figuratively it makes no sense by comparison.ResonanceSD said:
It says nothing.
That's also not irony in this case. Saints Row 2 was NOT a huge success to spite the critical praise, it was TOTALLY overshadowed by the mega-behemoth GTA4 with hyper-inflated metascore that now seems highly undeserved. Volition didn't rest on their Laurels, they packed SR3 game full of content and features and tried harder than anyone else. They tried harder than GTA4 with it's shitolla friends mechanic of bowling busywork and simplistic cover-based lock-on aiming against the same identical enemies. 98% on Metacritic. WTF.
I'm not surprised that this, the sum total of the criticism of great games like Saints Row The Third, is of such pitiful calibre.
You're the one trying to extract "irony" here, thinking everything Volition is going is to say "herp, we're idiots and we've been deliberately doing it wrong so you can notice and lol". And it isn't fucking irony. Could people PLEASE learn the definition of irony, that is there is an incongruity between the literal and the implied meaning.
Situational irony is when things go significantly different from the way they were expected by their intention. Example being an assassin firing at a VIP where the bullet misses yet bounces off a bulletproof screen (that was there to protect the VIP) hitting the VIP, so ironically the very thing that was there to protect him from bullets with it's hardness caused him to get hit. It's not ironic for an assassin to miss, it's ironic for a bulletproof shield to contribute to him getting hit.
Thematic similarity between industry machinations and a fictional plot is not irony nor is it likely intentional or even ACTUAL!
I mean how out of touch are you? Rockstar are HUGE! Most people who even follow videogames don't know Volition is the name of a game developer. Volition are nothing like "Rockstar" who really are full of themselves. Volition are down to earth and in touch with their users far more than Rockstar.
For the undedicated that are praising THQ as a great publisher, based on from what I can gather 3 or 4 titles from the last 2 years please go here
http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/company/6374.html
Its a list of all the shit THQ ever published. The only game on that list I would actually consider good is Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana.
Destroy all Humans was pretty fun in small doses as well.
Other than that there is literally nothing but licensed property shovelware/tie-in/cash grab/garbage.
If you were to take Metacritic to their library of mediocrity I'd be surprised if it averaged over 5 out of 10.
Your choice few beloved games will likely find harbor elsewhere, but this dog needs to be put down.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/company/6374.html
Its a list of all the shit THQ ever published. The only game on that list I would actually consider good is Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana.
Destroy all Humans was pretty fun in small doses as well.
Other than that there is literally nothing but licensed property shovelware/tie-in/cash grab/garbage.
If you were to take Metacritic to their library of mediocrity I'd be surprised if it averaged over 5 out of 10.
Your choice few beloved games will likely find harbor elsewhere, but this dog needs to be put down.
Welcome to consolidationville: Population, THQ
I wonder who among the other publishers are going to snatch up their properties?
All of the two or three major properties that wasn't licensed shit and shovelware,that is?
I wonder who among the other publishers are going to snatch up their properties?
All of the two or three major properties that wasn't licensed shit and shovelware,that is?