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Dark Nation Oct 12, 2007 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Elixir (Post 515040)
They're as bad as THQ. They shouldn't be allowed to make games at all.

I applied to be a QA Tester with THQ ;___;

Slayer X Oct 12, 2007 06:57 PM

@BlueMikey
I meant more in the shear number of games. I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me that Ubisoft have made 50% of the Wii games to date... seriously.

map car man words telling me to do things Oct 12, 2007 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Tails (Post 515063)
The real question is:

Would it be good?

No.

Why wouldn't it be good? >=0 Saged so bad.

Incidentally, both games were released by THQ, so the company can't be all bad.

Elixir Oct 12, 2007 10:07 PM

GameFAQs - Game Company Information

Enough said. If someone blows THQ up, maybe some quality movie-to-game releases will start happening. Some random mecha game isn't going to make up for the dozens of processed cheese they've managed to pump out in the last three years, sorry.

Slayer X Oct 12, 2007 10:19 PM

If THQ goes bye-bye, then who's going to make Man Handeling or Wresteling games?

The world will cease to lose balance... oh wait a second, there's still EA, right, nevermind.

Sexninja Oct 13, 2007 03:17 PM

BW still has many games under its belt not revealed.
I remember the news of one PS3 xclusive.
I know they will definatley make use of their voice engine alot, tweaking it even fiurther for future releases.
MMOrpg, dragonage, ps3 xclusive and lots more will come, all will rock coz they are in playable form, so EA could not harm it or can it?

Iwata Oct 13, 2007 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Sexninja (Post 515441)
BW still has many games under its belt not revealed.
I remember the news of one PS3 xclusive.
I know they will definatley make use of their voice engine alot, tweaking it even fiurther for future releases.
MMOrpg, dragonage, ps3 xclusive and lots more will come, all will rock coz they are in playable form, so EA could not harm it or can it?

There is no Bioware PS3 exclusive. It was a rumour started in early 07 by an anonymous reader. Here is the article.

Rumour Central

map car man words telling me to do things Oct 13, 2007 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Elixir (Post 515142)
GameFAQs - Game Company Information

Enough said. If someone blows THQ up, maybe some quality movie-to-game releases will start happening. Some random mecha game isn't going to make up for the dozens of processed cheese they've managed to pump out in the last three years, sorry.

I.. can't really tell if you were making reference to some other games or if you're actually misinformed enough to think Full Spectrum Warrior is a mecha game, in which case we can just laugh you out of GFF altogether.

Either way, they sure have their share of crap as do all large publishers, but they've also published the Dawn of War games, Supreme Commander, Psychonauts, Broken Sword and your beloved Gitaroo Man. Like I said, they can't be all bad.

Helloween Oct 13, 2007 06:31 PM

This raises some interesting points and questions for me. What i'd like to know is whether or not a video game developer would be considered a forum for media, and thus being branded a media company. BioWare is Canadian, and it is against the law to own a canadian media company if you're not canadian yourself (i.e. a canadian organization, or citezenship in the case of private ownership). I also happen to know that more than a few canadian laws get overlooked in this sort of case, so i wonder if this was taken into account during the buy.

BlueMikey Oct 13, 2007 06:48 PM

But it isn't a Canadian media company anymore, it is a division of Electronic Arts, just like EA Canada.

Helloween Oct 13, 2007 06:51 PM

But the law should've stopped the transaction in the first place.

BlueMikey Oct 13, 2007 06:55 PM

If there is such a law that you cannot completely sell a Canadian company to an American corporation, I'd be willing to bet they just structure it in a way where EA buys all of BioWare's assets...licenses, copyrights, employee contracts, property, etc....and then BioWare is dissolved.

Helloween Oct 13, 2007 07:14 PM

I suppose that would work. I'm going to ask my politics professor about this though. Not that i'm trying to start a revolution or anything, just curious. Also would like to hear his opinion on whether or not game developers are considered forums of media.

Elixir Oct 13, 2007 09:26 PM

How many good games have THQ actually developed, not just released into Europe?

Infernal Monkey Oct 13, 2007 11:15 PM

It still amazes me in a not really so amazed but kind of (sorta) that THQ is as big as they are today. Also that I can form sentences like that. They were so ARSE in the early 90's, breaking everything they touched. Wayne's World, Ren & Stimpy, Home Alone, MORE EXAMPLES HERE. These were big names! But the games were complete rubbish, and nobody bought them. They almost went down the shitter. Then BAM, effort! Time Trax, the second Ren & Stimpy (AND MORE EXAMPLES HERE: THE SEQUEL) were awesome. THE DIRT WAS GONE.

But now their licensed games sell hundreds of thousands of copies no matter how much stomach bile is rubbed on the case. THQ doesn't need to try anymore. And good luck to them on that. They outsell everything else on the planet combined including bread and milk (also milkbread). I'm off to pre-order Bratz 4 Real. :3: THQ's a pretty good publisher when you kung fu kick the shovelware out of the way, though.

Buy Worms Open Warfare 2

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speculative Oct 14, 2007 11:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey (Post 515586)
THQ's a pretty good publisher when you kung fu kick the shovelware out of the way, though.

Buy Dawn of War, Winter Assault, and Dark Crusade

Corrected. Anyone who released the RTS/strategy game of the year, more than once, can't be all bad.

With luck, EA will get so large that people will be able to siphon money off into little development departments without the "suits" knowing and we will get some great games that way.

Kagosin Oct 20, 2007 11:32 PM

Actually at first I thought EA was horrible. However, a few of my friends work within there, and they say it's alright. It's not all that great, but it's not painstakingly horrible. I'm playing the game skate right now, and it's not all that bad. I'd prefer it more than Tony Hawk games at this point.


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