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Dead Space Extraction coming to XBLA/PSN?
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EmCeeGramr
Member
it's an acebandage posting time for posts!!!!
juicyfruitas
Member
oh sheeeeit, just bought this at the EA Employee Store for $20 last week. Had I gotten a mere sniff of this rumor I woulda held off for the HD version and used those funds on something like Army of 2 instead....
AceBandage
Banned
Firestorm said:
They are, however, idiots for thinking that treating a fanbase like crap is the way to sell games.
Saying that cheaply made light gun shooters are "what hardcore gamers want" is just laughable.
Thinking that a Point and Click adventure that you didn't even try to get stores to carry is what hardcore gamers want is insane.
Saying that a black and white beat em up should have sold 4 million copies just makes me face palm.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
From the Dolphin thread. Just think, this is what you could be playing in mere months (or not).
plagiarize said:
Shin Johnpv
Member
EA confirms Extraction was a budget title that they tried to rip off Wii owners with. That should be the title.
Rush2thestart
Member
grandjedi6 said:
Holy assumptions batman! :lol
At least quote an analyst or something.
AceBandage
Banned
Firestorm said:
They probably shouldn't honestly.
At least, not the way they have been doing it (by thinking hardcore gamers would want scraps).
EA Active has been huge for them as has Tiger Woods. I'd say putting their games on PS3 and the easy to port to 360 + PC are probably a better use of resources as far as potential userbase is concerned. Of course there's development costs to think about too, but if you split it up as:Lonely1 said:
360 + PS3 + PC
vs
Wii
Even 360 + PS3 probably has more potential customers for a "hardcore" game as a Wii title.
Anyway, if this title has some sort of way to make the controls not suck, I'd be interested once I'm done Dead Space.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Mohonky said:
You didn't play Extraction, did you?
It's not a lightgun game, it wouldn't work that way: it needs a small HUD/cursor on the screen all the time (unlike every Wii "lightgun" game there wasn't even the option to turn it off), it needs quite a bit of buttons too... but the point remains that it doesn't feel (and doesn't want to be) a lightgun shooter at all.
EA were stupid to think that "hardcore" gamers in general, on any system, would run out and buy a light-gun-style shooter. That's just not the kind of game that will sell to that audience. Period. Christ almighty, my Super Scope/old tv make for a better and more accurate light-gun experience than the Wiimote ever could anyways.
It's a sad situation, because I've heard that the game is good. The "casuals" aren't wanting Dead Space, the "hardcore" don't want a simple rail shooter, and it would control like handicapped ass with a traditional controller on a different system.
It just.....shouldn't exist.
It's a sad situation, because I've heard that the game is good. The "casuals" aren't wanting Dead Space, the "hardcore" don't want a simple rail shooter, and it would control like handicapped ass with a traditional controller on a different system.
It just.....shouldn't exist.
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
I'm not one for ignoring problems on hand.AceBandage said:
You know, you'd make a good PR guy for a video game company.AceBandage said:
Oh don't get me wrong, Capcom's "test" argument is still stupid.mugurumakensei said:
Somehow I don't think an appeal to authority would help much here, let alone one involving some random "video game analyst".Rush2thestart said:
EA's done pretty damn well with their casual efforts. They got the iphone market locked down, Sims 3 has been selling really well, EA sports active was a huge seller, etc. They seem to be the publisher closest to Nintendo in effectively selling to the Wii's casual crowd.Lonely1 said:
ThatObviousUser
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Thanks for giving us what amounted to an XBLA game, EA! It's not like we wanted a real game, or anything.
still really damn bitter
ShockingAlberto
Member
There might be logic to this, considering there's apparently no PC version of Dead Space 2, so any attempt to cultivate a fanbase there is dead.Firestorm said:
Night_Trekker
Member
Aaron Strife said:
I wanted it. But not for full price.
ThatObviousUser
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farnham said:
Abysmally. Schuelma has the hard numbers, but it did much worse than Extraction.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
If DSE hits PSN, I'd definitely buy it. I really wanted to play it, but I don't have a Wii. Not enough games on it that interest me. It's just too bad that I read the plotline to find out what happened... it might not be a surprise, but I'll still pick it up.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
I didn't like it on Wii, so I doubt HD would do much to help it.
Shame, too, as I love the original Dead Space.
Shame, too, as I love the original Dead Space.
BurritoBushido
Member
It doesn't even really need to be HD, its pretty as it is. I got it last year from Gamefly and I absolutely loved it. Wayforward should really consider a digital release.
boiled goose
good with gravy
Vdragoon said:
it might sell to people who played dead space?
MarkMclovin
Member
Not sure what the problem is here. Extraction was a pretty good game and scored very well for an on the rails shooter.
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Glad to know that they think that Wii owners are suckers and are willing to buy the game at a full price of $50, while PS3/360 owners are entitled to get it at budget price.
This game will bomb on the PSN and XBLA. Not only are most people not going to be interested but it will also almost certainly require the motion controllers, which almost nobody is going to own.
This game will bomb on the PSN and XBLA. Not only are most people not going to be interested but it will also almost certainly require the motion controllers, which almost nobody is going to own.
Captain_Spanky
Member
That's cool, the more people that play Dead Space: Extraction the better. Fucking sweet game right there. Goddamn coolest use of the nunchuck ever too.
Interesting opinion on the guided first-person thing here too:
http://www.dailyrodent.com/?p=1410
But seriously, did all the people saying it was half-assed and stuff play it? It's really not, it does some pretty unique and clever things. Visceral Games just can't catch a break I suppose.
Interesting opinion on the guided first-person thing here too:
http://www.dailyrodent.com/?p=1410
But seriously, did all the people saying it was half-assed and stuff play it? It's really not, it does some pretty unique and clever things. Visceral Games just can't catch a break I suppose.
Rovert40 said:
I think you said it best (except for the bold), looking at it only from a marketing perspective and not from the perspective of that niche market who actually purchased it.
The most easy way to prove this is to ask people which would they rather get, if they had fifty bucks: a guided first person shooter (ala DS:E) or a third person shooter (ala Dead Space), assuming that it played and looked like RE:4 which we know is technically possible on Wii.
MarkMclovin
Member
Nuclear Muffin said:
Why are people saying it's $50?. I swear people are just dong a Copy & Paste of other peoples wrong posts.
It's fucking $29.99 in Gamestop and amazon.com, new.
GrotesqueBeauty
Banned
It probably won't do amazing numbers, but it'll probably be better positioned as a budget title on systems where EA actually laid proper groundwork with the original Dead Space. Extraction on Wii got a cold start at full price in a genre people were already starting to identify with publisher ambivalence and cynicism.Vdragoon said:
There's no getting around the fact that the game is sleeping in the bed EA made for it. A price drop helps, but the game already has a stigma attached to it based on how badly positioned it was from the get-go.MarkMclovin said:
israeli redneck
Banned
I personally don't like the wii, and am glad that most publishers/developers are not putting lots of effort into wii games.
I hate waggle, and never understood how shaking a wiimote was better than pressing a button.
I have a wii thats been sitting in the corner for over a year, and the only feeling I have for it is that I am sorry I wasted money on it.
With that, I don't really think any AAA dev will really want to put their game on a gimped system. It's the exact same reason you don't see AAA devs making anymore ps2 games - they want to move onto bigger and better, and seems like they think like me - that the wii is not any better than last gen, and they cannot make the games they want on it.
Fine by me, and the only thing I can recommend wii owners to do is buy a current gen console, and stop wishing for whats available on the other consoles.
I hate waggle, and never understood how shaking a wiimote was better than pressing a button.
I have a wii thats been sitting in the corner for over a year, and the only feeling I have for it is that I am sorry I wasted money on it.
With that, I don't really think any AAA dev will really want to put their game on a gimped system. It's the exact same reason you don't see AAA devs making anymore ps2 games - they want to move onto bigger and better, and seems like they think like me - that the wii is not any better than last gen, and they cannot make the games they want on it.
Fine by me, and the only thing I can recommend wii owners to do is buy a current gen console, and stop wishing for whats available on the other consoles.
Lonely1 said:It could be the iPhone/iPad...
If that is true then I will have my very first GAF meltdown. But I'll keep hope for now. I mean, EA is dumb, but they can't possibly be THAT dumb. Right?
israeli redneck said:
Wow, it's like he was going down the official trolling the Wii checklist when he wrote that post.
About the bolded, what you and many others don't understand is that what's on other consoles is not what Wii owners want either. When someone asks for "Dead Space with pointer controls" that second is also important to them. But since you can't see past 'waggle lol' with regards to Wii controls, you can't appreciate that perspective.