Vyse The Legend said:There's not enough people excited about Tenacious D being in GH2. >=O
Tenacious D is in GH2? Eugh.
Vyse The Legend said:There's not enough people excited about Tenacious D being in GH2. >=O
GitarooMan said:And they're right on point about MS not having any first party releases from November to Fall, very poor planning.
BenjaminBirdie said:I don't get this mentality. Isn't MS better served by saving their own games to be released when more games are bought?
gofreak said:To a degree a first party should lead by example, and make up for the shortcomings of third parties. Third parties are always motivated around the fourth quarter and sales and while a first party also obviously needs to keep an eye on that, I think there's also a responsibility there - creatively and so on - to do things even if it wouldn't necessarily make the fullest sense for a third party, or from a business POV. But even third parties are not letting the system down like MS has from a content supply perspective. If all third parties put games out like MS is..
BenjaminBirdie said:But that "If" is being refuted pretty much monthly by third parties as games continue to be released.
BenjaminBirdie said:I'm sure MS could easily flood the market, force games out the door, and have a first party game every quarter
BenjaminBirdie said:I think in terms of quality, they are absolutely leading by example and that's why, by and large, people were most impressed with their E3 showing from a games perspective.
gofreak said:talking about the distribution of content across the year. To date in terms of releases, I don't think they've been leading in terms of quality on the platform. Oblivion and GRAW - third party games - were the first stand-outs IMO. There's certainly reason to be hopeful that Q3/Q4 this year will be better than Q4 was last year, but I think that they're going basically nearly a year releasing hardly anything til then (is it just one game?) is where the complaint arises. That's really crazy.
BenjaminBirdie said:And this whole "One Per Quarter should be a bare minimum" sounds like crazy talk to me. Considering the state of the games that are coming out in the fall, this would've been disasterous for at least three of the games being released at that point, as they would've been forced into rushdom. Or it would've been disasterous for games, as some other rushed job was added to the schedule.
gofreak said:You're assuming that because you have more games in development, suddenly they become rushed? I'm not saying games should be tied to a specific quarter, just that there should be enough in development such that on average you get them out far more regularly than MS is. It's an issue of resources, not rushing games.
Certain other platform holders put out multiple games per month, just to put things in perspective. Now obviously there's a warming up period when you launch a new system, but I just think MS is going too far with the "quality not quantity" thing. And I'm all for quality, but you can have both.
BenjaminBirdie said:Certain other platform holders seems to have about an 80%/20% Crap/Quality Ratio, just to put things in perspective.
BenjaminBirdie said:And the longevity of their quality launch titles shows, to me at least, that you can never go too far with "Quality Over Quantity", seriously.
gofreak said:Which depending on how far you go with your "quality over quantity" mantra would net you far more quality titles than the alternative strategy, and a broader range for those corners of the market that still value choice and see quality where others may not (and I think that can be seen in the sales of some less critically cherished titles). I knew you'd pull the quality card, but it rings very hollow given the range of quality titles that are there, despite the plethora of mediocre titles that accompany them.
Pretty obviously nonsense. Of course you can. One of the most common complaints of the N64 era was Nintendo's policy in this regard. I really think they'll need to start stepping things up more consistently.
Sorry to harp, I'm usually more of a "if you can't say something nice, say nothing at all" type of person. But this is one thing that's stood out to me.
gofreak said:Did I offend? Maybe "nonsense" was blunt, but it wasn't meant as a slight at you! I think the rest of what I said was fair.
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Nice, I liked the one with the death sound they kept playing to make fun of Luke.Amir0x said:hahahaha i won one of them keychains from the 1up yours podcast
now i will annoy all my friends.
Akia said:no way, that's awesome. which one did you win?
what was the answer anyways? November 6, 1889?