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Re: THQ Dissolved

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Post by venomsnake »

chris11 wrote: post #8
venomsnake wrote: post #6

Metro and CoH 2 seems to be safe. Southpark may be in trouble, and Obsidian are in no need of additional trouble right now. And Ubisoft don't know what an RPG is. Darksiders are done which is sad.

Ubisoft wants to buy South Park, but it looks like there may be legal trouble. South Park Studios filed a complaint saying that THQ did not have the legal right to sell South Park as long as South Park Studios reclaims the license by paying the full amount that THQ put into the game. http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a453020/south-park-stu...

I think that Ubisoft is a death sentence for any creative studio, and obsidian is that. I thought with the 2004-5-6 Prince of Persia trilogy and Beyond good and Evil that Ubisoft has finally found out how to make great games that are also creative.

But from all of their recent years - they ran Heroes into the ground, from the fabled AC franchise only the ACII is really good, and whatever they ship they manage to make unplayable with the uplay crap.

Re: THQ Dissolved

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Post by yareally »

lloeki wrote: post #46
yareally wrote: post #21

Metro 2033 is most likely in good hands. The parent company that bought them owns Deep Silver, who published one of the great games of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series[1], which I think Metro pulls from. Random fun fact, but the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game was also published by THQ. Probably why THQ were so interested in Metro 2033, which came shortly after. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R._%28series%29

> which I think Metro pulls from Metro 2033 is adapted from a russian '05 novel of the same name, while S.T.A.L.K.E.R is from both the '72 novel Stalker and its '79 movie. They bear no lineage.

Thanks! I did not know it was a separate novel as well for Metro.

Re: THQ Dissolved

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Post by sesqu »

yareally wrote: post #42
bunderbunder wrote: post #35

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I suspect that Saint's Row is most notable for how exceptional it is compared to the rest of THQ's line-up. Not being an Xbox owner, I can't say I've played it, but I'll accept for the sake of argument that it is a truly original game and not just a well-made GTA look-alike. So even given that, to me the main thing THQ's name brings to mind is the endless stream of games they churned out under licensing agreements wi…

Saints Row 3 is also on PC. You can find it cheap during one of the seasonal Steam sales (under 10 dollars recently). Does not take a mega PC to run it either in requirements. If you only roll with Linux or OSX, it's old enough it should run fine with Wine.

It was released in the fall of 2011. I would be surprised if it ran well under wine.

Re: THQ Dissolved

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Post by yareally »

sesqu wrote: post #53
yareally wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Saints Row 3 is also on PC. You can find it cheap during one of the seasonal Steam sales (under 10 dollars recently). Does not take a mega PC to run it either in requirements. If you only roll with Linux or OSX, it's old enough it should run fine with Wine.

It was released in the fall of 2011. I would be surprised if it ran well under wine.

It might have some stability issues (I haven't seen anything posted about it with Wine in over a year now though), but if one can get it running, I don't think it would perform that bad.

It would depend on if you wanted it to work with the dx11 graphics or dx9 option. Dx9 is all consoles get so it wouldn't be horrible. The game is also nowhere as graphically impressive as some other PC games (Witcher 2, original Crysis, Deus Ex). Lots of low res textures in it that were not improved when porting from the consoles.

Don't get me wrong, I love the game, but it's a console port at heart and has the side-effects that come from porting it without improving graphically really. It wasn't a game I played for the graphics though and not something to nitpick really.

Re: THQ Dissolved

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Post by dvhh »

jcurbo wrote: post #36
dvhh wrote: post #30

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more slow paced than the first one ( + extension by barking dog studio ), but still a good homeworld game

I agree. It was a bit 'easier' in that there were features like automatically vacuuming up all resources on a map once a mission was complete. The graphics were more modern (not that Homeworld 1 had any problems in that department) and I seem to recall the tech tree being a bit more streamlined? Also a better UI - much more information could be on screen at the same time.

About the automatic resources vaccuming, I preferred the homeworld 1 way, where you could rebuild your fleet at the end of the mission (cataclysm added a much needed time warp). Still my favorite RTS.

Re: THQ Dissolved

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Post by sesqu »

yareally wrote: post #54
sesqu wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was released in the fall of 2011. I would be surprised if it ran well under wine.

It might have some stability issues (I haven't seen anything posted about it with Wine in over a year now though), but if one can get it running, I don't think it would perform that bad. It would depend on if you wanted it to work with the dx11 graphics or dx9 option. Dx9 is all consoles get so it wouldn't be horrible. The game is also nowhere as graphically impressive as some other PC games (Witcher 2, original Crys…

It's not only the textures that's the problem. Wine's app tracker reports that in 2010, Saints Row 2 would crash on launch. It's possible it runs now, but that doesn't leave Saints Row 3 with a good outlook.
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