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Perry.F.Caravello on 04 August 2012

Nothing like a hands off approach.

*LauGHs*



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Darc Requiem on 04 August 2012
Perry.F.Caravello said:
Nothing like a hands off approach.

*LauGHs*


Too bad Casey Hudson didn't take that approach to the ending....



HappySqurriel on 04 August 2012
lilbroex said:
Khuutra said:
lilbroex said:

Nintendo is not a classification of hardware. That statement alone is when I called BS on what they were saying.

The finalised dev kits just came out. There is no one really more skilled in the hardware than anyone else at the moment besides Nintendo.

 

This is like the Wii all over again. NFS Hot Pursuit was given to a 3rd party dev because they were too lazy to put in the effort and what came out was abyssmal. It was the same with the Sims. They didn't even bother to beta test the games.

Same with Activision and the call of duty games for the Wii.

 

This shows one thing and one thing only. They do not care anywhere near as much about the Nintendo customers. You can make as many exsuses for them, as you wish but they aren't doing this to the Sony and Microsoft customers.

Shinen seemed to indicate that prior experience on the Wii helps on the Wii U, but that, honestly, is neither here nor there.

This is not an independently developed game like the ones you mentioned. This is a port. This news - that BioWare would continue to focus on making new content - should be expected. You are overreacting.


If you believe that, then click on my thread abou the Madden Q&A. The signs are showing.

Yeah, I have to agree with Khuutra that you're over-reacting ...

Being that Mass Effect 3 runs on the Unreal 3 engine which has already been ported to the Wii U without significant issues, a straight forward port (without any touch screen input) should be possible to do with a handful of competent developers in a very short period of time. The only real question is how much further than a straight port it becomes, and how good of a team is handling it.

At worst, Mass Effect 3 would be (roughly) on par with the other console versions.



Darc Requiem on 05 August 2012

I think Lilbroex is overreacting as well. The PC version of Mass Effect 1 wasn't ported by Bioware. The port came out better than the original for the inventory system improvements alone.



zarx on 05 August 2012

I can't see how this could be a bad thing. If anything a 3rd party studio doing it will probably lead to a better end result.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 05 August 2012

This port is going to get so much neglect. Nintendo really needs to be focused on getting games people have not seen to show them what the next gen is going to be like.



kanjitech18 on 05 August 2012

To be honest, this isn't anywhere near as offensive as Madden 13 lacking features, even online.



digitalnasties on 05 August 2012

EA... pass.



 

Mr Khan on 05 August 2012
Khuutra said:
lilbroex said:

Nintendo is not a classification of hardware. That statement alone is when I called BS on what they were saying.

The finalised dev kits just came out. There is no one really more skilled in the hardware than anyone else at the moment besides Nintendo.

 

This is like the Wii all over again. NFS Hot Pursuit was given to a 3rd party dev because they were too lazy to put in the effort and what came out was abyssmal. It was the same with the Sims. They didn't even bother to beta test the games.

Same with Activision and the call of duty games for the Wii.

 

This shows one thing and one thing only. They do not care anywhere near as much about the Nintendo customers. You can make as many exsuses for them, as you wish but they aren't doing this to the Sony and Microsoft customers.

Shinen seemed to indicate that prior experience on the Wii helps on the Wii U, but that, honestly, is neither here nor there.

This is not an independently developed game like the ones you mentioned. This is a port. This news - that BioWare would continue to focus on making new content - should be expected. You are overreacting.

I'm siding with lilbroex on this one. Outsourcing porting is usually a bad sign, it's only done if the developer no longer exists or is affiliated with you (as in Okami on Wii), or because the company really doesn't care about port quality (as in Orange Box PS3)

Of course, i'm actively in the process of re-evaluating my opinion of BioWare, but this makes me more wary of them than that damn torture droid with the flamethrower



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SaviorX on 05 August 2012

You do not need a top quality team for a port.

Look at what Nintendo did with Ocarina of Time 3DS



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