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[vlad321]

Khuutra said:

vlad321 said:

No we don't need them. Yeah sure a whole slew of developers will close because they won't make enough money, but in the end only the devs who can actually make GOOD games will remain. Survival of the fittest, and currently the consoles are only promoting more and more mediocrity for one reason or another. And hey, it's not all PC games > all console games. It's just that the best games of the PC >>> the best games on the consoles in their genres.

I admit I can't find the logic in any of this. Only the great survive, huh? I guess it doesn't take long for people to forget Looking Glass choking to death on its own puke.

And the best PC games >>>>>>> the best games on the consoles in their genres? What does this one even mean?

Hey at least the devs there went on to make Irrational Games and continued to make some badass games.
Also I meant that if it's a game that can be made well on a PC (meaning platforming, sports, etc. are excluded) then th best of the genre on the PC is far far better than the best of the genre on the consoles.

 

Edit: A quick wikipedia of what happened to the devs in Looking Glass:

 

After the company folded, people from Looking Glass went on to work at Ion Storm, Irrational Games, Harmonix, Mad Doc Software, Arkane Studios, Valve, and to found Floodgate Entertainment and Digital Eel, amongst other later studios. Ion Storm Austin developed Thief: Deadly Shadows, the third game in the Thief series. Arkane Studios went on to develop Arx Fatalis, a dungeon crawling game that bore heavy resemblance to Looking Glass' cult series Ultima Underworld, and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, which was co-designed by Floodgate. Ex-Looking Glass personnel have worked on such games as Deus Ex, Guitar Hero, Half-Life 2, Freedom Force, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Fallout 3, Bioshock, Empire Earth II and Star Trek: Armada II among others.

 

P.S. I'd kill for a new Freedom Force or a true new Thief.