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Zkuq on 26 March 2009
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darthdevidem01 said:
naznatips said:
Xxain said:
naznatips said:
Munkeh111 said:
naznatips said:
When I tried it and it felt like I was playing "Baby's first RTS." You can't make an RTS game with much less strategy and depth than that and still call it an RTS.

Yes, but it does work well on a console

 

Sorry, too many years of playing PC RTS games to lower my standards that much.

 

PC people are snobby

 

They just have standards that aren't based on any sort of brand loyalty because there is no specific brand to be loyal to.

Games for windows is a brand!

 

A brand that has existed since... 2007? A rather new brand anyway, not significant. Besides, most PC gamers I've seen don't care for it at all. Oh, and all PC games don't even use that brand. I also guess people wouldn't care about the brand even if it was Linux games were played on - the games would simple be PC games instead of 'Games for Windows' games. In case you missed my point, it was that GfW isn't significant enough.

Xxain said:
naznatips said:
Munkeh111 said:
naznatips said:
When I tried it and it felt like I was playing "Baby's first RTS." You can't make an RTS game with much less strategy and depth than that and still call it an RTS.

Yes, but it does work well on a console

 

Sorry, too many years of playing PC RTS games to lower my standards that much.

 

PC people are snobby

I'd rather say console gamers can't recognize quality. How many RTS games have you played before Halo Wars, for example?

Munkeh111 said:
naznatips said:
When I tried it and it felt like I was playing "Baby's first RTS." You can't make an RTS game with much less strategy and depth than that and still call it an RTS.

Yes, but it does work well on a console

Should we call a game running on a cell phone great just because it's better than the ones released in its genre before? I don't think so. It's no different for other platforms either. If it lacks strategy and depth, it lacks them. There's nothing to do about it. May work for noobs of the genre and even for some of the more experienced people but I doubt people are going to return to the game when they've finished it once. I might actually say that often one of the best marks of a great RTS is its excellent replayability.

And not to go completely off-topic, it's not fair to compared sales numbers from different weeks. I thought it was pretty obvious... And 4k isn't much anyway.

I wouldn't speak of legs at this point though, unless it's clear they're terrible, which clearly isn't the case now. We ought to wait at least a couple of weeks before speaking of legs.