Legend of Korra: The Game reviews are coming in.... yikes

[SanAndreasX]

QUAKECore89 said:

SanAndreasX said:

QUAKECore89 said:
Activision is the new LJN video game publisher.

Ironically, at the time LJN was a major publisher, Activision was trying to crawl out of bankruptcy.

Yep. It's weird, Activision asked a good developers Platinium Games for making games based on TV show, just like LJN hired a good developers Rare that made Beetlejuice. Sigh... Publishers control developers.

Activision + Platinium Games = Shitty game

LJN + Rare = Shitty game

Nintendo + Rare = Good game

Nintendo + Platinium Games = Good game

Don't forget:

Konami + Platinum = good game

Sega + Platinum = good games

Microsoft + Rare = a very mixed bag (some OK games, some shit)

The publisher generally dictates the content the developer makes, and sets the time and budget the developer gets to make the project. Nintendo is generally more generous with these things for its star developers. Sega also let them have a free hand and they made some good games under Sega. Konami gave them a specific IP to work with, but it's Konami's biggest property and they had the support of Hideo Kojima. And then Platinum was trying to rebuild a project that Kojima Productions didn't know how to finish on its own.

Activision, by contrast, wanted them to shit out a quickie downloadable cash-in on a licensed property on the cynical belief that people would buy it anyway just because it was LoK, and that's what they got.