The Conduit (New Info)

[FJ-Warez]

HappySqurriel said:

omoneru said:

I understand that people want this game to be good.

But looking at the release history of High Voltage Software, I'm not sure why people can be so optimistic about it. 

According to Wikipedia, the average scores (last column) of their past releases have been less than encouraging.

2008     V.I.P. Casino: Blackjack   50%
2007     America's Army: True Soldiers    44%
2007     Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2     63%
2007     Ben 10: Protector of Earth       58%
2007     Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law       62%
2006     Family Guy Video Game!        50%
2006     Blitz: Overtime    61%
2006     The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy      60%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Voltage_Software

Is there a good reason to believe that this seemingly-mediocre developer with sad history will surely deliver a decent game on Wii?

Maybe, I'm missing something.

You know what I see from that list?

A developer who built a reputation for delivering low budget games on time and under budget with the promised features ...

You want to know how I came to that conclusion?

Publishers gain access to licenced properties and turn a profit by producing these games at the lowest possible cost and selling them based entirely on the popularity of the IP. These publishers tend to farm these IPs out to the same developers because they know they can consistently produce the games they promise to under budget and on schedule; if High Voltage went overbudget, delayed their games, or didn't deliver their promised features they probably wouldn't receive further IPs.

Developers like High Voltage are not (typically) given the opportunity to break the cycle of being a shovelware developer ... But High Voltage seems to be well managed because they have built up enough money (over time) to be able to pay for development of The Conduit without a publisher; being that they're taking a very high personal risk you would assume they have faith that they will be able to produce a high enough quality title to both recover their investment and build a decent reputation for themself.

 

 

To be honest that part is interesting, The Conduit is getting hype among the Wii owners of this forum like KZ2, but without any hype based on a CGI from 2005, or a high budget title, is just growing hype about a real gameplay, and a small team who is taking a big risk here...