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bmmb1 on 07 November 2009
LordTheNightKnight said:
c0rd said:

Meh, I just see this as an excuse for them to avoid developing on the Wii. The games obviously can be ported, but they don't want to be bothered with it. No use complaining about it if the decision is in their hands. I wouldn't pick the Wii version up due to friends / online, anyways.

It's much like the situation with Valve and the PS3.

I find it interesting how people can side with one and be against the other.

They don't seem to be against porting their games at least.

Are you sure they have a choice? This may simply be part of their contract - they can develop what they want, but if they don't want to develop for some platform Activision has the right to take someone else to do the job.



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Profcrab on 07 November 2009
psychoBrew said:
Profcrab said:
psychoBrew said:
Profcrab said:
psychoBrew said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
psychoBrew said:
Profcrab said:
psychoBrew said:
IW might not be able to, but Treyarch definitely can.

Treyarch can do what?  Make a bad CoD game?  Oh yes, they can do that very well.

I give that post a 9.2.

 

The statement is perfectly clear.  Grow up.  IW said over and over again that the Wii could not handle Modern Warfare.  All the pirated videos of Treyarch's Modern Warfare efforts prove otherwise.  Now IW is at it again with MW2 and beyond.  IW may not be able to deliver on the Wii (and I give them points for admitting it), but there's no doubt that Treyarch can.

The only bad CoD Treyarch made was CoD 3 Wii, and that's because they only had two developers working on it.

Actually it was because they only had 8 months, but otherwise that's true.


I can't find the post, but I'm pretty sure that Treyarch developer who is on all the forums said they only had two developers working on it.

Overall, Treyarch's track record is spotty. The ONLY other shooter they did for the Wii is World at War and it is only a decent game (after reading they didn't actually develop Quantum of Solace for the Wii, but they did for other systems and it was still crap).  I might take excuses from a developer if they had a better history, but Treyarch is, overall, an "OK" developer.

You throw words around like "definitely" and "without a doubt" when it just doesn't fit.  The Reflex gameplay looks ok in the videos (although visually it looks a bit like playing a shooter on my P4 era computer).  Treyarch isn't the kind of developer where i would buy one of their games without a review first.  If they pull this port off than I might be convinced that they can port MW2 with simiilar gameplay, but still unconvinced they can reliably develop a good shooter on their own.

I give that post a 9.4.


I wouldn't buy a game from IW without looking in to it first either.  They have totally lost their minds on the PC version of MW2 (a truly laughable effort), and that has killed any interest in the game for me.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/11/pc-modern-warfare-2-its-much-worse-than-you-thought.ars

I always thought IW was overrated (face it, there are much better FPSs than CoD), but now they are acting like a prima donna -- and not just for the Wii.

That story has little to do with game play and mostly to do with their online choices.  While agree that removing online options is a step in the wrong direction, it isn't telling me if the single player or multiplayer experience is going to be good or bad.

There are other good FPS games out there but we aren't talking about them in this thread.  IW's CoD games have been pretty good so far.  It isn't like the FPS world hangs on the survival of CoD, but so far IW has a good track record.  My point is that Treyarch doesn't even have the track record of IW in this regard and seeing them held up like some sort of champion seems far fetched.

I give that post a 9.4.


What the hell is a Modern Warfare game without online?  It's nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  Online is the gameplay, and now it sucks.  IW has lost their minds.  If MW2 PC is IW's goal, their goals are idiotic.

IW needs to get off their high horse and start making the good games that got them where they are today again.  I don't care what platform we're talking about -- if you're unable to make a good game on it you have no talent.

Such anger.  You don't know if the online sucks yet.  The game hasn't come out.  They are trying to go for the online setup that Halo games and other console games go for.  It definitly isn't the standard PC game setup.  I would prefer it not be that way, but you can't say it has made it a bad experience yet.

I give that post a 9.2.

 



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