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okr on 22 July 2010
palancas7 said:
Chrizum said:
Voltaire said:

Well, im still waiting for a "Nintendo-quality" game from Ubisoft, so thats taking up my optimism for 3rd parties.

Dawn of Discovery = Nintendo-like quality from Ubisoft.

Shame they released it and didn't really give a shit about it.

Shame they released it on Wii/DS and system owners didn't really care about it. The Anno/Dawn of Discovery franchise is a million seller on PC, it was a flop on Wii/DS.



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famousringo on 22 July 2010
NiKKoM said:

I just started to "play" Godville on the IPhone.. a zero player game.. where you do nothing.. and just see your hero getting into an adventure:


So I'm hoping for a zero player game...


Hey, that reminds me of a 'game' my friend told me about.

Here it is:

http://www.progressquest.com/



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theRepublic on 22 July 2010
okr said:

Shame they released it on Wii/DS and system owners didn't really care about it. The Anno/Dawn of Discovery franchise is a million seller on PC, it was a flop on Wii/DS.

You can't just stealth release a game and hope it does well.  When most forum dwellers don't know about your game, then the general public isn't going to know shit either.



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okr on 22 July 2010
theRepublic said:
okr said:

Shame they released it on Wii/DS and system owners didn't really care about it. The Anno/Dawn of Discovery franchise is a million seller on PC, it was a flop on Wii/DS.

You can't just stealth release a game and hope it does well.  When most forum dwellers don't know about your game, then the general public isn't going to know shit either.

No game on this planet is "stealth released". That's always been a myth in my opinion. When most forum dwellers don't know about your game, it's for the simple reason that they didn't care in the first place. Or did Dawn of Discovery get no media coverage or not enough reviews? 
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/wii/dawnofdiscovery?q=dawn
http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/review/32231/dawn-of-discovery/
http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/957/957543p1.html (not only VGC and IGN, but also all other videogame sites on this planet with Wii coverage wrote a review or at least reported the announcement of the game).
Sorry, I don't buy any of these arguments and the strangest one I've ever heard about publishers is that they "didn't care" or "didn't really give a shit" (as palancas put it) about a game. If publishers wouldn't care about specific games, they wouldn't have released them in the first place.

Finally something OT from me: THQ brought deBlob to Wii and Drawn to Life to DS/Wii. Both franchises were innovative and fresh imo and both were successful, so I'm looking forward to their upcoming announcement.



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dib8rman on 22 July 2010

When will people learn that part of being innovative means that what ever is innovated needs to to be successful before it can be delcared an innovation.

Doing so ahead of time is just marke... oh nvm...



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Metallicube on 22 July 2010
theRepublic said:
okr said:

Shame they released it on Wii/DS and system owners didn't really care about it. The Anno/Dawn of Discovery franchise is a million seller on PC, it was a flop on Wii/DS.

You can't just stealth release a game and hope it does well.  When most forum dwellers don't know about your game, then the general public isn't going to know shit either.

yeah, I consider myself more informed about games, particularly Wii games, than most people. And even I wasn't aware of this game's existance until a year after its release. And if even I don't know about your Wii game, that's a bad sign...



megaman79 on 23 July 2010

HEY Deadly Creatures was innovative, but it was also bugged up the ass, and barely playable.



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