I liked Homefront. It has a great deal of problems, but I had fun. I'm looking forward to seeing what another, hopefully more experienced studio does with the ip.

I'm really quite interested to see how Homefront 2 turns out.  It's Free Radical who I adore from Timesplitters, but they've really just been a slew of letdowns since then (Haze & the Crysis 2 multiplayer).  I like to hope there's still some talented souls in the studio.

I have made it a point to go through THQ back catalog and play all their games that had decent reviews. So far very happy with this decision as I have been playing some really good games that I otherwise missed.

Out of interest, have you played Summoner 2, or are we only talking things from this gen?

I think Rubin can pull them out of their home. He's got a good vision and I think with less corporate (make a cal
Of duty!) mentality, THQ might be able to put out some creative stuff.

I liked homefront but they could have had a real great game if they made the single player bigger and better.. imagine an open world game in wartime america, where you help set up and establish a resitance movment. finding supplies such as food, as well as weapons to help fight the enemy.
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the multiplayer was ok, but it needed 2 times the number of maps it shipped with to be honest.

Darksiders 2, Homefront 2, and Turtle Rock's project are all titles I'm greatly looking forward to.

I really hope THQ successfully turns around. They really seem to care a lot about making very high quality titles without going into unreasonable budgets and adding loads of lame content where it doesn't belong (hi multiplayer in assassin's creed!).

While everyone else is so worried to climb to the top, they're more focused on quality medium-large sized games. In a way, that mentality reminds me of Nintendo.

So they're going to continue to make core HD titles with relatively small potential audiences?

Not gonna make any predictions on THQ's fate, but for a company in their situation, taking huge risks on titles which might not perform is a disaster waiting to happen. What happens if Darksiders II flops? Or Homefront 2, especially given that the first game wasn't exactly a huge hit? This is exactly how THQ got into trouble in the first place. Now obviously a game can flop on any system, but isn't a lot better to have a flop game with a $10 million budget than a $50 million one? THQ needs cash in the bank badly, and this is a really dangerous way to achieve that goal.

I love you Jason Rubin. This guy sounds like an excellent leader and will make significant changes to THQ.

I believe in this, and am glad some of my money is in THQ. Being awesomeness.

I know just as little of their budgets, but I think the point that Rubin was trying to make is that; they wanna make the best possible game sthey can With the small budgets they have.