depends a lot in which 3rd p dev is porting it, could be a great one or a noob cheap one,
and how much effort are putting on it....
time will tell i guess
depends a lot in which 3rd p dev is porting it, could be a great one or a noob cheap one,
and how much effort are putting on it....
time will tell i guess
SaviorX said: You do not need a top quality team for a port. Look at what Nintendo did with Ocarina of Time 3DS |
That qualifies more on the lines of a "remake," which is a different kettle of fish.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
Mr Khan said:
I'm siding with lilbroex on this one. Outsourcing porting is usually a bad sign, it's only done if the developer no longer exists or is affiliated with you (as in Okami on Wii), or because the company really doesn't care about port quality (as in Orange Box PS3) Of course, i'm actively in the process of re-evaluating my opinion of BioWare, but this makes me more wary of them than that damn torture droid with the flamethrower |
The problem is you're not really right, you are cherry picking one game and totally ignoring all the games that have been outsourced ported and turned out great. I see your Orange BOx and raise you Sly Collection, Mass Effect 1 PC, Bioshock PS3, Elder Scrolls Oblivion PS3, which turned out better than what the actual dev teams did for that system. and the list goes on and on. A lot more often than not the games turn out fine
Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC was outsourced and was better as well...
There's cases supporting both sides...
Mr Khan said: I'm siding with lilbroex on this one. Outsourcing porting is usually a bad sign, it's only done if the developer no longer exists or is affiliated with you (as in Okami on Wii), or because the company really doesn't care about port quality (as in Orange Box PS3) Of course, i'm actively in the process of re-evaluating my opinion of BioWare, but this makes me more wary of them than that damn torture droid with the flamethrower |
Oniyide already effectively answered this.
ishiki said: Deus Ex: Human Revolution PC was outsourced and was better as well... There's cases supporting both sides... |
I thought the outsourcing was the cause of the biggest problems with Deus Ex? Primarily the boss fights.
lilbroex said:
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that has nothing to do with the port... The PC port was done by nixxes, and added things like hotbar,console with cheats, to make it like the first deus ex.
the boss fights were done by GRIP, they weren't worse than the boss fights in Mass Effect (which admittedly isn't saying much). Didn't fit in the game though.
so, the problem is that a port for a system which will have only few million sold units after release isn't made by the team who should already work on the next big game and maybe dlc's for all systems?
but since you agreed in the other thread that ea games are crap and you hope nobody buys ea games for wii u why do you even care about it? shouldn't you be happy if the port will be bad? that would mean less sales for ea and less people buying an ea game for wii u, exactly what you want.