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Onyxmeth on 17 February 2008
steven787 said:
Onyxmeth said:

Excuse me for wanting games of quality on my Wii. When I say I want third party support, I mean GOOD third party support. THQ never aims for the fences on any of it's games. This game proves it. You guys are eating up the controls, saying it's intuitive and creative, when nobody outside of the developers have actually played it yet. You watched a trailer. Look at the audacity of the topic maker himself. "Raising the bar for Wii 3rd party support", "Unreal Engine 3 on Wii", "Is this 360 or PS3 quality". This is a diservice to the Wii for having this nonsense and a diservice to other third parties putting in a real effort. If THQ was planning on making a killer application for the Wii, they wouldn't have used Rainbow Studios to make it. A developer is only as good as their past work. This is a site of facts and figures, so I'm going by straight statistics here. you are all ogling over the pretty pictures and calling it a day. I am being objective, and not letting a press release warp my vision of what is obviously just another mediocre game from THQ. Did you really think they were going to knock this game? Did you think they werent going to use the highest quality images and a touched up video to present this game with? I'll show you all what I mean. Here's every game Rainbow Studios has developed and you be the judge:

1. Playstation 2: Splashdown (2001) 84
Infogrames

2. Playstation 2: ATV Offroad Fury (2001) 82
Sony Computer Entertainment

3. Playstation 2: ATV Offroad Fury 2 (2002) 82
Sony Computer Entertainment America

4. Xbox: MX Unleashed (2004) 81
THQ

5. Playstation 2: MX Unleashed (2004) 80
THQ

6. Playstation 2: Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild (2003) 80
THQ

7. Xbox: MX vs. ATV Unleashed (2005) 80
THQ

8. Playstation 2: MX vs. ATV Unleashed (2005) 79
THQ

9. Xbox: Splashdown (2002) 78
Infogrames / Atari

10. Playstation 2: Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 (2002) 76
Activision

11. Xbox: Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 (2002) 75
Activision

12. Playstation 2: Star Wars Racer Revenge (2002) 73
LucasArts

13. PC Games: MX vs. ATV Unleashed (2006) 71
THQ

14. GameCube: Cars (2006) 71
THQ

15. Playstation 2: Cars (2006) 71
THQ

16. Xbox 360: MX vs. ATV Untamed (2007) 71
THQ

17. GameCube: Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 (2002) 70
Activision

18. Xbox: Cars (2006) 70
THQ

19. Playstation 3: MX vs. ATV Untamed (2007) 70
THQ

20. Nintendo DS: Cars Mater-National (2007) 69
THQ

21. Sony PSP: MX vs. ATV Unleashed: On the Edge (2006) 68
THQ

22. Playstation 2: Cars Mater-National (2007) 67
THQ

23. Wii: Cars (2006) 65
THQ

24. Playstation 3: Cars Mater-National (2007) 62
THQ

25. Xbox 360: Cars Mater-National (2007) 57
THQ

26. Playstation 2: MX vs. ATV Untamed (2007) 52
THQ

27. PC Games: Cars Mater-National (2007) xx
THQ

28. Wii: Cars Mater-National (2007) xx
THQ

Yep that's right. Nothing but racing games. Nothing but average racing games. This is a studio that makes absolutely nothing but racers, and still can't learn from it's mistakes and make a great one. You're telling me that they can switch genres, make a much larger project and have it come out halfway decent? The facts do not lie. Anyone thinking that THQ can offer support as a developer can think again. Here's the top 5 developed by THQ's internal studio:

1. Playstation 2: Nicktoons Movin' (EyeToy) (2004) 75
THQ

2. GameBoy Advance: SpongeBob Squarepants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman (2002) 71
THQ

3. GameBoy Advance: Monster House (2006) 69
THQ

4. GameBoy Advance: Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island (2006) 69
THQ

5. PC Games: SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants! (2005) 68
THQ

Top 5 Wii games published in 2007:

13. Wii: Barnyard (2006) 65
THQ

14. Wii: Cars (2006) 65
THQ

12. Wii: Ratatouille (2007) 62
THQ

6. Wii: WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2008 (2007) 59
THQ

10. Wii: Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Burning Earth (2007) 58
THQ

The only platform that THQ puts TRUE quality in is the PC. S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Company of Heroes, Warhammer 40,000, Supreme Commander, all quality. THQ's console efforts are the bread and butter behind their quality PC efforts. If anyone wants to call me defensive, angry, and unnecessarily bitter again, back it up with facts and figures, not photoshopped trailers of games about arachnids fighting gila monsters.

Oh and BTW, yes i've played Cars through a demo disc from Official U.S. Playstation Magazine right before they stopped packaging the discs, thank you very much. It's 20 minutes of my life i'll never get back.

 


 

Cherry pick much? IGN/PRESS AVG. 7 7.3 7.6 6.8 7 7.7 6.8 7.6 7.5 6.9 7.5 7.5 8 9.5 8.6 9.2 6 3 3 8.7 7.9 9 7.8 7 7.4 7 8.8 7.9 4.9 5.4 9.3 8 8.1 6.5 8.8 7.4 8.9 8.1 8.4 7.9 4.5 7.4 6.7 7.5 7 8.3 7.2 6.8 6.6 7.5 7.5 7 7.1 8.8 8 9.3 8.2 8.1 7.8 7.2 7.4 2.6 7.4 6.4 222.7 247.3 AVG. 7.679310345 7.065714286 Not great, not horrible in my opinion. I don't see what is so bad about getting excited.

 Sorry buddy, but you did the cherry picking, not me. My scores were fair, coming from metaritic. It includes IGNs scores plus another 30 or 40 from around the industry to get a weighted average. Yours come from IGN.com, which is notorious for bloated review scores. Not only that but if you want someone to make sense of what you wrote, try putting the name of the games next to your scores, because what you put down is gibberish.

I gave the top 5 Wii games they've published, the top 5 games developed by THQ themselves to show what kind of support Rainbow Studios might recieve if they run into trouble, and every game Rainbow Studios has ever developed to show what they are capable of based on history. I even mentioned that THQ publishes great PC games to show I'm not trying to be biased. Explain the cherry picking I made.

Oh and btw, THQ published my favorite game ever, WWF No Mercy. Unfortunately, it's been many moons since those days, so whomever mentioned No Mercy to prove quality should know that it's been 7 1/2 years since then. That's a long time without even an A status title. 



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Words Of Wisdom on 17 February 2008

I don't actually care about this game... at all.  If it does well, good for it.  I have no real expectations for it to do so.

I might even agree with Onyxmeth if it weren't for the fact that he comes off as a jerk in pretty much every post in this thread and I don't agree with jerks.



Diomedes1976 on 17 February 2008

I dont see THQ putting any bar for quality to be frank .

And a game about a scorpion and a tarantula fighting other beasts sound very bad to me .

The graphics look good for a Wii game ,but this is a teaser trailer .

The thing is that even if they push the console ,Wii graphics just arent any impressive at this day and age .Developers know it ,so they dont even push the envelope ...they would get very little credit for such a great effort .Most of the extra power of the Wii over the Cube goes into making the PS2-Cube like games into 480p and 16:9 presentation .



Ari_Gold on 17 February 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:
I don't actually care about this game... at all. If it does well, good for it. I have no real expectations for it to do so.

couldn't have said it better



hsrob on 17 February 2008

Nothing wrong with a nice looking game, it's a sign that the developers are putting some effort into at least one part of the game, when compared with some of the crap that we've seen so far on Wii, where no effort was put into any part of them. Does this mean it will be a great game, no, certainly not, but it's a start.

p.s. How many AAA games have crap graphics?



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konnichiwa on 17 February 2008

Well the idea is original and interesting...

If this game will be succesfull I will see a sequel about this game where you have to play with Tarantula's mom the evil Anaconda;..