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Forums - Nintendo - Will the Wii ever get a decent WRPG title?

LordTheNightKnight on 17 February 2009
Mummelmann said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
Mummelmann said:
Soriku said:
I don't see why not. HVS said they could do an RPG and Conduit looks nice.

 

Yes, Conduit looks nice but how does that relate to HVS making a decent WRPG? It might very well be horrible, shooters and RPG's are quite different. Do you think only about visuals?

 

Do you think HVS only makes shooters?

They've had years paying their dues in a variety of games. They weren't large scale, but HVS got good with publishers for making the games on time and under budget. So HVS didn't really have AAA FPS experience before The Conduit, but they evidently know how.

 

That remains to be seen (whether the game is actually AAA). And like I said; there are no guarantees, even of the same genres, I feel like reminding the boards of the atrocity that is Haze, made by the otherwise brilliant Free Radical.

 

Edit; I just checked some of HVS games and they're... not exactly brilliant by most measures, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (which I didn't even know was released and which recieved extremely low review scores all over), Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (which recieved very low scores across the board) and Leisure Suit Larry which is simply atrocius (and also recieved low scores with an average of just above 60%). Hardly the signs of a solid AAA developer if you ask me, so the dues they've paid are of little worth.

I do think The Conduit can be quite good but there really isn't too much reason to believe it will be AAA (I've seen most of the videos and read many previews, it looks and sounds rather average to be honest). So; no, I don't think we'll be seeing a quality WRPG from HVS on the Wii any time soon (or perhaps ever) and I don't understand why anyone would see that as even remotely likely.

 

Whether The Conduit is good is not the point. The thing is that they don't have a lot of FPS experience, but seem to be doing a good job despite that. So it doesn't matter if FPS and WRPG are different genres, they didn't have much experience with either before.



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