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GTA ripoff got away with it once, not twice.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

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I am curious, do people have problems with the CONCEPT behind Godfather II, the execution or both? I like a game that has strategy and resource management in it. I don't need another sandbox thug game. What I wanted, and why I bought Godfather II, was a game where you ran businesses, and did muscle if you had to, that functioned as a strategy game, with action elements. Isn't that Godfather II? If so, did it fail to deliver or do you want Godfather to be a GTA clone?



^ Different audiences bought different games. That could well have been the problem.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

megaman79 said:
^ Different audiences bought different games. That could well have been the problem.

That definitely sounds like a problem.  However, a game like Godfather that is merely another gangster game, with a bit of sandbox action and a bunch of scripted missions, where you do crime, is not of interest to me at all.



The second game is better than the 1`st,but still can`t keep up with Mafia 1 and GTA3 or 4.

It just can`t be done. It`s about quality.

With Mafia 2 and GTA 4 around,it was the right choice.



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I'm glad...

It is about time that a publisher looked at the game quality vs. milking the name of a successful movie franchise to sell an average game.



nordlead said:
I loved the Wii version. Had they made Godfather II for Wii with the same controls as blackhand edition I would have bought it.


Me too.   In fact probably everyone who bought Godfather Wii would have gotten Godfather II, but that still probably wouldn't make it worthwhile... sadly.



 

1st one was good on Wii, i would buy the second one if it was on Wii

actually, Godfather 2 on Ps3 had about the same bad sales as the first one on Wii : (



don't mind my username, that was more than 10 years ago, I'm a different person now, amazing how people change ^_^

Gamerace said:
nordlead said:
I loved the Wii version. Had they made Godfather II for Wii with the same controls as blackhand edition I would have bought it.


Me too. In fact probably everyone who bought Godfather Wii would have gotten Godfather II, but that still probably wouldn't make it worthwhile... sadly.

i wouldn't. I liked GF Wii but it got old fast.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

megaman79...this is off topic. I don't know what it is about your avatar...but I really want to punch him in the face.