HVS will undoubtedly make good money as long as this sells 500,000+ copies, a foregone conclusion at this point most likely.  This will enable them to improve/spend more money on art/writing in The Grinder and The Conduit 2 and they will be well on their way to being another Bungie or Guerilla.  They just need to avoid spending too much time and effort on things that are bound to flop at retail like Gladiator IMO.  They have some great programmers on their engine and The Conduit is a solid effort that could have been AAA with Retro's writing/art departments behind it.

Don't understand why the story is always an issue brought up by "core" players as being lousy with this game. I like story lines and this on interested me but many other gamers I talk to say they always ignore the stories and just try to get into the game and start gunning. Even saw that on a review where the reviewer said they do this so why would the story be an issue to people who don't care about stories? I'll post the article if I can find it again.

http://www.metacritic.com/search/process?sort=relevance&termType=all&ts=pimps+at+sea&ty=0&x=0&y=0

Bungie sucks confirmed

this is like that rol thread that was created after "why wii is better than 360" and "why 360 is better than ps3".

That thread was "why ps3 is better than wii"...

Everyone was waiting for the punchline.... and it never came lol

you're an idiot who doesn't get games. please close this crappy thread.

no its you mate

good joke, too bad its true. valve, bungie, id are proven developers in the FPS genre, it doesn't take much to think that they could had made the counduit a better game.

You know how I found that game? I accidently typed metacritic in the search game button lol.

Did you even read the explanation of the joke?

"Mate"? What am I? An Australian? READ THE GODDAMN EDIT!

So have you actually played this game yet, or are you just taking what the worst reviews said and siding with them?