EPTTHQ Suffering Terrible Terrible Damage - Page 9
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HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
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Jarree
Finland1004 Posts
 ) . Sad to hear these kind of news. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17703 Posts
this is really sad man THQ releases a 20+ year old Arcade wrestling game that is really really mediocre mechanics and is flat out dull. and they make it a "press release". http://electronictheatre.co.uk/mobile/mobile-phone-game-news/16338/wwe-wrestlefest-launches-europe NASDAQ collectively yawned at this announcement and their stock fell from .61 to .60 THQ is really grasping at straws at this point | ||
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Lann555
Netherlands5173 Posts
THQ used to be one of my favorite producers, with superb games like CoH, Dawn of War 1 and the super underrated Homeworld, but it's been a while since they showed anything decent. A bunch of crappy console-games with close to no depth and that disgrace that was Dawn of War 2. I actually bought it on day 1, based on the reputation of THQ with RTS-games, but they completely caved to the pressure of the decline. They stripped almost all strategy from the game and turned it into a shallow game where you just run around with a few squads all game. No base-building, limited resource management, very little diversity. Went back to playing Dawn of War 1 shortly after. Ah, gaming....what happened to you?  | ||
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iglocska
Norway589 Posts
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zeeQue
United Kingdom184 Posts
On February 06 2012 19:00 LF9 wrote: Eldar was fine. It was Ork, with all the building guns, you practically had to take the whole map before you could attack them. Bullcrap. Someone didn't play at a high enough level... Clearly. As for people saying Dark Crusade was pretty balanced? Oh jees... Winter Assualt was the closest and even then there was stupid things that would make certain maps and MUs unplayable As for THQ going down, it'll be a loss for RTS gamers everywhere, they've always made good RTS games, obviously not on the level Starcraft was but they were always enjoyable | ||
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fofa2000
Canada548 Posts
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TrueIsAwesome
Finland160 Posts
On February 24 2012 04:35 fofa2000 wrote: Didn't THQ also create Supreme commander? I really loved that game! So did i, have you seen the sequal? It's just as bad as what they did with DoW to DoW2 | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On February 24 2012 04:43 TrueIsAwesome wrote: So did i, have you seen the sequal? It's just as bad as what they did with DoW to DoW2 THQ was the publisher on the games, yes. But both were developed by Gas Powered Games, the dev behind the Dungeon Siege series. | ||
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Jago
Finland390 Posts
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crms
United States11933 Posts
Sad to see any game company go under as an avid gamer but if you put out bad titles, i'm not sure what they can expect. | ||
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TheToast
United States4808 Posts
On February 24 2012 07:43 crms wrote: if they were responsible for the DoW game I played a couple weekends ago for free on steam, I can understand why they're going out of business. What a terrible, terrible game. Sad to see any game company go under as an avid gamer but if you put out bad titles, i'm not sure what they can expect. Which one was that? They published 2 Warhammer 40k: DoW titles and I think 2 other Warhammer 40k titles. | ||
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TrickyGilligan
United States641 Posts
On February 24 2012 07:43 crms wrote: if they were responsible for the DoW game I played a couple weekends ago for free on steam, I can understand why they're going out of business. What a terrible, terrible game. Sad to see any game company go under as an avid gamer but if you put out bad titles, i'm not sure what they can expect. I realize this is a Starcraft website, but the amount of irrational hatred that the DoW2 games get from this community really makes me sad. I realize the Relic games aren't what you would consider a traditional RTS, but they are incredibly innovative and interesting. Are they as balanced and polished as a Blizzard game? Well no, they don't have unlimited money. But they're breaking new ground, doing stuff no one else is with the genra. Not all of these experiments work, but there's more than enough good points to make up for the bad ones. Honestly, if I had to choose between Blizzard or Relic continuing to make RTS games, I'd have to choose Relic. Blizzard is going to spend the rest of their RTS making life trying to recapture what was so great about Broodwar. I can still go back and play Broodwar anytime I want, I don't really see any innovation coming out of Blizzard for RTS almost ever again. Relic on the other hand has done crazy stuff with all 3 of their RTS games, Homeworld, CoH and DoW. All of these are unique and interesting in their own right, that they all came out of one developer is insane. The fact that this same developer is being brought down by a crappy publisher is even crazier, and makes me deeply sad. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17703 Posts
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11475698/1/thq-announces-update-for-warhammer174-40000174-dark-millennium8482.html That big Warhammer 40K MMO has been "refocused" into a different kind of game and, as a result, they can't afford to keep people. Originally, it was designed to be an MMO with monthly payments and was being projected as a giant cash cow. But, that is no more. so another 138 people are getting the boot. | ||
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SnowyPsilocybin
United Kingdom265 Posts
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mrgerry
United States1508 Posts
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Disarray
United States1164 Posts
Don't tarnish the great things with DoW2 because you were too poor of a player to recognize the great things they did to that game. | ||
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tuho12345
4482 Posts
Sad to see they're going down. | ||
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ain
Germany786 Posts
On April 01 2012 02:23 Disarray wrote: DoW2 was a great game, and the change in tactical direction was the best thing they could have done for that series. a 40k RTS shouldn't be about basebuilding and macroing your econ to resupply mass ammounts of troops. It should be about having limited troops and using them in a tactical way. If you want to play Starcraft with 40k models, play DoW1. Don't tarnish the great things with DoW2 because you were too poor of a player to recognize the great things they did to that game. DoW 1 wasnt macro heavy at all and definitely cant be compared to Starcraft. It had minimal base building and very dynamic eco and combat systems. DoW 2 was more about capping points than it was about fighting and thats why it failed. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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