THQ Wants a Shot at Activision's Shooter Crown
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It is entirely possible that seven Homefront games will compete will the Call of Duty franchise. A single game, though, has no chance of "beating" a series as well-established as Call of Duty. We'll wait and see what the numbers say.
I can be sure, however, that Homefront will not contend with Battlefield. At all. It's just Call of Duty except with more stuff than usual in each match. No proper combat roles, no player-to-player teamwork, no big-picture strategy. Just more of Call of Duty. I'll pass.
I can be sure, however, that Homefront will not contend with Battlefield. At all. It's just Call of Duty except with more stuff than usual in each match. No proper combat roles, no player-to-player teamwork, no big-picture strategy. Just more of Call of Duty. I'll pass.
OH!Wicky_42 said:
A homeworld space-fighter game, where you play as an interceptor pilot, fighting to defend Hiigara from various attacking bad guys, and there will be plot and character and that FUCKING AWESOME HOMEWORLD SCORE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzo4ONrI8n8
And you'd be flying around and shooting stuff and we'd bring back space fighter sims and Homeworld all in one fell swoop.
GENIUS!
I actually want this game, so the idea that it could take COD's crown, while impossible, is quite nice to think about while installing Blops, and installing Homefront.
Honestly, every time I read something like this, I have to roll my eyes. Just concentrate on making the best game you can, THQ. Do that, and the crown will come to you.
You want to beat Call of Duty? How about instead of attempting to hype up and market your game as a flat out copy of Call of Duty you could do something original that draws players in.
For all of THQ's hopes, it certainly seems like they've been doing the bare minimum to attain an end.
None of their games on Steam have any achievements. The Dawn of War series, while adequate, is still extremely imbalanced and very distant from the codex of tabletop. As any owner of World of Zoo on Steam will tell you, they're willing to rip off PC gamers to make an extra buck on the console market. And their Red Faction series, despite having novel ideas like destructible landscapes and buildings, is completely idiotic with its implementation of it.
In fact, that basically sums most of THQ's portfolio, to me - novel ideas executed very poorly. I'm willing to stand behind a small publisher that cares about its games, but it seems that THQ cares more about the bottom line. I really can't wait until the videogame market starts punishing mediocrity more.
None of their games on Steam have any achievements. The Dawn of War series, while adequate, is still extremely imbalanced and very distant from the codex of tabletop. As any owner of World of Zoo on Steam will tell you, they're willing to rip off PC gamers to make an extra buck on the console market. And their Red Faction series, despite having novel ideas like destructible landscapes and buildings, is completely idiotic with its implementation of it.
In fact, that basically sums most of THQ's portfolio, to me - novel ideas executed very poorly. I'm willing to stand behind a small publisher that cares about its games, but it seems that THQ cares more about the bottom line. I really can't wait until the videogame market starts punishing mediocrity more.
It goes beyond Brand Recognition. Console gamers (and PC gamers who don't do RTS) who're also fans of Warhammer 40k have been waiting for (and demanding) something like Space Marine to be made for a long time now...Soviet Heavy said:
Hell, even fans of Dawn of War should be looking forward to Space Marine... especially if they didn't like the Action-RTS style of DoWII. Hopefully by splitting off another franchise from within the WH40k setting Relic can scratch their Action itch with Space Marine games and put future DoW games back to pure RTS games again. Yes, even I can be naively optimistic at times.
The other reason PC gamers should support Space Marine is because we made enough bloody noise to get THQ/Relic to release a PC version after their initial decision not to... probably a good idea not to make them regret that.
"Seizing the crown" is a bit hyperbolic but certainly the desire to "be in the conversation," as Mr. Bilson put it, is reasonable. Nobody seriously expects Homefront (or any other game) to make people forget about CoD, but making it a game that's held in the same esteem is certainly achievable. THQ ain't Acti (or EA) but who says a middleweight publisher can't put out a heavyweight game now and then?