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Tieno

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Is Activision the new EA?
« on: July 17, 2008, 01:53:26 PM »
Seriously? Maybe I'm having a brainfart and can't think of anything, but where are the exciting Activision games, let alone new IPs?

EA is going strong, partnering with iconic PC developers, keeping them happy, bringing out some cool new IP too (Spore, Mirror's Edge, Dead Space, Dragon Age, etc), I hardly see any licensed movie games anymore.
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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2008, 01:56:11 PM »
I guess, but then I've never considered EA to be an entirely "bad" entity. Well designed games, many cutting-edge efforts. Outside of licensed games and sports games (which I don't play anyway) I'm not seeing this grey mass of uselessness that others reference.

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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2008, 01:57:07 PM »
Yes

They still have their saving grace in Blizzard and EA still sucks hard with the sports games.  Activision kills all the IP it has before it is able to make new ones.  THPS is dead.  CoD is soon to be dead.  GH is on life support.  The new Spider-man game looks awesome, so that is one thing good.

I'm actually watching the press conference right now.  CoD5 looks sooo boring.  The James Bond game looks decent, but it mainly looks like a CoD4 mod.  The engine for CoD4 makes UT3 feel diverse.  The three games using it all look exactly the same, but that could just be due to Trey-whatever lacking originality.
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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2008, 01:59:12 PM »
Remember when Call of Duty was new, and people were like, "Wow, this is finally the definitive World War II game and a breath of fresh air after so many Medal of Honors and whatnot, maybe now we can move onto something different."

Yeah.
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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2008, 02:03:13 PM »
Call of Duty still is the definitive WW2 shooter. You dont fuck with Infinity Ward.
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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2008, 02:03:43 PM »
yes guitar hero is on life support.

o wait it's not.  at all.

GH3 sucks big time.  Now they are trying to rectify for that shit with GHWT, which is basically Rock Band with garbage aethetics, better instruments and harder (not better) gameplay.

Oh, and I am talking about quality here.  If you want to talk about sales, then don't. 

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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2008, 02:49:49 PM »
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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2008, 02:52:27 PM »
yes guitar hero is on life support.

o wait it's not.  at all.

Well, how can it hope to compete with the genre killer that is Wii Music?  How, I say?
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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2008, 02:54:37 PM »
Activision is the old EA
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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2008, 04:26:59 PM »
So what's different about Activision now as opposed to a few years ago? Seems about the same to me.

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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2008, 04:30:21 PM »
EA is taking a lot of risks to grow new IPs that they can milk. It's a smart long term strategy.

I seriously see a music game cataclysm coming soon.
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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2008, 04:30:29 PM »
Spider-Man Web of Shadows.  There is this awesome web combat thing that is almost like Shinobi on PS2 where you can almost constantly stay in the air fighting enemies by jumping back and forth between them and never touching the ground.  It looks like they are taking the good stuff from Spider-Man 2 and giving it good combat, so that is really all it needs.

And I will say that GHWT looks pretty damn cool.  The drums look much better than the Rock Band ones, as does the new guitar.  The entire music creator stuff seems way too deep for me to bother with, but I have a feeling tons of cool tracks will come out for it online to download.  If I can use that drum set with Rock Band 2, I will probably pick up GHWT.  They are adding some really dumbshit to the guitar to mix it up like that slide pad.  Rock Band did this also with the 5 extra buttons on the bottom.  I don't understand why they are trying to change it from feeling like a toy guitar to a real guitar.  The fact remains that you are pressing buttons and pressing buttons and no amount of touch panels or whatever other bullshit is going to make me think any different, but I'm cool with that.  Just keep it simple.

I do have hope for the Bond game compared to CoD5, where I have none (Brothers in Arms is going to be my WW2 game of this year), but I just hope it feels like you are playing a secret agent and not CoD4 inside fancier fancier buildings.  As bad as PDZ is, there are levels like the second one in the club where you really feel like a secret agent and that it isn't a straight up shooter.  This Bond game had really lame scripted shit going on.  I mean, he killed some dude in the middle of a brightly lit hallway with some other guy a few feet away with nothing happening, and on top of that he left the body there.

I would actually really like to see IW try to tackle a Battlefield style game with vehicles.  Doesn't need to be a modern or WW2 shooter either.  It could even be their rumored futuristic shooter with mechs and VTOLs and all that shit about.  They are great at doing close tight combat, but if they can tackle the Battlefield style of huge open battlefields with the same tight gameplay, that would be something I would really like.  As much as I like the Battlefield series (sans console games and 2142), I still understand that they never had the best infantry combat.
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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2008, 04:31:28 PM »
You can share GHWT tracks? Even on 360?

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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2008, 04:33:51 PM »
I think you can even share GHWT tracks on the Wii.  They are actually trying to pull off both sharable songs AND DLC on the Wii's puny storage.

I still think the best music game coming to the Wii is Samba De Amigo.  Rock Band and Guitar Hero be damned.

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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #15 on: July 17, 2008, 04:37:51 PM »
You can share GHWT tracks? Even on 360?
Only user created stuff, not paid DLC.

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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #16 on: July 17, 2008, 09:39:37 PM »
So how come MS is letting them do song share but not N+ and UT3? Does it include vocals?

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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #17 on: July 17, 2008, 09:41:20 PM »
So let's see:

EA was scrutinized for over milking two main franchises; Medal of Honor and Madden

Activision is being scrtinized for miling two franchises; Call of Duty and Guitar Hero

I'd say, yes.
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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #18 on: July 17, 2008, 10:00:34 PM »
It is the new EA.  Ea has been making good progress though. 

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Re: Is Activision the new EA?
« Reply #19 on: July 17, 2008, 10:11:24 PM »
So let's see:

EA was scrutinized for over milking two main franchises; Medal of Honor and Madden

Activision is being scrtinized for miling two franchises; Call of Duty and Guitar Hero

I'd say, yes.

Activision wins out though cause their two games are way better than EA's games. :punch
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