Author Topic: Goodnight Sweet THQ (Read 21940 times)

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #60 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:24:42 PM »

"You know what might pump some life back into that Darksiders comic book thing you been doing? New lead character. We're not doing anything with Dante from that God of War thing we did, so think about it. And by think about it I mean DO IT."

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #61 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:28:46 PM »

"Wrestling is for rednecks, but rednecks like to get drunk on moonshine and spend money, so up the titty factor and make a wrestling game about girls or something. Honestly, we got no idea what to do with you fucks. You came with the package."

benjipwns · « **Reply #62 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:31:03 PM »

"Relic? Well, we've got this relic of an IP we want to reboot. It's called Populous. I'm thinking cover based and QTE's."

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #63 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:31:14 PM »

"I don't understand this South Park game. Is it supposed to look like construction paper or something? Who watches that shit? Whatever. This better make money."

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #64 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:32:38 PM »

"Oh, yeah, we also want mobile versions of all this shit."

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #65 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:34:04 PM »

"We understand South Park is single-player, but we really need you to put a mandatory origin account registration in there. Somewhere between the 3rd and 4th start up logo. Maybe as an encore at the end of all the start up logos."

oh wait, i just made myself sad. i'll have to install origin finally.

benjipwns · « **Reply #66 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:39:30 PM »

"I'm proud to announce our new partners will be focused on developing a software line for our new upcoming tablet device. The device will feature motion sensing along with a drawing interface."

originalz · « **Reply #67 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:40:49 PM »

The worst part about this is that the executives which forced people to release that UDraw shit for PS360 probably won't suffer at all, I'm sure they'll get a nice bonus and will have no problem finding some other job with their "experience". Goddamn tragedy.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #68 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:46:56 PM »

Quote from: benjipwns on January 07, 2013, 06:39:30 PM

"I'm proud to announce our new partners will be focused on developing a software line for our new upcoming tablet device. The device will feature motion sensing along with a drawing interface."

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #69 on:** January 07, 2013, 06:57:05 PM »

"Do you want us to start work on Wii U ports for any of this?"
"Heh. That's funny. You're a funny guy. Get back to work. I don't wanna see those dickbeaters stop moving until crunch time is over, Mr. Comedy. Wii U port. Heh."

chronovore · « **Reply #70 on:** January 07, 2013, 07:09:24 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on January 07, 2013, 06:43:16 PM

Saint's Row will be canceled but the engine will be used for an open world Wu Tang game.

No fair! Clearly you've already seen the design document. Or the future. No fair!

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #71 on:** January 07, 2013, 07:19:32 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on January 07, 2013, 07:09:24 PM

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on January 07, 2013, 06:43:16 PM
Saint's Row will be canceled but the engine will be used for an open world Wu Tang game.

No fair! Clearly you've already seen the design document. Or the future. No fair!

Oscar broke his NDA.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #72 on:** January 08, 2013, 03:29:26 AM »

Does AKI even exist anymore?

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #73 on:** January 08, 2013, 03:33:34 AM »

Quote from: Sho Nuff on January 08, 2013, 03:29:26 AM

Does AKI even exist anymore?

According to wiki they changed their name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syn_Sophia

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #74 on:** January 08, 2013, 03:41:32 AM »

...and they're making Style Savvy games.

So I would put my money on "The core staff capable of shipping a AAA next-gen pro wrestling title is likely not there anymore"

Momo · « **Reply #75 on:** January 08, 2013, 04:51:07 AM »

I hope every single franchise goes to Activision so they can quickly be put out their misery

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #76 on:** January 08, 2013, 05:26:23 AM »

AKI did make a really shitty Wii fighting game.

which was not promising, but then again, they did make a pair of pretty good looking Yakuza spinoffs that I'll likely never play at any point in my life and I feel poorer for it.

oh yeah, Yukes has got to be shitting bricks about now.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #77 on:** January 08, 2013, 06:42:29 AM »

Maybe EA or Activision can turn their franchises into something good.

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on January 07, 2013, 06:43:16 PM

Saint's Row will be canceled but the engine will be used for an open world Wu Tang game.

Id buy that.

Unlike Saints Row which I didnt buy.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #78 on:** January 08, 2013, 03:00:48 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on January 08, 2013, 06:28:21 AM

AKI's Yakuza games are awesome. Especially the second one.

Sho Nuff showing he's sho nuff ignorant if it doesn't involve SEGA arcade games or pinball.

Sho Nuff

Fuck you motherfucker, I just finished Yakuza Dead Souls over the weekend! Don't make me go Majima Goro on your ass

(Also didn't know that the PSP Yakuza games were actually good)

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #79 on:** January 08, 2013, 03:55:15 PM »

The PSP RGG Black Panther games are pretty sweet. Well, the first one is, I haven't bought the second one yet.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #80 on:** January 08, 2013, 04:06:53 PM »

UDRAW IS BACK BABY (at half price books)

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #81 on:** January 08, 2013, 04:12:04 PM »

Quote from: MrAngryFace on January 08, 2013, 04:06:53 PM

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UDRAW IS BACK BABY (at half price books)

That the one at Crossroads? I'm guessing there are ton of them at the U-District store.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #82 on:** January 08, 2013, 04:19:24 PM »

Eric P · « **Reply #83 on:** January 08, 2013, 04:25:45 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on January 07, 2013, 06:43:16 PM

Saint's Row will be canceled but the engine will be used for an open world Wu Tang game.

saint's row plus sleeping dogs.

i'd buy that

chronovore · « **Reply #84 on:** January 08, 2013, 07:50:33 PM »

I'd buy uDraw now that it's... Oh, who am I kidding? It would just be a reminder of how Marketing can ruin everything.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #85 on:** January 08, 2013, 10:48:45 PM »

I usually wait for the English versions but I guess neither of those are getting translated. Are either of them open-world free-roam?

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #86 on:** January 08, 2013, 11:38:15 PM »

Pleasssse just let there be a next gen red faction

chronovore · « **Reply #87 on:** January 10, 2013, 04:08:21 AM »

Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on January 08, 2013, 11:38:15 PM

Pleasssse just let there be a next gen red faction

It won't happen. The fight for Red Faction was abandoned long before THQ began spiraling the drain.

Volition changed from an open-world game to RF: Armageddon's shooter format because RF: Guerrilla didn't meet sales expectations. Then Armageddon failed to sell at all. Arguably, this is THQ marketing snatching defeat from the jaws of victory again, failing to move units on another exceptional game, the same way they manage to failed at moving Saints Row.

I'm glad you mentioned it though: I need to download RF:G's DLC before it disappears into administration limbo.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #88 on:** January 10, 2013, 10:51:40 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on January 10, 2013, 04:08:21 AM

the same way they manage to failed at moving Saints Row.

Compared to GTA, maybe, but shipping 4 million worldwide isn't bad at all.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #89 on:** January 10, 2013, 11:07:34 AM »

all they need to do is Saint's Row: Red Faction and officially bring the two series together

and if you think that sounds stupid, i got two words for ya: dildo jackhammer

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #90 on:** January 10, 2013, 11:49:00 AM »

Quote from: chronovore on January 10, 2013, 04:08:21 AM

Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on January 08, 2013, 11:38:15 PM
Pleasssse just let there be a next gen red faction

It won't happen. The fight for Red Faction was abandoned long before THQ began spiraling the drain.

Volition changed from an open-world game to RF: Armageddon's shooter format because RF: Guerrilla didn't meet sales expectations. Then Armageddon failed to sell at all. Arguably, this is THQ marketing snatching defeat from the jaws of victory again, failing to move units on another exceptional game, the same way they manage to failed at moving Saints Row.

LALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU

:'(

chronovore · « **Reply #91 on:** January 10, 2013, 07:58:07 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 10, 2013, 10:51:40 AM

Quote from: chronovore on January 10, 2013, 04:08:21 AM
the same way they manage to failed at moving Saints Row.

Compared to GTA, maybe, but shipping 4 million worldwide isn't bad at all.

Yeah, 4M is definitely not shabby, but it's a better game than GTA. SR1 was a better game than GTA.

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MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #92 on:** January 10, 2013, 07:59:50 PM »

like i said form the day saints row 1 came out, its a shit series good bye

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #93 on:** January 10, 2013, 08:29:25 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on January 10, 2013, 07:58:07 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 10, 2013, 10:51:40 AM
Quote from: chronovore on January 10, 2013, 04:08:21 AM
the same way they manage to failed at moving Saints Row.

Compared to GTA, maybe, but shipping 4 million worldwide isn't bad at all.

Yeah, 4M is definitely not shabby, but it's a better game than GTA. SR1 was a better game than GTA.
spoiler (click to show/hide)
:'( :'( :'(
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I don't think there's really anything THQ could have done to get to GTA-like sales for Saints Row. Anymore than anybody else can get COD-like sales for their first-person shoot, regardless of quality.

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #94 on:** January 11, 2013, 01:41:19 AM »

Quote from: MyNameIsMethodis on January 10, 2013, 07:59:50 PM

like i said form the day saints row 1 came out, its a shit series good bye

1? Yes. 2 and 3, no not at all. Two was a pretty well made game that fixed a lot of 1's issues and with 3 it finally found it's personality and style.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #95 on:** January 11, 2013, 01:54:19 AM »

I have a feeling some other publisher would have interest in the red faction name and franchise. As far as sales nobody in the open world genre is taking down GTA. It's a genre king and will remain that.

I think Saints Row 3 was the first in the series to make that franchise credible in a way with with critics that the prior games had never been. It was also the first one in the series that compelled me to finish it.

On one hand I think being given an EA budget would allow Saints Row to flourish in scale and scope. On the other hand, you could definitely see them interfering and potentially shaving off the enjoyable outsider appeal that the series has been able to cultivate.

chronovore · « **Reply #96 on:** January 11, 2013, 02:04:56 AM »

No quoting of Methodis! It negates the positive effects engendered by those who have him on Ignore.

I agree that GTA isn't going to be taken down; it's got a lot of momentum and is running on it quite well. I'd just like to see the -- was it 22M that GTA IV did? -- be approached within 50%, or even 30% by Saints Row, instead of the 25% at which it seems to be lingering.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #97 on:** January 22, 2013, 10:56:20 AM »

big surprise-- South Park Studios and THQ fight it out over the South Park game. SPS wants to get it back and doesn't want it to go up for auction. looks like they filed some docs a few days ago.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=509423

on the plus side, South Park Studios has infinite money (thus, infinite lawyers) and will probably get it back quickly. Then they can find a good publisher for it...though I'm not sure why they (or Valhalla Studios) went with THQ in the first place.

Himu · « **Reply #98 on:** January 22, 2013, 10:59:47 AM »

Doesn't THQ have a license to South Park video games?

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #99 on:** January 22, 2013, 11:24:02 AM »

Yeah, they'd have had one at some point to publish this game. When there's something extreme like THQ's bankruptcy at play, contract law tends to get more and more malleable. Unless it was covered for in the contract (probably was...these contracts are gigantic.) If they had something that says THQ will own the game forever, even after losing the license to make new ones and even in the case of bankruptcy, then South Park Studio's chances of winning would decrease.

maxy · « **Reply #100 on:** January 22, 2013, 01:09:47 PM »

Saw this on gaf
THQ net income since 1990 (founded by LJN co-founder in April 1990).

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #101 on:** January 22, 2013, 01:18:38 PM »

so, in some way, by buying X-Men, Friday the 13th, and all kinds of licensed LJN trash for the NES, I funded the beginning of THQ. Nice to know. The rainbow of shit just keeps on giving.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #102 on:** January 22, 2013, 01:19:20 PM »

The end came hard and fast.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #103 on:** January 22, 2013, 01:19:47 PM »

was the $431 million year U-Draw?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #104 on:** January 22, 2013, 02:24:45 PM »

Quote from: Don Flamenco on January 22, 2013, 01:19:47 PM

was the $431 million year U-Draw?

It wasn't, actually. That year was 2011. 2009 was a combination of decreased sales because of the recession and increased costs, from a source that I'm not sure of.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #105 on:** January 22, 2013, 02:57:59 PM »

Even without SPS and THQ feuding over the rights, Stick of Truth is bound to be delayed, right?

treythemovie · « **Reply #106 on:** January 22, 2013, 03:45:26 PM »

That chart explains THQ's bet on Udraw pretty well. They were already in the shitter but were saved in 2010 thanks to the Wii version of Udraw. So you can imagine how eager/desperate they were to replicate its success in 2011.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #107 on:** January 22, 2013, 04:01:28 PM »

Quote from: treythemovie on January 22, 2013, 03:45:26 PM

That chart explains THQ's bet on Udraw pretty well. They were already in the shitter but were saved in 2010 thanks to the Wii version of Udraw. So you can imagine how eager/desperate they were to replicate its success in 2011.

They still would have been in trouble without the U Draw fiasco, but might have been able to keep things going until the situation improved. But, then U Draw for 360/PS3 happened and that was where the remaining wheels came loose.

treythemovie · « **Reply #108 on:** January 22, 2013, 04:17:22 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 22, 2013, 04:01:28 PM

They still would have been in trouble without the U Draw fiasco, but might have been able to keep things going until the situation improved. But, then U Draw for 360/PS3 happened and that was where the remaining wheels came loose.

Oh certainly. Udraw 360/PS3 was them betting everything left on a success and failing horribly. Without it they probably would have limped into next gen before finally going the way of Midway.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #109 on:** January 22, 2013, 05:31:37 PM »

Guys I have the best idea, I'm going to buy uDraw and do a version for iOS!!! I made this concept to inspire you

chronovore · « **Reply #110 on:** January 22, 2013, 05:55:44 PM »

Quote from: maxy on January 22, 2013, 01:09:47 PM

Saw this on gaf
THQ net income since 1990 (founded by LJN co-founder in April 1990).
(Image removed from quote.)

This is a 1x1 pixel image now, by the way.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #111 on:** January 22, 2013, 07:01:43 PM »

they publish games as Deep Silver (Dead Island, others)

http://www.kochmedia.com/games/deep-silver.html

Beezy · « **Reply #112 on:** January 22, 2013, 07:08:44 PM »

...Sega?

Purple Filth · « **Reply #113 on:** January 22, 2013, 07:11:16 PM »

Quote from: Beezy on January 22, 2013, 07:08:44 PM

...Sega?

They have Creative Assembly and can get the Warhammer 40K stuff from Games workshop due to Relic (apparently they trust relic enough).

Edit: Creative is doing a Warhammer game already so Relic could fit right in

demi · « **Reply #114 on:** January 22, 2013, 07:11:16 PM »

Quote from: Beezy on January 22, 2013, 07:08:44 PM

...Sega?

Sega does RTS games, yes. Usually Creative Assembly makes them. Also the Shogun series. Total War. It makes sense they would go after Relic.

Beezy · « **Reply #115 on:** January 22, 2013, 07:12:55 PM »

No, I just didn't think they'd have money to go after anyone.

demi · « **Reply #116 on:** January 22, 2013, 07:13:34 PM »

They sure do, after you dummies kept buying their ports of Virtua Fighter.

Beezy · « **Reply #117 on:** January 22, 2013, 07:16:12 PM »

Quote from: demi on January 22, 2013, 07:13:34 PM

They sure do, after you dummies kept buying their ports of Virtua Fighter.

Purple Filth · « **Reply #118 on:** January 22, 2013, 07:16:28 PM »

Quote from: Beezy on January 22, 2013, 07:12:55 PM

No, I just didn't think they'd have money to go after anyone.

IIRC they do have the Sammy side if anything (though i would assume they would like to get their side up to snuff again)

Himu · « **Reply #119 on:** January 22, 2013, 08:14:23 PM »

THE KOCH BROTHERS ARE GOING AFTER VOLITION?!

News:

Author Topic: Goodnight Sweet THQ (Read 21940 times)