Did you guys know that Joe "Mad" left Vigil, and is back at drawing comics again. Wonder what the future of Darksiders will be considering its low sales. I'm still hoping the Wii U version might sell well, so even if THQ sells the IP we might see at least one more future installment.
Also I've been wanting to try Saints Row The Third, and they just released a complete edition... I want it on Wii U dammit.
Yeah, I knew about Madueira quitting, don't really care though. The good parts of Darksiders were just cribbed from Zelda anyway, they don't need a creative director for that.
The DLC for Saints Row is garbage, the base game is all you need.
THQ had made the Udraw for wii which made a lot of money. They got greedy and made Udraw for versions for the 360 and PS3 which bombed hard due to no demographic wanting it.
Then THQ made homefront which was supposed to be its tkae on a big AAA shooter like COD or MOH. Problem is that THQ is a AA company who put AAA money into the development and marketing of the game. I think the game sold moderatly but it didn't do enough too make up the games budget.
What's all that AA and AAA talk supposed to mean anyway? Stuff like Saints Row, Company of Heroes, the Warhammer 40k games and Red Faction is top tier. The problem with Homefront was a stupid "We want to make a game about an occupied nation but the only nation that's marketable is America* and the only enemy that's left is North Korea" setting plus a mediocre developer. Plus of course being a modern military shooter which seems like a waste of money for anyone who isn't CoD (yet that only strengthens their resolve while they whine about how third party games don't sell on Nintendo systems).
*= Supposedly the game Freedom Fighters was originally meant to take place in some eastern European country that was swallowed up by the Soviet Union but since marketing believes that Americans cannot feel empathy for someone from another country they had to set the game in a Soviet-occupied US instead. I'm not sure whether marketing or terrible writers (looking at you, Tom Clancy) are responsible for the constant regurgitation of "random dude from country X that the US has hated in the last 100 years wants to rebuild his country and attacks America" stories but it's getting really fucking annoying. It wasn't believable the first time, what makes them think they can pull it off another few hundred times? We all know what a modern total war looks like and it's more like Defcon than Call of Duty. At least have the decency of coming up with fictional countries like Ace Combat does if you want equally powerful modern nations. Or hell, have it all end in nuclear annihilation if that's your taste. But don't go around glorifying war like it's always patriotic heroes vs evil monstrosities. That breeds a society that would vote for Hitler.
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