nin wrote on Jul 29, 2011, 14:11:
For what its worth...

Creston wrote on Jul 28, 2011, 11:53:
Let's see:

- Devs make Red Faction Guerilla, a title which is very well received and sells well.
- They decide to make a sequel, but instead of harnessing the strengths of Guerilla and expanding on them, you instead turn it into the 2010 FPS of "Corridor, cutscene, corridor, cutscene, corridor, cutscene etc."
- Surprisingly, it doesn't sell well. WHODATHUNKIT?!
- Out come the claims of "The Red Faction franchise has ground to a halt," and "we should probably just cut it."

The Red Faction franchise HASN'T ground to a halt, you/the devs were just dumb fucking shitheels who ignored the fact that the previous game sold well, and gamers would likely have really enjoyed another big, open world game with tons of destructible shit.

So, in summary: Fuck you, Brian Farrell.

Creston

If you have a problem with Firefly you should take it to Whedon. Whedon's shows are made for WB, not big 4 network primetime. He should have went the STNG/Raimi&Tapert route of first run syndication. Show would probably have lasted 4 or 5 seasons that way

Beamer wrote on Jul 24, 2011, 12:42:
Going by this thread, it seems as if almost every single person that's played the full game is defending it. Maybe not in love with it, but defending it. It's not 100% but close.

Most of the people that are bashing it relentlessly either didn't play it at all or played the demo only.



Interesting. That just shows a huge, huge failure to capture an opportunity by Epic. Ok, some of the people that didn't play it at all just hate Epic, which is fine, that sentiment is, in part, exclusive to a small group of hardcore PC gamers and not enough to kill sales like this.
The rest, though... clearly the marketing failed enormously. A lot of people were turned off by it. And the demo? If people come away from a demo with an incorrect notion of what a game is then it's not their fault, it's the demo's fault.

Just some giant missteps there. Which is a shame. Game had very good reviews and good word of mouth from those that played, but the word of mouth from those that didn't, caused either by bad vibes from marketing or bad feelings from an underwhelming demo, destroyed it.