Far Cry 2: Lose A Buddy, Lose Content [Sep 05, 2008, 9:44 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Videogaming247 reports an interesting tidbit about Far Cry 2 they picked up
at the Games convention. Apparently when one of the game's NPC "buddy"
characters meets an untimely demise, the game content associated with that
character dies as well. They quote Patrick Redding, the narrative head on the
shooter follow-up: "That’s the price you pay for having buddies. When I unlock a
buddy like that and then use him, either by getting involved in one of his
missions… or by allowing him to come and rescue me, there’s always a risk that
he could be killed. If he’s killed, he’s gone forever and the content associated
with that character is no long available to me. So for example, any side quests
that he’d be able to give me are no longer available."
TR: Legend, TR: Anniversary, the PoP games
Wouldn't those fall under your category of dumbed down console ports seeing as the lead platforms were for consoles and control is designed around the gamepads?
Making an FPS on a platform with an inferior control scheme? Greed. Dumbing down a game so it appeals to the lowest common denominator? Greed.
Making an FPS on a platform and tuning the controls for that platform is common business sense, not greed.
Failing to properly tune gameplay & controls for each specific control method is the developers failing and has fuck all to do with the platform. I've played good FPS/TPS games on consoles, I've also played what should have been good games with shitty controls...on ALL platforms, including PC.
You have valid points, so do we. But you really do contradict yourself a lot, whether you see it or not and agree with it or not. You also make very broad sweeping generalizations about consoles, console games, and console players completely failing to recognize the real problems which really has little to with the platforms themselves, but rather the developers inability (in some cases) to tune the controls properly for each platform or to make use of available control options (keyboard + mouse on PS3).
A good game is a good game, regardless of the platform it is on.
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