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moonlith
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posted December 16, 2011 04:11 PM |
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If Ubi made the game alone, it would have been a good game, or even an epic game.
This coming from the person who a few weeks ago proclaimed HoMM VI was going to be the best HoMM evah, and then made a hate thread about it.
Rampant fanboyish doesn't do your credibility any good.
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Aosaw
Promising
Famous Hero
Author of Nonreal Fiction
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posted December 16, 2011 04:58 PM |
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I think you're missing the point, Moonlith. H6 has some good parts to it that give it the potential to be the best installment in the series - but then it also has some really awful parts that make it not worth the time.
What he's saying is that if Ubisoft had developed the game in-house, rather than contracting it out to an independent developer, the result would have been a much more polished version of the game where the good parts far outshone the bad parts, rather than the other way around.
I still say the problem is that there were two different companies working on the same project, and that never ends well. A Black Hole exclusive would have probably had some issues from a gameplay perspective, and it might not have been a game you'd want to play, but I suspect that it would have had fewer bugs and a more consistent design.
Sure, the Ubisoft version would be better, because they could allocate more resources to it, but the current hodge-podge of in-house/out-of-house design choices doesn't work at all.
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Fauch
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Undefeatable Hero
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posted December 16, 2011 05:43 PM |
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I think I began playing H4 only after it got patched, so I don't know what was so bad about it when it was released. apart from a few very obvious balance problems, I didn't see major problems. in another hand, stuffs like genies and vampires were never really fixed. equilibris even made genies somewhat stronger by allowing them to cast mass slow (???)
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baklava
Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
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posted December 16, 2011 05:58 PM |
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I liked Mark of Chaos. Though it was all buggy for me and kept crashing and whatnot. They mostly failed in the marketing department.
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Known Hero
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posted December 16, 2011 09:04 PM |
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If Ubi made the game alone, it would have been a good game, or even an epic game.
This coming from the person who a few weeks ago proclaimed HoMM VI was going to be the best HoMM evah, and then made a hate thread about it.
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I think you're missing the point, Moonlith.
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sokkur
Hired Hero
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posted December 17, 2011 01:06 AM |
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The problem is less with one or the other, but rather with miscommunication between the two, arbitrary or overly optimistic deadlines, and incomplete information regarding the needs of the game.
I tink I know why they have such optimistic deadlines. They are doing them to keep their equity owners base calm and steadly expanding.
Shame on them!
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