Console Marketing Strikes Again

[Ishtvan]

Don't know if you guys heard this already but:

 

http://www.ghostrecon.com/uk/newspost.php?id=10601

[Domarius]

Oh, well that seems to suck, but the truth is that they obviously CARE ENOUGH to spend the extra time on the (superior) PC version, and release a GOOD product LATER, which was certainly not the case with T3...

[Ishtvan]

IMO their saying that the reason is that they care so much is just a PR move. The truth is probably more likely: they worked on the console version first and foremost, leaving the PC port as an afterthought, and then decided "screw it" when the time to develop the PC version finally rolled around. Probably didn't project enough sales to warrant the extra development time.

 

They neglected to mention that GR 3 will be released on consoles too, so they're basically saying they'd rather have people working on GR3 for both console (and again the PC afterthought port) rather than waste any manpower trying to release GR2 for PC.

[Renzatic]

Considering that Ghost Recon 2 was a horrible sequel that killed off everything that was great about the original, it's not much of a loss.

[Ishtvan]

Geez, what did they do to it? Was everyone running around with like 6 weapons while strafe-jumping and shooting AT4's at eachother?

[Renzatic]

You only play as one character for one, and you can't issue orders or form your own teams anymore.

 

Basically they turned it into a modern Call of Duty. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but they should've made a whole new game instead of using the Ghost Recon name to do something else entirely.

[Ishtvan]

So basically no squad tactics whatsoever anymore... that sucks

 

The only way I could personally do well in many of the situations in GR (without restarting the mission all the time ) was to use one team as a fire element and the other team as a manuever element and do the whole "bounding overwatch" thing. Guess I would have hated GR2 then if it took all that away.

[god_is_my_goldfish]

Console Marketing Strikes Again

 

[Domarius]

The pessimistic view is that they don't care enough about the PC version to do it first, but GOOD PC versions are always more complex than their console versions, its just the nature of it.

 

It makes sense to me that they'd want to spend more time on it. And if they can earn more money by getting the cheap, console version out to the masses, well that's just a smart business move. More money should mean a better PC game.

[Dram]

I like ID's approach: Release it on PC (Doom3) and if it works well, THEN port it to consoles.