Comments on: Total War studio pushing on with console development

By: OlderGamer

OlderGamer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:32:34 +0000

I like games like that. Hack and slash old school flavoured games. Toss in a bit of leveling and char development, and I am in. I miss games like Champions of Norath, Dungeon and Dragon Heros, Phantasy Star Online, heck I would be giddy for a well done Gauntlet game.

By: Hunam

Hunam — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:58:03 +0000

They did, Spartan: Total Warrior

By: The_Deleted

The_Deleted — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:52:09 +0000

Viking was great but far too fiddly when it came to the actual fighting. I’d like to see ROME make it to a console in some way, even if it’s akin to Viking.

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:58:24 +0000

there are meny genres that don’t run well on consoles.

the only types genres these days seems to shooter, shooter shooter shooter.There is like only 4 genres on sonoles. action games and shooters are the only ones that seem to work best on consoles.

flight sims, tbs,tbrpg and meny other genres just don’t work well on consoles.

another game dev who wants to risk going bankuprt.

Oh I found a very good article by the way

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/12/06/pc-gaming-not-hit-as-hard-as-some-estimate/

By: El_MUERkO

El_MUERkO — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:57:16 +0000

i loved Spartan: Total Warrior and enjoyed Viking, to me it felt like Viking needed another few months in development

i’d like to see them do that ‘loads of bad guys/huge battles’ idea but wrap it in an Diablo-esque RPG enviornment

By: Ravenblade86

Ravenblade86 — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:56:54 +0000

Yeah I agree, Viking was a fun game. Wasn’t the greatest action game ever, but it was enjoyable time. Stormrise I was looking forward to, but clearly the ball got dropped, though I’m still hopefully that CA can turn out a good RTS for consoles at some point.

Oh and they also did Spartan: Total Warrior, which has an average Metacritic score of 73, but is actually a rather good action game. It just happened to come out in 2005 after God of War which meant it got badly over looked I think.

By: OlderGamer

OlderGamer — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:34:47 +0000

To be fair Viking was pretty good. Maybe not in some sort of technical achievment/benchmarking type of things. It was hohum in that dept. But where it actualy counted, fun. It was pretty good. I didn’t play stormrise. Console RTS games kinda of scare me.