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I prefer a mediocre port to a console title. I think you underestimate just how much I despise consoles. Mediocre ports aren't hard to do, and there's no question that a PC release of a game like Ace Combat would be fucking jumped at launch like a 12-year-old at the Vatican. It literally makes no sense not to make a port if your game is well received, and that's what continually pisses me off. The fact that no game in the Ace Combat series has made it to PC is fucking baffling to me.
There are plenty of reasons a game might not be ported.Quote:
Originally Posted by ExAm
Hardware compatibility, platform interest, profitability the list goes on.
You gotta think, they need to make sure that a large range of hardware configurations won't cause huge problems for the end user, just look at Halo PC and Nvidia, ATI cards had no issues with rendering the cloak shader but Nvidia cards had a ghosting effect and didn't show the material properly.
There are plenty of companies out there that can be hired to do ports, it's just stupid to ignore a profitable platform.
HEY, I WANT TO BUY YOUR GAME. LET ME BUY YOUR FUCKING GAME.
Now what I'm about to say is by no means a example of how everywhere is but, the place I'm currently on a temporary work trial has bigger sections for the PSP and UMD than it does for PC games.Quote:
Originally Posted by ExAm
The local town near where I live has about 4 games shops and in each one of them, the smallest games section happens to be the PC section.
Steam and D2D might be popular retail services but one has to ask, if PC games are so profitable at this current stage, why aren't there bigger sections in the brick and mortar retail stores?
Because the meat of sales has moved to digital distribution. Why go to a store for a game if you can just get it online? The reason for it is just that simple, no need to overthink it. A lack of physical sales is no indication of poor sales for a PC title in general. Put a game in the Ace Combat series on Steam, and I guarantee it will pay for itself very, very quickly.
I've always wanted to play Ace Combat games, but to this day I haven't played a single one? Why? Because I don't want to fucking buy a shitty PSP or an expensive console. I think HAWX was ported to PC and I still liked that. Too arcady, though. That's why I want an Ace Combat game.
FUCKING LOL
I have no doubt about that. The majority of the reason involve the primary devs and publishers in Japan. A good example is Harmony Gold and how they essentially FUBARed Macross by turning it into that shitty robotech series. Ace Combat is such a well developed series they're worried another American port company will ruin it, be it either ingame lore, controls, or any un necessary features etc. America has always been on thin ice when it comes to Japan importing their pride and joy games. Another good example are many Gundam games which we have yet to appear. The last great release for Gundam was Encounters in Space, every game since then (including Dynasty Warriors gundam) has generally been mediocre and sub par. From Software has been generous when it comes to Armored Core however (thank god).Quote:
Originally Posted by ExAm
Brilliant.