Okay, that's true. I wouldn't mind at all, although I'm sure the publisher / developers would seriously mind the localization expenses and logistics. I wonder how much of their sales are worldwide?
Honestly, I would say Demons/Dark Souls and Metro: Last Light are exceptions to the norm rather than the norm. I feel like Nate is right, and that PC is the scene where non AAA games have their strongest bases and that publishers seem to hate mid-tier nowadays.
I can understand that a bit given the costs and risks of anything that's not a huge hit franchise, because one failed game may lead to bankruptcy, but I still feel like it's a shame.
Because the development costs brought the spending out of control to the point where it couldn't be released because it bankrupted the company.
The other thing is that the reason they probably couldn't get more funding is because investors weren't interested in another mmo.
A lot of the new ones aren't doing amazingly well and even WoW is losing millions of subscribers. People are tired of the grind and inconvenience disguised as a game.
I agree. It's a very good game. Now if they trimmed some of the repetitiveness down and made it a shorter game with more diversity in experiences, I think it could be a great IP.
Ace Combat was nice, although I didn't play it much. Now I have to resist the urge to say they should just combine the series and have the Ace Combat cast joined by Assassins and Templars in the skies dogfighting and such.
I agree. They made 2.1 (Brotherhood) and 2.2 (Revelations) after 2 plus all the milking with handheld games based off of 1 and 2.
Man, they really have to focus on quality more, the amount of AC games they make is ridiculous, and this from a series fan.
Even as a fan I'm getting sick of it. I also think the series went downhill after Patrice Desilets left. Why the hell did they fire him again? I'm starting to think that they wanted him to drop his original series and go back to AC.
That was hinted at in the AC Embers mini-movie that ended Ezio's story. I hope we get an AC set in Japan and China. I mean both, not just one or the other. The are geographically close enough to go from one to the other via boat.
Plus there's Korea if the devs really want to push themselves. Chinese culture did flow outward to Japan through Korea after all.
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