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Posted September 15, 2009
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TheCheese33: http://kotaku.com/5359367/activision-looking-to-a-future-where-consoles-arent-needed
I think this will be their ultimate downfall. Greed has obviously blinded the gargoyle known in English tongues as "Kotick", because consumers will not take bullshit like this. Buying guitar controllers, DJ turntables and skateboards is one thing. But buying hardware that only plays those specific games? Screw Activision.

Please don't lump Kotick in with gargoyles. Goliath and his clan are pure win.
Posted September 15, 2009
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Paul_cz: Well it's not like Activision has put out a decent game since..ever.The only exception Diablo 3 is still far away anyway.

Oh I have to take issue with that. Activision used to make great games, way back in the day (Afterburner, Pitfall, River Raid) and still made decent games until recently. Its only when they got too big and became little more than a sequel factory that their games started to suck.
Posted September 15, 2009
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Weclock: Fuck Blizzard.

I wouldn't recommend it. Your dick could get gangrene.
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cogadh: Oh I have to take issue with that. Activision used to make great games, way back in the day (Afterburner, Pitfall, River Raid) and still made decent games until recently. Its only when they got too big and became little more than a sequel factory that their games started to suck.

Activision might not have been so bad during the 80s, but even during the 90s I thought they were cunts.
Post edited September 15, 2009 by Navagon
Posted September 15, 2009
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cogadh: Oh I have to take issue with that. Activision used to make great games, way back in the day (Afterburner, Pitfall, River Raid) and still made decent games until recently. Its only when they got too big and became little more than a sequel factory that their games started to suck.
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Navagon: Activision might not have been so bad during the 80s, but even during the 90s I thought they were cunts.

Seriously? Activision in the 90's had great games: Mechwarrior, Interstate '76, Doom, Quake, Blood Omen, SiN... okay, maybe not SiN, but they were just as good in the 90's with original games. It wasn't until the turn of the millennium that they started to get lazy and began turning out crappy sequel after crappy sequel.
Posted September 15, 2009
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cogadh: Seriously? Activision in the 90's had great games: Mechwarrior, Interstate '76, Doom, Quake, Blood Omen, SiN... okay, maybe not SiN, but they were just as good in the 90's with original games. It wasn't until the turn of the millennium that they started to get lazy and began turning out crappy sequel after crappy sequel.

They didn't develop those games. They published them, and did a lousy job. For one thing, they started a trend of major titles like Quake 2 and Sin being released in a completely unfinished state.
Posted September 15, 2009
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Navagon: Activision might not have been so bad during the 80s, but even during the 90s I thought they were cunts.
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cogadh: Seriously? Activision in the 90's had great games: Mechwarrior, Interstate '76, Doom, Quake, Blood Omen, SiN... okay, maybe not SiN, but they were just as good in the 90's with original games. It wasn't until the turn of the millennium that they started to get lazy and began turning out crappy sequel after crappy sequel.

Activision in the 90s was a different company wasn't it? I seem to recall that this is the 4th version of activision to date
Posted September 16, 2009
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cogadh: Seriously? Activision in the 90's had great games: Mechwarrior, Interstate '76, Doom, Quake, Blood Omen, SiN... okay, maybe not SiN, but they were just as good in the 90's with original games. It wasn't until the turn of the millennium that they started to get lazy and began turning out crappy sequel after crappy sequel.
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Navagon: They didn't develop those games. They published them, and did a lousy job. For one thing, they started a trend of major titles like Quake 2 and Sin being released in a completely unfinished state.

Who said we were only talking about Activision developed games? I was talking about Activision as a whole, which includes both games developed by and games "only" published by them. The statement was originally that Activision had not made a decent game ever. I never said they didn't make some stinkers along the way, but if we are being honest, mixed in with those stinkers was a fair number of real gems over the course of their 30 years in the business.
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Aliasalpha: Activision in the 90s was a different company wasn't it? I seem to recall that this is the 4th version of activision to date

Actually, that was only the second version of Activision and the first coming Douchebag... I mean Kotick.
Post edited September 16, 2009 by cogadh
Posted September 16, 2009
Hmm I was sure it was 4th. Oh well, maybe thinking of some other company.
They have made and published some amazing games over the years but then so have most publishers & devs. The fact that they're apparently not greenlighting anything other than proven properties makes them a business on the wrong path.
EA have done new stuff recently and even Lucasarts have shown promise with Lucidity not being a star wars fps or 3rd person beat em up (though of course they ruin any gains by releasing shit like the clone wars republic heroes game)
Posted September 16, 2009
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cogadh: The statement was originally that Activision had not made a decent game ever. I never said they didn't make some stinkers along the way, but if we are being honest, mixed in with those stinkers was a fair number of real gems over the course of their 30 years in the business.

Who said that? I said I thought they were cunts. That's got nothing to do with the quality of the output. Although it clearly does affect it in some cases. As it did with Quake 2 and Sin.
Posted September 16, 2009
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Posted September 16, 2009
Put David Crane in charge! :-)
Posted September 16, 2009
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