Kaanyrvhok
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Dnny said:The game was a year away from being a 360 launch title. How does that not happen?
And compete with games like Condemned ? no way the xbox 360 tards would have bought a source engine-level game when launch titles featured stuff like Condemned. You have to understand that market before thinking you could wave your magic wand and make millions. Apart from the nice character faces Bloodlines was technically subpar. It had huge loading times and would practically have taken a rewrite to stuff it into the 512 mb of xbox 360 ram, even if it didn't run on a full OS like PC games.
To go by your plan Troika should've fired most of their developers and hire competent graphic wizards.
Morrowind sold well next to Halo and an allaround better group of launch titles yet Bloodlines cant sell next to Condemned?
Gamers tend to let graphics slide if a game is large in scope, good and or has RPG elements. GTA is a fine example of that, Dragon Age is an ugly 360 game, Two Worlds and Morrowind were nothing special to look at. I don't blame Troika. After the success of western RPGs and first person games on the original Xbox Activision should have penned Bloodlines as a next gen launch title and covered the cost for porting it.