I'm calling it now. Dumbed down, ported over, console crap shooter with jetpacks. Enjoy your 8-button experience.
I'm skeptical of this new console port coming even close to duplicating T1 with better graphics, let alone improving on it.
We don't even know what the lead platform is
Lets look at the facts. Their 1 "big" game is GA. Theyve never made a console game. They spend part of 2010 trying to figure out how to turn GA into a PC MMO using the Unreal 3 engine. Then they bought the tribes IP, and continued working on the same project. Then decide to make T:A before T:U, and even though they only know UnrealEd3, and the only game making experience they have is PC, and the active projects of the past 2 years are all PC based, but since they are going to make T:A for PC and Xbox, its logical to assume that it will be developed for the Xbox console and ported over to the PC? Yeah... Common sense people. There is less than a .1% chance this is a console port. It will be a PC game ported to the console.. which there are plenty of, and it doesnt detract from the quality of the PC game.
This is the game they're releasing before the MMO... so probably not going to be all that developed.
In Feb 2010 they released GA. They kept working on it releasing more content. in the 4th qtr they were working on the GA Battlefields concept, and it inspired the idea of a GA MMO, so they began working on that idea. Then they realized it would be better set in the Tribes IP, so they bought it. They are using the same engine they are familiar with, and technically have been working on the "concept" and code of this game since midway through last year. Now since they have the IP and can develop the art assets from an existing concept, many things will go faster. Its not inconvevable that they could finish and release the game this year, and not have it be a way undeveloped game.
P.S. - Did you consider the fact that it will almost indefinitely be MP only, and not having to develop a SP Storyline, cutscenes, etc shaves a shitload of time off from Normal Game Development time.
MY .02:
Give them time, see what they come up with, stop making stupid assumptions. It might be good, it might be bad. If you think "Tribes is dead, fuck them for trying this" , then stop participating in threads about shit they do and go your own merry way. Enjoy BattlefieldClone#36758 while you are at it.. I will be busy raping gens...
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