Gearbox Explains Why 'Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway' Has Taken So Long

wetowel - 455 days 23 hours ago

NO WAY! UNBELIEVEABLE! the ps3 is hard to develop for? wow. Megaton.

/sarcasm

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darkpower - 455 days 23 hours ago

At least once they called Sony about it. Now they have no issue with it nor do they say it's a difficult language.

Don't know why no one else can follow Rockstar's example. If you build it right, they will come (trust me, they will).

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beavis4play - 455 days 17 hours ago

While the changes and tweaks made to the existing technology from Epic Games complicated matters, it was the PS3 version that gave Gearbox the most trouble. They had no experience on PlayStation hardware.

“In previous ‘Brothers in Arms,’ we had farmed out the PlayStation versions to other developers who were PlayStation experts,” he said. “So we had to build up all that expertise in-house to understand that platform. There’s just major hardware differences; you don’t know if your Xbox guy has a hard drive but your PlayStation guy does, and you’ve got 8 cores on this machine and 4 and a half on this machine and some PC users have…who knows how many?”-from the article.

nowhere in the article is anything mentioned to substantiate your "sarcasm".

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El_Colombiano - 455 days 23 hours ago

LMFAO HAHAHAHA Half a core?

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Vicophine - 455 days 22 hours ago

..agreed, that's hilariously ironic. Apparently PS3 hardware is not the only hardware they don't know.

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RememberThe357 - 455 days 16 hours ago

Happy now?

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harry190 - 455 days 18 hours ago

are you talking about? Sure, first party games can look better sometimes, but to say that multiplat games are junk is ridiculous. Does Dead Space look like junk to you? Fifa 09? NHL 09? Mirror's Edge? Call of Duty 4? Battlefield Bad Company? Madden 09?Rock Band? Guitar Hero? Far Cry? and tons of others. Is that what you call junk? Wow,that's not really what I would expect a 'gamer' to say.

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beavis4play - 455 days 17 hours ago

from the article-
"We made a lot of changes to the engine, so each platform reacts to those changes differently. There’s a lot to follow up and that kind of stuff, trying to make it work right on all the different platforms.”

gearbox is saying that the ps3 was giving them trouble because they have never worked on a playstation 1,2 or 3. . they didn't have experience with any sony hardware. NOWHERE DO THEY SAY THE PS3 IS HARD TO WORK WITH. as long as games are good,it doesn't matter to me if they struggle or not; but, don't make up stuff.

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beavis4play - 455 days 17 hours ago

i like the look of the game, but i haven't played it yet. what concerns me is all the delays. usually if one system gives a dev trouble, they can still get it out for another console or the pc. but this game has been delayed; and delayed; and delayed for all possible formats. that usually spells trouble.

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Cajun Chicken - 455 days 18 hours ago

I seriously doubt that stopped them making it for 2 WHOLE YEARS.
Doesn't stop anyone else.

Scape-goats are great, aren't they?

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Snukadaman_ - 455 days 18 hours ago

its plain and simple this game could of been out quicker withought the excuse of not having to wait for the slower developed game. and about the game, after call of duty 4 and battlefield bad company I cant see myself going for another world war 2 game again. vietnam might be interesting but then again it has been done with the conflict series and failed.

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Cajun Chicken - 455 days 17 hours ago

Are you really that ignorant to not see all the slew of multiplatform titles which have arrived at exactly the same time and have had an acceptable development schedule and look identical?

Do you really think a game would take a year, 2 years less to develop because of no PS3 version?
Fact is, it sounds as if these developers are just slow, not prepared and many multiplatform focused developers can put them to shame!

This is just an excuse and you can see it.
"My dog ate my homework." trick.
Something everyone knows which will guarantee to work because no-one can prove you wrong without seeing the dog, shift the blame away from you easily as possible.
The game is already known to be late. Wheres the nearest possible excuse? Ah! There it is! People still go on about that one! PR genius and spin at its finest.

Its going to be a crap game anyway. BiA have never been one of my series, never had anything to take notice of. I might end up investing in CoD: WaW, because the engine for CoD4 is fantastic and I could easily do with more.

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Snukadaman_ - 455 days 16 hours ago

We dont know the development problems most developers are having with multiplatform games because only a few complain about their problems...this isnt a isolated incident with games being slow to come out...gta4 was another example...your 2 year excuse is hilarious...smoke and mirrors to try and hide your weak excuse. what you fail to mention is there might of been a xbox/pc version of the game that would of been released along time ago is my argument. I will agree with you on being a crap game though....when you have the option of shooting p90's to a m1 garand its clear I would rather be in the modern age. Throwing potato mashers....bah.

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Bathyj - 455 days 17 hours ago

The hair on your nuts would be pretty new. What are you, 12?

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