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A little bump being +25% I had no idea that THQ was in such dire straits. Looking at their Humble portfolio, they have a diverse set of technologies here. It

A little bump being +25% I had no idea that THQ was in such dire straits. Looking at their Humble portfolio, they have a diverse set of technologies here. It's a real shame that they aren't able to monetize them better. When you look at other publishers, they tend to stick with a single technology, but THQ never had that huge AAA hit that they could keep iterating on cheaply to print money. CTG Engine, 4A Engine, Essence Engine, GeoMod Engine. There's a lot of technology here. (2 internal) 4A is probably their most advanced. If I were them, I'd focus on making a CoD clone with the 4A Engine. Perhaps the graphical superiority could appeal to a more hardcore audience that would fill out as GPU technology catches up.

TruthElixirX 14y ago
They tried a CoD clone in Homefront, and it did not do very well.
- joshschreuder 14y ago
  Not having played it, I thought that most of the criticism went to the game's short length rather than the engine.
  - jgoney 14y ago
    I would agree with this. I felt that the game was well done, engaging, and fun....but unfortunately it just stops right when the story starts to really heat up. The ending definitely had an unfinished feel for me.
rtkwe 14y ago
That might be part of their problem. Instead of making a big AAA game they keep reinventing the engine. It seems most really successful game studios have 1-2 engines that they're very good at producing good games on. They may update often but it's rarely an entirely new engine. (See Valve, ID, etc.) Making a new engine for every game can't help their delivery times.
- sliverstorm 14y ago
  Which makes you wonder, if they are really engine folks, maybe they should be an engine company?
  - rtkwe 14y ago
    Possibly, I don't know much about the engines behind THQ's games really. To become just an engine company requires a well rounded and adaptable engine. There's probably some market for a superb niche engine but that is a weak position to put yourself in as a company. They might be reinventing their engine so often because they can't get a good future-resistant engine out of it.

TruthElixirX 14y ago

They tried a CoD clone in Homefront, and it did not do very well.

joshschreuder 14y ago
Not having played it, I thought that most of the criticism went to the game's short length rather than the engine.
- jgoney 14y ago
  I would agree with this. I felt that the game was well done, engaging, and fun....but unfortunately it just stops right when the story starts to really heat up. The ending definitely had an unfinished feel for me.

rtkwe 14y ago

That might be part of their problem. Instead of making a big AAA game they keep reinventing the engine. It seems most really successful game studios have 1-2 engines that they're very good at producing good games on. They may update often but it's rarely an entirely new engine. (See Valve, ID, etc.) Making a new engine for every game can't help their delivery times.

sliverstorm 14y ago
Which makes you wonder, if they are really engine folks, maybe they should be an engine company?
- rtkwe 14y ago
  Possibly, I don't know much about the engines behind THQ's games really. To become just an engine company requires a well rounded and adaptable engine. There's probably some market for a superb niche engine but that is a weak position to put yourself in as a company. They might be reinventing their engine so often because they can't get a good future-resistant engine out of it.