THQ has been all over the news lately with its financial woes. But what got it into this mess?
Alex & Mike talk Biomutant, a game from Experiment 101/THQ Nordiq you likely have not heard of. While the AAA side of the industry tends to homogenization and imitative, cinematic presentation, “AA” games remain creative and innovative in 2021. Drawing on inspirations as varied as Dark Souls, third person shooters & kung fu cinema, Biomutant is Ratchet & Clank on acid, developed by a team of 20 people.
Remember THQ? They published such games as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Darksiders I & II, the Destroy All Humans series, Homefront, the Red Faction series, and Saint's Row 1-3. Almost as famous as their games were the THQ marketing stunts, including a Golden Wii.
PlaySation gamers are in for a treat today! Not only did Sony roll out its “Double Discount” PlayStation Store sale, but there’s also a THQ Humbe Bundle PS4 discount happening too!
with darksiders and metro coming out their stocks will raise again
too many shit games and not enough good ones, thats the problem here. its like none of the management at thq realized that making 40 shitty licensed based games equals decent profits but those profits cant even come close to what you can make if you make 1 new triple a ip.. the talent is out there, hell they did it with darksiders. that game may have not lit up the sales charts but it did set a solid foundation for a new franchise and i can almost guarantee that the sequel will sell even better now that it has established itself as an excellent action game. if they focused more on the hardcore and less on the casual to begin with, its unlikely that they would be in this situation to begin with. casual should have been the side projects not the main focus.
either way, hopefully this works out becuase i do love darksiders and while they need work, i do enjoy the wwe games.
lastly the ceo should have taken a 100% pay cut to keep more people on staff, its more or less his fault to begin with that they're in this situation so why should others be punished
This is how the 1977 and 1983 video game crashes commenced....
THQ doesnt have a yearly big hitting game.
-Activision has COD
-EA has the sports games (Fifa,Madden) and Battlefield.
-Ubisoft with Assassins Creed & Just dance
-Take Two with sports games and every now and then a R* game.
Home Front and Red faction not doing well are the reason they aren't doing well.
Why those games were so short and didn't live up to expectations though.. that's harder to answer.