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Who loves Acclaim?
*silence*
It is a sad, sorry state of affairs, the once fantastic Acclaim publishing house is now left, like many other publishers before them, releasing crap for the Playstation.
Acclaim were once a hero to Nintendo and their legions of fans, a western developer that stood beside the ailing company when things turned sour. Turok and the 3 following sequels were all made near enough exclusive to the N64 (bar the GBC and PC versions)... the very popular WWF Attitude was released with an extra mode on the N64 and of course Shadowman was built specifically for the Nintendo system.
Along with Konami, Acclaim were one of the only companies releasing exclusive software for the fantastic but un-realised brilliance of the N64... and one of the only adult companies...
Oh happy days.
Acclaim turned sour. During re-structuring the cool names of Acclaim's inhouse developers (such as Turok developer Iguana) soon became pathetic names based on where they were allocated. Turok Evolution became multi-format... the lack of concentration on the Nintendo system spoilt the series beyond recognition... even though we still felt hope after Turok 3. Burnout enjoyed limited success on Nintendo's system and the failure of Acclaim's now crap franchises cause Acclaim officials to hit out on Nintendo.
This was soon re-tracted, successful sales of the Extreme-G series and Burnout meant Gamecube was still profitable with some games.... just not all and so Acclaim still wish to support the console a bit...
But we don't care anymore.
Despite Burnout being fantastic it's recent sale to EA has meant Acclaim are in a pit of hell... producing dog awful wrestling sims and poor mans adult titles....
Things are getting bad to worse.
How it saddens me, Nintendo lost Konami and Acclaim when trying to appeal to new developers... Nintendo are trying to re-capture ties with Konami but my advice is to leave Acclaim well alone. Unless they can re-capture their glory days the company is very nearly dead and buried... stay in bed with EA Nintendo, they're better at it and off you far more money (Dringo please).
*silence*
It is a sad, sorry state of affairs, the once fantastic Acclaim publishing house is now left, like many other publishers before them, releasing crap for the Playstation.
Acclaim were once a hero to Nintendo and their legions of fans, a western developer that stood beside the ailing company when things turned sour. Turok and the 3 following sequels were all made near enough exclusive to the N64 (bar the GBC and PC versions)... the very popular WWF Attitude was released with an extra mode on the N64 and of course Shadowman was built specifically for the Nintendo system.
Along with Konami, Acclaim were one of the only companies releasing exclusive software for the fantastic but un-realised brilliance of the N64... and one of the only adult companies...
Oh happy days.
Acclaim turned sour. During re-structuring the cool names of Acclaim's inhouse developers (such as Turok developer Iguana) soon became pathetic names based on where they were allocated. Turok Evolution became multi-format... the lack of concentration on the Nintendo system spoilt the series beyond recognition... even though we still felt hope after Turok 3. Burnout enjoyed limited success on Nintendo's system and the failure of Acclaim's now crap franchises cause Acclaim officials to hit out on Nintendo.
This was soon re-tracted, successful sales of the Extreme-G series and Burnout meant Gamecube was still profitable with some games.... just not all and so Acclaim still wish to support the console a bit...
But we don't care anymore.
Despite Burnout being fantastic it's recent sale to EA has meant Acclaim are in a pit of hell... producing dog awful wrestling sims and poor mans adult titles....
Things are getting bad to worse.
How it saddens me, Nintendo lost Konami and Acclaim when trying to appeal to new developers... Nintendo are trying to re-capture ties with Konami but my advice is to leave Acclaim well alone. Unless they can re-capture their glory days the company is very nearly dead and buried... stay in bed with EA Nintendo, they're better at it and off you far more money (Dringo please).
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Darwock wrote:
> Anyway I recently read something similar here about Konami, which
> just says it all really.
I wrote an article about Konami, about how they switched most of their development to Sony and left Nintendo..
But I clearly stated that they are a system selling developer, that they make fantastic games and Nintendo could do with attracting the company. Which I believe they are.
Acclaim changed their entire philosophy on game making a while back during their re-structuring... since then they have released 20 odd games... 4 of which are any good... and they are all temporary PS2 exclusives as well.
All I'm saying is that Acclaim develop titles for Sony and when they did that they changed how they made games too. It was part of their re-structure.
> Anyway I recently read something similar here about Konami, which
> just says it all really.
I wrote an article about Konami, about how they switched most of their development to Sony and left Nintendo..
But I clearly stated that they are a system selling developer, that they make fantastic games and Nintendo could do with attracting the company. Which I believe they are.
Acclaim changed their entire philosophy on game making a while back during their re-structuring... since then they have released 20 odd games... 4 of which are any good... and they are all temporary PS2 exclusives as well.
All I'm saying is that Acclaim develop titles for Sony and when they did that they changed how they made games too. It was part of their re-structure.
I'm saying they didn't do anything good before that or after that.
Darwock wrote:
> Do you consider them s**t for any reason OTHER than they abandoned
> Nintendo for Sony? Burnout 2 is the most recent game of theirs I can
> think of and that is awesome.
Exactly.
Burnout 2 was released a year and a half ago. If it's the most recent game you can think of that Acclaim created that's actually good, then you've just gone and proved Dringo's point, which kind of defeats your own argument.
> Do you consider them s**t for any reason OTHER than they abandoned
> Nintendo for Sony? Burnout 2 is the most recent game of theirs I can
> think of and that is awesome.
Exactly.
Burnout 2 was released a year and a half ago. If it's the most recent game you can think of that Acclaim created that's actually good, then you've just gone and proved Dringo's point, which kind of defeats your own argument.
Darwock wrote:
> Do you consider them s**t for any reason OTHER than they abandoned
> Nintendo for Sony? Burnout 2 is the most recent game of theirs I can
> think of and that is awesome.
Hang on, just because they're trying to find the largest possible audience with minimum licensing fees for their games doesn't mean they're jumping into bed with them... they're just trying to survive, because above all they're a business.
> Do you consider them s**t for any reason OTHER than they abandoned
> Nintendo for Sony? Burnout 2 is the most recent game of theirs I can
> think of and that is awesome.
Hang on, just because they're trying to find the largest possible audience with minimum licensing fees for their games doesn't mean they're jumping into bed with them... they're just trying to survive, because above all they're a business.
I ahte Acclaim. They let me down with Legends of wrestling and have never forgiven them since.
I don't think I ever enjoyed anything Acclaim published except Burnout 1/2.
Pamper not "are pamper".
Nintendo? I always liked them back from the days of the Mega Drive. Now they are pamper to the sales and make sh*t that will sell in its mass. You might enjoy mains**tream crap but others would prefer playing something at leas**t worth a rental.
And did you read my post? I don't think Acclaim have ever been particularly special apart from Burnout.
You seemed to be saying that back in the day when they gave exclusives to Nintendo they were great, and now they're not because they've gone 'mainstream'... oh no!!!
Anyway I recently read something similar here about Konami, which just says it all really.
You seemed to be saying that back in the day when they gave exclusives to Nintendo they were great, and now they're not because they've gone 'mainstream'... oh no!!!
Anyway I recently read something similar here about Konami, which just says it all really.
Here here.
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