Okay, I know most of you have very little appreciation for console gaming, but what would you guys think about putting Battlezone on the Xbox Marketplace? I was talking with one of my friends yesterday on XBL about Halo Wars, and it somehow got turned into a discussion about putting Battlezone on the marketplace. Now I can't shake the thought.
I think it would be awesome, especially if they included online play, and I shouldn't think it'd be too hard to do, either... but I don't really know a ton about that sort of stuff. Activision would likely make a killing off of it as well. I was thinking about emailing this to Activision, but I doubt they'd bother taking the idea into consideration if I was the only one to send it in, especially since Battlezone is as old as it is. What do you guys think? Would you help?
well put simply... we couldnt even if we wanted too..
BZ & BZ2 are computer games, and i bet theres some serious code re-writing needed to work on XBOX. Not only that, but as soon as we give microshaft the rights to this game they will make money off it everyway they can. And youre right, Activision wouldn't listen because i THINK the copyrights are now in EA's name. might be wrong on that last one.
BZ was written over ten years ago, the XBOX has more processing speed in ghz than that. I think it would be a problem.
I have all the time for XBOX gaming as much as PC's, but ive never had live. Its jsut another example of being shafted for money by microsoft for everything. You can get thousands of free COD maps for PC on the internet, but microsoft wont do that, nono, youve got to pay EVEN more for it. What the hells with that?
the only ones with the rights to re-write the BZII code that still hang with the gamers are GSH and Ultraken, both of whom are WAY to busy to do such a thing
lol sorry to be so negative, but even if we wanted it to happen. it couldn't.
Awww... :cry:
don't be too sad, id prefer to keep the game un-shafted by microsoft. just wouldn't be the same with a huge cooperation logo on it.
And activision is small? :-o
Compared to Micro$%!1, yeah
The BZ games are regarded as legendary to some people, and regarded as n00b-ish to a few others (like that guy I know).
I'd say NOT to have it on XBM, since the XB's graphics are WAY superior (I'm saying those of Halo 2, and GTA). Putting BZ on XBM could mean 3 things.
1. We, and Activision are generous enough to sell the legendary game after 10 years, again.
2. We, and Activision, are n00bs (no offense!) to put it up because its old and (no offense, some people believe this, but not ME!!) old games suck since they have bad (no offense!) graphics.
3. We, as the BZ community, are letting Micro(eff) (lol) totally make a legendary game NOT legendary by letting them print their logo on it and spoiling everything, which lets Micro(Same as above) get credit too, although ALL of the game was done by Activision, Pandemic, and us. Except for coding it to be compatible with XB. That was done by Micro*Ammo*.
EDIT: Hey! First post about BZ1!
well nah i guess.
activision seem to be behind the best/most intuitive games... guitar hero, BZ2. list probably goes on.
BZ2 actually has a pretty good graphics engine which was superb at the time of its release.
It is just the poor quality of stock models and textures that makes it look bad.
Quote from: bigbadbogie on February 19, 2009, 02:16:11 PM
BZ2 actually has a pretty good graphics engine which was superb at the time of its release.
It is just the poor quality of stock models and textures that makes it look bad.
AT its time, it's 2009 now, 10 years anniversary to BZ2. I don't have BZ1 though.