No Borderlands on Wii “just because,” a Claptrap side-scroller? |
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| BY Rain Anderson Oct. 22nd, 2009 | More on: |
Gearbox vice president Brian Martel has said that should the company ever decide to deliver their open-world level up fest Borderlands to Wii users, it wouldn’t be just for the sake of having their game on the system.
“… it’s hard to take this game and really kind of dumb it down if you will,” Martel said when asked if Gearbox is entertaining the idea of bringing the game to the Wii, or even the handhelds or the iPhone. “… we’ll see, [there's] definitely an interest there. We made Samba de Amigo for the Wii, so we love working on the Wii. We took one of the Brothers In Arms games and put it on [the Wii]. So we love the Wii [but] it’s not always the best thing. Nintendo sells the most copies, so, yeah.”
“You don’t want to feel like you’re milking the product just to get it on the Wii, especially if it doesn’t really help the game,” Martel went on to explain. “There are probably some areas of [Borderlands] that could really [work with the Wii controller] and be really excellent for it. We’d have to really consider it, I don’t think it’d be the same game at all. We’re not gonna do it just because.”
So while a Wii port might not be in the cards, Martel did open the door open for another way to get the world and characters of Borderlands out there, “We’ve got this very great character called Claptrap [if you've missed this fellow, do get acquainted with him here and here] … he’s a great character, we’d love to see him as a sort of a side-scroller character.”
Sounds like a XBLA/PSN/WiiWare/DS/PSP/iPhone game to us.
October 23rd, 2009
at 3:15 am
Its upsetting,but once we see a true 3D party developer actually respect the wii and make a game for it,it will have sale numbers which will turn all those other companies who turned Wii down envious.
October 23rd, 2009
at 8:03 am
@ Tommy
I doubt that, there have been plenty of “true” 3rd party games made for the Wii and they all fell horribly flat on their face. What developers ought to do is stick to making fun, quick and causal games for the Wii. Unfortunately that’s what the Wii demographic has become.
October 23rd, 2009
at 8:46 am
because there is such a low number of good 3rd party games on the wii what happens is that the sales of the game stay consistent. so eventually it sells enough units.
October 23rd, 2009
at 1:37 pm
WHY ON GOD’S GREEN YET POLLUTED BY MAN-KIND EARTH, WOULD THE GAME REQUIRE DUMBING DOWN ON Wii THE GAME-PLAY AND CONTROLS WOULD BE VASTLY CORE-GAMERED UP AND BE MORE ACCESSABLE AT THE SAME TIME THOSE HORENDUS MENUS AND ABILLITYS IN THEGAME WOULD BE VASTLY EASIER TO NAVIGATE WITH A MOUSE POINTER AS WELL AS THE SUPERIER SHOOTING AIMING AND THEN THE MOTION CONTROLS
CLEARLY ABLE TO MAKE IT A “”"”"BETTER GAME”"”"
PRO EVO PS3 DUMBED DOWN N64 ERA CONTROLS PRO EVO WII CONTROL 11 PLAYERS WITH ADVANCED CONTROLS
WAS PRO EVO WII COUGH COUGH DUMBED DOWN I THINK NOT IT WAS ENHANCED AND REVOLUTIONIZED STOP MAKING UP ANTI NINTENDO LIES ON THE INTERNET DEVELOPERS ITS VIRAL MARKETING WII AINT DUMB……
THE GAME WOULD BE BETTER WITH NUNCHUCK AND WIIMOTE OR EVEN A DS CODEX EXTRA CONTROL SCREEN SET UP AS A SIDE CONTROL TO WIIMOTE (OH LO0OK IM USING MY GOD GIVEN IMAGINATION STUPID 3RD PARTY)
RED STEEL 2 VERY VERY BOARDERLANDS LOOKING GRAPHICS WM+ ADVANCED SWARD CONTROLS TIGHT FPS CONTROLS AND WM+ 3D MOTION INTERACTIONS 60 FRAMES A SECOND AND CELL SHADED GRAPHICS
RED STEEL DOES THINGS BOARDERLANDS SIMPLY CANNOT LIKE WM+ 3D MOTION AND WM+ SWARD PLAY YET ITS GRAPHICALLY UP THERE - HD RESOLUTIONS
3RD PARTYS AGAIN FOUND OUT LIEING ABOUT WII IN SOME BIZZARRE JELOUSY OF THE COMPANY WHO INOVATED IT
NINTENDO IS D’game industry you ignorent 3rd party no-body 3rd party employee gimp monkey
October 23rd, 2009
at 1:41 pm
COD MODDERN WAR FARE Wii, has no dumbing down at all it wiull support full modes and levels and on-line that the x360/ps3 versions did it will look good visually BUT ADDED BRILIANCE in the form of true tight fully customizable fps motion point controls and fully customizable and enhanced zapper fps controls BOTH CONTROL OPTIONS IMPOSSABLE ON X360/PS3
SO THIS DUMBING DPOWN YOU SPEAK OF stop talking crap 3rd party bull-shitter
October 23rd, 2009
at 2:02 pm
wiiboy101ukgodgam, commonsense: samefag.
As much as I admire Gearbox and their stated reason, I can’t help but think it’s also due to the fact that NMH, Madworld and Dead Space: Extraction have all sold badly. Borderlands might be doing well at retail ATM, but it’s still a very hardcore game.
October 23rd, 2009
at 2:46 pm
playing the most advanced and customizable tight FPS controls in metriod prime 3,cod waw wii,conduit wii,and added full analog ,aim “zapper” modes IS DUMBED DOWN go back to were you came from YOU ASS-WIPE
October 23rd, 2009
at 4:43 pm
Don’t blame the developer blame the gamer and then the developer. A true gamer has a wii and perhaps either an xbox or a ps3 as well. Core gamer bitch about the wii being the white brick next to the tv… yet they still have it. Is it a brick because the core gamer doesn’t show any appreciation for core games developed for the wii? Is that why 3rd party developers think they need to dumb games down perhaps? I play videogames I’m a core gamer I get wii games and enjoy them throughly I go to the arcade and play arcade games and I likke pc games as well. There is only a handful of games I care for oon the ps3 and another handful on the 360 and the funny part is that all the games in both of those platforms may be ressed down and styalized differently so the wii graphics engine can handle it. Will that simplification make the games less enjoyable? My thought is a big NO! A good gamre is a good gameno matter who the publisher is or the platform it is on. Core gamer keep letting 3rd parties down by not even giving those games a chance because they assume the wii won’t deliver but here is a reality check for core gamers out there WII CORE GAMES ARE GOOD THEY DELIVER. Don’t say you are a core gamewhen you haven’t tried everything out there you are not a gamer if all you play is halo that just makes you a halo player not more and not less. Core gamers do yourself a favor and pick dead space extraction, muramasa, house of the dead overkill, mad world, no more heroes, COD, GUILTY GEAR, tatsunoko vs. Capcom, and tell once and for all to 3rd parties that you believe in the game and the platform. Maybe then they will put a bit more effort in their games and their marketing (I’m looking at you EA don’t blame gamers for a games bad performance if you can’t even put a commercial on adult swim ) I would keep on going but I’m writing this on my gphone on the train and is almost out of battery.thanks for taking the time to read this and if you are a GAMER you will consider my proposal.
October 23rd, 2009
at 5:59 pm
wii offers unlimited control,gameplay,interaction,1to1 and physic’s HOW IS THAT DUMBED DOWN the game industry insiders outside of nintendo have imploded and gone into meltdown seriously…
October 23rd, 2009
at 6:04 pm
tiger woods witch is DAdumb version wii 1to1 motion golf club support and 1to1 real physics of club via wm+ or ps3 bashing a button………..pro evo wii control team and tactics and single players all in real-time point motion analog stick controls OR BASH BUTTONS ON PS3 LIKE IM STILL IN N64 ERA
dumbed down what an idiot
October 24th, 2009
at 1:03 pm
I find it hilarious how the wii fanboys come out of the closet and start screaming. Motion controls were fun for about the first 30 days then the novelty wore off. The Wii attach rate is laughable at best. Maybe Nintendo’s new motto should be like a rock cause that is where the sales are heading. Down down down. This feels good knowing all u morons are going to start screaming and bitching like the 12 yr old demographic your toy is marketed to! HAHAHA
October 24th, 2009
at 6:29 pm
OMG seriously. 12 year olds coming out the woodworks! Ive said it all along that motion controls are a fad. it makes some things fun like bowling but for the most part core games need to stay on real controllers.
“most advanced and customizable tight FPS controls in metriod prime”? what metroid prime where you playing?
October 25th, 2009
at 9:17 am
Ignoring all the mundane arguments about dumbed down versions of games etc (which has some validity in regards to graphics and some aspects of the control scheme) the Wii is still left with one highly visible flaw. Hardcore/Adult oriented games just simply do not sell well. When you look at the PC/360/PS3 version of the same or similar game and compare them to the Wii sales wise, the Wii version falls flat and even flatter when you take the Wii’s market penetration into consideration.
October 27th, 2009
at 7:17 am
LEMON CAKES
FOR ALL!!!!!!
October 31st, 2009
at 5:09 pm
do i bash buttons snd aim via analog stick!!!!!! or do i fully interact with motion and aim with a gaming pointer mouse
the wii version would be both enhanced and easier to control BOTH AT THE SAME TIME on wii stop making up wii miths third party’s
October 31st, 2009
at 5:11 pm
button bashing is casual 3d motion,mouse ir pointer aim and analog is advanced ps3 is casual
November 1st, 2009
at 10:53 am
FUNNY HOW RED STEEL 2 HAS VERY BORDERLANDS LIKE GRAPHICS AND RUNS AT SOLID 60 FRAMES AND HAS CONTROLS AND GAMEPLAY IMPOSSIBLE ON PS3 X360
WII-MOTION-PLUS 1TO1 3D MOTION SWARD PLAY AND TIGHT WII ONLY FPS CONTROL GAMEPLAY
ALL IMPOSSIBLE ON PS3 X360
SO RED STEEL 2 WOULD BE GIMPED AND DUMED DOWN ON PS3 X360 WOULD IT NOT
November 9th, 2009
at 2:26 pm
I have a Wii, and Xbox, and an Xbox 360. I’ve played them all. One of the biggest problems on the Wii is that it has a bad graphics card that you could buy for your computer for 50 bucks, it needs to be dumbed down, face it. Even the original Xbox has better graphics than the Wii.
November 11th, 2009
at 1:13 am
In other words. They immediately thought HD = Better.
Clearly Red Steel 2 looks very Borderlandish and Borderlands is a FPS (like Red Steel 2)
Don’t worry Wii Hopefulls.
Borderlands will come to Wii in 2 years…along with Modern Warfare 2……just like how we got Call of Duty 4………….
November 16th, 2009
at 9:15 am
i have a ps3/pc/wii and guess what (shock horror) i dont play on the wii anymore because guess what else! it sucks (unless your either below the age of 14 or love nintendo so much you want put your manstick in marios behind)