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Stuntman, Juiced Cut Loose From THQ

kingofallcosmos — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:18:42 MST

For me, it is a contest between Stuntman and State of Emergency for the worst game of the last generation. I had a lot of busted shovelware games, but these were busted mainstream games. For the developers to spend the amount of money that they did on these awful games, they shouldn't have turned out so poorly. Good riddance, Stuntman.

kingofallcosmos

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KosherInfidel — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:33 MST

Wow...glad to see at least one company can see the light at the end of the tunnel with some of its franchises (looking at you Atari...)

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coyote12 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:46:32 MST

Sorry to see Stuntman go. Maybe it can find a better home somewhere else. Juiced 2 was just a shiny turd that could not begin to hold a candle to better racing games like Dirt, Forza or just about any other game with a car in it.

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Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name. — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:29:27 MST

I see no tears for Juiced. Good, it was nothing but a Need for Speed ripoff. Never played Stuntman, sounds sad though.

Sabre_Justice: Okay, no more long name.

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supercrap — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:11:57 MST

I bought Stuntman (For 20 bucks at a black friday sale) I like it a lot actually, as I did the first one. The series has changed developers and publishers, and had about 5 years between installments, so I wouldn't count it out just yet.

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coyote12 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:32:21 MST

This is not a surprise for me. I worked for 2 years testing games at THQ. Considering that most of the people there goof off and play World of Warcraft all day it is a surprise that they get any games out of the door. I liked Stuntman and was happy to be on that title. It was more fun than anyone gave it credit. Sorry to see it go but maybe it will find a better home where it can truly grow. Sadly I was also on Juiced 2 and that game was just PlayDough. Why by a bad racing game when there are 50 times better racing games like Dirt, Forza, and Project Gotham out there before this turkey even hit the shelves.

coyote12

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Dick.Blake — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:11:02 MST

Conan was a decent game. Definitely a rental. Final boss was a pain in the arse though.

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boots555 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:49:00 MST

You son of a guns! Why in the hell would you stop the Stuntman series? The first game rocks, the second not so much. Doesn't mean you quit.

boots555

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Ignatius — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:23:16 MST

Stuntman was only a pain in the ass when you actually tried to String It. Other than that, it was easy as hell to complete the objectives. I strung several of the movies, but it took me forever and I nearly busted my 360 controller over it.

Doing something a billion times over and over again is just beyond frustrating, it's infuriating. I just wish the people who made Stuntman understood what they were doing to people who usually don't have much patience when it comes to repetitive failure.

Ignatius

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DemonBlood — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:21:12 MST

Noooo Stuntman :(

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daknight — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:12:08 MST

I actually like Stuntman, I got the first one after playing the 360 one. It can indeed be hard, but it was damn fun. In the first one you had, I think, three misses and of course the clock (which got more time when you did the stunt right). Only stunt that where a pain where the 'do a 180 turn', but other than that, it was fun.

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FightingChance — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:36:43 MST

We gamefly'd Stuntman:Ignition and had a blast taking turns, going through the game.

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TheRockingDead — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:21:53 MST

That's too bad.. Stuntman was a great game, and a throwback to old school gaming sensibility where trial, error, and high scores reigned supreme. Hopefully someone will pick it up and make another.

TheRockingDead

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Jamaces — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:14:45 MST

stuntman kicked ass, it was such a fun game.
sure it had its times when you couldn't hit something that you had to.
but damn...

Jamaces

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Ashurahori — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:55:18 MST

@badasscat: The game wasn't forgiving at all, but the whole thing played like a totally awesome driving scene out of a movie, and even though it was tough as hell, it was a fantastic challenge.

Ashurahori

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ceilingFANBOY — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:45:45 MST

They should have just made Conan about Conan O'Brien. It would have sold infinitely better. Console selling material it would have been.

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ExplodingKayNine — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:42:15 MST

Instead of Conan, THQ should have tried to pick up the Severance: Blade of Darkness license. ;)

Juiced was okay, but was beaten to the punch by Need For Speed: Underground, which was a much better game by comparison.

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lamebrain — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:39:11 MST

Guess they won't be making that Juiced vs. Stuntman Wrestling game anymore either...

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badasscat — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:38:29 MST

@Ashurahori: XBL must have gotten a different demo than PSN, then, because the PS3 demo sucked.

It was the same as the original Stuntman. Do a bunch of tricks in sequence, and if you miss too many, go back to the beginning and do it all again. The last stunt in the demo is just ridiculous; I must have tried it like ten times. It stops being fun pretty quickly.

This was the exact same problem the first game had, except that the first game may have been a little less forgiving... I don't really remember too well but it may have just been instant fail if you messed up once, whereas Ignition basically gives you two or three mulligans. It's still f'in' stupid, though.

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ceilingFANBOY — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:25:26 MST

@lokes: YOU HATE THE GAMING INDUSTRY!!!!!!!111111!!!!111!!11

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lokes — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:14:53 MST

I just finished the single player of stuntman: ignition on the 360 and thought it was a fun game. I guess you just have to approach it as more of a puzzler or maybe even a rhythm game due to the repetition. Each mission was well layed out and once you got the hang of it, they were all good fun.

I did rent it from gamefly though, so I guess that doesn't really help their sales.

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RykinPoe — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:13:17 MST

I have rated many THQ games as close but not close enough on my personal quality/fun scale. Conan and Juiced are both games that suffered this fate. They have some decent properties, but they just can't seem to make a truly good game to save their lives. Conan has tons of potential as the base IP for a great game, but their take was generic, campy, and just plain not much fun to play. The only THQ published title I can think of that is actually worth owning is Full Spectrum Warrior and that was developed by Pandemic.

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ghnvt — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:09:32 MST

@nowjacker:

Let the bidding begin...By that I mean the memo to send them both to the incinerator.

ghnvt

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NowJacker — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:08:02 MST

Looks like a THQ liquidation sale is underway. EVERY FRANCHISE MUST GOOO!

NowJacker

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champ24 vamp_24(psn) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:58:20 MST

I, like others have already said here, actually liked the PS3 demo of ignition. I still might pick the game up now that it's going down in price. Too bad for the franchise, it seemed like it was going in the right direction.

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parad0x360 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:49:08 MST

Call me crazy but if THQ focused on Quality instead of average performing brand names they might save themselves from failure.

I swear they dont playtest anything they release anymore. 10 min of testing Conan and Juiced would have told them neither game was any fun but they both could and should have been.

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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:46:23 MST

Jeez... could these titles be the Publisher-killing viruses that have claimed two and THQ is suffering from?

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

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HalfJapanese — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:38:04 MST

Godd riddance to bad rubbish. One of the many underwhelming street racing clones and an exercise in frustration? No thanks.

In complaining about Conan underperforming, perhaps the problem lies with the fact that it's just a bland God of War rip-off as opposed to something that truly makes great use of the license, you know, the one that spawned every sword & sorcery game/movie/book ever?

HalfJapanese

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Fyren — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:36:49 MST

Bye bye ps3 version of BF2.

The demo was a serious boredom-fest. Unless they can pull off a miracle before release.

Hey, they revived the godawful GTAIV within the last 6 months, maybe Fuels can turn it around

Fyren

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tHieu! — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:31:32 MST

I still have to buy Ignition. I liked the demo and I'm a fan of the first Stuntman but you know how it goes, some games have priority over others... As for Juiced, good thing it's gone.

tHieu!

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symphony_of_the_night — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:27:55 MST

@Guizzy: Ignition was easy... the first one was hard.
And much much better....

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ceilingFANBOY — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:22:49 MST

@ceilingFANBOY: sponsor me for PolarBearPlunge, link in prof...: Stuntman that is.

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ceilingFANBOY — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:22:30 MST

Maybe that's why the price of the game just dropped an additional $10 this week.

ceilingFANBOY

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jayntampa — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:21:50 MST

Conan didn't do well either? Oh well, I actually thought it was pretty fun ... there were a few things that could have been improved on, but ... guess that means no sequel.

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Ollivander — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:21:42 MST

Stuntman was good but could be incredibly frustrating.

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Guizzy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:20:48 MST

Ahhh, Stuntman Ignition...

While a very good game in itself, the difficulty level is just in-freakin'-sane.

Guizzy

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Ashurahori — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:20:14 MST

As underwhelming as Stuntman was, the demo for XBL kicked an incredible amount of ass.

Ashurahori