[quote who="/b/" reply="3" id="2172034"]Yeah ****** PS3 has much better hardware. PS3 can be used as it's own host and people connect to it much like the talk on the forums here about P2P how WC3 works. Seems PS3 is in favor.

 

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Lololololol. /4/chan reference by mod makes me giggle.

Anyways, i dont see how this game could be translated in its current state.

Listen, when you boil this game down, it is an RTS... with point and click goodness.  As we have CLEARLY seen, RTSs have terrible translation into any console!  How would you compensate for the cast abilities?  How would you handle the cast-AoE abilities? 

The only way I could see this happening is if they reworked the game to be more of a Savage/Savage2 feel, which works and does work on a gamepad (i use Logitech gamepad- looks like playstation controller).  Target cast?  FPS it!  AoE cast?  Again, FPS or 3PS it!

But in my proposed translation, it would be rather bland to play.  I believe that Demigod is at it's best itteration in the state it is in!

Instead of battling the troll, lets think about how you WOULD make DG work on a console?

Ok, easy stuff for starters, bind one of the analog sticks to DG movement, bind 8 buttons to ability slots.

If an ability needs targetting, perhaps have a targetting circle that you can cycle between targets with left and right triggers?  

Oh wait, there's typically going to be a lot of guys on the screen and cycling through all of them would be painful, so lets only cycle through demigods...  No wait, that's no good because quite often I'll want to target one of their minions or idols... Now it's taking too long to cycle through the potential targets... Maybe chuck a cursor in their instead of cycling... No that's way too inaccurate...  Ok, lets just get rid of generals, then we don't have the problem...

You can't use targetted abilities on creeps anymore, but who's going to want to do that anyway... maybe a separate set of buttons for cycling through buildings, cause some abilities target buildings...

Ok, so if you cut out / nerf minions then it could kind of work... Maybe make teleport work a little different, instead of picking a target then winding up, you fire it off and then when the cast time has expired you're in the astral plane, and can instantly appear anywhere.  

That resolves the teleport target problem...

What else would need to change?  Shopping and skill advancement are all pretty easy to resolve, have I missed anything?

Cause SupCom on 360 worked out so well.

You would be sorely mistaken if you think a console version of the game would improve upon anything.

The game would still be P2P. P2P has some great advantages for an RTS type game and GPG probably made a firm decision to capitalize on those strengths. This means that any problems we're experiencing now, would be on a console version, and would likely take longer to get fixed because of extreme external patch processes.

The control scheme is not ideal for a point and click game.

The visuals would suffer. ALL current generation consoles are getting quite old and its about time they offered some proper upgrades or the next iteration of these consoles.

Even though you could theoretically map the controls to a gamepad, it doesn't change the fact that the gamepad is a very clunky mechanism to use for a game that needs to be precise. Why do you think FPS games on consoles have huge crosshairs and very generous hit boxes, and the PC FPS games have a dot? The mouse is capable of very precise and very quick movement which a gamepad has no way of matching.

Just imagine trying to interrupt a teleport with a gamepad. Now imagine 2 other demigods around and giants and other creeps on both sides. Now you know why this game wouldn't work on a console, even if you could map the controls.

Controllers are great, especially for sports/racing/fighting/platforming/ect type of games.  In those instances it's much better than a KB&M.  For Demigod it would suck of course.  Controls like a RTS and KB&M is the only input device that works (well).

And uh...why so much anger/angst/hyperbole towards console controllers?  lol...

Someone give this man a jar of cookies. And yes, Impulse Reactor was developed with hopes of being able to do this for any game, it wasn't made just for Demigod.

i have to concure this dude deserve a jar full of cookies  they went solo cocked up but are fixing the problem it is better then  cocking up and  saying it works fine and  not paying attention to the matter

they are even adding new dudes every month for free  what the fuck are u guys on  they make these games  for people u buy  bitch and moan about connection problems  then when they say there fixing it uy still bitchand then they say there giving everyone who bought it new dudes

everyone doesn't pay attention come on  they are free fucking characters  unlike coh tov  where u got 9 new vecs and 3 new ops for £ 25  come on

there fixing the problem  it can't be done in 1 night  u got to give them atleast a fortnight to check over and figure out whats wrong and fix it they anit as big as  bilizzard who has like 200 people working on solving any probs that arise

Thanks for adding to the fail.

RTS games and any game styled after RTS games will fail to work on any console that does not allow the use of a Keyboard and Mouse. Period. Halo Wars was not a successful example of RTS games done on consoles - it was a pathetically simplified RTS game that was successful because of the word "Halo" and it was slightly less worse than the rest of the RTS games released on consoles. Trust me. I bought Command and Conquer 3 on the Xbox 360 and I've regretted that decision every day since. And don't even get me started on Red Alert 3...

wow i buy razor equipment to save 0.07 sec per mouseclick and you have an additional 0.5-1 sec cast time on all your spells i wonder who would cast that first fireball out of the fog

I think Demigod would port over nicely to the Xbox 360, but no way it would be better atleast for me.

i think that it might be the case , but it will only be a dumb idea , on the pc we are looking at a game trying its hardest to get into competetive circles .

on the 360 it would be another bad halfdecent game , the game itself is great , but the controls and the simplicity of the game (after 360 conversion) would only bring the gametitle down imo .