You are bordering on raving lunatic apologist.
You're one to talk there bud. Nobody here is apologizing, but i don't think you can see the forrest from the trees.
Errr, Halo was never attempted on a console, nor was MetroidPrime, nor SuperMarioSunshine, nor pretty much every single game ever released for a console. As far as the type of game, Ultimas used to be on consoles, dating back to the 80s.
What are you talking about man, first person shooters have never been attempted on consoles before? Other than that the only thing different about Halo at least, (not sure about metroid) is that AI had made it quite different from other first person shooters. This is hardly like making a linear RPG games and suddenly changing that by bringingout a RPG that is extremly open. So you're going back to the 80's to prove your point? I'm still certain you'd find those games even more linear than morrowind on a console. Don't even try to compare the complexity of making a game in teh 80's to making a game now, it's far more compllex these days.
You go buy a new car. Everything is fine for three years. Then, the computer in your car starts misreading the air/fuel ratio invoking a yet unseen flaw in the logic advanging your timing by twenty degrees and it ends up causing serious internal damage to your engine. You bring the car in and they tell you, paraphrasing 'go screw yourself'.
This isn't a car, this is a freaking video game. The game had problems, and bethesda is responsible. At first I'd blame MS for all of this, but now that I've had title pass through certification from all game manufacturers, I understand the process of testing games and can see how a title like morrowind still have problems, and no matter what manufactuerer it's stilll the fault of the publisher for testing the majority of the project and making sure it's bug free. Anyway, i'll play along with your anology for a bit.
Are you going to care in the slightest way how complex an internal combustion is in relation to the computer and how it needs to modify thousands of variables a second? No, and you shouldn't.
Once you actually have the understanding of what happened to the car, are you foolish enough to say every single car made by ANY manufacturer is going to have to same problem or that this one car is ruining the entire automobile market? Simply because you FEEL you got a bum run? This started off to be a good analogy and rapidly switched to a bad one.
The only people that would say you should are the most rabid apologists for the manufacturer you can find. It is none of my concern nor should it ever be what they need to do to qualify a product.
The ONLY people that would make a wide sweeping statements like "becuase of this one game, it's ruining the entire video game market" (or Xbox in this case) is simply being the most rabid fanboi they can be. I can understand being pissed off over purchasing a game with bugs. I've done it many times on the PC. I've bought games that didn't work right out of the box, but having one bad PC game didn't change my opinion of all PC games in general.
You keep saying that I'm an apologist, but it's not what I'm doing at all! try reading what I'm saying. All I'm saying is that it's foolish to think all games on xbox are buggy due to a single game that is a whole beast onto itself. there's a reason why morrowind is the way it is. it was too big. Too big for bethesda to test on the PC, and too big for MS to test. It was too big for ANY console and it's the exact reason you won't see many games as open ended for a long time. they are too hard to develop, and too hard to test.
Creating a situation that will cause Morrowind to crash is very easy and repeatable. We aren't talking about obscure bugs that you have to complete a series of events to invoke. The caching scheme for the game is entirely fubared.
I have no doubt the game had problems but as I said it's still possible to get a game like this through certification, even with problems because it's too big. Does that make things any better for you? No, you obviously have some axe to grind and rufuse to understand how this game is a isolated incidence.
For every crash you saw, I'm sure there's a way around it or else Nobody could complete the game. RPG's are required to provide a save game at or before every single item you can pick up (how many items are are in that game?). It also requires a walk through of the entire game, using that walk through probably avoided many bugs.
Again, they packaged and sold it as a working product. They obviously could not pull it off, they should have never tried it or at the very least cancelled the project when they realized they were nowhere near competent enough to do the task.
If the product was pulled, it would be up to bethesda. if they never tried it, itwas up to bethesda. If the project was cancelled, it was up to bethesda. this is the exact reason you don't see many consle game like this.
So you are saying Lionhead is full of liars. I wouldn't be shocked given their track record, although Fable is supposed to be under development by a different group then Black&White. There has been a slew of articles written on Fable and exactly how open ended it is, Morrowind isn't even close.
liars? see, this is exactly what I mean by you flying off the handle. Do you need to take things to the extreme and over react on everything? I've read those same articles. In fact I've read any article I cand find on this game. I'm sure it sounds open ended right now but I can guarentee you it's a much more controlled adventure then morrowind since this game is 100% designed only for the consle and isn't a port from PC (no PC version will exsist). Good games, give the impression of open endedness without really needing to be designed like that. There's far too many problems develioping as game like that (from what you can see no I'm sure).
The game should have never been released, period. Thousands and thousands of end users can repeatedly recreate exactly what causes the game to crash, and MS's professionals can't? Obviously they are not up to the task at hand.
As I said above. Saying MS is ruining all of gaming becuase of the problems with this single game is pure fanboi talk, or thinking that every game on xbox is buggy becuase of a title liek this is also fanboi talk. You're over reacting.
There are these sites scattered across the web that cover gaming news for not only PCs, but also consoles. When a company announces a major title that was for the PC and is coming to the consoles all of the sites cover it, it will be everywhere, anywhere you look. StarWars Galaxies was one of those games-
I still doubt we'll actually see this title on xbox since it's developed by a sony dev house. sitll, you're using this as a example of a single player game that is openended like morrowind correct? this game is totally different from a single player adventure, it's a bloddy MMORPG. it doesn't have a single player element at all! it's also not coming out for how long? once again i'll ask you the same question I asked before. where have you seen a game on a consle like morrowind. you can attempt to sight all of the games currently in development you want, but that doesn't change the fact there aren't any other games on consoles quite like it at this point.
There is a total of ten previews of the console version for you to look at. It doesn't surprise me that you don't think someone could know much about Fable which has been covered quite extensively if you aren't even aware of Star Wars Galaxies being ported to the consoles(although they haven't had as much hype as Fable in terms of previews, missing the SWG announcement shows how closely you follow industry news).
I still don't think you'll see it on xbox, desptie any sort of annoucement. Sthis shows how much I follow industry news you say? Well, you using this as an example of another open ended game similar to morrowind show what you knwo abotu games period. it's a totally different beast deisgning a game that is a single player open ended adventure to developing a 4 -5 year MMORPG. If you can't see the difference, you don't quite know as much about games as you think you do.
If they didn't find a single crash then they clearly don't give the slightest rats ass about quality.
right... that's why every other game on the xbox has crash problems I bet, or wait a second, that's NOT true! I guess you're over reacting!
Point me to five. I can point you to hundreds/thousands of people who have hundreds/thousands of crashes.
Go to IGN and start a thread about the game.
Morrowind never got patched, I was talking about there being a patch at all. This is your most shining example of being an apologist. Tollerating a patch on a console. Perhaps you long for mediocricty being commonplace in terms of quality of code in the console world, I don't know anyone else who does.
My mistake then, I thought you claimed the game was actually recieving a patch. The only way I'd tolerate any sort of patch was if it was for a online multiplayer game since those are incredibly hard to catch every problem out there, and I know alot about this working on internet based games for 4 years. Once again the patch for this game isn't going to fix any bugs in the actual single player game it self, it only fixes problems with servers not always appearing on a search. oh no you have to hit referesh twice!!!!
See, the problem I have with you making your foolish wide sweeping statements saying that "MS is ruining all of gaming" or "lowering the level of console game quality", and blaming them for this and that, is that I never saw such RANTS when Sony released patches/upgrades for Final fantasy online on the PS2 in japan, or allowed the game to be installed to the hard drive like a PC. Or how about the multiple releases of Phantasy Star to fix the problems with cheaters and bugs? hmmm, I guess you can blame that on MS too right? See how multiplayer games typically also have bugs? i have no idea how open ended those games are, but I still think the adventure is a bit more controlled then the morrwind's (do almost anything you want model). As I said before, you're over reacting. Get off your high horse!