W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem

Re:W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem by TillE on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @06:55PM (#32405656)

There are many successful game genres which are functionally PC-only, because you cannot reasonably play them with a gamepad. See Paradox grand strategy games, for example. Those "potential buyers" never existed.

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Re:W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem by sorry_outta_gas on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @06:58PM (#32405696)

I play some paradox games on xbox with no problem, they are included with gamepass now

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Re:W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem by the_only_law on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @06:59PM (#32405702)

I’m not touching CK3 on Xbox until I get the royal court DLC.

I think a better genre GP could have considered are classic RTS’s. No way AoE is ever playable without a mouse.

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Re:W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem by Macha on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:38AM (#32411700)

CK3/Stellaris proved you could do grand strategy on console.

Halo Wars 1/2 proved you could do RTS on console.

Cities Skylines/Prison Architect proved you could do Sim games on console.

FFXIV proved you could do hotkey MMOs on console.

While you certainly can't forklift existing games like aoe2/sc2 onto a controller, I'm pretty much out of the business of assuming consoles are unsuitable for genres these days

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Re:W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem by jbboehr on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @10:13AM (#32412295)

Stellaris was ported to console and works fairly well! I still would rather play it with a keyboard and mouse, of course :)

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