Brightly hued button pummeling news now, with Brian Hayes, a producer on Fight Night Round 4, teasing (via interview) that face button controls could be coming to the rollickingly realistic slugfest simulator. All the details can be found in a rather handy compartment, located after the jump.
“Is there an option for face button controls [in Fight Night Round 4]?” eagle-eyed IGN reader Joe_Jalbert probed. “No, there is no option for face button punching in the final version, but we are investigating providing the option via DLC”, the equally eagle-eyed producer, Brian Hayes, replied.
Providing the option via DLC, eh? That sounds like a fairly good idea. While it’s a trifle perplexing that the option isn’t already included (it’s been in past Fight Night games), at least the fine folks over at EA Canada are mulling it over. Of course, if this was added through the wonderful medium of downloadable add-on-ary, the question is raised as to whether it would be free. With the Xbox Live Marketplace and PSN Store littered with lots — nay, a veritable cornucopia — of micro-transactions and expensive 108 kb downloads that merely unlock existing content, it doesn’t take much to imagine EA charging for a new control scheme. But if, today, we’re paying for new controls, tomorrow we might be paying for improved graphics or online balancing or higher sound quality — which seems absurd. A rather jocular video was made about this actually, as part of our own Battlefield: Bad Company boycott, back in Spring 2008. Then, paying for things like improved controls was used as a joke, but nowadays it seems like an ever increasing possibility.
Now: navigate to Local Disk (Brain:)/Memories/Internet/SarcasticGamer/BadArticles/Eoco/FNR4DLC.txt, right click, then tap ‘Delete’. You see, this interview was published eons ago (well, June 12, 2009 if you must know), and some of this information is beginning to smell a bit…ripe, if you know what I mean (it probably wasn’t stored in a cool, dry place). Do not take this interview as a confirmation of face button controls or anything, and most definitely don’t get caught up in a speculative discussion of whether DLC that may or may not even be released should be charged for.
No, definitely don’t do that.
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While I agree this seems like a terrible idea, it may make for some interesting development. A game normally cuts tons of interesting features. EA being able to charge $2 bucks for it may entice them to let the developers take some of those scrapped ideas and put them to work. But in my opinion, it better be some damn good ideas not just better controls. For example, turning Ace Combat into Macross like robots in the sky.