Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Wulf says:

@Ray16

My good potentially carbon-based life form, I think you’re missing the point. Just a bit. Only a touch, so it’s nothing to feel silly about. But a bit, yes. :p I believe the point our esteemed colleague was trying to make was that there was only one reason it was shunned by the Council of X; that those old council men and women haven’t aged well, they’re stuffy, and their standards are entirely too high. You see, the Stranger was a wee bit festively plump, he had a bit of a bulge above the buckle, and the council were having none of it.

The Republic of Play were much more welcoming, willing to except more ragtag sorts and even vagabonds into their gated community, knowing fully well that the odd eccentric character can make for interesting times, and that such oddities might amuse the citizenry, if perhaps the oddities weren’t too challenging, if you get my meaning, eh? I wouldn’t exactly call those sorts footloose and fancy free, but they can overlook the gentry having had a few too many pies in favour of the entertainment they might bring. A fat bard is still a bard, after all.

However, the PC Commonwealth isn’t all that politically correct, indeed, we’re an anarchist, anything goes state of wild, unabated insanity, where feats of crazed derring-do are as ingrained as the unstable infrastructure it’s all cobbled atop of. Whatever your shape, size, way, creed, or inclination might be, you’ll find a home here, and there are those who would think of the neighbourhood of being a somewhat better place with nigh near every inclusion, even banding together to help the less fortunate, inscrutable, the… apocryphal, the urchins, and even the johnny-come-latelys with greatly advanced medicines they call ‘mods’. Indeed, we are not at all like the Council of X. I’m certain that the Stranger could find a home here. Our neighbourhood would be better for it, and perhaps in turn we could better the Stranger by merit of being able to take advantage of our wonderful serums and concoctions.

In short: That it didn’t end up on XBLA was due to an XBLA restriction, the developers are likely willing to port it to anything that they can make a sale on. They could make a sale with the HD version on the PC, so that they wouldn’t port the HD version is incredibly unlikely. A refused XBLA title does not a PSN – or even console format – exclusive make. It never did.

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