No More Black Isle, No More Fallout 3
DOOManiac
Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
<div class="IPBDescription">stupid Interplay >:(</div>Sad news for anybody who actually likes games. Black Isle, developers of Icewind Dale and Planescape: Torment, and who had been working on Fallout 3, has been shut down.
Why do companies always shut down the parts that make money!? :X
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Why do companies always shut down the parts that make money!? :X
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<a href='http://forums.interplay.com/viewtopic.php?t=35616' target='_blank'>Source</a>
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Why GOD! WHY?!!
*sits in a corner crying* Fallout 3, I hardly knew ye....*sniff*
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Interplay guy 1: We have awesome series! Baldur's gate, Fallout, Icewind Dale, people are eating this stuff up!
Interplay guy 2: You know what this means right?
Interplay guy 1: DEATH TO BLACK ISLE
Boss: Now lets get back to making those crappy games
Step 1: I pursue my career, in the process becoming a pretty good programmer and getting to know plenty of other good ones out there.
Step 2: While still an unknown startup company, I anonymously buy the rights to the Fallout, X-Com, Baldur's Gate, and System Shock series simultaneously at dirt-cheap prices, striking mass fear and confusion in the industry.
Step 3: I gather up a team with my buddies and make kick-butt sequels to the whole lot of them, and rake in the dough.
[edit]Better yet, I'll even put them all in one $200 boxed set. It'll be labeled "The If-you-don't-pick-us-up-off-the-shelf-right-now-you-are-a-<i>pathetic loser</i> Pack"
The loss of another great team...'tis a sad day indeed.
*sniff's, single-tear runs down face*
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Bungie
now BlackIsle?
Thats it, now some people have to die...
Bungie
now BlackIsle?
Thats it, now some people have to die... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I don't know, it just seems as if Interplay is trying to commit economic suicide. It's common for companies do do things not everyone will like -- Microsoft, Macintosh, EA Games, etc. do it all the time. But recently, Interplay has been the only company I've seen that manages to anger the vast majority of its best fans, and do so repeatedly without learning from it.
[edit]So...other than the blasphemous pile of sh -- um -- "software" known as the next console Fallout game (FOBOS), what <i>is</i> Interplay planning on making within the next decade?
[edit2]Just read on <a href='http://www.duckandcover.net' target='_blank'>Duck and Cover</a> that they plan on making a sequel to this "Fallout" console game. Someone needs to grab these guys and extract some DNA; if there was ever an opportunity to find which gene causes ignorance, this is it. Even Chuck Cuevas, the project lead of FOBOS, actually quit his job after being the scapegoat of all Fallout fans. What on earth are they <i>doing</i> over there?
I'm just wondering where Chris Avellone went. I think he left BIS during the late production of IWD2.
Edit: Kind of ironic that I heard this news while listening to the Fallout soundtrack. Great music.
Step 1: I pursue my career, in the process becoming a pretty good programmer and getting to know plenty of other good ones out there.
Step 2: While still an unknown startup company, I anonymously buy the rights to the Fallout, X-Com, Baldur's Gate, and System Shock series simultaneously at dirt-cheap prices, striking mass fear and confusion in the industry.
Step 3: I gather up a team with my buddies and make kick-butt sequels to the whole lot of them, and rake in the dough.
[edit]Better yet, I'll even put them all in one $200 boxed set. It'll be labeled "The If-you-don't-pick-us-up-off-the-shelf-right-now-you-are-a-<i>pathetic loser</i> Pack"
The loss of another great team...'tis a sad day indeed. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That was my plan!
We should combine forces!
Still you missed Bullfrog.
I take this as a good news bad news situation, it means Interplay is closer to a total sell-off of all the licences, meaning that Troika may be able to purchases the licence. EA just f*** up when thjey do this, I mean NOBODY not even EA know who owns the SS licnece and Iv asked Peter Mol... about DK and all he said was "Its out of my hands".
Bungie
now BlackIsle?
Thats it, now some people have to die...<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bungie didn't close (unless I missed some news).
Max
Max <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bungie isn't dead but they might as well be, when was the last time they made a good game? And selling out to Microsoft and the xbox **** a lot of people off.
Max <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Bungie isn't dead but they might as well be, when was the last time they made a good game? And selling out to Microsoft and the xbox **** a lot of people off. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Probably just the rabid fanbois and then some Mac users, understandably. I'm so tired of hearing "selling out to..." insert whatever fetish you have. Bungie is still a team consisting of largely the same people I've heard. And even if Halo was hyped to the moon and back, a good chunk more than it deserved, it WAS a good game.
The real sacrifice made with that deal was the Myth franchise, which Take 2 took over and had their ways with. You should divert your myopic foaming-at-the-mouth fanboism towards Take 2 of all.
Now, that said, I will lament the closure of BIS with the rest of you. Fallout 1 & 2, PlaneScape, etc. They were responsible for so many good rpg's. I think Interplay went into the gutters as Fargo left and Titus bought it. Interplay is being killed off by comitee. Some french career mongrel that has studied Pie Chart 101 at Ecole This-or-That in paris has figured out that the Big Money is in the field of mimicing all the other companies in making trite, anonymous games for consoles.
<b>Father Tully</b>
[edit] I'm pretty sure "SS" stands for System Shock, and "DK" stands for Dungeon Keeper. [/edit]
It is the Computer Games <b>Industry</b> and Industry constantly changes people will always get brought cancelled and the fact is your just going to have to accept it.
It is the Computer Games <b>Industry</b> and Industry constantly changes people will always get brought cancelled and the fact is your just going to have to accept it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah I will accept it when they give me my damned Fallout 3. Until then this just sucks.
Seems like a shame, however.
Oh that's right... they were torn out so that it would be a better 4-8 player game for the xbox -.-
By the time they'd finished converting and rewriting the game for the bemoth box it wasn't really 'OMG' cutting edge anymore... it wasn't revolutionary (though the AI is still somewhat impressive) and the PC market kinda just ignored it because it was on console and continued to develop utter poop in the face of nigh on non-existant competition.
2) the Games <b>industry</b> worked fine until it started being run by money grubbing idiots with no idea or love for the product they manufacture. Many people say the same about the music <b>industry</b> and the film <b>industry</b> for various reasons. The point is the money people are in charge now and the money people generally ruin everything because they're more interested in selling clones and 'FIFA 20980384: We changed a player name' than gameplay, fun or any of the other reasons people actually like games =/
3) if you don't know what an abbreviation means just ask, immac (silky smooth legs =D ). There's no need to be embarrassed or try to be all annoyed ^^
~taps immac on the nose and giggles~
Shh! We don't want the stalkers to know....
I know I would buy that pack Marik, especially if it included X-com Alliance, the game that never was. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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This <i>is</i> a joke, <i>right</i>? RIGHT?
*huff-puff* *huff-puff* Nnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooo!!!! Fallout! fallout........... lout...out... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
*cough*Halo
I need a hug.....and some alcohol.....