Black Isle Studios Launches "PV13" Fundraising Campaign
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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"We got nothing except rights to a famous name and a logo so give us money and maybe we'll come up with something."Andy Chalk said:
The amount of contempt I feel for these people cannot be expressed without using some words that are probably bannable...
Fuck Interplay for laying off the real Black Isle who were in beta for Project Von Buren (the original Fallout 3) and greenlighting this:
Fuck them for holding onto the rights to a Fallout MMO for years and just wanking off with the intellectual property.
Penny Arcade strip from goddamn 2004
Fuck them, NOW, for having the AUDACITY to resurrect the name Black Isle to call a beloved studio of dev's they fired (who went on to Obsidian and Troika games, respectively) and use that to beg for money.
Interplay, the corporation (not it's actual personnel), should be dragged into the street and raped to death by raiders and supermutants.
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Now, with that unequivocal bile out of the way... Chris Taylor and Mark O' Green are great talents and I don't begrudge their choice to be involved, I wish them all the best luck, but I am worried how interplay (and fans) will treat them - same goes for other poor bastard talent asked to stand in as "Black Isle".
Also, the video is dumb. >
*blows rasberries*
Fuck them for holding onto the rights to a Fallout MMO for years and just wanking off with the intellectual property.
Penny Arcade strip from goddamn 2004
Fuck them, NOW, for having the AUDACITY to resurrect the name Black Isle to call a beloved studio of dev's they fired (who went on to Obsidian and Troika games, respectively) and use that to beg for money.
Interplay, the corporation (not it's actual personnel), should be dragged into the street and raped to death by raiders and supermutants.
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Now, with that unequivocal bile out of the way... Chris Taylor and Mark O' Green are great talents and I don't begrudge their choice to be involved, I wish them all the best luck, but I am worried how interplay (and fans) will treat them - same goes for other poor bastard talent asked to stand in as "Black Isle".
Also, the video is dumb. >
*blows rasberries*
Just sounds like the Shaker RPG all over again. The Youtube video looks woefully amateur (it even has a grammar error in the description, for God's sake), and I really don't like the veiled sarcasm they're throwing around in their overview of the project.
Hopefully gamers will have some common sense and stay far, far away from this.
Hopefully gamers will have some common sense and stay far, far away from this.
Black Isle, (the name) a company you respect and love. Check.
A RPG/Strategy Post Apocalypse game. Check.
Clear desire of spokespeople to create a good game. Check.
Actual substance to promises. No check.
Eh, good enough for marketing. Who needs smart money when dumb money is printed with the same ink on the same bills?
A RPG/Strategy Post Apocalypse game. Check.
Clear desire of spokespeople to create a good game. Check.
Actual substance to promises. No check.
Eh, good enough for marketing. Who needs smart money when dumb money is printed with the same ink on the same bills?
A Kickstarter for a post-apocalyptic role-playing game? Backed up by some of the names that helped establish the genre, and bring it to the forefront of the public's mind? I've definitely got some money in that!
...in the form of Wasteland 2.
This, by contrast, is the shredded remains of Interplay, long after virtually everyone of note has long since abandoned ship, desecrating the corpse of Black Isle Studios in an attempt to raise some capital. The only Kickstarter I'd be less interested in would involve Tim Langdell trying to resurrect Edge in order to finance his legal fund.
...in the form of Wasteland 2.
This, by contrast, is the shredded remains of Interplay, long after virtually everyone of note has long since abandoned ship, desecrating the corpse of Black Isle Studios in an attempt to raise some capital. The only Kickstarter I'd be less interested in would involve Tim Langdell trying to resurrect Edge in order to finance his legal fund.
Fuck off. You aren't Black Isle. You are a shell of what Black Isle was. I'm glad people with talent left that sinking ship and went to other places. Obsidian and inXile for example.
So, after violating their contract, which caused V13 to get shut down in the first place, they are now begging people to help them fund a game that they failed to make the first time around because of their own incompetence?
Is anyone else slightly offended? Ohh wait....... the comments say yes!
Is anyone else slightly offended? Ohh wait....... the comments say yes!
i cant count how many times this article made me say wtf?! as if they have the balls to call their "post apocalyptic rpg" pv13.
for anyone who doesn't know, pv13 was what they were calling the unfinished fallout mmo that died because it was still being made when bethesda acquired the ip. this story has sketchy written all over it if you ask me.
but then again maybe the title just shook me up because i had no idea black isle was "revived" and i've always wanted a multiplayer fallout,
for anyone who doesn't know, pv13 was what they were calling the unfinished fallout mmo that died because it was still being made when bethesda acquired the ip. this story has sketchy written all over it if you ask me.
but then again maybe the title just shook me up because i had no idea black isle was "revived" and i've always wanted a multiplayer fallout,
The best part of this whole thing are the FB comments on their page. One guy (who actually works as a software engineer with EA) railed on them:
Quoted for great justice!