Giants: Citizen Kabuto was such an awesome and overlooked game..
Great singleplayer AND fun multiplayer.
Great singleplayer AND fun multiplayer.
Interplay is Now Offering its "Significant IP Portfolio" for Sale
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Last I heard the original Descent guys were making a spiritual successor called Overload and I wonder if they will try to scoop up the original IP. If nothing else they would have a less horribly generic title.
Also someone buy the Freespace IP and hire the Blue Planet guys (massive fanmade mod of unprecedented quality that functions as a unofficial Freespace 3 for those who don't know) to work on it.
Also someone buy the Freespace IP and hire the Blue Planet guys (massive fanmade mod of unprecedented quality that functions as a unofficial Freespace 3 for those who don't know) to work on it.
I think Evolve was almost an attempt to do that. At the least, one could make a case for Giants as a fore-runner of asymmetric multiplayer.ffronw said:
As far as the announcement itself, I think Interplay has clung to the notion that it was a game-making company for too long. There are a few individual titles in its catalog that still spark some nostalgia, but most of the titles and creators that gamers had a real desire to follow have already moved on, one way or another. Fallout has for all serious intents and purposes moved to Bethesda, Wasteland has passed to those who were most likely to make a run of it, the various D&D licenses aren't coming back, Earthworm Jim and MDK managed to crash and burn fairly hard before Interplay itself gave up on them...
Really, the only thing they still have that I can think might still have some value would be Descent. And with controversy surrounding both Star Citizen and No Man's Sky, this isn't exactly the best time to put out a space-piloter. Nor, I suspect, is the actual Descent engine something anyone wants to try to polish back to life at this point.
Bluntly, the good wine has mostly been drunk, and what's left in the cellar has turned to vinegar. I still feel a twinge of nostalgia for a once-great game company, but I wouldn't count on that small twinge actually selling me anything.
You can bet the sale will make for some headaches for GOG, though... Wheeeeeee...
Finally I can get a sequel to the superb Mario Teaches Typing. Rock solid mechanics. Interplay's love for the venerable platformer really shone through with that gem.
Something like that is most likely what will happen. The IPs will go to the highest bidder. Which will be established AAA Studios. Which will most likely try and milk the shit out of those franchises. I don't know if any good games will come from this, if any at all.MCerberus said:
Probably none, I mean look at what happened with Evil Genius when it got bought: Terrible facebook game. Dungeon Keeper when EA pulled it from the darkness? Terrible mobile game. Quick, easy, terrible games they can shove a familiar name on for Nostalgia. Activion and EA (specifically, I'm sure others would too) would just continue the trend and release mobile/facebook games they can produce for minimal money and maximum profit.fractal_butterfly said:
Come on man, don't make me hope. Why hasn't (IMO) any space fighter sim been as good as Freespace? I want this so bad. I've been following the Interplay saga for awhile now and after seeing my favorite game company go under, then seeing the resurrected shambling corpse dance around.....sigh, this is all probably for the best. I hate getting my hopes up, but maybe the universe will be kind.Kajin said:
OT: Interplay didn't make it but they published it. Does anyone remember Hardwar?
If they don't remake MDK then I don't give a damn.
I wish this forum was a physical place, so that there were a door to show you.MCerberus said:
