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Black Isle Studios Shuts Down Development
Zonk writes "RPGDot has a story up right now about the closing down of development at Black Isle Studios. The information comes from an unnamed Interplay source, who says 'Any time you see the [Black Isle] logo on a future product, know that no one who was associated with BIS actually worked on it', as well as a post by BIS employee Damien Foletto on the Interplay message boards, and a Blue's News story that adds: 'The non-announced [PC] title that the division was working on, Fallout 3 [aka Van Buren], has been 'shelved', to quote management.' BIS, you will be missed." Black Isle are particularly known for work on the Fallout series, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment.
I thought it was stupid when slashdot advertised for others for free in disguised articles.
But advertising for free for a company that will go out of business anyway is pathetic.
"At least the absolute derth of quality PC games cuts short all of the asshole anti-Mac arguments."
But it doesn't put an end to the "Binary vs OSS drivers" argument though.
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Is this going to delay Half-Life 2? How about Doom 3? Halo 2? GTA 4? GT4? Warcraft 4? The next M$ RTS? Then who gives a crap?
As sad as I am to see another game maker go under, the fact of the matter is that the studios that stay alive are the studios that sell games. So what if a few thousand fans are pissed. I'm pissed that I don't get to watch "Undeclaired" any more - that doesn't mean it wasn't cancelled for a good reason.
Enough fans buying a game == the studio makes more. Obviously BIS wasn't that great of a game maker.
(PS - this is not a troll - just one gamer's opinion)
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This is truly another nail in the coffin of video games development in the west (US, Canada, UK). Granted, there are still a few good ones, but maily just lifeless lawyer filled corporations like Activision, Acclaim, EA, etc. that drain creativity and punish refinement. Heck even our consoles are dying (US/Europe: Xbox, Phantom, N-Gage).
So its times like this I'm glad to be a fanboy of Japan! Sammi's taking over Sega; we got Capcom, Konami, Tecmo, Taito, Square/Enix, Sony, Bandai, Koei, etc!! And the consoles are awesome too (PS2, PSP, GBA-SP, DC, etc)!! I know I know, off topic; flame bait; but its the wave of the future we are just seeing evolution in action.
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Just think, if all the Slashdot nerds who use windoze PC's actually bought their PC games instead of pirating them studios like Looking Glass would still be in business.
Nuff said.
I've started playing RPGs with pen and paper. Tried most titles of BIS. ( Mainly Fallout 1 & 2 ). They were simply the worst RPG games i've ever played on the PC platform, with conditions failing the entire game on a whim, bugs, imbalances and illogical realism. I've stopped playing Fallout when i realized i could just exploit an NPC to get books and get level 200+.
Sometimes original ideas aren't backed with good game desigs and i think it was the case with BIS.
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Yeah. I work for Interplay. We didn't like your letter, so I decided to leak your real name to Slashdot. That'll show you.
Anyone else wanna mess with us?
(Yeah, I'm trolling. So, I'm bored).