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The Troika Games Saga

Posted by Zonk on from the i-miss-torment dept.

GameBanshee has an interview up with Leonard Boyarksy, one of the founders of the late Troika games, describing the last days of the much missed RPG developer. From the article: "It became apparent in January when the last of our possible deals that we'd been pursuing fell through. When we started looking six or so months ago, there was a lot of initial interest but our projects could never seem to get past the marketing department."

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  1. TOEE & Vampire by Exitar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually TOEE is based on a D&D adventure with the same name.
    It was mainly an hack'n'slash adventure through a quite large dungeon, so the videogame reflects this.
    Vampire was full of bug, but the story was quite good.
    If you don't consider the bugs, Vampire was probably the best RPG of the year.

  2. Considering.... by BladesP9 · · Score: 3, Informative

    One of their main programmers was Andrew Meggs - who by the way was most well known for the whole Myth III tragedy - is it any surprise that there was much "buggy crapware"?

    And according to a bunch of forum posts, it looks like as was in the case of Myth III - Mr. Meggs will find a way to blame everyone save the people deserving of blame for the quality of the produced work.

    This is the second company to fold for him like this. First being the original incantation of Mumbo Jumbo... and now Troika. Perhaps we can get him to go work for EA.

  3. Re:...much-missed RPG developer by Jagasian · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are fan made patches for Fallout 2 that fix allot of the bugs.