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Command & Conquer FPS Canceled
Kotaku reports that Tiberium, EA's Command & Conquer flavored first-person shooter, has been canceled. An internal memo cited quality issues as a reason for the termination of the project, and an EA spokesperson confirmed it.
"It is with a heavy heart that I announce an end to all work on Tiberium effective immediately. I've consulted with Nick Earl and Frank Gibeau at the EA Games Label and together we have reached the conclusion that given the time and resources remaining, we will not be able to deliver this product to an appropriate level of quality. The game had fundamental design challenges from the start. We fought to correct the issues, but we were not successful; the game just isn't coming together well enough to meet our own quality expectations as well as those of our consumers."
Looks like EA have finally decided to cancel their crap games instead of shipping them. I guess they'll go bankrupt soon if they keep this up.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
It's unfortunate that it won't happen, but I'm glad they're not just pushing a crappy game to market.
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and nothing of value was lost.
Shiny. Let's be bad guys.
Too bad. Renegade, for all it's bad hype, was actually pretty fun....well, the multiplay was anyway...
Another Renegade? Oh, wait, that got released, and... it shouldn't have...
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
I read through the entire article and didn't see anything that was funny. Is there some context I'm missing?
FPS canceled
I mean, C&C is an RTS...so a C&C FPS is just another FPS.
In other news, Rockstar announced, with a heavy heart, that GTA Pinball has been canceled.
Meaning the quality control they were looking for was basically a straight up copy of Renegade with 2008 armies. When that didn't happen, it's cancel country.
They only decided to cut the crap that was not guaranteeing revenue. The crap that IS guaranteeing revenue is still on schedule.
Where you first go out into the woods, cut down a tree my violently moving your mouse back and forth several times, walking back, the going back to the woods, cutting down another tree until you build your house. Then rather than someone else doing the research for you, you actually have to do all the research necessary to advance to the next age. Going to the library, reading up on weapons and methods of smelting, then applying them to the FPS. Teach yourself to handle horses, lead great armies of men, train archers and swordsmen, maybe even join the army yourself just so you can return to the AoE FPS and apply the techniques you've been taught.
It would take years to get to the first fight, but the wait would be worth it, I'm sure.
Task Mangler
good to see that they still have some sense to pull out. agreed that renegade was fun while it lasted, but...i dont' think it'll live up to its predecessors. need to change the plot too me thinks.. .
Someone mod the above post up, that's gold right there that is.
That sort of game would only be possibly topped by a Tetris MMO, where everyone gets to play a single block, has some control over where they are falling and you can do realm based combat as the blue blocks slug it out with those annoying perky red blocks. All the kiddies will pick the red blocks cause they have skimpier outfits and the red blocks will outnumber the blue ones by about a one to two ration, but all the good players will pick blue blocks because they don't want to be mixed in with the "red noobs". It's classic game 5 Star ratings material this!
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...if even EA thought that it would not meet their quality standards. That's hard to do.
"Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and steal the Java language." - Visual J++ Product Manager
This marketing speak really annoys me. You're not allowed to say "design flaws" we get this meaningless sentence. All games worth playing are a challenge to design - if your design process is easy then you're making a boring or derivative game.
...will it run on Lin..oh, wait...
and slap a $14.99 monthly subscription.
Ever read the book, The Giver? That's what I think of when I see "this action will result in several individuals on the team being released".
Go look up the book if you haven't.
...but it kept crashing when they tried to add the RCI meter and color commentary. :(
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Cause rift in Westwood management - check
Buyout, takeover - check
Destroy entire company, shut down Vegas studio, without regard for the original companies families or dedication or talent proven by numerous profitable successful titles - check
Screw up the brand with mediocre sequels that rely on offensiveness rather than quality - check
Flail around like the bloated, shrieking corporate sludge monster you are, and gasp in wonder why you cant pull diamonds out of your butt - check
Watch as you slowly destroy the franchise, demoralize your workforce, lose money hand over fist, and blotch your resume with failed projects - check
Shrug, borrow money from the government/ corporate-overlords/ venture caps, make sure you buy up more small publishers so you have a monopoly position and can keep screwing up, bust unions and destroy worker morale so they wont fight back, and vote republican, so you can keep on doing all the same without the hassle of the law or economics getting involved - check
Go on another weekend coke binge complete with prostitutes and drunken calls to your ex wife at 2:30 in the morning - check
Go to church, get saved again, quit drugs for the 5th time, and throw all your energy into Madden 20xx. - check.
EA - destroying america since 1993.
Obviously cancelled as they couldn't figure out how to have actual buyers of the game use the mouse and keyboard with their thumbs up their bums while knowing the pirated version just needed their fingers in their ears.
The reason that's more a challenge than a flaw is the degree of AI that both your enemies and your allies would require - it's not impossible to do, but it might cost more than EA is willing to pay for a C&C quasi-sequel.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
EA stopped churning out rubbish some time ago.
consumers?!
hr wants to see you before you leave today
...a little late to be cancelling Renegade? I mean, yeah, it pretty much deserves it, but still...
There are actually a few of these in the works, the most promising is at OrderlyMayhem.com. If you ask nice, you can probably get a beta to play with.
There are many, many BZ II mods, and an active community at bzuniverse.com.
For those with Steam/HL2, check out EmpiresMod, http://empiresmod.com/media.php.
Very much like C&C, but with many FPS aspects. You can run around on foot as a grenadier/rifleman/engineer/scout, or drive a tank/jeep/apc, or even be the commander of the operation (overhead view, place buildings, give attack commands).
The game is like mixing C&C with Team Fortress Classic, very fun, addicting, and best of all, free! Game is surprisingly well polished, with several active servers. Different game modes and maps keep things interesting. The game is slightly complicated, but if you start off as one class type, you'll quickly catch on and be able to move on to bigger and better things.