Hard Light Productions Forums

Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on August 31, 2004, 09:45:02 am

Title: Another one bites the dust
Post by: aldo_14 on August 31, 2004, 09:45:02 am

Acclaim bankrupt (http://pc.ign.com/articles/543/543191p1.html)

Title: Another one bites the dust
Post by: TopAce on August 31, 2004, 10:07:28 am

They made good games, Turok was one of my favourite shooters despite it had strange a mouse control method.

Title: Another one bites the dust
Post by: aldo_14 on August 31, 2004, 10:16:37 am

Weren't they also responsible for that topless BMX game?

Title: Another one bites the dust
Post by: Gloriano on August 31, 2004, 10:21:54 am

Quote

Originally posted by aldo_14
Weren't they also responsible for that topless BMX game?

Yes they made that IIRC. well actually I did see this coming

Title: Another one bites the dust
Post by: Tiara on August 31, 2004, 10:36:50 am

Good. Never liked Acclaim these last few years.

Title: Another one bites the dust
Post by: Black Wolf on August 31, 2004, 10:45:53 am

Lotsa game companies going down, it should be interesting to see what rises to fill the nieche...this sort ofthing could mean an interesting next few years for us gamers...

Title: Another one bites the dust
Post by: Flipside on August 31, 2004, 10:48:07 am

It depends whether a new company rises to fill the niche or one of the giants simply expands to fill it. The problem is these days is, due to new technology etc, games are more and more frequently too expensive to produce and make profit from :(

Title: Another one bites the dust
Post by: Fury on August 31, 2004, 11:24:07 am

I expect big companies will take the market over and smaller will wither away. That again means that the few big companies are producing mainstream games, placing the money where they thing will sell.

It means less innovative and interesting games. :(

Title: Another one bites the dust
Post by: Flipside on August 31, 2004, 11:32:53 am

That's why I think that the internet is the only hope to escape the same cycle of 'Sports Simulation 2005', 'FPS 2005', 'Platform Game 2005'.

Our hopes lie with projects like the SCP :)