BEVERLY HILLS, CA, Setember 22, 2008 – Interplay Entertainment Corp. (OTC BB:IPLY) announced today the launch of an all-new web site at www.interplay.com.
The site, developed over the last several months, is designed to improve the company’s communication with customers, investors, and partners. The new site includes forums based on past and future Interplay games, a customer support section, detailed information on the company and its products, and much more.
The company also announced that Chris Taylor, a game designer who was a part of the original Fallout game development team at Interplay in 1994, has rejoined the company. Taylor will serve as Lead System Designer for “Project V13,” the working title of Interplay’s next generation Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMO) currently in development. Taylor joins other original Fallout team members on staff at Interplay’s internal game studio, which recently opened an office in Irvine, Calif. Additional development staff members continue to be hired as the project ramps-up.
That is both appalling and intriguing...
To be honest, the genre of Space-based MMO is pretty much full now, though, if they could somehow make it first-person....
Just in case anyone missed it. :)
http://www.interplay.com/about/article.php?id=24QuoteThe company also announced that Chris Taylor, a game designer who was a part of the original Fallout game development team at Interplay in 1994, has rejoined the company. Taylor will serve as Lead System Designer for “Project V13,” the working title of Interplay’s next generation Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMO) currently in development.
"Project V[ault] 13," eh?
A lot of the images are quite weird. Also, apparently Interplay had something to do with BC3000AD?DS and interplay made some kind of deal for the publishing of the game.
(http://www.interplay.com/images/freespace2_sm_ad.jpg)
So, what is this thing ^?
It's no ship I recognise.
Looks like the bastard child of an Orion and the original BSG....
Maybe it's something to do with the IP being the property of Volition, they can't create any artwork with the actual ships on it or something? Weird....
(http://www.interplay.com/images/freespace2_sm_ad.jpg)
So, what is this thing ^?
It's no ship I recognise.
Eh? That's an EAC Eclipse from Inferno R1! :eek2:
was d3 any good?
Eh? That's an EAC Eclipse from Inferno R1!
HOLY CRAPOLA.
Wow. Interplay posting HLP mods in their promo art?
That's a first. I think we've gone legit.
Wow. So apparently someone there knows about HLP and has followed the work we've done.
We wouldn't be that mean, now would we? Besides, we could always just smugle the game silently.
Hey, let's all invade Interplay forums and beg for FS3.
They can always use FSOpen, after cleaning and fixing. Or if they do make a new exe with a new source code, the FS2 SCP still wouldn't die so easily. In fact, FS2 being open source and an Interplay FS3 being not-open source, would mean FS2 SCP still being used widely. Maybe even more widely than a FS3.So you want FS3 to basically be a campaign for FS2 or to fail miserably compared to FS2_Open?
They can always use FSOpen, after cleaning and fixing. Or if they do make a new exe with a new source code, the FS2 SCP still wouldn't die so easily. In fact, FS2 being open source and an Interplay FS3 being not-open source, would mean FS2 SCP still being used widely. Maybe even more widely than a FS3.
Though I'd miss the Volition logo over the intro.
I'm not too concerned about a possible FS3 killing FSO either. I'm more interested as to why that picture is on their website.
It means:
A.) They know we exist.
B.) They know what we do.
C.) They like what we do.
But why would they feature an Inferno ship on their site, when they know it's an open-source mod?
really? when did that happen?
really? when did that happen?
Eight years ago?
(http://www.interplay.com/images/freespace2_sm_ad.jpg)
So, what is this thing ^?
It's no ship I recognise.
Eh? That's an EAC Eclipse from Inferno R1! :eek2:
HOLY CRAPOLA.
Wow. Interplay posting HLP mods in their promo art?
That's a first. I think we've gone legit.
I'm not too concerned about a possible FS3 killing FSO either. I'm more interested as to why that picture is on their website.
It means:
A.) They know we exist.
B.) They know what we do.
C.) They like what we do.
But why would they feature an Inferno ship on their site, when they know it's an open-source mod?
I'm not too concerned about a possible FS3 killing FSO either. I'm more interested as to why that picture is on their website.
It means:
A.) They know we exist.
B.) They know what we do.
C.) They like what we do.
But why would they feature an Inferno ship on their site, when they know it's an open-source mod?
D.) They're lazy
suit yourself, however how will you know "that would be an unbelievably stupid thing to do" until you did such a thing?
I don't think the INF team is going to pretend something from Interplay and Woo hasn't even posted here to tell his point of view. I guess he'd be pleased but nothing else.
About FS3:
What I'd really like to have and use? The new music soundtracks...
suit yourself, however how will you know "that would be an unbelievably stupid thing to do" until you did such a thing?
Since the Eclipse is Woomeister's ship, he's the only one who could really complain anyway. No one else has any right to do so.
Because, I have been doing this sort of thing for a really long time and this community is in no real position to make any kind of demand that Interplay change anything.
*Snip*
That's why I believe your suggestion is fundamentally stupid.
It's (Freespace 2) a bit like Starcraft in that it needs little more than a general update to bring it to a 21st-century standard.
Whatever Interplay does, they had better not mess it up like they did with Descent 3.
Damn forum doesn't let me get past the login screen when I use Firefox. It accepts my password, but any action (or inaction for a few seconds) takes me back to the login screen.
From the posts I've seen most of the HLP members who have accounts over there support an FS3.
I am strictly opposed to any FS3.
Is Snail an idiot? (Y/N)
I like how people assume a game that hasn't even started to be developed will suck.
That'll have pole dancers so :pWhat if (the hypothetical) FS3 will have Vasudan pole dancers?
I like how people assume a game that hasn't even started to be developed will suck.
I like how people assume a game that hasn't even started to be developed will suck.
If you know it doesn't come from :v: how can you expect it to be fascinating? I'm not saying that :v: devs are the best in circulation but they surely know how to create the true FS3.
What if (the hypothetical) FS3 will have Vasudan pole dancers?
:nervous:
FS3 is already made. It's free and is downloadable from this site. In fact, it has multiple storylines.
We already have what we want.
I always think of Derelict as the next chapter in FreeSpace, then the Sync-Transcend duet (Even if command never hears about it :nervous:) then your choice of either Inferno/Blue Planet style Solgate stuff..
The best post-capella campaign I've played that's captured the feel of the actual games is Procryon Insurgency, bar none. The whole ancients not dead thing was a little questionable however.
QuoteThe best post-capella campaign I've played that's captured the feel of the actual games is Procryon Insurgency, bar none.Spoiler:The whole ancients not dead thing was a little questionable however.
:blah:
Plz, use spoilers for those of us who just started playing it.
as for FS3, after thinking about it for the last 10 years or so, I realy don't think I want one, why? because FS was a failure, which means most people didn't like it, which means to be financially viable it would have to be not freespace.
did you see what people were asking for on the interplay site?
they want FS3 to have FPS and capship control... GAG
the RTS would be ok in a spinoff, but FPS.... :ick:
TANGENT: BTW, i always imagined FS weps basically being modern weps with submunitions and more ammo. Hallfight didn't really phase me...
As I recall, they were pushing a Starfleet Command game or something like that at the same time FS2 was released, and it wasn't a "really bad job advertising it" so much as a "really GOOD job NOT advertising it", because they were advertising the Star Trek game like crazy. I had no interest at all in that title and I knew tons of details about thanks to their marketing team. Freespace 2 on the other hand I only knew had been released because I stumbled on a review of it maybe 6 months to a year later.
as for FS3, after thinking about it for the last 10 years or so, I realy don't think I want one, why? because FS was a failure, which means most people didn't like it, which means to be financially viable it would have to be not freespace.
Wasn't the reason FS totally died off the fact that Interplay did a really bad job of advertising the FS Universe to the public?
FS3 is already made. It's free and is downloadable from this site. In fact, it has multiple storylines.
We already have what we want.
That's the nicest thing I have read on this site, in a long time, possibly ever.
That's the nicest thing I have read on this site, in a long time, possibly ever.
just realized, iftheythe artist responsible of picking an image from a given selection didn't realize that the Eclipse wasn't from FS, then that means they haven't played the game AT ALL... :doubt:
just realized, if they didn't realize that the Eclipse wasn't from FS, then that means they haven't played the game AT ALL... :doubt: