[Unknown Target]

While browsing thru the Freespace2.com news archives, I found this:

December 1998
New Website Launch
Recent News
 

12.14.98 9:40 AM - New Website Launch  
  Volition is proud to announce the launch of its new site format. As always, this is the place to get the greatest info on our titles, as well as the latest scoops on our upcoming games.
In the new site design you'll notice subpages devoted to FreeSpace and Silent Threat, our recently released titles. In addition, we're happy to have sections devoted to our three games-in-development: FreeSpace 2, Descent 4, and our currently featured game, Summoner.

We'll be adding more sections, screenshots, and other content on a regular basis, so visit often!
 

Notice the DESCENT 4. What's up with that? I know there was a community project that never got off the ground, but an official game? Anyone have any info?

[Righteous1]

At one time they were working on D4 but that transformed into Red Faction.  D4 got dropped  I'm not aware of anyone working on it now.

[Corhellion]

Notice the "Games in developement" before that, it's prolly a typo, cause Decent 3 was being made about the same time as Freespace 2...

Or is hinting to something?

Cor

[Fineus]

I doubt it means anything - I've still got a magasine with an E3 review shortly after 1999 that said one of the most anticipated coming titles was FS3... heh.

[Corhellion]

Don't give up! If Interplay is going down, hopefully or THQ can get the rights to the FS series and complete the trilogy...Or maybe Interplay and /THQ HAVE been and ARE working on FS3 in secret..maybe, maybe not

[Stryke 9]

I think D4 would be Red Faction. After all, it's a pretty short jump from the Descent games to the FPS genre- in Descent you move around in tunnels and shoot any bad guys who show up, in FPSes you move around in tunnels and shoot any bad guys who show up. The very minor functional difference I've seen (and I've played Descent, or at least the first one), have to do with the spaceship piloting thing, which just means you can move around a tiny bit more in tunnels, and have more controls to scrabble at randomly trying to get your dude to move while he is gang-pressed by a half-dozen heavily armed Primitives from Hell.

[IceFire]

For almost 6 months I think, there was a Descent 4 page on the Volition-Inc website.  My my you guys have short term memories

There was a few concept art pieces.  Later, the project was revealed to be Red Faction.  RF had its beginnings in a Descent game, but the direction became very different and thus it became Red Faction.  End of story.

[phreak]

that and they had to drop D4 once they were bought by thq

[Kamikaze]

There was some freaky pic of a doctor like thing on the concepts too ... I think

[diamondgeezer]

[Stunaep]

Originally posted by Corhellion
Don't give up! If Interplay is going down, hopefully or THQ can get the rights to the FS series and complete the trilogy...Or maybe Interplay and /THQ HAVE been and ARE working on FS3 in secret..maybe, maybe not

maybe not

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Corhellion
Don't give up! If Interplay is going down, hopefully or THQ can get the rights to the FS series and complete the trilogy

and if they do, then we'll keep *****ing for a FS4 for another eternity

if they do sell the FS series rights, (just curious) how much will it go for more-or-less?  thousands of dollars?  about how much?

[diamondgeezer]

Interplay: We'd like, oh, about five million should do it.

THQ: We'll give you ten bucks.

Interplay: Yes sir, thank you sir.

[Stealth]

i'm serious, because if it's not that much, then perhaps we could buy it, or i could get a friend i know who has a game developing company to get his company to buy it!

[an0n]

*would suggest a community fund-raising if he didn't think it'd completely collapse within a day or two*

[Stealth]

naaaaa the community doesn't quite come-together in something like this, and besides, the figure would probably be ridiculously high!  most of us here are broke teenagers... i was just wondering out of interest what the cost would be more or less

[Levyathan]

Several times what we all could afford together, more or less.

[an0n]

Go find Dave and ask him. He should have a rough idea as to what the going rate for the rights are.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Stealth
i'm serious, because if it's not that much, then perhaps we could buy it, or i could get a friend i know who has a game developing company to get his company to buy it!

Stealth mate, were you not a VBB memeber?

[Corhellion]

I wasn't...

What are you all staring at?...



*runs*