[jdjtcagle]

to make a sequel to Descent?

Wikipedia:

Interplay attempting to regain former self

GameSpot reported on November 13, 2007 that Interplay, using money from its sale of the Fallout IP to Bethesda Softworks, is going to restart its in-house game development studio and Interplay has plans on developing sequels to some of its classic IPs contingent on if it can secure financing. Gamespot stated:
“Among the projects Interplay has said it wants to develop are sequels to Earthworm Jim, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Descent, and MDK, provided it can find the financing.”

Why not FreeS.... 

[Hellstryker]

Maybe they figure they dont want to screw up all our custom time lines and that we've actually done a better job? 

[BlackDove]

Yeah, that's it.

[Polpolion]

I'm guessing that they can't recover Freespace. The source code has been released for 2, and along with the FSUP, most of the game is now free, legal, and better. They'd have to take huge bounds to beat what FSO can do for free, and plus, there is the incredibly small fanbase (which is hostile to even the mention of FS3) which already has several post-FS2 campaigns.

[nubbles526]

There has already been such topic during that time, you know. Don't remember where it is...

[diceman111]

Well is it Interplay or Volition who own the rigths to the name Freespace thats the big question????

[jdjtcagle]

There has already been such topic during that time, you know. Don't remember where it is...

Please forgive me for taking up valuable space on the board

[achtung]

Well is it Interplay or Volition who own the rigths to the name Freespace thats the big question????

Interplay.

[TrashMan]

*clubs Interplay*

AND STAY DOWN!
 

[Ghost]

Oh come on, now. Interplay was a great company in the 90s. I would love a Descent 4. And holy ****. Another MDK? That would KICK ASS.

[Nuke]

interplay did put out of good (and original) games. id rather put up with them than ea for example. of the old games i still own about 10-15 of them were published by interplay. i had many more but i gave them away over the years.

[IceFire]

Interplay in its later days basically didn't know what it was doing.  It got confused as to how it should market its games and which games were competing against which other games.  They sometimes seemed to feel that they had one game in their portfolio which was competing against another in their portfolio... in short they were run by the marketing folks who didn't play games and counted numbers.  FreeSpace 2 was a marketing disaster...easily the best rated game of the genre in the magazines and online websites of the time but almost nobody knew it was out and nobody bought it.

If they come back I hope all of those people who made the decisions there are gone because whatever they were doing it seemingly was confused.  Market forces worked in this case and rewarded Interplay by bankrupting the company.  Be interesting if they did come back.

[TrashMan]

I meant a mercy killing.

Interplay did publish some great games. I too would liek to see it come back, but I don't think it's even possible anymore.

[WMCoolmon]

It'd be interesting to see what happened if Interplay decided to fund an "official" mod for a summer (eg provide full-time jobs for people) or a year (part-time jobs) in exchange for distribution rights. I don't think it's ever been done before, could be some good publicity.

Although come to think of it, CS was done that way, IIRC.

[BlackDove]

Interplay in its later days basically didn't know what it was doing.  It got confused as to how it should market its games and which games were competing against which other games.  They sometimes seemed to feel that they had one game in their portfolio which was competing against another in their portfolio... in short they were run by the marketing folks who didn't play games and counted numbers.  FreeSpace 2 was a marketing disaster...easily the best rated game of the genre in the magazines and online websites of the time but almost nobody knew it was out and nobody bought it.

If they come back I hope all of those people who made the decisions there are gone because whatever they were doing it seemingly was confused.  Market forces worked in this case and rewarded Interplay by bankrupting the company.  Be interesting if they did come back.

From what I understand the Caen morons are still at the helm, driving the company straight into hell.

[haloboy100]

Interplay is good for me. But if they so much as prod Volition about Freespace 3, I vote we storm the Interplay buildings and kill them. Again.

[jdjtcagle]

.... I was under the impression we wanted it... 

I know I do

[achtung]

Interplay is good for me. But if they so much as prod Volition about Freespace 3, I vote we storm the Interplay buildings and kill them. Again.

[haloboy100]

I don't want FS3. I like the Freespace 2 cliffhanger mumbo jumbo.

[achtung]

If they're going to do it anyway, I'd rather them prod Volition about it than someone else.