[Mongoose]

Well now we all know who's been living under a rock for the past ten years.

Hey-hey-hey! If I've never seen it, I've never seen it.

You don't even need to have seen what happened...it's pretty much the single-biggest focus of nerd rage ever.

And as far as rights go, I wonder what happened to those of the Red Faction series.  Maybe holds them itself.

[0rph3u5]

One problem is that DeepSilver has quite a history of releasing buggy games (i.e. Gothic 3, Dead Island, Risen), on the other hand, even those games were quite good in their own rights.

Not to open up another controversy but you shouldn't cite Gothic 3 here ... Deep Silver only handeled distribution outside the capabilites of JoWooD (who were the primary publisher on this) and it was JoWooD who enforced the unrealistic dead-lines Phirana Bites set themselves in the contracts for the project... leading to short cuts in development time and QA

Note: JoWood went backrupt sometime ago and will never ever ruin a franchise again (too late for Gothic and SpellForce though) - the remains of that company too were absorbed into Deep Silver

[vamitul]

Not to open up another controversy but you shouldn't cite Gothic 3 here ... Deep Silver only handled distribution outside the capabilities of JoWooD (who were the primary publisher on this) and it was JoWooD who enforced the unrealistic dead-lines Phirana Bites set themselves in the contracts for the project... leading to short cuts in development time and QA

Note: JoWood went backrupt sometime ago and will never ever ruin a franchise again (too late for Gothic and SpellForce though) - the remains of that company too were absorbed into Deep Silver

Fair point! Also i should note that DeepSilver developed/published some great games, and (from what i heard form some devs that had contact with them) don't put a lot of pressure on developers

[[DW]-Hunter]

http://www.kochmedia.com/press/news/news-details/koch-media-aquires-ip-rights-for-saints-row-metro-and-development-studio-volition.html

Seems like they don't care to mention any games other then the ones that are just released. With INTERPLAY still holding the rights to FreeSpace, I don't see how volition has any other option other then to put it on their hall of fame next to Descent & Red Faction and forget about it. If they do decide to make it, I'll buy several copies!!!

[Scourge of Ages]

Oh yeah, who was it killed Red Faction? Any possibility that Koch could decide to resurrect it?

[The E]

Oh yeah, who was it killed Red Faction? Any possibility that Koch could decide to resurrect it?

THQ killed it. The problem was that, instead of building on the rather good RF: Guerrilla, they decided that the best next step for the franchise would be a more linear Third-Person Shooter; And while RF: Armageddon was a rather solid effort, it wasn't really all that outstanding. Their misguided attempts to turn RF into a cross-media franchise (They did commission a SyFy Movie for it!) didn't help either.

[Windrunner]

There is going to be a FS3?? HELL YEAH!!

[The E]

There is going to be a FS3?? HELL YEAH!!

Where did you hear that?

[Colonol Dekker]

RF2 was best

[Luis Dias]

There's already a FS3. Why people are orgasming and/or gnashing their teeth about a potential future that already exists is beyond me.

[Colonol Dekker]

 

[mjn.mixael]

inb4bpis/isnotfs3

[The E]

Yeah, let us not go there again. I still am interested in hearing how Windrunner seems so certain that there's going to be an FS3 though.

[headdie]

Yeah, let us not go there again. I still am interested in hearing how Windrunner seems so certain that there's going to be an FS3 though.

from the winking smiley I think it's a piss take

[Windrunner]

Yeah, let us not go there again. I still am interested in hearing how Windrunner seems so certain that there's going to be an FS3 though.

from the winking smiley I think it's a piss take

This dude got it right. I was just yanking your chain. Every time there is news about Volition people get excited/upset about FS3 and the IP rights, hence the half-ass attempt of a joke .

[Luis Dias]

inb4bpis/isnotfs3

Don't be ridiculous. I'm referring to the widely acclaimed FS3 Search for Bosch that was one of the highlights of last year in HLP.

[An4ximandros]

I was not a registered member back then but I miss xX_LORD_ULTRA_DEATH_Xx

The horrible spelling, the crazy objective shenanigans, and the **** load of missiles that can blow up colossuses in a single hit were the pinnacle of FRED modding.

[Goober5000]

I was not a registered member back then but I miss xX_LORD_ULTRA_DEATH_Xx

  Did he died?

[karajorma]

I was not a registered member back then but I miss xX_LORD_ULTRA_DEATH_Xx

He's still around. It's just that the admins aren't revealing whose alt-nick he was. Usually alt-nicking is punishable by a ban, but in this case it fit the theme of the campaign so perfectly that we're quite happy to leave it as a mystery who he was.

I did point out at the the time that it wasn't one of the usual suspects.

[niffiwan]

Wasn't the real author mentioned in the FS3 release thread?

edit: spelling!!!