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Wellll......the company's pretty much dead now.....they started their
death spiral when they cancelled VULCAN'S FORGE.

That looked like such a cool game too. Geeze, and to think, Interplay used to be the "big guys", anyone remeber Star Trek 25th anniversary? Wonderful game, one of my all time favorites.

InnocentBystander wrote:That looked like such a cool game too. Geeze, and to think, Interplay used to be the "big guys", anyone remeber Star Trek 25th anniversary? Wonderful game, one of my all time favorites.

Mine too.......I loved the artwork in that. The best game done with
the ST license

I think it was Klingon Academy that ruined it for them....

Isn't this going to affect any future releases of Fallout?

From my brother (who's probably getting it from SA)

According to Volition at E3 (this is a direct quote)

"So. Freespace 3. When?"

"As soon as Interplay goes bankrupt again, we're going for the licence."

*Drools
*Goes to ravage the bloated corpse of interplay

Kamakazie Sith wrote:I think it was Brian Fargo that ruined it for them....

Fixed. IIRC, Fargo insisted that the old Starfleet Academy engine be reused for Klingon Academy, and this was the source of unending shit for the KA team.

Quite frankly, I think KA is a testament to the dedication and skill of the team that put it together, given some of the headaches they had to try and deal with.

Comic
Sorry, couldn't resist.

MKSheppard wrote:Wellll......the company's pretty much dead now.....they started their
death spiral when they cancelled VULCAN'S FORGE.

Should not that be Secret of the Vulcan fury ?

Kamakazie Sith wrote:I think it was Klingon Academy that ruined it for them....

I doubt it. Klingon Academy is one of the best Star Trek games.

evilcat4000 wrote:Should not that be Secret of the Vulcan fury ?

D'Oh! Yes yes......That's the one...

Alan, is that the HLP picture?

Repeat after me: " NEVER GIVE UP HOPE!!!"

This is such wonderful news.

evilcat4000 wrote:

Kamakazie Sith wrote:I think it was Klingon Academy that ruined it for them....

I doubt it. Klingon Academy is one of the best Star Trek games.

I concur, I loved it.

One of the reasons I wanted a projector.

Klingon Academy was the semi-interactive movie one with the klingon dictionary, right? I have that game somewhere, it was fun, but couldn't compare to 25th Anniversary or even Starfleet Academy, but then again, I like the ship combat

No, it was basically a Klingon version of Starfleet Academy.

Enigma wrote:Isn't this going to affect any future releases of Fallout?

FO3 was farmed out do another deve studio after BIS' demise.

evilcat4000 wrote:

Kamakazie Sith wrote:I think it was Klingon Academy that ruined it for them....

I doubt it. Klingon Academy is one of the best Star Trek games.

One of their best games which had so much more potential and they dropped the support on it not long after it was released.

It wasn't the games fault though, I'm just citing that when KA came out is basically when Interplay started to dig its own grave.

phongn wrote:

Enigma wrote:Isn't this going to affect any future releases of Fallout?

FO3 was farmed out do another deve studio after BIS' demise.

They actually did that? Last I heard they were just talking about doing it and it's not like they have had any money to pay an external dev house to do anything.

*pisses on IP corpse*

They've became an incredibly shit publisher over the last few years, so I'm glad they're gone or at least on the verge of it.

Interplay has been a horrid blight on the industry and the artform for the last few years. So sing it with me:

Ding dong the witch is dead, the wicked witch...

Now let's all hope for a death rattle from Lucasarts

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:Now let's all hope for a death rattle from Lucasarts

I don't know, the job they've been doing lately by farming out jobs to companies that actually have their shit together has produced some kickass stuff.

B...Black Isle's gone? When did this happen?

(Yes, I've been living under a rock)

HemlockGrey wrote:B...Black Isle's gone? When did this happen?

(Yes, I've been living under a rock)

They booted out nearly the entire dev staff just before Christmas. There are still a few there but Black Isle as we knew it is dead and gone. All the people responsible for Planescape: Torment, Fallout, and the rest are gone. A lot of them went to Obsidian Entertainment.

Interplay produced Descent.... I loved Descent.

No, this has no real point, but you guys have to admit Descent is a classic.