Westwood Studios GONE???!!!

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-02-11 01:54am

Anybod heard anything about Westwood Studios closing its doors??I heard about it over at Spacebattles.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-02-11 08:54am

???

Nope, no info here.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-02-11 09:00am

Doesn't look like it from the website. They're owned by EASports, so I don't see EA getting rid of them. Although, EA does want the company that owns Blizzard, but Microsloth is so far the top contender, unfortunately. Blah.

(I love G4... that is the best channel on cable!)

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2003-02-11 09:44am

Well, if Westwood is producing C&C Generals then I don't want it gone... besides... I still remember my fist startegy game, C&C... Now that rocked...

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-11 11:31am

been hearing that (Scary how few companies there really are now) since everything is owned by one of a few companyies.

David · Post by **David** » 2003-02-11 02:15pm

Speaking of Westwood, anyone play their Dune Stratagy game?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-11 02:33pm

Of course.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-11 07:48pm

David wrote:Speaking of Westwood, anyone play their Dune Stratagy game?

Which one? I have Dune 2000, though I've not played in at least six months, and Emperor, which I play fairly often.

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2003-02-11 07:58pm

I played Dune 2K a long long time ago...

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-02-11 11:43pm

AGE OF MYTHOLOGY! Support microsoft and buy it

. Really, it's my favorite game right now, maybe because I'm good at it and know a lot of the top players.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-02-12 07:37am

Sea Skimmer wrote:
David wrote:Speaking of Westwood, anyone play their Dune Stratagy game?
Which one? I have Dune 2000, though I've not played in at least six months, and Emperor, which I play fairly often.

Are you forgetting Dune 2? As I recal it was westwood....

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-12 11:13am

Yup the very first RTS of it's kind, later turned into command & conquere

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2003-02-12 12:22pm

Ah memories, memories....those were the days...

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-02-12 02:50pm

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Yup the very first RTS of it's kind, later turned into command & conquere

They used the same engine?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-12 03:47pm

Just about

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-02-13 10:34am

Dune 2 was actually a "Golden Fuckup". THe game was originally intended to be turnbased but a programing glitch made it real-time. As it happened the real-time was the 1st step in a new gaming genra.

David · Post by **David** » 2003-02-13 12:46pm

Dune 2k remains one of my favorite stratagy games, even if more recent ones have better graphics. I got it for 12 dollars in a three pack with Blade Runner and some other game.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-14 09:32pm

Keevan_Colton wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:
David wrote:Speaking of Westwood, anyone play their Dune Stratagy game?
Which one? I have Dune 2000, though I've not played in at least six months, and Emperor, which I play fairly often.
Are you forgetting Dune 2? As I recal it was westwood....

No I'm not. I asked which one, and then mentioned the two which I have played to save making another post saying so, I've never played Dune 2.

Clone Sergeant · Post by **Clone Sergeant** » 2003-02-14 10:09pm

Westwood Studios is going to be merged with EA pacific near the end of the year.

http://games.ign.com/objects/025/025083.html

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-02-14 11:27pm

I hate EA. Their support is shitty. They also don't let you recover lost CD-keys like Sierra by mailing in the original disks.

Sierra is my favorite game company, and is the only game company I actually gave money to. The rest of the games I have were given to me (Shogun Total War for example (the original owner was bored of the game and did not bother to keep the CD-key), and in the case of a few very old ones that I don't play anymore, except Doom, which I'm playing mods, pirated.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2003-02-14 11:45pm

Speaking of Westwood, anyone play their Dune Stratagy game?

I bought Emperor, I love the Sardaukar! Its pretty much my only strategy in the game, defend base, get money, build gigantic horde of them, crush enemy. Repeat as needed.

SWPIGWANG · Post by **SWPIGWANG** » 2003-02-15 04:14pm

Darth Pounder wrote:Dune 2 was actually a "Golden Fuckup". THe game was originally intended to be turnbased but a programing glitch made it real-time. As it happened the real-time was the 1st step in a new gaming genra.

Having touched progamming a bit....I can help but say

HOW THE HELL DOES THAT HAPPEN?

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-02-17 10:12pm

Sierra is cool, but they don't seem to like dial-up people. I tried to upgrade Half-Life and Counterstrike, and I wasn't able to complete the downloads. SO I said fuck it, I heard they run really shitty on 56ks anyways and eliminated all Hallf-life for room for my fav computer gaming company, Blizzard. I don't know how much time I've blown on Starcraft, Diablo 1&2, Warcraft 3 and expansions, but it nears half of my NES time. All of them run well on dial up, and there patches are never more than 10mb. Plus they have more replay value.

Darth Balls · Post by **Darth Balls** » 2003-02-17 10:29pm

Are you being sarcastic about Half Life and CounterStrike not running well on dial up? Seriously, I have NEVER seen a game that runs better on dialup. The prediction code actually gives hpbs (dial up people) priority over lpbs (broadband). Evens the playing field.
Only downside is the huge patches.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2003-02-17 10:37pm

Darth Balls wrote:Are you being sarcastic about Half Life and CounterStrike not running well on dial up? Seriously, I have NEVER seen a game that runs better on dialup. The prediction code actually gives hpbs (dial up people) priority over lpbs (broadband). Evens the playing field.
Only downside is the huge patches.

I said I heard that it ran shitty on dial up, I was never able to download the patches to try.