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BIS No More
Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 04:57 | MageDragon
Blue's News is reporting that Black Isle Studios is no longer:
More bad news at Black Isle Studios, where lead designer J.E. Sawyer resigned just last month as Farewell, but not goodbye on the Interplay Entertainment Forums Nels is a post from Damien "Puuk" Foletto that indicates that the studio is now shut down, referring to today as his "last day at the (former) BIS." This follows suit with a note sent along by designer John Deiley:
Today marks the end of an era. Black Isle Studios is no more. In yet another sweeping layoff of employees, Interplay has officially let go the last of it's Black Isle employees (save two that I know of) and dissolved the division. Also, the non-announced title that the division was working on, Fallout 3, has been "shelved" to quote management.
Että näin... Hetken hiljaisuus...
BIS No More
Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 04:57 | MageDragon
Blue's News is reporting that Black Isle Studios is no longer:
More bad news at Black Isle Studios, where lead designer J.E. Sawyer resigned just last month as Farewell, but not goodbye on the Interplay Entertainment Forums Nels is a post from Damien "Puuk" Foletto that indicates that the studio is now shut down, referring to today as his "last day at the (former) BIS." This follows suit with a note sent along by designer John Deiley:
Today marks the end of an era. Black Isle Studios is no more. In yet another sweeping layoff of employees, Interplay has officially let go the last of it's Black Isle employees (save two that I know of) and dissolved the division. Also, the non-announced title that the division was working on, Fallout 3, has been "shelved" to quote management.
Että näin... Hetken hiljaisuus...
Vastaukset 11
Vanhimmat
Olin kuullu jo...
...nyyh. :(
Heidän omia mietteitään...
"Moronic, myopic, management driven by an insatiable urge to dumb down everything to barely interactive cutscenes. Profiteering monkeys with no sense of art, style or class. Stupid stupid stupid. Really stupid. The few games involving thinking that I was looking forward to next year just went away, looks like more twitch games for me. Oh yeah, football games too, yay?"
Kaikki yhtyvät tähän!!
Jumala on siis olemassa!
Ei enää puolivillaisia roolipelivääntöjä tuon puljun toimesta!!!
All hail to the BioWare!
Lähinnä senkin takia että ko. pelistudio oli juuri suunnittelmassa Fallout 3:sta, ehkä kauiten odotettua ja himoittua pc-roolipeliä. Kaiken lisäksi Black Isle ei ollut edes ehtinyt julkaista tietoa suunnittelevansa koko peliä, kunnes tämä toiminnan lopettaminen tuli kohdalle.
http://www.rpgdot.com/index.php?disp=2003-12-10#23713
I'll preface this newsbit by saying we don't know if Interplay is considering selling the Fallout license but...the industrious folks at NMA picked up this rather intriguing post by Carsten Strehse on the Silver Style forums:
"Well, we are definatly interested in hiring some of the former Balck Isle staff. I try to get in contact with them.
I also disclose no big secret if I tell you that we have found a mayor partner for The Fall and that money wouldn't be the biggest problem when we would try to get the FO licence.
My biggest concern is the reaction of the FO community. We're all huge fans of FO here and have deepest respect for the achivements of the dev team. However, we are no Black Isle, we are Silver Style. And I'm afraid that the community wouldn't be pleased with a FO3 that wasn't developed by the original team. Even if I'm very sure that we could deliver a real stunning game."
Either way, Silver Style is currently working on The Fall which looks like it might have some pretty strong post-apoc goodness and strong finances can't help but make it better.
Lohduttava uutinen :D
Toinen hyvä uutinen, Interplay on taloudellisissa vaikeuksissa ja myi juuri Galleon: Islands of Mystery -pelin oikeudet SCI:lle. Jos hyvin käy niin myös Falloutin pc-lisenssi tylee myyntiin (Interplayhan jatkossa keskittyy konsoleihin ja brotherhood-räiskintöjen tekemiseen jotka ilmeisesti myyvät paremmin kuin pc-pelit).
Entiset BIS:in työntekijät joka tapauksessa suunnittelevat lisenssin ostoa:
http://www.rpgdot.com/index.php#23966
Ovat myös suhtautuneet myönteisesti SS:n yhteistyötarjouksiin, tosin saa vielä nähdä tuleeko FO3 olemaan SS-peli koska SS on saksalainen pelitalo ja edessä on kaikenlaisia käytännön vaikeuksia.
Elämme jännittäviä aikoja.
Eli se on nyt sitte tapahtunu...kuulin tosta huhuja jo kesällä mutta en uskonu et näin kävis.
No,toivotaan että joku muu saa aikaan samanlaisia roolipeli legendoja kuten Black Isle Studios sai...
Mutta en usko että tulee samanlaisia pelejä kuin esim. Baldur's Gate II SoA.
vai että näin kävi... Ois kyllä ollu tarvetta Baldurin tapaisille roolipeleille, mutta luulenpa että niitä ei muut saa synytmään... aika surullista...
heehee
Andorig oon samaa mielt... BGII SoA oli paras
peli mikä on ollu... *SNIIF!!*
Hesukselle ja Dimensonille teille Ho*****
tiedoks et baldus gate II oli yks maailman
myydyimmist peleist ja se sai monia ja taas
monia palkintoja!!! Sääli et ne lopettaa...