Metro 2033 is most likely in good hands. The parent company that bought them owns Deep Silver, who published one of the great games of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series[1], which I think Metro pulls from. Random fun fact, but the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game was also published by THQ. Probably why THQ were so interested in Metro 2033, which came shortly after.
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#22With Sega's purchase of Relic, hopefully they can pick up the Homeworld franchise and do something with it again!
I'm actually quite pleased with that, Sega seems like a good home for Relic. They seem to do ok with The Creative Assembly (Total War games). Homeworld 3 please :)
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#23Can somebody leak the source code for the old Red Faction games? Those didn't seem to be a franchise that got sold off, so maybe is abandonware?
My bet is that Red Faction comes along with Volition.
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#24So long THQ.
I hope SEGA will make good use of my favorite games.
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#25Shame, they were one of the only publishers willing to take the risk on a new IP. Which other publisher would dare take on the offensive, lewd sandbox game like Saint's Row, each sequel just a little more over the top than the last? In a market full of repetitive sequels, played out plotlines, and annual cash-cows, I'm hoping Koch Media do Volition and Saint's Row 4 justice!
Thankfully EA, Activision or one of the other more cookie cutter publishers did not get ahold of Saints Row and Metro. If they did, each series might as well have died with THQ. I think I would be sick to see Metro or Saints Row turned into a Call of Duty or Medal of Honor knockoff. EA just is not what it used to be and all my favorite classic franchises (Command and Conquer, C&C Red Alert, Sim City, Syndicate, etc)…
> EA just is not what it used to be and all my favorite classic franchises (Command and Conquer, C&C Red Alert, Sim City, Syndicate, etc) are just a shadow of what they once were.
The games you quoted were not FROM EA per se, they were mostly from studios acquired by EA which were dissolved soon after they released something worthy of publishing. Sim City was from Maxix, SYndicate from Bullfrog, CC from Westwood. Do not assume developer=publisher.
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#26With Sega's purchase of Relic, hopefully they can pick up the Homeworld franchise and do something with it again!
I'm actually quite pleased with that, Sega seems like a good home for Relic. They seem to do ok with The Creative Assembly (Total War games). Homeworld 3 please :)
Was Homeworld 2 any good, by the way ?
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#27With Sega's purchase of Relic, hopefully they can pick up the Homeworld franchise and do something with it again!
Sega actually just purchased Relic and the Company of Heroes IP. Homeworld, and other legacy IPs, are to be sold later.
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=509695
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thankfully EA, Activision or one of the other more cookie cutter publishers did not get ahold of Saints Row and Metro. If they did, each series might as well have died with THQ. I think I would be sick to see Metro or Saints Row turned into a Call of Duty or Medal of Honor knockoff. EA just is not what it used to be and all my favorite classic franchises (Command and Conquer, C&C Red Alert, Sim City, Syndicate, etc)…
> EA just is not what it used to be and all my favorite classic franchises (Command and Conquer, C&C Red Alert, Sim City, Syndicate, etc) are just a shadow of what they once were. The games you quoted were not FROM EA per se, they were mostly from studios acquired by EA which were dissolved soon after they released something worthy of publishing. Sim City was from Maxix, SYndicate from Bullfrog, CC from Westwood. Do…
I'm aware of who developed/published them :). EA is also a developer and not just a publisher. I'd guess as they acquired each one, they became more prominent in the decisions for each franchise as well as hirings of future developers. Westwood and Maxis as far as I can see, ceased to exist when they were acquired and the games they put out shortly after were running on the inertia they had before acquisition.
I played on Westwood's multiplayer servers back in the 90s. EA carried on letting Command and Conquer series be pretty good up until Red Alert 3 (bad) and Command & Conquer 4 (horrible), which were made long after Westwood was absorbed[1]. Even Sim City 4 was pretty good and that was published long after Maxis had been swallowed.
My point was, EA is where good games go to die, regardless of who develops them. It wasn't always that way, but something shifted in the company over the past 10 years. Their current mode of operation is treat PC as a second class platform, recycle instead of create, appeal to the lowest common denominator for marketing[2] and stuff as much social/online interaction as they can with no way to opt out[3].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_Studios
[2] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=red+alert+3+women&...
[3] http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/The-Benefits-of-Li...
Edit: some clarifications and citations.
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#29Metro and CoH 2 seems to be safe. Southpark may be in trouble, and Obsidian are in no need of additional trouble right now. And Ubisoft don't know what an RPG is. Darksiders are done which is sad.
Ubisoft wants to buy South Park, but it looks like there may be legal trouble. South Park Studios filed a complaint saying that THQ did not have the legal right to sell South Park as long as South Park Studios reclaims the license by paying the full amount that THQ put into the game. http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a453020/south-park-stu...
I hope whomever South Park Studios does bequeath the rights to the game to will treat it nicely. Poor Obsidian, even when they find a publisher who doesn't seem like it will abuse them, the publisher goes under. Perhaps their only friend are the fans, thanks be to Kickstarter.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm actually quite pleased with that, Sega seems like a good home for Relic. They seem to do ok with The Creative Assembly (Total War games). Homeworld 3 please :)
Was Homeworld 2 any good, by the way ?
more slow paced than the first one ( + extension by barking dog studio ), but still a good homeworld game