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EA re-trademarks "System Shock"
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Templar Wizard
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EA would probably only publish it and would out-source the development.
I use would twice.... maybe.
There is a reason why they want to keep the SS trademark, because of the quality which is associated with the name.
And as the largest player I am sure they would be aware of another Sci-fi classic series whose franchise was dealt a TKO through 'simplification', Deus Ex.
I would imagine they would like to avoid that. EA do like succesfull series.
So I would put down the harpoons at the moment.
But what are the chances of seeing SS3 in an enhanced Doom3-style engine...
Imagine REAL hacking games using terminals. ZE VOW!!!
[/I]Buster? The guy who thought that the blue on the map was land?
I use would twice.... maybe.
There is a reason why they want to keep the SS trademark, because of the quality which is associated with the name.
And as the largest player I am sure they would be aware of another Sci-fi classic series whose franchise was dealt a TKO through 'simplification', Deus Ex.
I would imagine they would like to avoid that. EA do like succesfull series.
So I would put down the harpoons at the moment.
But what are the chances of seeing SS3 in an enhanced Doom3-style engine...
Imagine REAL hacking games using terminals. ZE VOW!!!
[/I]Buster? The guy who thought that the blue on the map was land?
SKOPE said:
Ultima 7 is the best RPG game ever made and to many the best ULTIMA game ever made.
Ask the Ultima Dragons community (UDIC) (which I'm part of), ask any Ultima fan, ask any RPG player.
There are some weirdos that think U6 or even U4 was better but they are in the extreme minority.
Ultima 7 may be hated for one reason only - it had tremendous system requirements when it launched, thousands of people couldn't play it properly because the disk was constantly swapping.
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There will be NO Ultima 7 badmouthing while I am here. You can try and attack Ultima 8, I'd gladly respond to such attack, but attacking Ultima 7 is pure insanity.
EviLore said:Irrelevant to U7's playability... I have an easier time playing ascii nethack than U7. That perspective just doesn't work for me at all. Such a poor angle to design a graphics engine from.
I guess I got used to it.
And mind you I played U7 for the first time in 2000, June under pure DOS.
Of course I am not dense and I can see a room for improvement... but it would be very hard to do i.e. Pagan's view is nice but obscures too much.
SKOPE said:
Yup. It was pretty handy for both Origin and Bullfrog to be acquired by EA in their respective twilights, because then the fans got a surrogate hate figure who RUINED EVERYTHING!!! rather than having to appreciate both companies were already crippled by bad project management and egotism. Course, the EA acquisition certainly didn't help, so they're hardly blameless.
It was all downhill after Bioforge.
That's exactly what I was thinking as well. I pray to god they do the smart thing and make an SS title that truly lives up to it's good name. They need to focus on the game itself and worry about porting and adapting to consoles later. What's the point of tearing apart a game's formula for an audience that hardly likes to try any new franchises which is exactly what the game would be on consoles for the most part.Templar Wizard said:
Looking at the awesome concept art and what the latest hardware is capable of these days, we're probably going to getting even more insane lighting effects. It's gonna be crazy seeing all those computer terminals, conduits, and liquid holding chambers all lit up on a modern engine.
Diomedeskun
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I'm pretty sure that EA published Ultima VII. That was the cause of including the 3 generators shaped like a cube, pyramid, and sphere (EA's old logo) that were wreaking havoc on the world and had to be destroyed.
