Ritual Ends SiNning Ways?
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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 06:56    Post subject: Ritual Ends SiNning Ways?
In their story about today's acquisition of Ritual Entertainment by MumboJumbo GameDaily added some post-announcement quotes from MumboJumbo CEO Mark Cottam. They probed about the future of SiN Episodes with more success than our own contact with Ritual, learning that the plan here is for Ritual to get more casual, rather than for MJ to go mainstream. Therefore, there are no plans at this time to continue the episodic Sin sequel, which saw the release of only one of its planned nine installments:

"The idea of acquiring Ritual was to have them strengthen our development in the casual genre and not to have them involved at all in the action style games," Cottam explained. "If there's an opportunity to have them do something on the SiN episodes, we would look at that, but that will not be the focus of the company. The combined companies will focus exclusively on casual, unless opportunities present themselves that we think are strategic from a business standpoint... Again, I wouldn't close the door on [traditional games] but that's not the primary focus."

ffs.
http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/feature/?id=15054
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=74825


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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 07:35    Post subject:
Can't say I'm surprised...hate these episode games.
Then again the game wasn't that good,so no biggie. Smile


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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 09:24    Post subject:
just a question, what the hell are "casual games"? Am I correct in interpreting that as "shit games"?
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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 13:29    Post subject:
MumboJumo makes puzzle games, that sort of shit. They were also behind the weak Myth 3: The Wolf Age, anyone remember that?


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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 13:46    Post subject:
Myth 3 ruled! Still I dont know what to expect of this... Maybe they should just drop the expected 9 episodes and cut it all down to a true sequel.


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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 14:33    Post subject:
damn, i for one liked the SiN episode idea, although the first ep was quite buggy for me...
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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 14:40    Post subject:
apart perhaps from mahjong i wouldnt want to play any of the games from mumbojumbo.com
so, it s a rather sad day for pc gaming, i suppose Neutral
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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 14:43    Post subject:
sin episode 1 was total crap....

have they ever made a game that was any good... ?


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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 14:51    Post subject:
discworld wrote:
have they ever made a game that was any good... ?


yes: http://www.ritual.com/index.php?section=games/overview
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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 15:46    Post subject:
Lutzifer wrote:
discworld wrote:
have they ever made a game that was any good... ?


yes: http://www.ritual.com/index.php?section=games/overview


sry... dont c any good games on that page Sad


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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 16:38    Post subject:
discworld wrote:
Lutzifer wrote:
discworld wrote:
have they ever made a game that was any good... ?


yes: http://www.ritual.com/index.php?section=games/overview


sry... dont c any good games on that page Sad


well, i think some titles in the "contributed to" category below were good to awesome, as well as HM Fakk2 (they never made a sequel to that either though, as the storyline wasnt finished) and ST Elite Force II. The original SiN was cool too, although buggy / running badly on my system back then...
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PostPosted: Thu, 25th Jan 2007 18:13    Post subject:
FAKK2 was amazing, finished it like 5 times.


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PostPosted: Fri, 26th Jan 2007 11:51    Post subject:
Fuck,.. I liked episode 1.. not much guns but as a whole it was great single player experience. They cancel that to make more crappy games and they admit it?!? wtf..
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PostPosted: Fri, 26th Jan 2007 13:51    Post subject:
haha the magic of episodic games , just like TV shows they can cancel them in the middle of the story ...


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PostPosted: Fri, 26th Jan 2007 16:02    Post subject:
I though SiN Episodes was even better than Half-Life 2, it´s a shame if they cancel the series Sad


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PostPosted: Fri, 26th Jan 2007 17:37    Post subject:
Elazul wrote:
I though SiN Episodes was even better than Half-Life 2, it´s a shame if they cancel the series Sad


You have to be kidding
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