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 Posted: Tue, 18th Nov 2008 21:46 Post subject: Stardock wants to make sequels to MOO & Star Control |
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Brad Wardell is awesome.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55948
| Quote: | Stardock CEO Brad Wardell has his eye on a few classic gaming franchises and wants to bring them back--and he wants to do it right, if the rights holders will allow him the chance.
"I actually pitched [rights holder] Atari on a whole idea for a true successor to Star Control," said Wardell, referring to succeeding Toys for Bob's Star Control II. The PC space strategy game from 1990 is said to have influenced Stardock's Galactic Civilizations (PC) and Ironclad's Sins of a Solar Empire (PC), which Stardock also published.
As for 1996's Star Control 3, developed by Legend, "We just pretend that never happened," quipped Wardell to Gamasutra.
Wardell had a similar idea for the Master of Orion turn-based strategy series, another 90s cult classic owned by Atari. "We'd like to do a Master of Orion 4," he explained. "It would be an updated Master of Orion 2."
The CEO appears to have an aversion to the number 3, but more accurately he fears sequels developed by studios that didn't make the original. "If you're making a game that ends with '3,' ... it should be similar to the original game," he asserted.
"Don't go off and say, 'I have my own artistic vision,'" continued Wardell. "Okay, good--so call it something else. Don't ride the coattails of the people who came before you to launch your own artistic vision."
Stardock is currently assembling a second internal development studio and is reportedly working on some ideas, and Wardell is enthusiastic about the prospect of an isometric RPG in the spirit of BioWare's Baldur's Gate II. Such a game would have "the same style of isometric gameplay--not first person--where I have a party that I'm interacting with." He concluded, "I think there are a lot of people who want that." |
The bolded part especially has me drooling at the very thought. I'll be the first to line up when they start accepting pre-orders. 
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Nov 2008 21:51 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Nov 2008 22:02 Post subject: |
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They should do a mass effect type space opera rpg, they have a knack for sci-fi, only isometric not TPS.
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Nov 2008 22:07 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 18th Nov 2008 23:05 Post subject: |
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who cares about it when there is The Ur-Quan Masters
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lhzr
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I really hope they manage to do all those games. A proper sequel to MOO 2 would be great.
Thanks for this great news.
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Nov 2008 09:24 Post subject: |
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I actually never really got to play MOO and and Star Control but what this guy had to say in this article is just good music to the ears of old school gamers. Stuff like the drive to develop a true isometric RPG and the wrong of game studios changing fundamental aspects of classic games a-la Bethesda.
This is something that I'm really going to follow closely. It would have been really interesting to see what a guy like him would have done with a franchise like Fallout...
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Nov 2008 09:24 Post subject: |
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good luck @ atari giving them the rights for those games .... when hell freezes over ...
anyone seriously thinks atari would give anyone the rights to any franchise they own ?
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Nov 2008 14:02 Post subject: |
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I'd play a worthy successor to MoO2 any day of the week.
I also think fisk should be unbanned.
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| Posted: Wed, 19th Nov 2008 18:20 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | As for 1996's Star Control 3, developed by Legend, "We just pretend that never happened," quipped Wardell to Gamasutra. |
Excellent! |
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