Re: Another game down the drain
 

Ehh... I might sound cocky, but the news IG3 and Supernova were cancelled. Is really, really, really old. The sites I used to go to weren't revised a long time ago. And I had some contact with one of the mod's from soem of those sites and they told me the games they were wating for were cancelled. They also showed me a pressrelease stating just that. So you're actually running behind, my good people.

Look at: www.starbasedelta.com
This was one of the sites I used to go to. It hasn't seen a revision for some time now. Also the forum is quite dead.

Re: Another game down the drain
 

Timstone, I'm not sure what you mean by a long time ago, but if you look at the dates on the Posts this thread was started a year ago. In fact all but the Last couple Posts were from a year ago. Solops just dug up an old thread to give us what may be some new news about IG3.

If it is being resurected but by a different company your old contacts and forums might not be aware of it.

[ June 28, 2004, 11:04: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Re: Another game down the drain
 

Yeah, no sense in starting a new thread. I got the news that IG3 lived from the Chips and Bits website and tracked it to this article:

http://www.gamer.tv/page/feature/23115465.htm

Which says that a Hungarian company, HD Interactive, is doing the game as "Nexus". I'm not sure this is really what the old IG3 was to be, but it is due out fall of 2004.

Apparently the German company, CDV, has dropped it.

Anyone else have a bit on it?

[ June 29, 2004, 03:22: Message edited by: solops ]

Re: Another game down the drain
 

Geo, Solops:
I must admit only to have read the first message, not the whole thread. But in my book a long time ago, is about a year. Call me old, but my memory isn't that of most people. I tend to forget things after a few weeks, so to remember something for one year, is a truely major event in my book.
But I didn't mean to critisize Solops or anyone else. I just wanted to point out that I already knew CDV wasn't going to produce IG3. After that message I haven't been looking at IG3 anymore. I also lost track of Supernova. I concentrate on SE V, my current work, the B5 Mod and some minor projects of my own.

Re: Another game down the drain
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No problem. I have so many people pounding on me every day that I don't even notice it anymore. And that is before I even get home to the wife and kids...

Re: Another game down the drain
 

Solops,

Your information is indeed correct, in that the game has been picked up by a new publisher (HD Interactive) and renamed. Back when CDV was having monetary issues, most of the IG3 team seem to have broken off to form their own company - Mithis. I suppose they managed to aquire the rights to the game, because only 2 months ago they declared that they would complete the game under the title "Nexus."

I wouldn't exactly compare Nexus to SeIV, or any of the other 4x games we all love so much. First off, its RTS. Secondly, its mission based. Thirdly, there is no unit construction. The game is being billed as a tactical starship simulator (if you've ever played the old Interplay/Taldren Starfleet Command I and II games, I imagine this will be something along those lines).

The graphics look stunning, and its supposed to have a heavy story element, but the game is in no way shape or form a 4x. I guess you could call it a kind of Star Fleet Command / Heagemonia hybrid.

-Hippocrates

[ June 28, 2004, 23:41: Message edited by: Hippocrates ]

Re: Another game down the drain
 

Sad new for IG3.
Anyway, publisher are important. Shrapnel games anyone ? Matrix games anybody ? Yes, some old grognards are gone, but don't tell me the genre is dead.
At the moment, I am playing galciv, SE4 and dominion2. I still have steel panther with all megacampaigns on my hard drive. I intend to play galciv2 the day it's done, and I'll play se5.
The market is changing, I get my wargames or 4x games from small dedicated companies and not anymore from the big names. I am an avid gamer, but the Last big publisher's product I bought was ubisoft's Il2 sturmovik (1 & 2).

Think about space combat simulator : you had some freelancer rubish (pretty, but rubish) published by a big name, while you had X2 made by an independant company and now matrixgames is publishing Starshatter (Hey Sharapnel ! why have you missed this one http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ??).

I still can play the games I like, I just had to update who's selling them.

Re: Another game down the drain
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Come on man, hang in there.
Play SE IV a little less, and play a bit with the wife and kids some more and life looks a whole lot better.
Damn, what did I just say? Play SE IV a little less... Ouch, this is going to be a loooong week.

[ June 29, 2004, 09:31: Message edited by: Timstone ]

Re: Another game down the drain
 

wow that is great news.... I had no internet for a little while there and almost missed it....

Re: Another game down the drain
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I bought the first Star Fleet Command, and it didn't take too long for me to shelve it. First of all, I hate RTS games. I'm not a 12 year old kid who has great hand-eye coordination. I like turn based games. Plus, IIRC, there was too much of a learning curve for SFC. I'll stick to SEIVG and the occassional Galactic Civiliations. If another turn-based 4x game comes out, I'll probably give it a try, unless it gets the reviews that MOO3 did.