Another game down the drain

[Paul1980au]

If this style of game is neglected by the mainstream publishers - the open source community is still pushing ahead - freeorion is a start - im sure a equivalent should SE5 be the Last - that a free open source alternative will arise.

[Timstone]

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.

[geoschmo]

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 ]

[Unknown_Enemy]

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 ??).

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

[solops]

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 ]

[Timstone]

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.

[solops]

Originally posted by Timstone:
Geo, Solops:
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.

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...