Another game down the drain

[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...

[Hippocrates]

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 ]

[Timstone]

Originally posted by solops:
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...

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 ]

[tesco samoa]

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