Comments on: Interplay It Again

By: nateklomp

nateklomp — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:30:58 +0000

Dear Interplay:
Dragon Wars 2.
‘Nuff said?

By: LSNDuck

LSNDuck — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:48:54 +0000

Descent was the first game I played on PC (having been a Sega boy). It was brilliant, as was the sequel. The projects to keep the games going (D2X for example) have reawakened my love, but a further genuine instalment would have my eye.

By: Briosafreak

Briosafreak — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:48:24 +0000

Fargo has the Wasteland license again.

By: Ranger Ben

Ranger Ben — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:06:36 +0000

I remember buying the “Interplay Tenth Anniversary” compilation. That was… 13 or 14 years ago. I’ve played through Dragon Wars more times than I care to remember. Never finished Wastelands though.. What a shame.

Ah, Wasteland (singular)! That game was the best reason to buy that compilation! I wonder what Fargo out inXile thinks about this. Down with humans, up with mutants, long live Finster!

By: Briosafreak

Briosafreak — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:46:40 +0000

Not sure about Fallout MMORPG, some murkiness around the IP of Fallout and online games with Bethesda I heard Bethesda snapped up the remaining rights to Fallout so Interplay has no right to use Fallout online unless they license it from Bethesda ?.

They already did, a long time ago.

By: Briosafreak

Briosafreak — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:39:02 +0000

N4g just copy pasted this piece.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:46:25 +0000

Blackthorne = Blizzard, so that won’t be happening. MDK and Earthworm Jim = Shiny, so they might make another one but it wouldn’t be the same. In fact, given Shiny’s recent track record, even if they got Shiny to do it, it’d still probably suck. Descent I got over long ago. Fallout Online is a terrible idea. So….erm. Another BG: Dark Alliance would probably be the best possible outcome. They’re not Baldur’s Gate proper, of course, but they’re about the best same-screen cooperative experience to be had on consoles.

By: Anonymousity

Anonymousity — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:07:50 +0000

They re-hired the old lead artist from fallout 1 and he talked a lot about mmo’s a while back and I think it’s pretty obvious the first thing they’ll do is fallout, you alone in the waste that are now heavily populated by lots of idiots shouting chuck norris ftw.

By: NegativeZero

NegativeZero — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:31:30 +0000

I would happily purchase a new MDK game. I loved those.

By: Tha Capitan

Tha Capitan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:30:39 +0000

Interplay? I want a new BLACKTHORNE now!! Oh, what a fantastic game that was. Heck, I’d even settle for re-release over xbox live arcade. Just please, please, no CLAYFIGHTER ok?

By: Taxman

Taxman — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:25:29 +0000

You can forget about Freespace unless it was done on a really tight budget & by some one other than Violition. Those games are really niche and just don’t sell in large numbers plus Violition are working on GTA clones (some of the Freespace crew are still there but some left a while back to start a new studio).

In an interview with gamespot (see wiki of Interplay), they said were looking to build off the Earthworm Jim, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance, Descent, and MDK IP’s. MDK is a pretty old game and not well known cant see them using that but Earthworm Jim and Descent are probably worth a go.

Not sure about Fallout MMORPG, some murkiness around the IP of Fallout and online games with Bethesda I heard Bethesda snapped up the remaining rights to Fallout so Interplay has no right to use Fallout online unless they license it from Bethesda ?.

By: Mika

Mika — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:02:44 +0000

New MDK or Earthworm Jim game could be interesting, but if Shiny or Bioware isn’t developing, I don’t expect much.