Chopin Trusty Balls
First casualty in the war on idioticy.
Bill Roper who was resposible for the project left few months ago too.
SC:Ghost is looks like it could be canned.
SC:Ghost is looks like it could be canned.
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Nihilistic no longer working on Starcraft:Ghost
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StrikerObi
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Could you maybe provide a source? I know that Roper left but this news of Nihilistic leaving is new to me.
ManDudeChild
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Chopin Trusty Balls
First casualty in the war on idioticy.
source i got it from is actually in german gamezone.de,havnt seen english ones.
StrikerObi
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Well that makes it sound like Blizzard is going to be working on it now. I highly doubt they would just let it fall off the face of the earth with so much time and money invested in it (then again they did make WarCraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans).
I think the Xbox version has been getting praise for a long time. It's the GameCube (and I guess PS2?) versions that people said were fugly.
I think the Xbox version has been getting praise for a long time. It's the GameCube (and I guess PS2?) versions that people said were fugly.
StrikerObi
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Razoric said:World of Warcraft and Starcraft: Ghost within a few months of each other would be Blizzard overload.
Blizzard has two studios, they could handle it.
Here's my blog post on this whole Starcraft: Ghost development...
http://chespace.ogamo.com
Starcraft: Ghost On The Endangered List?
Woke up this morning and saw links to this HomeLAN story about the possible cancellation of Starcraft: Ghost. Blizzard recently announced that the game was to be delayed. Well, it appears Nihilistic, the developer that's been working on the game for the last two years, has also been pulled from the project. Here's the official language from Nihilistic's PR machine:
Nihilistic has completed its contribution on StarCraft: Ghost. They are contracted to begin work on another project in the months ahead. Due to the requirements of that obligation and the delay of StarCraft, it was mutually determined that now would be the best time for them to complete their work.
You love vague PR speak. However you look at it though, this doesn't bode well for Ghost, which, judging from my last hands-on experience with the game, was a decent, if not uninspired Splinter Cell clone set in a sci-fi universe.
The part that gets me kinda sad is how much potential this game had just over a year ago. Over a sausage and egg breakfast, I (representing Xbox Nation) spoke with then-VP of Blizzard North (in the Bay Area) Bill Roper, who told me in no uncertain terms, how rad the game was shaping up to be. And he knew his shit too. He had some really interesting ideas about where the stealth genre was going. You can read the whole interview here. Well, a month or so after XBN published the interview (in the form of a Pop Quiz featurette), we learned that Roper was fired from his post for an attempted coup with several other founders at Blizzard. Since he was obviously the champion of Starcraft: Ghost, I'm not entirely surprised that the game has suffered major setbacks.
It seems politics and games just don't mix.
http://chespace.ogamo.com
Starcraft: Ghost On The Endangered List?
Woke up this morning and saw links to this HomeLAN story about the possible cancellation of Starcraft: Ghost. Blizzard recently announced that the game was to be delayed. Well, it appears Nihilistic, the developer that's been working on the game for the last two years, has also been pulled from the project. Here's the official language from Nihilistic's PR machine:
Nihilistic has completed its contribution on StarCraft: Ghost. They are contracted to begin work on another project in the months ahead. Due to the requirements of that obligation and the delay of StarCraft, it was mutually determined that now would be the best time for them to complete their work.
You love vague PR speak. However you look at it though, this doesn't bode well for Ghost, which, judging from my last hands-on experience with the game, was a decent, if not uninspired Splinter Cell clone set in a sci-fi universe.
The part that gets me kinda sad is how much potential this game had just over a year ago. Over a sausage and egg breakfast, I (representing Xbox Nation) spoke with then-VP of Blizzard North (in the Bay Area) Bill Roper, who told me in no uncertain terms, how rad the game was shaping up to be. And he knew his shit too. He had some really interesting ideas about where the stealth genre was going. You can read the whole interview here. Well, a month or so after XBN published the interview (in the form of a Pop Quiz featurette), we learned that Roper was fired from his post for an attempted coup with several other founders at Blizzard. Since he was obviously the champion of Starcraft: Ghost, I'm not entirely surprised that the game has suffered major setbacks.
It seems politics and games just don't mix.
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if not uninspired?
Bill Roper was one of the key guys behind Ghost, and so was one of the Millar brothers, now at Lionhead. So who knows.
On the other hand, the guy who demo'd the game to me at E3 was James "DJames" Goddard, late of the Collective. Maybe we'll see a version in six months where Nova kills Zerglings with stakes through the heart. That would be pretty cool, actually.
DFS.
On the other hand, the guy who demo'd the game to me at E3 was James "DJames" Goddard, late of the Collective. Maybe we'll see a version in six months where Nova kills Zerglings with stakes through the heart. That would be pretty cool, actually.
DFS.
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Aww
Nihilistic's got a fine office, too -- of course, any office that lets you take your dog to work is a fine office to me.
Nihilistic's got a fine office, too -- of course, any office that lets you take your dog to work is a fine office to me.
Banjo Tango
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Any details on the coup?chespace said: