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Black Isle Studios is no more :(

Started by Ilici Dec 9, 2003 at 12:25 PM 28 replies 3.1k views
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Ilici
Ilici
Yep, Black Isle Studios , the team behing many great games like Baldurs Gate, Fallout, Icewind Dale was terminated by Interplay. Thread Thread My faith in the Game industry is now at record lows.. [edited by - Ilici on December 9, 2003 1:30:24 PM]
reaptide
reaptide
Well this sucks. I can say goodbye to all of my favorite developers: Microprose, Looking Glass and Black Isles.

Why in the world would Interplay shut them down? Its not like they weren''t making Interplay boat loads of money with Dark Alliance having sold over a million copies.
Zul
Zul
quote:
Original post by Rob Loach
Don't worry, Blizzard is still kicking.


Well, sort of. Bill Roper and several others quit Blizzard several months ago to start their own company (again).

Oh, here's a link.

[edited by - Zul on December 9, 2003 2:03:06 PM]
oh hai
Dungeon Master
Dungeon Master
quote:
Original post by Vampyre_Dark
Balder''s Gate?

Poor Bioware lmao...


yeah I was gonna say... Bioware did baldur''s gate, not black isle.
Zul
Zul
That''s a negative there buddy.

black isle games
oh hai
cmptrgear
cmptrgear
According to my Baldurs Gate Box, both Bioware and Black Isle worked on the game so you are both right. Sucks about Black Isle though, I just recently finished Fallout 2 and was hoping Fallout 3 would be a reality. I guess another one of my dreams has been dashed.

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Ilici
Ilici
I think Bioware made it and Black isle distributed it, or smth like that.
Daaark
Daaark
That''s because Bioware left interplay, and interplay owns the rights to Balder''s Gate. So Black Isle studios got to make the Balder''s Gate console games. But Bioware made Balder''s Gate 1 and 2.

http://www.bioware.com/games/baldurs_gate/
http://www.bioware.com/games/shadows_amn/
http://forums.bioware.com/viewforum.html?forum=17
Zul
Zul
Well shiver me timbers.
oh hai
rohde
rohde
quote:
Original post by Zul
Well shiver me timbers.


What does woodwork have to do with this?






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[edited by - rohde on December 9, 2003 2:45:59 PM]
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Zul
Zul
Umm... The Black Isle guys are going to start a carpentry business?
oh hai
Daaark
Daaark
Yeah sure. They''ll mail a "log in a box" to interplay. Unfortunately, the higherups at interplay won''t be able to tell shit in a box apart from the rest of their products.
rohde
rohde
quote:
Original post by Ravuya
I heard they were making Fallout 3, even.

I guess nowadays if you can''t port it to a console, it ain''t profitable.



Correct. Thanks to piracy the money is in the console market.



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superpig
superpig
Welcome to the world of the UK. We''ve been seeing studios closing every month here.

Mucky Foot and Silicon Dreams, to name just two. (Incidentally, the Mucky Foot home page is funny).

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Crazy_Vasey
Crazy_Vasey
quote:
Original post by Ravuya
I heard they were making Fallout 3, even.


They were. The project has now been canned in favour of a sequel to the shitty console shooter they''re about to release that happens to have the fallout name tagged on it. It''s gone the exact same way as X-COM. Proper sequel gets canned, and then a shitty third person shooter gets released instead.

I hate Interplay.
Myopic Rhino
Myopic Rhino
quote:
Original post by Dungeon Master
It''s nice to know they were wll liked but... What have they done recently anyway? The last thing I can think of is Icewind Dale II.
They recently produced Lionheart (which was decent, but not great), though it was actually developed by another company.

This really does suck, though. I was really looking forward to Fallout 3 (codename Van Buren). It''s really no wonder that Interplay has struggled to stay afloat. They''ve raped their handful of good projects to fund tons of shitty ones. I''m glad I didn''t take a job there.
civguy
civguy
Hm?

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