Quote:Nintendophiles is able to independently confirm that 3DO has in fact filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. 3DO is widely known for its failed CD-i console system, and its series or Army Man games. Started by Trip Hawkins of EA fame, 3DO was created originally as a console company. However with the failure of the CD-i, 3DO became a third party software company.
While the bankruptcy of the company is no longer in question, the future of several key titles is. Large titles including Four Horseman of the Apocalypse and Street Racing Syndicate are both in question. A PR representative for the company said "We don't know what is going to happen with any of these products…We do hope these games come to completion, and we think they will."
While many are quick to smirk at the bankruptcy, it is rather sad. It seemed that at this year's E3, 3DO was turning a new page. This reporter even joked with company representatives about the shock of seeing no Army Man games in their booth. The company decided to focus on high quality product, instead of quantity, and it showed. Perhaps it was too little, too late. Nintendophiles wishes the best to all the 3DO employees who will be affected by this bankruptcy, and that both Street Racing Syndicate and Four Horseman of the Apocalypse somehow make it out stores--they both look pretty impressive.
Four Horsemen looked interesting, but other than that 3DO hasn't done much I'd feel sad about losing.
N-Philes
3DO didn't make the CD-i. Philips made it.
3DO's console was simply "3DO".
BattleTanx was the only game(s) that were worth playing. Global Assault's multi kicked ass!
Yay! No more Army Men games!
Pretty sad that they couldn't last long enough to give this new leaf they turned a try, but I must agree, they dug their own grave.
This IS bad news. 3DO makes a few very good serieses. High Heat Baseball is still the best representation of actual baseball out there, Heroes of Might & Magic is one of the best fantasy-TBS games available, and the two N64 BattleTanx games were quite good...
As for Army Men Air Combat on N64 and Army Men RTS were fun.
i don't much care for 3DO, although i was curious about 4 horsemen.
Awe, thats sad...I remember seeing those big, white 3DO boxes for sale at BJ's...the only game they ever sold for it was "Nights" or something like that....really sad when shit like this happens.
Quote:Originally posted by OB1
Yay! No more Army Men games!
Parades of cheering gamers pour into streets across the country stomping on green and tan Army Men, and with the end of the Army Men games, the world was just one tiny step closer to utopia.
Anyone who cheers this doesn't like realistic baseball games or strategy games, thats for sure.
Quote:Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Anyone who cheers this doesn't like realistic baseball games or strategy games, thats for sure.
Or obscene amounts of games in a series that wasn't any good to begin with and never did get any better than "horrendously awful". :)
I do like strategy games, and I am not cheering...but I don't see the connection. Obviously I'm missing out on some epiphany.
Uhh... I've already mentioned it. Heroes of Might and Magic doesn't ring a bell? And you play strategy games? Its only the most famous fantasy-TBS series there is... the latest one (came out last year) is HOMM 4.
Yes it does ring a bell, and I didn't know they made it. I've played it, and it is indeed a deep, enthralling game. Thank you.
HOMM 1 and 2 will say "New World Computing" on the box and in the game, but 3D0 bought NWC years ago. Maybe you only saw HOMM 1 and/or 2?
I don't care. 3DO has flooded the market with so many atrocious titles that I'm glad to see them leaving.
I loved BattleTanx: Global Assualt on N64... very good game. Army Men Air Combat was alright too... not great, but ok. And the first Army Men game was fun... it just got old as more similar games came out... and never was that great in the beginning. But I do remember having some fun with the original Army Men's demo (on PC of course...)
Also, High Heat is GREAT! For several years it was easily the best baseball game available... now the others have mostly caught up, but for its presentation of the game of baseball as it really is its still unmatched.
As for HOMM... well HOMM 2 is a REALLY GREAT game. Heroes 3 and 4 may not have matched that, IMO, but they are still high quality games... sure 3DO milked the series, with Heroes 3 having 2 expansion packs then a miniseries of games (like 4 or 5 of them...) that all sold seperately with just some new maps (in a campaign) in each one, and Heroes 4 has 2 expansions now... but that doesn't change the fact that HOMM is a very, very good series.
It just could use a few less expansions, standalone expansions, and standalone mini-expansions (or whatever you call them...). Oh well... the series is still fun... it doesn't deserve to die, that's for sure.
Yeah High Heat is good, but I certainly won't be missing 3DO. I'm glad to see the bad developers being weeded out, so to speak.
I disagree... for cases like this. Now, I'd never say that when we lost the guys that made the Extreme series anything bad happened, but 3D0? Sure they're hardly the best, but they have some good games. And any company with good games deserves to survive!
Oh, and OB1, I guess you missed how at E3 they had ZERO Army Men games? How about that for a change in focus?
Dude, one or two decent titles out of fifty makes them a bad developer.
But when they have good games it shouldn't be cheered when they die! I wouldn't want any of the medium-to-large companies closing... some small ones (that never made good games) sure, but not ones that have recently made good games...
Now Titus, I almost wouldn't mind. Their only good team is Interplay's Black Isle, and they've been fading for years now... it'd still be awful to see them go, but if they could be saved I couldn't care less about the rest of Titus. Titus (not counting Interplay) is one of the few big developers from who I'm pretty sure I don't own a single game...
Of course, I also own no Enix or Namco games, and just one Square game... and maybe (I think) just one Konami game... but oh well. It is still true that I have no Titus games.
After Superman 64 I would have agreed with you that Titus deserved to die out, BUT they released Incredible Crisis and for that I could never cheer their demise.
Incredible Crisis...that game is so awesome.
Titus only published that game. They had nothing to do with the development. And the only decent Army Men games that 3DO released were developed by outside studios. So really, there's no reason to shed tears for that company. And ABF, did you know that the developer of the Might and Magic games was New World Computing? If 3DO dies it doesn't mean that they will. Hell they've already published several HOMM games by themselves.
But High Heat Baseball? Okay, that's 3DO's only good internally-developed franchise. But this one single franchise isn't enough to want to keep them alive. It's not like there aren't two dozen other baseball games coming out each year. I'm sure EA or someone will hire those HHB programmers to help them make their games better.
Quote:But when they have good games it shouldn't be cheered when they die!
Yes they should. When 3DO makes a good game, it's by mistake.
Yup. I'm planning a barbeque later today to celebrate their death. :D
NWC is owned by 3do. I'd imagine that if 3do dies they do too...
"Incredible Crisis"? Don't think I've ever heard of it...
I knew you people would react this way... but I just happen to think that if they make good games I can excuse them bad ones... sure more 3do games are bad than good. But to me that doesn't mean that its alright for their good ones to just die off!
I hope that they come through this intact...
Oh, and Army Men RTS is easily the best Army Men game... that one's a good (if simple) RTS. Why is it good? Well, its made by a external developer who knows how to make RTSes -- Pandemic (Battlezone II, Dark Reign 2).
But the game I really want to see 3DO make is BattleTanx 3! At the end of BattleTanx Global Assualt the story clearly isn't over... but it was never continued... :( Global Assualt was a great game... the story should be continued/finished!
NWC published a bunch of HOMM games by themselves, so who's to say that they can't stand on their own? And like you said, the only good games (aside from HHB) they made were done by outside developers. Do you really love the Army Men franchise, or something? They're a shitty developer that deserves to perish.
If New World Computing is bought by someone and survives (since they ARE owned by 3do -- they bought them a couple of years ago) I'll care a LOT less... but until/unless that happens I'll be very sad. HOMM is a great, great series... even if it has decayed some over the years its still very competitive with Disciples 2 and Age of Wonders 2.
They should make more Might & Magic RPGs too... the last one (IX) came out last year, I think... I guess they don't sell well enough or something, because I've heard nothing about another.
High Heat should continue too. It needs more improvements, but there is only so much you can do when you've got to release a game every year... but its still one of the best baseball games out there, and clearly the best one on PC.
Oh, and Four Horsemen and Street Racing Syndicate look good... it'd be too bad if they never make it out. Its never good to see potentially good games cancelled. Though obviously I care a lot less about those games than M&M titles...
Four Horsemen looked like another generic, dark action game. I don't know anything about that racer.
I wonder how long before Atari goes to way of 3DO. I think they've had it coming for some time now...probably since the Jaguar.
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Quote:Titus only published that game. They had nothing to do with the development.
I know, that's why I said they "released it". But, if they hadn't probably no other company would have.
Well, Atari has know taken the place of Infogrames and they do release some good games. Ikaruga comes to mind, although they only published it over here.
Infogrames can call itsself Atari, or whatever else it wants, but to me and anyone else with a brain they are INFOGRAMES. Just with the liscence to make games based on Atari's intellectual property.
Infogrames or Atari it's still the same people working on the games. I guess they think that by calling themselves Atari it will make their games sell more, but I think most people stopped caring about Atari years ago.
Quote:Originally posted by Great Rumbler
I know, that's why I said they "released it". But, if they hadn't probably no other company would have.
Well, Atari has know taken the place of Infogrames and they do release some good games. Ikaruga comes to mind, although they only published it over here.
Well who knows if somebody else would have released it here. Maybe someone like Infogrames would have released it in its uncensored form.
What is this "uncensored form" of which you speak?
Yeah, what game was censored?
Incredible Crisis, a PSX game that Titus publlished in the U.S. They censored a lot for the stateside release.
I never heard of that game...
That's because you never had a PS1.
That is true. But I have heard of some PS1 games...
It's not a very well known PS1 game. It's a bunch of minigames involving a typical Japanese family that get into all kinds of bizarre and hilarious situations. And it has a lot of huge explosions. And a Godzilla-sized teddy bear.
And in the Japanese version there was lots of sexual stuff. But funny sexual stuff.