/vr/ - Retro Games

I have a lot of love for Interplay games in the 90's but let's go through their IPs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Interplay_games

Who gives a shit about any of these? Descent was a great game at the time but I don't think anyone would care about a new one. Also no one cares about Earthworm Jim anymore.

>>4560767
That's just it. Haha poor Interplay, they died the moment they lost Fallout.

Descent lives on however
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overload_(video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent:_Underground

>>4560739
It was a desperate attempt by a worthless company to drum up attention and hopefully cash. Being retards who can't into math enough to keep a business solvent they somehow thought their IP was worth many times more than their entire company is and turned down every offer I'm aware of. Hopefully those who made offers will be able to pick up what they want at the fire sale when the company goes tits up.

>>4560825
If these guys had any brains they'd be publishing games for indies, making fanservicey mobile stuff, and porting old stuff to Nintendo Switch

I mean shit SNK does it all the time

>>4561126
I'd rather have them die than go that route.

>>4560767
I dont know their status as a company but they have some lucrative IPs.
I would love to see new games on many of those listed.

>>4561138
Doesn't seem likely, Brian Fargo went and founded InXile. Herve Caen is the current president of Interplay and people around the net say he's a moron

I could see a random company coming and scooping up Earthworm Jim so they can lazily port him one last time, and that's just being cautiously optimistic.

>>4560767
Earthworm Jim and MDK are worth it alone

>Boogerman never got a sequel
>Clayfighters

I thought Loaded and re-Loaded was interplay

>>4561161
Earthworm Jim is kinda tainted with the nu-press due to doug tennapel being a fag hater

>>4561164
so that leaves MDK, which is pretty much darker Earthworm Jim

I wish for a new MDK game, but more similar to the first game than whatever Bioware had shat out with MDK2

>>4561126
Well yes, but they tried that and failed because they don't have any brains. And they have less money than they have brains.

>>4561138
>I dont know their status as a company or what "lucrative" means
FTFY. Just because you'd like to see new games based on many of those games listed doesn't change financial facts. It also doesn't change the fact that Interplay doesn't have the right to make new games in many cases.

>>4561193
I genuinely feel sorry for you.

>>4561164
Let's be realistic, EWJ could succeed without him.

I'm willing to bet Armikrog being a failure probably did more damage to Doug's name than any number of his bad opinions. Once you take the public's money in exchange for a game, they hate you.

>>4561207
He's right though, Interplay likely has no staff to take on anything, and the remaining properties they have are of no interest to many people.

They aren't even in the public consciousness today so they often resort to copyright trolling and petty legal affairs just to even the score

>>4561210
>Once you take the public's money in exchange for a game, they hate you.
Ain't that true, every kickstarter failed to deliver to some extent.

>>4561220
FTL
Shovel Knight
Divinity: Original Sin
Darkest Dungeon
Stasis
The Banner Saga
Superhot
...

>>4561242
Fair enough, but only Shovel Knight was a classic developer revival.

>>4560739
CLAYMATES 2 WHEN?

>>4560767>Who gives a shit about any of these?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Interplay_games
>Alone in the Dark
>Baldur's Gate + Dark Alliance
>Boogerman
>Carmageddon
>Clayfighter
>Die by the Sword (perfect today for VR)
>Icewind Dale
>Tonekeep
>Wasteland
All of these have room for expansion or actually worthwhile remakes. A Clayfighter game where you lose mass and abilities (steeper skill) would be amazing today and actually doable unlike then.

>>4561251

>>4561280
WTF

>>4561207
Yeah, people who know what the fuck they're talking about are so pathetic. lol

>>4561467
You need to be 18 to use this site.
If you are in any way mentally challenged I apologize.

>>4561262
>Alone in the Dark
Atari owns it and already fucked it up
>Baldur's gate
Bioware is dead
>Boogerman
Literally a joke that would just only cater towards the "Muh nostalgia" crowd
>Carmageddon
Already has a reboot
>Clayfighter
Would be utterly killed by everything else
>Wasteland
Already has sequel, and Burger woman is in charge of it

Boogerman got a kickstarter for it's anniversary and it failed miserably.
And after Armikrog, doubt we'll see something like clayfighter/mates (hell clayfighter was supposed to came back twice, and it never happened).
I really feel sorry for Jim though.

I gotta be honest, I don't need Boogerman, claymates or even Earthworm Jim in my life. Their IP's aren't strong enough to rise from the ashes, you could just as well make a reboot of commander keen.

...On another note: Why did they never make an Earthworm Jim - 3D Worms crossover? The wacky comedy would have fit and you could have used the suit as a weapon

>>4561262
Icewind Dale lives on in NEVERWINTER MMO

>>4561832
I wonder why...

Even as a fucking toddler I knew playing something called "Booger man" was for retards

>>4561853
>Why did they never make an Earthworm Jim - 3D Worms crossover?

because it doesn't make sense
there's a level in EWJ2 (not in DOS port) that has destructible terrain if you need to scratch that itch

>>4561504
Projecting pretty hard there sport. So now that you've outed yourself as an <18 fanboi who doesn't know how to use a dictionary wut do?

How did a company who did so good in the 90s fall from grace so fast? Hell they could afford to pay the entire TOS cast (even $$$hatner) for TWO games.

>>4562056
wut do indeed

>Interplay still exists

Too bad half the cast of Clayfighter was racist as fuck. It would never fly in today's society. But I would totally take another Clayfighter those games were pretty funny.

>>4563680
modern games and society needs to get nuked

>>4561575
Dark Alliance isn't "Bioware"

>>4561164
All the more reason why he needs to make another game really.

A new Stonekeep game would really make my dick diamonds. A sequel was worked on for 4-5 years but was dissolved unfortunately.

>>4562070
Get a dictionary and financials. Or just keep shitposting. Your choice kid.

>>4563529
In the same way as Sierra - on paper, as branding company.

>>4561262
All of them are already taken, man.

>>4563680
>Too bad the other half of the cats of clayfighter wasn't cucked as fuck.
FTFYF

>>4564550
sure thing bud

>>4561280
>>4561286
Parasite Eve, really great game

>>4560767
Would love to play a version of Loaded with actual twin stick controls but you can't remake that it was very much a product of its time.

>>4564882
>he chose poorly