Delance
Victory, you say?
It's reasonable to presume WC games could be successful, but not on a scale that EA would be interested in. A smaller publisher would love to have this kind of franchise to work with. The good news is that, if EA ever decided to make a WC game, they'll make it big. Maybe if they want to make a space game, they might browse their stock IP and find WC on a shelf and decide to dust it off.
Sure thing, as Star Trek has its very own audience firmly builty outside the gaming world. Very few gaming-specific franchises successfully transcend genres, like Warcraft. We habe some smaller examples like C&C (Renegade), X-Com (Interceptor, Enforcer) and even WC (Armada).
As a fan of the series, I think WC does have a potential for other genres. Dekker gets to do some pretty neat things. Maybe instead think about revisiting Kilrathi war as one of the marines onboard that Ralari on the siege of Kurosawa, under attack by Gratha, trying to keep it together on some timed mission with the ship falling apart. Do X and Y so you get the Rapiers some extra time they need. That in a game with the Origin treatment, with details and bits of information about marine operations. But hey, I don't know if this would interest everyone. The FPS market probably dones't care for special references to WC1.
Of course the timing for all this passed years ago. They could’ve gone for the RTS craze of the late 90's, but no. That window of opportunity was lost. On the bright side, at least they didn't make a bunch of crappy games to spoil WC’s good name, and didn’t mess up with the continuity.
Bandit LOAF said:Entirely separate case -- with Star Trek you have a giant pre-existing audience who is buying games because of the label... not because of how great other Star Trek games are. If 1% of the people who watch Star Trek buy a Star Trek game, that game is a fantastic success. If 1% of the people who play Wing Commander buy a Wing Commander game, we're very very screwed.(It's like the Wing Commander movie -- far more people saw the movie in theaters than ever bought a Wing Commander game... but it was still a financial failure because it's an entirely different medium. A million people seeing a movie is a huge loss, a million people buying a game based on a movie is a huge success.)
Sure thing, as Star Trek has its very own audience firmly builty outside the gaming world. Very few gaming-specific franchises successfully transcend genres, like Warcraft. We habe some smaller examples like C&C (Renegade), X-Com (Interceptor, Enforcer) and even WC (Armada).
As a fan of the series, I think WC does have a potential for other genres. Dekker gets to do some pretty neat things. Maybe instead think about revisiting Kilrathi war as one of the marines onboard that Ralari on the siege of Kurosawa, under attack by Gratha, trying to keep it together on some timed mission with the ship falling apart. Do X and Y so you get the Rapiers some extra time they need. That in a game with the Origin treatment, with details and bits of information about marine operations. But hey, I don't know if this would interest everyone. The FPS market probably dones't care for special references to WC1.
Of course the timing for all this passed years ago. They could’ve gone for the RTS craze of the late 90's, but no. That window of opportunity was lost. On the bright side, at least they didn't make a bunch of crappy games to spoil WC’s good name, and didn’t mess up with the continuity.
