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Game Forum / Action Games / Half Life / June 2004Discuss
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/178910_sierra22.html This isn't about cookies.  Signaturewww.stri.tk A young girl who was blown out to sea on a set of inflatable teeth was rescued by a man on an inflatable lobster. A coastguard spokesman commented, "This sort of thing is all too common". (The Times) > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/178910_sierra22.html > > This isn't about cookies. Sierra game development studios aren't making HL2. vALVE is. Sierra is just publishing the title (last I checked, anyway). This has nothing to do with anything I care about. FaMiNe proclaimed... > Sierra game development studios aren't making HL2. Obviously. > vALVE is. Sierra is just > publishing the title (last I checked, anyway). This has nothing to do with > anything I care about. Well Sierra were more strongly linked to the original Half-life. Which is something I care about. Signaturewww.stri.tk A young girl who was blown out to sea on a set of inflatable teeth was rescued by a man on an inflatable lobster. A coastguard spokesman commented, "This sort of thing is all too common". (The Times) > Well Sierra were more strongly linked to the original Half-life. Which > is something I care about. They did SWAT3 in-house, for which we should be thankful. -- Paul >They did SWAT3 in-house, for which we should be thankful. Actually, I'm still thankful for Swat 3. It wees all over the other tactical/realistic mods and games I've seen so far. I hope they don't mess up Swat 4... ----- Anders "Roshin" Simonsson 'R.E.M. sucks so hard they bend light.' - Spyder (AGHL). > Actually, I'm still thankful for Swat 3. It wees all over the other > tactical/realistic mods and games I've seen so far. I hope they don't > mess up Swat 4... Have to agree. I still return to it now and again, and it's just as enjoyable. Does anyone play it online any more? (Not necessarily anyone we know, just anyone). -- Paul >Does anyone play it online any more? (Not necessarily anyone we know, just >anyone). A handful, but not many. A shame, really. ----- Anders "Roshin" Simonsson 'R.E.M. sucks so hard they bend light.' - Spyder (AGHL). > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/178910_sierra22.html > > This isn't about cookies. The gaming industry is encountering economic downturn? Not very surprising. As with everything Human, there is an ebb and flow in its 'life' (product and income). The tides come in, the tides go out. Sometimes taking whole companies with it. McG. > -- > www.stri.tk [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > lobster. A coastguard spokesman commented, "This sort > of thing is all too common". (The Times) McGrandpa proclaimed... > The gaming industry is encountering economic downturn? You think so? I agree the quality is slowly dropping but it's certainly making more money. <snip> Signaturewww.stri.tk A young girl who was blown out to sea on a set of inflatable teeth was rescued by a man on an inflatable lobster. A coastguard spokesman commented, "This sort of thing is all too common". (The Times) > McGrandpa proclaimed... > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I agree the quality is slowly dropping but it's certainly making more > money. Certain areas of gaming seem to be making more money. How about for PC only games? Overall, I feel we're seeing fewer 'anticipated' games and so many 'Duds' simply sit on shelves until sent back. So fewer actual titles are being bought. That's my thinking. McG. > <snip> > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > lobster. A coastguard spokesman commented, "This sort > of thing is all too common". (The Times) McGrandpa proclaimed... > That's my thinking. You may well be right. Signaturewww.stri.tk A young girl who was blown out to sea on a set of inflatable teeth was rescued by a man on an inflatable lobster. A coastguard spokesman commented, "This sort of thing is all too common". (The Times) > Certain areas of gaming seem to be making more money. How about for PC > only games? Overall, I feel we're seeing fewer 'anticipated' games and > so many 'Duds' simply sit on shelves until sent back. So fewer actual > titles are being bought. That's my thinking. > McG. there sure does seem to be a lack of fresh & innovative games coming out on the PC.. however, this seems to be counterbalanced by the amazing variety of excellent free 3rd party mods that are appearing all over the place, not just for HL/HL2, but all other games.. might be bad news for the gaming industry, but it's good news for the rest of us :) SignatureBen Cottrell AKA Bench "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/178910_sierra22.html I live in Seattle and worked at Sierra for a brief time in 1997. Frankly, I'm surprised this hasn't happened before now. The corporate culture at Sierra has been in shambles for a long time now - lots of inefficiency and people not working on the same page, etc. I fortunately moved onto greener pastures fairly quickly, and I don't regret my time there at all (it's always cool working for a game company), but it was clear to me at the time that they were in trouble, and I believe they've remained that way ever since. Mike >> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/178910_sierra22.html > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Mike It appeared that Sierra lost their vision with the collapse of the Wing Commander empire. With no vision, it seems there is also no drive or direction. So I'm like you, it's not surprising really. McG. > It appeared that Sierra lost their vision with the collapse of the Wing > Commander empire. With no vision, it seems there is also no drive or > direction. So I'm like you, it's not surprising really. > McG. Sierra wasn't involved in Wing Commander; that was produced by Origin Studios, with the later games released by EA. Sierra only had a couple of flight games, and the only space sims they had were largely complete when they absorbed Dynamix. More than anything, Sierra was hobbled by the collapse of the adventure game as a genre (combined with their failure as the main producer of that genre to guide it through the multimedia and 3D revolutions). At the same time, they made a lot of acquisitions in the early 90s followed by a string of less-than successful expensive-to-produce titles (such as Phantasmagoria). I think their core designers from the early days had a tentative idea where adventure gaming was going, but they were unable to take the company that last step. Seriously, if you read Roberta Williams' comments about the future of the adventure game from the time of Kings Quest: Mask of Eternity, Half-Life (which she was not involved in) represents a better example of her vision than KQ:MoE (which she helped develop and which was at best a noble failure). |
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