IPLY can finish BG3

[Odin]

According to a thread on the IPLY boards, Interplay has reached an agreement with Atari and can now finish BG3. Only one problem tho......where is the Bis team ? Nice job Herve!
Thanks goes out to Pope Viper for informing me about this.
Link: Thread@IPLY

 

[Hose]

Hmmm... isn't BG3 a PC title?

What about this whole console crap?

 

[Montez]

The statement is pretty vague - they could have justed reached an agreement about using BG for the Dark Alliance series.

 

[Brother None]

Wow

I suppose that's an option, the game's almost finished anyway

I'd shudder to think what they might do with it though

Conflicting emotions!

 

[King of Creation]

Conflicting emotions is definitly right Kharn.
While I'd love BG3, I can only see IPLY butchering it and somehow porting it to console, with no pc release.
Damn the IPLY demons!

 

[Brother None]

I can only see IPLY butchering it and somehow porting it to console, with no pc release.

Nah, that'd take way too much manpower, since it's on a PC engine (right?)

Interplay will only do something with this if they can do it at low costs.

 

[welsh]

Well the BG folks should be happy about this, and maybe they won't give us as much crap for wanting to see Fallout 3.

Of course if BG 3 looks like crap.....
Now if only they had someone to develop it....

 

[Jebus]

Why the fuck do they sue for the license of one RPG if they already own the license of a better one?

INTERPLAY MORONS!!!

 

[Big T]

Unless I'm very much mistaken BG sold much better than FO, they just want to make some cash

 

[Mad Larkin]

Fallout 3: The Collective Of Ferro-Alloy
With ground-breaking pausable-real-time system and superb fx effects this is the thing that true fallout fans have been waiting for!
Wee! With Rpg elementz! select from up to -4- characters!!


Aghh fuck my head is splitting

 

[Role-Player]

(...) this is the thing that true fallout fans have been waiting for!

Since TORN!

 

[pnutz]

err...

Interplay

On September 19, 2003, Interplay, commenced a wrongful termination and breach of contract action (the “Action”) in New York State Supreme Court, New York County in which it named Atari Interactive and the Company as defendants, seeking, among other things, a judgment declaring that a computer game license agreement between Interplay and Atari Interactive continues to be in full force and effect.

On September 23, 2003, Interplay obtained a preliminary injunction that prevents termination of the computer game license agreement. On October 9, 2003, Atari Interactive answered the complaint, denying all claims, asserting several affirmative defenses and counterclaims for breach of contract and one counterclaim for a judgment declaring the computer game license agreement terminated. Atari Interactive’s answer also asserted that the Company was incorrectly named as the defendant in this Action. Both sides sought damages in an amount to be determined at trial.

The Company, Atari Interactive and Interplay reached an agreement with respect to the scope and terms of the computer game license agreement and accordingly, filed with the court a Stipulation of Dismissal, dated December 22, 2003. The court ordered dismissal of the matter on January 6, 2004.

IANAL, but it looks like all this says is that they "came to an agreement"; there's no explaination of what the agreement was about. This does not mean BG3 is a go.

 

[victor]

I don't think they'll make it hack and slash and pseudo-RPG. They've already got DA and DA2 for that, so it seems unlikely. I wonder if it is a 3D engine though. Will they have time to finish it before they go completely bankrupt and shut down? WHO will finsih it?

 

[Sander]

I really really doubt they are going to make BG3. Why? For the following reasons:

Baldur's Gate is currently a Bioware title, not an Interplay title.

Interplay dropped out of PC games.

It doesn't say anywhere that they actually got to make BG3, they'll probably just use it for Dark Alliance 3 and so on.

 

[welsh]

Jeez, I am not sure if the world is ready for another first person console Dungeons and Dragons game.

 

[victor]

Another?? How would that work, anyway?

 

[Darque]

What a curious situation.

It would be nice if they finished it, but is it really possible?

 

[ferrarimanf355]

. Only one problem tho......where is the Bis team ? Nice job Herve!

It's likely that the game was almost done anyways, and they just wanted to crap the game out of the door. Nine times out of ten, this usually ends up as a forgettable game.

Of course, this throws a monkey wrench into the whole reasoning as to why BiS was killed. If they wanted to focus on consoles, why are they wasting their time on this?

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Yeah, they were six months away from releasing it. The question is, what needed to be done in that six months time. Most likely quest/town design stuff and they did promote that web monkey to game designer status, so it's all cool.

 

[ScottE]

Most everyone is gone that worked on BG3. Most of the team moved on to Fallout 3 when BG3 was cancelled. And then most were laid off when Fallout 3 was cancelled.

A lot of people would have to be hired to start it up. Mostly new people since most of the original team have new jobs. It would take a few months to sift through all that stuff and try to get it back up and running. New programmers would have to figure out the code since most of them were laid off to.

It would be a big mess and very expensive to restart the game. I'd be very very surprised if it happened.