WESTWOOD STUDIOS REVIVED! hfs

[Derfud]

Check out this "new" studio, it's pretty much westwood.

http://www.petroglyphgames.com/

Take a look at some of the projects their team members have done :o

http://www.petroglyphgames.com/aboutus.html

And the top secret project they are working on? Could it possibly Tiberian Twilight?

Who knows? But I'm excited!

[Octavian]

Damn I thought they would be gone forever. :D

[Jaged]

Sweet!


shut up octavian

[Octavian]

Sweet!


shut up octavian

It was a fucking joke.

But yeah, they developed a lot of great games which I enjoyed a lot.

[martyr]

westwood was own. i hope they prove to be own as well.

[ghost018]

Couldn't EA keep them from doing the next C&C game? They did buy them out, afterall.

ghostie

[Everay]

depends if EA has the rights to all C&C games.

[FlakMan]

fuck me with a razor if they do

[Infernus]

I was under the impression that EA bought right to all WestWood games... EnB, C&C... everything...

Earth & Beyond (2002), EA / Westwood Studios

Well where were they two months ago when the game needed saving... instead they let EA close it...

[SDM]

Lands of Lore on Win3.1 roxx0red. I needed to tweak the autoexec.bat file just to run that badboy.

:rock:

[Corrosion]

Westwood ROCKED, made some of my first gaming experiences

[Retroactive]

Westwood ROCKED, made some of my first gaming experiences
same here :D also, i thought Tiberiam Twilight was already out? i sware i saw it in Wal-Mart, may have been Firestorm but i cant remember, was a few yrs ago.

[Corrosion]

I played the hell out of the original C&C demo, I would kill everything but one building on the opposing team, then I would build a whole bunch of refineries and mine ALLLLL the minerals on the map.

[ViperGTS]

I played the hell out of the original C&C demo, I would kill everything but one building on the opposing team, then I would build a whole bunch of refineries and mine ALLLLL the minerals on the map.
:rofl:
Lets hope for red alert 3...

[VivaLaNuBc4k3]

<3 Westwood. They started me off on my intraweb gaming expiriences.

[Kyonye]

I love the entire C&C line except for renegade and tiberian sun (that one was ok).

[Smaug]

Sweet, now I'm closer to people who make my games. If they fuck it up, I can carbomb them.

[Infernus]

fuck me with a razor if they do

Sounds kinky...

[Electrofreak]

Sweet. Some of my favorite games were by Westwood. Emperor: Battle for Dune, (RTS) Earth and Beyond (MMORPG I beta tested for over a year) and Command and Conquer ('nuff said).

Back in the beta, I used to play with the Devs in E&B. They liked to go incognito sometimes, but I got invited into a dev group one day and they eventually revealed they were Devs, but I wasn't allowed to tell anyone :( It was pretty cool having a nagifar (big space monster) beatin the poop out of me, and then have it suddenly just die as the Devs broke out their super powers (or sometimes they just used their uber god-like weapons :D ).
A really cool (and skilled) bunch of people, its good to see them back in the game industry.

[JetRaiden]

hfs hfs hfs hfs hfs

C&C RETURNS!!

[Derfud]

same here :D also, i thought Tiberiam Twilight was already out? i sware i saw it in Wal-Mart, may have been Firestorm but i cant remember, was a few yrs ago.

You are Thinking of Tiberian Sun. Tiberian Twilight was supposed to have been the next non-red alert game in the C&C series. Apparently one of the concept artists working at westwood put up a whole bunch of concept art for TT on his website. But then he removed it quickly.

*ahem*

http://www.tiberiumsun.com/downloads/images/tt/index.shtml

[Neon Apocalypse]

nice

[Derfud]

Something else I found, an interview with Joe Kucan. Apparently EA fired him on his birthday. Those bastards.

http://www.imperium-ww.pl/articles.php?article_id=33 :mad:

[Electrofreak]

pretty amusing interview... that guy seems to have a thing for sarcasm lol

[Everay]

yea, and he played kane, kane was the best character evar! well....in the top 3.

[Dharkbayne]

I'm confused, what did he do?

[Hamma]

Fucking sweet, I loved westwood studios. I was so pissed when EA ate them up and shit them out.

[Everay]

I'm confused, what did he do?


aparently he was a dev and was also the actor for kane in the FMVs that were in the game.

[1024]

Generals should of been a westwood game. It wasn't the same when EA jumped in on the series.

[JetRaiden]

aparently he was a dev and was also the actor for kane in the FMVs that were in the game.
:lol:

omg I loved those things. the ones in tiberian sun were the best.

[Derfud]

Fucking sweet, I loved westwood studios. I was so pissed when EA ate them up and shit them out.


Hamma, check out the Tiberian Aftermath BF:V mod (TS mod for tiberian sun).

http://www.ta-mod.com/

Did you guys know that hamma used to run a TS fansite called Hamma.com?

[Everay]

Hamma, check out the Tiberian Aftermath BF:V mod (TS mod for tiberian sun).

http://www.ta-mod.com/

Did you guys know that hamma used to run a TS fansite called Hamma.com?


yea that shit is pimp, id love there to be large mech battles and stuff. they better make good maps.

[Hamma]

Indeed I did, I should have never let that domain go :(

[HunterKiller]

red alert owns all!

[Derfud]

I just got a reply back from the PR rep at petroglyph. He says in the letter that 16 of the 18 team members worked at westwood studios. That is awesome news!

Most of employees have worked at Westwood for many years?.16 of the 18 employees of Petroglyph. Chuck Kroegel, General Manager-EVPPetroglyph Games, Inc.3650 N. Rancho Dr., Suite 109Las Vegas, NV

[Incompetent]

Wait, does anyone know if they hired the guy that played Kane, Joe something?

[Hamma]

uhh, you should probably remove his info from tha tpost :p

[Hamma]

nvm, I pulled it. the guy doesent need random phone calls ;)

[Derfud]

OK, heh. He didn't say in the e-mail if they hired Joe Kucan or not. I really couldn't say. He was the FMV director for Westwood, so unless they will be doing alot of those, I dont know if they would have a job for him.

Some employees I would like to see re-hired are: David Yee, Dan Cermack (Lead designer for renegade), Joe Kucan (FMV director/kane), Brett Sperry (Lead designer for the original C&C), and Frank Klepacki (Composer, made almost every song in for any westwood game, you can sample his tracks here: http://www.frankklepacki.com/).

[Hamma]

Some great people worked at westwood

[NoSurrender]

OMG does this mean renegade 2? renegade was a great game that was my first online clan game. (SP was ok, Multiplayer owned so hard.)

[Derfud]

It's possible. Most people are concerned about Tiberian Twilight right now, however. Yeah, the thing about renegade is that you needed to be playing with other people, the AI sucked harsh.

[Fragmatic]

OMG! The music!

I love the music from Westwood games! :D:D:D

[Electrofreak]

I wish I knew what some of the Devs names where. Like I said, I played alongside many of them during the beta test of Earth and Beyond, but they played incognito (not under their forum names). Its been a while, so I can't remember some of the names, but I do remember I playing with "Tatiana" (female Dev, thats all I know, well, unless it was a guy dev calling me "***" :eek: ) I also played alongside Radrac (I'm pretty sure he was lead developer, he was always busy tho, and the other ppl called him "Rad" in group chat despite the fact that he had some other name) There were also a couple others, but I can't remember names. I know there was a programmer of some sort that used to play in the group, and maybe an art dev. Whatever the case, they were definately an awesome bunch.

I have to say, playing alongside the Westwood Devs was one of the best gaming experiences I ever had. The funny thing is they were always asking me questions. "Hey, do you think these guys are too hard?" "What if projectiles were longer ranged?" and stuff like that. SO cool to be able to provide input directly back to them. I really wish I knew the names of those guys, and whether they are part of this new company now. I would seriously buy without hesitation any game they worked on. Though EA was a real bastard about E&B (I'm pretty sure they didn't get all the funding they needed) those people were so committed to making the game as fun and awesome as possible. I really hope they got new jobs in that company with high pay, they really deserve it.

[Incompetent]

OMG! The music!

I love the music from Westwood games! :D:D:D
Indeed, Westwood music OWNED.

[Everay]

Just Give it up!.....i dont remember much of that song, exept it was good, and in the original C&C.

yea, i hear that Electro, E&B was a good game, i liked the humor in it that one would find.

[Derfud]

My Favourite song: Killing Machine, from Tiberian Sun.

[Hamma]

They cant make a C&C game, EA owns C&C now.

THey'd have to call it something else.

[Everay]

thats fine, i woudnt mind. playing a game under a different name, as long as the spirit is the same.

[Derfud]

They cant make a C&C game, EA owns C&C now.

THey'd have to call it something else.

Some people have been speculating that the publisher they have a deal with is infact EA. That could have positive and negative repricussions. Positive being that they are allowed to make C&C games, negative being EA might just close them also.

[Hamma]

ugh, EA = teh suck

[RenEvo]

Hmm, can't name it C&C, what about something like...


Renegade X: The Dead 6 (http://www.dead6.net)


Hell, even we have Westwood people helping out :P

[Ivan]

Half-Life2 mod?

[Thrik]

The music was indeed great. The man responsible for it was Frank Klepacki (http://www.frankklepacki.com) - hopefully they'll continue to use his services for future games.

[RenEvo]

Half-Life2 mod?


More like New Game based on Source Engine, everything HL will be ripped out of the game engine, and it will be rebuilt from the ground up as a new game. I.E. Total Conversion.

[Ivan]

More like New Game based on Source Engine, everything HL will be ripped out of the game engine, and it will be rebuilt from the ground up as a new game. I.E. Total Conversion.
AH ok.

[Derfud]

Total Conversion. Aka: A different type of mod.

[OneManArmy]

:lol: name a decent game you played recently or looked at that EA doesn't have its nuts in.... they own jsut about everything... if they arn't making it they're publishing it...

[Mag]

Planetside.

[OneManArmy]

meant new. PS is old news. :p

[Mag]

City of Heroes.

[OneManArmy]

ok.. thats not monthly subscription...

[Mag]

Ninja Gaiden. :p

[OneManArmy]

ok for PC :p ;)

[Electrofreak]

Ninja Gaiden is awesome.

[Mag]

America's Army: Special Forces. Hoo-ahh!

[HunterKiller]

old thread

[Derfud]

Then why post? Even if it is old, but people still contribute to it, it doesnt matter if it's old or not.

[1024]

Fucking sweet, I loved westwood studios. I was so pissed when EA ate them up and shit them out.

[Everay]

i was rather happy when westwood was bought out by EA, especialy when it would have been bought by Microsoft instead, but then, this happens, EA sucks, nuff said.