ION Storm Closed?

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  Trolls dont duck...they leave : byorn
  • I was being honest....anyway, RIP Ion Storm. : Frank_Mackey
• If I could burn people with my mind you'd be aflame now. : Sarcastro

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  Wow, this is news for me : rorshack
  • Hah, april 1st. Dang. : rorshack
• *laugh* pretty hilarious stuff. : lonestar3
• Oh man, that's hilarious. I'd never seen that before. The good news is, that eventually, Tom and his t : Caboose

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  Im afraid it is .....sad day and knowing and realizing PC gaming is dieing : 0Rance0
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    1.7 million copies of HL2 - yeah, it's dying. : Schnapple
    • Compared to the 5M+ copies of Halo 2, maybe it is. : Erwie
    • + Steam sales = big success for PC game. It's only shrinking in proportion to console sales - the actu... : johnsto
  • deus ex 2 and deadly shadows both came out on the xbox : OrkO
• Oh yes, it is. Not every Ion Storm game was a classic, but their ratio of "good products" was significant... : Anchovy

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• Interesting notion. Garret's curse strikes again. :-/ : Anchovy

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• In any case, this makes me sad. I really hope some of the developers stick together, because Thief3 was ... : megarust32
• same here. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Ion Storm Dallas closed Then Ion Storm Austin changed its name to Ion Storm Then when DX2 didn't go ove... : Schnapple
• Yeah, me too. In any case, this news isn't a surprise. It has been coming for a long time. : SmSmith

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  That's exactly what the article said - critical if not commercial hits. : SpaecKow
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    no, not exactly, which is my point. : Luminair
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      Actually quite exactly: >>> The company was responsible for Deus Ex and its sequel as well as Thief 3 : SpaecKow
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        Deus ex 2 was a pile of shit. Eidos just bribed gamespy to give it a glowing review (the same day gamespy... : Beady
        • Occam's Razor: maybe they just liked the game? : SpiderMonkey
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          That still leaves two titles that were completely worthy of critical praise. : SpaecKow
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            that leaves one with critical praise, possibly a hit. Another with some good and sme bad, but certainly ... : Luminair
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              -> so calling any of those games "hits", critical, commercial, or otherwise, is an overstatement. Deus Ex... : Luminair
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                Thief 3 was by and large a critical hit, I didn't see one score below 80 for that game. Extremely goo... : SpaecKow
                • Less shit flinging and more pseudo-facts in this subthread, is my diagnosis: GameRankings says Deus E... : SpiderMonkey
      • http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=all : Luminair
    • I'll agree about Deus Ex 2, but Thief III did quite a good job of staying true to the originals. Sure,... : Conan

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  LMAO, I remember Romero was promoting it when the original was still in development. The game was a farce... : galvatron
  • He farmed it out to a different developer to do using the Unreal engine. When the deal went south, Epic a... : Schnapple

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  Yeah, I think you correctly identified the culprits. The Eidos suits gave Romero too long of a leash, and... : captainmellow
  • Devs = Nerds + Money ...Just look at Shackers : byorn
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  Personally I'd place the blame entirely at the feet of Eidos for that travesty. You don't see EA going "o... : SpiderMonkey
  • I'd take Eidos over EA any day. I guess I just prefer a publisher who repeatedly has invested in creative... : Hatta
  • Actually yeah they did. They threw a bunch of money at "hollywood types". They laid them off last week. : Schnapple

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  I think they've binned the franchise. Project Snowblind was originally a DX action game and they dropped ... : SpiderMonkey
  • I think a proper, Spector-helmed DX game would sell. I'd buy it. : Kerath

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• The thing is that I think he abandoned that philosophy a while ago. Deus Ex 2, while a solid game, was n... : lechuck59
• It's not necessarily fair to lay the blame squarely on Spectors/Ion's approach. Eidos, I'm sure, didn... : SpaecKow

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• Took the words out of my mouth. Ion Austin re-established Ion Storm's credibility after Daikatana so thor... : node

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• Where did Spector go anyways? Does he have his own company or something? He's gotta have tons of great id... : shredder133
• Spector + Toby Gard + Crystal Dynamics means I'm actually quite interested to see the next Tomb Raider, I... : node

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• yeah but the part that made dues EX and theif 3 was a different sector of it. : snowwolf
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  yeah, Commander keen, wolf 3d, doom 1, doom II were horrible! : AllYourBase
  • He worked on Quake as well, for a while at least. I like to think that it's because of his involvement an... : SpaecKow
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  get off it, the guy made one flop. everything else prior to that was gold. : lightly inclined
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    Agreed, and the man is dead passionate about games. : abrasion
    • and eastern EU chicks : personaljesus
  • I have to agree, but that was a flop of garganchuan preportions. : Durandal07
• dumb, uninformed comment of day... : melt_core