No More SiN Episodes?
December 17th, 2006 by Matt Stone in News
Ritual’s SiN Episodes: Emergence got a lukewarm reception from critics and gamers (our review here), not a good start for the first of hopefully many episodes. After the first episode failed, many key members of Ritual left, resulting in a possible cancellation of future episodes. An interview during a Games for Windows podcast went like this,
Jeff: Sin Episode 2…
Shawn: …is likely not happening now. A lot of the people from the dev team have left.
Jeff: At Ritual?
Shawn: Yeah, they’ve gone elsewhere. They now work for other people. Some of the key people. One of the lead programmers. That’s not a good sign.
Jeff: That seems like a real world thing that’s going to be constantly a problem with any episodic game. How can you possibly ensure to fans or gamers that there are going to be future episodes? At any given point the team might dissolve.
Shawn: And the jury’s out on why that’s happening, I’ve personally been trying to contact the head there, Tom Mustaine, and haven’t been able to get too much information. What it seems to imply, obviously, is that Sin Episode 1 didn’t do well.
Via Kotaku
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December 17th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
That was a crappy FPS in the first place … three weapons only … what a joke? They were too busy trying to make the woman super hot and not paying attention to the actual game itself. I knew it was over … actually in this case that is a good thing … but this also shows why I hate the whole concept of episodic content.
December 18th, 2006 at 1:34 am
Only reason HL2 Ep1 didn’t fails was because the huge fanbase HL has (and that it was quite an OK game). Other than that, episodic content has no future.
In-game advertising and microtransactions, that’s the future!
*NOT*
December 18th, 2006 at 3:53 am
I wasn’t a fan of HL2:EP1 … thought it was pretty weak actually since it used all the assets from HL2 and didn’t introduce anything new that was memorable … plus a couple of the missions were boring and overly repetitive. And then it takes them all this time and still no EP2 because they won’t release it until the 360 total bundle package is available. Damn I despise this whole idea of episodic content … to the core.
December 18th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
You have a valid point Anuban, while i really enjoyed HL2:Ep1 the last part where you had to get people to the train station draaaaaged something cronic. The whole point of episodic content was to get it out faster (Gabes words), with Ep 2 delayed again and again we could have the final episode in another 2 years.