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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 9:24 pm
by ASSASSIN
*hides bloody sword*
What old man O=)

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:48 am
by The Darklord
The old man I killed last month on a cave.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:23 am
by ASSASSIN
Hey! Not taking away my frags! I got him! And right in the house!

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:45 pm
by The Darklord
Ha-han...
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 11:40 am
by Shiny
why is TAG never released on the PC anyway ??
i would love to play it a few times maybe

Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:28 pm
by The Darklord
What was it again...? Oh, right: because $0ny bought Surreal when TAG was beginning to be developed and made it a PSX2-only game? I dunno...

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 3:31 pm
by ASSASSIN
Because $ony is a driven. B***h.

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:51 pm
by Arokhs Twin
Well Sony didn't actually buy Surreal; they bought Psygnosis who was the publisher of Drakan. The publisher owns the rights to a game, not the developer so when Psygnosis was absorbed into Sony, so too were all their games. Sometimes, developers make and publish their own games but Surreal was only a small company at the time and sold the Drakan concept to Psygnosis. Originally, the publisher was to be VIE instead but were dropped. If Surreal had stuck with them, maybe TAG would be a PC game by now...

As a matter of interest, Psygnosis had actually been a division of Sony since the release of the original playstation console but were completley absorbed by Sony in 2001. That was when they made the descision to no longer make PC games and as you know, the PC version of TAG was already in development then. Surreal had to 'obey' their 'masters' or face having the game pulled and given to another developer.

As a side note, Surreal has been bought by Midway this year as an exclusive in-house developer so bang goes any hopes of a Drakan3.

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:34 pm
by Shiny
drakan 3 i hope that is a going to be a pc game then

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:42 pm
by ASSASSIN
If you read his hopes carefully, he says there won't be any Drakan3. Unless you count what we are making...

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:21 pm
by Shiny
you got me confused here mate

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 5:07 pm
by ASSASSIN
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">As a side note, Surreal has been bought by Midway this year as an exclusive in-house developer so bang goes any hopes of a Drakan3.
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Hm, I thought that was pretty cleanly stating the current situation.

A bit more explainedly: $ony owns the Drakan rights. Surreal is at Midway now. So Surreal has no chance of picking up Drakan again. => no Drakan. :)

Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 9:14 pm
by The Darklord
Hooray, screwed again. It's the fate of the commmon Drakan player: by the developers (twice), by $0ny and my Midway. I think this will be the perfect time to return to my fishing skills...

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:26 pm
by Shiny
no drakan
crap
ok who is making drakan 3 on pc now ??

Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:32 pm
by Arokhs Twin
No-one is making a Drakan3 and probably never will.